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"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." - P.T. Barnum |
Random Thoughts
" Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to truth" Pema Chodron
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...I knew that this was the spirit of true awakening. It was all about letting go of everything." Pema Chodron " It's a Kind of testing, The kind of testing that spiritual warriors need in order to awaken their Heart" PC |
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"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
"Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939) Christopher Isherwood, gay author of Cabaret |
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein |
"The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning." -Jiddu Krishnamurti |
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek." ~ Gwen Stefani
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"Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountain, but happiness and growth are mostly found in the climb." (f) ~ adapted from Andy Rooney |
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is this the good news?"(f) ~ William Somerset Maugham and/or Robert Anthony |
Since I’ve slowed down some, I see things I never saw before and find that quiet solitude is not lonely but nurturing, allowing my heart to open to the signs and lessons of nature that surround me.
Sallirae Henderson |
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Hugh Prather |
You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.
You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work. Susanna Clark |
Martin Luther King Jr
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Anne Frank
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank |
Dr. Cornel West
It's critical to understand your history, and then be true to oneself in such a way that one's connection to the suffering of others is an integral part of understanding yourself.:glasses:
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"There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane."
~Flight Attendant with a fantastic sense of humor. |
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~Andy Warhol
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~the night dances
A smile fell in the grass.
Irretrievable! And how will your night dances Lose themselves. In mathematics? Such pure leaps and spirals ---- Surely they travel The world forever, I shall not entirely Sit emptied of beauties, the gift Of your small breath, the drenched grass Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies. Their flesh bears no relation. Cold folds of ego, the calla, And the tiger, embellishing itself ---- Spots, and a spread of hot petals. The comets Have such a space to cross, Such coldness, forgetfulness. So your gestures flake off ---- Warm and human, then their pink light Bleeding and peeling Through the black amnesias of heaven. Why am I given These lamps, these planets Falling like blessings, like flakes Six sided, white On my eyes, my lips, my hair Touching and melting. Nowhere. Sylvia Plath:stillheart: |
"The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness." - Dalai Lama |
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the author of frankestein also wrote beautiful poetry...sharing one of my favorites.
Stanzas by Mary Shelley Oh, come to me in dreams, my love! ...I will not ask a dearer bliss; Come with the starry beams, my love, ...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss. 'Twas thus, as ancient fables tell, ...Love visited a Grecian maid, Till she disturbed the sacred spell, ...And woke to find her hopes betrayed. But gentle sleep shall veil my sight, ...And Psyche's lamp shall darkling be, When, in the visions of the night, ...Thou dost renew thy vows to me. Then come to me in dreams, my love, ...I will not ask a dearer bliss; Come with the starry beams, my love, ...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss. |
For my Reunion friends....<giggle>
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
~Erma Bombeck |
Oh YES!!!!!!!
Be a storehouse of happy memories.
~Gretchen Rubin |
just a few quotes from my favorite book...frankenstein
"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food" "My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine." |
In the garden ~Alden Nowlan
"When I die
I'll grow wings and fly. Don't grin" said the caterpillar crawling by :wateringgarden: :playingcat: |
Greatness ~ Alden Nowlan
I would be the greatest poet the world has ever known
if only I could make you see here on the page sunlight a sparrow three kernels of popcorn spilled on the snow. |
from 5 Days in Hospital ~ Alden Nowlan
I have discovered to my amazement
that I am unable to believe in my own death. I know that I will die, but I do not believe in it. Then how is it there are times When I am almost crazy with fear? |
"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest; as if it was the only one we had." - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross |
"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." - Audre Lorde |
"We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies." - Emily Dickinson |
"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whosoever finds peace at home is the happiest of all persons.
Goethe |
"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. " |
"What would Jesus do and what would your momma say?"
~Shully |
“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
~FRANK SINATRA |
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
~Emily Post |
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