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" I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with. I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without."
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Pema
"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to truth"
"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." |
"I need something else besides drugs and punching babies..."
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Positive thinking is not the destination; it is the journey. An optimistic person will be constantly challenged-- by external circumstances as well as inner fears and doubts. Always remember that these tests are like a ladder you must climb. As you move past each rung, your optimism strengthens and your confidence begins to flex newly found muscle that you might never have developed otherwise.
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As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part,
when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts. Benjamin Franklin |
-:Khalil Gibran:-
And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. |
Never spoil an apology with an excuse.
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In order to overcome fear, it is also necessary to overcome hope.
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde |
"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." - Anthony Robbins s |
"All things need watching, working at, caring for and a love is no exception. Love is not something to be treated indifferently, or abused or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention care and concern and especially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life." - Richard L. Evans |
"Ordinary riches can be stolen. Real riches cannot." ~ Oscar Wilde
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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I know this one's been here before...but it bears repeating....like an affirmation of sorts....yes?
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss |
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In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision. - High Eagle |
“The best revenge is massive success.”
~Frank Sinatra |
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living." - Socrates |
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things." - Bruce Barton |
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong |
"Possession of material riches, without inner peace,is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake." - Paramahansa Yogananda
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"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self - sacrifice." - Woodrow T. Wilson |
I would rather regret something i did, than regret something i did'nt do.
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Dalai Lama
The kind of behavior that really is spiritual practice consists of refraining from falsehood and abiding by the truth, neither humiliating nor mocking others, being humble, and having a good heart and helping others.:glasses:
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(Ch. 5) Pablo Picasso: Prodigiousness & Beyond
Excerpts from the chapter, I found interesting
(the first sub-section titled, The Phenomenon of the Prodigy): "The term prodigiousness connotes a gift that borders on the miraculous" (p. 138) "Without addressing the gender differences of prodigousness, I believe that a significant genetic or neuro-biological component exists in the prodigy: something in the structure or functioning of the nervous system of Mozart, of the chess player Bobby Fischer, or of the mathematician Carl Gauss that made it preternaturally easy to gain initial mastery of patterns involved in musical tones, the configuration of chess pieces, or the possibilities of numerical combinations, respectively" (p. 138-139). "In terms of multiple intelligences theory, Picasso's precocity was most striking in the visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal areas. Such gifts are what one would expect in a visual artist, but artists differ from one another in whether their strengths are more pronounced motorically, visually, spatially, or with respect to the world of human beings. Part of Picasso's prodigiousness stems from the fact that he was gifted across the range of relevant skills and could draw on them synergystically" (p. 140). "It has been said that Picasso never mastered certain scholastic skills and had trouble with abstract thinking (Picasso was terribly distressed with the disparity between his artistic skills and his scholastic acumen)" (p. 141). Gardner, Howard. (1993). Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi. New York, NY: Harper-Collins Publishers. |
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” ~ Lao-tzu quotes
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. ~Sam Ewing :seeingstars:
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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. ~ T.S. Eliot quotes
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. — Robert A. Heinlein
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"There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are." - Frederick Collins |
"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults." - Francois De LaRochefoucauld |
"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." -"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny |
"Change the fabric of your own soul
and your own visions, and you change all." ~Vachel Lindsay |
“Don’t pay attention to the critics—don’t even ignore them.
~SAMUEL GOLDWYN |
I don't fear the devil, I fear people who fear the devil. —St Theresa of Avila
Lord, give me chastity, but not yet. —St. Augustine When divine intervention knocked St. Theresa of Avila off her cart and into the mud she replied, "Lord, with the way you treat people, it's no wonder you haven't any friends." When St. Aloysius, who loved to play pool, was asked what he would do if he knew he were to die tomorrow, he replied, "I'd finish my game." |
"One day he decided he was more dependent on the kindness of women than he liked so he went off to hunt wild beasts with his bare hands. But all he found was a stray dog & a couple of old pigeons & it was cold & he missed the sound of soft voices, so finally he came back & never worried about it again." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"
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"If it is to be, it's up to me." ~ Don Maynard
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Stealing someone's thunder might leave you with a storm you can't handle. -- me
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." ~ Plato
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Some days your the dog, some days your the lamp post.
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