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05-14-2012, 04:50 PM
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
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05-14-2012, 05:31 PM
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Still I Rise
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. Maya Angelou |
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05-14-2012, 10:48 PM
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"Why invest in a commitment when a girl will let you be a squatter in her life free of charge?"
(Me, when asked by the therapist why I thought my ex was unable/unwilling to commit to our relationship on an emotional level) |
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05-14-2012, 11:49 PM
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dating myself. 
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Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working.
All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. Kindness eases Change. - from earthseed: the books of the living, in parable of the sower & parable of the talents by octavia butler. |
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05-15-2012, 06:01 AM
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~Elwyn Brooks White
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05-15-2012, 07:52 AM
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Not to spoil the ending for you, but everything is going to be OK :-)
~unknown
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 Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~AniI want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver
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05-15-2012, 10:15 AM
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Every emotional reaction is telling us something about ourselves.
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05-15-2012, 11:19 AM
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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05-15-2012, 11:33 AM
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Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. Paulo Coelho
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05-15-2012, 01:23 PM
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divorce happens..all that glitters ain't gold
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If you live long enough, life will humble you. Life will level your defenses, expose your bad habits, and reveal self-inflicted nonsense and self-imposed unworthiness. When you are paying attention, you will get the point.
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05-15-2012, 06:40 PM
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“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
- David Viscott
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Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~AniI want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver
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05-15-2012, 08:29 PM
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Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand. -Chinese proverb
Once you start worrying about what other people think of you, you stop being yourself. - Unknown Fear the man that has nothing to lose. - Unknown
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05-16-2012, 04:56 AM
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
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05-16-2012, 06:34 AM
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Never expect.
Never assume. Never ask. And never demand. Just let it be. Because if it's meant to be, it will happen the way you want things to be. (idealistic, not always practical!) |
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05-16-2012, 08:11 AM
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Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~AniI want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver
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05-16-2012, 10:09 AM
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The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.  ~Rumi |
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05-16-2012, 05:34 PM
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Wars aren't fought in the trenches rather in the mind, body, and soul. For life is the battle field, society and emotions are the adversaries, and victory is determined by our reactions to those very forces. -Curtis Reeves
My choice is what I choose to do, and if I'm causing no harm, it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if you're causing no harm, it shouldn't bother me.-Ben Harper Luck is a Skill. -Adel Ebraheem
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05-17-2012, 06:08 AM
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart. Erma Bombeck
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05-17-2012, 07:03 AM
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Below the level of awareness, our brain often tries to protect us from the very thing we wish to attract. As we get close, anxiety sets in and the thoughts follow. Don't be afraid of the anxiety. Don't be afraid of the thoughts. Simply realize your primitive, reactive automatic brain is trying to protect you from something of which you need no protection. Don't believe, trust, or take direction from the impulses to hold you back. Keep moving forward and they will become less. And you will see more clearly, with your mind, what was in front of you the whole time.
Coach MD
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Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~AniI want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver
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05-17-2012, 01:08 PM
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And yet, just last night, being at a masquerade, I saw the prettiest creature, fresh from Milan...which gave me some sensations like a villian.
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