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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew. ... yeah right.
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“Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.”
~Ambrose Bierce |
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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"At times, it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness." ~ Erica Jong
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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
~ Shel Silverstein from Where the Sidewalk Ends |
"'Cause you're, like, the coolest person I've ever met, and you don't even have to try, you know...?" ~Juno
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"Cool is effortless. Cool is soulful, an inner peace and calm within that’s radiated outward. Cool isn’t afraid to say or do anything. The uncool is. Cool is magnetic.
~MARK VV |
Overheard this evening ...
"Leave me alone. I'm a day before my period. If you can't handle a little drama don't talk to me"
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All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. "Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess." Robert Fulghum "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." Robert Fulghum |
A few of my favorite Mark Twain quotes...
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” "Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul." "Buy land, they're not making it anymore." "Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." |
"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." ~Soren Kierkegaard
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~ Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so." ~ .....unknown
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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny |
"I mainly want someone to tell me I'm right & then pay me, he said. Is that too much to ask? & I said as long as you're living in a dream world, you might as well make it work for you." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"
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I love this. It's one of our mottos here at my job...
"They are the misfits, the crazy ones. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them or vilify them. The only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." |
"So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve |
"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point." - Harold B Melchart |
"Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom." - Earl Shoaf |
"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one; each day brings a miracle of its own. It is just a matter of paying attention to this miracle." -Paulo Coelho
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"A man is free the moment he wants to be." - Voltaire
"No man was ever wise by chance." - Seneca |
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
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Almost any intense emotion may open our “inward eye” to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.
Margaret Prescott Montague |
Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response -- the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.
Dan Millman |
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." ~ Theodor Geisel
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The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~Hunter S. Thompson
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there. ~Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891 |
Just found this the other day and I loved it. So perfectly summarizes so many parts of me....
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride. Solbeam |
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." ~ Joan Baez
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey |
"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal." - Victor Hugo |
"More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t." - Author Unknown |
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
~Cary Grant |
Give Me Your Hand – Rainer Maria Rilke
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousnes. Give me your hand. |
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
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"Dear Darkening Ground"
by Rainer Maria Rilke; translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows Dear darkening ground, you've endured so patiently the walls we've built, perhaps you'll give the cities one more hour and grant the churches and cloisters two. And those that labor—let their work grip them another five hours, or seven, before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness in that hour of inconceivable terror when you take back your name from all things. Just give me a little more time! I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them, until they're worthy of you and real. |
"True generosity is when you give your all and yet feel as if it cost you nothing."(f) ~ adapted from Simone De Beauvoir |
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter
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"Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman’s name and address hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, the laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes with bands on their teeth. She could get all society by the ears. For any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that."
— Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) |
“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” - C.S. Lewis
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Grandma always says....
"Love 'em for who they are...and don't ever try to change 'em" |
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