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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~Mother Theresa |
You know it's weird when you wake up that morning and realize your entire adult life was based on a decision made by a teenager. A stoned teenager? ~ Stew Passing' Strange *http://stewsongs.com/
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"The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible." - Jeff Taylor
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We all have big changes in our lives that are ~ more or less ~ a second chance.
~Harrison Ford |
Like the church, like a cop, like a mother
You want me to be truthful Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon though And I need your approval... Joni Mitchell |
Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield |
"We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright..." ~ Mary Caroline Richards
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“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place” - C.S. Lewis |
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” -Baltasar Gracian |
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James |
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri |
“in human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
-- Henry David Thoreau |
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez |
I love fleshy women whose buttocks rise "in my hands like freshly baked bread, arms that surge outward from my embrace, thighs that surround me like love itself. I love flesh that is firm and tender, flesh that is wild, I love flesh that is yours these afternoons when rain falls gently as flesh itself, when all that is moral dissolves like flesh, and only the sounds of flesh can be heard singing, We are still here, love, we are going on. ~Michael Blumenthal, "Flesh |
When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.....
ummm anybody know where I can get a flea collar in my size |
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
-Jane Smiley Desire moves us to action. The bigger the desire, the swifter the action. When we really want something, we get creative, and pull out all the stops. We engage our intelligence, we find the means to fulfill our desire. We become empowered. -Lissa Coffey |
Ayn Rand-Anthem- excerpts-things to ponder :deepthoughts: ~My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.~ ~I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.~ ~For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.~ ~And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO ~ :ohm: |
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
~Malcolm Gladwell |
A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours: For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive - Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn |
Every experience in life,
everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. ~Orison Swett Marden |
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