Float like a butterfly;
Sting like a bee.

Cassius Clay ~>> Muhammed Ali

"Love the ones you love and serve them well..."

-- Ray LaMontagne (Crazy Dreamers)

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

neruda is the best...
 

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

one more...
 

Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda


I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I nor you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I sleep it is your eyes that close.

Butterflies are Free (1972)
 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius~

A true friend is a work of heart.

The heart has it's reasons that reason does not know.

~Pascal

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

Richard Bach

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
Richard Bach

Accepting mediocrity will wither the soul.- Unknown

There is no use in trying to help someone what so ever if they won't help themselves.- Andrew Carnegie


Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.- Henry Ford

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” -Joan Crawford

We can choose to be true to ourselves and risk the ridicule of others,
or choose to be false, and risk losing our self-respect.

truth.
 

Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. - Mahatma Gandhi


Silence is powerful. -Unknown


A little spark kindles a great fire. -Italian proverb

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" (don't make assumptions on too narrow a base of evidence)

"Never write anything you wouldn't want your mother to read."



My mom used to say those quotes to me when I was growing up.

The first one, I still find a useful reminder.

The other one, not so much.

You can not climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. - Unknown
One today is worth two tomorrows. -Ben Franklin

A half truth is a whole lie. - Unknown

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Truth needs no memory.- Unknown

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.- Roy Disney

That which is easy to aquire, is easily disgarded. - Unknown

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato

Love gauze,
At first so gossamer,
Filmy and light, lightly filtering,
Cleanly fresh, offering romantic packing
for the wounds of a still beating heart.

Love gauzed,
At last bitumen soaked,
Clingy and dark, darkly wrapping,
Uncleanly ancient, offering mummied coverings
for the wounds of a still beating heart.

Me
 

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
― Marilyn Monroe

:blueheels:

When you hear, "It's not you, it's me." don't believe it. It's you.

~Fatale

Speak from the heart.
It's risky.
It's unrehearsed.
It's spontaneous.
But it's honest.

All that we are is a result of all we have thought
Buddha~

"This is a great irony — people who have every reason to be content seldom are. Though happiness is their aim, it seems always out of reach. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when."
-Phillip Gulley - Porch Talk

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~ Aristotle

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.-Unknown

Where there is a will there is a way.- Unknown

An unfullfilled vocation drains the color from a persons existence. - Honore de Balzac

Allen Ginsberg - Song


The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human--
looks out of the heart
burning with purity--
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
--cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

--must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye--

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen. In justice to her fame. Has ever reached half high enough. To write a mother's name. ~Author Unknown

Revelation

We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone really find us out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.
Robert Frost