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"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." ~Shunryu Suzuki |
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. ~Euripides, Hecuba |
Il Maestro...
The visionary is the only true realist.
~Federico Fellini |
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
— bell hooks |
"The Fountain does tests you, Gibbs. But better to not know which moment may be your last, every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all. And whose to say I won't live forever, eh? Discoverer of the Fountain of Youth. I have no saying it, Gibbs. It's a pirate's life for me. Savvy?"
Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Carribean - On Stranger Tides |
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~Albert Einstein |
Whoever undertakes to set himself [or HERself] up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~Albert Einstein |
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845 |
The great lesson...is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard. ~Abraham Maslow
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring." - Oscar Wilde |
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens |
"Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine... Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery." - Buddha |
I so love this one!
Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please.
~ Lori Petty in Tank Girl |
Here is the test to find whether or not your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach
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-Being present lets us experience each moment in our lives in a way that cannot be fully lived through memory or fantasy-
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Como un vaso albergaste la infinita ternura, y el infinito olvido te trizó como a un vaso. ~ Pablo Neruda
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A favorite movie quote...
"Who's the bitch now"
The New Guy (playing on the tv when I got to work, dorky movie but it makes me laugh lol) |
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
~John Lilly |
One of my favorite poems...
"The Abandoned Valley"
Jack Gilbert Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope? |
"It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you." --Hector Berlioz |
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