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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster
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"Three Things" by Jan Taddeo.
It includes in part, "Here’s an adage I’ve always liked: Don’t just do something, stand there. Stand in the surf, or sit on a rock, or lay your body across the earthy loam...and be quiet. Very quiet. Do you hear it? That still small voice, the echo of your soul, reverberating with the call to your own true self to emerge." |
"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell |
"Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway." --J. Z. Knight |
"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein |
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ♥ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
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"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."
-Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace- |
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I'll be using that one as though it were my own. :) |
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
~Erica Jong |
When you look into your life always remember….
The things that is most important… Health… happiness… love… Without Health it is very hard to be happy…. When you are not happy in your life it is hard to feel and give love…. Love in yourself is the first most important ….. If we don’t love ourselves how can we expect others to love us? |
You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own... ~D M Dillinger
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There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded. They won't last, she said. But they're so beautiful where they are. Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said, and cut them and gave them to me in my hand. -- William Carlos Williams |
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
-Ella Fitzgerald |
THE GUEST HOUSE
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -- Jelaluddin Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks |
"Who am I?"
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Leda and The Swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower, And Agammenon dead. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak let her drop? (W.B. Yeats) |
"The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But--transcending both these limited aims--what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?" --Evelyn Underhill |
"How are you going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued? Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." --Anne Lamott |
"I am still learning--how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed." --Audre Lorde |
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