“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” ― H.L. Mencken

“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.” ― Steve Maraboli

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.” ― Lisa Kleypas

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone


W. H. Auden


Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. (f)

~Robert J. McCracken

I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. (f)

~Author Unknown

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. - Simone de Beauvoir

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side. - Unknown

It is not the length of life, but the depth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Collette

My dog, she looks at me sometimes with that look, and I think maybe deep down inside she must know exactly how I feel. But then maybe she just wants the food off my plate. - Unknown

“I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.” ― Brigid Lowry

“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”― Steve Maraboli


“When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?” ― Steve Maraboli

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.” ― Leo Babauta


“When you make a choice, you change the future.” ― Deepak Chopra


“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.” ― Asa Don Brown

Nizar Qabbani....
 

Letter From Under The Sea

If you are my friend...
Help me...to leave you
Or if you are my lover...
Help me...so I can be healed of you...
If I knew....
that the ocean is very deep...I would not have swam...
If I knew...how I would end,
I would not have began

I desire you...so teach me not to desire
teach me...
how to cut the roots of your love from the depths
teach me...
how tears may die in the eyes
and love may commit suicide

If you are prophet,
Cleanse me from this spell
Deliver me from this atheism...
Your love is like atheism...so purify me from this atheism

If you are strong...
Rescue me from this ocean
For I don't know how to swim
The blue waves...in your eyes
drag me...to the depths
blue...
blue...
nothing but the color blue
and I have no experience
in love...and no boat...

If I am dear to you
then take my hand
For I am filled with desire...from my
head to my feet

I am breathing under water!
I am drowning...
drowning...
drowning...



Katniss~~

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
― Charles Dickens

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha


Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith

Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn


Worry is like a rocking chair- it gives you something to do but it does not get you anywhere-- Anonymous

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. ~Author Unknown

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an enexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.


~Jaques Yves Cousteau

Don't chase me anymore, unless you're ready to catch me.