The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
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Eleanor Roosevelt

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Francis Bacon

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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James Thurber

I needed this one today....
 

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
~George Carlin

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."
~Samuel Johnson

“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words make and stay become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. -- Tom Robbins

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.




~Henry David Thoreau

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.--Paul Dirac

"He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection."
~ Khalil Gibran

I feel opposite of this quote actually. When noone loves you that's when you really have to love yourself. And that is why you have to, as well. Sort of like when you are pedaling uphill and it is getting really hard to pedal, that is when you have to pedal twice as hard. Just my spin on it.

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The better I, for all I learned.” ― Dorothy Parker

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
― Jim Henson

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ― Ayn Rand

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree.

Love is a great beautifier.--Louisa May Alcott