"If you're looking for a happy ending and can't find one...find a new beginning instead."- Unknown

"what screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be". -unknown

"the most common way people give up their power is by believing they dont have any"- Alice Walker

"...See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves.



After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust turning in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and wonder where it might be going, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.



That’s what I believe.



[robert mccammon - boy's life]

Quotes
 

1) If it rains on your parade,dance in it. 2) Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a signing bird will come. 3) Those who wish to sing always find a song 4) Where ever you go no matter the weather,always bring your own sunshine. 5) Life is like a camera. Just focus on whats important,capture the good times,develop from the negative and if things dont turn out just take another shot!

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”
― L.J. Smith


“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
― Maimonides

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
― Osho

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." Abraham Maslow

“Do you believe in fate?"
"I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?”
~ Susane Colasanti, When It Happens(f)


“If nature had intended for our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.”
~ Elmer Rice(f)

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.
-- Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and no matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.

― Lemony Snicket

WHEN I DRIFT LORD
 

When things start to go wrong
Lord don't let it last too long
And when I think I'll go astray
Please don't let me drift from my faith.

If someone doesn't seem to understand
Lord help me so that I won't demand
Open my eyes and help me to see
Just maybe the reason is me.

Lord if someone says that we're losing touch
If it's someone I love so very much
With a gentle whisper give me a lift
Lord, please help me if I start to drift.

Esther Lorenz

THE DIFFERENCE
 

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why doesn't God help me?"
I wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."
I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."
I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all the keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."
I woke up early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Thurman,
Author and Philosopher

All of the things I have loved dearly and lost, where things I loved dearly and lost. All of the things I have cherished and kept, those remain in a map of my memories.

~SPS

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Why are you knocking at every door?

Go, knock at the door of your own heart.


- Rumi

There is comfort in the strength of love,
Twill make a thing endurable,
which else would overset the brain,
or break the heart.



~William Wordsworth

“The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.”

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American social activist

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. --Lyndon B. Johnson