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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens
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On Being Yourself
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.--Dr. Suess
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.--Carol Mosely-Braun 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 (in Starting Over) I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington :lips: |
You want a man who will cover your eyes & lead you down to the beach
just so you can discover the feel of sand beneath your feet. You want a guy who will wake you up at dawn bursting to talk to you, because he can't wait another minute just to find out what you're going to say. ~From "Runaway Bride" (Richard Gere & Julia Roberts) :eyebat: |
I love Pearl Jam
Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh Oh I’m a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they’ve got none Stay with me… Let’s just breathe… Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world to make me believe Stay with me You’re all I see… Did I say that I need you? Did I say that I want you? Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see No one knows this more than me As I come clean… I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh Everything you gave And nothing you would save, oh no Nothing you would take Everything you gave… Did I say that I need you? Oh, did I say that I want you? Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see No one knows this more than me And I come clean, ah… Nothing you would take Everything you gave Hold me til I die Meet you on the other side… |
What though the radiance
which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass or glory in the flower, we will grieve not. Rather find strength in what remains behind —Wordsworth |
In reference to the leaves in his backyard, my dad said they were "knee high, no BUTT high to a giraffe!"
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As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.--Isabelle Holland (The Long Search)
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.--Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest) Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.--Gerald Jampolsky Forgiveness is giving up the right to retaliate. Forgiveness is the willingness to have something happen the way it happened. It's not true that you can't forgive something; it's a matter of the will, and you always have the choice. Forgiveness is never dependent on what the other person does or does not do; it is always under our control. Forgiveness is giving up the insistence on being understood....--Pixie Koestline Hammond (For Everything There Is a Season) |
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
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authentically fucked up
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
-- Andre Gide |
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach |
Not knowing when the dawn will come,
I open every door. ~Emily Dickinson |
"Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today." ~ Wilfred A. Peterson
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My karma ran over your dogma. ~Author Unknown
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"However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup."
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Eternity He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. --William Blake |
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.--Anna Quindlen
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You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
Chuck Palahniuk |
Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
Robbie Turner-Atonement |
Turn our hearts toward the family of nations:
to understand the ways of others, to offer friendship, and to find safety only in the common good of all. ~Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers~ |
is it safe? -dr christian szell
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It's very dangerous, be careful
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Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it. |
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"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese proverb
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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. "
~ Dorothy Allison |
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The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. -Louis de Berniere, novelist (b. 1954)
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"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
~ Neil Gaiman |
a response to "don't take it so personally"
What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. It's *personal* to a lot of people. And what's so wrong with being personal, anyway?
--Kathleen Kelly, from You've Got Mail (one of my mom's fave movies) |
I believe that to truly Love, is the ultimate expression of the will to live. A heart that truly loves is forever young. |
From the movie The Holiday
"Because you're hoping you're wrong. And everytime she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And evertime she comes through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you."
And... "I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you, and it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong, or how you could have misunderstood, and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new, and you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again, and little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade." ~ both quotes from Iris (played by Kate Winslet) |
In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.
Referring to Tom Builder - Pillars of the Earth -Ken Follett |
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ~ Albert Schweitzer
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What would change if ...
"Right now today, could you make an unconditional relationship with yourself? Just at the height you are, the weight you are, the amount of intelligence that you have, the burden of pain that you have?" ~ Pema Chodron
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He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. / We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. / Love is in the giver, not the gift. William Sloan Coffin |
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world-not even our troubles." ~ Charlie Chaplin
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Sharing a poem of mine...
My Love,
You have stirred deep inside of me A place so oddly familar... A place where the light in me shone so brightly Through your boldness at times... I can see with a clarity so clearly Your pure intentions... Like the moon sits upon the backdrop of an Indigo sky so peacefully. I comprehend the many volumes you speak in silences and each meaning conveyed in your need to withdrawl... From your musings thoughtfully abstacted the truth is always surrendered. My love, I stand right before you though miles from your shore. And yet my soul knows exactly where to look and how to decipher the many truths and secrets you have buried upon the shoreline deep within each grain of sand on so many of your solitary walks along the beach... Feeling the breeze wisping softly against your face. Know you do not walk alone For these are kisses from me. I am strong enough to look into the depths of your soul I see past just your eyes... I remember the times i spent deciphering your blank stares. For what lies past that is the story of the truth today. I cherish the memories so foreign to you now. I long to compliment and complete you. Like the colour of Manganese One must risk it's toxicity to truly be able to see and appreciate it's awe. Like the risk in loving what we can't see We still share the same moon, sun, stars... Look no further to also find me. My love, Try to remember the promise I made to you for each time we had to depart from here from oneanother I vowed to always return to meet you at our safe haven. But only once we learned How to recogonize and where to look for and find the truth. The key lies in being ready to hear the truth. Hidden somewhere between the twilights gleem and the early morning dawn Sparkles so many flickers of light All vying for your undivided attention. But only one tiny flicker will endure Choosing the right one Finding it... One must go through many tries first Many trials. But none were in vain. Yes, you are bright, bold, and a rareity. Do you even remember where to look for me? What to do once you find my slumbering soul? No matter if you do or not one thing is certain. No matter how far apart we are in mere miles physically. We share the same indigo sky... Under the same full moon in June Seek the beauty of it's simplicity in its complexity. I hear a symphony speak to me in your silences. Love... Feel the purity in my burning passion for you and with nothing more to test... nothing more to question... Simply feel my beauty as you trust the feeling of the gentle breeze running through your hair, body and being. For under this Moon and Indigo sky know that it is I that has kissed your face Like the wind, like that breeze. You can't see it...until its a tornado But you can always feel its stirrings first. |
no matter how dark the hour, love and hope are always possible george chakiris
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”- Buddha |
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