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The indomitable Mother Jones....
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ~ Mary Harris Jones & of course.... "I'm not a humanitarian...I'm a hellraiser! ~ Mary "Mother" Jones (Irish-born, Canadian raised US labor agitator who helped found the Social Democratic Party) :canada: ~LadyBlue |
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
- Joan Didion |
Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"-
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. "Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody." |
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."
— Pablo Neruda |
"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"--Pablo Neruda
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~Jesse Jackson
"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression." |
I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Annemarie S. Kidder I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough to truly consecrate the hour. I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough to be to you just object and thing, dark and smart. I want my free will and want it accompanying the path which leads to action; and want during times that beg questions, where something is up, to be among those in the know, or else be alone. I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection, never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection. I want to unfold. Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent; for there I would be dishonest, untrue. I want my conscience to be true before you; want to describe myself like a picture I observed for a long time, one close up, like a new word I learned and embraced, like the everday jug, like my mother's face, like a ship that carried me along through the deadliest storm. |
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen |
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk ~ Joyce Brothers Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all ~ Ovid If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness ~ Sarah McLachlan Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully ~ Jeanette Winterson To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead ~ Bertrand Russell |
"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course!” "No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't." ~Marilyn Monroe |
"It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black."
-Paul Newman |
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
-Walter Anderson |
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror – Ken Keyes, Jr.
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It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
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Conquer the devils with a little thing called love ~ Bob Marley
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Dennis Leary
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. |
:candle: I'm no longer looking for the perfect love, I want to become it......
MOI |
Gary Larson | The Far Side
http://ubuntuforums.org/picture.php?...pictureid=1392
I'm a huge fan of Gary Larson Cartoons! I wish I could find my favorite of his online, but this is one of my top favorites! |
Someday, you will find one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.
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“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.”
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“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
(Letters to a Young Poet) ~Rainer Maria Rilke |
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.'
(The Window on the West) ~J.R.R Tolkien |
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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.(f)
Woody Allen 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian People must be taken as they are, and we should never try to make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.(f) Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
my brother reminded me of this yesterday.
if you keep doing what your doing, you will keep getting what your getting |
Vincent F Rocchio
~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans~ |
"See Beyond Black and White"" The causes of any conflict lie in strong attachment to certain views, and the core of Buddha’s teaching is of great help here. All phenomena, in addition to being transient, arise and disappear according to a complex set of conditions. When we apply this truth to conflict, we give up the simplistic, black-and-white picture through which conflict is usually described and perpetuated. Views about the “good guys” and the “bad guys”simply do not correspond to the reality.
--Zarko Andricevic, Tricycle Daily Dharma |
"Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." - Anonymous |
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Gloria Naylor |
"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life." - Author Unknown |
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O for the sunshine
And motion of waves In a song! ~Walt Whitman |
Before judging another person, try to observe your own mind...
To laugh at somebody else's shortcomings is one of the lowest things you can do. If you must laugh, laugh at your own weaknesses; laugh at your own stupidities. This is far better than laughing at someone else. By being able to laugh at your own faults, at least you become aware of your own lower or false nature. If you can laugh at your own lower nature, this means you are evolving, and this is consoling. You will be fit for immortality, or at least, you are getting closer to it. When you laugh at yourself, this means that you are slowly becoming aware of your own ignorance. This is a good sign. Once you realize that you are ignorant, then it is easy for the Guru to work on you. Many disciples or devotees simply say they are ignorant, but they really do not mean it. Deep down in their minds they think that they know many things. Actually they do not realize their own ignorance. A person who laughs as his own weaknesses and faults realizes and recognizes his own ignorance. He can easily evolve and rise to the Supreme State of Blissful Laughter. He can soon laugh, watching the whole universe as a play of God. Therefore, children, do not tease or make fun of others. it is very painful for Mother to see Her children behaving so cheaply.
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The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha |
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” - John Wooden |
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain." - Susan B. Anthony |
Dalai Lama
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intelligence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.:praying:
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
--Susan Sontag |
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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