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This touches my heart on a continual basis....
~The Invitation~ By Orian Mountain Dreamer Canadian Teacher and Author It doesn't interest me what you do for a living I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dreams for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes." It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. |
Lily Tomlin
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. |
"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." - Judy Garland (1922-1969) American Actor, Singer
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic |
"Evil shrieks loudly while goodness clothes the world in silence." ~ Wafa Sultan
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~~ William Butler Yeats
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I can resist anything but temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde :grindevil: |
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~~ Lucille Ball :stillheart:
Just because you can't find your own voice, doesn't mean you get to silence mine. ~~ June |
From Sex and the City...
“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you YOU love, well, that's just fabulous.” |
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum
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"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies." - Roderick Thorp
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."
Aristotle |
"true love is kind"
"You know its love when forever is not long enough" "True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them" |
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ~Bertrand Russell~ :sparklyheart::moonstars::sparklyheart: |
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer."
Ed Cole |
"I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent."
Unknown |
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon |
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~ Walt Disney
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb quotes |
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