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"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
- Tom Masson |
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.(f)
James Truslow Adams |
Caelica 56: "All My Senses, Like Beacon's Flame" All my senses, like beacon's flame, Gave alarum to desire To take arms in Cynthia's name And set all my thoughts on fire: Fury's wit persuaded me, Happy love was hazard's heir, Cupid did best shoot and see In the night where smooth is fair; Up I start believing well To see if Cynthia were awake; Wonders I saw, who can tell? And thus unto myself I spake: "Sweet God Cupid, where am I, That by pale Diana's light, Such rich beauties do espy, As harm our senses with delight? Am I borne up to the skies? See where Jove and Venus shine, Showing in her heavenly eyes That desire is divine. Look where lies the milken way, Way unto that dainty throne, Where while all the Gods would play, Vulcan thinks to dwell alone." I gave reins to this conceit, Hope went on the wheel of lust; Fancy's scales are false of weight, Thoughts take thought that go of trust. I stepped forth to touch the sky, I a God by Cupid dreams; Cynthia, who did naked lie, Runs away like silver streams, Leaving hollow banks behind Who can neither forward move, Nor, if rivers be unkind, Turn away or leave to love. There stand I, like Arctic pole, Where Sol passeth o'er the line, Mourning my benighted soul, Which so loseth light divine. There stand I like men that preach From the execution place, At their death content to teach All the world with their disgrace. He that lets his Cynthia lie Naked on a bed of play, To say prayers ere she die, Teacheth time to run away. Let no love‑desiring heart In the stars go seek his fate, Love is only Nature's art. Wonder hinders Love and Hate. None can well behold with eyes But what underneath him lies. —Fulke Greville hear it read here, just scroll down to the player. :) |
Thanks, GP!
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
~Charlie Brown to Snoopy |
"I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing." ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 |
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...”
Thomas S. Szasz |
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~Oscar Wilde |
It bears repeating....one of my personal favorites....
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss |
Thanks, A!
"All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - Always." -Ghandi
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." - Gustave Flaubert
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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. -- dian fossey |
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
~Lord Byron |
"Good sex is like good Bridge... If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
~ Mae West...gotta love that Mae!! |
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer
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I wake each morning deciding to save or savor the world.
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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
~Bill Russell |
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours." ~ unknown
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Be not forgetful to cherish the gifts each moment brings. ~ unknown
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