Thursday, 20 December 2012
Romantic
“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
― Simone Elkeles,
Romantic
“You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the counter. She had a sort of lopsided, open smile that made me think she laughed a lot. “Seriously. How long have you been going out?”
Sam let go of my hands to get his wallet and took out some bills. “Six years.”
I wrinkled my nose to cover a laugh. Of course he would count the time that we’d been two entirely different species.
Whoa.” Counter girl nodded appreciatively. “That’s pretty amazing for a couple your age."
Sam handed me my hot chocolate and didn’t answer. But his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively—I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.
I crouched to look at the almond bark on the bottom shelf in the counter. I wasn’t quite bold enough to look at either of them when I admitted, “Well, it was love at first sight.”
The girl sighed. “That is just so romantic. Do me a favor, and don’t you two ever change. The world needs more love at first sight.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Romantic
“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins,
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Love
”There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” - Melanie Griffith
Love
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” - Germaine De Stael
Love
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” - Sam Keen
Love
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” - Leo Tolstoy
Love
“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love” - Robert Tizon
Love
”Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Love
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
Love
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
Small Animals
Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Albert Einstein
Small Animals
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. - Paul McCartney
Small Animals
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. – The Dalai Lama
Sex
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. -Henry Louis Mencken
Sex
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. -Marquis de Sade
Sex
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -Woody Allen
Sex
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. -Audrey Hepburn
Sex
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go it’s pretty damn good. -Woody Allen
Sex
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime. -George Bernard Shaw
Sex
Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? -Rita Rudner
Sex
Don't forget about late nights, playing in the dark. And waking up inside my arms, boy you'll always be in my heart.
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Mariah Carey quotes
Sex
Sex concentrates on what is on the outside of the individual. It's funny because I think it's better inside.
Alex Walsh
Sex
When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.
Frederike Ryder
Sex
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams
Sex
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Dustin Hoffman
Sex
According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Robert De Niro
Sex
Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last
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Sophia Loren quotes
Sex
There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
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M Night Shyamalan quotes
Sex
It takes half the amount of time you dated someone to get over them.
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Sex And The City quotes
Sex
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
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Casey Stengel quotes
Sex Night
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Grace Jones quotes
Sex
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL.
Lynn Lavner
Sex
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
Woody Allen
Sex
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Tom Clancy
Sex
My girlfriend always laughs during sex --no matter what she's reading.
Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers)
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Sex
It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.”
― Jarod Kintz,
Sex
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Sex
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
― Anaïs Nin
Sex
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
― Steve Martin
Sex
“You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.”
― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave
Sex
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Sex
“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
Sex
“Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else.”
― Ayn Rand
Sex
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Romance
“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Marriage
“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg
Mouth
“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”
― Jarod Kintz
Love
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Eclipse
“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
Romance
“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
― Nicholas Sparks
Time
“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”
― Nicholas Sparks
Romance
“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ”
― Richelle Mead
Romace
“Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Romance
“You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossible”
― Simone Elkeles
Romance
“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.
“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.
“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.
“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Romance
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
Romance
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
Romance
“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Romance
“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was ninety percent sure."
"I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
"What the hell was that for?"
"The other ten percent.”
― Cassandra Clare
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Persistence
“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
― John Wesley
Persistence
“In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ”
― Robert Fanney
Persistence
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
― Hal Borland
Persistence
“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
― Tom Hiddleston
Persistence
“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”
― Louis Sachar
Persistence
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison
Persistence
“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Persistence
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge
Persistence
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Persistence
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Persistence
“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou
Persistence
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Persistence
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
Persistence
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
Persistence
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Monday, 10 December 2012
Love
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began." -Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Love
"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new." -Ursula K. Le Guin
Love
"You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." -George Moore
Love
"To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness." -Robert Brault
Love
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." -Helen Keller
Love
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything." -Katharine Hepburn
Love
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." -Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
Love
"You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones." -Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
Love
"No. No, you can't… STOP. Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave… if you leave… I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two… forty-two… I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I… and I'm home. Please… I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget." -Finding Nemo
Love
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone." -The Fellowship of the Ring
Love
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." -When Harry Met Sally
Love
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." -Robert Fulghum
Love
"I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me." -Roy Croft
Love
"The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along." -The Essential Rumi
Love
"We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness.'" -Shall We Dance?
Love
"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you. " -Ernest H. Shephard (this is often erroneously attributed to A.A. Milne, but he never wrote these words)
Love
"I love you. You annoy me more than I ever thought possible, but… I want to spend every irritating minute with you." -Scrubs
Love
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. " -Rita Rudner
Love
"I love your feet
because they have
wandered over
the earth and through
the wind and water
until they brought
you to me."
-Pablo Neruda
Love
"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there." -Otomo No Yakamochi
Treasure
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and yes, Matthew 6:21, too)
Love
"'cause I know there is strength
in the differences between us
and I know there is comfort
where we overlap"
-Ani Difranco's Overlap
Love
"Like you're trying to fight gravity
on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this"
-Ani Difranco's Falling Is Like This
Love
"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." -Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
Love
"Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that's loved by you." -You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Love
"True love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT — mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe." -The Princess Bride
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
VIOLENCE
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi,
TRIUMPH
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke
CLAIM
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire,
eVIL
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
SMART
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King
Attraction
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox
Life
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Serious
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel
Serious
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Hate
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
Friday, 19 October 2012
Reward
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Peace
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
Friday, 12 October 2012
LIFE
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
LIFE
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
LIFE
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Storm
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
REST
“Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest”
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes
Thursday, 27 September 2012
BEAUTY
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen King
Stephen King
Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Important
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King
Stephen King
Love
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Time
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke
Wait
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Determination
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love
“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fate
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket
― Lemony Snicket
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Peace
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed
Sydney Madwed
Monday, 20 August 2012
Soul
“When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
― Maya Angelou
Love
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)”
― Victoria Moran
― Victoria Moran
Soul
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë,
― Charlotte Brontë,
Words
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi
― Rumi
Beauty
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
― Edgar Allan Poe
Soul
“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Cassandra Clare,
― Cassandra Clare,
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Light
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Moment
This moment is all you will ever have. Don't believe me? Try to capture the previous moment or the next one and change it.
- Rachel Devine
Friday, 10 August 2012
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
Soul
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.Ezekiel18:20(Bible)
Friendship
There is a golden bridge called friendship that spans the river of time and links out hearts together even if we walks separate roads of life.
Monday, 6 August 2012
Peace
“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim
Spirit
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Fights
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo
― Victor Hugo
Reason
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
― Nicholas Sparks
― Nicholas Sparks
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Patience
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Life
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa
Earn
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley
― Bessie Anderson Stanley
Dreams
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Need
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Love
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
Insanity
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
Friday, 3 August 2012
World
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Peace
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Wise
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Democracy
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato
Plato
Effort
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
Plato
Knowledge
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
Plato
Virtue
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato
Plato
Equality
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato
Plato
Needs
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
Plato
Hero
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
Plato
Dare
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Determination
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Thursday, 2 August 2012
Success
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
-- Bruce Barton
-- Bruce Barton
Dare
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie
-Dale Carnegie
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Dreaming
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem
― Gloria Steinem
Calculation
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Wish
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
Richard David Bach (born 1936);
Richard David Bach (born 1936);
Strength
“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”
James Allen (1864-1912);
James Allen (1864-1912);
Success
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” -David Bly
Opportunity
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” -Thomas Edison
Dream
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
Aims
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Happiness
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
Aristotle
Happiness
When
one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often
we look so long at the closed door that we do not see
the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Motivation
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Patience
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Diet
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Time
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Thoughts
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin
Theodore Rubin
Problem
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Thursday, 19 July 2012
Success
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
~David Brinkley
~David Brinkley
Monday, 16 July 2012
Love
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Travel
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
Pray
When life knocks you down on your knees.
REMEMBER:
You’re in the perfect position to
PRAY
.
Reach Out..Touch Hearts..Share with friends & family..Have a great day..
REMEMBER:
You’re in the perfect position to
PRAY
.
Reach Out..Touch Hearts..Share with friends & family..Have a great day..
Life
One of the best feelings in the world
is knowing your presence and
absence both mean something
to someone…..
.
SHARE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES…Because in the end relationships matter
is knowing your presence and
absence both mean something
to someone…..
.
SHARE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES…Because in the end relationships matter
Monday, 2 July 2012
Direction
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.:
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Blessed
Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
- William Arthur Ward
- William Arthur Ward
Act
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self- preservation strikes its jarring gong, these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. [Pin It]
~Winston Churchill
~Winston Churchill
Action
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. [Pin It]
~Al Batt
~Al Batt
What You Love
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. [Pin It]
~Wayne Dyer
Going Farther
If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.
~John Wooden
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