The quotes and observations on this page are fun or thought provoking to contemplate. Words are
precious. They frequently offer greater value than we
realize. Even when taken out of context, words can have power. What I read in
these words, put together this way, is touching or valuable to me, and I hope to you as well.
I apologize in advance if there are any erroneous attributions. Enjoy!
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it." - D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
"Some days life is all about your dreams, hopes and visions for the future. But there are some days where life is just about putting one foot in front of the other. And that's OK." - Uncredited, Healthyplace.com
"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." - Mexican Proverb, unknown origin
lift the fallen, restore the broken, heal the hurt
"Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." - Pema Chodron
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"Some things are true whether you believe in them or not." - Seth, City of Angels
"Every choice has a consequence. If you pick up one end of a stick, you pick up the other." - Stephen Covey
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - E. Hemmingway
"The best people posses a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." - Ernest Hemmingway
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung
"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings." - Mason Cooley
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." - Rabbi Harold Kushner
"Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future." - Johann von Goethe
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil - the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be." - William George Jordan
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Campbell
"I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed." - Nin
"I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer..." - Rilke
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love." - Irving
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi
"I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away." - Nin
"I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity." - Lee
"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well." Angelou
"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things." - Proust
"Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you." - Dillard
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."da Vinci
"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos." - Milan Kundera
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - Bryan
"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug or just a friendly pat on the back ... I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Angelou
"Anticipation - It's a ticklish thing really, Quivering, exciting, waiting, Until it dies - Killed by it's own self Lost through virtue of being there." - Dal Perry
Past the beggar and the suffering walked he who asks, "Why, oh god, do you not do something for these people?" To which god replied, "I did do something, I made you."
"In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, How gently you lived, and How gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." Buddha
"A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. " - Bertolucci
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." - Nin
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." - Neruda
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Jong
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the perogative of the brave. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Tsu
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) in Meet Joe Black
"Monogamy, which is really no more than a useful social convention, will not survive. It has rarely been honored in practice; soon, it will vanish even as an ideal." - Jacques Attali
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused." - Alan Cohen
"Fine friendships, like fine wine develop slowly, with deliberate care and attention. The best unfold into a true reflection that combines the unique character of the individual elements." - Anon
"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." - Sainte-Beuve
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
"Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." - Johnston
"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you." - Johnston
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - Washington
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination." - Washington
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." - Beethoven
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still." - Nietzsche
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts. . . You are one-half woman and one-half dream." - Rabindranath Tagore
"The woman who loves always transcends the man she loves, because life is greater than fate. Her devotion wants to be immeasurable; that is her happiness." - Rilke
"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise." Nin
"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us." - Pablo Neruda
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." - Buxton
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - D'Souza
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." - Sigmund Freud
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment." - Benjamin Franklin
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." - Campbell
"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung." - Tagore
"Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality." - Goethe
An old Cherokee told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth." The boy thought about it, and asked "Grandfather, which wolf wins?" The old man replied, "The one you feed."
"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn
"Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden." - Chinese Proverb
"Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise." - Henry Mitchell
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." - Mirabel Osler
"All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar." - Helen Hayes
"To have complete satisfaction from flowers you must have time to spend with them. There must be rapport. I talk to them and they talk to me." - Princess Grace of Monaco
"The land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity." - Henry Ford
"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams as beautiful." - Abram l. Urban
"Flowers and plants are silent presences; They nourish every sense except the ear." - May Sarton
"It is only when you start to garden-probably after fifty- that you realize something important happens every day." - Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
"When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves." - Ken Druse
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek proverb
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." - The Koran
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." - Gertrude Jekyll
"Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years." - Tagore
"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm." - Ambrose Bierce
"The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock." - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink..." - Epicurus
"When I add a spoon of honey to my tea, I give thanks to a dozen bees for the work of their whole lives. When my finger sweeps the final drop of sweetness from the jar, I know we've enjoyed the nectar from over a million flowers. This is what honey is: the souls of flowers, a food to please the gods. Honeyeaters know that to have a joyful heart one must live life like the bees, sipping the sweet nectar from each moment as it blooms. And Life, like the world of honey, has its enchantments and stings." - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, The Honey Sutras
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it." - Charles Dudley Warner
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." - Harriet Van Horne
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. - Mahatma Gandhi
"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." - Dr. Paul Farmer
"We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: 'smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.' Compromise need not mean cowardice." - Kennedy
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Mahatma Gandhi
"Every time our hope for a better world is based on a system, this system collapses, due to the corruptibility and imperfections of human beings. I believe we have to go back and work at the growth of human beings, so they will not need systems, but will know how to rule themselves." - Nin
"Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy." -Ralph Nader
"Nothing endures but change." - Heraclitus
"You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It's not a spoiler role, it's a leverage role." - Nader
"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Alcohol is not in my vodkabulary. However, I looked it up on whiskeypedia and learned if you drink too much of it, it's likely Tequilya.
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
"The subprime problem has been contained. It's been contained on planet earth." - Grant
"Life is short. Eat dessert first." - Unknown
"Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." - Joad
"They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Churchill
A man and his wife, now in their 60's, were celebrating their 40th wedding
anniversary. On their special day a good fairy came to them and said that
because they had been so good that each one of them could have one wish.
The wife wished for a trip around the world with her husband.
Whoosh! Immediately she had airline/cruise tickets in her hands.
The man wished for a female companion 30 years younger...
Whoosh...immediately he turned ninety!!!
Gotta love that fairy!
Ceiling Cat iz mai sheprd (which is funni if u knowz teh joek about herdin catz LOL.) He givz me evrithin I need. He letz me sleeps in teh sunni spot an haz liek nice waterz r ovar thar. He makez mai soul happi an maeks sure I go teh riet wai for him. Liek thru teh cat flap insted of out teh opin windo LOL. I iz in teh valli of dogz, fearin no pooch, bcz Ceiling Cat iz besied me rubbin' mah ears, an it maek me so kumfy. He letz me sit at teh taebl evn when peepl who duzint liek me iz watchn. He givz me a flea baff an so much gooshy fud it runz out of mai bowl LOL. Niec things an luck wil chase me evrydai an I wil liv in teh Ceiling Cats houz forevr. - Psalm 23 from the LOLcat Bible
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