GOLDEN THOUGHTS: February 2014

2/26/14

Pam Cobourn - religion

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"You do not need religion to value morals." ~Pam Cobourn on The New Macho by ManKind Project

Scott McKinney - balanced view

"Balance is evolving, and we all will benefit from a more balanced view of what it means to be a Man and a Woman." ~Scott McKinney on The New Macho by ManKind Project

Tania Dawkins McKenzie - expectations

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"Expectations are incredibly limiting. You get caught in looking for a result and sometimes miss the effort, the journey and the view. We all need to embrace who we are, our hearts and truly love one another. I see so many connected young men on this planet because their minds are open and their spirits are free and full of love." ~Tania Dawkins McKenzie on The New Macho by ManKind Project

Kathryn Loar Green - woman

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"Nature is a woman. Weather is a woman. Being angry at women for their powerful tides is like fighting the ocean waves. A waste of energy. It is so much more freeing to enjoy the waves." ~Kathryn Loar Green on The New Macho by ManKind Project

Mireille Guiliano - basic attitude

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"You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude – being comfortable in our skin." ~Mireille Guiliano

Dan Rather - lesson

“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.” ~Dan Rather

William Christopher Handy - trumpet

“Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.” ~William Christopher Handy

2/25/14

Steve Podborski - Olympics

"Only by competing with the best can you find out how great you can be." ~Steve Podborski, Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic Team.

Isabel Allende Quotes

"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate." ~Isabel Allende

"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars." ~Isabel Allende

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome." ~Isabel Allende

"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged." ~Isabel Allende

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2/24/14

Nancy Barcus - gets to the top

"The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Rebecca Harding Davis -banquet

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"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet." ~Rebecca Harding Davis

Katelyn S. Irons - burn brighter

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"Shine with all you have; when someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter." ~Katelyn S. Irons

Sye Wells Quotes

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"As we grow older and wiser, we begin to realize what we need and what we need to leave behind. Sometimes walking away is a step forward." ~Sye Wells

"Other people will judge. Doing our best and accepting that people will form opinions is far more empowering than stressing about what everyone else thinks." ~Sye Wells

"Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have: truth." ~Sye Of Relief

"Sometimes there is no right or wrong. There isn’t always a right decision or answer. It’s just about what feels right to us right now, and whether we have the courage to honor it." ~Sye Wells

"Whatever anyone else does in their space, is of no responsibility of yours." ~Sye Wells

"When God speaks to you, let His Word be the LAST SAY in your life." ~Sye Of Relief

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Floranova B. Msc - heart

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"At the end of the day, it won’t matter where you reside, what matters is what resides in the deepest areas of your heart." ~Floranova B. Msc

Anne D. LeClaire - soul

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"Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence." ~Anne D. LeClaire

Swami Chetan - meditation

"Meditation is the highest form of prayer. In it you are so close to God that you don't need to say a thing It's just great to be together." ~Swami Chetan

J.Pierpont Morgan - step

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." ~J.Pierpont Morgan

2/23/14

Russell Baker - tourist

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” ~Russell Baker

Rose Russell Quotes

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"Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? It's time to believe in yourself." ~Rose Russell

"You don't need to be helped any longer, you've had the power within you all along. It's always been there, you just had to find belief and trust in yourself. Now, take a deep breath, take the next step and Shine." -Rose Russell

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Quotes from EVERYMAN's LIBRARY

"A man in motion always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move." ~from WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

“A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.” ~Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.” ~Naguib Mahfouz: Three Novels of Ancient Egypt from Everyman's Library

"All for one, one for all, that is our motto." ~The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père ("Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise" ~"Les Trois Mousquetaires)
Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in 17th-century France, this tale of the adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers is the finest example of its author's brilliantly inventive storytelling genius. (Everyman's Library)

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.” ~Richard Yates, The Easter Parade from Everyman's Library

"And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it,
this much, at least, try to do
as much as you can: don't cheapen it
with too much intercourse with society,
with too much movement and conversation.

"Don't cheapen it by taking it about,
making the rounds with it, exposing it
to the everyday inanity
of relations and connections,
so it becomes like a stranger, burdensome."
~"As Much As You Can" by Constantine P. Cavafy from Everyman's Library
(Constantine P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents, on this day in 1863.)

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.” ~Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses from Everyman's Library

"But it was above all at mealtimes that she could bear it no longer, in that little room on the ground floor, with the smoking stove, the creaking door, the oozing walls, the damp floor-tiles; all the bitterness of life seemed to be served to her on her plate, and, with the steam from the boiled beef, there rose from the depths of her soul other exhalations as it were of disgust. Charles was a slow eater; she would nibble a few hazel-nuts, or else, leaning on her elbow, would amuse herself making marks on the oilcloth with the point of her table-knife." ~from MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert (Everyman's Library)

“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.” ~from BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann

"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them." ~Bram Stoker, excerpt from DRACULA (Everyman's Library)

"English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next." ~Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown from Everyman's Library

"Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them." -from "The Prince" (1513), by Niccolò Machiavelli ❀ [Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was born in Florence, Republic of Florence on this day in 1469.] from Everyman's Library

"Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around." ~from "Quelques mots d'introduction," Salon de 1845 (May 1845), by Charles Baudelaire (Everyman's Library)

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.” ~George Eliot, Adam Bebe from Everyman's Library

"For, although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people." ~from Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens from Everyman's Library

“For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost.” ~Charles Perrault (author of Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood)

"Happiness is a hard master–particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth." ~The Controller from BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? and ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" ~from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain from Everyman's Library

"He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving. Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds." ~from THE RAINBOW, by D.H. Lawrence (Everyman's Library)

“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense... They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.” ~Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin from Everyman's Library

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." ~from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain from Everyman's Library

“He looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.” ~Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Everyman's Library

"I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I'm afraid they'll mock me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously, but only the 'light-hearted' Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the 'deeper' Anne is too weak. If I force the good Anne into the spotlight for even fifteen minutes, she shuts up like a clam the moment she's called upon to speak, and lets Anne number one do the talking. Before I realize it, she's disappeared." ~Anne Frank's final diary entry (August 1, 1944) from THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!” ~from "Dracula" By Bram Stoke

"I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco." ~from "Old World Landowners" (1835) by Nikolai Gogol (Everyman's Library)

"I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own." ~Bazarov from "Father and Sons" (1862) by Ivan Turgenev, Everyman's Library
(Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born into a family of Russian land-owners in Oryol, Russia, on this day in 1818.)

"I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content." ~
Walt Whitman from Everyman's Library
(Walt Whitman was born 195 years ago today in 1819 in West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York.)

“I have seen you only in my dreams: each night you have come to me, wearing my ring, and have kissed me once on the lips - and my heart has gone out to you across the darkness…But in this magic castle I have waited for you: the time to speak of love is not yet.” ~Roger Lancelyn Green, “King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: Sir Percivale of Wales” from Everyman's Library

"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath." ~from THE MADMAN: His Parables and Poems (1918) by Khalil Gibran

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.” ~Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior from Everyman's Library

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ~from GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens

"I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game." -Amory Blaine from THIS SIDE OF PARADISE by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” ~Italo Calvino from "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden from Everyman's Library (Frances Hodgson Burnett's celebration of the kingdom of earth takes place in a secret garden, where the orphaned Mary Lennox and the invalid boy, Colin, are magically restored to health and well-being by Nature's mysterious living force.)

"In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on." ~from "Molloy" (1951) by Samuel Barclay Beckett from Everyman's Library
(Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1906. Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 and is best-known for his play "Waiting for Godot.")

"Indeed it may be broadly stated that, with the single exception of gold-fish, of all animals kept for the recreation of mankind the horse is alone capable of exciting a passion that shall be absolutely hopeless." ~from "Chu Chu" by Bret Harte

"Indeed no one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre, who hath never seen it in distress." ~Tom Jones by Henry Fielding from Everyman's Library

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
~from "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.” ~Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin from Everyman's Library
(Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and it shows him attempting to transform himself from romantic poet into realistic novelist.)

"It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty." ~Alexandre Dumas, père, The Three Musketeers from Everyman's Library

"Let all the world witness how many different means Fortune employs when she wishes to destroy a man." --from "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini

“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.” ~from "The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz" by By Hector Berlioz

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" "I'll warrant you'll make plenty in it," said Marilla. "I never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne." "Yes, and well I know it," admitted Anne mournfully." ~ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by Lucy Maud Montgomery from
Everyman's Library (An eleven-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, comes to help out on a farm on Prince Edward Island and wins the hearts of everyone at Avonlea—a story so popular that it spawned eight sequels after its initial publication in 1908, and has sold millions of copies in paperback.)

“My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.”
~Benvenuto Cellini from Everyman's Library

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.” ~Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (Everyman's Library)

“My friends are my estate.” ~Emily Dickinson from Everyman's Library

“Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.”
―from SONS AND LOVERS DH Lawrence (Everyman's Library)

"No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity." ~from "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." -from Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER, first published on this day in 1850 from Everyman's Library

“No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace – in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.” ~Herodotus from Everyman's Library
(Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storytellers. In tales such as that of Gyges—who murders Candaules, the king of Lydia, and unsurps his throne and his marriage bed, thereby bringing on, generations later, war with the Persians—he laid bare the intricate human entanglements at the core of great historical events. In his love for the stranger, more marvelous facts of the world, he infused his magnificent history with a continuous awareness of the mythic and the wonderful.)

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's [...]" ~from THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898) by H.G. Wells

“Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know." ~Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Everyman's Library)

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.” ~James Hogg, Confessions of a Justified Sinner from Everyman's Library.

"Of what happened later in the evening nothing definite can here be stated. None of the guests later on had any clear remembrance of it. They only knew that the rooms had been filled with a heavenly light, as if a number of small halos had blended into one glorious radiance. Taciturn old people received the gift of tongues; ears that for years had been almost deaf were opened to it. Time itself had merged into eternity. Long after midnight the windows of the house shone like gold, and golden song flowed out into the winter air." ~from "Babette's Feast" by Isak Dinesen

"One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever." ~Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra from "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, born on this day in 1847 (Everyman's Library)

“Out of all these creatures you see around me, so docile, so innocent, and so gentle, well, my child, there is scarcely one, scarcely a single one, that I could not turn into a wild animal; a strange metamorphosis to which one is all the more susceptible the younger one enters religion and the less one knows of life in society. These words may surprise you: may God preserve you from ever finding out how true they are. Sister Suzanne, the good nun is the one who brings with her into the cloister some great sin to expiate." ~from Memoirs of a Nun by Denis Diderot
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“The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.” ~from "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth by Leo Tolstoy

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we are mortal; because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ~Achilles from "The Iliad" by Homer from Everyman's Library

"The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. In order to increase their possessions they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are." ~from THE REPUBLIC by Plato

“The lost glove is happy.” ~Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire from Everyman's Library

“The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ” ~Hector Berlioz from Everyman's Library

"The sad truth was that all of them found anything that did not concern their own country fit only for mockery and laughter. To them such matters were as remote from reality as if they had been happening on Mars; and therefore fit only for schoolboy puns and witty riposte." ~from "They Were Divided" by Miklós Bánffy
(The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and appear here for the first time in hardcover. They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided, the second and third novels in the trilogy, continue the story of the two aristocratic cousins introduced in They Were Counted as they navigate a dissolute society teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, loses his beautiful lover, Adrienne, who is married to a sinister and dangerously insane man, while his cousin László loses himself in reckless and self-destructive addictions. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice the gathering clouds that are threatening the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that will soon lead to the brutal dismemberment of their country. Set amid magnificent scenery of wild forests, snowcapped mountains, and ancient castles, THE TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY combines a Proustian nostalgia for a lost world, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.)

“The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil?” ~Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White from Everyman's Library

“The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.” ~from HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” ~Aeschylus, The Oresteia
from Everyman's Library
[One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor.]

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” ~Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe from Everyman's Library
[English journalist, essayist, political tract writer, and novelist Daniel Defoe died this date in 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1870. (Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names.)]

“There isn’t one kind of happiness, there’s all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.” ~from OFFSHORE by Penelope Fitzgerald

"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief." ~Mr. Knightley to Mrs. Weston from EMMA by Jane Austen

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures." ~Victor Frankenstein from FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

“We men are wretched things, and the gods who have no cares themselves have woven sorrow into the very pattern of our lives." ~Homer from THE ILIAD (Everyman's Library)

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.” ~from MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot (Everyman's Library)

"We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break." ~from THINGS FALL APART by Chinua Achebe

"What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. You may ask what good it does us. Let's put it this way — human beings possess the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren't necessary. Animals don't need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduced in the slightest. That's all there is to it." ~from "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" (1959) by Yukio Mishima

"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart." ~James Joyce from Everyman's Library

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” ~from "The Makioka Sisters" By Junichiro Tanizaki

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.” ~One Hundred Years of Solitude, RIP Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) from Everyman's Library

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Leo Babauta Quotes

"Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you're left only with what you love, with what's necessary, with what's make you happy." ~Leo Babauta

"The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be." ~Leo Babauta

Doreen Virtue Quotes

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"Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times." ~Doreen Virtue

"Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my relationships. I ask that each encounter I have bring gifts to everyone involved." ~Doreen Virtue

"Ask God and the angels to help you to meet people who will treat you with respect and love." ~Doreen Virtue

"Don't let a temporary setback throw you off your path. Keep going!" ~Doreen Virtue

"Hold the vision of success, and stay optimistic as you move forward." ~Doreen Virtue

"Honor your sensitivity by avoiding harsh situations as much as possible, and befriending gentle people like yourself. Know that your sensitivity is a gift that is essential to your life purpose." ~Doreen Virtue

"If you could see yourself through the eyes of your angels, you would see how truly amazing and divinely perfect you are!" ~Doreen Virtue

"If you've been feeling pessimistic, the best way to shift into a higher gear is to pour out your feelings to God and ask for help." ~Doreen Virtue

"Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true." ~Doreen Virtue

"The miracle that you have prayed for may look different than your expectations, but you can be sure that it is the highest and best outcome, and that it respects the free will choices of everyone involved with the situation." ~Doreen Virtue

"Trust the inner wisdom and truth that your heart whispers to you, in answer to you questions." ~Doreen Virtue

"When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here." ~Doreen Virtue

"When life seems harsh and frightening, it's akin to a tree being pruned. Sometimes the universe removes the old and unneeded from us, in preparation for the new. If we don't understand this process, we may feel frightened, insecure, or victimized. Yet, the pruning process makes the tree grow stronger and -- like this photo of a plumeria tree near my home -- new branches and flowers begin to appear one by one. TRUST that any pruning you've experienced is preparing you for wonderful and beautiful new growth!" ~DOREEN VIRTUE

"When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example! " ~Doreen Virtue

"You don't have to be a "perfect person" to receive help from Heaven. Everyone who asks for help is equally loved and equally helped." ~Doreen Virtue

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Tara O'Leary - money

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"Money does buy creature comforts and eases some worries. It does not buy inspiration, hard work or creativity." ~Tara O'Leary on EG's Rich Man

Dr. Laurie Mattera Quotes

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"And...even mistakes are learning experiences. Face your day without any fear." ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

"Begin with your spiritual center and then work on your emotional and physical health. Your Joyful Soul will sparkle out to others as a result of doing this!" ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

"We are never really alone. Sometimes I struggle from day to day to complete all the tasks before me. It seems overwhelming. But then I remember I can "do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13) and I ask for help. It's amazing how I then breeze through the rest of my day. When you feel it's impossible to finish what is set before you, remember nothing is impossible for Him. That's JOY!" ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

"What we create in our minds is very powerful and affects how we live and how others view us. Make it Joyful." ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

"You don't even have to agree to do it together or talk about it...just start loving your partner and believing they love you, trusting your partner and being trustworthy, respecting your partner and expecting respect, and fostering the friendship between you." ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

"Your soul aches for peace - remember that if you are doing all you can to maintain peace in every aspect of your life, and you are met with resistance, you are still doing all that is in your control, which will bring you peace!" ~Dr. Laurie Mattera

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2/21/14

Alexander the Great Quotes

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep;
I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
~Alexander the Great

"In the end, when it‘s all over, all that matters is what you‘ve done." ~Alexander the Great

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." ~Alexander The Great

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." ~Alexander the Great

BIO

Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, conquered the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in a remarkably short period of time. His empire ushered in significant cultural changes in the lands he conquered and changed the course of the region's history.

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Judith Contresceri - path

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Borenore Cave by Lily
Orange NSW
"Create your own path, do not falter, continue to reach out and learn It may not be like another's it is your own." ~Judith Contresceri

The Burned Hand Quotes

Tyohoon Sendong 2011
"I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path." ~The Burned Hand Expect more (FB)

"Lift someone up today." ~The Burned Hand

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." ~The Burned Hand

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Philip Pullman Quotes

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ~Philip Pullman

"Being able to communicate your ideas and stories in a clear and captivating way allows for better social interactions.” ~Philip Pullman

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Margaret Wheatley - reflection

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Waikatu River, Taupo, New Zealand 2009/b>
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful." ~Margaret Wheatley

Jenny Perry - awareness

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"No one above you, no one below you... When we make others our gurus, we are not open to our own awareness...which is pretty freakin' awesome. Let yourself know. Your truth, your wholeness, your magic lies within." ~Jenny Perry, Peace, Love, Joy & Sparkles

2/20/14

Sean Stephenson - option

"Until you believe you have options, you’ll continue to feel stuck." ~Sean Stephenson

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Photo Credit: My Little Sister Del
“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich from Everyman's Library

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Quotes on RELATIONSHIPS

"A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it." ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

"A good husband is not a man who is rich or handsome. He is a man who knows the value of a woman." ~Anon

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” ~Michel de Montaigne

"A good relationship happens when two people accept each other’s past, support each other’s present, and encourage each other’s future, without trying to micromanage any of part it. So don’t rush relationships, especially those that feel overbearing. Find a partner, and friends for that matter, who encourage you to grow, who won’t cling to you, who will let you go out into the world, and trust that you will come back. And always pay them the same courtesy." ~Marc Chernoff

"A good wife knows just who rules the roost’, YOU DO." ~Michael L. Carrigg ON GOOD WIFE

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." ~Dave Meurer

"A great relationship is based on two main principles. First, appreciate your similarities and second, respect your differences." ~Anon

“A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He’ll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He’ll call to say goodnight or just cause he’s missing you. He’ll look in your eyes and tell you, you’re the most beautiful girl in the world, and for the first time in your life, you’ll believe it.” ~Anon from Emotional Filmtricks

"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." ~Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~Ruth Bell Graham

"A healthy relationship must ultimately be based on trust. To build trust, you always keep your word. You remain consistent and dependable in everything you say and do. You become the kind of team player who is utterly reliable in every situation. You never do or say anything that can shake this foundation of trust upon which a healthy relationship is built." ~Brian Tracy

"A husband and wife should be similar to a hand and an eye: when one’s hand hurts, the eyes cry; and when the eyes cry, the hand wipes away one’s tears." ~Anon

"A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

"A Man and a Woman, brought together by God and kept together by love, faith and an undying commitment to never give up on each other." ~Anon

"A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.” ~Frank Sinatra

"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.” ~Terry Pratchett

"A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you don't go and buy a new house, you change the light bulb." ~Anon

"A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life." ~Richard Bach

"A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on days when they struggle to like each other." ~Dave Willis

"A successful and forever relationship is well-rooted in open communication, mutual respect, and back-to-back support for each other." ~Masli Awingan Quilaman

"A true relationship is not about age, religion, distance, nor about communicating with each other everyday. It's all about a silent promise made to each other to stay together forever. And the most important is trust and loyalty." ~from Darkblue Skye

"A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth." ~extracted fro the book How To Be A Good Husband

"All of life are about relationships. We are as waves in one sea, flowing into each other...and transforming each other...BEING EACH OTHER! No one is ever the same, or ever lost...every wave forever arises from, and returns to the one sea! ......Though the surface of the sea is forever moving and changing, there is the never changing silent stillness deep down below. We must learn to be...the wholeness of the sea!" ~Surf Reyes

"All the material things we worked so hard to acquire do not matter. All that matters is our family and relationships with others. " ~Michael John U. Teh

"All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it." ~Anon

"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband." ~Booth Tarkington

"And THAT is how you fall into an abusive relationship: when you start acting in a way so as not to upset the other person or set them off. You’ve given away control of your own life, bit by bit, bit by bit. It’s incremental, until one day, you have hidden so much of yourself you get lost.” ~Rose McGowan on Power and Control - Obedience and Disobedience

"Appreciation is a big component of marriage." ~Robin McGraw

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." ~Henry Winkler

"Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper." ~Helen Rowland

"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship." ~Dr. Laura

"Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated." ~Desmond Tutu

"Create the marriage you want, and let your wedding rings remind you of the love and commitment you share as husband and wife." ~Aaron and April Jacob

"Die everyday... to our thoughts to our agony to our emotions to our loving relationships--even to our joy." ~Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, author of MIND BEYOND DEATH

"Distance doesn't matter when roots of your relationship are strong enough." ~UG

"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts; good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with." ~LLL

"Don’t let past relationships and old mistakes ruin your future. Don’t let someone or something that didn’t make it in your life continue to hurt you. If you do, you’re still giving a portion of your life to something that no longer exists – it’s like letting your happiness slip into a black hole. Learn the lesson, release the pain, and move on. Scars remind us of where we have been, not where we are headed." ~LLL

"Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to make you happy. No rich man can buy that." ~Staness Jonekos

"Every relationship is either a blessing or a lesson. Your job is to understand why this person is in your life." ~Terri Cole

"Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense." ~Helen Rowland

"Find a guy who looks at you the way Harry looks at Meghan.' ~from Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana (June 21, 2018)

“For women, getting angry is socially unacceptable, even when the anger is over violence, discrimination, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. Anger is unacceptable because angry women are women in touch with their passion and power, especially in relation to men, which threatens the entire patriarchal order. It’s unacceptable because it forces men to confront the reality of male privilege and women’s oppression and their involvement in it, even if only as passive beneficiaries. Women’s anger challenges men to acknowledge attempts to trivialize oppression with “I was only kidding." And women’s anger is unacceptable to men who look to women to take care of them, to prop up their need to feel in control, and to support them in their competition with other men. When women are less than gracious and good-humored about their own oppression, men often feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, at a loss, and therefore vulnerable." ~Allan G. Johnson

“Friends offered her surgery to reduce her weight.. But I strongly love every curve of her body.. She is the most beautiful woman in my eyes.. And also because she had our five children...

In the past, I truly loved her for her person, not only for her beauty, and now I’m loving her even more that she is my children’s mother, and I am very proud of her, and I always seek to be worthy of her love.” ~Pierce Brosnan, Hollywood Star, On his wife

"Healthy relationships... Let's not forget it's you and me versus the problem... Not you versus me." ~Steve Maraboli

"Honesty is always one of the best keys to make a good relationship." ~Anon

"How can a person who cannot be happy alone, be happy in relationship?" ~Osho

"How often does this happen in our life - we find ourselves in relationships that we love, yet as time goes on, we begin looking astray, wondering if there might be something better. Or, we go to work and dread it. And as we dread our work, we look at others and wonder what it would be like to have their job, their husband of wife, their life. But it is hard to achieve anything that lasts and that we love, when we always have one foot out the door. What I have found is that loyalty strengthens love – be loyal to your lover, be loyal to your work, be loyal to yourself. From that place of loyalty will grow and attract more love." ~Charles F. Glassman, MD Coach MD

"How we listen is the defining factor in how our relationships go, and whether the other person is happy to see us at the end of the day." ~Roman Demkiv, Shutterstock

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (Goodreads)

"I believe a man and woman should complete one another, not compete with one another. If any relationship you're in isn't worth working for, it's not much of a relationship. We all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should support each others strengths and help each other with our weaknesses. I myself have to remind myself of these things." ~Doug Gonser

"I believe a special relationship should really spring from close and loving friendship with the presence of patience, endurance, affection and respect aided with loyalty and mantled with faith and trust." ~Leah C. Dancel

"I believe the bond of marriage or any relationship between two people is like a bird with the couple being the wings. It takes both wings working equally together to make the bird fly successfully. No matter how hard one wing works and tries the bird will never fly right without the other wing working together. This applies to friendships as well as marriage. The goal should be to complete one another, not to compete with one another. Love is giving, not controlling. Love is patience not pointing fingers. Love is forgiving, not finding fault. Love is divine, not difficult." ~Douglas Gonser

"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky." ~Anton Chekhov

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." ~Groucho Marx

"I would rather be alone with dignity than in a relationship that requires me to sacrifice my self respect." ~Mandy Hale

"If either one of us is supposed to be married in the flesh, I pray He gives you above and beyond what you may pray for. For as you know, He certainly does know best!"~Māchan

"If I get married, I want to be very married." ~Audrey Hepburn

"If, in a relationship we have to do what another demands in order to keep them happy, the casualty is our own true self. It is not easy to love the ’self’ if we have lost it to a dysfunctional power dynamic. This is as true for toddlers and children as it is for teens and for us." ~Pennie Brownlee, Dance with me in the Heart

“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.” ~Johnny Carson

"If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don't make him learn it - you let him learn it." ~Ray Hunt

"If you are unhappy, you will always make a relationship with an unhappy person... A miserable person tends to find a miserable partner." ~Osho

"If you can leave a relationship with love, empathy, and compassion, without any thoughts of revenge, hatred, or fear, that is how you let go. You can choose to no longer have a relationship with that person or persons." ~Brian L. Weiss

"If you desire to experience the same thing repeatedly, date a lot of people. But if you like endless variety, just date one person." ~Joni Mitchell

“If you ever feel that you are no longer important to someone … then leave their life silently.” ~from Relationship Rules

"If you’ve been through a traumatic experience, a difficult breakup, or endured a relationship that held you back instead of supporting you to grow, the very best outcome is to learn everything it has to teach you." ~Barb Schmidt

"If you want a stable relationship, get a horse." ~Pasture Road

"If your wife doesn't cook for you at home, cook for yourself. You are not in a restaurant, you are in relationship." ~Anon

"In a relationship of co-dependencies, the death of one leaves the other vulnerable." ~Bryan Ng Co

"In a relationship, you need somebody who’s going to call you out, not somebody who’s going to let everything slide. You need somebody who doesn’t want to live without you, but can. Not somebody that is dependent, but somebody who is stronger with you. A relationship is two people, not one." ~Anon

"In all our relationships, may we seek to preserve harmony and principle in the spirit of love." ~David McCasland

"In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness." ~Eckhart Tolle

"In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. So hold the hand of the person whom you love rather than expecting them to hold yours." ~Unattributed

"In healthy relationships, conflicts are normal, arguments are not. Big difference. When two different people come together to live a good portion of their days in each other's company, conflict happens. They, before meeting, had entire lives, lessons learned, manners taught (or not), and were shown "the way things are done" by all those family, friends, and strangers who they ever encountered before meeting each other. " ~Happiness In Your Life

"Intimacy is not who you let touch you. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted." ~Anon

"It's a lot easier to make money than it is to make a relationship work." ~Karen Gumtow

"It's important to nurture your marriage. I think wanting time away from work has been good for that." ~Tom Selleck

"It is more rewarding to resolve the problem than to dissolve the relationship." ~Rick Warren

"It’s no surprise that women who are married with children are stressed. After all, they have to play some roles as a mother and wife: cook, doctor, teacher, maid, event planner, and so much more. But, a recent survey found that nearly half of women find their husbands more stressful than their kids." ~LLL

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." ~Frederick Nietzsche

"It's not about finding someone who won't fight with you, or make you mad or sad. It's about finding the person who will be standing there wiping the tears away, holding you in their arms after a fight and the one who will not walk out at the first sign of trouble." ~Anon

"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful." ~Anon

"It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail." ~Thomas Hardy

"It’s not always about sex, sometimes the best type of intimacy is where you just lay back, laugh together at the stupidest things, hold each other, and enjoy each others company." ~Anon

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” ~Elizabeth Edwards

"It took me a long time to learn the difference between working on a healthy relationship and wasting my time on a long goodbye. Never again!" ~Steve Maraboli

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Lack of communication will destroy any relationship." ~Anon

"Let go of relationships that do not serve you. That means negative people, dishonest people, people who don’t respect you, people who are overly critical and relationships that prevent you from growing. You can’t grow as a person, if you don’t have people in your life who want to grow with you." ~Preston Waters

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave." ~Martin Luther

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end." ~Alphonse Karr

"'Love' means very different things to men than it does to women." ~Michael Fiore

“Many marriages would be better off if the wife and the husband clearly understood that they are on the same side." ~Zig Ziglar

"Many people are forgetting how to communicate to their partners in their relationships. Instead of discussing and solving their problems with their partners, they share them with toxic friends, work associates and others post them on the internet. If your partner is doing something that bothers you, talk to him or her and stop letting facebook inboxes, likes, retweets ruin what you are trying to build... Beware of third Party!" ~Emotional Filmtricks

"Many people spend more time planning the wedding than they do planning the marriage." ~Zig Ziglar

"Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven." ~Robert Burton

"Marriage becomes sweet when the couples learn how to communicate in love." ~Marriage is Beautiful

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.” ~Mae West

"Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story." ~Jennifer Smith

"Marriage is a place of forgiveness that welcomes one home, and arms they can run to in the midst of a storm. It's a grace." ~Darlene Schacht

"Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband." ~Anon

"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about." ~Katharine Hepburn

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it." ~W. Somerset Maugham from "The Treasure"

"Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it." ~Nicholas Sparks

"Marriage is beautiful when you are kind to your spouse!" ~Kalu Igwe

"Marriage is like a deck of cards. In the beginning all you need is two hearts and a diamond. By the end, you wish you had a club and a spade." ~Starts at 60

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner." ~Amy Bloom

"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” ~Oscar Wilde

"Marriage without friendship is like a bird without wings." ~D. Schacht from I Love My Family

"Marry the guy who loves to hold your hand. Will go on long walks with you. Is serious but knows how to have fun. Makes you laugh. Will join in on your random bursts of song. Watches chick flicks just to spend time with you. Lets his inner-child out sometimes. Isn’t afraid to be himself. Will stand up for what he believes in. Will stand up for you and protect you. Makes you feel like a princess. Treats you with the utmost respect. You can be completely yourself with. You can talk to about anything. Will pray with you and for you. Loves God and loves you." ~Anon

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark." ~N’tima

“Marry your best friend.
Marry someone who you wouldn’t mind
waking up to every day
for the rest of your life.
The one who makes you glad to be alive.

Marry someone who drives you crazy.
The one who frustrates you.
The one who calms you.
Marry the one you don’t mind fighting with,
because they will be fair about it.

Don’t marry someone
who gives their ego
more importance,
than they give you.

Marry someone who makes you
the best version of yourself.
The one who believes in you,
even when you don’t.
The one who stands by you,
through thick and thin.

Marry someone you can’t imagine your life without.
Marry the one you are insanely in love with.
And the one who is insanely in love with you.

Marry the one who knows what you want to say,
when you’re too tired to say it with words.
The one you can spend comfortable silences with
from time to time.
Marry your soul mate.
Marry your best friend.”
~Anon

"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else." ~Jean Kerr (b. 1923)

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably, they are both disappointed." ~Albert Einstein

"Mind is lost in love, but found in marriage." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir

"Musical marriage is one scripted with balance and scored in harmony... It has positives and negatives..." ~Leah C. Dancel, 8 June 2016

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” ~Charles Churchill on Matrimony

"My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it." ~Ashleigh Hitchcock

"My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.” ~Winston Churchill

"Never beg someone to be in your life. After a text, call, visit and still ignored, just walk away. It's called Self-respect." ~Anon

"No amount of political labelling can change the value that marriage is the expression of a unique union between a man and a woman. It always has been and always will be." ~Malcolm Rankin

"No marriage is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together." ~ShiShi Rea-Dancel, FB

"No matter what, once in your life, someone will hurt you. That someone will take all that you are, and rip it into pieces and they won’t even watch where those pieces land. But through the breakdown, you’ll learn something about yourself. You’ll learn that you are strong. And no matter how hard they destroy you, that you can conquer anyone and anything." ~LLL

"No matter what stage in a relationship you are in, none of us are immune to having feelings of insecurity, neediness, and fear taking over in the relationship." ~Michael Fiore

"No relationship is endless sunshine. In a relationship there are cloudy days, windy nights, rainy days, cold nights and stormy days. But once you’ve learned that every condition is temporary, you’ll have discovered the secret to making your relationship last. Therefore don’t let the temporal conditions of life cause you to make permanent decisions in your relationship. No problem lasts forever. If you learn to weather the storms and play in the rain you’ve learned the secret of surviving each passing storm." ~Emotional Filmtricks

"One of the reasons why relationships end is because one is doing everything to save it, and the other is finding every way to end it." ~from Relationship Status Quotes

"One of the things that makes relationships so difficult is the way in which we protect ourselves from suffering — from our own and from each other’s. Because when you love someone you don’t want to lay your suffering on them and your fears. Also you are afraid if you open your heart too far their suffering will overwhelm you." ~Ram Dass

"One simple rule for long-term relationships: Never lie." ~Anon

"Opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.” ~Rob Bell

"Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. That's why healthy relationships are difficult for wounded people." ~Ryan North

"People who give their best time, energy, and attention to their most important relationships experience more happiness." ~Robert Holden

"Pride destroys relationships and marriages. You are human and you make mistakes. Swallow your pride, admit when you are in wrong and take responsibility for your actions. Don't seek to justify your mistakes or push blame to someone else. Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride and say, "I am sorry, I was wrong please forgive me." to save your relationship." ~EMFT

"Put the relationship first then figure out how to work everything around that. " ~Joyce Fetteroll

"Relationships are about give and give, not give and take. You will know you are with the right person when they give as much as you." ~LLL

"Relationships are for people who are committed to being honest. Honesty is a way of life for some people. Learn to value this quality, learn to recognize it and to admire it in others. Only fall in love with an honest person. Knowing how to spot an honest person can save you from painful failure in a relationship." ~John Estrellas

"Relationships are like birds. If you hold tightly they die. If you hold loosely they fly. But if you hold with care, they remain with you forever." ~Anon

"Relationships are never easy. Some days you’re going to wake up and that love you know you have for the person in the bed next to you, isn’t going to come so naturally. We always say “no one told us it was going to be this hard” but they do.We choose not to listen, because it seems so unreasonable that one day you will be able to keep your hands off of each other. One day you will spend your free time away from each other. The only way you can make a relationship last is if you work at it every day and never give up on it. Because if you take time to fight and argue and still can’t imagine leaving them, then you love them. And that’s the kind of love that’s forever." ~Anon

"Relationships aren't here to make us happy (for happiness is only found within). They are here to make us profoundly conscious." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Relationships aren't here to make us happy - for true happiness lies within. They're here to make us profoundly conscious. To break us, to humble us, to make us whole again." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Relationships are our greatest learning tool if you analyse ourselves in reaction to others, rather than analysing others to see if they can change enough to be a perfect match for us. There are no perfect matches, but there are connections with meaning. Unfortunately, most of us don't know the meaning of the love we have, until long after it is over." ~Becky Walsh

"Relationships don't last because of the good times; they last because the hard times were handled with love and care." ~Anmol Andore

"Relationship gets stronger when both are willing to understand mistakes and forgive each other." ~from Darkblue Skye

"Relationships have their shares of ups and downs. Stay the course and remember that the road to change will have its share of twists and turns. Embrace the lessons learned during your travels. The growth along the journey will create a closeness and a love that will keep you connected in a deep way." ~Dr. Jeff Kane

"Relationships. It's more than just the dates, holding hands and kissing. It's about accepting each other's differences and flaws. It's about being yourself and finding happiness together. It's about seeing an imperfect person perfectly." ~Anon

"Relationships last not because they were destined to last. Relationships last long because two people made a choice to keep it, fight for it and work for it." ~Lessons Learned In Life

"Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murdered by EGO, ATTITUDE and IGNORANCE." ~Family Health Freedom Network

"Relationships should be a safe haven, not a battlefield. The world is hard enough already." ~from Love Wide Open

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." ~Dalai Lama

"Remember, your spouse is an opportunity to show love, kindness and gratitude; the best expression of meekness and humility and above all, the best person after God to lavish all the praise you can fathom on." ~Anon

"Romance is everything." ~Gertrude Stein

"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake." ~Bertrand Russell

"Say 'I love you' often. Forget mistakes. Forgive. Plan alone time. Focus on the things you love about each other. Do not expect perfection. Support one another. Say 'thank you' for everyone needs to be appreciated. Hold hands. Take walks together. Hug and kiss everyday." ~LLL

"Set aside time to hang out and listen. Listening is the glue of relationship." ~Dance with me in the Heart

"Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed your tears, and when you’re ready, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to change into who you are." ~Lee Goff

"Some times the person who made you feel so special yesterday is the same person who makes you feel so unwanted today. And that is why getting into a relationship whether in business or in love does not only involve feelings, it certainly involves maturity and careful thinking." ~Francis Kong

"Staying in an unhealthy relationship can keep a person from finding their own way and moving to the next level of their own path — and that person could even be you. Sometimes the best way to save someone is to walk-away. Real love sometimes means saying goodbye." ~Bryant McGill

"Successful Relationships are built on true and genuine friendship: Your partner should be your Best Friend Forever. True friends spend time together; they talk together, laugh together and cry together. True friends enjoy each other’s company while they celebrate life’s moments together. True love is more than just kissing, hugging or sleeping together; it’s about loyalty, honesty and courtesy - attributes that you’ll always find in a best friend. Don’t just love each other, take your relationship to the next level and become true best friends also; you’ll have fun and enjoy life together. Genuine friendship creates wonderful relationships. Don’t Just be your partner’s partner; become your partner’s Best Friend Forever!" ~from EMFT

"The art of staying happily married is the greatest of all the arts, because everything that is fine and decent about our world depends on the skill with which men and women practice this art." ~Robert W Burns

"The call to love is not about an individual relationship, it’s about your relationship with the world." ~Begin with Yes

"The happiest couple never have the same character. They have the best understanding of their differences." ~Anon

"The husband is the anchor and the sail. The wife provides the balance so when the storm comes, both strength combined can overcome the odds and prevent the boat from capsizing." ~Leah C. Dancel, March 23, 2018 on HOW TO UNDERSTAND A MAN

"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself." ~Voltaire

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." ~Groucho Marx

"The most important marriage skill is listening to your partner in a way that they can't possibly doubt that you love them." -Diane Sollee

"The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk." ~Paulo Coelho

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~Theodore Hesburgh

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." ~Steve Maraboli

"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident." ~Sir Hugh Walpole

"The plain truth is that honesty is critical to the moral fiber of every individual. Experts agree that people who are honest feel better about themselves. They are able to enjoy stronger friendships, are more successful in school and in other pursuits and, in the long run, have deeper, happier marriages. It is from honesty that so many other desirable traits spring forth." ~Betsy Brown Braun

"The practice of forgiveness can play an important role in your relationships with others. Forgiveness will enable you to correct distortions in your relationships and to improve the quality, intensity, and meaningfulness of relationships. It means letting go of past resentments toward others so that you can experience them in the present. Even if you do not "feel" like forgiving someone, forgiving them will release you from the hold of the past and allow you to experience the world in a new way. To forgive is to step outside the vicious circle of interpretation, where concepts from the past dominate experience, and to begin to live in terms of a larger, more worthy purpose. Forgiveness eliminates fear and anxiety, weakness and vulnerability." ~Ari Kiev

"The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"The quality of your lifej is the quality of your relationships." ~Tony Robbins

"The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves." ~Anon

“The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.” ~Harriet Lerner

"The thing to remember is that you are the only adult in the relationship for the time being, so be the first one to listen, the first one to forgive, the first one to apologise, the first one to understand, the first one to back down when the going gets tough. Before you know it, your teen will be an adult just like you. Just. Like. You. Make sure that the ‘you’ they see is the ‘you’ you want them to become." ~L.R. Knost

“The truth about our intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves. How we are related to ourselves determines not only the choice of the Other but the quality of the relationship. In fact, every intimate relationship tacitly reveals who we were when we commenced it. All relationships, therefore, are symptomatic of the state of our inner life, and no relationship can be any better than our relationship to our own unconscious." ~James Hollis

"The truth is that the more you intimately know someone, the more clearly you'll see their flaws. That's just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don't last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they're out of money, or under pressure or hungry, 'for goodness' sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it's seeing the darkness in another person, and defying the impulse to jump ship." ~Anon

"The truth is, trying to resolve a conflict can sometimes create more problems than it fixes. Some battles are simply not worth fighting. And sometimes the most optimal relationship strategy is one of 'live and let live'." ~John Gottman

"There are lessons in every relationship. I know it is hard to fathom this, but sometimes there are people who we meet, just so they can teach us to let go." ~I Must Be A Mermaid

"There are no perfect husbands and no perfect wives, but if you'll keep believing in each other, there will be plenty of perfect moments in your marriage." ~Life Learned Feelings

"There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships. Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention. Which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know, or appreciate you? The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life." ~Anon

“There cannot be a relationship unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is understanding, patience, and persistence.” ~Cornel West

"There's no good story without romance." ~Stephenie Meyer

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” ~Martin Luther

"There’s that one type of hug that a woman loves. That tight hug where you put some strength into it, using your both arms, not just one. The one where a woman could bury her face in a man’s chest, that makes her feel safe and secure, that makes her feel warm on the outside and inside, that makes her feel wanted, the one that lasts for awhile, and the one that would give her the impression that you care." ~Anon

"They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning." ~Clint Eastwood

"This goes to all my Single Friends out there: Not everyone that you see in a relationship is happy and comfortable. Many are in pain, they’re stressed, ever in regrets, tears, torture, they have sleepless nights, they are lonely and others are not contented with the people they have. Therefore, take your time in choosing the right person to spend your life with. Don’t rush because being single is not a curse. Keep working on yourself as you are praying to God to help you in finding the right person." ~Emotional Filmtricks

"Thoughts that are often never expressed can influence your relationship in ways you never imagined. What you think will greatly influence what you say and how you act. The expectations you carry will affect what how you move through your relationship. Change your thoughts and change your relationship." ~Dr. Jeff Kane

"To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all." ~Helen Rowland

"To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !." ~Bhalchandra

"To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship." ~Domenico Cieri Estrada

"Ultimately, it is the quality of our relationship with ourselves that affects the quality of all relationships we attract and accept into our lives." ~Jennifer Tanna

“We are all of the same kind, and kindness is recognising this… We could completely change the world by doing this one thing, by simply being kind in our relationships.” ~Peter Russell

“We can't manipulate people into swallowing our boundaries by sugarcoating them. Boundaries are a "litmus test" for the quality of our relationships. Those people in our lives who can respect our boundaries will love our wills, our opinions, our separateness. Those who can't respect our boundaries are telling us that they don't love our nos. They only love our yeses, our compliance. "I only like it when you do what I want.” ~Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution." ~Deepak Chopra

"When a relationship is over, leave. Don't continue watering a dead flower." ~Anon

"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When a woman knows, and works towards making her home, a peaceful and quiet place, a castle where her man will feel safe and comfortable to stay in always, The atmosphere in this home will make the man to cherish every moment he spends in his home with his queen, and anytime he is away, he will always longingly look forward to the time he will get the chance to step foot in his home again to be with his queen." ~Marriage is Beautiful by Igwe Kalu

"When nails grow long, we cut nails not fingers. Similarly, when misunderstandings grow up, cut your ego, not your relationship." ~Bedeempled Brain

"When temptation enters a wicked heart, a beautiful friendship or relationship crumbles and dies a natural death. Judas is still very much around." ~Leah C. Dancel, May 27, 2014

"When two people are meant for each other, no time is too long, no distance is too far, and no one can ever tear them apart." ~The Lovely Thoughts

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them." ~Martin Buber

"When you meet the other half of your soul, you will understand why all the other lovers let you go. When you meet the one who deserves your heart, you’ll understand why things didn’t work out with everyone else." ~Anon

“When you meet your soulmate, let the connection, the relationship be what it is. It may be five minutes, five hours, five days, five months, five years or a lifetime. Let it manifest itself, the way it’s meant to. It has a destiny. This way, if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer from having been loved. Souls come into, return, open, and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons, let them be who and what they are meant to be.” ~Unattributed

"Whenever you depend on somebody, you can never forgive that man. He makes you dependent, he makes you feel helpless." ~Osho

"Whenever your spouse is facing difficulties, remember they will probably need your support more than they will need your advice." ~Marriage is Beautiful

"You're going to date a few cowards before you meet someone brave enough to love you." ~R.H. Sin

"You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing; you can be in a relationship for two months and feel everything. Time is not a measure of quality; of infatuation, or of love." ~Anon

"You deserve someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life." ~Rule of a Relationship from Simple Reminders

"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life." ~Greta Garbo

"Your primary relationship is with yourself and God, and every other relationship follows from there. To attract, heal, or balance a relationship, then snuggle more closely with your loving Creator. As you feel safe and loved within, so shall your other relationships bloom and prosper." ~Believe The Best Is Yet To Come

"Your relationships can be loving, fulfilling, and harmonious, and at other times cold, distant, and discordant." ~Susan Shumsky

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RELATED QUOTES

“A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.” ~Victoria Secunda

"A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault." ~Walter Bagehot

"Behind every husband that thinks he wears the pants … is a wife who told him which pants to wear." ~Coffee and Jelly Beans

"Bridesmaid today may eventually catch the bouquet." ~‪Ann-marie Marshall‬

"He may love you. He probably does. He probably thinks about you all the time. But that isn’t what matters. What matters is what he’s doing about it, and what he’s doing about it is nothing. And if he’s doing nothing, you most certainly shouldn’t do anything. You need someone who goes out of their way to make it obvious that they want you in their life."~Eliza Engellenner

"It feels amazing to be touched by the person who understands your mind, the person who acknowledges your flaws and loves your soul." ~Anon

"It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too." ~Lillian Bell

"People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing." ~Dr. Brian Weiss

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation , but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk.

If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories." ~Paulo Coelho

"The worst thing about relationships is not to end up all alone, but to end up with people that make you feel all alone." ~Robin Williams

"That moment of your life when you realize that you are in love, and at the same time, you realize that you are never meant to be together and you don't know you should smile or cry." ~Feel Proud To Be who You Are

"We must be honest and open about the power relationships between men and women in our society, and we must help build a more enabling and supportive environment that puts the role of women centre stage in this struggle. Each one of us – sister and brother, mother and father, teacher and student, priest and parishioner, manager and worker, presidents and prime ministers – must add our voice to this call for action." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the 46664 Concert, Fancourt, George, South Africa, 19 March 2005

"You make friends with people because you’re looking for lifelong relationships, not friendships of convenience or simplicity." ~Soul Spot

“You move on and live each day. Feel me in the morning air, and when you wake up and make your coffee. I will be there always.” ~Babbette Jacquish (FB)

OTHERS

"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend." ~Henri Nouwen

"In the relationship with the child, the quality of the relationship always lies with the adult." ~Kirsten McNeil

"It is every woman's dream to feel loved and secure in the heart and arms of the man she loves." ~Leah C. Dancel, 7 July 2014

"Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir

"Missing someone isn't about how long since you've seen them or the amount of time you've talked them. It's about that very moment when you're doing something and wishing they were right there with you." ~Anon

"No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone." ~Khalil Gibran

"Stop being always available to people who are just there for you when it's convenient for them." ~Reddit Dating Advice: Today's Lesson

"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. 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 Edward Moore from Mastering Relationship With Love

“There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another. Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important.” ~Helen Fisher

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there." ~Emotional Filmtricks

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FACTS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

1. There is nothing like a perfect relationship.

2. Every woman has a price.

3. Those who cheat and lie before marriage are most likely to continue in the act when married!

4. Most relationships are relationships of convenience.

5. What most lovers mistake for love is actually lust that wont stand the test of time.

6. The bitter truth works like bitter pills.

7. The sooner we leave those who cheat and lie, the better and happier we would be.

8. You may force a girl to go out with you, but you cant force her to love you.

9. Most men who beats women also cheat on their woman.

10. Believe it or not, an unfaithful partner can also kill you.

11. Destroy conceit and deceit or conceit and deceit will ruin you.

12. Wise men do not gossip on how good their woman is on bed.

13. The lust for money and sex is the ruin of all relationships.

14. You do not need money to win the heart of a woman, who truly loves you.

15. Never give up on love!

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RELATIONSHIP: I HOPE

"I hope that someday you find someone that gives you butterflies the moment you meet them. And that the first time you touch, it feels like electricity is running through your body.

I hope that when you’re with them, you never want to leave.

I hope you are the first and last thing they think about every day.

I hope you play it cool in front of people, but can’t keep your hands off each other in private.

I hope that when you give them your heart, they don’t break it. I hope that the things they tell you aren’t just things you want to hear, but things they want to say.

I hope that you fit in their arms better than the last piece of a puzzle, and that you always feel safe when they hold you.

I hope that when you fight, you fight hard, but that when you love, you love harder.

I hope that once you find them, you can’t picture your life without them.

I hope that they take your breath away.

I hope that, together, you create happiness.

I hope that with them, you’re not afraid of the future, but excited for it.

I hope that, every day, they tell you how much they love you.

I hope that when you find them, you realize it before it’s too late.

I hope that you take them and love them and never let them go.

I hope you find it."

~Lauren M. Smith

Source: Lessons Learned in Life

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15 Ways to Keep a Relationship Working

1. Love each other

2. Don’t lie

3. Keep communication open

4. Stay sweet

5. When you get hurt, focus on forgiving

6. Never talk about break-ups

7. Never say ‘it’s ok’ when it’s not

8. Learn to put your ego aside

9. If you say ‘sorry,' mean it

10. Don’t compare your past with your present

11. Don’t talk about your ex’s

12. Practice 'give and take'

13. Be aware of your partner’s feelings

14. After a fight, work on resolving the issue right

away; don’t let the days go by

15. Although there is no ‘perfect person’ out there, There IS a ‘right one’ for you.

‪Source: Emotional Filmtricks FB

The Guy for you

“He’s not perfect.
You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect.
But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice,
and if he admits to being human and making mistakes,
hold onto him and give him the most you can.
He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you everymoment,
but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break.
Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he cangive.
Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes youmad,
and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had.
Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”

Source: FB

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Live Life to the Full

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All photographs, unless noted, are my copyrights.

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place." ~Elliott Erwitt

Quotes are sourced from the Inspiration Line founded by Chelle Thompson, The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, The Happy Guy by David Leonhardt, Quotes by People on Stamps, Inspirational Quotations by Barbara J Olson and from other various sources that trickle my quotable interest.

"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." ~Joseph Roux

"While I gather storm of quotations, nothing inspires me most than those contained in The Bible ... Timeless!" ~Leah C. Dancel

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"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving " ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is it in the melody of sound...which calls such visionary beauty forth from every tone?” ~R.E. Salaman

"The thoughts of the day become the dreams of the night." ~Anon

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!" ~Lawrence G. Lovasik

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BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS

Inspiring and uplifting thoughts
Bring beauty to the mind,
By dwelling on the positive,
What's joyful, happy, kind.
Courage and enthusiasm,
Cheerfulness and grace,
Radiating from within
All show upon the face.

Reflecting on the beautiful,
What's pure and good and true,
Embracing all the world of wonder
That's surrounding you.
Hope, contentment, peace and love,
Your thoughts can soar on wings
So let the life within your mind
Be filled with lovely things.

~Kathleen Gillum ~
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~ Max Ehrmann ~

A Prayer

Let me do my work each day;
and if the darkened hours
of despair overcome me, may I
not forget the strength
that comforted me in the
desolation of other times.

May I still remember the bright
hours that found me walking
over the silent hills of my
childhood, or dreaming on the
margin of a quiet river,
when a light glowed within me,
and I promised my early God
to have courage amid the
tempests of the changing years.

Spare me from bitterness
and from the sharp passions of
unguarded moments. May
I not forget that poverty and
riches are of the spirit.
Though the world knows me not,
may my thoughts and actions
be such as shall keep me friendly
with myself.

Lift up my eyes
from the earth, and let me not
forget the uses of the stars.
Forbid that I should judge others
lest I condemn myself.
Let me not follow the clamor of
the world, but walk calmly
in my path.

Give me a few friends
who will love me for what
I am; and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.

And though age and infirmity
overtake me, and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful
for life, and for time's olden
memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening's
twilight find me gentle still.

(The Desiderata of Happiness)

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms
with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater
and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let not this blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the council of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labours and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life
keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful, strive to be happy.

~Max Ehrmann~

Source: Internet

Silence in Harmony of the Night

What lies in the horizon
Where luminescent sunset streams?
Does it reconcile my restless frame
In cohabitation with silence
And harmonize a dreamy night?

What sets in that iridescent sky?
Where precious heavenly gem emits
Beauty and wisdom of the eventide
A cohort’s advocate of divine insight
Transfigured in a space of endless time.

What draws the opalescent light?
To kiss the incandescent liquid face
And call upon his love in penchant peace?
As sunset drifts to its blissful home
There’s silence in harmony of the night.

Words Copyright@2009, Leah C. Dancel, All rights reserved

Title Credit: Mia N of Finland as inspired by her photography of Sunset.

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AUTUMN FINALE

A beautiful day
With sunshine bright
Pale sky, blue sky
With cravats of white clouds
Densely lining the horizon.
Down below,
Leaves red, gold and brown
Dead and withered
Are lying on the ground
Some are hanging on the trees
Moistened by the remnant
Thawed frost of the morning
Clinging on to their last hope
Unyielding to the final season.
Soon colours will vanish
And life has to perish
Destined to winter hibernation.

Leah C. Dancel
Copyright@2011
All rights reserved
Original Title: The Final Season
Australia
28 May 2011

Trilogy

Rock, My Fortress

On top of this big broad rock,
I found a seat to sit upon;
Watching the blue ocean,
Calm and peaceful in its depth;
There’s no trace of vanity.

The waves keep tossing
relentlessly caress the shore.
Every lap sounds a rhapsody
for every note of the wind.

As the waves confront the rocks
They spray in random motion,
Pacing fast, medium and slow,
Each tempo harmoniously flows.

This rock is my throne and my shelter,
Away from the world where I falter;
My fortress from life’s distress,
Here I found solace and peace.

On this big rock I ponder,
What lies ahead and yonder?
Meditating and contemplating
For every travails besetting,
I let them go through the wind.

Copyright@2007, Leah C. Dancel, All Rights Reserved
FOT, The Entrance, NSW Australia

A Tribute to All Mothers

A Poem My Mother Taught Me

SOMEBODY'S MOTHER

The woman was old and ragged and gray
And bent with the chill of the Winter's day.

The street was wet with a recent snow
And the woman's feet were aged and slow.

She stood at the crossing and waited long,
Alone, uncared for, amid the throng.

Of human beings who passed her by
Nor heeded the glance of her anxious eye.

Down the street with laughter and shout,
Glad in the freedom of "school let out."

Came the boys like a flock of sheep,
Hailing the snow piled white and deep.

Past the woman so old and gray
Hastened the children on their way.

Nor offered a helping hand to her -
So meek, so tired, afraid to stir

Lest the carriage wheels or the horses' feet
Should crowd her down in the slippery street.

At last came one of the merry troop,
The gayest laddie of all the group;

He paused beside her and whispered low,
"I'll help you cross, if you wish to go."

Her aged hand on his strong young arm
She placed. and so, without hurt or harm,

He guided the trembling feet along,
Proud that his own were firm and strong.

Then back again to his friends he went,
His young heart happy and well content.

"She's somebody's mother, boys, you know,
For all she's aged and poor and slow,

'And I hope some fellow will lend a hand
To help my mother, you understand,

'If ever she's poor and old and gray,
When her own dear boy is far away.'

And "somebody's mother" bowed low her head
In her home that night, and the prayer she said

Was, 'God, be kind to the noble boy,
Who is somebody's son, and pride and joy!"

~Mary Dow Brine~

Source: www.amandashome.com

START WHERE YOU STAND

(Inspiration Line Beginning)

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last,
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through.

This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don't give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.

The world won't care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success,
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress.

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
Today's the thing, tomorrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history.

What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned,
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.

~ By Berton Braley (1882-1966)

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HEARTPRINTS

Whatever our hands touch
We leave fingerprints —
On walls, on furniture, on doorknobs and dishes;
There's no escape, as we touch we leave our identity.

Wherever I go today
Help me leave HEARTPRINTS —
Heartprints of compassion,
Of understanding and love.

Heartprints of kindness and genuine concern —
May my heart touch a lonely neighbor
Or a runaway daughter, or an anxious mother
Or perhaps an aged grandfather.

Send me out today to leave heartprints —
And if someone should say "I felt your touch,"
May they also sense the love
That is deep within my heart.

~Author Unknown

THE BODY IN FULL PRESENCE

The body in full presence
holds its first creative essence
in the pen that touches paper.
Lifting the glass that holds the wine,
this beckoning uncertainty is mine.

I’ll follow my line to an early death,
feeling out rhythm in the spoken breath
and startled by flame
this arrogance shall be my moth,
flying with his burning cloth.

Then humility will rise
out of poetry’s deep surmise,
and I will have confidence in my powers;
wanting this presence, burnt by the past,
I’ll die in the first line – and become the last.

‘THE BODY IN FULL PRESENCE’
From River Flow
New and Selected Poems
©David Whyte and Many Rivers Press

THE ARTSY SIDE OF ME

"Where you look from is only half the picture." ~Zoe Leonard

TRAVELLER'S SONG

"Brevity is the soul of wit." ~Hamlet

THE SURVIVORS

"I'm starting at the mirror. I see a happy version of myself." ~Leah C Dancel

DEUTERONOMY 32:2

"Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants."

LETTERS TO YOU

“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.” ~George Bernard Shaw

LOVINGLY YOURS

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” ~Coco Chanel

Queen at HEART

"You don't need to be a queen to look good." ~Leah C Dancel

WELCOME 2023

Thank you visitors from all over the world!

By ERICA FRANCIS

Katulad po ng b'wan,
Hindi man kita mayakap at mahawakan,
Hindi kita pagsasawaang tulaan,
At sa puso ko'y mananatili ka,
Ngayon, bukas at magpakailanman.

TRADEMARK™

©My quote for life.

I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you."~Psalm 143:8 ~•✿•~ ~•✿•~

MOTHER'S DAY 2021

"Here I write my thoughts: insights, perspectives, ideals, dreams, frustrations, let-downs, drawbacks and setbacks, my imperfections ... I got to live... with them in all colours." ~Leah C. Dancel, May 9, 2021

BEYOND MEASURE

“To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure.” ~Lao Tzu

THANK YOU FOR THE BLESSINGS

"Father, we thank you for the abundant blessings you have given to our family today, tonight, and in the days to come. Amen."

A DIADEM OF SMILE

… is set with precious stones and jewels carved by my children and GRANDCHILDREN. ~Leah C. Dancel, July 20, 2020

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY 2020

James 1:17 - "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above."
Thank you Sweet Girls and Family for your kind thoughts, as always. Love. Mum xxx

SWEET INDEPENDENCE OF SOLITUDE

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is the one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PROVERB

"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home."

SILENCE IS MY SOLACE

"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone's life covetously, remember … you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean's boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm." ~Nikita Gill

HELLO WORLD

"The hearts of little children are pure, and therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." ~Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) OGLALA LAKOTA

THREE SCORE AND NINE

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

ANGEL

"For every moment you feel alone, there is an Angel whose presence means you never have to feel alone again." ~Anna Taylor

INTEGRITY

"… — the quality of being honest and fair." ~MWebster

"I'll carry my sunshine with me wherever I go" ~ Miss Jean Gall (The Friendship Book of Francis Gay 1981)

"God from a beautiful necessity is Love." ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

Naturally Homegrown

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

I AM HOME

"I have arrived. I am home.
 In the here. In the now.
 I am solid. I am free.
 In the ultimate I dwell."
~Thich Nhat Hanh

PROTECT ME O LORD

Psalm 119:11 Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you.

VIEW of HOPE

"Stand tall in face of adversity to have the greatest view of hope’s precious light." ~Robert Clancy

"When you find time on your hands, put them together in prayer." ~Our Daily Bread

"Remember the day's blessings; forget the day's troubles"~Anon

A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE 2018

"Great teachers don't always have the best lessons. But they always have the best relationships with kids." ~Songs for Teaching

COMING OF AGE

“My inner peace positively affects every aspect of my life” ~Birthday Power Thought

"The beauty of being old is knowing that you did not get there alone and that you have a chance to get older." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

MY PLACE FOR SERENITY

... be quiet, please...

2019 - BLUE MOUNTAINS

"To be happy, love must mean more to you than anything." ~Robert Holden

A MEANINGFUL LIFE

"When you reveal who you really are, your life becomes meaningful beyond all human conditions and limitations." ~Susan Shumsky

JOURNEY

"Our life on earth is just a fragment of our journey." ~ A.D. Williams

GREATER BLESSINGS

"Every pain that you learn to tolerate leaves you healthier than it found you" ~G. Teodoro, Jr.

PEACE

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

DREAM ON

"Every dream that you left behind is a piece of your future that won't exist." ~Steve Jobs

FLY AWAY HOME

Au revoir to the LAND of LONG WHITE CLOUDS

Written in the Sand

"Keep dreaming and create reality." ~Kristian Kan

NO EXPLANATION

"Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ~Oscar Wilde

LAO TZU

Tao Te Ching

AUTUMN

"Seasons change and so do you. Trust the rhythms of your life." ~Project Happiness

KNOW THYSELF

"To know others is wisdom, to know oneself enlightenment." ~Lao Tzu

MY WORLD

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." ~Michel de Montaigne

COMPANION

"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion." ~Rumi

VALORIZAR CADA MOMENTO

"May you be
Strengthened by
Yesterday's rain,
Walk straight in
Tomorrow's wind, and
Cherish each moment
Of the Sun today."
~Ojibwa Prayer

BEST WISHES TO MY GUESTS

"The best feeling in the world is being loved back by the person you love." ~ Anon

2015

"A book of quotations can never be complete." ~Robert M. Hamilton

SUNSHINE IN AUTUMN

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” ~Henry David Thoreau

VERMILLION SEAL

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~Albert Einstein

PRECIOUS GIFT

"I look at life as a gift of God." ~Joyce Cary

LIVE WELL

"Daily find something to laugh about. A sense of humor and a good belly laugh relieves stress, inspires hope, keeps you alert and connects you to others." ~Total Body Wellness

Table of Contents

Reading Bench

BARBARA JEAN OLSON

DAVID LEONHARDT - The Happy Guy

FRANCIS GAY FRIENDSHIP BOOKS

HUMOUR

DEEP THOUGHTS

FAMILY

HOME -Echo

WHAT HITS WOMEN

OUR DAILY BREAD QUOTES

BLISSFUL BLESSING

WHAT HITS MEN

BIBLE QUOTES

ODE TO THE POETS

From My Desk

I feel so honoured to find that there are websites who sourced some of their materials from my blog as I have sourced mine from others. It is great to be able to channel some wonderful thoughts of my great friends to be shared to many others, hoping it will give them some uplifting words to live by.
Learning words of wisdom from people helps me to be philosophical and practical in my approach to life. Of course, I follow my own conviction trying not to compromise any conventions. I certainly do not lean on my own understanding either. We all need divine inspired guidance. My parents were my first teachers who taught me some "nuggets of wisdom". To them, I am indebted my knowledge of life to which they molded my intellectual and spiritual well-being.

Prayer

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~Reinhold Niebuhr

"Prayer is an essential tool for us to talk with God and to build a closer relationship with Him, so we can become more like our Father. " ~Douglas S Winnail

"Prayer is our pathway not only to divine protection, but also to a personal, intimate relationship with God." ~ Shirley Dobson

"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." ~ Ambrose of Milan
"Having a life time of prayer, talking to God become natural as breathing...it's the presence of God ... moment by moment reality" ~ Anon
"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." ~John Bunyan

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." ~ Charles M. Schulz

Content and Honour

"O God, help us to perform our duties with laughter and kind faces; and let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, and bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonoured; for Jesus Christ's sake." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." - John Ray

"A perfect day is when the soul smile." ~from The Untold Stories

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."~Anne Roiphe

"Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life." ~Nancy Astor

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate." ~Christopher Marlowe

"Integrity reveals beauty." ~Thomas Leonard

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand." ~Khalil Gibran

“Real beauty is about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.” ~Valerie Monroe

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."~Denis Waitley

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." ~William Arthur Ward

"Beautiful isle of the sea,
Smile on the brow of the waters." ~George Cooper

"When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life worth smiling about." ~Unattributed

"Your smile brings beauty to both you and humanity." ~A.D. Williams

“Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. I can still hear the song of your laughter.” ~Anon

Three Score 2010

"Live, love, learn, think, give, laugh. try."

"Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." ~Robert Browning

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A BIRTHDAY FAIR
By Yesu Ben

At long last, clouds have lifted and dispersed;
The pikes have reappeared; the land is wet;
The air smells of fresh earth; anguish reversed;
Yellow flowers dressed in green – proud and set
For a new day’s longed for exchange of views,
The meadow has become a noisy place;
Flora in brightest fashion clothes and shoes;
A conversation lively, vines embrace;

On privacies and on oppressive trees,
On rain, on covert sneak of weed on ground;
they’re drinking to the renaissance with glee
A cycle’s been concluded; life is found!
The conscious world sings, breathes and is aware!
With tenor voice that echoes in the air!

August 11, 2018

A birthday tribute on my 68th

Just Enjoy Life

Work hard at what you like to do and try to overcome all obstacles

Laugh at your mistakes and praise yourself for learning from them

Pick some flowers and appreciate the beauty of nature

Say hello to strangers and enjoy the people you know

Don't be afraid to show your emotions laughing and crying make you feel better

Love your friends and family with your entire being they are the most important part of your life

Feel the calmness on a quiet sunny day

Find a rainbow and live your world of dreams always remember life is better than it seem

A Friend

A friend is like a flower
A rose to be exact,
Or maybe like a brand new gate
that never comes unlatched.

A friend is like an owl,
both beautiful and wise.
Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,
whose spirit never dies.

A friend is like those blades of grass
you can never mow,
Standing straight, tall, and proud
in a perfect little row.

A friend is like a heart
that goes strong until the end.
Where would we be in this world
if we didn't have a friend?

© 1990-2010 Adrianne Goff (All rights reserved)

~~~ AND REMEMBER ~~~

It's not wise to count your friends
on a bright sunny day,
when the sky is blue
and smiles come so easily.

Instead wait for a storm,
when the clouds are dark and
the day grows cold,
and laughter is not heard
in your heavy heart.

Then when a friend comes
and stands beside you
and lifts your spirits to the sky
and laughter is in your heart,
he or she deserves the name ...

FRIEND.

Thank you, my Friend,
for braving the storms with me
and for making the sunny days so much brighter.

You are You
You are strong when you take your grief and teach it to smile.

You are brave when you overcome your fear and help others to do the same.

You are happy when you see a flower and are thankful for the blessing.

You are loving when your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others.

You are wise when you know the limits of your wisdom.

You are true when you admit there are times you fool yourself.

You are alive when tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake.

You are growing when you know what you are but not what you will become.

You are free when you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control others.

You are honorable when you find your honor is to honor others.

You are generous when you can take as sweetly as you can give.

You are humble when you do not know how humble you are.

You are thoughtful when you see me just as I am and treat me just as you are.

You are merciful when you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself.

You are beautiful when you don't need a mirror to tell you.

You are rich when you never need more than what you have.

You are you when you are at peace with who you are not.

~Anon~
*****
Stand Up in For Yourself;
Stand Up and be Yourself

Stop hiding!
Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down!
Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying.
Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you.
Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special.
Life is special!
It is a special gift.
This is your life!
Now take your gift and live it out in the open!
Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

Living out loud means having the courage to be exactly who you are without apology.
It means admitting your mistakes without beating yourself up.
It means not taking who you are and what you have for granted.
Release all shame!
Release all guilt!
You cannot live out loud if you are hiding behind what was.
Living out loud means focusing on what is, right now, and that is you!

To live out loud means showing up as your authentic self, without your makeup or your toupee.
It means acknowledging your shortcomings and celebrating your strengths.
Living out loud means broadcasting your needs, your likes and your dislikes as they relate to your fears and frustrations.
It means that you let people know exactly who you are and expect them to be as thrilled as you are about who you are.

In order to live out loud you must have faith in yourself and in the process of life.
You must have principles you live by and standards by which you can govern and gauge yourself.
Most important, in order to live out loud you must love yourself enough to tell yourself and everyone else the absolute truth about you.
When you can do that, you can live out loud and be very proud about what the world will hear about you.

Until today, you may have been living your life in a whisper.
Just for today, take one step toward pumping up your volume.
Stand up in yourself! Stand up and be yourself!

~Iyanla Vanzant~

TO WONDER

To wonder, to know,
To explore, always asking:
What am I?
Who am I?
What will become of me?
Of my knowledge?

Am I squandered on the world?
Cheapening existence through vanity?
How long before I am fit to say, I know this!
Rather than, I think this.

That in itself questions self,
Whether our thought and mind is
Our own knowledge and assurance.
At what point in time do we stop marching?

Pencil upon paper, sight upon colour and light.
A fixation upon what we comprehend
And that, which is incomprehensible.
Are we gambling with the gifts we are given?

Are they gifts?
The ability to question choice, life, the air we breathe;
The sun, the moon, clouds, stars, the earth, wind, rain, height.

Re-reading leads.
Random, our teachers abandon us,
Fending for all you are on your own
'Tis a lonely path all humans follow, trying to fill the void
With relationships, contact with others, family, friends.

I advanced myself only through victory.
Victory against what?
If there’s nothing to fight against,
How do we advance at all?
Do we fight against self-doubt?

From the Original Manuscript Written by Lily Dancel, Wyndham College
Poetic Concept:
Leah C. Dancel
Copyright@2007
All rights reserved
Quakers Hill NSW
AUSTRALIA

Remember today all the blessings you have

Remember today that you are alive.
Sometimes we tend to forget.
You have a purpose that is all your own.
No one else is you.
You have dreams and hopes and desires.
Listen to your heart for a while.

Remember today all the blessings you have.
There's beauty in every direction you look.
Enjoy the abundance that is already yours.
The world is a wonderful place and you're here.

Remember today that you get what you give.
Your world is a mirror of your inner self.
Love will be yours when you give it away.

Remember today that life is creation.
As long as you live you can always contribute
your own special voice.
Remember today is a special time.
Make the best of it while you can.

No String Attached

I've nothing else to offer,
So, to you, it's love I'll send,
It's nothing that I borrowed,
And it's nothing that I'd lend.

It has no dollar value,
And it can't be overused;
It isn't fragile, so it can't break,
Though, often it's abused.

I've given it to others,
But each time it's unique,
Its meaning's always different;
It depends on what you seek.

It's something you can store away
To feel when you're in need,
But never is it on display;
Its beauty can't be seen.

I'm giving it "no strings attached,"
No costly warranty;
This love that I am sending
Has a lifetime guarantee.

~Anon~

Always There for Us

"In the silence of our hearts,
God walks with us;

In our garden of thoughts,
He touches our hearts.

In the wings of our words,
He bestows meaningful ideas;

And in the core of our dreams,
He provides hope and meanings of Life."

~Mar Razalan

A VANISHED FRIEND

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.

And I never see my old friend's face,
For life is a swift and terrible race,
He knows I like him just as well,
As in the days when I rang his bell.

And he rang mine but we were younger then,
And now we are busy, tired men.
Tired of playing a foolish game,
Tired of trying to make a name.

'Tomorrow' I say! 'I will call on Jim
Just to show that I'm thinking of him.'
But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes,
And distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner, yet miles away,
'Here's a telegram sir,' Jim died today.'
And that's what we get and deserve in the end.
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

~Anon~

Remember to always say what you mean. If you love someone, tell them. Because when you decide that it is the right time it might be too late.

Seize the day
Never have regrets.
And most importantly,
stay close to your friends
and family, for they have helped
make you the person that you are today.

SMILE, even through your tears! ~JBY
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BEAUTY

It is when beauty arrives,
To wake us up and come alive,
Guide our eyes to the sky,
To look within and we will shine.

Keep the flame of hope burning bright,
To see our inner light come to life,
And then the winds blow and we begin to breathe,
To hold that moment that never leaves.

Seek the beauty within the world,
Grasp the life we hold deep inside,
Embrace everything from our soul,
Until we reflect the light from our eyes.

The light gives life to the colours of change, Blending into one that remain the same, Adorning the blue stained sky,
Dreams reign high while clouds entwine.

And the depths of the ocean below,
Reflects our tears through rain and snow, Crystallised in the blink of our eyes,
A momentary glimmer of the radiant light.

Stars awaken as we look above,
And pain slowly fades to love,
Reawakened as we morph to dust,
And dissolve in all that is and ever was.

We reveal of what is inside,
Within the lineaments of our soul,
A beauty mirrored from our eyes,
It is a teardrop filled with the world.

Beauty is the essence of the heart,
As love is expressed into an art,
A light that is born that guides us home,
A dream that dawns of all we've known.

A birth into the unborn again,
A commencing where all become still,
A starting where we stopped to rest,
A momentary time that we fulfill.

Patrick Graven
FB

The day is DONE

The day is done,
it cannot be changed.
My actions and my thoughts
reflected my own spirit
on this day of some,
I am proud,
of some I am not.

When I wake,
there will be new chances...
To think and act
with wisdom and compassion.

There will be new temptations
to be petty,
small or selfish...

May I choose wisely and well
from waking to day's end...
And be a blessing to all I meet.

~Anon~

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We Are Collective

Let the real revolution begin.
This is a fight to save our country's future.
To salvage the gains we have so far achieved
when we decided to put the right man in Malacanang.
To ensure that everything he does
and all he has accomplished will bear fruit
instead of simply going to waste.
To cut our ties of dependence to oligarchic structures
whose only desire is to enslave us.
To chart our own course.
Fueled by a longing to break free from the past.
To see a country where we all enjoy real economic progress.
To see the day when Filipinos do not need to migrate.
To stand proudly among the brotherhood of nations.
Not as beggars but as equals.
Duterte has shown us the way.
But evil forces conspire to block that path.
Using every weapon in their arsenal to fool and deceive us.
This we cannot allow.
Because we are Legion.
We are the Multitude.
We are Collective.

LIFE in its ESSENCE

"To thine own self be true, , Thou canst not then be false to any man."~ William Shakespeare

A Hebrew origin, means 'the joyous one'

Leah is magnetic and seductive
She carries a sense of her own power
She has a great skill for teaching others
She sees the ironies of life all too clearly
Her capacity for sympathy is celebrated
She is a mistress of persuasion
Her strong powers of endurance set her aloft
Her home is haven of security
She may be prone to exhibitionism
Nothing is free from her scrutiny.

Leah ~ also means "weary" relinquishing her heart to love, for she is a hopeless romantic, putting others before herself, for she knows no other way but to give a helping hand, her reassuring smile is there for all to see, no cause is too great, for giving up is unknown to her, she loves a challenge to do her best.

You are artsy and elegant. Your imagination allows you to place yourself in other people’s shoes, which allows you to easily understand and sympathize with those around you.

You are calm and rational.
You are also GIVING and KIND - a Great FRIEND.
You are EASY GOING and TRUSTING.
However, you are too SENSIBLE to fall for mind games. EELSIE'S BIRTFAIR

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"What is a friend? I will tell you, it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." ~Frank Crane

"Friendship is a sheltering tree." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet

"The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves, and shows himself for what he truly is." ~Robert Benson

"A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty." ~Anon

"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is ~Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
May the sun bring you new energy by day.
May the moon softly restore you by night.
May the rain wash away your worries.
May the breeze blow new strength into your being.
May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.

~Apache Blessing~

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