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Gabriel

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

Passione

northern lights

in michigan? my my. cant wait to see some in real life one day. i wont be able to close my eyes.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. Omar N. Bradley

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison

Solitude

i am coming for you.


When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. William Wordsworth

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Henry Home

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

W.B Yeats

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Shout out!

to my new and cherished friend Kat, a fantastic woman with great energy + all the smarts and beauty a girl could be blessed with. Check out her website Earthpicked Healing, for inspiration and spiritual guidance.

I was thinking about robins eggs yesterday and how beautiful and fragile they are, and if you like flowers as much as I do, you may be intrigued with Sandhollow Iris Gardens, where they have an amazing array of different Iris breeds.

Without further ado, friendship quotes for my friends!

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edward W. Howe

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer

must get out of bed

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. Maria Robinson

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways. Marge Piercy

You can't punish yourself into change. You can't whip yourself into shape. But you can love yourself into well-being. Susan Skye

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. Lillian Hellman

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Kahlil Gibran

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. Gwendolyn Brooks

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning

Thoughts

from design is mine

Back. to go forth

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel Teney

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. Robert Fripp

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer

Philosophy

“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”

Terry Pratchett

Didn't shower today

meteor shower that is. I went outside and saw a beautiful sky, but nothing shooting or streaking, per se. meh. heres a photo of the amazement foretold, with some quotes for good measure. hussah 2011!

(actually the photo was taken during the same meteor shower in 2009, alberta canada)

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” Og Mandino

“Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night”
Sarah Williams

"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
William Blake

"The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show." Henry David Thoreau

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.

Tennyson, "Ulysses"

More Quotes

Sometimes I go about pitying myself
And all the while
I am being carried across the sky
By beautiful clouds.
Ojibway Indian Expression

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Matthew 17:20

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunner

the struggle

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. August Wilson

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
Oscar Wilde

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy, it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon

Ok Love

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
Homer Simpson

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting.
Oscar Wilde

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
James M. Barrie

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
Javan (Steven Javan Jones)

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give — which is everything.
Author Unknown

Frustrated

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness- Leon Trotsky

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success- Bo Bennett

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward- Kurt Vonnegut

The Others

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel- Irwin Federman

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others- Mark Twain

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others- Buddha

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations- Leo Buscaglia

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him- Albert Einstein

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened- Lao Tzu

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion- Dalai Lama

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome- Michael Jordan

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others- Nelson Mandela

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent- Henry David Thoreau

Excellence can be obtained if you:

...care more than others think is wise;

...risk more than others think is safe;

...dream more than others think is practical;

...expect more than others think is possible.

End of May

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. William Somerset Maugham

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other. Norma Shearer

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo F. Buscaglia

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Bob Black

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine

Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Marie B Ray

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
William Least Heat-Moon