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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today...


    – James Dean
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    "I'm too blessed to be stressed."

    From an older woman (actually, she's not really "older", maybe in her early 60s) who lives in my building...she's on oxygen and has other obvious health problems. Always compliments my hair, always is genuinely friendly, kind, gracious.

    Riding down in the elevator with her, we stopped on a floor where a young woman with MS was waiting in her wheelchair. I've seen her health degenerate from where she only needed a walker.

    This morning, I learned that my co-worker had a stroke and died on Friday. Her husband of over 30-something years is just lost without her.

    As heavy as my heart is today, I am more aware than ever of how very blessed I am, no matter what life may throw at me.

    Those six words from my neighbor made a difference to me, and she probably doesn't even know it.

    And it really doesn't matter - the love you take is...well, we all know.
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    I just love this quote...

    Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning....

    You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.

    You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,

    let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

    Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could !!!.....


    – Louise Erdrich
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    mikalina wrote:
    I just love this quote...

    Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning....

    You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.

    You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,

    let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

    Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could !!!.....


    – Louise Erdrich
    Say hello
    To all the apples on the ground
    They were once in your eyes
    But you sneezed them out while sleeping

    - The Nurse Who Loved Me

    (I liked that quote, mikalina, especially the very first line)
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Perception is the way of truth. - Not conviction, not method, but perception is the way of truth. It is a state of effortless awareness, pliable awareness, choiceless awareness.

    Bruce Lee - 'On Being Human'
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    A Practical Dreamer - Be a practical dreamer backed up by action

    Bruce Lee - On Being Human
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  • JBii
    JBii Lake Spivey Posts: 354
    True friends stab you in the front.
    Oscar Wilde
    That what you fear the most could meet you halfway
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    hedonist wrote:
    mikalina wrote:
    I just love this quote...

    Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning....

    You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.

    You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near,

    let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.

    Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could !!!.....


    – Louise Erdrich
    Say hello
    To all the apples on the ground
    They were once in your eyes
    But you sneezed them out while sleeping

    - The Nurse Who Loved Me

    (I liked that quote, mikalina, especially the very first line)


    Say hello
    To all the apples on the ground
    They were once in your eyes
    But you sneezed them out while sleeping     .... I love this :D
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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    “I want to see you.

    Know your voice.

    Recognize you when you
    first come 'round the corner.

    Sense your scent when I come
    into a room you've just left.

    Know the lift of your heel,
    the glide of your foot.

    Become familiar with the way
    you purse your lips
    then let them part,
    just the slightest bit,
    when I lean in to your space
    and kiss you....

    I want to know the joy
    of how you whisper
    "more”...

    ― Rumi
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  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    “On a day when the wind is perfect,
    the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
    Today is such a day.”


    ― Rumi
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  • mydogmookieblaylock
    mydogmookieblaylock Posts: 2,996
    Once more she spoke. "How much do you love me, John?" she asked. He answered: "How much do I love you? Count the stars in the sky. Measure the waters of the oceans with a teaspoon. Number the grains of sand on the sea shore."
    "Impossible, you say? Yes, and it is just as impossible for me to say how much I love you. Everything must have an ending except my love for you."


    (i paraphrased the end slightly)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    In the clearing stands a boxer
    And a fighter by his trade
    And he carries the reminders
    Of ev'ry glove that layed him down
    Or cut him till he cried out
    In his anger and his shame
    "I am leaving, I am leaving"
    But the fighter still remains
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    If everyone in the world liked RUSH, we fans wouldn't be as cool, right.....MEE

    peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
    - Henry Miller
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    edited August 2013
    “Half the world cries
    Half the world laughs
    Half the world tries
    To be the other half”
    ― Neil Peart

    When they turn the pages of history, when these days have passed long ago-- will they read of us with sadness for the seeds that we let grow?
    Neil Peart


    Playing a RUSH SHOW is like running a marathon while solving equations....Neil Peart

    “Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!”

    Peace
    Post edited by g under p on
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • prism
    prism Posts: 2,440
    Apologizing does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

    -Unknown
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    angels share laughter
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    prism wrote:
    Apologizing does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego.

    -Unknown

    Very nice :)

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

    Frank Zappa
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Godfather. wrote:
    There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

    Frank Zappa

    Nice Zappa quote, Godfather. :thumbup:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    brianlux wrote:
    Godfather. wrote:
    There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

    Frank Zappa

    Nice Zappa quote, Godfather. :thumbup:

    thank you my friend .

    Godfather.

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