March 2011
“Oh, my time with you was the most wonderful time indeed. But now I will rise, to the fiery atmosphere, and there I shall fuse into a silver ball, to end my life as a shooting star. Make a wish on me, sweet friend, and it will be my final service. The stars look so close now. You must turn me loose while you can. Just know that if I could, I’d stay with you forever.” “Sometimes it’s not...
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce
…and i have grown as such
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton
…i’ve lost all of that
The gods had condemned...
It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for each other – because if we don’t, who will? And that strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us. From the darkness...
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Thomas Browne The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss...
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. Marsha Sinetar Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. Saskya Pandita A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as...
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” “true friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.” “This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart,...
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. Francis Quarles All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. Thomas Fuller How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One...
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. -Thich Nhat Hanh Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. -Thomas Aquinas A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -Mohandas...
It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone. Marilyn Monroe Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who...
I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. Amy Lowell
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. Dorothy Thompson Fool that I was, upon my...
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -Alfred North Whitehead
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. -Marilyn Monroe Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you’re gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky...
“Hope, which whispered from Pandora’s box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion. It’s a law of motion, a fact of physics, no different from the stages of white dwarfs and red giants. Like...
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. Aristotle
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true...
“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” “The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything to get in your way.” “It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to...
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget...
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
“Yield to temptation. It may not...
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. * T.S. Eliot
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
