Without wondering....

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. 

~St. Augustine

Flowers are evil...

Flowers are evil, because they live to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you’ll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn’t make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is.

~ Will Advise, Nothing is here...          

Dreaming or awake...

 “And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine."

~Lauren Oliver

Patience..

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with. 

Sharon Salzberg

Conscious and unconscious...

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. 

Bernie Siegel

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. 

Henry Ward Beecher

So do I....

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

~ John Steinbeck

Great souls....

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Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Do not watch...

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.

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Simple.. Yet strong..

She was fierce. She was simple. She was crazy and always had something to say. She had flaws, but when she was down she got right back up. She was a beast in her own way but one word described her best… Strong!

Love chooses you..

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away. 

~ Kent Nerburn

Which door will you take???

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. 

~ Gisele Bundchen

Letting go...

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. ~ Melody Beattie

Falling in love...

I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

~ Julianne Moore

Make life happen...

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. 

Bradley Whitford

Falling in love.

"Mohabbat karna hamare bas mein nahi hai...uss mohabbat se dur chale jana vo hamare bas mein hai"

It's not within our control to fall in love ... but to go far away from that love ... is within our control.

~ Ae dil hai mushkil (2016)

Callings of my soul..

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul. 

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Unspeakable memories....

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

~ George Eliot

Emotions... Feelings..

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. 

Judith Wright

It's Ok to lose your spark...

It's OK if you fall down and lose your spark...Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.

We sometimes..

We sometimes think we want to disappear,
When all we really want is to be found..

~ Lonliness (Adna)

Empty... Inside..

There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.

J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness (Caged, #1)

It's beyond..

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure. 
~ Phylicia Rashad

Being in love...

The whole point of being in love with someone is to make sure their life is the best life it can be. It's not about being selfish. It's not about how great that person makes you life, It's about making their life wonderful.

Cherie M. Hudson, Undeniable (Always #3)

Looking back.....

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. 

~Robert Brault, 
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Twilight..

How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From there to anywhere.
Happiness instead of duty
Was bitter delight to me.
Not obliged to speak to anyone,
I spoke for a long while.
Let passions stifle lovers,
Demanding answers,
We, my dear, are only souls
At the limits of the world.

Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The child within us....

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? 

~Cesare Pavese

The white rose...

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.     

John Boyle O'Reilly

I was too young....

    She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Treasures....

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. 

~ Dale Carnegie

Elegance....

   

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.

C. JoyBell C.

I'm always in love....

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside. 
~ Gloria Vanderbilt

When the soul lies down.....

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” 

― Rumi.

So close...yet far...

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

~ Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles, #2)

If you ever ask me...

If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.

~ Ritu Ghatourey

Who and what we are..

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. 

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

True stories....

She kept asking me if the stories were true. I kept asking her if it mattered. We finally gave up. She was looking for a place to stand and I wanted a place to fly.

 ~Brian Andreas, Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings, 1993

The doorway to her heart...

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. 

-- Audrey Hepburn

Spirit leaps....

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

 ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore"

Let go...

    Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Smile with your soul...

Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life. 

~Terri Guillemets

Give me....

Give me
a moon-blanket night
to keep me warm

a long-gone smile
to comfort me

a pair of rain-blue eyes
to haunt me

a simple soul
...to love me.

Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

All I want....

All I want in this life are three...
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,

a breath of opium,
and thee.

Roman Payne

Moving sea between your souls...

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

~ Khalil Gibran

I'll kill you twice...

Sweet as sugar,
Hard as ice,
You hurt me once,
I'll kill you twice!!

April night...

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.  

~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow  (Thanks, Katherine!)

You know...

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

~Dr. Seuss

All is a miracle....

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

 ~Thich Nhat Hanh