Fluid...

        I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World

Slipping away...

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. 
Ted Danson

Red peppers...

We run crazy after things that are like the red peppers, — pretty outside, but hot as fire when we get to playing with them. Our lesson is right hard. But a punishment sin brings with it is remembered longer than a hundred warnings. God doesn’t push us towards hot peppers — He lets us alone, but we are mighty apt to run to Him after we’ve got a fair taste. 
~Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune), Alone, 1857  [A little altered. –tg]

Painful tears...

“The most painful tears are not the ones that fall from your eyes and cover your face. They're the ones that fall from your heart and cover your soul.”
 ~UNKNOWN

They broke...

"They broke the wrong parts of me. They broke my wings and forgot I had claws." — Anonymous

Near and far...

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. 
Chanakya

It's the way...

You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people. 

Carine Roitfeld

Chogada Taara....

Chogada taara

I’m your lover

Chabila taara

Your beloved

Rangila taara

I’m the color of your life

Rangbheru juye teri vaat re.... Haan..

All the words you speak are full of shades of love

Relax...

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. 
William S. Burroughs

Secret...

In the bottom of my heart lies a secret which I have never told a soul in the world. There is an image of this person who is dearest to me and closer than anything else. 

Melanie Rock

Some dance to remember...

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted
She got the Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
She calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget...

-Hotel California.

Make them feel...

 

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. 

Maya Angelou

She...

   She look’d down to blush, and she look’d up to sigh, 

   With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. 

    - Sir Walter Scott

Strong women...

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

Eyes spoke...

        It was the eyes. The secret of love was in the eyes. The way one person looked at another, the way eyes communicated and spoke when the lips never moved.

V.C. Andrews

Shattering...

Teach your daughters to worry less about fitting into glass slippers and more into shattering glass ceilings...

Empty...

It's not the feeling of completeness I need, but the feeling of not being empty.      

Jonathan Safran Foer

But it won't...

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. 
Audre Lorde

Absence...

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Hanna More

Grieve...

        

.       No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

Juliusz Słowacki

Love...

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 
Lao Tzu

Nirvana...

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
 Buddha

Can you???

I wonder can you see the sadness behind my eyes? When you see my smile, do you know what I hide behind it? When you hear me laugh, do you know what Im really thinking? When you hear me sing, do you really hear the meaning? When I touch you, can you feel my pain?
Unknown

Listen to her eyes...

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. 
Victor Hugo

Endless song...

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. 
John Muir

The power...

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. 
Stephen Covey

Heartbroken...

       The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.

Alexa Chung, It

The balance..

        Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

Second chance...

Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.      

Ana Claudia Antunes

I don’t know...

I don’t know if I like you or love you, want you or need you. All I know is I love the feeling I get when I’m near you.

Unknown

The little dash in between —

There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em. 

~ Kevin Welch

Malnutrition...

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. 

Jonathan Sacks

A Soulmate...

“A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.”
— Kenny Loggins

Not seen...not heard...

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. 

Helen Keller

Hide..

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults. 

Grace Jones

Pure or impure???

If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

"On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime" (WND, 4)

Enemy or friend??

        And whom do I call my enemy?
An enemy must be worthy of engagement.
I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.
The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.
It sees and knows everything.
It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.
The door to the mind should only open from the heart.
An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.

Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

Our paths...

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.

Marla Gibbs

Live in the present...

Whatever happened was good.
What’s happening is going well.
Whatever will happen will also be good.
Do not worry for the future.
Live in the present.
- The Bhagwad Gita

Looking backwards...

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

Three dimensions...

        Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

Marwa Rakha, The Poison Tree - Planted and Grown in Egypt

If we can...

        If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .

If we can forgive what we've done to others . . .

If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims.

Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.

Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

I believe in pink...

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. 
Audrey Hepburn

The same look...

"It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul may be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear!
Oh the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns to her god when he sets
The same look which she turned when he rose!" 

― Thomas Moore

Once in a lifetime...

“The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you, simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people.” - Anonymous

Friends, not lovers..

Liking someone doesn’t mean you have to be lovers, sometimes you just have to be friends.
-Anonymous 

Right reasons...

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons. 
- Paul Walker

Beauty secret...

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. 

Tina Turner