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"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." Zeno (335BC - 264BC)
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"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." Babylonian Talmud |
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"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman." Margaret Fuller
"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange." Robin Morgan |
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"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult." E. B. White |
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"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
"The important thing was to love rather than to be loved." W. Somerset Maugham |
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"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." Plutarch
"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor." Hugh Elliott
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves." Albert Guinon
"To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway |
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"If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue."
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
"When you think everything is someone else´s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Pride leads to violence and evil. The truly good gaze upon everything with love and understanding." Dalai Lama
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"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings... As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become." Buddha |
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." Oscar Wilde |
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"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." Harold B. Lee
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." Ogden Nash
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." Jane Howard
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!" Ann Radcliffe |
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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy
My heartfelt thanks to all who have served, and continue to serve this country ~ Veterans Day 2009.
Have YOU thanked a Vet today? Do so... |
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." Vladimir Nabokov
"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die, That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour." William Shakespeare |
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein
*no kidding* |
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"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns
*can't wait to see the big picture ~ if it's fake honesty, there won't be one single worry* |
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"Failure ISN'T an option." The Powers That Be...
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." Mike Ditka |
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"I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life." Oscar Wilde |
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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." Baruch Spinoza |
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"I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind." Stephenie Meyer, Twilight |
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"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter." William Ralph Inge |
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." J.R.R. Tolkien |
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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public." Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." Samuel Butler |
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"The friendship that can cease has never been real." Saint Jerome |
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
"If you don't risk anything you risk even more." Erica Jong
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." Julia Sorel |
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"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them." Cato the Elder |
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." Sir Francis Bacon
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"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi
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September Earth Wind & Fire Maurice White, Charles Stepney & Verdine White
Do you remember the 21st night of September Love was changing the minds of pretenders While chasing the clouds away
Our hearts were ringing In the key that our souls were singing As we danced in the night Remember how the stars stole the night away
Ba de ya - say do you remember Ba de ya - dancing in September Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day
My thoughts are with you Holding hands with your heart to see you Only blue talk and love Remember how we knew love was here to stay
Now December found the love that we shared in September Only blue talk and love Remember the true love we share today
Ba de ya - say do you remember Ba de ya - dancing in September Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day
Ba de ya - say do you remember Ba de ya - dancing in September Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days |
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I dedicate this day to ****, and will listen to Earth, Wind, and Fire's ~ September ~ several times.
"say that you remember..."
R.I.P. my friend. |
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"The wise man will love; all others will desire." Afranius |
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
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"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." Richard M. Nixon |
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"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." David Letterman |
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Mahatma Gandhi |
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"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki |
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"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." Stephen King ~ Hearts In Atlantis |
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"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others." Friedrich Nietzsche |
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JESSE
(Janis Ian)
JESSE COME HOME THERE’S A HOLE IN THE BED WHERE WE SLEPT NOW IT’S GROWING COLD
HEY JESSE, YOUR FACE IN THE PLACE WHERE WE LAY BY THE HEARTH, ALL APART IT HANGS ON MY HEART
AND I’M LEAVING THE LIGHT ON THE STAIRS NO I’M NOT SCARED – I WAIT FOR YOU HEY JESSE, I’M LONELY, COME HOME
JESSE, THE FLOORS AND THE BOARDS RECALLING YOUR STEP AND I REMEMBER, TOO
ALL THE PICTURES ARE FADING AND SHADED IN GREY BUT I STILL SET A PLACE ON THE TABLE AT NOON
AND I’M LEAVING A LIGHT ON THE STAIRS NO I’M NOT SCARED – I WAIT FOR YOU HEY JESSE, I’M LONELY, COME HOME
JESSE, THE SPREAD ON THE BED IS LIKE WHEN YOU LEFT I’VE KEPT IT ALL FOR YOU
AND ALL THE BLUES AND THE GREENS HAVE BEEN RECENTLY CLEANED AND THEY’RE SEEMINGLY NEW HEY JES, ME AND YOU
WE’LL SWALLOW THE LIGHT ON THE STAIRS WE’LL DO UP MY HAIR WE’LL SLEEP UNAWARE
HEY JESSE, I’M LONELY, COME HOME
Copyright © Janis Ian/her co-writer(s) if any/their publisher(s). All rights reserved. Re-printing these lyrics for limited personal use is fine. Using these lyrics to make money is a violation of lots of laws; do not do that please! Permission to quote in books, magazines, etc. may be obtained by writing to rudegirlpublishing@janisian.com |
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Make You Feel My Love Bob Dylan
When the rain is blowing in your face And the whole world is on your case I could offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love
I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue I'd go crawling down the avenue There's nothing that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love
The storms are raging on the rollin' sea And on the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free You ain't seen nothing like me yet
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true Nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love
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THE LAKE Edgar Allan Poe
n spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the less-- So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around.
But when the Night had thrown her pall Upon that spot, as upon all, And the mystic wind went by Murmuring in melody-- Then--ah then I would awake To the terror of the lone lake.
Yet that terror was not fright, But a tremulous delight-- A feeling not the jewelled mine Could teach or bribe me to define-- Nor Love--although the Love were thine.
Death was in that poisonous wave, And in its gulf a fitting grave For him who thence could solace bring To his lone imagining-- Whose solitary soul could make An Eden of that dim lake. |
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."
"We are effectively destroying ourselves with violence masquerading as love."
R.D. Laing |
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Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Robert Frost North of Boston |
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"The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling."
Mein Weltbild (1931) Albert Einstein
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"To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever." Sacred Contracts Caroline Myss
As well it should be. We should all be so lucky to understand where we're going before deciding who will be going with us. |
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