Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself
You are not responsible for what people think about you but you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.
Write your sad times in Sand; Write your Good times in Stone.
Behind every successful man, there is an untold pain in his heart.
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
Love your job but don't love your Company because you may not know when your company stops loving you
You may get DELAYED to reach your Targets,But every step you take towards your target is EQUAL to Victory.
It's better to loose your Ego to the one you Love, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO.
Don't make promises when you are in JOY. Don't reply when you are SAD.Don't take decisions when you are ANGRY. Think twice, Act wise. BE happy.
When you start caring about yourself, you start loving somebody,But when you start caring about others somebody will start loving you.
What is the Secret of SUCCESS...? 'RIGHT DECISIONS'How do you make Right Decisions...? 'EXPERIENCE'How do you get Experience...? 'WRONG DECISIONS'……
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Positive Thinking
The Power of Negative ThinkingFor some reason, most people find it easier to think in a negativeway than in a positive manner.
It seems that some effort is needed tothink positive thoughts, whereas negative thoughts come easily anduninvited.
This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in.
In order to understand how positive thinking works, and how to useit efficiently, it is important to understand the power of negativethinking.
If you have been brought up in a happy and positive atmosphere,where people value success and self-improvement, then it will be easier foryou to think positively and expect success.
If you have been brought up underpoor or difficult situations, you will probably go on expectingdifficulties and failure.From an early age people let outside influences shape their minds.
They view everything through their predominant mental attitude.
If theirthoughts are positive, that is fine, but if they are negative, their lives andcircumstances will probably mirror these thoughts.If you believe that you are going to fail, you will unconsciouslysabotage every opportunity to succeed.
If you are afraid of meeting newpeople or having close relationships, you will do everything to avoid peopleand relationships, and then complain that you are lonely and nobodyloves you.Do you often think about difficulties, failure and disasters?
Do youkeep thinking about the negative news you have seen on the TV or readin the newspapers?Do you see yourself stuck and unable to improve your life or yourhealth?
Do you frequently think that you do not deserve happiness ormoney, or that it is too difficult to get them? If you do, then you will close yourmind, see no opportunities, and behave and react in such ways, as to repelpeople and opportunities.
You let the power of negative thinking ruleyour life.The mind does not usually judge or examine thoughts and opinionsbefore accepting them. If what it hears, sees and reads is always negative,it accepts this as the standard way of thinking and behavior.
The media constantly bombards the mind with a lot of informationabout disasters, catastrophes, wars and other negative happenings.
Thisinformation sinks into the subconscious mind, and let the power ofnegative thinking grow. By occupying the mind with negative thoughts andexpectations one radiate negative energy into the surrounding world, thus creatingand recreating more negativity, failures and disasters.
The mind can be directed towards positive thinking or negativethinking.The power of thoughts is a neutral power. The way one thinksdetermines whether the results are positive and beneficial or negative andharmful.
It is the same of energy acting in different ways.Persistent inner work can change habits of thoughts. You must bewilling to put energy and time to avoid negative thinking and pursue positivethinking, in order to change your mental attitude.
Each time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, changeit into a positive one.If you catch yourself visualizing failure, switch to visualizingsuccess.
If you hear yourself repeating negative words, switch to positiveones.If you hear yourself saying, I cannot , say to yourself, I can .Do you repeat useless and unnecessary negative words and phrasesin your mind? Change them to positive ones.
Open your mind to positive attitude, happenings and events. Expectthem and think about them, and soon you life will change for the better.Decide that from today, from this very moment, you are leaving negativethinking behind, and starting on the way towards positive thinking andbehavior.
It is never too late. Soon your life will turn into a fascinating,wonderful journey.
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
The least we can do as individuals is to motivate and inspire another human being!Because a candle loses nothing by lighting another!
It seems that some effort is needed tothink positive thoughts, whereas negative thoughts come easily anduninvited.
This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in.
In order to understand how positive thinking works, and how to useit efficiently, it is important to understand the power of negativethinking.
If you have been brought up in a happy and positive atmosphere,where people value success and self-improvement, then it will be easier foryou to think positively and expect success.
If you have been brought up underpoor or difficult situations, you will probably go on expectingdifficulties and failure.From an early age people let outside influences shape their minds.
They view everything through their predominant mental attitude.
If theirthoughts are positive, that is fine, but if they are negative, their lives andcircumstances will probably mirror these thoughts.If you believe that you are going to fail, you will unconsciouslysabotage every opportunity to succeed.
If you are afraid of meeting newpeople or having close relationships, you will do everything to avoid peopleand relationships, and then complain that you are lonely and nobodyloves you.Do you often think about difficulties, failure and disasters?
Do youkeep thinking about the negative news you have seen on the TV or readin the newspapers?Do you see yourself stuck and unable to improve your life or yourhealth?
Do you frequently think that you do not deserve happiness ormoney, or that it is too difficult to get them? If you do, then you will close yourmind, see no opportunities, and behave and react in such ways, as to repelpeople and opportunities.
You let the power of negative thinking ruleyour life.The mind does not usually judge or examine thoughts and opinionsbefore accepting them. If what it hears, sees and reads is always negative,it accepts this as the standard way of thinking and behavior.
The media constantly bombards the mind with a lot of informationabout disasters, catastrophes, wars and other negative happenings.
Thisinformation sinks into the subconscious mind, and let the power ofnegative thinking grow. By occupying the mind with negative thoughts andexpectations one radiate negative energy into the surrounding world, thus creatingand recreating more negativity, failures and disasters.
The mind can be directed towards positive thinking or negativethinking.The power of thoughts is a neutral power. The way one thinksdetermines whether the results are positive and beneficial or negative andharmful.
It is the same of energy acting in different ways.Persistent inner work can change habits of thoughts. You must bewilling to put energy and time to avoid negative thinking and pursue positivethinking, in order to change your mental attitude.
Each time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought, changeit into a positive one.If you catch yourself visualizing failure, switch to visualizingsuccess.
If you hear yourself repeating negative words, switch to positiveones.If you hear yourself saying, I cannot , say to yourself, I can .Do you repeat useless and unnecessary negative words and phrasesin your mind? Change them to positive ones.
Open your mind to positive attitude, happenings and events. Expectthem and think about them, and soon you life will change for the better.Decide that from today, from this very moment, you are leaving negativethinking behind, and starting on the way towards positive thinking andbehavior.
It is never too late. Soon your life will turn into a fascinating,wonderful journey.
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
The least we can do as individuals is to motivate and inspire another human being!Because a candle loses nothing by lighting another!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
199 Love Quotes Collection -
199 Love Quotes Collection -Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. ~ National Lampoon
Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran
Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ~ Sappho
Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. ~ Unknown
He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
Happiness is being married to your best friend. ~ Anon
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. ~ Albert Einstein
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". ~ Anon
From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. ~ Hesiod
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland
Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. ~ Unknown
Don't compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. ~ Unknown
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~ Yogi Desai
Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. ~ Unknown
A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together! ~ Unknown
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Clarence Thomas
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Anonymous
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~ Mistinguett
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane
You're nothing short of my everything. ~ Ralph Block
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Anonymous
Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. ~ E E cummings
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~ Unknown
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. ~ Saint John of the Cross
All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. ~ Robert BrowningAll I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. ~ Anon
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~ Unknown
You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ UnknownYou know it's love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. ~ Anon
You know it's love when forever is not long enough. ~ Unknown
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~ Jonathan Carroll
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael
You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered ~ A. Neilen
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt
I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. ~ Nancy Williams
I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because you'll just break it apart. ~ Unknown
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~ Unknown
I don't wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. ~ Unknown
I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. ~ Unknown
I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed. ~ Unknown
I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. ~ Jonivan
I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. ~ Unknown
Words sound stupid -- look into my eyes ~ Anonymous
With every kiss, I feel closer to you. So close in fact, I shall kiss you again. ~ Unknown
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. ~ Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde
Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. ~ A. Sachs
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~ Unknown
We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ~ Gloria Gaither
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. ~ Marlin Finch Lupus
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier
We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. ~ Unknown
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Fredrich Halm
True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain
To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown
To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
There's only one place in the world I call home, and it's because you're there. ~ Unknown
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin
The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
The heart is on the left but always right. ~ Unknown
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. ~ O.A. Battista
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Unknown
That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. ~ Unknown
Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Jean Zheng
Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. ~ Anon
Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. ~ Unknown
Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! ~ Unknown
Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. ~ Muhammad (PBUH)
Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~ Unknown
Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles
One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~ D. H. Lawrence
One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. SchulzNobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown
Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~ Unknown
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~ William Penn
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne
Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. ~ Unknown
Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh
Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown
Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown
Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran
Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. ~ Unknown
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken
Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard
Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God's Garden. ~ Anon
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~ Toni Morrison
Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ~ Theodore Roethke
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
Love is not about who you live with.. its about who you can't live without. ~ Aesop
Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. ~ Anon
Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. ~ Unknown
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown
Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ~ Unknown
Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. ~ Unknown
Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don't worry, you'll catch another one. ~ Unknown
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! ~ Unknown
Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. ~ William Oak
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith
Love is being stupid together. ~ J. Paul Getty
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. ~ Robert Frost
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Anon
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. ~ Unknown
Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. ~ Unknown
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ~ Bertrand Russell
Love is a flower and you its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~ Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson
Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you're a hard habit to break. ~ Unknown
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
Kiss: A contraction of the mouth due to an enlargement of the heart. ~ Anon
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. ~ Anon
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~ Unknown
It is not that i'm afraid to die, it is that if i die who will love you as i do. ~ Unknown
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~ Mother Teresa
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all ~ Samuel Butler
Is that love i see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? ~ Unknown
Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? ~ Thomas Wolfe
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall
In love there are two things : bodies and words. ~ Alan Watts
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm
If you truely love something, let it go, it'll come back if and when the time is right. ~ Katie Schrimsher
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~ Michel de Montaigne
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. ~ Alice James
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ~ Emmet Fox
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ~ Unknown
If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams...Then I'll Sleep Forever. ~ Unknown
If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. ~ Unknown
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Unknown
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. ~ National Lampoon
Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran
Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ~ Sappho
Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. ~ Unknown
He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides
Happiness is being married to your best friend. ~ Anon
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. ~ Albert Einstein
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". ~ Anon
From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. ~ Hesiod
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland
Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. ~ Unknown
Don't compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. ~ Unknown
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~ Yogi Desai
Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. ~ Unknown
A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together! ~ Unknown
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Clarence Thomas
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Anonymous
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~ Mistinguett
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane
You're nothing short of my everything. ~ Ralph Block
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Anonymous
Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. ~ E E cummings
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~ Unknown
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. ~ Saint John of the Cross
All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. ~ Robert BrowningAll I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. ~ Anon
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~ Unknown
You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ UnknownYou know it's love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. ~ Anon
You know it's love when forever is not long enough. ~ Unknown
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~ Jonathan Carroll
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael
You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered ~ A. Neilen
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt
I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. ~ Nancy Williams
I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because you'll just break it apart. ~ Unknown
I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~ Unknown
I don't wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. ~ Unknown
I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. ~ Unknown
I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed. ~ Unknown
I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. ~ Jonivan
I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. ~ Unknown
Words sound stupid -- look into my eyes ~ Anonymous
With every kiss, I feel closer to you. So close in fact, I shall kiss you again. ~ Unknown
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. ~ Unknown
Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde
Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. ~ A. Sachs
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~ Unknown
We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ~ Gloria Gaither
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. ~ Marlin Finch Lupus
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier
We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. ~ Unknown
Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Fredrich Halm
True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain
To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown
To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
There's only one place in the world I call home, and it's because you're there. ~ Unknown
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin
The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
The heart is on the left but always right. ~ Unknown
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. ~ O.A. Battista
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Unknown
That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. ~ Unknown
Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Jean Zheng
Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. ~ Anon
Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. ~ Unknown
Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! ~ Unknown
Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. ~ Muhammad (PBUH)
Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~ Unknown
Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles
One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~ D. H. Lawrence
One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia
One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. SchulzNobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown
Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~ Unknown
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~ William Penn
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne
Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. ~ Unknown
Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh
Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown
Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown
Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran
Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. ~ Unknown
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken
Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard
Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God's Garden. ~ Anon
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates
I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~ Toni Morrison
Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ~ Theodore Roethke
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis
Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon
Love is not about who you live with.. its about who you can't live without. ~ Aesop
Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. ~ Anon
Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. ~ Unknown
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown
Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ~ Unknown
Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. ~ Unknown
Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don't worry, you'll catch another one. ~ Unknown
Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! ~ Unknown
Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. ~ William Oak
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith
Love is being stupid together. ~ J. Paul Getty
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. ~ Robert Frost
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Anon
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. ~ Unknown
Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. ~ Unknown
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ~ Bertrand Russell
Love is a flower and you its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'. ~ Leo Buscaglia
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~ Unknown
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson
Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you're a hard habit to break. ~ Unknown
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare
Kiss: A contraction of the mouth due to an enlargement of the heart. ~ Anon
Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. ~ Anon
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~ Unknown
It is not that i'm afraid to die, it is that if i die who will love you as i do. ~ Unknown
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~ Mother Teresa
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all ~ Samuel Butler
Is that love i see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? ~ Unknown
Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? ~ Thomas Wolfe
In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall
In love there are two things : bodies and words. ~ Alan Watts
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm
If you truely love something, let it go, it'll come back if and when the time is right. ~ Katie Schrimsher
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~ Michel de Montaigne
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. ~ Alice James
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ~ Emmet Fox
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ~ Unknown
If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams...Then I'll Sleep Forever. ~ Unknown
If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. ~ Unknown
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Unknown
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry
Strength of a Man+Beauty of a Woman
Strength of a Man
The strength of a man isn't seen in the width of his shoulders.It is seen in the width of his arms that encircle you.
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone of his voice.It is in the gentle words he whispers.
The strength of a man isn't how many buddies he has.It is how good a buddy he is with his kids.
The strength of a man isn't in how respected he is at work.It is in how respected he is at home.
The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits.It is in how tender he touches.
The strength of a man isn't how many women he's loved by.It is in can he be true to one woman.
The strength of a man isn't in the weight he can lift.It is in the burdens he can understand and overcome.
Beauty of a Woman
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,The figure she carries or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows,The beauty of a woman with passing years-only grows.
Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.
The strength of a man isn't seen in the width of his shoulders.It is seen in the width of his arms that encircle you.
The strength of a man isn't in the deep tone of his voice.It is in the gentle words he whispers.
The strength of a man isn't how many buddies he has.It is how good a buddy he is with his kids.
The strength of a man isn't in how respected he is at work.It is in how respected he is at home.
The strength of a man isn't in how hard he hits.It is in how tender he touches.
The strength of a man isn't how many women he's loved by.It is in can he be true to one woman.
The strength of a man isn't in the weight he can lift.It is in the burdens he can understand and overcome.
Beauty of a Woman
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,The figure she carries or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows,The beauty of a woman with passing years-only grows.
Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.
Friday, February 29, 2008
The Awakening By Sonny Carroll
A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere, the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying, or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes, you begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening... You realize that it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon. You come to terms with the fact that he is not Prince Charming and you are not Cinderella and that in the real world, there aren't always fairy tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you and in the process, a sense of serenity is born of acceptance. You awaken to the fact that you are not perfect and that not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are ... and that's OK. (They are entitled to their own views and opinions.) And you learn the importance of loving and championing yourself and in the process, a sense of new found confidence is born of self-approval. You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you (or didn't do for you) and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. You learn that people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say and that not everyone will always be there for you and that it's not always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself and in the process, a sense of safety & security is born of self-reliance. You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties and in the process, a sense of peace & contentment is born of forgiveness. You realize that much of the way you view yourself and the world around you, is a result of all the messages and opinions that have been ingrained into your psyche. You begin to sift through all the junk you've been fed about how you should behave, how you should look and how much you should weigh, what you should wear and where you should shop and what you should drive, how and where you should live and what you should do for a living, who you should marry and what you should expect of a marriage, the importance of having and raising children or what you owe your parents. You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. You begin reassessing and redefining who you are and what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with and in the process, you learn to go with your instincts. You learn that it is truly in giving that we receive and that there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix. You learn that principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a by gone era, but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life. You learn that you don't know everything; it's not your job to save the world and that you can't teach a pig to sing. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You learn that the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake. Then you learn about love. Romantic love and familial love. How to love, how much to give in love, when to stop giving and when to walk away. You learn not to project your needs or your feelings onto a relationship. You learn that you will not be more beautiful, more intelligent, more lovable or important because of the man on your arm or the child that bears your name. You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn that just as people grow and change, so it is with love; and you learn that you don't have the right to demand love on your terms, just to make you happy. You learn that alone does not mean lonely. You look in the mirror and come to terms with the fact that you will never be a size 5 or a perfect 10 and you stop trying to compete with the image inside your head and agonizing over how you "stack up." You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn that feelings of entitlement are perfectly OK and that it is your right, to want things and to ask for the things that you want and that sometimes it is necessary to make demands. You come to the realization that you deserve to be treated with love, kindness, sensitivity and respect and you won't settle for less. You allow only the hands of a lover who cherishes you, to glorify you with his touch and in the process, you internalize the meaning of self-respect. And you learn that your body really is your temple. And you begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin eating a balanced diet, drinking more water and taking more time to exercise. You learn that fatigue diminishes the spirit and can create doubt and fear. So you take more time to rest. Just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul; so you take more time to laugh and to play. You learn that for the most part in life, you get what you believe you deserve and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You learn that anything worth achieving is worth working for and that wishing for something to happen, is different from working toward making it happen. More importantly, you learn that in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You also learn that no one can do it all alone and that it's OK to risk asking for help. You learn that the only thing you must truly fear is the great robber baron of all time; FEAR itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears, because you know that whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear, is to give away the right to live life on your terms. You learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. You learn that life isn't always fair, you don't always get what you think you deserve and that sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people. On these occasions, you learn not to personalize things. You learn that God isn't punishing you or failing to answer your prayers; it's just life happening. You learn to deal with evil in its most primal state; the ego. You learn that negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. You learn to admit when you are wrong and to build bridges instead of walls. You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted; things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about; a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower. Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself, by yourself and you make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never ever settle for less than your heart's desire. You hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind, and you make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. Finally, with courage in your heart and with God by your side you take a stand, you take a deep breath and you begin to design the life you want to live as best as you can.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Vow
I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there, in sickness and in health. I could say 'til death do us part, but I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. I do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope. I am not optimistic, I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady. And I know I am a heart man, take them apart, put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this, I am sure. You are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart, my heart, beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you, me."
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