Tag: Love
June
Apathy
Growing
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.”
~ Anais Nin
Invincible Love
“My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus”
Fear & Love
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
~John Lennon*
*Died: December 8, 1980
Reality
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
~ Jim Morrison*
*Born: December 8, 1943
Pass The Word Along
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Embodiment of Love
Four Words
good karma
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3 For 3
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Judging People
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The Mind Loves The Unknown
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
~ Rene Magritte, Artist, 1898 – 1967
10:38 a.m.
all is well
in the
neighborhood
love it
“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.” ~ Janis Joplin
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” ~W. H. Auden
Essentials To Happiness
Joseph Addison, Essayist, Born: May 1, 1672 – Died: June 17, 1719
Falling In Love
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ‘society’. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
~ Stephen King
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher, Born: April 22, 1724 – Died: February 12, 1804
“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.” ~ Neal Cassady
Quick Fiction
He told her lover, cry me a river. She started to weep, when suddenly it seemed like the dam broke, and all hell broke loose. She just kept crying and crying, and it looked liked it wasn’t going to stop any time soon. Now he wished he never told her to cry.
The Opposite Of
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
Fear
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess
Love
Promises To Keep
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost
The Opposite Of Love
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel
A Mother’s Love
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
~ Agatha Christie
To Be A Philosopher
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.” ~Dante Alighieri
Be Who You Are
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown
Coffee and love are best when they are hot. ~German Proverb
I love being an introvert…
“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. ~Jose Marti
“At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” ~ Maya Angelou
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess
Walk Beside Me …..
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus
In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France
Anatole France – French Novelist
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson Quote
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
~ Emily Dickinson
The Best Things In Life Are Free.
The best things in life are free. Sunsets and sunrises are free. Air is free. Love is free. Death is free. The best things in life are free. ~ Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A Precious Privilege
Be who you are. ~ Rita Mae Brown
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”
~ Rita Mae Brown. Writer – B: November 28, 1944
Rules For Happiness ~ Immanuel Kant
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
~ Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B: April 22, 1724 – D: February 12, 1804
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; ~ Sitting Bull
“Love one another (His last words)” ~ George Harrison
George Harrison – B. February 25, 1943 – D. November 29, 2001 (58 y/o)
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~ Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B. April 22, 1724 – D. February 12, 1804
In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre
People are afraid of themselves ~ Jim Morrison
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
~ Jim Morrison
Poets Are The Only People ~ Hannah Arendt
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
~ Hannah Arendt – 1906-1975
Quote: Hermann Hesse, To Hold Our Tongues
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.”
– Hermann Hesse
Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
~Hermann Hesse
Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles
“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon…
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring…
What stranger miracles are there?”
– Walt Whitman
Life Is Short ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The Four Conditions of Happiness ~ Albert Camus
“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition, Creation” ~Albert Camus
A Man Who Lies ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love
Quote ~ Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~Henry David Thoreau
George Harrison’s Last Words
Love Is
To sing is to love and affirm,
to fly and to soar,
to coast into the hearts of the people
who listen
to tell them that life is to live,
that love is there,
that nothing is a promise,
but that beauty exists,
and must be hunted for and found.
-Joan Baez (Daybreak 1968)
Life
Life is just a bowl of
cherries, don’t take it
serious, its mysterious.
Life is just a bowl of
cherries, so live and laugh
and laugh at love, love a
laugh, laugh and love.
-Bob Fosse
Earth
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. -Robert Browning
Everybody Can Be… Martin Luther King, Jr.
When You Can’t Fall Asleep ~ Dr. Seuss
Charles M. Schulz Quote
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Dalai Lama
Ray Bradbury Quote On Love
M.D. Waters – Forever
Six Word Story
Her eyes are gleaming with love.
Love Quote by Robert Frost
Jack Kerouac Quote
John Lennon Quote
Jack Kerouac Musing From His Book ‘On The Road’
Marcus Aurelius Quote
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
– Marcus Aurelius
Love Life
Jack Kerouac Quote
Jack Kerouac
Wisdom
Thursday Morning Quote
The Sixties
Monday Quote
Wednesday Morning Quote
“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
– John Lennon
Tuesday Morning Quote
Wednesday Quote
“When You Cook …………
“When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.” – Raymond Blanc
Albert Einstein Quote
Margot Asquith Quote
“From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.” –
Margot Asquith
Unity
We need more light
about each other. Light
creates understanding,
understanding creates
love, love creates
patience, and patience
creates unity.
Malcolm X
Changing Seasons
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -George Santayana
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Society
Tree
Nature
Choose
Coffee and ……
If you truly …..
If someone thinks ….
We live in a world ….
Self-Knowledge
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. — Diana, Princess of Wales
Though lovers be …
Though lovers be lost love shall not. — Dylan Thomas
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