Patience, dear friends

via Serendipitous Romance

 

Sometimes, the most beautiful sentiments in just a few words.  I may just add this to my list of favourites.

 

All good things

Une motto: Leave it all behind

 

via Serendipitous Romance

Never were truer words spoken.  One for the list.

Starlight and Yeats

via Serendipitous Romance

From Book III, The Wanderings of Oisin.

Haiku love

via Tyler Knott

As you know I love this poet's way with words.  I could disappear in his blog for hours. TK's daily haikus on love are such a treat, and sometimes they just grab me.

If we find each other, it's beautiful

I do my thing, and you do your thing.  I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine.  You are you and I am I.  And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.

- Frederick S. Paris

Radiance and fire

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Can't believe I've never posted my favourite quote on this website.  Followed closely by Camus.  Also can't help but love these in particular: Hafiz, Kubler-Ross, Nin

Love the questions, live your way into the answer

via Cherry Blossom Girl

"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Choosing a man

via Emeranie

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

— Anaïs Nin

Oh, Darcy

via Etsy

Honesty

"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted but an illusion they could bear to live with."

- Anais Nin

via human-voices

Passion.

“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”

- Leslie Fiedler

via http://dangerouslydebonair.com/page/2

Can't take my eyes off of you

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”

- Maya Angelou

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This is life.

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

- Bob Moawad

via Dangerously Debonair

Hearts and sleeves

“Never apologize for showing feelings. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

- Benjamin Disraeli.

via Dangerously Debonair

In love, in laughter, in work and in friendship.  Say what you think, what you mean, and what is honest and authentic.

I heart NY

"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion."

- E.B White, Here is New York

Skyscraper - and a lot of guts

So I know I'm a bit old for the current Disney generation, but I must say I'm super impressed by this song and am awestruck by the strength that comes with it.  Last year Demi Lovato (from the kids show, "Sonny with a Chance") seemed to have the world at her feet.  She was on a hit tv show, was singing and touring with the Jonas Brothers (including her ex, Joe Jonas) and her smile and fame were the envy of a million girls around the globe.  But cracks started to show late last year when there were reports that Demi had punched her friend and back-up dancer on tour.  Then the inevitable announcement: Demi was checking herself into rehab.  Another celebrity in rehab, and but, oh so very young.  But what emerged was a very real story of some very real problems that afflict teenagers and young adults all over the world.  Demi revealed that she was being treated for anorexia, bulimia, self-harm by cutting and bipolar disease.  What is incredible about this story is the way in which such a young girl who has dealt with so much, has been so open with her fans and with the public.  Of course, her story is just one of many young people battling with such issues at this very moment.  But her honesty and her determination to create a dialogue is inspiring.  What's just as inspiring, is her new single, Skyscraper, which when you know what she has been going through, gives goosebumps to watch...take a look above.

This one, is for all my friends...

Against the use of the word "very"

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays."

- Robin Williams playing John Keating in Dead Poets Society.