February 2012
16 posts
This is a song for anyone With a broken heart This is a song for anyone Who can’t get out of bed I’ll do anything To be happy Oh cause blue skies are calling But I know that it’s hard This is the last song That I write While still in love with you This is the last song That I write While you’re even on my mind Cause it’s time to leave Those feelings behind Oh cause...
When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your...
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Nietzsche
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picaso
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful, and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
Mary Oliver
Lord I don’t know which way I am going Which way the river’s going to flow It just seems that upstream I keep rowing Still got such a long way to go Still got such a long way to go And that light hits your eyes I know I swear we’ll find somewhere The streets are paved with gold Bullets fly split the sky But that’s alright sometimes sunlight comes streaming through the...
January 2012
28 posts
If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Thomas Edison
I’ve been worryin’ that my time is a little unclear I’ve been worryin’ that I’m losing the one’s I hold dear I’ve been worrying’ that we all live our lives in the confines of fear Ben Howard | The Fear
We’re distracted by the hard times and the troubles that we make Let us throw them in the ocean, let it wash our cares away
Million Faces | Paolo Nutini
I will prepare and someday my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
In figuring out my next steps after grad school, this sums up how I am feeling. I know my chance will come ‘someday’ even if it’s not when or how I would expect or like it to be. either way, I must be prepared. And so the preparation for more of this thing called life continues.
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hare multiples hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Martin Luther King
We must recognize that there are diversities of gifts, but whether it be plumbing or Plato that is in question, a society that is not to be condemned to mediocrity must demand the best of each.
Aydelotte
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
Written in graffiti on a bridge in a park ‘Do you ever get the feeling that you’re missing the mark?’ It’s so cold, it’s so cold It’s so cold, it’s so cold Written up in marker on a factory sign ‘I struggle with the feeling that my life isn’t mine’ It’s so cold, it’s so cold It’s so cold, it’s so cold See the arrow...
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Robin Williams
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.
Seneca | Closing Time
December 2011
25 posts
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Unknown
Today I will celebrate living life for half a century of on this earth. After 25 years, I consider myself blessed beyond measure by the friends and family God has surrounded me with, the opportunities he has provided, and the love He reveals to me in new ways everyday. I hope to never regret my age, but to always consider...
May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true, may you always do for others and let others do for you; may you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, may you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous, may you group up to be true, may you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you; may you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong,...
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens