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Of Heaven and Earth Come my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the Western stars until I die. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson To drink in the spirt of a place you should not only be alone but not hurried. - George Santayana On sailing up the stream which empties itself into the bay, I was astonished at the cool shade, the crystal-like water, and the number of singing-birds. I felt as if I could never leave so charming a spot, as if a thousand tongues would fail to describe all these things, and as if my hands were spell-bound and refused to write. - Christopher Columbus Even by night the sky is blue and not black, for we see through the shadows of the earth into the distant atmosphere of day where the sunbeams are revelling. - Henry David Thoreau The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. - Henry David Thoreau Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain the sleeping world. - P.B. Shelley A man said to the Universe : "Sir I exist!" "However," replies the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation". - Stephen Crane The Sun's rim dips; the Stars rush out : At one stride comes the dark - Samuel Taylor Coleridge We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde I dreamed of Heaven the other night And pearly gates swung wide, An angel with halo bright Ushered me inside. And there to my astonishment Stood folks I judged and labeled As quite unfit, of little worth And spiritually disabled. Indignant words rose to my lips But never were set free. For every face showed stunned surprise - No one expected me. - Unknown On Friendship I hope you never lose your sense of wonder You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger May you never take one single breath for granted God forbid love ever leave you empty handed I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean Whenever one door closes I hope one opens Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance And when you get the chance to sit out or dance I hope you dance I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance Never settle for the path of least resistance Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin' Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin' Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter When you come close to selling out reconsider Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance And when you get the choice to sit or dance Dance . . . I hope you dance. - LeeAnn Womack (courtesy of Toddly) Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and the showing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. - Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet" It is a mistake to think that one makes a friend because of his or her qualities, it has nothing to do with qualities at all. It is the person that we want, not what he does or says, or does not do or say, but what he or she *is* that is externally enough! - Arthur Christopher Benson Love is blind; friendship quietly closes its eyes. - Unknown His thoughts were slow, His words were few, and never formed to glisten But he was a joy to all his friends - You should have heard him listen. - Wayne Mackay The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. - Unknown Frienships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours : but the root lies sound and waits for better weather or a storm of sleet to scour the branches. Then we shall see another spring : a flare of green flame and flowers burning to fruit along the boughs. - Charlotte Gray Most people walk in and out of your life, But only friends leave footprints in your heart. - Unknown Death is nothing at all I have only slipped away into the next room I amI, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, Speak to me in the easy way Which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed At the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, Smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name ever be the household word That it always was. There is unbroked continuity, Why should I be out of mind just because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, Somewhere very near, Just around the corner. All is well. - H.S. Holland On Love If you love someone, set them free. - Sting Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason. - French Proverb Love and trust go hand in hand. You cannot love someone if you do not trust them. - Unknown You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. - Chesterton Only with the heart can we see rightly; the essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Expuery Above all else guard your affections. For they influence everything else in your life. - Unknown There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. - Unknown Absence is to love what wind is to fire: It extinguishes the small, if inflames the great. - Unknown Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. - Unknown Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible--it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any natural possession could. - Barbara De Angelis If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart. If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him or her, feel honoured that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain. How you deal with love is how you deal with you and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different. If you fall in love with another and he or she falls in love with you and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it, or to assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and a meaning. You will know in time. Remember you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can do is accept it for all it's mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you. Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in anyway you can. That is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love, they understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty places that will be filled with love, and they begin to look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them. The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing but as their love cools, they revert to seeing their love as need. They cease to be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love. They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift and that is can be made to grow only by giving it away. Remember this and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its own seasons, and its own reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do. Love always has been and always will be a mystery. Be glad it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your heart open, it will come again! - Unknown The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love. O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white rosebud with a flush on its petal tips. For the love that is purest and sweetest, has a kiss of desire on the lips. - John Boyle O'Reilly I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you're making of me. I love you because you've done more than any creed could've done to make me good, and more than any fate could've done to make me happy. You have done it without a touch, Without a word, without a sigh. You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means after all. - Anonymous If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows - it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes too late. - Jean Giraudoux I've learned that just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. - Unknown I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself. - Unknown Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear. - Unknown Deep Thoughts If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell them is, "God is crying." And if they ask why God is crying, another cute thing to tell them is, "Probably because of something you did." Last night as I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, I thought to myself, "where the heck is the ceiling?" I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either. I love deadlines, especially the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem. I don't suffer from stress, but I am a carrier. Never argue with an idiot. They drag them down to their level and then beat you with experience. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damned fool about it. To err is human, to forgive not our policy. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. The more I see of men, the more I admire of dogs . . The three worse frustrations in life are : To lie in bed and sleep not, To wait for someone who comes not, To try to please and please not. Life is a long, slow rise, a sudden, brilliant, brief explosion into glory, then a long fall into darkness . ." In the depths of winter I finally learner there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus The Sinister Spirit sneered : "It had to be!" And the Spirit of Pity whispered, "Why?" - Thomas Hardy Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What should I say, Since faith is dead, And Truth away From you is fled? - Sir Thomas Wyatt This above all : to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man. - Shakespeare We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we risk curiosity, wonder sponatneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - E.E. Cummings Happiness is giving a little and taking a little, even if it is a mere dandelion. It is worth a bouquet of red roses wrapped in delicate lace if it is given with a care. - Helen Caddick. Fear cannot touch me . . It can only taunt me, it cannot take me, just tell me where to go . . I can either follow or stay in my bed . . I can hold onto the things that I know . . The dead stay dead, they cannot walk. The shadows are darkness And darkness can't talk. - Chris Rice May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back, the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again may God hold you in the hollow of His hand. - Slainte. May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, And a smooth road all the way to your door. - Slainte. 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. - Virginia Marie Swift

Last updated on August 02, 2002.

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