In search of my soul....
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology.
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~William James.
The search for someone to blame is always successful. ~Robert Half.
To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain.
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!.
And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer..
You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. ~Margaret Mead.
Keep strong, for in the times of darkness we can see the truth of our soul.
Nothing befuddles judgement as much as success, and nothing clears the mind more than failure. ~Paul Craig Roberts.
No matter what you're like whether you're rich or poor, insecure or outgoing, brilliant or average, attractive or plain some people like you and others couldn't care less.
Women are like the police, they can have all the evidence in the world but they still want a confession..
A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one of them. ~Thomas Merton.
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term.
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily...
What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?.
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. ~Stephen Hawking.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened..
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say..... ~Margaret George.
I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or deflect it. For I shall never pass this way again. ~Etienne De Grellet.
Only the Phoenix arises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost..
Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told.
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border. ~Pablo Casals.
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. ~Kurt Tucholsky.
There are some hurts that you never completely get over. And you think time will diminish their presence and to a degree…it does. But it still hurts, because, well…hurt hurts. ~The Story of Us.
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ~Jodi Picoult -Handle With Care.
shin |SHin| noun • a devise for finding furniture in the dark..
If you can't fix it with duct tape you haven’t used enough..
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific..
How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he’s lost?.
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't.
I saw all that was offered to me that I could not accept. I saw the letters I wished for but never received. I saw all that could have been but never will be ~Ashes and Snow.
Some birds aren’t meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. ~The Shawshank Redemption.
But somewhere, there is a beach that time cannot reach. Where everyone and everything has always been and never was. And perhaps, you are there waiting for me. In that place, time cannot touch..
I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore..
HELP. I'M AN IDIOT Revealed: Britain's stupidest call centre customers By Jeremy Armstrong A HILARIOUS collection of the stupidest customers to ring Britain's call centres.
People come and go— they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers.
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ~Elizabeth Gilbert.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~George Carlin.
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the...
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. ~Paulo Coelho.
The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. ~Mary Zimmerman.
I’ve made the most important discovery of my life. It’s only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I’m only here tonight because of you.
1) FINE This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up. 2) FIVE MINUTES If she is getting dressed, this means half an hour.
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. ~Sara June Parker.
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. ~Friedrich Nietzsche.
At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. ~Leo Babauta.
Love is never convenient-and rarely painless. ~Richard Paul Evans.
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~Garth Stein.
Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space. ~Deb Caletti.
I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes…just be an illusion..
We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime.
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first...
When all is said and done, more is said than done. ~Lou Holtz.
Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is..
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. ~ Arthur O’Shaughnessy.
I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my feelings, even if I respect theirs. Being a good person doesn’t guarantee that others will be good people, too.
For some moments in life there are no words. ~Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
No man for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On a really dark night, you can see between 1000 and 1500 stars, and there are millions more that haven’t been discovered.
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing.
I hate to take advice from him. He needs it so badly himself. ~James Dent.
When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim..
One of the greatest illusions of life is that we always believe there is more time tomorrow than there is today..
Even the most horrible of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. ~Richard Paul Evans.
A heart was meant to beat. And air was meant to be breathed, close to your ear. And your skin was meant to remember what mine felt like. And some songs were meant to play on repeat.
If your star falls down, you will find mine lying beside yours..
An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son there's a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It's anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is Good.
Women worry about the things that men forget. Men worry about the things that women remember..
I stopped believing in santa claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ~Shirley Temple.
Nothing gives a used car more miles per gallon than the salesman. ~Billy Boswell.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” ~Charles Chaplin.
I don't want to brag or make anybody jealous, but...... I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school..
I will do anything humanly possible to reach the remote without getting up..
Within the small sphere of our life, we can stare into the past, but only our future is in our control..
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. ~Paulo Coelho.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
We are all mature until somebody brings out the bubble-wrap..
feet | fèt | (noun) a device used for finding Legos in the dark..
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code..
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ~Helen Rowland.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. ~ Henry David Thoreau.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ~ Oscar Wilde.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Wait for me, somewhere between reality, and all we’ve ever dreamed..
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make..
To gaze into another person’s face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own..
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. ~E. Merrill Root.
In life there are two certainties: You'll never get everything you want, and you'll never want everything you get..
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.