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Jan 17, 2008, 08:55 AM
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
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Jan 17, 2008, 11:53 AM
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. ~William Shakespeare
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises. ~William Shakespeare
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - like a great book one after the next. ~Author Unknown
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Jan 17, 2008, 11:56 AM
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay~
Funny that you should put that one in here - I took this as a banner quote not too long ago...
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Jan 17, 2008, 12:00 PM
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I have bruises and scars still on my knees to prove this hole exists. How about you? Did you get out scar free?
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Jan 17, 2008, 12:31 PM
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I do too, but not on my knees. More on my butt. LOL :)
Life goes on, even when we don't think it will, or can.
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Senior Member
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Jan 17, 2008, 12:42 PM
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Rainer Maria Rilke quotes:
“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it”
"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."
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Ultra Member
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Jan 17, 2008, 12:45 PM
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“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”
That, in its simplicity, is the essence of life. Wow. I've taken the opinion that what we go through isn't only for our own personal growth, but also for the benefit and help of others. Thanks for that great quote, mafiaangel
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Senior Member
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Jan 17, 2008, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by HistorianChick
“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”
That, in its simplicity, is the essence of life. Wow. I've taken the opinion that what we go through isn't only for our own personal growth, but also for the benefit and help of others. Thanks for that great quote, mafiaangel
I love quotes too :) Here is another, from the same person, that I forgot to post:
“...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
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Full Member
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Jan 17, 2008, 02:57 PM
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"It's only after you've lost everything, that you are free to do anything" - Fight Club
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Jan 17, 2008, 03:16 PM
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“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” — Thomas Szasz
YODA: Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin. The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.
ANAKIN: I won’t let my visions come true, Master Yoda.
YODA: Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.
ANAKIN: What must I do, Master?
YODA: Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I do not understand how anyone can live
Without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
- Gustave Flaubert
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.
- Frank L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Home is where the books are.
- Richard Burton
People who live in glass houses shouldn't.
- J. S. Singer
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
- Latin Proverb
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Ultra Member
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Jan 17, 2008, 03:53 PM
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"Apathy is a curse , but who cares?"
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New Member
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Jan 18, 2008, 01:34 AM
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"there are two ways of getting home. One is to stay there, the other is to walk round the world until we come back to the same place." - GK Chesterson, The Everlasting Man
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New Member
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Jan 18, 2008, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by HistorianChick
I do too, but not on my knees. More on my butt. LOL :)
Life goes on, even when we don't think it will, or can.
Life goes on, even when you don't want it to.
Remember the old song that said, "Why do the birds go on singing?"
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Jan 18, 2008, 06:02 PM
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"There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.” –Washington Irving.
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Jan 18, 2008, 06:33 PM
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland
If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
~Author Unknown
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine
They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. ~Ezbeth Wilder
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Ultra Member
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Jan 18, 2008, 06:36 PM
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They say marriage is a great institution , but who the hell wants to live in an institution.
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New Member
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Jan 19, 2008, 01:44 AM
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Originally Posted by pyg
"there are two ways of getting home. One is to stay there, the other is to walk round the world until we come back to the same place." - GK Chesterson, The Everlasting Man
But Home is where the heart is. My folks called where they were from "back home" and where we lived "home".
Ah, new question: what does it take for you/me to feel "at home"?
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Jan 19, 2008, 09:35 AM
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Growing up, I moved around a LOT (OH, MI, PA, NY, IL, KY, MD, China, FL, TN) and I have found that home is not a location or a place... its family. It truly is where the heart is. For wood and stone do not a house make, but the hearts and lives of the people inside.
:) In my opinion, that is!
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Uber Member
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Jan 19, 2008, 10:17 AM
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Hello Chick:
It's more than a quote... But, I've got the time...
I bargained for life with a penny,
And life would pay no more,
However, I begged at evening,
When I counted my scanty store.
For life is a just employer,
He gives you whatever you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why you must bear the task.
I worked for a menials hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of life,
Life would have willingly paid.
Napoleon Hill
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Ultra Member
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Jan 19, 2008, 10:45 AM
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Haste makes waste
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