I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles
In our eyes are
Mirror images and
When we kiss
They're perfectly aligned

The only people you need in your life are the ones who need you in theirs.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know'

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

Every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

You'd be beautiful if you tried.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Fallout

Carried thru the road so far alone
Days glue themselves to what is wrong
And soon the hills will swallow us up
Plans will pass her
Land on the walls is laid out
I know you're in pain
Train for the cause is staying down
It plays you out
Fall out of love again
Your dreams all end

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to taht tender light
Which heaven to gaudy days denies

The human body is a little universe
Its chill tears, so much wind-blown sleet
Beneath our skins, mountains bulge, brooks flow
Within our chests lurk lost cities, hidden tribes

Wisdom quarters itself in our tiny hearts
Liver and gall peer out, scrutinize a thousand miles
Follow a path back to its source, else be
A house vacant save for swallows in the eaves

- Shih-shu

airports are all about
when i left you
and when you met me
airports are all about
tears of happiness
and endless despair
airports are all about
everything i love and hate
quite frankly
i'd be happy
if i never stepped foot
in an airport again.

(the way to the stars is open)

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.

Underlying our whole outlook of ourselves and the world is a neurotic conviction of our own limitations.

One day a frog from the ocean decided to visit a frog who had lived his entire life in a well.

"Where do you come from?" asked the frog in the well.
"From the great ocean," he replied.
"How big is your ocean?"
"It's gigantic."
"You mean about a quater of the size of my own well here?"
"Bigger."
"Bigger? You mean half as big?"
"No, even bigger."
"Is it... as big as this well?"
"There's no comparison."
"That's impossible! I've got to see this for myself."

They set off together. When the frog from the well saw the ocean, it was such a shock that his head exploded.

When we assume that entirety of our own lives is the universe, it makes it impossible for us to fathom another demension of reality.

William Blake

He who binds to himself a Joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
He who kisses the Joy as it flies,
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

This is perhaps the darkest and most disturbing aspect of modern civilization: its ignorance and repression of who we really are.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

Pick up a coin.

Imagine that it represents an object in your life which you are clinging on to, a loved one, or a material posession, or anything which your grasp on to dearly. Hold it tightly clutched in your fist and extend your arm, with the palm of your hand facing the ground. Now if you let go or relax your grip, you will lose what you are clinging on to. That's why you hold on.

But there is another possibility: You can let go and yet keep hold of it. With your arm still outstretched, turn your hand over so that it faces the sky. Release your hand and the coin still rests on your open palm. You let go. And the coin is still yours, even with all this space around it.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

An idealist is one, who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, decides that it will also make a better soup.

The crude complacency of imagining divinity as embodied in words and letters alone puts humanity to shame.

Heresy arises as a pained outcry to liberate us from this strange, narrow pit, to raise us fromt he darkness of letters and platitudes to the light of thought and feeling. Such heresy eventually takes its stand in teh center of morality.

It has temporary legitimacy.

The essence of divinity is in everything - nothing but it exists.

From a radical perspective, evil originates in divine thought, which eliminates waste before emanating goodnes. The demonic is rooted in the divine.

Evolution follows a path of ascent and thus provides the world with a basis for optimism.

The future is the wrong place to put your better days.

The essence of faith is the awareness of the vastness of infinity.

Whatever conception of it enters the mind is an absolutely negligible speck in comparison to what should be concieved, and what should be concieved is no less negligible to what really is.

One may speak of goodness, of love, of justice, of power, of beauty, of life in all its glory, of faith, of the divine - all of these convey the yearning of the soul's original nature for what lies beyond everything.

All the divine names, whether in Hebrew or any other language, provide mearely a dim spark of the hidden light for which the soul yearn's when it says "God".

Every definition of God leads to heresy; definition is spiritual idolatry.

We are a divided species-
head running ahead of heart.
It is no surprise that coronary thrombosis
is the characteristic death of our time.
The heart literally chokes up on
the impossibility of keeping up.

Happiness isn't about what happens to us -
it's about how we perceive what happens to us.
It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative,
and viewing a setback as a challenge.
If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have,
and start enjoying what we do have, our lives
can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier.
The time to be happy is now.

Rid yourself of the notion that the best is yet to come.

My religion is very simple,
my religion is kindness

-- Dalai Lama

He who would learn to fly one day
must first learn to stand and
walk and run and climb and dance;
One cannot fly into flying.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Why should we consider prayer an embarrassing exception to the rule that imagination, fantasy, personification, analogy and dramatization are invaluable techniques for positioning ourselves creatively in the world ?

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you -
all of the expectations, all of the beliefs -
and becoming who you are.

The little things? The little moments?



They aren't little.

I will tell you something about stories,
(he said)
They aren't just entertainment.
Don't be fooled.
They are all we have, you see,
All we have to fight off
illness and death.

We have forgotten who we are
We have sought only for our own security
We have exploited simply for our own ends
We have distorted our knowledge
We have abused our power

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility.
An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

Across the night, it was the moon that stole my slumber, across the night I feel in love with people sleeping.

At times they must have believed that they could go on, back and forth, on and on like this forever.

This is a romantic fable full of forbidden-fruit possibilities, it is as sweet and insane as true love, as intense and sweat as passion in its purest distillation, because to sleep with the enemy is to live outside the law.

He puts her on a pedestal... and she goes down on it.

I told myself it was all something in her
But as we drove I knew it was something in me.

Well, this is meant to be a story about people who are so beyond need, who want and have figured out that it's never too soon to make demands of this life, this world, this everything. It's about how nice it must be to just decide I will not be nice, I am never sorry, I have no regrets: what is before me belongs to me.

Nowadays you pay for sex not because you are lonely and can't get laid, or married and looking for cheap thrills, but because sex as a commodity is not distasteful; it's interesting.

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.

All things connect.

born to shimmer, born to shine, born to *radiate*

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . .
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

It wasn't the feeling of neglect, no, it was something far worse. It was the feeling of forgotteness

i'm watching you watch over me
and i've got
the greatest view i see

We were as good as married in my mind, but married in my mind's no good.

Everyone's a little queer, why can't she be a little straight?

if our minds were simple enough to understand, we would be too simple to understand them.

the drugs don't work

it's like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

And then, when you hang up, I find myself gazing at the ceiling imagining conversations we'll never have.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"

Even the darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

If you're going through hell, keep going. Finding a way out, no matter how difficult, is better than standing still.

Offensive?

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day.

There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I don't know if it was physically or emotionally, probably both...
I wanted to be able to be with you in complete silence, touching you, knowing what you were thinking and for you to know what I was thinking without talking.

She sees shooting stars and comet tails
She's got heaven in her eyes
She says I don't need to be an angel
But I'm nothing if I'm not this high

Who would have known that a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly restoring my blisses
Who would have known that a boy like him
After sharing my core would stay going nowhere
Who would have known a beauty this immense
Who would have known a saintly trance
Who would have known miraculous breath
To inhale a beard loaded with courage
who would have known that a boy like him
Possessed of magical sensitivity
Would approach a girl like me

Following Dreams...

So i'm sitting at the diner at the corner of this street and this old man comes in, walks up to my table and he says, "Hey son, you happy?"
I say, "Yeah man, I'm really happy, you dig?"
The old man says, "Hey son, you got a job?"
I say, "Yeah man, i gots a job, a real good job, desk and all."
And the old man says, "Hey son, you got a girl?" I say, "Yeah man, I got a real good girl, pretty, doesn't say much, but really pretty, you dig?"
And the old man says, "Hey son, you got friends?"
I say, "Yeah man i got lots of friends at work."
The old man says, "Hey son, what used to be your dream before all this?"
And I say, "Well, it was music, but you know how that goes."
The old man shakes his head and sighs and asks again, "Hey son, you happy?"
...and I say, "Naw, man, can't really say I am."

Art is the cry of despair for those who face within themselves the fate of all mankind.

Schoenberg:

Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composes in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or new ideas - whether one is a good composer or not - one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration.

There are very few people in this world that do not simply want something of you, whether they give to you or not. So understand when you find someone who gives you something unconditionally, and expects nothing of you, you have found a rare beast indeed and should properly keep it caged for the rest of its life lest you lose it forever.

Steps to Happiness?

You can't be all things to all people.
You can't do all things at once.
You can't do all things equally well.
You can't do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.

So:
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others,
Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.

Then:
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.

Dare To Believe:
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in-all-history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stand up one up on what used to get you down.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

...I can tell you taste like the sky
Cause you look like rain...

It strikes me that if you are going to be open enough with the outside world to place your journal online, you should not have to worry about someone being offended. Those people who choose to examine the world through your eyes by reading an entry must take what they find.

Love is giving someone else the power to hurt you, trusting them not to, forgiving them when they do, and knowing when it's time to let go.

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.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, about having to change, about taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

The reality of the other person lies not
in what he reveals to you but
in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him,
listen not to what he says
but rather to what he does not say.

What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only reason to resist temptation.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing fear, it multiplies it.
Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate...
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only Love can do that.

This is your life, good to the last drop.

Doesn't get any better then this. This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. This isn't a seminar, this isn't a weekend retreat. Where you are now you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after we've lost everything, your free to do anything. Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everthing is falling apart.

This is your life.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all a part of the same compost heap. We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world. This is your life. You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your grande latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your fucking khakis.

This is your life.

You have to give up. You have to realize someday you will die. Until you know that, you are useless. I say let me never be complete. I say may I never be content. I say deliver me from Swedish furniture. I say deliver me from clever art. I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth. I say you have to give up. I say evolve, and let the chips falls were they may.

This is your life.

...Oh god, i could be bounded in a nut shell and count
myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I
have bad dreams...

Billy Joel:

Out of respect for things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strenghts are a results of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is related to my limitations.

To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing,
Has nothing and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But they simply cannot learn,
Feel, change, grow, love or live.

Risks must be taken because,
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free

Looking Back..

The things I thought were so important - because of the effort I put into them - have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Jars Of Clay

A Flower for your vanity, a penny for your thoughts
About The world's insanity and how we've gotten lost
Strike up the band to play a song as we go waltzing by
And fake a smile as we all say goodbye.

Say A prayer for recognition, kiss the ones you love
Gather up the ammunition, sigh for all the lost
Strike up the band to play a song as we go waltzing by
And fake a smile as we all say goodbye

Raise a galss for ignorance, drink a toast to fear
The beginning of the end has come that's why we all are here
Strike up the band to play a song and try hard not to cry
And fake a smile as we all say goodbye.....

GoodBye.

We have been taught to Fear the darkness..From the shadows of the unknown, where we tread softly looking for comfort.. the cold blackness of hate, which bubbles from the caverns deep within our mind. But if the absence of light is the absence of that which is reasonable; then it also marks the presence of faith and dreams...For where else do we rely on faith, but in those moments when we have no light to se by.

And our dreams, the noblest part of ourselves, are the seeds of truth, hiding in the soil of darkness until they are strong enough to push their way into the harsh light of reality. In darkness, we can find the quiet slumber of a much deserved rest... And the warm and gentle softness of a lovers embrace. While evil can use the light, to blind us with it's brilliance, and misery can overtake us, even in the brightest of dawns.

It is true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we are missing until it arrives.

You know you love when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance, and you discover you still care deeply for that person.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never finding the courage to let the person know how you feel.

Where there's a man who has no voice, there ours shall go singing...

No one who truely loves should be unhappy, for even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Glory & Consequence

I'm more afraid of living than I am scared to die.
I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high.

Every moral has a story and every story has an end.
Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

I'm more afraid of loving than I am of being scorned, being scorned.
But I will keep on trying though I have been forwarned.

Every moral has a story and every story has an end.
Every battle has its glory and its consequence, and its consequence.

I would rather me be lonely and you have someone to hold.
I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Dragons do not always have to be slain. Sometimes, they can be befriended.

The notion that there might be a better or more convenient time to love has cost many people a lifetime of regret.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end...

But when the night is falling and you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give

17 seconds of compassion
17 seconds of peace
17 seconds to remember love is the energy behind all which is created
17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain
17 seconds of faith
17 seconds to trust you again
17 seconds of radiance
17 seconds to send a prayer up

17 seconds is all you really need

... sometimes you wake up, gazing out the window at the soft morning sun and you feel so alone. you go about your day hoping and praying that things will get better. Your dreams seems so farfetched and you feel as if you can't go on, but you do; for lack of anything better to do really. Underneath all your plastic smiles are real emotions, that only surface themselves when your exhausted and have to much time to just sit and think. All you want to do is crawl into a cozy bed with cold sheets and dream this feeling away.
But you can't because you know, that beautiful dream will turn into a horrible nightmare and when you wake up everything will be the same as it was before - dead.
You walk around in a complete daze, hearing what people say to you, but not really listening. You continue each and everyday dreaming of what's a head of you and trying not to focus on the past. You feel alone; like no one really cares. You dream of someone who will care for you and be there when this over whelming feeling of blankness envelopes your entire body, and you can't help but let that waterfall of tears spill over.
As hot tears run down your face; you lay back in bed, your head hitting that soft pillow and spinning with words ... you know someday everything will be ok; even though right now your world feels as if it is going to come crashing down around you and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

You sigh; telling yourself not to think anymore tonight ...


... then you find that one person; who makes you laugh, and smile. That one person who seems to make everything just alright. Suddenly your life is changed forever, and no matter how hard things get and no matter what happens you know you will be ok, just having them right by your side.
Life can be a funny thing sometimes; everyone is constantly searching for that person who understands them completely. Until you find that person your life can seem meaningless and somewhat mediocre but the instant you find them your life suddenly has a point and everything before that person seems like some odd collection of blurred events ... but everything after them seems like pure bliss.
If someone asked you to live your life over, you wouldn't even consider it because; maybe just maybe; you wouldn't bump into them again and life as you know it would no longer exist. As you look at what lays ahead of you; the continuous struggles and life's inevitable challenges; you know you can handle it; as long as you can wake up and see their beautiful smiling face right next to you.
No matter where you go in your life time; the sound of their voice and laughter, and the taste of their tears will follow you, not because you want it too, but because you can't breathe without it.

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go - into pieces; into atoms; into the arms of another man? You go shopping; you cook dinner; you work odd hours; you make love to someone else in june nights.

But you're not really there, you're someplace else where there is blue sky and a road you don't recognize. If you squint your eyes, you think see him, in the shadows, beyond the trees. You always imagine that you see him, but he's never there.

It's only his spirit, that's what's there beneath the bed when you kiss your husband, there when you send your daughter off to school. It's in your coffee cup, your bathwater, your tears. Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he is done.

As Good As It Gets

What i do is watch. Have you ever watched somebody who doesn't know your watching them? Like a old women on the bus or kids going to school or somone just waiting? And you see this flash come over them, and you know it's nothing external becuase you've been watching them. And for a moment they are 'realer' and more alive, than ever before; and for a moment you discover their true humanity.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

If I can reach the stars,
Pull one down for you,
Shine it on my heart
So you could see the truth:
That this love I have inside
Is everything it seems.
But for now I find
It's only in my dreams

If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

Live your life to the fullest, because there is not one day that you are living that is promised to you.

Heaven's Last Attempt

Rain down mercy for the lost and lonely child
For the lovers and the liars, the reckless and the wild
There's no more use in pretending
I know I never fooled you
The deepest darkness that I've known
Comes from living like I do

But I swear I'm going to knock on that gate
Even if it's all in vain
I'll stand outside with my mouth wide open
And drink in the pouring rain
I know there's some good left in this world
I've seen it shine in your eyes
Laying down my salvation and keeping my faith alive

The harder we fall the closer we come
To finding our hearts and the damage we've done
Darling I've felt the devil's dirty hands
But holding us now, I know, is heaven's last attempt

the world is full of beautiful things
butterfly wings
fairytale kings
and each new day undoubtably brings
still more beautiful things
the world is full of beautiful things....
beautiful people too!

La vida es bella... La vida sigue.... Disfrutala

Con tu adios
te llevas
mi corazon

When we were born we cried and the people around us smiled. Live life so that when you die you are smiling and the people around you are crying.

Don't live life believing that the only colours are the ones in the box.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Which is better: A lie that brings a smile? or a truth that draws a tear?

If you cannot be inspired, become the inspiration.

Twice in this life I've fallen in true deep love.

First, with you when I met you. Second, with the person you became once I already had you.

Why do we often say "The truth hurts", "the hard truth", "you can't handle the truth", etc?

Truth in and of itself need not be hard to bear or painful. It is only after becoming accustomed to living in lies that it becomes such. In my humble experience I've found the more one accepts the truth it generally becomes enjoyable, soothing, even blissful.

Renowned as a wise man who was filled with a zest for life and for life's adventures, the sage had one odd habit that provoked curiosity among the people. He always rode his mule backwards. Frequently people asked him about this habit.

He would respond, "In life, it makes no difference where one is going. The destination is unimportant. It is only what one does along the way that counts."

Then they would ask, "So how should we respond to life?"

He replied, "Do not become swollen with pride or triumph or despondent over defeat. Good fortune or bad fortune is unimportant. The vicissitudes of life are but the means to shape your character. If you suffer adversity and react in the proper way, in the long run you will be benefited as fully as though you had good fortune."

For the artistic ones, for the intelligent ones, for the really passionate people in life, they are always condemned and persecuted for being that way--because they're different. The reason is that these people can move mountains, and they're persecuted in life only when they can be. But later on in life, they become the people everyone aspires to be: the musicians, the artists, the writers.

That's one of the things that makes me want to succeed

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget.
We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

There only are two ways to radiate light:
Be a candle, or the mirror which reflects it.

La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien ? ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien ? enlever.

You ask questions, but then you don't listen.
You're never going to learn unless you listen.

It's better to believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guild or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.

It happens so suddenly. We are going about our own mundane tasks when - a phrase of music, a shaft of sunlight on a snowy roof, a handful of yellow butterflies, or the arc of a bird diving to the earth, pierces us.
For one brief moment, we are lifted out of our daily routine into the untold realms of light and beauty. Then the moment is gone. We are back on Earth - but we are not the same.

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.

If you're frightened of dying and then you hold on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But, if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.

It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then I remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and I can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life.
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure, but don't worry. You will someday.

When the people we love are stolen from us the thing we have to remember is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die, but true love is forever.

You have to know, not fear, that some day you are going to die. Until you know this and embrace it, you are useless.

L'abscence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; it eteint le petit, il allume le grand.

I've learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good or bad always bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.

you've got to cry without weeping,
talk without speaking,
scream without raising your voice

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

One of the most tragic things about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Every person in this world is in dire need of love, especially those we believe don't deserve it.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.?

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you're mad enough to choke,
For the word that stings the deepest is the word that's never spoke,
Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away,
Then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

The essential qualities of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

People need celebration in their life. It's part of what it means to be human. We need magic and bliss and power, myth, and celebration in our lives. And music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with
everyone, one to one, always, forever, now.

Only the one who hurts you can comfort you.
Only the one who inflicts the pain can take it away.

You are the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream.

You don`t love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.

And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again.

When a song bird gets sad, or faces adversity, he sings away his pain. Imagine how better off life would be, if we too, sang away our sorrows.

those who dance may be considered crazy by those who cannot hear the music.
who cares what other people think?

it is not the stars which hold our destiny, but ourselves

Childhood is that state which ends the moment a puddle is first viewed as an obstacle instead of an opportunity.

When you look closely people are so strange and so complicated, that they're actually beautiful.

look at the stars, and how they shine for you,
and all the things you do...

and i think to myself...
what a wonderful world

Yes I still remember, every whispered word
The touch of your skin giving life from within,
Like a love song never heard..
Slipping through our fingers, like the sands of time
Promies made, every memory saved
As reflections in my mind

When I'm done with thinking, then I'm done with you.
When I'm done with crying, then I'm done with you.
When I feel so tired, then I'm done with you.
Everybody feels this way sometimes, everybody feels this way...

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 5" diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in to the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

The students laughed.

He asked his students again if the jar was full.

They agreed that yes, it was.

The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled in between everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.

The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.

If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing.
There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the garbage disposal."

Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter.

everyone's a star that shines
all we see in life are signs

i want it all, or nothing at all
there's nowhere left to fall when you've reached the bottom..


it's now or never

i wouldn't wanna be me
if i didn't have you

and even though i know how very far apart we are
it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same bright stars

i dream about movies they won't make of me when i'm dead

I want to wake up where you are, I won't say anything at all

What you feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful

love heals everything
we're no exception to the rule
you mean everything to me

to touch a face
to kiss a smile
new eyes see no race
the essence of a child

it will take time but we'll adjust cause love is timeless

i think we're alone here, you and i
i think we're alone here, wondering why
i think we're alone here, you and i
i think we're alone in the universe tonight

sleeping in each others arms
oblivious to the reality surrounding them

fate truely does exist,
but it can only take you so far
because once you're there, it's up to you to make it happen

there are only two ways to live your life:
one is as though nothing is a miracle
the other is to live as though everything were a miracle

love that we cannot have
is the one that lasts the longest
hurts the deepest
feels the strongest