  "Our eyes connect...my soul's laid bare...as you see your own reflection there." "I see behind the smile...somehow yoked to the familiar apprehensiveness i find...the playful child having grown into an intricately cautious woman...strong and caring...but jaded and weary from giving too much...too quickly...your eyes silently inquire of my own...can you love without owning?...can i trust without worry?...will you stay by me faithfully through the heavy silence of the night?...will you still wait outside the wall when i seek peace and seclusion from all around me?...and be ready to embrace my weakness and my tears as much as my energy and laughter when i once again emerge?......and i return to you a kindred smile...understanding from my own pain that this invitation does not come easily...and extend to you the unspoken assurance of what i have to offer...a sincere and abiding friendship...companionship void of bounds...supportive shoulders...and while far from perfect, a heart in which you may always find shelter and warmth in the midst of the storm or in the silence of this moment." ©By Lori "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always." ~Mahatma Ghandi~ "There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres." ~Lord Byron~ "Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace." ~Ajahn Chah~ "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." ~J.Krishnamurti~ "Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange." ~Kahlil Gibran~ "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~Louis L'Amour~ "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge." ~Stephen Levine~ "This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." ~Rumi~ "The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers." ~Rabindranath Tagore~ "You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should." ~Max Ehrmann~ "... here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)..." ~ e. e. cummings "Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question: Does this path have a heart? If the path does, it is good. If not, it is of no use. ~Carlos Castenada~ "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." ~Angela Monet~ "Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace within the storm." ~Anon~ "We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams. ~Gypsy proverb~ "For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." ~James Baldwin~ "Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand." ~Sarah Breathmach~ "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~Henry David Thoreau~ "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~Gandhi~ "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by 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.'" ~Eleanor Roosevelt~ "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~Rumi~ "We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box." ~Anon~ "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." ~André Gide~ "We acquire the strength we have overcome." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ "A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Unknown~ "I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had." ~From the television show The Wonder Years~ "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." ~Paul McCartney~ "Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez~ "Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. ~Albert Schweitzer~ "Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?" ~Jean Paul Richter~ "In Dreams Of You" In dreams of you. I am sitting on a quiet beach. Digging my toes into the warm sand. Night falls the ocean is shrouded in a mist. The waves softly batter against the seashore. The moonlight softly illuminates the beauty of the ocean. I look out into the waves. I see your face. You beckon me to come to laugh and love. We laugh, we dance amidst the wisps of seafoam. Whispers of our love are carried off on the wind. I awaken another day begins. A day I will spend in silent torment. Longing for the night. For it is in the night that I live. In dreams of you. ~Wildflower~ All Quotes & Poetry compiled by Lori Please Sign My Guestbook
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