"Beauty and Danger": February 2012

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Simple Pleasures

Driving Down the Road with the Top Down

High Overlooks

Swimming at Night

Listening to the Crickets

Holding Hands

Kissing in the Rain

Listening to Distant Conversations

Locking onto the Eyes of Someone Special

Gazing at the Moon and the Stars

Long Embraces

3:00 a.m. Thunderstorms
Conversations about Nothing and about Everything

Holding a Baby

Chocolate Anything

Homemade Ice Cream

Riding Horseback through the Woods

Walking in the Forest

Long Naps

Sidewalk Cafés

A Short Funny Story

Laughing

Lying in the Sun

Listening to the Leaves

A Long Hot Shower

Dreaming of Travel

Walking in the water along the Beach

Sunsets

Gazing into a Fire

Special Friends
Sleeping Next to Someone You Love

Caring… Because it is Who You Are

Inspiration

"Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought."
-Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

"How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man? For it is very soon engulfed in the eternal."
- Marcus Aurelius (121-120)

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count it's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Philo of Alexandria (20 BC - 50BC)

"You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)

"To become a champion, fight one more round."
-James 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett (1866-1933)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
-Pablo Picaso (1881-1973)

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
- Morrie Schwartz (1916-1995)

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet."
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"To come to be you must have a vision of being, a dream, a purpose, a principle. You will become what your vision is."
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga (1941 - )

"Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth."
- Author Unknown

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives."
- Jesse Herman Holmes

"Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."
- Harold B. Melchart

"No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval."
- Minot Simons

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
- Ethel Barrymore

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."
- Hannah Whitall Smith

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."
- Julie Andrews

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something
I can do."
- Helen Keller

"I can do no great things, only small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
- Aristotle

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
- William Wordsworth

"Ask yourself, 'what difference will this thing we're fighting about make in ten years? In one year? In a month?"
- Author Unknown

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."
- Brendan Francis

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
- Mary Kay Ash

"Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it."
- Author Unknown

"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?"
- Oscar Hammerstein

"I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm in love with you."
- Author Unknown

:In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
- Mignon McLaughlin

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
- Oscar Wilde

"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
- Hans Nouwens

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread; remade all the time,...made new."
- Le Guin

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
- Vincent Van Gogh

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything."
- Katharine Hepburn

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
- Emanuel Swedenborg

"Love is not something you look for, Love is something
you become."
- Langley

"True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they've gotta match."
- Author Unknown

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
- Tom Robbins

"What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated."
- Leo Buscaglia

"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy."
- Author Unknown

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
- Barbara De Angelis

"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
- Erich Fromm

"Letters are among the most significant memorials a person can leave behind them."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)

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