“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you never can tell.” Joan Crwford

“I don’t want to be understandable, I want to be felt.” Martha Graham

“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.” Michele de Montaigne

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” R. Frost

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. - Aldous Huxley

Do not marry a person that you know that you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.

“Create a signal only your lover knows so you can show him you love him across a crowded room.”

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus a day so I never have to live without you.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowed in prayer.” Ghandi

“Expecting something for nothing is the most powerful form of hope” Arnold Glasow

“You don’t know about real loss. Cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.” Good Will Hunting

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

“We are never so defenseless as when we love.”

“When spiders’ webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” Ethopian Proverb

there is only the first wound and other traumas that follow are a reflection.

One day you are going to wake up and realize how much you care for her and when that day comes she'll be waking up next to the guy that already knew.

What breaks your heart? Has your heart been broken? Tell me...when has your heart been broken?

“The trouble with your face is that it’s ruining me for other faces. It’s making me rethink every face I’ve ever liked” Love Walked In

“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”

“The self is not something that one finds, it is something that one creates.” Thomas Szasz

“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” Richard Bach

“A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks…Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.” Richard Bach

“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” Jackson Brown

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Jean Giraudoux

“But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy…you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feel like God put an angel on Earth just for you; could rescue you from the depths of Hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything.” Good Will Hunting

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” B. Williams

“Perspective is everything. To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.”

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” Simone De Beauvoir

“Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying; they just forgot to mention she was kind.” J. Ruth Gendler

“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.” Isabelle Holland

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Thoreau

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” M. Twain

“A man should kiss his wife’s navel every day.” Nell Kimball

“Be the first to fight for a just cause.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like.” Mark Twain

“…It is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us..” Dickens

“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison

“So much of me is you I don’t know just who I am…I gave you my soul. I gave you control of me. Can’t you just believe ‘you are my everything?’” Stabbing Westwad

“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.” R.W. Sockman

“I will not suffer this loss of you again and again and again. I refuse to continue to live in this perpetual nightmare, I decide it ends right here.” Stabbing Westwad

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Susan Ertz

“When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.” Clifton Fadiman

“Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look, when hearts are of each other sure.” John Keble

“Before you were conceived, I wanted you/Before you were born, I loved you/Before you were here an hour, I would die for you/This is the miracle of love.” Maureen Hawkins

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon

“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde

“Waste not fresh tears over old grief.” Euripides

“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” Shakespeare

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” Walt Whitman

“Problems are opportunities in work clothes.” Henry Kaiser

There would come time when the ache of his loss was not her unremitting companion.

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” James Stephen

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity: a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”

“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” J. Barrie

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” Elbert Hubbard

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Norman MacEwan

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.” Mistinguett

“What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” Coach Bear Bryant

“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” Bob Hope

“Sometimes when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.” Lamartine

“And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.” Opal Whiteley

“I never met a man I didn’t like.” Will Rogers

“It’s good to have some friends both in Heaven and in Hell.” George Herbert

“If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows--it becomes a month, a year, a century, it becomes too late.” Jean Giraudoux

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

“Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.” J.D. Salinger

“A friend is a present you give yourself.” R.L.S.

“My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.” Colette

“I want everyone else I meet in the whole world to like me, except the people I’ve already met, handled, found inconsequential and forgot about.” Joseph Heller

“Platonic love is love from the neck up.” Thyra Winslow

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

She had this laugh - it bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

Wars come and go but my soldiers stay eternal - Tupac

"The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves."
--"Why should tonight be any different?"

from the movie "XXX"

To love another person is to see the face of God.

“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” John Updike

“We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” M.L.K. Jr.

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.” Colin Powell

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali

“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right, it is the American Dream.” Archibald MacLeigh

“Love is not a matter of counting the years--it’s making the years count.” Wolfman Jack Smith

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” Shakespeare

“To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.” G.W. Lebniz

“What you are becoming is more important than what you are accomplishing.”

“What I can not love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

“Visit a school and swing on the swing set.”

“Try to look graceful putting on a sports bra.”

“Try to figure out what makes non-fat cheese taste so bad.”

“The important thing is not what others think of me, but what I think of me.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare

“Take hold lightly, let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” Agnes Repplier

“May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“You shouldn’t speak unless you can improve upon the silence.”

“Yes’m old friends is always best, less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” Sarah Jewett

“Why is it so easy to break a heart, but so hard to mend one?”

“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I haven’t tried yet.”

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.” M. Von Eschenbach

“When you say ‘I love you’, mean it.”

“When fate shuts a door--come in through a window.”

“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.” J.M. Barrie

“When we constantly look through the windows of the past, we sometimes lock the door to the future.”

“Start making up excuses now for not flossing.”

“Send your mother-in-law flowers on your spouses birthday.”

“Remember this: When somebody is down there kissin’ your butt, they could easily be biting it too.”

“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.”

“Reject and condemn prejudice based on race, gender, religion or age.”

“Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves who rob us of the moment.”

“People treat me the way I allow them to treat me.”

“Never be ashamed of honest tears.”

“Never sacrifice your integrity for money, power or fame.”

She's a mustang and you just have to let her run...

“Make little decisions with your head and big decisions with your heart.”

“Love is merely a madness.” Shakespeare

“Love will break your heart--but it’s worth it.”

“Keep your bullshit detector in good working order.”

“Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.”

“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.” Erma Bombeck

“It’s easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.”

“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad ones never have time.” T. Bankhead

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” Janis Joplin

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” E.M. Forster

“If you want a persons’ faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.” R.L. Stevenson

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” Walt Whitman

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value. Rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.” Oscar Wilde

“Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table.” Tang Dynasty

“We have been talking as old friends should talk, about nothing, about everything.” Lillian Hellman

“Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if 9 out of 10 bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.” C. Tencin

“Part of the trouble is that I’ve never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don’t all land like a child out of an apple tree.” J. Burroway

“For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide--laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course--it was striving against the stream.” Mary Wollstonecraft

“My life’s a pool which can only hold one star and a glimpse of blue.” M. Riley Smith

“I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.” Glenda Jackson

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” E. Roosevelt

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” Colette

“The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish--Who could be so selfish?” Myrtle Barker

“It is better to die on your feet than life on your knees.”

“There is love that makes sense of your life and love that makes you senseless about life.” Diane Wakski

“Man is the only animal that blushes. OR needs to.” M. Twain

“If you don’t know the ending to a joke---don’t start it.”

“You put the happy in my ness. You put the good times in my fun. They say time will make all this go away – but it’s time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays. And once gain that rising sun is dropping on down – and once again, you my friend, are no where to be found.” – B.Harper

My life is like a stroll on the beach – as near to the edge as I can go – Thoreau

“I was at a party feeling very shy because there were a lot of celebrities around and I was sitting in a corner alone and a very beautiful young man came up to me and offered me some salted peanuts and he said, “I wish they were emeralds” as he handed me the peanuts and that was the end of my heart. I never got it back.” Helen Hayes

This is how we love, Buddha-style: impartial to all, free from excessive attachment or false hope and expectation; accepting, tolerant, and forgiving. Buddhist nonattachment doesn't imply complacence or indifference, or not having committed relationships or being passionately engaged with society, but rather has to do with our effort to defy change and resist the fact of impermanence and our mortality. By holding on to that which in any case is forever slipping through our fingers, we just get rope burn.

You only lose what you cling to

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something,and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. Pema Chodron

Do not pursue the past.Do not lose yourself in the future.The past no longer is.The future has not yet come.Looking deeply at life as it is.In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.We must be diligent today.To wait until tomorrow is too late.Death comes unexpectedly.How can we bargain with it?The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day,'one who knows the better way to live alone.'Bhaddekaratta Sutta

What you eat cannot purify your mind - but is there greed behind your choice of eating? If yes, the mind that eats is not pure - be your choice vegetarian or not.

Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. - Dalhi Lama

Daily Necessities
Tips & pointers for building a spiritual life from scratch

Pray
Meditate
Be aware
Stay awake
Bow
Practise yoga
Feel
Chant and sing
Breathe and smile
Relax
Enjoy
Laugh
Play
Create
Envision
Let Go
Forgive
Accept
Walk
Exercise
Move
Work
Serve
Contribute
Listen
Learn
Enquire
Consider
Reflect
Cultivate oneself
Enhance competencies
Cultivate contentment
Cultivate flexibility
Cultivate friendship and collaboration
Lighten up
Celebrate and appreciate
Dream
Give thanks
Evolve
Love
Share
Give
Receive
Walk softly
Live gently
Expand
Radiate
Dissolve
Simplify
Surrender
Trust
Be born anew
--from Awakening The Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das

Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you.Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

Be Still

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise. - Surangama Sutra

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.

These reported events are like an arrow shot at my heart but it lands at my feet. I choose not to bend over, pick it up, and stab myself with it.

All know the Way, but few actually walk it.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all. -- Bankei

Be like bamboo. It is strong on the outside and soft and open on the inside. The stem stands freely in the wind and bends, it does not resist. What bends is harder to break." - Buddhist teaching

Fairy tales don’t tell children that dragons exist – children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

Some would call me a cheat, call me a liar, Say that I’ve been defeated by my basest desires. Yes, I have strayed and succumbed to my vices, but I tried to live right.

Speak kind to a stranger because you never know it just might be an angel knocking at your door.

Your eyes shine to me – You are divine to me – you were meant for me – you were sent to me – you’re my beloved one.

whatever our souls are made of yours and mine are the same. emily bronte

“Help me to see – explain it to me – oh baby please, come home again. Now I’ve heard that men crave adventure – so I’ll tell you what I have arranged – If you left cause you needed a different girl, come home and you’ll find that I’ve changed”

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended where I intended to be – douglas adams

Timo Cruz: 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. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

good and bad you think you know as if thinking makes things so