Tag Archives: love
Ask Croz
David Crosby reverses the conventional wisdom and suggests that you should marry someone that you can make happy. Have a listen: There’s something rather charming about a 79-year-old man quoting his Mom. đ
Love
Language has changed a lot since 1611. The King James version of the bible is my favorite because of its poetry and grandeur, but it’s important to know that what was translated as “charity” 410 years ago would be translated as “love” today. 1 Corinthians 13: Though I speak with the tongues of men and …
Eat Move Speak Act
âEat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.â ~Tara Stiles
No Place to Go
“Grief is just love with no place to go.” ~ Jamie Anderson
That Ye Love
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” ~John 13:34
That’s the deal.
âIt seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. Thatâs the deal. Thatâs the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.â ~Nick Cave
Local Lives
I found an amazing book at the used book store: Local Lives: Poems About the Pennsylvania Dutch by Millen Brand, ©1975. He had kept a poetic diary for thirty-four years documenting the real people and real events of the community he lived in, publishing it almost as an afterthought. His character sketches are simply amazing. …
I maintain / I insist
Excerpted from Abbey’s Road by Edward Abbey, ©1979: I camped that first night near the Olga Mountains, strange hoodoo domes and humps of monolithic, barren sandstone, similar in origin to Ayers Rock but different in color and shape, a little higher, and much more extensive in total area. They looked even older than the Rock, …
One Thing
“One thing I have learned about love and life: donât try to love the big things. You can find your way there only by loving the smallest of things– warm coffee or tea in your hands, a wildflower, the way the light falls, someoneâs laugh, a song, a breeze, cooking smells, a touch⊔ ~Matthew Dowd …
One More Try
“There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference– but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.”~Â Isaac Asimov (via Slashdot /.)
Recognize
âYou donât meet the people you love, you recognize them.â ~Anna Gavalda, in Life, Only Better ©2015, translated by Tina Kover Which explains love at first sight.
You Can Call It Optimism.
âI would say, that I am applying the âbutterfly wingâ theory to my everyday life. Itâs a kind of moral dictum, moral responsibility to keep in mind that whatever I do this second affects what the next second will be. So I try not to do anything negative, which is my best insurance that the …
And Smiled
“You could be intimidated by him, his height and thinness and black-clad persona and sunglasses, but if he pushed his sunglasses onto the bridge of his nose, you saw his turquoise eyes, and when he looked at you and smiled, it was like, ‘Oh my God, the sun came out!’” ~Paulina Porizkova, about her late …
Temples
“Better than material gifts offered in stone-made temples, churches and mosques, God loves the gifts of love, peace, and devotion offered in the temple of oneâs own heart or through the temples of the hearts of others.” ~Paramahansa Yogananda
First
“He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.” Â ~Francis Scott Fitzgerald, One Interne (1932)
Brushed My Hair Back
In this excerpt from Wunnerful, Wunnerful! the Autobiography of Lawrence Welk, © 1971, he talks about how hard it was for him to express his emotions verbally: I had always thought my mother was beautiful, but she looked especially so to me as she held (my newborn daughter) Shirley for the first time. She settled …
Soulmates
John Lydon/Johnny Rotten and Nora Forster have been married for forty years now (via): “Now thereâs a saucy girl. Itâs love, you know. Iâve always loved that woman. And she knows it. When we met we didnât expect to get on. Weâd both been told the other was a bad âun. But blimey. Sparks …
May You Be Blessed
“May you be blessed with all these things: A little more joy, a little less stress, a lot more understanding of your wonderfulness. Abundance in your life, blessings in your days, dreams that come true, and hopes that stay. A rainbow on the horizon, an angel by your side, and everything that could ever bring …
128
Sonnet 128 William Shakespeare How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway’st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips, which …
Plenteous
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” ~Calvin Coolidge
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