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“The dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.”

- T. E. Lawrence

This is even more true of women.

Repeat as Necessary: Groucho Marx

 

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” 
― Groucho Marx

 

 

It’s My Birthday!!!

I’m 25 years-old today!

An entire quarter of an entire century.

I think I’m going to thr0w up…

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

Jean Paul Richter

 

Quotes to Live By: Hunter S. Thompson

Quote to Live By

 

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

5 Life and Happiness Quotes from Liz Gilbert

I just started re-reading Eat, Pray, Love for the third time. I initially resisted the book (like a smug hipster) because I’d heard a bunch of stories about bored housewives who read it and then promptly jumped on planes to Bali, seeking enlightenment at the bottom of a cocktail or in the pants of a handsome stranger. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… but I was skeptical.

Highly skeptical.

But then I read it and I loved it, just like the millions of other people who’d read it before me. Which, let me tell you, was a blow to my ego because clearly I’d been a presumptuous wench and Elizabeth Gilbert put me in my place.

Also, I should mention, Elizabeth Gilbert is the particular brand of Whimsical-Neurotic that I enjoy but if you’re not of the same opinion, bear with me.

So, for your pleasure, here are some quotes from Eat, Pray, Love that I find comforting and inspiring:

 

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within it, no matter how slight.” 

 

“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” 

 

“That’s the thing about a human life – there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.” 

 

“I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.”

 

“I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.” 

5 Quotes to Start 2012

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I’ll Love You Dear, I’ll Love You…

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you

Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

‘I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

‘The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.’

Beautiful, yes? This excerpt is by W.H. Auden from his poem "As I Walked Out One Evening" which you can read in its full gorgeousness here. Definitely check it out. It's very, very lovely, especially on a late-August night.

Wisdom from Tom

“In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, ‘Look at me…I’m tall, and I’m straight, and I’m handsome. Look at you…you’re all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.’ And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, “Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.” So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
— Tom Waits

Witch-Wife

"Evening Mood" by Bouguereau, 1882

Fiancé and I are not having a wedding but if I was that kind of a girl, I’d make sure this poem was read at the reception:

Witch-Wife

(by Edna St. Vincent Millay)

She is neither pink nor pale,
And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.

She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun ‘tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of coloured beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.

She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine.

Beautiful, yes? I think it’s lovingly witchy and shows so much respect for women. I like the part about her voice being like coloured beads or steps leading into the sea. Some people find this poem eerie, but I think every man or woman should feel this way about their wife.