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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again." - Dag Hammarskjold

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." - Hannah More

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy." - Henry Kissinger

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough." - Don Marquis

"Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone." - Jim Fiebig

"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it." - Frank Howard Clark

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time." - Julie Andrews

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone." - Javan

"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are." - J. D. Salinger

"Do all things with love." - Og Mandino

Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty this hatred. How did it find us, did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us that we now send our children into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return but knowing some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name...is it your name?

Who knows where life will take you, the road is long and in the end the journey is the destination.

Happiness comes in many forms.
In the company of good friends,
in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dreams come true,or in a promise of hope renewed.
It’s ok to let yourself be happy,
because you never know how great that happiness might be.
Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life,
that you expect it to always be there,
because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t.
But then one day you feel something else.
Something that feels wrong only because it’s so unfamiliar,
and in that moment you realize you’re happy.

There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or to simply give up.

Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, or unsatisfied at barely getting by. But, that feeling is a lie and if you just hold on; just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find the way and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes, someone to help us hear the music in the world. To remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there, and that someone will find you.

Do you ever wonder if we make moments in our lives, or if the moments in our lives make us?

Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.

"Between the mind that plans and the hands that build there must be a Mediator, and this must be the heart."
- from Metropolis (1927)

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."
-Serbian proverb

"Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter. Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!"
- Irish saying


"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
-Louis De Bernieres (via venula)

"Perhaps in fairytales, the knight in shining armour is taken too literally. Perhaps it is not the idea of a shining hero who will slay dragons and kiss the princess awake that everyone wants.

Instead, it is the idea of a normal person – a mere man...or woman...who can go beyond human selfishness to make a difference in someone's field of fairytales."
- Unknown

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

"Witches, like saints, are solitary stars that shine with a light of their own; they depend on nothing and no one, which is why they have no fear and plunge blindly into the abyss with the assurance that instead of crashing to earth, they will fly back out. They can change into birds and see the world from above, or worms to see it from within, they can inhabit other dimensions and travel to other galaxies, they are navigators on an infinite ocean of consciousness and cognition."
~ Isabel Allende, Paula