Words For Thought

Quotes:

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Through the hardest parts of our lives, we learn that we are never alone.

Everything does happen for a reason; whether that reason be good or bad, that’s all up to you. Trust me.

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
Sometimes, right in the middle of life, love gives us a fairytale.

Life is a journey; love is what makes it a journey worth traveling.

Life is a frightening image for every human being…being strong in life….it isn’t easy….

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.

Some have been thought brave because they have been afraid to run away.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you’ll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but theres also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who’s been standing beside you all along.

I believe there’s a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.

If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?

Kayla: Why is the moon so lonely? Because she used to have a lover. His name was Qu’e Qu’ atsu and they lived in the spirit world together. Mm-hm. And every night, they would wander the skies together. But, one of the other spirits was jealous. Trickster wanted the Moon for himself. So he told Qu’e Qu’ atsu that the Moon had asked for flowers; he told him to come to our world and pick her some wild roses. But Qu’e Qu’ atsu didn’t know that once you leave the spirit world, you can never go back. And every night, he looks up in the sky and sees the Moon and howls her name. But… he can never touch her again.
Logan: Wow. Koo-koo-ka-choo got screwed.
Kayla: Qu’e Qu’ atsu. It means “the Wolverine”.

War will be no more until man is no more.

When you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.

The answer is a mixture of 26 letters and 10 digits, just arrange them in the right order.

Biology is understood by Chemistry, which is explained by Physics, which is composed of Mathematics, which is derived from Logic.

When you practice, treat it like the real thing. When you do the real thing, treat it like practice.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I’ll always miss her. But our love is like the wind…I can’t see it, but I can feel it.

Poems:

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
–by Elizabeth Bishop
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I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called Life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
–ee. cummings

Books:

Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone-sitting off by herself in the cafeteria-even dancing, she danced alone-and it was the aloneness that filled him, filled him with love.
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But the thing about remembering is that you don’t forget.
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As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That’s the real obsession. All those stories….Not bloody stories, necessarily. Happy stories, too, and even a few peace stories.
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And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity; when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

Lyrics:

I don’t know but I think I may be
Fallin’ for you.
Maybe I should keep this to myself.

Waiting ’til I know you better.
I am trying not to tell you
But I want to.
I’m scared of what you’ll say
So I’m hiding what I’m feeling,
But I’m tired of holding this inside my head.

I’ve been spending all my time just thinking about ya.
I don’t know what to do.
I think I’m fallin’ for you.
I’ve been waiting all my life and now I found ya.
I don’t know what to do.
I think I’m fallin’ for you.
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You’re better than the best
I’m lucky just to linger in your light.
Cooler than the flip-side of my
pillow (that’s right).
Completely unaware,
Nothing can compare to where you send me.
Let’s me know that it’s okay (yeah, it’s okay)
And the moments when my good times start to fade.

You make me smile like a sun, fall outta bed,
Sing like a bird, dizzy in my head,
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night.
You make me dance like fool,
Forget how to breathe,
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee.
Just the thought of you can drive me wild.
Oh, you make me smile.
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My best friend gave me the best advice:
He said each day’s a gift and not a given right,
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by.
That first step you take is the longest stride.

If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late:
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past,
Donate every dime you have?
If today was your last day.
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Thank you for this moment.
I’ve gotta say how beautiful you are.
Of all the hopes and dreams I could have prayed for,
here you are.
If I could have one dance forever,
I would take you by the hand.
Tonight it’s you and I together,
I’m so glad I’m your man.
And if I lived a thousand years,
You know, I never could explain
The way I lost my heart to you that day;
but if destiny decided I should look the other way,
then the world would never know
the greatest story ever told;
and did I tell you that I love you tonight?
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