my halloween valentine

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

from "Angels in America" (mini-series)

an angel is a belief with wings and arms that carry you. its not to be afraid of. and if it can't hold you up, seek for something new.

we loved at 02:51

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Anonymous

What is time?--the shadow on the dial, --the striking of the clock, --the running of the san, --day and night, --summer and winter, --months, years, centuries? These are but arbitrary and outward signs, --the measure of time, not time itself. Time is the life of the soul. If not this, --then tell me, what is time?

we loved at 02:27

Seneca

A pleasant possession is useless without a friend.

we loved at 02:25

Channing

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compenstae for the good they impart.

we loved at 02:23

Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travellers in teh wildreness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

we loved at 02:21

An Old Epitaph

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.

we loved at 02:20

Pollock

Love is friendship set to music.

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Voltaire

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

we loved at 02:11

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

we loved at 02:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.

we loved at 01:58

Robert Henri

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be great.

we loved at 01:49

Tupper

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

we loved at 01:45

Maeterlinck

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

we loved at 01:43

Samuel Paterson

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

we loved at 01:42

Goethe

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

we loved at 01:41

Anonymous

A task without a vision is drudgery; a vision without a task is a dream; a task with a vision is victory.

we loved at 01:39

Lord Byron

You have greatly ventured, but all myst do so, who would greatly win.

we loved at 01:38

William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

we loved at 01:35

Monday, January 17, 2005

Lord Alfred Tennyson

And because right is right, to follow right were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

we loved at 19:24

Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most valueable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

we loved at 19:22

Abraham Lincoln

And having thus chosen our course without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without feat and with manly hearts.

we loved at 19:19

Anonymous

Keep a brave spirit, and never despair; Hope brings you messages through the keen air--Good is victorious--God everywhere.

we loved at 19:15

William Wordsworth

A noble aim, faithfuly kept, is a noble deed.

we loved at 19:15

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

we loved at 19:14

Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be forst overcome.

we loved at 19:11

Friday, December 03, 2004

Napoleon Bonaparte

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an enexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

we loved at 02:24

Winston Churchill

Well, when you are doing your duty, and you are sure of that, you need not worry too much about the dangers or the consequences.

we loved at 02:22

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

quotes i have in my planner...

the weaker sex is the stronger sex becasue of the weakness of the stronger sex for the weaker sex.

how do i love thee? let me count the ways, I love thee to the depth and breadth and height of my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight. For the ends of Being and ideal grace. -- Elizabeth Barret-Browning

All human things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Love takes off mask that we fear we can not live without and know we cannot live whithin.

we don't read and write poems just because they're cute. we read and write poems because we are human beings... and the human race is full of passion. --from the movie "Dead Poets Society"

at the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. --from the brother of a friend

sometimes, you have to be a high rating bitch to survice. sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to. --from the movie "Dolores Clairborne"

It's you who draw me out. I exist in you not in others. --from "Wings of the Dove" by Henry James

Love is the only explanation of our survival.

You gave the rose with your eyes
And I felt the sensation of a kiss

If love be love; blessed be it!

Woe is he who partakes of her honey and phrases
Woe is he who puts faith in her songs of love

Love is short, forgetting is so long.

Shut up, just shut up, you had me at hello. -- from the movie "Jerry Maguire"

Oh! Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you. --from "Dragonfly in Amber" by Diana Gabaldon

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose. --from the movie "Titanic"

I love the handful of earth you are.

Before I loved you, Love, nothing was my own.

I hunt for a sign of you in all the others.

From all the graces my homeland offered
I choose only your savage heart.

The mind and lvoe naked in this house

Love was a lunatic city with crowds of people blanching on their porches.

Then love knew it was called "love"

Death is only the stone of oblivion. I love you, on your lips I kiss happiness itself.

But I cannot give up your love, not without dying.

And now you're mine, rest your dream in my dream.

we loved at 13:36

Friday, November 05, 2004

from "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

To the person in the bell-jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

we loved at 01:48

Aristotle

What is a friend? A single sould dwelling in two bodies.

we loved at 01:42

from "Memoir of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that can not be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

we loved at 01:41

from "A Return to Love" by Marianne Willamson

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brillian, gogeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

we loved at 01:37

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

From the movie "Pulp Fiction"

Mia: Don't you hate that?
Vince: What?
Mia: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel its necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vince: I don't know.
Mia: That's when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.

we loved at 15:03

Jerrola

Love's like the measles- all the worse when it comes late in life.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.

we loved at 15:00

from "The Notebook" by Nocholas Sparks

The first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul.

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense.

The reason it hurts so much to seperate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete

Poetry brings great beauty to life, but also great sadness

Our lives can't be measured by our final years...

How would it feel, to be always together, yet forever apar? (like day and night)

It seems only that the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a wase, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together becasue only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals.

The body slows with mortal ache, yet my promise
remains true at the closing of our days,
a tender touch that ends with a kiss
will awaken love in joyous ways.

Our souls were one, if you must know
and never shall they be apart.
With splendid dawn, your face aglow
I reach for you and find my heart.

we loved at 14:47

Benito Perez Galdos

I believe that if I should die
and you were to walk near my grave
from the very depths of the earth
I would hear your footsteps.

we loved at 10:46

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves

we loved at 10:45

Virginia Woolf

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

we loved at 10:43

Anonymous

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

we loved at 10:42

Bernard

Art is I; Science is We

we loved at 10:42

Mignon Mclauglin

No one has ever loved ayone the way everyone wants to be loved.

we loved at 10:41

Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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Novalis

Mani s lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

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Ambrose Bierce

Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.

we loved at 10:34

Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and theor entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

we loved at 10:32

From Anonymous People

So cold, so icy, that one burns one's fingers at the touch of him! Every hand that lays hold of him shrinks back!-- And for that very reason many think of him red-hot.

What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

To learn the truth at day-break and die at eve were enough.

A silent communer, an ever hunger learner, a still unflagging teacher; am i any of these?

Will the right; hold the good won; rest in love; move in art

I love the past, and questioned it earnestly

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows your scared to death.

I used to trouble about what life was for- now being alive seems sufficient enough.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

And in the end its not the years in your life that cound, It's the life in your years.

The work of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

we loved at 10:22

Karen Clodfelder

As we grow older together
As we continue to change with age
There is one thing that will never change
I will always keep falling in love with you.

we loved at 10:19

From the movie "Total Eclipse"

Rimbaud: Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist

Rimbaud: self interest exist, attachment based on personal gain exists, but now love. Love has to be reinvented.

Rimbaud: The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Verlaine: I think its less important to love for soul than love the body after all the soul may be immortal. I have plenty of time for the soul, but flesh...

Verlaine: I'm faithful to all my lovers cause once I loved them I will always love them... and when I'm alone in the evening or in the early morning I close my eyes and I celebrate them all.
Rimbaud: That's not faithfulness. That's nostalgia.

Verlaine: What is your greatest fear?
Rimbaud: That other people would see me as I see them.

Rimbaud: I found it... Eternity. Where the sun mingled with the sea.

we loved at 10:12

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

from "The World According to Garp" by John Irving

In this dirty-minded world, you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore- or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there's something wrong with you. But there is nothing wrong with me.

we loved at 19:16

from "The Kiss" by Kathryn Harrison

Is there a way to tell a stranger that once upon a time I fell from grace, I was lost so deeply in a dark wood that I'm afraid I'll never be safe again.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

we loved at 18:57

from "The Kiss" by Kathryn Harrison

Is there a way to tell a stranger that once upon a time I fell from grace, I was lost so deeply in a dark wood that I'm afraid I'll never be safe again.

we loved at 18:57

Frabcois Mariac, The Desert of Love

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and through that love may pass, we remain none the less their work- a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.

we loved at 18:55

Native American, source unknown

If we look at the path, we do not see the sky. We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look whithin, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no eparation, only in the mind.

we loved at 18:53

Friday, January 30, 2004

from "City of Light" by Lauren Belfer

So much of our lives had turned into remembrance.

we loved at 13:59

from "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho

Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

we loved at 13:54

from "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

we loved at 13:51

from RENT

Why are entire years strewn
On the cutting room floor of memory
When single frames from one magic night
Forever flicker in close-up
On the 3D max of my mind.

we loved at 13:05

from The Little Prince

Now here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

we loved at 13:00

from The Little Prince

None of you is at all like my rose, as yet you are nothing. Nobody has tamed you and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first encoutnered him. He was just a fox like a hundred other foxes. But I made him my friend and now he is unique in the world.

we loved at 12:58

Allie from Taken

Maybe that is what falling in love is about, having someone who makes you a little less alone.

we loved at 12:55

Monday, January 19, 2004

Goethe

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.

we loved at 15:15

Channing

True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow.

we loved at 15:14

Napoleon

The only conquest which are permanent, and leave no regrets, are our conquest over ourselves.

we loved at 15:08

Diogenes

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

we loved at 15:07

Simonides

Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry.

we loved at 15:06

Lamartine

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

we loved at 15:04

Samuel Butler

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

we loved at 15:03

Anonymous

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

we loved at 15:02

Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life-his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

we loved at 15:01

Syrus

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

we loved at 15:01

Anonymous

Don't ask for an easier life, ask to be a stronger person.

we loved at 15:00

Saturday, January 17, 2004

Cioran

The Art of Love: Knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

we loved at 10:26

From Anonymous

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires and accomplice

we loved at 10:24

Keats

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.

we loved at 10:20