Tell me about it..........

Lesson one of adulthood was putting the needs or even just the wishes of others before your own and then taking pleasure in making them come to pass.
 

Dorothy Benton Frank

Because life goes on ?

.....you can miss a single being, even though you are surrounded by countless others. Those people are like extras. They cloud your vision. They are a meaningless crowd. They are an unwelcome distraction. So you seek oblivion in solitude. But solitude only makes you wither. ....


Jean Giraudoux

You never know where you will come across a gem like this.......

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.


Susan Sarandon in Shall We Dance

Only if you can read Bangla

It sure does

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

.....whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
..........Paulo Coelho.

Uh-Oh

Just love love love this one .

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.......

But if it sits on your couch, eats all your food, takes all your money, and never behaves as if you actually set it free in the first place, then you either married it or gave birth to it.

The Story of Sorry

Apologizing doesn't always mean you are wrong, it just means that you value your relationships more than your ego.

Watch out !

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
......Margaret Thatcher.

Present is the logical extension of past........

I try not to live in the past, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.
........Jamie Ford.

Hmmmmm

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.
......Nicholas Sparks

Blast from past readings.....

No matter how many times I read it....I always wonder....

Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard.
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
.....Oscar Wilde

Where The Heart Is....

That's the name of the book.

....you can love one person in one way another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way ?
......Billie Letts

Lonesome blues ?

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
........Henrik Ibsen

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
........Ayn Rand

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
........Paul Brunton

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
.......Arthur Helps

Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
..........Sylvia Robinson


So, think again :)

One liners....

Progress was Mother Earth’s ultimate malignancy.

......Dan Brown

I do remember......

One that has stayed close to my heart.

Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.


......Jhumpa Lahiri

Are you there, God ?

Read this one in Reader's Digest decades ago. Had sent it with a letter. Years later I read it again when I found it in a bundle of letters. Life, like sea brings back stuff....on another shore may be. Found it again while searching for something else in Google today.

There is no God. All of the wonders around us are accidental. No almighty hand made a thousand-billion stars. They made themselves. No power keeps them on their steady course. The earth spins itself to keep the oceans from falling off toward the sun. Infants teach themselves to cry when they are hungry or hurt. A small flower invented itself so that we could extract digitalis for sick hearts.

The earth gave itself day and night, tilted itself so that we get seasons. Without the magnetic poles, man would be unable to navigate the trackless oceans of water and air, but they just grew there.

How about the sugar thermostat in the pancreas? It maintains a level of sugar in the blood sufficient for energy. Without it, all of us would fall into a coma and die.

Why does snow sit on mountain tops waiting for the warm spring sun to melt it at just the right time for the young crops in farms below to drink? A very lovely accident?

The human heart will beat for 70 or 80 years without faltering. How does it get sufficient rest between beats? A kidney will filter poison from the blood, and leave good things alone. How does it know one from another?

Who gave the human tongue flexibility to form words and a brain to understand them, but denied it to all other animals?

Who showed a womb how to take the love of two persons and keep splitting a tiny ovum until, in time, a baby would have the proper number of fingers, eyes, ears and hair in the right places, and come into the world when it is strong enough to sustain life?

There is no God -- or is there?

.....Jim Bishop

A book after weeks !

Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable or irreplacable, the circumstantial mingling of just one of the so many million with just one more.

..........Alice McDermott

Words that stayed with me......

Not exactly quotable quotes. Just some random things that hit you unexpectedly and refuse to leave.


Your Children are not Your Children

They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.


......Khalil Gibran