Today I am feeling self-stabby. I screamed bloody murder when I dropped a container of fried rice on the kitchen floor. I felt my blood pressure rise and my heart beat race. Like, whoa! And what the french ( Read more... )

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

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"She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India."

Said of Julie Andrews and makes me think of my Mother.

"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. What does one make of that?"

This quote brought me to mind of mrbuttboy.

“Love is a commitment. Not an emotion.”

"Many people have sacrificed themslves for others, thinking when they sacrifice themselves they are being a good person. Wrong! To sacrifice yourself can only come from thoughts of absolute lack, because it is saying, 'There is not enough for everyone, so I will go without.' Those feelings do not feel good and will eventually lead to resentment. ( Read more... )

"Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between two or more people that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person." Nathaniel Branden

Found via iGoogle. The original quote stated "between a man and a woman."small>

"...I seriously believed David was my soul mate ( Read more... )

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." Mark Twain

Thank you, daisy702 for reminding me of this one!

To understand everything is to forgive everything. ~The Buddha

Joy is the net of love by which you catch souls. ~Mother Teresa

It is wisdom to believe the heart. ~George Sanatayana

Cherish that which is within you. ~Chuang-tzu