- Pablo Neruda, excerpt from "Sonnet XVII"
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Monday, October 25, 2010
my favourite quote of the moment.
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
... to infinity and beyond
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice...
but for those who love, time is eternity."
- Henry Van Dyke
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
words from a friend (circa 2005)
A million paths lie at your feet, just waiting for that first step. Hit the ground running Joan, not stumbling. Chase your dreams every second of your life, and never regret anything you do, no matter how bad.
Your dreams are your guide and your heart is your compass. It often hurts but it never lies."
Your dreams are your guide and your heart is your compass. It often hurts but it never lies."
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
words for thought
Found this in a really old email from a friend, who had this as a quote/signature at the end of their message:
The capacity to learn is a gift
The ability to learn is a skill
The willingness to learn is a choice
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Definitely something worth thinking about.
The capacity to learn is a gift
The ability to learn is a skill
The willingness to learn is a choice
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Definitely something worth thinking about.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
a music-infused lifestyle.
I've been listening to so much music these days. It's as though my brain has suddenly undergone some kind of neuron(?) reconstruction. In the last week or so I have cycled through a ridiculous number of different genres. I feel like I wrote about this not too long ago, but today I listened to R&B tunes, then Duffy's album, some of Jehro's album, then some John Coltrane jazz, and now I'm onto soul music.
I originally had a plan of study tonight, and I was also going to sleep early (around 9.30 or 10pm). Unfortunately this all went out the window when I decided that I should spend some time catching up on a couple of mp3blogs that I follow.
Music is just fantastic. I've yet to meet somebody with similar tastes to mine, but if I ever do.. well I don't know what would happen. But I'd hope for the development of a musically rich friendship.
Ben Harper and the Dave Matthews Band are my two most favourite artists. I have a big poster of Ben Harper on my wall; if there were decent DMB posters around I'd consider having them on my wall too.
I do adore a great many other musicians, but if anybody were to ask me "Who is/are your favourite musician/s?", I would always answer with BH & DMB. I don't know why though. Maybe it's the combination of good music with mildly offbeat lyrics. They manage to sing about love and relationships and the rest, but with a kind of musical poetry that doesn't exist in anybody else's music. The following lyrics always spring to mind when I consider the aforementioned point:
Like Marie Antoinette said to Louis XVI,
"Man, I think we're going down.
Our chances are slim and none,
and I'm afraid slim just left town."
- "Say You Will", Ben Harper [Lifeline (2007)]
I'm running on about 4 hours sleep, and I have to work tomorrow so I think I'll end it here. I'll leave you with a quote that was quoted on Souled On, the mp3blog that I've been catching up with all night:
"Among the different arts, the art of music has been especially considered divine, because it is the exact miniature of the law working within the whole universe. For instance if we study ourselves we shall find that in the beats of the pulse and the heart, in the inhaling and exhaling of the breath, all is the work of rhythm."
--Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
I originally had a plan of study tonight, and I was also going to sleep early (around 9.30 or 10pm). Unfortunately this all went out the window when I decided that I should spend some time catching up on a couple of mp3blogs that I follow.
Music is just fantastic. I've yet to meet somebody with similar tastes to mine, but if I ever do.. well I don't know what would happen. But I'd hope for the development of a musically rich friendship.
Ben Harper and the Dave Matthews Band are my two most favourite artists. I have a big poster of Ben Harper on my wall; if there were decent DMB posters around I'd consider having them on my wall too.
I do adore a great many other musicians, but if anybody were to ask me "Who is/are your favourite musician/s?", I would always answer with BH & DMB. I don't know why though. Maybe it's the combination of good music with mildly offbeat lyrics. They manage to sing about love and relationships and the rest, but with a kind of musical poetry that doesn't exist in anybody else's music. The following lyrics always spring to mind when I consider the aforementioned point:
Like Marie Antoinette said to Louis XVI,
"Man, I think we're going down.
Our chances are slim and none,
and I'm afraid slim just left town."
- "Say You Will", Ben Harper [Lifeline (2007)]
I'm running on about 4 hours sleep, and I have to work tomorrow so I think I'll end it here. I'll leave you with a quote that was quoted on Souled On, the mp3blog that I've been catching up with all night:
"Among the different arts, the art of music has been especially considered divine, because it is the exact miniature of the law working within the whole universe. For instance if we study ourselves we shall find that in the beats of the pulse and the heart, in the inhaling and exhaling of the breath, all is the work of rhythm."
--Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Quote - from Africa
Umcolo uthokozisa abadadukileyo (Zulu)
Singing makes all the sad people happy because it is the voice of happiness.
Singing makes all the sad people happy because it is the voice of happiness.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
it's all about the people
It's been a while since the last post, and I am having a much more positive relationship with life and love. And besides, life couldn't be up if it didn't have it's downs. :)
Just finished my second week of work, and although I don't think I was 100% productive and efficient, I had a great time in terms of preparing for the weeks ahead and also starting to develop new friendships with people I'd never really talked to before, as well as a stronger relationship with current friends. There are some really good people at work. When I say "good" people, I don't mean that in a work-skills sense - there are lots of people who are excellent at what they do, like Ruse there are many high performers here - but I mean it in the sense that they have a good heart, and there is something more to them than just doing a good job at work. It's these people who I like the most, and hopefully I'll be able to develop stronger bonds with the right people during my summer holiday work.
Quotes from Souled On.
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."
Clarence Darrow
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."
Marilyn Ferguson
Just finished my second week of work, and although I don't think I was 100% productive and efficient, I had a great time in terms of preparing for the weeks ahead and also starting to develop new friendships with people I'd never really talked to before, as well as a stronger relationship with current friends. There are some really good people at work. When I say "good" people, I don't mean that in a work-skills sense - there are lots of people who are excellent at what they do, like Ruse there are many high performers here - but I mean it in the sense that they have a good heart, and there is something more to them than just doing a good job at work. It's these people who I like the most, and hopefully I'll be able to develop stronger bonds with the right people during my summer holiday work.
Quotes from Souled On.
"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free."
Clarence Darrow
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."
Marilyn Ferguson
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Quote - Thomas A. Edison
"What you are will show in what you do."
Definitely true, and definitely something to think about. Because I have a lot of improving to do.
Definitely true, and definitely something to think about. Because I have a lot of improving to do.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Quotes - James A. Baldwin
I picked up the following quotes from souledonmusic.blogspot.com, a blog that I have recently started following. Highly recommended if you're into old-school soul music and hip-hop/rap etc.. this dude picks some amazing tunes for the reader's listening pleasure!
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
It's a scary thought. But I guess each of us has to accept that we will not live on this planet forever. I don't know if there's another life after this one, or whether we transcend to another world, another planet, or another realm that is beyond human comprehension. Who knows. Maybe our spirits disperse and become absorbed by other spirits, whether it be fauna or flora.
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
Perhaps it does. In any case, my better half knows so much about me, more than I would have ever thought, but I wouldn't want it any other way. I truly believe that honesty and openness is the way to go, even that means having to make the occasional confession. Love is great (I'm such a Romantic), and it really does make you do some crazy things (love is not dissimilar to mental illness.. check it).
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
Guess this could be a light or dark quote, depending on your own interpretation. Take each moment as it comes, I suppose!
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
A bit of a dark quote, isn't it? Feels a bit 1984-esque. Still contemplating the words.
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
It's a scary thought. But I guess each of us has to accept that we will not live on this planet forever. I don't know if there's another life after this one, or whether we transcend to another world, another planet, or another realm that is beyond human comprehension. Who knows. Maybe our spirits disperse and become absorbed by other spirits, whether it be fauna or flora.
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
Perhaps it does. In any case, my better half knows so much about me, more than I would have ever thought, but I wouldn't want it any other way. I truly believe that honesty and openness is the way to go, even that means having to make the occasional confession. Love is great (I'm such a Romantic), and it really does make you do some crazy things (love is not dissimilar to mental illness.. check it).
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
Guess this could be a light or dark quote, depending on your own interpretation. Take each moment as it comes, I suppose!
"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
A bit of a dark quote, isn't it? Feels a bit 1984-esque. Still contemplating the words.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Quote - Nikki Giovanni
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
It's an interesting thought. And maybe there's some truth to it.
I have a habit of making a decision on whether or not I like somebody based on the 'vibe' they emanate during the first (or first few) meetings. Sometimes I'm wrong, but manytimes I'm right. Thinking about the relationship I'm in, and how I picked him all those years ago, in an almost prophetic motion.. it makes you wonder..
It's an interesting thought. And maybe there's some truth to it.
I have a habit of making a decision on whether or not I like somebody based on the 'vibe' they emanate during the first (or first few) meetings. Sometimes I'm wrong, but manytimes I'm right. Thinking about the relationship I'm in, and how I picked him all those years ago, in an almost prophetic motion.. it makes you wonder..
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