My daily meditation these days

Every day we make choices:

    Choices that build strength,

    Choices that bring peace,

    Choices that grow our mind,

    Choices that power our body,

    Choices that connect,

    Choices that disconnect.

Because how we feel tomorrow

starts with what we do today.

~ London Fitness Guy

Me, too!

I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

~ Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes)

Hold me now...

I have a picture 

Pinned to my wall 

An image of you and of me and we're laughing, we're loving it all 

But look at our life now 

All tattered and torn 

We fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until dawn 

Hold me now

Warm my heart 

Stay with me 

Let lovin' start, 

Let lovin' start 

You say I'm a dreamer 

We're two of a kind 

Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find 

So, perhaps I should leave here 

Yeah, yeah, and go far away 

But you know that there's nowhere that I'd rather be than with you here today 

Hold me now

Warm my heart 

Stay with me 

Let lovin' start, 

Let lovin' start 

You ask if I love you 

Well, what can I say? 

You know that I do and that this is just one of those games that we play 

So, I'll sing you a new song 

Please don't cry anymore 

I'll even ask your forgiveness, though I don't know just what I'm asking it for 

Hold me now

Warm my heart 

Stay with me 

Let lovin' start, 

Let lovin' start 

~ The Thompson Twins

Untroubled spirit

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. 

The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Change

You can't go back and change the beginning,

but you can start where you are and change the ending.  

~ C. S. Lewis

Exactly correct

 

and searching and searching...

 

Für immer und ewig

 

This might be the best thing I've ever read

An entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship.

Similarly, the negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.

~ found on the interwebs

The REAL Art of the Deal!

Lily: Terms - if you can do all that, I will let you touch one boob. 

Barney: Both boobs! 

Lily: Just one. 

Barney: Touch and squeeze. 

Lily: Just touch. 

Barney: Touch and motor boat. 

Lily: Just touch. 

Barney: Honka honka? 

Lily: [Annoyed] Barney... 

Barney: Just touch?

Lily: Just touch. 

Barney: For one hour. 

Lily: For one second! 

Barney: Twenty minutes both boobs. 

Lily: Thirty seconds one boob. 

Barney: Four minutes, both boobs, three squeezes. 

Lily: One minute, both boobs, one squeeze. 

Barney: Deal!

~ from How I Met Your Mother

Three types of conversation

People are only ever having three different conversations 

• Practical - I have a goal, let’s find a solution 
• Emotional - venting or they want validation 
• Social - they just want acknowledgment 

Ask them:  Do you want me to listen, or do you want my advice?

But what about infinite disappointment?

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Some people...

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75

~ Benjamin Franklin

Important to remember!

Those who are hardest to love need it the most

~ Socrates

What I'd say if I had courage...

 I'm living a life incongruent with my values.

I hate to admit it, my experience says yes

Women love a man under the condition that he has something to provide. 

~ read on the interwebs

God DAMMIT!

The way you treat yourself is the exact way women will treat you. 

~ read on the interwebs

Sounds about right...

This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. 

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. 

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. 

With such a people, you can do whatever you want.

~ Hannah Arendt, German historian and philosopher (1906 - 1975)

Critics

An athlete won't judge you for working out. 

A millionaire won't judge you for starting a business. 

A musician won't judge you for playing a song 

It's people going nowhere who are the biggest critics.

Squeak, squeak!

The mouse dies in the mouse trap

because it doesn't understand

why the cheese is free.

I'm not a fan of elevator music,

It's bad on so many levels.

I may have posted this before

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, 

And all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.

~ Ojibwe saying