Quote of the Day.
You don't have to be old to be wise.
Judas Priest
And with this thought I take off to writing my data analysis term paper.
Well, with THIS thought:
:)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Back to blogging.
I've had a blessed week off and away from the City and stress. Well, at least from the City. Somehow stress manages to follow you even across state borders and into vacation days. Regardless of stressing over deadlines ahead and life decisions behind, I took time off, enjoyed the fresh air, light green nature, and warmth of Michigan. On one of my runs I even ran into a deer and a rabbit! :) Despite loving life in a huge, busy, always awake metropolis, I am definitely a self-identified nature-lover. Most of all, though, I rested by being with my love. Sleeping together, waking up together, cooking together, doing groceries together. It's all so simple and all so beautiful. Can't wait for us to have our shared everydays back! <3
But now to the skipped quotes:
Quotes of the Week
April 11th - 16th.
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate
...This, of course, unless you're writing your thoughts down in a blog. With readers.
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
Living is easy with your eyes closed.
The Beatles: "Strawberry Fields"
Isn't the way life is depicted in these three quotes pretty neat?
A perfect mix of play and reason can make life glorious, even with eyes wide open.
Nobody loves no one.
Chris Isaak: "Wicked Games"
There are memories all over the place.
The Scorpions: "Still Loving You"
Memories make today count.
Here's to a little less stressful week because of the memories of the passed week.
*going to my happy place*
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
April 9
Quote of the Day
O that a man might know. The end of this day's business
ere it come!
William Shakespeare
...But it sufficeth that the day will end. And then the end is known.
I think the last few lines are crucial.
So often I desperately want to see into the future, even if just a few hours, a few days ahead, to know if what I'm doing now will be worth it. To see if what's stressing me out now will pay out. To see if what I'm unsure about has a clear answer.
But would looking into the future completely stop me from living in the moment?
I have a feeling I would have problems concentrating on the here and now, enjoying today and those around me, and being happy with current life. I struggle with this constant forward-gazing as is, how much more would I push through and take on if it were clearly taking me to a wanted goal? And would it be worth it?
Sunday, April 08, 2012
April 6.-8.
Quotes of Easter
Sometimes beauty blinds us in our search for the truth.
House
All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The first quote makes me think about religious experience, and the role that being "moved" or "touched" plays in feeling you've found the "truth." I've come to think - or feel - that I must be closer to whatever truth exists when I feel normal, calm, and comfortable. Of course getting emotional and feeling loved and filled with love can be a beautiful experience, but that should not be the sole marker that tells me "this is it." I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this, and I feel like I'm rambling on, but that's the gist of the above quote for me.
As for the two below it...They make me want to travel. They make me want to try things, and they make me feel less worried about making mistakes, about maybe taking a few detours on the way. Perhaps its not as bad that I didn't go straight to college after high school, didn't continue straight to my master, do not have the perfect job right now, and am still searching for whatever spot makes me feel most myself and most comfortable in life. While I'm working on life, I'm experimenting, I'm trying, I'm learning. All this is life, and all that makes me that much richer.
How much more will I know of who I am, where I am, what I want and love, and who I want to surround myself with after taking all the side roads and back alleys, rather than having stuck to the straight main road? More, I hope. :)
Thursday, April 05, 2012
April 5
Quote of the DayThere are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali
Like LOVING people.
or Gardening :)
Speaking of which...my peony and clematis bushes are making huge progress!
Granted, the reality doesn't yet quite meet the pictures, but I'm patient.
And I've got some ready-bought blooms, too :)
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
April 4
Quote of the Day
I like us together.
It would be like your soul on my shoulders.
Eliel Cruz
This quote makes me feel giddy.
It makes me step into a Sunday morning,
with a cool breeze coming from the open windows into a light-filled linen-smelling bedroom.
Us awake in the bed, with a cool white sheet - no comforter - against our skin where we're not touching each other.
My head against your back feeling your breathing.
Silence.
And then Zero7 playing in the distance. Maybe the cafe downstairs is playing it.
I don't quite understand it, but it makes me smile outside and in.
Image from: http://simplynaturaldecor.blogspot.com
April 3
Quote of the Day
If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus one day
so I never have to live without you.
A.A. Milne
I know this may be stupid of me, but I don't appreciate the selfishness in this beautiful statement. By wishing me - her, him, your love, whoever - to die after you, you are wishing them the day without your love. Without you. Of course, assuming you share this beautiful thing.
Over thinking, but that's the way I roll.
Monday, April 02, 2012
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