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Words to Live by aka Sez you
by Jill Peckelun on 12/29/2009 6:06:28 PM
Dancing with Clouds
The new year is upon us. A time for making resolutions, reviewing this year's work, considering the new year's goals. Do you think as humans we have a sense of yearning that makes us want to set goals? How could anyone answer that. I only know that I do. It seems I no sooner resolve one issue and am content but for a brief spell before I start to dwell on something else to change, improve upon, relinquish entirely, move forward. Pick any one of the aforementioned. It can be annoying, this restless yearning. Nevertheless...
I thought I'd take a moment here and share some of my favorite quotes to inspire us for the upcoming year. My parents had a 3 inch thick volume of Barlett's Familiar Quotations that I used to read when I was growing up. Good quotes inspire me because they concisely say things that I think about but aren't able to express. Sometimes they say things I'd never thought of at all. I am ever hopeful that the next good quote will be just the words I need to hear, just the words to give me a purpose for all that yearning energy.
Its grand to always have a sense of purpose. I want to clarify that I try to focus on the process, not the end result. It is my intentions that are the goal, not so much a particular outcome. I never, and I really do mean never, believe that I know what the best resolution to any circumstance should be. My focus is purely on having the most positive thoughts and actions I can in every situation. (Side note: I am not entirely successful in every situation.) What is down is sometimes up, what is up, could be down. Things are not always what they appear to be. Life is a mystery; get used to it.
But I digress. Back to those quotations that give me clarity and occasionally, a kick in the pants. Here are some of my favorites:
What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
-Mary Oliver
No guts, no glory.
-Sir Francis Drake
When choosing wallpaper- if given a choice between one that's pretty and one that has character, always choose the one with character.
-My grandmother Lilian as told to her daughter Ethel
Painting. Its goals are undefined, the means are inefficient and the results are uncertain. I like that.
-Alex Kanevsky
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve upon it, not a bit. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.
-Theodore Roosevelt
On living on less as an alternative lifestyle:
I'm not sacrificing. I live like a king.
-Jim Merkel
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
-Henry Thoreau
Its important to have an appetite for life. It shows in your face as you live longer.
-Sean Connery
Live Strong.
-Lance Armstrong
Live contented.
-Paul Revere
This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Its nice to be important. Its more important to be nice.
-Sarah Hughes
Do all that you can, with all that you have, in the time that you have, in the place where you are.
-Nkosi Johnson, a South African boy born HIV positive who died at age twelve
God first served.
-Joan of Arc
When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all the growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.
-Hasidic saying
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing. Delusion is the most natural of human states. Honesty is the aberration.
-Erin Hart, Lake of Sorrows
Life must be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon.
-Masahide
Life is too precious to be upset.
-Walter Anderson
This will be your lucky day.
-Chinese fortune cookie
Sez you.
-Henry Lawson
Love love.
-Jill Peckelun
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I enjoyed reading your post. I love the quote from your Grandmother Lilian. Did you know if you substitute the word "painting" for the word "wallpaper" that the quote still works? At least in my humble opinion :)
Thanks for a fun read.
Cooper