+ "Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
+ "A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
+ "Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads."
— David Levithan
+ "That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality"
— Emily Dickinson
+ "You are, and always have been, my dream."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
+ "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
+ "Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without."
— Rafael Ortiz
+ "If I know what love is, it is because of you."
— Hermann Hesse
+ "I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. "
— Nikki Giovanni
+ "love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."
— Stephen King
+ "Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need"
— Johnny Cash
+ "Love is eternal while it lasts."
— Vinicius da Moraes
+ "I think we ought to live happily ever after."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)
+ "love is thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky"
— E.E. Cummings
+ "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
— Dalai Lama XIV
+ "I think Heaven will be like a first kiss."
— Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)
+ "This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+ "A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it - A song's not a song 'til you sing it - Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'til you give it away!"
— Oscar Hammerstein II
+ "Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, that now are at home in thine,
Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine;
And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride,
In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide,
If the truest love thy heart can know
Meet the truest love that from mine can flow.
Pray God, beloved, for thee and me,
That our sourls may be wedded eternally."
— George MacDonald (The Diary of an Old soul)
+ "To measure the man, measure his heart."
— Malcolm Forbes
+ "Other men said they have seen angels,
But I have seen thee,
And thou art enough."
— G. Moore
+ "Love is the passionate dance between two hearts. It is to believe in the dream, and together make it real."
— Sylvana Rossetti
+ "Love is not blind; it simply allows us to see the beauty in everything."
— Michelle D. Pierce
+ "I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do"
— Ana Castillo (I Ask the Impossible: Poems)
+ "Have you ever loved someone so much that when you drew a breath you knew it was his?"
— Barbara Boyer (Courage of Fear)
+ "since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis"
— E.E. Cummings
+ "Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever."
— Saša Stanišić
+ "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
— Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
+ "He knew her, and she knew him. He had no idea if the images he saw came from past or future, or both, but he knew her. Their souls were bound, had always been bound, and always would be. They were two with one soul between them, perfectly joined, perfectly fitted."
— Ann Marston (The Western King)
+ "Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."
— Pearl S. Buck
+ "Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!"
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
+ "All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity."
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
+ "They dined on mince, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon."
— Edward Lear (The Owl and the Pussycat)
+ "I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea."
— Nicholas Sparks
+ "Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."
— Christopher Moore (Coyote Blue)
+ "love is a hawk with velvet claws
love is a rock with heart and veins
love is a lion with satin jaws
love is a storm with silken reins"
— Kurt Vonnegut
+ "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)
+ "I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
+ "The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us."
— Martin Boyd (A Difficult Young Man)
+ "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."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
+ "Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."
— Dalai Lama XIV
+ "Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)
+ "The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
+ "What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"
— George Eliot
+ "I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours."
— Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady)
+ "This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
+ "Lovers alone wear sunlight."
— E.E. Cummings
+ "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
— Benjamin Disraeli
+ "Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
— John Lennon
+ "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
-How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)"
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love)
+ "I would have fallen in love with you anywhere."
— Susan Minot
+ "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë
+ "Which is why we say 'I can't live without you' meaning 'your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty vessel, nameless'."
— Joyce Carol Oates (Faithless)
+ "You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
+ "I say love,
it knows no season.
It haunts the soul
eternally."
— Dwight Yoakam
+
"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)
+ "If you love and get hurt, love more.
If you love more and hurt more, love even more.
If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more..."
— William Shakespeare
+ "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..."
— E.E. Cummings
+ "Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)
+ "It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love"
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)
30 October 2010
28 October 2010
Chapter 258 ~ Love, part I
These next Chapters is a series of quotes on, well, the greatest force in the world--love.
+ "Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera
+ "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald
+ "What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo
+ "You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange."
— Milan Kundera
+ "Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die."
— Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses: A Play)
+ "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
— William Somerset Maugham
+ "Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
— Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach and Other Poems)
+ "Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"
— Christopher Brennan
+ "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
+ "It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
+ "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)
+ "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson
+ "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa
+ "to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."
— Ellen Bass
+ "Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein
+ "I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"
— Mother Teresa
+ "When you know my love, my love will warm you."
— Ruby Dee
+ "Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.
Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."
"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.
Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not..."
— Dante (Inferno)
+ "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. "
— Walter Scott
+ "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
— William W. Purkey
+ "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
+ "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)
+ "Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde
+ "Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
— Willa Cather
+ "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
— Plato
+ "Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda
+ "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
— E.E. Cummings
+ "Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you."
— Neil Gaiman
+ "Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)
+ "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you."
— John Keats
+ "We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe
+ "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
+ "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)"
— Anonymous
+ "The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)
+ "When the power of love over overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimmy Hendrix
+ "Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
— Karl A. Menninger
+ "Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
— H.L. Mencken
+ "When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
+ "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
+ "To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."
— Bill Wilson
+ "Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful."
— Milan Kundera
+ "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
— Zelda Fitzgerald
+ "What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo
+ "You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange."
— Milan Kundera
+ "Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die."
— Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses: A Play)
+ "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
— William Somerset Maugham
+ "Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
— Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach and Other Poems)
+ "Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?"
— Christopher Brennan
+ "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
+ "It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
+ "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)
+ "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson
+ "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa
+ "to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."
— Ellen Bass
+ "Love is a better master than duty."
— Albert Einstein
+ "I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"
— Mother Teresa
+ "When you know my love, my love will warm you."
— Ruby Dee
+ "Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.
Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."
"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.
Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not..."
— Dante (Inferno)
+ "Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. "
— Walter Scott
+ "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
— William W. Purkey
+ "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
+ "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)
+ "Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde
+ "Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
— Willa Cather
+ "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
— Plato
+ "Te amo como se aman ciertas cosa oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
(I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.)"
— Pablo Neruda
+ "i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
— E.E. Cummings
+ "Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you."
— Neil Gaiman
+ "Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
— Jasper Fforde (First Among Sequels)
+ "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion--
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you."
— John Keats
+ "We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe
+ "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
+ "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)"
— Anonymous
+ "The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)
+ "When the power of love over overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimmy Hendrix
+ "Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
— Karl A. Menninger
+ "Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
— H.L. Mencken
+ "When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
+ "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
+ "To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."
— Bill Wilson
22 October 2010
Chapter 257 ~ Defeated
I am so fed up sometimes. Or, sometimes, I can be so fed up. And today, right now, it's to the point of tears. What else remains, but to cry?
Right now, I am just annoyed by the long day I've had. Who knew that the world could be so damn cruel and painful sometimes? Sure, it's beautiful, and I love it because of the people I know and love very much. But there are days like today, in which all I can do is just tell the world to just go to hell, leave me alone and let me cry--and even I can't do THAT!
I don't know... I wish it was so damn easy to do that. But... it's not... and I can't.
You know what? Yes, I'm strange. Yes, I have blue hair with turquoise highlights. Yes, I am a punk girl with a touch of classical music in my veins. Yes, I can be and usually am the strangest, most unusual person you may have ever met or come to know. Yes, I am a girl that has to deal with the pressures and bulls#!t of modern society which is telling me to be this, that, and the other way. Yes, I don't believe that I should have to conform to society by their terms. Yes, I have to deal with people who are ignorant, stupid and obvously can't listen to me no matter how many times I have to explain myself.
So then... why... why? Why can't people just stop being so... so...
Oh hell, I don't even know anymore.
Today, I am fed up with the world. And I am going to go cry myself to sleep--the world is not worthy to see me cry, nor does it deserve to partake in my tears.
Given up for the day...
~ me
Right now, I am just annoyed by the long day I've had. Who knew that the world could be so damn cruel and painful sometimes? Sure, it's beautiful, and I love it because of the people I know and love very much. But there are days like today, in which all I can do is just tell the world to just go to hell, leave me alone and let me cry--and even I can't do THAT!
I don't know... I wish it was so damn easy to do that. But... it's not... and I can't.
You know what? Yes, I'm strange. Yes, I have blue hair with turquoise highlights. Yes, I am a punk girl with a touch of classical music in my veins. Yes, I can be and usually am the strangest, most unusual person you may have ever met or come to know. Yes, I am a girl that has to deal with the pressures and bulls#!t of modern society which is telling me to be this, that, and the other way. Yes, I don't believe that I should have to conform to society by their terms. Yes, I have to deal with people who are ignorant, stupid and obvously can't listen to me no matter how many times I have to explain myself.
So then... why... why? Why can't people just stop being so... so...
Oh hell, I don't even know anymore.
Today, I am fed up with the world. And I am going to go cry myself to sleep--the world is not worthy to see me cry, nor does it deserve to partake in my tears.
Given up for the day...
~ me
19 October 2010
Chapter 256 ~ Time Won't Give Me Time
Today, well... I feel a lot better than I was last Thursday. After purging Siren out of my existence [or as much of it for that matter], now... well, now I'm preparing for a few things going on within this and next week. There is quite a bit going on... I think I know where to start. So bear with me as I recap 'em like it was nothing.
First and foremost, this week my DOK chapter starts a new meeting time at 6 P.M. This is actually a good thing for me because, since I've been opening lately on Fridays, that means I don't have to rush with dinner and getting ready for bedtime. So the new time, 6-7 P.M., goes into effect this Thursday--this was decided and noted at last Thursday's meeting.
Secondly, and speaking of work, my work schedule's back to normal after a rather insane, outrageous workweek last week. And those of y'all who read the blog know of one rather nasty situation that got my blood boiling--actually, two. One of them was concerning Siren; the other was concerning one of my own drive-thru regulars. Last Thursday I dyed my hair turquoise [but it came more like a teal than turquoise--need more blue]; the next day [Friday] said regular looks at me and decides to run his mouth. Now mind, he's one of those old folks that think they can say anything trying to be funny and end up really, REALLY lame--he's also one of those regulars that have ruffled my feathers in a not-so-good way [this wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last either]. So, he opens his mouth last Friday and what does he say?
So I haven't been speaking to him since that all went down. I know I shouldn't be upset over it and yet, I am. Because if you're gonna look at me and just blatantly insult my hair like that, then of course I'm going to give you a dirty look and keep my own mouth shut. I am better off not saying anything to this guy than to just get myself in trouble for being an outspoken punk rock girl. And no, he hasn't apologised, at least not yet anyway. But still... yes, I guess y'all can say that, I've no patience for him right now. I know I need to work on it but, for now... yeah...
Thirdly, I am very excited for Halloween! Yes, I know, it falls on a Sunday this year but, I've got three Halloween festivities to look forward to. The first is Sprocket's friend Terra's party this Saturday [yay!]. Then it's the day BEFORE Halloween, because I get to do the partial dress-up at work--work uniform, plus my Mercury tiara, earrings, back bow to use as front bow with the brooch, choker, and MAYBE gloves. Then Sprocket and I have ANOTHER Halloween party that night. Halloween it's Trunk-or-Treat at Church [which I'm thinking of making an appearance with Sprocket]. And Halloween this year is on a Sunday sooo... yeah. Hence, a LOT of partying. But, I think it'll be a lot of fun. I'm very excited--thinking of taking a good amount of pictures too.
And it is on this memo, that I must end my train of thought for now. I have to be at work in an hour and I haven't jumped in the shower yet sooo, yeah. Time to get going on that note. And, well... I guess one can only hope that today won't be too bad but, I don't know... I mean, I know I've had my high hopes but... yeah. On the other hand, I have a Kids Night Halloween next Tuesday to prepare for. So, who knows...
That noted, I really should post something up in the Lobby about it. Just saying.
Headstrong--even if sometimes, reluctantly...
~ me
First and foremost, this week my DOK chapter starts a new meeting time at 6 P.M. This is actually a good thing for me because, since I've been opening lately on Fridays, that means I don't have to rush with dinner and getting ready for bedtime. So the new time, 6-7 P.M., goes into effect this Thursday--this was decided and noted at last Thursday's meeting.
Secondly, and speaking of work, my work schedule's back to normal after a rather insane, outrageous workweek last week. And those of y'all who read the blog know of one rather nasty situation that got my blood boiling--actually, two. One of them was concerning Siren; the other was concerning one of my own drive-thru regulars. Last Thursday I dyed my hair turquoise [but it came more like a teal than turquoise--need more blue]; the next day [Friday] said regular looks at me and decides to run his mouth. Now mind, he's one of those old folks that think they can say anything trying to be funny and end up really, REALLY lame--he's also one of those regulars that have ruffled my feathers in a not-so-good way [this wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last either]. So, he opens his mouth last Friday and what does he say?
"...your hair's molding! If you wash it with shampoo it'll help with getting it out!"OOH! did my blood boil. WOW.
So I haven't been speaking to him since that all went down. I know I shouldn't be upset over it and yet, I am. Because if you're gonna look at me and just blatantly insult my hair like that, then of course I'm going to give you a dirty look and keep my own mouth shut. I am better off not saying anything to this guy than to just get myself in trouble for being an outspoken punk rock girl. And no, he hasn't apologised, at least not yet anyway. But still... yes, I guess y'all can say that, I've no patience for him right now. I know I need to work on it but, for now... yeah...
Thirdly, I am very excited for Halloween! Yes, I know, it falls on a Sunday this year but, I've got three Halloween festivities to look forward to. The first is Sprocket's friend Terra's party this Saturday [yay!]. Then it's the day BEFORE Halloween, because I get to do the partial dress-up at work--work uniform, plus my Mercury tiara, earrings, back bow to use as front bow with the brooch, choker, and MAYBE gloves. Then Sprocket and I have ANOTHER Halloween party that night. Halloween it's Trunk-or-Treat at Church [which I'm thinking of making an appearance with Sprocket]. And Halloween this year is on a Sunday sooo... yeah. Hence, a LOT of partying. But, I think it'll be a lot of fun. I'm very excited--thinking of taking a good amount of pictures too.
And it is on this memo, that I must end my train of thought for now. I have to be at work in an hour and I haven't jumped in the shower yet sooo, yeah. Time to get going on that note. And, well... I guess one can only hope that today won't be too bad but, I don't know... I mean, I know I've had my high hopes but... yeah. On the other hand, I have a Kids Night Halloween next Tuesday to prepare for. So, who knows...
That noted, I really should post something up in the Lobby about it. Just saying.
Headstrong--even if sometimes, reluctantly...
~ me
15 October 2010
Chapter 255 ~ Words of Wisdom for the Day
[simple truth here, folks. dedicated to those of us who need to remember this. because life isn't easy, and the human race is nowhere near perfect. there will always be people that will do all they can to hurt the good souls.
to those of us good souls, keep on keeping on. <3]
"Do It Anyway."
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
to those of us good souls, keep on keeping on. <3]
"Do It Anyway."
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
14 October 2010
Chapter 254 ~ Not just 'No', but 'HELL NO.'
...no. Not again.
Those of y'all who read the blog regularly, would be asking [I'm sure], The Helen of Troy do you mean by, 'not again'? Well... guess who's started talking s#!t again, folks.
Yep... Siren.
Are any of us surprised? In theory, I shouldn't be. And yet, I am.
Why? Because when we started talking and somewhat getting along again, I didn't think that he'd stoop back to such levels as being a complete a-hole. I should've known better that he'd never grow up, that he'd never change. He's still a jerk. He even so much as insulted my boyfriend Sprocket by calling him my "40-year-old boy toy". [For the record, Sprocket's 33. Nowhere near 40 yet, just for the sake of clarification in case Siren's already started talking any further BS.]
There's that inner part of me that wished he grew up, stopped acting like such an epic idiot. And then there's the smack of reality, when he posts lies like this--on ONE OF MY OWN FACEBOOK STATUSES NO LESS--
So for future reference--and this goes to EVERY StarKnight and every friend of mine reading this--IF, and this is a BIG IF, he's sent any message to any of y'all saying that sort of stuff, please, PLEASE disregard them as lies. At this point, I can't trust him--and neither should any of y'all. He lied to me more than once before, he's lied to me this week, and it wouldn't surprise me if he continued to lie.
Yeah, I know I'm calling him out on this but you know what? I'm tired. I'm tired of being frustrated by his stupidity, and the way he can guage reactions like one from a friend of mine who responded--same status, but just before the 'secrete pictures' post--"This sounds like good porn. How much for a DVD?" And the status originally had NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
Those curious... the status was, - [Sometimes, even the StarKnight Captain must face the tears and brave the darker hours.] - And for those who-all have read the drama go down on FB, you know just how infuriated I am. Not just as Siren for being a you-know-what, but also for that one friend who made the very stupid porn comments. Sprocket threw HIS two cents in and made the inner lightbulb in my brain go off [yes baby, I have seen the light!]:
Personally, I'm thankful I had that real good wake-up from Sprocket. More like a good kick in MY conscience--one that I needed more than I realise. Because, Siren never is going to change. I don't care for him anymore... needless to say, I'm leaving this hopeless cause to God. He's no longer worthy of my concern as of now, because, basically, he never really did change. He has lost all my respect. It's a damn shame that his brother-in-law, Agathangelos [my friend the Good Angel], does NOT know about this.
Or maybe I should have him read this, because he needs to know just what sort of person he's got for a brother-in-law. [And actually, I believe he already knows, because I've told him before about Siren. So if he sees this, then GOOD. Because, he needs to know. I don't know what-all has been said between the two but, if I can shed some light on the matter, all the better.]
...there, I feel a LOT better now. Because I put much out there into the light, because things needed to be exposed. People needed to be called out. This is the StarKnight Captain people should sort-of be afraid of now--the kind that can wreck the most chaotic of revenge possible. The kind that exposes that sort of stuff to other people, to make them aware that, this is what's going on, and this is what will NOT be tolerated.
Hell hath no fury, like a very angry StarKnight Captain...
~ me
Those of y'all who read the blog regularly, would be asking [I'm sure], The Helen of Troy do you mean by, 'not again'? Well... guess who's started talking s#!t again, folks.
Yep... Siren.
Are any of us surprised? In theory, I shouldn't be. And yet, I am.
Why? Because when we started talking and somewhat getting along again, I didn't think that he'd stoop back to such levels as being a complete a-hole. I should've known better that he'd never grow up, that he'd never change. He's still a jerk. He even so much as insulted my boyfriend Sprocket by calling him my "40-year-old boy toy". [For the record, Sprocket's 33. Nowhere near 40 yet, just for the sake of clarification in case Siren's already started talking any further BS.]
There's that inner part of me that wished he grew up, stopped acting like such an epic idiot. And then there's the smack of reality, when he posts lies like this--on ONE OF MY OWN FACEBOOK STATUSES NO LESS--
"lol yo tango secrete pictures from back then lol ninja camera skills ftw"
So for future reference--and this goes to EVERY StarKnight and every friend of mine reading this--IF, and this is a BIG IF, he's sent any message to any of y'all saying that sort of stuff, please, PLEASE disregard them as lies. At this point, I can't trust him--and neither should any of y'all. He lied to me more than once before, he's lied to me this week, and it wouldn't surprise me if he continued to lie.
Yeah, I know I'm calling him out on this but you know what? I'm tired. I'm tired of being frustrated by his stupidity, and the way he can guage reactions like one from a friend of mine who responded--same status, but just before the 'secrete pictures' post--"This sounds like good porn. How much for a DVD?" And the status originally had NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
Those curious... the status was, - [Sometimes, even the StarKnight Captain must face the tears and brave the darker hours.] - And for those who-all have read the drama go down on FB, you know just how infuriated I am. Not just as Siren for being a you-know-what, but also for that one friend who made the very stupid porn comments. Sprocket threw HIS two cents in and made the inner lightbulb in my brain go off [yes baby, I have seen the light!]:
"Wow, this really sounds like some high school shit, for real. The cowboy from the Village People implying he has pictures of some said sexual act with a StarKnight (im assuming it is with said author of this post) or one of the male StarKnights maybe? And you Jennifer maintaining any friendship with someone who would make such a comment, is really stupid, sorry. And playing into this sorry ass bitch's game is equally naive. Sorry. Rather nauseating...."
Personally, I'm thankful I had that real good wake-up from Sprocket. More like a good kick in MY conscience--one that I needed more than I realise. Because, Siren never is going to change. I don't care for him anymore... needless to say, I'm leaving this hopeless cause to God. He's no longer worthy of my concern as of now, because, basically, he never really did change. He has lost all my respect. It's a damn shame that his brother-in-law, Agathangelos [my friend the Good Angel], does NOT know about this.
Or maybe I should have him read this, because he needs to know just what sort of person he's got for a brother-in-law. [And actually, I believe he already knows, because I've told him before about Siren. So if he sees this, then GOOD. Because, he needs to know. I don't know what-all has been said between the two but, if I can shed some light on the matter, all the better.]
...there, I feel a LOT better now. Because I put much out there into the light, because things needed to be exposed. People needed to be called out. This is the StarKnight Captain people should sort-of be afraid of now--the kind that can wreck the most chaotic of revenge possible. The kind that exposes that sort of stuff to other people, to make them aware that, this is what's going on, and this is what will NOT be tolerated.
Hell hath no fury, like a very angry StarKnight Captain...
~ me
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