And I believe we are destiny
Bound to survive against all odds
And when the truth flys
I will come
Out beyond this barren surround
A crime without a song
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my life
Out towards the sun.
Sometimes I lie awake
I dream of everyone
Who walk the path I take
And ran beneath the sun.
And I believe it's my destiny
Bound to survive against all adds
And when the truth flys
I will come
Out beyond this barren surround
A crime without a song
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my eyes
Out towards the sun.
And I believe we are destiny
Bound to survive against all adds
And when the truth flys
I will follow
Out beyond this last of unknown
A crime without a song
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my eyes
Into the sun."
"When I was nine, I learned survival
Taught myself not to care.
I had my secret, good companions
Taking my comfort there.
Up in my room, I planned my conquests
On my own, never asked for a helping hand
No one would understand.
I never asked the pair who fought below.
Just in case they said no.
Pity the child who has ambition,
Knows what he wants to do.
Knows that he'll never fit the system
Others expect him to.
Pity the child who knew his parents
Saw the faults, saw the love die before his eyes.
Pity the child that wise.
He never asks did I cause your distress.
Just in case they said yes."
-From "Chess"-
"You don't bring me anything but down."
--Singer Sheryl Crow--
"Better Smeg than Dead!"
--tv series "Red Dwarf"
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight,
It is the size of the fight in the dog."
---Archie Griffin--
"It is not how hard you push along the way,
It is having something in you to finish."
--Michael Jordan--
"You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join me,
And the world will live as one."
"All we are saying...is give peace a chance."
--John Lennon--
"Sometimes we need to spin our wheels. It helps us get unstuck."
From "Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul," (c) 1996 by Melody Beattie
No one else can give us free time but ourselves. It is
during the quiet, reflective moments that we gain clarity
and receive answers to life's challenging problems.
Self-nurturance can include listening to soft music,
walking barefoot in the rain, reading inspirational
materials, meditating in a quiet place, or doing something
we enjoy very much that we haven't done in a long time.
Be good to yourself...
--B. Robinson & J. McCullers
"I am in that temper that if I were under water
I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
-John Keats
~ The Ship That Sails ~
I'd rather be the ship that sails
And rides the billows wild and free;
Than to be the ship that always fails
To leave its port and go to sea.
I'd rather feel the sting of strife,
Where gales are born and tempests roar;
Than settle down to useless life
And rot in dry dock on the shore.
I'd rather fight some mighty wave
With honor in supreme command;
And fill at last a well-earned grave,
Than die in ease upon the sand.
I'd rather drive where sea storms blow,
And be the ship that always failed
To make the ports where it would go,
Than be the ship that never sailed.
~ Author Unknown ~
"Tristan, I'll wait for you...I'll wait forever."
"Forever turned out to be too long"
"I know."
-Legends of the Fall-;Tristan & Suzanna
"Either those drapes go... or I do!"
Oscar Wildes dying words.
"These moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
from the movie _Blade Runner_
"Love...
It makes you so vulnerable.
It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses.
You build up this whole armour, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
Love takes hostages.
It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
It hurts.
Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.
Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.
I hate love."
By writer/comicbook artist Neil Gaiman
"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in,
the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the
more you have left when anything happens."
- Ethel Barrymore
"I have as much rage as you have
I have as much pain as you do
I've lived as much hell as you have
And i've kept mine bubbling under for you
You were my best friend
You were my lover
You were my mentor
You were my brother
You were my partner
You were my teacher
You were my very own sympathetic character
You were my keeper
You were my anchor
You were my family
You were my savior
And therein lies the issue
And therein lies the problem"
-"Sympathetic Character"; Alanis Morissette-
"Sweetest love, I do not go"
by John Donne
"Sweetest love, I do not go,
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me;
But since that I
Must die at last, 'tis best
To use myself in jest
Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today;
He hath no desire nor sense,
Nor half so short a way:
Then fear not me,
But believe that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
More wings and spurs than he.
O how feeble is man's power,
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall!
But come bad chance,
And we join to'it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
Itself o'er us to'advance.
When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind,
But sigh'st my soul away;
When thou weep'st, unkindly kind,
My life's blood doth decay.
It cannot be
That thou lov'st me, as thou say'st,
If in thine my life thou waste,
That art the best of me.
Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill;
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfill;
But think that we
Are but turn'd aside to sleep;
They who one another keep
Alive, ne'er parted be.
I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
so unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it! Such
A day of days! I let it come and go
as traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand!
Did one but know.
~D.H.Lawrence, "The First Day by Christina Rossetti"
"This is courage in a man:
to bear unflinchingly
what heaven sends."
~Euripides~
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures."
~Henry Ward Beecher~
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused."
~Anonymous~
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the
most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are
those who try to tell them the truth."
attrib. to H. L. Mencken
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. "
French Proverb
"A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an
"intellectual",find out how he feels about astrology."
Robert Heinlein
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom;
the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glo-worm."
--Winston Churchill
"Twice or thrice I loved thee
Before I knew thy face or name
So in a voice, so in shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft , and worshipped be."
--John Donne "Air and Angels"
"We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we
differ,than to love one another on points which we agree."
~Unknown~
"Love lives on hope,
and dies when hope is dead;
It is a flame which sinks
for lack of fuel."
~Pierre Corneille~
"I have always made a distinction between my friends and my confidants.
I enjoy the conversation of the former; from the later I hide nothing."
-Edith Plaf
"It may be a fire, but you gotta get it into your heart."
John Lodge
"One who asks a question is fool for 5 minutes.
One who doesn't ask a question is a fool for life."
-Confucious-
"Good Lord, only a moment of bliss?
Isn't such a moment sufficient for
the whole of a man's life?"
"If I ran away
I'd never have the strenght
To run very far.
How would they hear
The beating of my heart
Will it grow cold
The secrets that I hide
Will it grow old
How will hear
When will learn
How will they know."
"It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if
a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the
moment it strikes him/her that they have taken
an immortal wound-that they will never get over.
That is to say, permanence in poetry, as in love,
is perceived instantly. It hasn't to await the test
of time. The Proof if a poem is not that we have
never forgotten it, but we knew at sight we never
could forget it."
"Life's a dance you learn as you go...sometimes you lead,
sometimes you follow, don't worry bout what you don't
know...Life's a dance you learn as you go."
-John Michael Montgomery-
"Germany has declared war on the Jones Boys!"
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade-
"I hear a distant drumbeat
A heartbeat pulsing low
Is it coming from within
A heartbeat I don't know
A troubled heart knows no peace
A dark and poisoned pool
Of liberty now lost
A pawn an oppressors tool."
-Loreena McKennitt, from the album "Parallel Dreams"-
"For we, which now behold these present days
Have eyes to wander, but lack tongues to praise."
-William Shakespeare-
"Does then the Bard sleep here indeed?
Or is it but a groundless creed?
What matters it?
I blame them not
Whose fancy in this lonely spot."
-Wm. Wordsworth-
"Grow old with me!
The best is yet to be
The last of life, for which the first was made
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned"
Youth shows but half; trust God
See all, nor be afraid."
-Robert Browning, "Grow Old With Me"-
You know you are a Mac Addict when:
1. You use your Power LED as night light.
2. Your doorbell makes the Wild Eep sound.
3. You bite into a McIntosh Apple, think it's not
any good and think, "It must be a Performa."
4. You code name your children before they are born.
5. Your yearbook quote is, "Think Different."
6. You refer to country singer as Reba Macintosh.
--All from recent issues of MacAddict Magazine.--
" ...I walked outside and sat down on a large rock, then opened the Manuscript.
It echoed exactly the words of Father Sanchez and Father Carl.
Clearning the past was a precise proces of becoming aware or our individual ways of controlling learned in childhood.
And once we could transcend this habit, it said, we would find our higher selves, our evolutionary identities."
-the revelation of the 6th Insight, from the book "CELESTINE PROPHECY",
by James Redfield-
"Expect the unexpected Watson!"
-Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson-
"The Truth is out there Mulder,
You just need to know where to look."
-Agent Dana Scully to partner Agent Fox Mulder, "The X-Files"
"IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!"
-Ben Grimm, from the Fantastic Four-
"Dear George,
Remember, no man is a failure
who has friends.
Thanks for the wings!
Love,
Clarence"
-Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life"-
"It's good to see you Nathan, its been a long time."
"How can you miss someone, you're a machine?"
"I may not be the professor, but I remember the emotion."
-Capt.Nathan Bridger to hologram image of mentor, "SeaQuest DSV"-
Capricorn: December 22nd to
January 20th
"Patient and Practical, Capricornians can also
be pessimistic. But positive think, plus an offbeat
sense of humor, brightens their outlook. They
usually keep their emotions under control and can be
people of few words. What they do say, however, they
mean. Sun sign Capricorns generally have a complex character."
-"Capricorn", by Julia and Derek Parker-
"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of
the world are an alluring mirage. Like the apparent
distances in a picture, things have no reality in
themselves but are like heat haze."
"And maybe you would rather choose not to believe it
Maybe you'll just hide your eyes
But the truth has a strange way revealing
And MY heart won't pay the price."
--John Tesh/Diana DeWitt "You Break It" from the album "GARDEN CITY"--
Dear daughter, I can remember
How fragile and small you once were.
It doesn?t seem that long ago,
Yet you?re grown now and on your own.
Dear daughter, do you remember
How we laughed and sometimes cried?
How I wish that we could just return
To those much, much simpler times.
REFRAIN:
Dear daughter, today?s your wedding day
And I wish that somehow, someway
We could turn back the clock and mend the break
So I could be a part of your special day.
Dear daughter, if only you could understand
How hard it was to take a stand
To break the ties, to change my life
And leave the man you have always called Dad.
Dear daughter, I?ll never forget your words
You were so angry that terrible day.
You shouted, you cried, you demanded of me,
Please, Mom, please, just stay away.
REFRAIN:
Dear daughter, today?s your wedding day
And I wish that somehow, someway
We could turn back the clock and mend the break,
So I could be a part of your special day.
Dear daughter, today I?m praying for you
As you say those precious vows.
I?ll remember the small and fragile one,
And always love the young woman you?ve become.
REFRAIN:
Dear daughter, today?s your wedding day
And I wish that somehow, someway?
More coming soon..............
I'd like to hear from you.................
joelknudsen@hotmail.com
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