Posted by: libera poetante
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Being wise in life helps, but I'm made in my own way...
there's nothing to do.
"What you are moment after moment" said Brandy "is only history".
Everyone says the brain is the most complex organ of the human body, as a doctor I agree. But as a woman I assure you that there's nothing of more complex than the heart, even today we aren't certain of its mechanisms. In the brain's reasoning there's a logic, in the heart's reasoning there's feelings.
Before dying, though, I want to fight for life. If I'm able to walk alone, I can go where I want to.
Fearing to live is often greater than fearing to die.
Love life as it is
love it fully, without expectations.
Love it when they love you or hate you.
Love it when no one understands you,
or when everyone understands you.
Love it when everyone abandones you,
or when they exalt you like a king.
Love it when they steal everything from you,
or when they give it.
Love it when it makes sense
or when it seems to have none at all.
Love it in the fullest of joy,
or in complete solitude.
Love it whe you're strong,
or when you feel weak.
Love it when you're afraid,
or when you've tons of courage.
Love it not only for the great pleasures
and enormous satisfactions;
love it for the small joys.
Love it even if doesn't give you what it could,
love it if it's not as you want it.
Love it everytime you're born
and everytime you're about to die.
Never love without love.
Never live without life!
There are wounds that time cannot heal, but that make things so small to let us, in the end, continue living.
I believe that being an adult is an extremely hard task. It's a lot worse than university exams, because there is no preparation. No one tells you that one day, towards your twenties, everyone will expect you to be different. To be an adult. With responsibilities such as bills and mortgages and decisions to take. There is only another thing harder than being an adult: being a single adult.
I know that I shouldn't say it. I have read a sufficient number of deceiving girly magazines to understand that, as a woman in the nineties, i should be, by definition, perfectly at ease with myself, completely indipendent; autonomous in every sphere of life, even in carpentry work; satisfied by my career and never short on doe; capable of tackling criticism; always please to better my spiritual growth.
It's all a load of crap. In the last six months I have felt like the fat kid that no one wants on their group. Or, if I got into the group, the men I met made me want to run, as fast as I could, in the opposite direction. It shouldn't be important but it is. Because since you're the age of two you know that playing alone is stupid. It doesn't work. It's boring.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.