Monday, November 8, 2010

Excerpt From Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres

"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your root was so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion that is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two."

Just a reading from a wedding I attended this weekend that I really liked.
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A Collection of My Favorite Quotes

"Time and circumstances will always change things. Your heart and your mind will know when it's right!"

"Be happy for this moment, THIS moment is your life!"

"Never doubt that a small group of determined and thoughtful people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"
~Margaret Mead

"Wait long enough and people will eventually surprise and shock you!"

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted!"

"We are the change we have been waiting for!"
~Barack Obama

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
~Ganhdi

"Finnish today and be done with it. You have done what you can. I am sure some blunders and absurdities have crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day!"
~Emerson

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized any way. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
~Eleanor Roosevelt


"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
~Groucho Marx

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
~Albert Einstein

"Live and life will follow..."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~Winston Churchill

"They say they built the train tracks over the Alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that could make the trip, they built it any way, they knew one day the train would come." ~Under the Tuscan Sun

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."

-1st Corinthians 13:4-7

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."

-Ben Franklin

"No eye has seen, no ear had heard, no mind has ever conceived what God has prepared for those who love him."

-1st Corinthians 2:9-10

"Always wear cute P.J.’s to bed because you never know who you’ll meet in your dreams."

"Remember that life isn’t about the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away."

"I believe miracles are like falling in love you never believe it can happen until it happens to you!"

"Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faith full in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality."

-Romans 12:9-13

“Yes, you may get the easy way out and never have to feel the hurt or emptiness, but you will also miss out on the magic of love and the healing in a hug and the fireworks in a kiss!"

"Love is like war: Easy to begin and hard to end"

"Do no regret growing older, it is a privilege denied to many!"

"Every girls prince will come, mine just took a wrong turn got lost and is too stubborn to ask for directions!"

"Dreams are not perfect they come true not free."

"The greater the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

-Thomas Paine

"You get so alone at times that it just makes sense."

“Life was great, first I fooled around then I screwed around. Wanna know the difference, the difference between fooling around and screwing around is, screwing around is fooling around with out dinner!"

-Roxie Heart

"The very moment you say I can’t handle anymore is the time when God gives you more to handle so just keep your mouth shut and deal with it!"

"True love can not be found where it truly does not exist and can not be hidden where it does."




 

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