"Is there anyone who ever remembers changing their mind from the paint on a sign?" John Mayer ~ Belief |
"Is there anyone who ever remembers changing their mind from the paint on a sign?" John Mayer ~ Belief |


I seek Serenity - To myselfTheres something Ive always loved about Islam ever since I learned about it. Its one of their divine laws: taking a trip, at least once in their lives, to Mecca. Normally, I can never appreciate very specific religious rules. One of the things Ive always hated about Christianity (well, Im only talking about what my grandmother used to make me do when I was a little girl) is having to go to church every Sunday.I seek Serenity - To myself
One might say that theyre the same thing; that only distances differ. In a way it is the same, and in a way it isnt. To me, a baptized Christian, going to Mecca would mean more... a


The Quaternary can waitam older than when seas came parting mountain tops and opium was merely air and sky and water...The Quaternary can wait
am older than the eyes of the primal stillborn cat whose lids never regaled horizons with green...
am older than the embers singed by Prometheus and older than Pandora's fabled treasure chest...
am older than the monsters which haunted your grandparents, dear so old that fossils had different names before the glaciers...
am old, and I love being old.
the wrinkles, and dried skin, the short-sighted dream of a time soon to pass...
But, m
| "Why can't you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands, or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us - else what use is love at all? All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. A man's love is like that. It is wider, larger, more human than a woman's. Women think that they are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols merely." ~ Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband) "MORANZONE: Oh, in my time, boy, have I walked i' the moon, Swore I would live on kisses and on blisses, Swore I would die for love, and did not die, Wrote love bad verses; ay, and sung them badly, Like all true lovers. Oh, I have done the tricks! I know the partings and the chamberings; We are all animals at best, and love Is merely a passion with a holy name." ~ Oscar Wilde (The Duchess of Padua) "Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions, to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?" ~ Isaac Asimov (Prelude to Foundation) "No tenia capacidad para las pequeñas turbaciones, para las rencores mezquinas, las envidias disimuladas, las obras de caridad, los cariños desteñidos, la cortesía amable o las consideraciones cotidianas. Era uno de esos seres nacidos para la grandeza de un solo amor, para el odio exagerado, para la venganza apocaliptica y para el heroísmo más sublime." ~ Isabel Allende (La casa de los espiritus) "Genesis is a great lie; but it is also a great poem; and a six-thousand-year-old womb is much warmer than one that stretches for two thousand million." ~ John Fowles (The French Lieutenant's Woman) |
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
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For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers.
- John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. (Anais Nin)
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