on abc2

today is the tomorrow you expected yesterday
- shaun tan, the lost thing -

and so it starts...

it's never too late to be what you might have been
- george eliot -

perchance to dream

all people dream but not equally. those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
- te lawrence -

remember, decide to be happy

most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- abraham lincoln -

who'da thought it

one cannot have too large a party
-jane austen-

jane, a party animal??

love this poet

listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go!
- ee cummings -

from horace, a roman poet

seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

by emily dickinson

find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough

ralph waldo emerson

the only true gift is a portion of thyself.

i concur!

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

what are you thank-full for?

EVERYTHING!!!

acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance - eckhart tolle.

dreams and destiny

"The boy didn't know what a person's "destiny" was. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realise their destiny".
one of my favourite books, the alchemist by paulo coelho.

last of the pages....

technically from austen's pride and prejudice (but i noted it in pride and prejudice and zombies):

"i cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. it is too long ago. i was in the middle before i knew that i had begun."

some days

like today for example. i wish i were working outside again. not because it's a particularly gorgeous day out, just that it's not especially fun in. now i'm not wishing to do what i used too - never in a million years, but sometimes a little variation would be a grand thing.

a quote by john cage:
it is not irritating to be where one is. it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

yeah okay, fine.

a monday kind of tuesday

...Raindrops long as knitting needles speared from the sky.
- sonya hartnett - the ghost's child

the heart

...the world changes when something in it is loved. words become feeble. colours glow. every moment vibrates in the possible importance. and the heart that loves wonders how it lived, in the past, without loving - and how it will live now, now that it loves. 

- sonya hartnett - the ghost's child

100's and

a thousand long nights deep
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

a thousand kisses deep
- Leonard Cohen -

a good book!

You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotise you, the lovers you have always dreamed of.
~Antonio Nunoz Molina, The Power of the Pen~