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My daily aphorisms. Reflections on life, death, beauty, change, love, happiness, etc., written in a poetic and whimsical style.
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- When in doubt, leap. One needs a little courage t...
- Include the unexpected in your plans.
- When your burden gets too heavy to carry, you lear...
- Where would you be if you left all your troubles b...
- If you don't play the game, you don't have to foll...
- When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it ...
- You have to let the balloon go if you want to see ...
- Summer taught me joy; winter, resignationSummer-th...
- Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to f...
- Words make known. But we live in the unknown.
- The mouse that fears the trap has already been tra...
- We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
- What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle sti...
- All roads lead to happiness, if happiness is the r...
- If you're glad to be alive the rest doesn't matter.
- There is music you never hear unless you play it y...
- No river could flow if it had to know its destinat...
- I like both: unicorns and horses.
- The sea will wash away our footprints but not the ...
- I have a bad memory. Every day seems new to me.
- Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
- Rain is the picnic when it rains.
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We should so much apply this sentence in our lives, with our family, kids, friends, lovers. I love it!
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me a nature quote:
ReplyDelete"The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Always keen words to live by, thank you Marty for reminding me, cheers! :-)
ReplyDeleteLove is something we should all appreciate. Great idea. http://thejoyofjesuschurchonline.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteSo simple yet so profound...
ReplyDeleteI am reminded always of your big heart and the vast reaches of your soul. You are like an anchor in an angry sea.
ReplyDeleteSo true! And unfortunately so many people obsessed with possession...
ReplyDeleteI have read somewhere: "Possessiveness is of the ego, which is limitless in it's desire to control people and own things"
ReplyDeleteand another one that touches my heart! wow!
ReplyDelete!!!:-)
ReplyDeleteTherefore I own this post. cheers
ReplyDeleteHmmm... can you send this to my (soon-to-be-ex) husband?
ReplyDeletewhat a nice post, it is clear that we shouldn't try to posses anything in our life, but act like we care for that person or animal, and the feelings will always be return.
ReplyDeleteThoughts of a Career Woman
Wonderful ...The beauty Appreciation...
ReplyDeleteLove this...thank you.
ReplyDeleteI often think about that with my home. Even though we own it, we're really just leasing it, so it never really feels like ours.
ReplyDeleteBut when it's a quiet morning and I look out at the yard and take it all in, then I really love it.
Marty, as an art lover, when I first saw this my mind immediately jumped to all of those celebrities and other rich folks who have art collections put together for them by someone else, without really understanding what they are buying. Possession is just a means of control, and while it may lead to appreciation, the best things in life are those we truly feel in our bones.
ReplyDeleteSo many people have nothing at all.
ReplyDeleteJust a couple of words but so powerful
ReplyDeletethank you for those words.
You may be able to own things but you can never really own a person, even kids grow up and leave home in the end.
ReplyDeleteThat's how I feel every time I visit the mountains!
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