if you are right, the sun sets. if you are wrong, the sun still sets. you can choose to let go of being right and see how you feel. - s m alexander / whatmadeyouhappytoday
Full Moon Names The month of June's full Moon's name is the Full Strawberry Moon. June's Full Strawberry Moon got its name because the Algonquin tribes knew it as a signal to gather ripening fruit. It was often known as the Full Rose Moon in Europe (where strawberries aren't native).
What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other. -Virginia Woolf
when you find yourself in tears, consider a life where you never cried, a life where your lid was screwed on so tightly you never let sorrow out. that same seal would never be loose enough for joy or love to enter. regret not your tears my friend. - s m alexander
life can be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short - t hobbes; but if i can find 5 seconds of beauty, amid all of that, then i have a reason to stay. - s alexander
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” ―Vaclav Havel
“It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary.” ―Malcolm X
“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.” ― Hāfez
It Felt Love How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. from "The Gift" (poems by Hafiz)
a haiku on the decline of the english language... wink emoticon jonathan swift wrote: english was doom'ed, thanks to new contractions.... lol. - s m alexander
two wings, a violin, and so many things, incalculable things, things without names, a licence for a large slow-moving eye, the inscription on the nails of the almond tree, the titles of the grass in the morning -neruda