Currently Reading I Love You Rituals By Becky A. Bailey see related

Quotes, Quotes, Quotes.... I collect quotes. My sources includes forwarded text messages to me, notebooks, sometimes I got 'em from cards. Read 'em, ponder as well

taken from STI's 2005 Calendar

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where ther is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." -Jimmy Carter

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." - Orison Swett Marden

"There's one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelbo's 'The Alchemist'

"Defeat is not the worst of failure. Not ti have tried is the true failure." - George E. Woddberry

""Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." -Aristotle

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley

about LOVE...

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by only one person.

When you fall in love don't give everything without leaving something for yourself... someday, somehow it would be to late for you to realized that you've given all for the wrong one without saving something for the right one...

Love has its own time, its own season, its own reasons for coming and going. you cannot bribe it or coaxit into staying. Youcan only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Don't let doubts lose the magic of love because its not everyday that you meet the person who has the magic to make you fall in love.

Love has its twists and turns, it leaves you in pain, but teaches you learn. Even if it takes you to wait for so long, love will always take you where you belong...

When you love, do it with your heart. When you think, do it with your mind... and when you make a decision, do it with both heart and mind ... and you'll never go wrong.

Never say goodbye when you still want to try. Never give up when you still feel you can take it. Never say you don't love a person when you can't let go.

If you love someone, never let go! Don't believe that letting go means you love best. Instead, fight for your love! That's what TRUE love is!

While waiting for the right person to come, play and have fun with the wrong ones. But be careful with who you play with, coz that person might be the right one all along!

You deserve to be happy not in the arms of someone who keeps you waiting but in the arms of someone who will take you now, love you forever and leave you never!

Don't overuse your heart trying to look for someone you think you deserve, you should save the best part of you for the person who deserves you and deserved to be loved!

Love hurts when you break up with someone, it hurts even more when someone breaks up with you, but love hurts most when the person you love has no idea on how you feel...

What's sad about loving somebody is when you're not good enough because somebody else still occupies his mind and heart and you know you can't compete... EVEN A BIT!

Once you loved the person truly, you won't ever-ever lose that love to that person. But if you think you lost that love coz of hurt and pain... maybe you hadn't truly love the person at all.

I know I have a heart coz its breaking.

We can not beg someone to stay when he/she wants to live and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us liscense to own a person.

If love becomes painful and joyless, its time to let tjat love go and save yourself. You will find another love but not another self.

Love doesn't hurt all the time. The hurting is there to test you and help you grow.

about WOMAN...

A woman's charm isn't seen in her face, it is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, compassion that she shows.

It is the heart that makes a woman pretty. She is beautiful according to what she is, not according to what she has.

Creation of Woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him, Nor out his feet to be trampled upon by him; But out of his side to be equal with him, under hisarm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.

GIRLS are like fireworks, their kiss lights up the night, their hugs make everything bright, when  they get mad they explode, and when they're happy they make everything glow.

If a woman has much to say, her silence can be deafining. -ANNA and THE PRINCE

about MUSIC...

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -AVERBACH

Music is well said to be the speech of angles. -CARTYLE

Music is the soul and lifts it high and wings it with sublime desires and fits it to bespeak the Dexty. -ADDISON

Yea, music is the prophet art, among the gifts that God hath sent, one of the magnificent. -LONG FELLOW

Music is the fourth material wants to our nature, first food, the rainest, then shelter, then music. -BOWEE

The highest graces of music flow from the feelings of the heart. -EMMONS

and MORE...

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -VINCE LOMBARDI

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. -DR. ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all. -UNKNOWN

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A kind heart is a foundation of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -WASHINTON IRVING

It's funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it. -W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Moral character is assessed not what a man knows, but by what he loves. -AGUSTINE

Pick battles big enough to matter, yet small enough to win. -THOMAS JEFFERSON

okay, that's all for now.... i'll add more quotes as soon i can collect.

These are my collection of love poems since I was in high school. These poems are not downloaded nor copied in any websites. Just enjoy and fall in love...

Sweetheart

A sweetheart is someone
You could write a book about
The one you love to be with
And hate to be without.

A sweetheart is a knowing book
A hand within your own
The voice you always want to hear
When you pick up the phone

A sweetheart understands your moods
And laugh at things you say
Or sees you when you're at your worst
But loves you anyway.

A sweetheart is the one you kiss
And make-up with again
When there's a difference
Of opinion now and then.

A sweetheart is the one
That your always thinking of
And the very special reason
Why you know that you're in love.

Loving and Losing

So, you love someone but he doesn't know it
And you're longing to tell him but you're afraid and shy
Will you just stay away and love him from a distance secretly and perhaps painfully?

Get the feeling off your chest that's what you'll do.
Go to him and tell him exactly what's inside you
Forget your foolish pride and don't regret it afterwards.
There's nothing wrong and ugly and undignified about it.
Loving is such a noble and wonderful thing to do
And falling in love is the greatest gift you give to yourself
Say it now and don't let your golden chances go by
Else he'll slip away and be gone and you'll never know that he loved you too
Look, everybody's getting a lover
Don't you also have the right to have one?
God created us not as individuals but in pairs.
He'll give a fair share if you deserve it.

But what if your love gets turned down?
Should you hide your face and cry?
Don't friend, congratulate yourself instead
Because you've done your part well
Tomorrow you're probabaly fall in love again
Bid goodbye to fears and say hello to laughter
It's better to have love lost
Than never to have loved at all
Yes, its so loosely (and it hurts) to lose.
But I think it's lonelier to sit all your life
And wait for love to stay.
It may never come at all.

Valour

by: Jonie-Ann H. Tabilog

They keep on yakking ang bugging our heads
That they view the farthest and knew the best
They say what they think but what can they know?
None of their words could make me let go.

They say it's wrong, to love you is a mistake
That a relationship like ours the world cannot take
I don't care about the world, I'll heed their words instead
If to love you is really wrong, I don't want to be corrected.

They say there is time, I'd find someone new
They just can't see there's no one like you
They told me to look around, there's something better
But I've got the best why would I bother?

They say it's crazy, what I feel can't be love
But how can they tell they don't know enough
They say I'm stupid, I can't be meant for you
When would they know I can't live without you?

They can say what they want, but I'll hold tight
I will never give up, not in this fight
No matter what happens we will stay together
There is no need to worry we have each other

Currently Reading The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard see related

The Little Prince is one of my favorite paperbacks I've read when I was in high school. So when I read this poem from the compilation of Kuwaderno, I was able to ponder and connected with it. Below is the poem about the Little Prince.

Ode to The Little Prince

I am the pilot
Stranded in Sahara
Out of nowhere
You appeared.
You- fragile
Inexplicably naive
Little boyYet so discerning.
Your acumen
Flows freely into space
Uninhibited
You talked nothing
But the world
You never knew of.
You treasure
The trivial feats
You learn and
Thirst for more
I thought I am
A grown-up.
Realized by immaturity
With the radiance
Of your ignorance.
How I love your innocence!

Then,
You occupied me
With your sweet laugh
That rings like
Little bells in the night.
You tamed my heart
That kept on waiting
To hear you
Laugh again.

Soon I forgot you
Just passed by the Earth...
You want to leave
For your planet
You nurtured and tended
Awaits you now...

Please take me
And let me be
The rose you kept
Under the glass globe.
Let me coax you
With my beauty,
Torment you
With my vanity.
Let me cast my
Fragrance on you.
And no,
You care never too young
To know how to
Love me back!

I do not want
The account to end
For I do not want wish
To sit under the stars
You left for me
And wait for your return.

I want to go home with you,
And together we will watch
The sunset -
The 44 sunsets you
See everyday

And you will never
Have to be sad again
Watching them...

Currently Reading The Gift Of Acabar By OG MANDINO see related

CREDENDA

ABOUT: Credenda is an excerpt from the book I read when I'm still in high school. The book's title is The Gift of Acabar by Og Mandino and Buddy Kaye. Acabar is a star, and his gift to the people is the Credenda which is posted here. Hope you'll find time to read and ponder on it.

Turn away from the crowd and its fruitless pursuit of fame and gold.  Never look backas you close your door tumult of greed and ambition.  Wipe away your tears of failure and misfortune. Lay aside your heavy load and rest until your heart is still. BE AT PEACE. Already it is later than you think, for your earthly life, at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

BE UNAFRAID. Nothing here can harm you except yourself. Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with joy and pride. CONCENTRATE YOUR ENERGY. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

BE JEALOUS AT YOUR TIME. Since it is your greatest treasure.

RECONSIDER YOUR GOALS. Before you set your heart too much of anything, examine how happy they are who already possess what you desire.

LOVE YOUR FAMILY AND COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS. Reflect on how eagerly they would be sought if you did not have them. Put aside your impossible dreams and complete the tasks at hand no matter how distasteful. All great achievements come from working and waiting.

BE PATIENT. God's delays are God's denials. HOLD ON. Hold FAST. Know that your paymaster is always near. What you sow, good or evil, that you reap. Never blame your condition on others. You are what you are through your choice alone. LEARN TO LIVE WITH HONEST POVERTY, if you must, and turn to more important matters than transporting gold to your grave.

Never meet trouble halfway. ANXIETY IS THE RUST OF LIFE; when you add tomorrow's burden to today's, their weight becomes unbearable. AVOID THE MOURNER'S BENCH AND GIVE THANKS, instead for your defeats. You would not receive them if you did not need them. Always learn from others. He who teaches himself has a fool for a master.

BE CAREFUL. Do not overload your comscience. Conduct your life as if it were spent in an arena filled with tattlers. AVOID BOASTING. If you see something in you that puffs you with pride, look closer and you will see more than  enough to make you humble.

BE WISE. Realize that all men are not created equal, for there is no equality in nature, yet no man was ever born whose work was not born with him. Work every day as if they will all end at midnight. LOVE EVERYONE, EVEN THOSE WHO DENY YOU, FOR HATE IS A LUXURY YOU CANNOT AFFORD.

SEEK OUT THOSE IN NEED. Learn that he who delivers with one hand will always gather with two. BE OF GOOD CHEER. Above all, remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

LOOK UP. REACH OUT. CLING SIMPLY TO GOD and journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity and a smile. When you depard it will be said by all that your legacy was a better word than one you found.

POEMS

written by

Peter John Villion

Love, if I weep it will not matter,
And if you laugh I shall not care;
Foolish am I to think about it,
But it is good to feel you there.

Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking,
White and awful the moonlight reached
Over the floor, and somewhere, somewhere
There was a shutter loose – it screeched!

Swung in the wind – and no wind blowing –
I was afraid and turned to you
Put out my hand to you for comfort –
And you were gone! Cold as the dew.

Under the hand the moonlight lay.
Love, if you laughed I shall not care;
But if I weep it will not matter –
Ah, it is good to feel you there.

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another’s being mingle; -
Why not I with thine?

See! The mountains kiss the high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another,
No sister flower would be forgiven;
As if disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea; -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

Pain

Once I've loved and cried,
Was left without telling why
Flowers wither and trees died
And so did my trust and pride.

Never again shall I love,
Even look at women's smile
For they will only stab at your heart
With a dagger from their
Treacherous hearts

All is fair in love they say
Such it is in fairytales
But fate seems to be unfair
For the mistress of my love is PAIN

Memories or Dreams

Age has narrowed my choices and forced
Changes in my ways, so I invent a past
Never really lived and envision a future
That exists only in my secret dreams.

No sorrow have I for the ways of my youth
Just said the choices are no longer the same.
For in truth this is one shame of aging,
Living now as I must, not as I choose.

Caught between two worlds, the life I’ve lived,
And the life of dreams that I wish were real,
Now I live the way I had chosen because
The body can no longer do the mind’s dreams.

And so I live with memories I never had. Why?
Youth was spent imagining someday futures.
But I awoke to find the future was today
And I had only thoughts, hopes, and dreams.

I am older with some dreams left behind,
But still I think of ways to give myself the
Youth I never lived; thus, I have found another
Sorrow of age – living dreams I never had.

If care is not taken, unreal memories
Are given life. Frequently I wish that
Some dreams had been real so today I could
Relive memories instead of unlived dreams.

History slightly rewritten but without harm;
A snip here, a tuck here and what was small
Becomes large and what was undone – done.
A few liberties taken to enhance the past.

But isn’t this the privilege of gaining age:
Mixing dreams and memories as if both were
The same, and adlibbing the truth to excite
All who listen even if no one else believes?

Deep inside I know things were
Not as I recount, nor were deeds
Quite as brave as I like to remember.
But are they memories or dreams?