Sunday, May 31, 2009

Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing to be sentimental.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failure.
But risk we must, because the greatest hazard in life
is to risk nothing.
The man, the woman, who risks nothing does nothing,
has nothing, is nothing.

(Anonymous)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

more quotes

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. 

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

Interdependence

“We must be our own before we can be another's.” -emerson

Finish each day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Emerson

Friends

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.' -unknown