random quote- suffer to love

“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

-Chuck Palahniuk

random quote: hunger's friend

beef stew
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“Hunger knows no friend
but its feeder.”
-Aristophanes

quote: evil & happiness

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

random quote: thinking vs action to overcome

“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”

- W. Clement Stone

random quote: dreaming and living

"Dream as if you'll live forever,
live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean

random quote: creativity and art

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.

Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

-Scott Adams

random quote: wanting

"We fear the thing
we want the most."

random quote: proverbs

“A hope deferred makes the heart sick,

a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

-Proverbs 13:12

random quote: live. and live well.

" Live. And Live Well.

BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply.

Be PRESENT. Do
not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day,
roll down the windows and

FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of
the sun.

If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to

FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.

Get knee-deep in a novel
and LOSE track of time.

If you bike, pedal HARDER and if you crash then crash
well.

Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done-a paper well-written, a project
thoroughly completed, a play well-performed.

If you must wipe the snot from your
3-year old's nose, don't be disgusted if the Kleenex didn't catch it all

because soon he'll be wiping his own.

If you've recently experienced loss, then
GRIEVE. And Grieve well.

At the table with friends and family, LAUGH.

If you're
eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke.

And if you eat, then SMELL.

The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on
the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven.

And TASTE.

Taste every ounce of flavor.

Taste every ounce of friendship.

Taste every ounce of Life.

Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift."


- Kyle Lake, "Sermon"

random quote: shadows

"Never fear
shadows.

They simply mean
there is a light shining
somewhere nearby."

random quote: tears

"Tears are words
the heart cannot express."

random quote: size of dreams

"DREAM NO SMALL DREAMS

FOR THEY HAVE NO POWER TO

MOVE THE HEARTS OF MEN."

(aka. Always dream BIG!)

random quote: something to dance for

“We dance for laughter,
we dance for tears,
we dance for madness,
we dance for fears,
we dance for hopes,
we dance for screams,
we are the dancers,
we create the dreams.”

-anonymous

-lilxerica

random quote: risking and love

“To love is to risk
not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure,
but risk must be taken
because the greatest hazard in life is to
risk nothing.”

random quote: where in friendship one should walk

If you value friendship like another person does, take the time to read one of my favorite quotes pertaining to the subject of friendship. It's quite accurate.

Don't walk in front of me,

I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me,

I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and

be my friend.

- Albert Camus