I want to Purchase these! Any idea where i can find them??

“I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians; they are nothing like your Christ.”

-Ghandi

HATE

One of the basic principles of our country is that we are paying taxes to empower the government to provide services, and protect our freedom. By banning gay marriage, the states of California, Arizona, Alabama and Florida have made an open statement that not everyone is equal!

-Unknown

The One.

What I have to tell you that you won’t hear anyway? You get more than one chance to love something – unreservedly, unabashedly, utterly – but you’re stuck in this antiquated convention that there is only one true person. Open your eyes. We are all imperfect parts with which to make perfect machines. People don’t shake your hand and see your soul; they shake it and see your perceptions, your façade, and you can make it any shape you want. Make it fit and you will find love, no matter where or how many times you need to.

Changes

There are periods in your life where you start to let something go – a friendship, a relationship, a vivid memory – something that you’ve clutched for so long because you didn’t know how life could go on without it. And then the world changes and distracts you, a moment here, a few minutes there, until this intangible idol gets set down for a minute while you take care of something, then looked after once or twice a day, and so forth, until you realize that its leaving you forever, slowly fading from your grasp, no matter how beautiful the thing, all you can do is watch it disappear. All you can do is shed a final tear and forget.

What I have lived for ...

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me."

-Bertrand Russell, What I Have Lived For

Now that's Sexy

Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel! Talk to everyone! Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world!!

Uncertainty

It occurs to me sometimes that the path we choose for the future, the way we see the road beyond the fog, is rarely what we encounter when we step into the mist. One has to pay the most attention to where one’s feet are presently, and then to the next step. And then the next. Anticipating the direction of the path beyond your sight is crucial, but only once you are sure-footed on what you can see.

what i have found ...

a creature who is my equal and who is as strong and independent as I am

I miss the Stars

"Gray mornings destroy the soul", I think as I open my eyes to the rain, falling down my window pane like liberated tears. The mornings always start the same way, progress the same way, and end just as uneventfully. And as the days disappear I begin to feel the color is being bled from the world. The sun doesn't glow like it used to, the trees I used to love driving past on the way to work are gone, paved over for a new car dealership – the peaceful greens and blues replaced with shades of concrete and neon. I miss the stars at night, I miss the sound of wind blowing through a tree's leaves, I miss lazy days on sunny beaches, but mostly I miss those trees, and the way they could pull me out of myself for a second that seemed like a very long holiday.

A lesson on love ...

Screwed-up people are not more interesting than people with their heads together. Baggage is not fascinating, romantic, or exciting. It is very, very tiring. Men who are polite and emotionally mature are hot. Learn it, love it, live by it.

George ...

Your Worth ...

People need benchmarks: things to compare their experiences to, be they monumental or inconsequential. We change our benchmarks from our parents to our role models, our friends… anyone who is walking a path similar enough through the foliage that you do not lose your way. But when you're alone, when solitude is forced upon you and there is no one from whom to gauge your worth, you make your own benchmark.
The truth is that we need these comparisons because moralities, ethics, every one of our reasons for living, revolve around what someone would think looking at our life, with varying degrees of omniscience. And when you find yourself washed up on some distant shore you may find yourself with an imaginary friend who will judge you, or wasting your very last strength hewing your story into rock walls so one day, someone may find it, and look upon your life, and measure your worth.

Because we are all human ..

I stand before you and before my neighbors - pardoning, forgiving, struggling to be open to all who have hurt and angered me. Be this hurt of body or soul, of honor or property, whether they were forced to hurt me or did so willingly, whether by accident or intent, whether by word or deed - I forgive them because we are human... -Unknown

Late for pleasure

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Lovers Vow

As long as the sun shall rise

goes the old lovers vow.

But we are children of a scientific age

and have no time for poetry.

Still i offer a quiet prayer of thanks

for the sunlight each time i see your face.