I think I found THE quote that will sustain me throughout this year:

Former Rolling Stone journalist and author Julia Cameron once said, "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us."

she spoke words that would melt in your hand







sometimes i think i prefer to listen to indie because these 3 minutes of happy beats make life all the while much better to live

The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3
Mary Mackey

It’s easy to love
through a cold spring
when the poles
of the willows
turn green
pollen falls like
a yellow curtain
and the scent of
Paper Whites
clots
the air

but to love for a lifetime
takes talent

you have to mix yourself
with the strange
beauty of someone
else
wake each morning
for 72,000
mornings in
a row so
breathed and
bound and
tangled
that you can hardly
sort out
your arms
and
legs

you have to
find forgiveness
in everything
even ink stains
and broken
cups

you have to be willing to move through
life
together
the way the long
grasses move
in a field
when you careen
blindly toward
the other
side

there’s never going to be anything
straight or predictable
about your path
except the
flattening
and the springing
back

you just go on walking for years
hand in hand
waist deep in the weeds
bent slightly forward
like two question
marks
and all the while it

burns
my dear
it burns beautifully above
you
and goes on
burning
like a relentless
sun

it gets harder at night.

its easier to be alone because what if you learn that you need love. and then you don't have it. what if you like it, and lean on it, what if you shape your life around it, and then it falls apart? can you even survive that kind of pain? losing love is like organ damage, its like dying. the only difference is, death ends. this? it can go on forever.

grey's anatomy, season 7 episode 22

Health:

Drink plenty ofwater.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
Play more games.
Read more books than you did in 2010.
Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
Sleep for 7 hours.
Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
Dream more while you are awake.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
Smile and laugh more.
You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

Call your family often.
Each day give something good to others.
Forgive everyone for everything.
Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
Try to make at least three people smile each day.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

Do the right thing!
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
The best is yet to come.
Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps … perhaps … love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

i will die a spinster.

trainwreck into destruction..............

Pretty good advice from an American drama I'm perusing right now, called Felicity.

From Season 2 Episode 5:

Stranger: The way I see it, you two ‘Best Friends’ were never best friends to begin with.

Felicity: Actually, sir I think we were.

Stranger: If I were to were understand right,..

Two met when you both were desperately lonely, when you two desperately needed a best friend. You share a few things together, started to refer to each other as ‘best friends’, but that was premature.
Why then?
Cuz' what you had, never really earned that title. I had a best friend for 63 years. played in the minors together, went to war together. 63 years.. and here’s the fact. You can’t get a best friend. Best friends become. They don’t happened after meeting in a year or two, it’s a package deal – friendship. Only as valuable as what you put in come to. Judging something like that after 1 year, even if you get all the facts, that’s like, looking for the final score before you see the second inning. I don’t think you two were best friends to begin with.