Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
By: William Shakespeare
Which then reminded me of this scene from Sense and Sensibility: Scroll all the way down and pause the music first.
“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that."
. Maybe some of y'all don't believe in hearing from God or getting much-needed messages from Him when you need them most, but I do.
I posted this in my status at Facebook:
"Went to the doctor today. They did the usual tests and ultrasounds. Took 6 vials of blood. [I jokingly asked, "Are you going to save any for me?"] Have to wait on the results of that and another test. The ultrasounds (no, I'm not pregnant) looked okay. [In other words, the cysts have remained the same. They haven't gotten larger or suspicious-looking.] I never like going to the doctor, it's always painful, but I believe God spoke to me while I was there. Yeah, at the doctor's office, of all places.
"In the changing area of the exam room, there was a poem taped to the mirror called 'Don't Quit'. I don't remember how it goes, but it said things like 'don't give up, just take some rest' and 'what you need is near, though it looks far'. While waiting in a chair after my ultrasounds, a song was playing on the radio in the nurses' station. The line 'It'll all get better in time' jumped out at me. Then in another exam room, there was a picture on the wall of a kneeling soldier with an angel next to him and underneath were the words 'Not Alone'.
"I hope this means that things are going to get better soon. Hopefully I will get that miracle I need this week.
"I had to fight back tears a lot while there and while thinking about the messages I was getting."
This is the poem I saw:
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out; Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than, It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up, When he might have captured the victor's cup, And he learned too late when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out-- The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-- It's when things seem worst that you must not quit. -- Author Unknown
And this is the picture:
Funny that it was a picture of a soldier considering what I wrote in my last entry.
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I went to a women's Bible study at a friend's house last night. There were about 8 of us altogether. We didn't finish the Bible study (about loving our children) because we talked so much about our children, raising them, teaching them by example and so forth. We also talked about our own struggles, things we've learned as a result and how we want to get closer to God. We had a wonderful time talking, laughing, crying, and encouraging each other.
In honor of Valentine's Day, a blog entry with love quotes and romantic art. I hope y'all get to spend time with the one you love. Love is what makes life worth living.
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Love is stronger than any addiction."
"Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less." -- Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past".
"You've got to risk love... It doesn't mean that you're never going to get hurt but the pain you feel will never compare to the regret that comes from walking away from love." -- Matthew McConaughey as Connor Mead in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past".
"Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart." -- Charles Dickens
"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that your love will produce love in the loved person." -- Eric Fromm
"A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at the bottom comes up." -- Friedrich Nietzsche "Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible." -- Greg Jurkiewicz
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity." -- Henry Van Dyke
"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense." -- Ken Kesey
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." -- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." -- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Love someone who doesn't deserve it."
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -- Robert Heinlein
“To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved."
"Le Printemps (Springtime)" by Pierre Auguste Cot
"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?" -- Confucius
"The first duty of love is to listen." -- Paul Tillich
"Love is not a matter of counting the years... But making the years count." -- Michelle St. Amand
"You don't love a woman because she's beautiful.She is beautiful because you love her."
"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." -- Dinah Shore
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -- Franklin P. Jones
"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart." -- Josiah G. Holland
"A simple I love you means more than money." -- Frank Sinatra
"Romeo and Juliet" by Sir Frank Dicksee
"You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it."
"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying."
"Soul meets soul on lover's lips." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." -- Natalie Cole
"Love is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E."
"I love you - those three words have my life in them."
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." -- Mother Teresa
"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much." -- Bessie Stanley
"No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything."
"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love."
"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved." -- Barbara Johnson
"To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another." -- G.W. Von Leibnitz
"Love fails only when we fail to love." -- J. Franklin
"Life without love is like a tree Without blossom and fruit." -- Kahlil Gibran
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
-- e.e. cummings
Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One two! One two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
-- Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
-- Lord Byron, (George Gordon)
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
-- William Shakespeare
Southern Song
I want my body bathed again by southern suns, my soul reclaimed again from southern land. I want to rest again in southern fields, in grass and hay and clover bloom; to lay my hand again upon the clay baked by a southern sun, to touch the rain-soaked earth and smell the smell of soil. I want my rest unbroken in the fields of southern earth; freedom to watch the corn wave silver in the sun and mark the splashing of a brook, a pond with ducks and frogs and count the clouds. I want no mobs to wrench me from my southern rest; no forms to take me in the night and burn my shack and make for me a nightmare full of oil and flame. I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's southern song--the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
