"Bittersweet"

Life at best is bittersweet.  Jack Kirby

Education

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

 

 

Freya Stark

Freya Stark, a fascinating woman with inspirational wisdom...3 of my favorite quotes from her:

 

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”

“The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction”

“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.”

"Giving up Control"

It's been awhile since I posted...I had some serious introspection to do in my life but some decisions have been made that I hope will ultimately lead to a richer, more balanced, and meaningful life for me.  I like to take control of my life by hanging on tightly, but I'm working on letting go of that need so as to realize the life that has been waiting for me.

"Letting go doesn't mean we don't care.  Letting go doesn't mean we shut down.  Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave.  It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment.  It means we stop trying to do the impossible--controlling that which we cannot--and instead focus on what IS possible--which means taking care of ourselves.  And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible."  Melody Beattie

Mountains

"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."  Unknown

Missing my hubby

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."  -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Risk

"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love."  Chuck Palahniuk

"I felt despair.  Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it:  the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans."  Erica Eisdorfer