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Author: Unknown Submitted by: Garo Berberian
aka Goofy
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Have you ever felt, the cold and lifeless hand of an infant,
gazed into their unblinking eyes, and observed the face of death,
when masked in bittersweet innocence?
Have you ever touched your dreams, and felt the simplistic joy,
of feeling them become reality, only to abandon them, for reasons
you cannot explain?
Have you ever watched your family, who once shared the greatest
of loves, suffer an unforgettable and unforgivable tragedy,
that will slowly, painfully, and inevitably, tear them all apart?
Do you know, firsthand, the evil that resides deep within the
heart of every man, every woman, and every child?
Have you seen its face as it randomly seeks, a soul to torment
and destroy?
Do you know the darker side of life, the one that awakens you,
in the still of the night, crying to the unknowable God's, ‘Save
me from myself. '?
Does your heart constantly question, whether humanity is obtainable,
in a world corrupted with suffering, and where war, is the favoured
solution for peace?
If you really want to know me, and understand the forces that
compel me to move on, then take these questions, and take this
pain, for this who I am.
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$20 -
A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a
$20. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20?"
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first,
let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the bill up. He then
asked, "Who still wants it?"
Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" And he dropped it on
the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants
it?"
Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a valuable lesson. No matter
what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not
decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives,
we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions
we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though
we are worthless. But no matter what has happened to us or what
will happen, you will never lose your value in Gods eyes. To him,
dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless.
The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know,
but by who we are." submitted by LatinMischief
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- " A talent is a gift from God. What you do with that talent
is your gift to God."
- "If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough."
- "Complete forgiveness ... Is memory without pain....."
- " I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death."
- " I'd rather believe time is a companion
that goes with us on a journey,
and reminds us to cherish every moment.
Because, it will never come again."
- " To accept another human being Is ONE of the hardest things
in the world to do. The hardest, is accepting ones' self."
- " I think we're all heroes, if you catch us at the right time."
- " A wise man learns something new every day.. The fool knows
it all already"
- " One can never hope to discover new oceans if they don't
have the courage to lose sight of the shore. "
- " Life is learning - from our mistakes as well as our successes.
The only real mistake in life one said, Is the mistake not learned
from. "
- " One mind awake can awaken another,
The second awake can awaken their next door brother.
Three awake can awaken the town
By turning the whole place upside down.
Many awake can make such a fuss
That they finally awaken the rest of us."
- "If you have made mistakes... there is always another chance
for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but
the staying down."
- " HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal
of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others:
To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child,
a redeemed social condition, or a job well done;
To know that even one other life has breathed because you lived.
-- This is to have succeeded."
- You have to put up with the rain to get beautiful rainbows..
submitted by Elizabeth aka copyright1982
- "If someone found another word that meant equality...it would
be love." - submitted by moonlightangel97
- *Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel
that crushed it.* -Mark Twain - submitted by BrAsiLiaN
CuTeY
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has
no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You
are free.-Jim Morrison - submitted by NyZur
- No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless...-
submitted by ElDan
- "It is easier to settle for something when you have it in
front of you, but it is much harder to be patient and endure
until what you want most comes to you." submitted by Fade909
- "By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it
is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with
rare and beautiful treasures" Proverbs 24:3-4 - submitted by
sxynena
- "It was not my ear you whispered into, but my heart. It was
not my lips that you kissed, but my soul." submitted by Fade909
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With Just One Kiss
There's just something about those eyes...
Our eyes met. but it wasn't just any casual look my eyes happened
to encounter. the pair of eyes staring back at me seemed to look
at me and mine seemed to look back in a way that i could not explain.
some kind of feeling that was strange to me, because it was foreign...unknown...
Neither of us gave it too much thought...though deep down inside
something didn't let that first encounter get out of our minds.
I didn't really even admit to myself or my friends that i was
very interested in this guy....and he the same. we were just 'friends'...we
casually flirted...more than with any of our other mutual friends,
but we still wouldn't admit to each other what was happening.
i didn't think he would see me more than just a friend...he the
same. we didn't know what was happening, but we knew we liked
it. even after our lips decided to take that extra step and meet
each other in the same way our eyes did...i didn't kiss him, he
didn't kiss me. from one instance to the next, we kissed each
other. Ever since then our eyes have been talking to each other
so much that sometimes it seems they are ahead of us, to the point
we don't have to say a word...
Eyes are the portal to the soul...and together our souls are
free.
 written by yours
truely, Michelle G. Curiel
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The Unfathomable Concept of God
The truly religious person, if he follows the essence of monotheistic
idea, does not pray for anything, does not expect anything from
God. He does not love God as a child loves his father or mother.
He has acquired the humility of sensing his limitations...to the
degree of knowing he knows nothing about God.
God becomes to him a symbol in which man, at his earlier stage
of evolution, has expressed the totality of that which man is
striving for, the realm of the spiritual world, of love, truth
and justice.
He has faith in the principles which “God” represents...he thinks
truth, lives loves and justice, and considers all of his life
valuable inasmuch as it gives him the chance to arrive at an even
fuller unfolding of his powers…as the only reality that matters,
as the only object of “Ultimate Concern”...and, eventually, he
does not speak about God...or even mention his name.
To love God, if he were going to use this word, would mean, then,
to long for the attainment of the full capacity to love, for the
realization of that which “God” stands for in oneself. submitted
by Euler aka Oye
Como Va
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