Ever since I was young, I never understood anything about the world and anything that happened in my life.

I’ve torn down these fences and burned down my walls. You’re welcome to step in, because there is nothing keeping you out. If you are meant for my heart, I will not question.

The biggest scars are unseen and unremembered, always from a smile you forgot long ago. We would never get anything done otherwise

After a life changing event, there are no ordinary moments . Every second you live is extraordinary.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars

And never take it for granted

I wondered if I was a monster. Not the kind that he thought he was, but the real kind. The kind that hurt people. The kind that had no limits when it came to what they wanted

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you.

– dark coin of my soul –

No matter how frightened and discouraged I may become about the future, I look forward to it. In spite of everything I see all around me every day, I have a shaky assurance that everything will turn out fine; and I don’t think I’m the only one. Why else would the phrase “Everything is alright” ease a troubled place in so many of us? We just don’t know, we never know, yet we have so much faith. We hold our hands over our hurts and lean forward. It is how we keep on, this kind of hope

I’m thinking that sometimes you just have to make the decision to be happy. Just realize that things aren’t ever what you hoped they’d be. Not ever. For anybody. The only thing that separates one kind of person from another is that there are some who stay angry about it and there are some who accept what comes their way

I couldn’t bear to cause pain. This weakness went back to my earliest childhood, when, climbing on the backyard fence one day, I stepped to the ground without looking and crushed a newborn chick under my foot. I’d scream in horror of it and wept for an hour in spite of my mother’s assurances that it was all right, I didn’t mean to do it, there were plenty of other new chicks, it happened all the time

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free

 

MAYA ANGELOU

It is the nature of all greatness not to be perfect.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

So I wait with open arms for you to embrace me.

Sexual desire’s not something you understand.” I said, giving my usual middle-of-the-road opinion. “It’s just there

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind” – ALBERT EINSTEIN

– a good camera make it easier –

My dear, you dont seem to realize that all there is in life is love. That’s all there is. Money doesn’t matter, what you own doesn’t matter, how old you are, who your friends are, what you accomplish in life, means nothing. The only thing worth anything is love. Love is what makes our time on Earth worth something.

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long