Mountains and Sea

What I am to you is not real
What I am to you you do not need
What I am to you is not what you mean to me
You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I'll ask for the sea

-Damien Rice, "Volcano"

Catie Cruel

When I first came to town,
They called me the roving jewel;
Now they've changed their tune,
They call me Katy Cruel.

Oh that I was where I would be,
Then I would be where I am not,
Here I am where I must be,
Go where I would, I can not.
I know who I love,
And I know who does love me;
I know where I'm going,
And I know who's going with me.
Through the woods I go,
And through the bogs and mire,
Straightway down the road,
And to my heart's desire.

{Katie Cruel is a traditional American folksong, likely of Scottish origin}

Life:

Live without pretending.
Love without depending.
Listen without defending.
Speak without offending.
- Drake

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia



The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles

-Rumi

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

 

My heart is an old tin can

With a string that leads to the palm of your hand

-Danielle Doyle,  My Bird

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.
-Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare

(Thanks to Shane)

Smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt.

~Seamus Heaney

 

All that is gold does not glitter; 

not all those that wander are lost.

-J.R.R. Tolkien

Success is how high you bounce 

when you hit the bottom

-General George S. Patton