Inter-ludes....is life itslef too~

24 INTERLUDES OF LIFE

1. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile.
2. There are moments in life when you really miss someone that you want to pick them up from your dreams and hug them. Hope you dream of that someone.
3. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life.
4. May you have...Enough happiness to make you sweet Enough trials to make you strong Enough sorrow to keep you human Enough hope to make you happy And enough money to keep you comfortable.
5. When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But we often took so long at the closed door, that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
6. The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch, swing with, never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
7. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
8. Always put yourself in other 's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably does hurt the person too.
9. A careless word may kindle a strife;A cruel word may wreck a life A timely word may level stress A lovely word may heal and bless.
10. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them with our own image, otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
11. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along the way.
12. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we should know how to be grateful for that gift.
13. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
14. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried. For only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
15. Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and find out you still care for that person.
16. A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.
17. Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss and ends with a tear.
18. Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, need to love those who still love, even though they've been hurt before.
19. It hurts to love someone, and not to be loved in return but what is most painful is to love someone and never finds the courage to let the person know how you feel.
20. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.
21. Never say goodbye when you still want to try;Never give up when you still feel you can take it;Never say you don't love that person anymore when you can't let go.
22. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back. Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
23. There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person whom you would like to hear it from, but don't be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart.

24. When you were born, you were crying and the world was rejoicing on ur birth Live in a way such that when you die, let u rejoice and let the world cry.

Quotes...Quotes...Quotes is a way of life & life itself!!

1)“Stay” is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott

2)If you can find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou

3) Nobody minds having what is too good for them. Jane Austen

4)When an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Jane Austen

5)Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

6)Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin

7)It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake

8)Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte 

9)Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte

10)If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte

11)Reading is important—read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything. Gwendolyn Brooks

12)Books succeed, and lives fail. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13)A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14)Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather

15)Give people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Willa Cather

16)Advice is like snow—the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks
into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

17)A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson

18)Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass

19)A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglas

20)Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes. Paul Lawrence Dunbar

21)Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot

22)It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

23)The ancestor of every action is a thought .Ralph Waldo Emerson

24)Books are for nothing but to inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson

25)This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a whimper. 

T. S. Eliot

26)The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.William Faulkner

27)I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.Earnest Hemingway

28)In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

29)Never be afraid to sit a while and think. Lorraine Hansberry

30)The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry

31)I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I am awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway

32)Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes

33)It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristics. James Weldon Johnson

34)Get busy living, or get busy dying. Stephen King

35)Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbors’ .Rudyard Kipling

36)The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Harper Lee

37)Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee

38)The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London

39)For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. Herman Melville

40)What difference does it make if the thing you are scared of is real or not? Toni Morrison
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell

41)Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. George Orwell

42)I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allen Poe

43)A fool thinks himself wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare

44)This above all: to thine own self be true William Shakespeare

45)It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

46)No one wants advice—only corroboration. John Steinbeck

47)Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die. Alfred Lord Tennyson

48)Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson

49)Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me. Dylan Thomas

50)Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau

51)Books are thee treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

53)It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

54)If we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

55)I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

56)Experience is one thing that you can’t get for nothing. Oscar Wilde

57)No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

58)Being happy is not the only happiness. Alice Walker

59)A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping lift someone else. Booker T. Washington

60)The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. Richard Wright

Touching Lives....Empathizing...:)

Your soul needs regular times of retreat-
Strengthening your soul periodically changes you inside & inspires you to reach out-
Try putting yourself empathically in another person's shoes...
Read the newspaper, watch the news & interpret those stories as happenings to individuals loved by God-
Picture yourself as the mother trying to care for her family in the face of drought, famine, floods, ...through the hardships- the wife whose husband has died in war, children whose parents have died in an accident, the person who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness...
How do you feel?
What would you do next?
What do you need from others?
What do you long for from God?
Ok...now time for action...pray for all those you have read about or watched in the news....this is one of the simplest ways of touching lives that are far removed from your own-
Again do not stop there...Go further & resolve to open your eyes to the needs around you-to wear your compassion glasses...
It may not be your job in entirety to solve the world's problems...but you can make a difference in the lives of some of them-& that's all God expects from us... That we do our part to help those in need & to make the world a better place to live in-
For a cheerful heart does not count the cost of what he gives...His heart is set on pleasing & cheering him to whom the gift is given~

Flex your Muscles

In life...when trying to gain physical strength, we go to the gym or do a physical activity-
Spiritually when you want to strengthen your soul, we go to God-
Ask God to reveal your weaknesses & strengths; ask for insight on how to use your strengths in a way that will cause others to praise him instead of you-
Take a closer...honest look at your weaknesses...face them in the "eye"...this is the beginning of creating a personal work out program to strengthen your character as well as your soul-
It does not happen over- night ...it's a journey needing patience, perseverance , endurance & commitment-
For example if feat stares you in the face & hinders you from exercising your faith, find a scripture that reassures you of God's protection & meditate on such-
If you're struggling with a quick temper... Practice holding your tongue long enough to think wisely before speaking rashly whenever you get irritated-
Getting our souls in shape...takes practice, patience, persevere & commitment...the benefits last a lifetime ...Remember ...
"A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step"