They who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are.
Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words.
Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you.
Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to me.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Hitch Quote by Will Smith
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away
Monday, January 5, 2009
I've Learned
I've learned....
...best classroom in the world is at a feet of an elderly person
...when you're in love, it shows
...just one person saying you've made my day, makes my day
...having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world
...being kind is more important than being right
...you should never say no to a gift from a child
...i can always pray for someone when i don't have the strength to help them in any way
...no matter how serious life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with
...sometimes, all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand
...simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when i was a child, did wonders for me as an adult
...life is a roll of toilet paper, the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes
...we should be glad god doesn't give us everything we ask for
...money doesn't buy class
...it's those small daily happenings that make like so spectacular
...under everyone's hard shell there is someone who wants to be apperciated and be loved
...lord didn't do it all in one day. what makes me think I can?
...to ignore facts doesn't change the facts
...when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you
...love, not time, heals all wounds
...easiest way to grow as a person is to surround myself with people who are smarter
...everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile
...nothing is sweeter than sleeping with babies and feeling thier breath on your cheecks
...no one is perfect until you fall in love with them
...life is tough, but I'm tougher
...opprotunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss
...when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock somewhere else
...one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tommorrow he may have to eat'em
...a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
...i can't choose how i feel, but i can choose what i can do about it
...when your newly child hold your finger in his fist, you're hooked for life
...everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happniess and growth occurs while you're climbing it
...it is best if you give advice in 2 circumstances: requested and life threatning situation
...less time you have to work with, the more thing you get done
...best classroom in the world is at a feet of an elderly person
...when you're in love, it shows
...just one person saying you've made my day, makes my day
...having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world
...being kind is more important than being right
...you should never say no to a gift from a child
...i can always pray for someone when i don't have the strength to help them in any way
...no matter how serious life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with
...sometimes, all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand
...simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when i was a child, did wonders for me as an adult
...life is a roll of toilet paper, the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes
...we should be glad god doesn't give us everything we ask for
...money doesn't buy class
...it's those small daily happenings that make like so spectacular
...under everyone's hard shell there is someone who wants to be apperciated and be loved
...lord didn't do it all in one day. what makes me think I can?
...to ignore facts doesn't change the facts
...when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you
...love, not time, heals all wounds
...easiest way to grow as a person is to surround myself with people who are smarter
...everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile
...nothing is sweeter than sleeping with babies and feeling thier breath on your cheecks
...no one is perfect until you fall in love with them
...life is tough, but I'm tougher
...opprotunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss
...when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock somewhere else
...one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tommorrow he may have to eat'em
...a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks
...i can't choose how i feel, but i can choose what i can do about it
...when your newly child hold your finger in his fist, you're hooked for life
...everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happniess and growth occurs while you're climbing it
...it is best if you give advice in 2 circumstances: requested and life threatning situation
...less time you have to work with, the more thing you get done
El Problema by Ricardo Arjona
El Problema- Ricardo Arjona
El problema no fue hallarte, el problema es olvidarte
(The problem was not to be, the problem is to forget you)
El problema no es tu ausencia, el problema es que te espero
(The problem is not your absence, the problem is that I wait for you/hope)
El problema no es problema, el problema es que me duele
(The problem is not a problem, the problem is that it hurts me)
El problema no es que mientas, el problema es que te creo
(The problem is not that you lie, the problem is that I believe you)
El problema no es que juegues, el problema es que es conmigo
(The problem is not that you play, the problem is that it is with me)
Si me gustaste por ser libre, quien soy yo para cambiarte
(If I liked for being free, who it is me who is to change)
Si me quede queriendo solo, como hacer para obligarte
(If I remained queriendo alone, like to do to put under an obligation)
El problema no es quererte, es que tu no sientas lo mismo
(The problem is not to love you, the fact is that you do not feel the same)
Y como deshacerme de ti, si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you, if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti, si estas tan lejos
(As moving away from you, if you are that far)
Como encontrarle una pestaña, a lo que nunca tuvo ojos
(As finding an eyelash, to what it never had eyes)
Como encontrarle plataformas, a lo que siempre fue un barranco
(As finding platforms, to what it was always a ravine)
Como encontrar en la alacena, los besos que no me diste
(As thinking in the larder, the kisses that you did not give to me)
Y como deshacerme de ti, si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you, if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti, si estas tan lejos
(As moving away from you, if you are that far)
Y es que el problema no es cambiarte
(And the fact is that the problem is not to change)
El problema es que no quiero
(The problem is that I do not want)
El Problema no es que duela
(The Problem is not that it hurts)
El Problema es que me gusta
(The Problem is that I like)
El Problema no es el daño
(The Problem is not the damage)
El Problema son las huellas
(The traces are the Problem)
El Problema no es lo que haces
(The Problem is not what you do)
El Problema es que lo olvido
(The Problem is that I forget it)
El Problema no es que digas
(The Problem is not that you say)
El Problema es lo que callas.
(The Problem is about what you keep silent.)
Y como deshacerme de ti si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti si están tan lejos
(As moving away from you if they are that far)
El Problema no fue hallarte
(The Problem was not to be)
El Problema es olvidarte
(The Problem is to forget you)
El Problema no es que mientas
(The Problem is not that you lie)
El Problema es que te creo
(The Problem is that I believe you)
El Problema no es cambiarte
(The Problem is not to change)
El Problema es que no quiero
(The Problem is that I do not want)
El Problema no es quererte
(The Problem is not to love you)
Es que no sientas lo mismo
(The fact is that you do not feel the same)
El Problema no es que juegues
(The Problem is not that you play)
El Problema es que es conmigo
(The Problem is that it is with me)
El problema no fue hallarte, el problema es olvidarte
(The problem was not to be, the problem is to forget you)
El problema no es tu ausencia, el problema es que te espero
(The problem is not your absence, the problem is that I wait for you/hope)
El problema no es problema, el problema es que me duele
(The problem is not a problem, the problem is that it hurts me)
El problema no es que mientas, el problema es que te creo
(The problem is not that you lie, the problem is that I believe you)
El problema no es que juegues, el problema es que es conmigo
(The problem is not that you play, the problem is that it is with me)
Si me gustaste por ser libre, quien soy yo para cambiarte
(If I liked for being free, who it is me who is to change)
Si me quede queriendo solo, como hacer para obligarte
(If I remained queriendo alone, like to do to put under an obligation)
El problema no es quererte, es que tu no sientas lo mismo
(The problem is not to love you, the fact is that you do not feel the same)
Y como deshacerme de ti, si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you, if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti, si estas tan lejos
(As moving away from you, if you are that far)
Como encontrarle una pestaña, a lo que nunca tuvo ojos
(As finding an eyelash, to what it never had eyes)
Como encontrarle plataformas, a lo que siempre fue un barranco
(As finding platforms, to what it was always a ravine)
Como encontrar en la alacena, los besos que no me diste
(As thinking in the larder, the kisses that you did not give to me)
Y como deshacerme de ti, si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you, if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti, si estas tan lejos
(As moving away from you, if you are that far)
Y es que el problema no es cambiarte
(And the fact is that the problem is not to change)
El problema es que no quiero
(The problem is that I do not want)
El Problema no es que duela
(The Problem is not that it hurts)
El Problema es que me gusta
(The Problem is that I like)
El Problema no es el daño
(The Problem is not the damage)
El Problema son las huellas
(The traces are the Problem)
El Problema no es lo que haces
(The Problem is not what you do)
El Problema es que lo olvido
(The Problem is that I forget it)
El Problema no es que digas
(The Problem is not that you say)
El Problema es lo que callas.
(The Problem is about what you keep silent.)
Y como deshacerme de ti si no te tengo
(And as getting rid of you if I do not have you)
Como alejarme de ti si están tan lejos
(As moving away from you if they are that far)
El Problema no fue hallarte
(The Problem was not to be)
El Problema es olvidarte
(The Problem is to forget you)
El Problema no es que mientas
(The Problem is not that you lie)
El Problema es que te creo
(The Problem is that I believe you)
El Problema no es cambiarte
(The Problem is not to change)
El Problema es que no quiero
(The Problem is that I do not want)
El Problema no es quererte
(The Problem is not to love you)
Es que no sientas lo mismo
(The fact is that you do not feel the same)
El Problema no es que juegues
(The Problem is not that you play)
El Problema es que es conmigo
(The Problem is that it is with me)
5 Ways to Improve Mental Health
1) Practice meditating. You simply have to turn your thoughts inward and relax in order to meditate. Breathe deeply and accept all things as they are in that moment. Do this several times a day to re-center yourself.
2) Get plenty of exercise. Push yourself hard when you exercise to prove to yourself that you're stronger than you think you are. There is a correlation between mental strength and strenuous physical activity.
3) Focus yourself on the task at hand. Instead of daydreaming about what you're going to do on the following weekend, be completely involved with whatever you are doing in the moment. Powerful concentration equals a mental strength.
4) Change your attitude in a positive direction. If you hear negative thoughts in your head, shut them off and put a positive spin on them. People with a positive attitude are more likely to respond with strength and confidence in any given situation. Share your worries and concerns with someone. You can also journal your thoughts and feelings if you prefer. Sharing your negative feelings takes away much of their power.
5) Accept things as they are. Knowing that you can't change anything other than your attitude and actions gives you power. You get to choose how you react to any given situation.
Love or Infatuation
Infatuation is instant desire.
It is one that set of glands calling another.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
It takes roots and grows one day at a time.
Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity.
You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy.
There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions,
little bits and pieces about your beloved that you would
just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil the dream.
Love says, "Be patient. Don't panic. They are yours. Plan your future with confidence.
Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement.
If you are honest, you will admit it is difficult to be in one another's company
unless you are sure it will end in intimacy.
Love is maturation of friendship.
You must be friends before your can be lovers.
Infatuation lacks confidence.
When they are away, you wonder if they are cheating.
Sometimes you even check.
Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened.
They feel that trust and makes them even more trustworthy.
Infatuation might lead you to do things you'll regret later,
but love never will.
Love is an upper. It makes you look up. It makes you think up.
It makes you a better person that you were ever before.
Love is quiet understanding and the mature acceptance of imperfection.
It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you-
to bolster your beloved.
You are warmed by their presence, even when they are away.
Miles do not separate you.
You want them near. But near or far, you know they are yours and
you can wait.
Infatuation says, "We must get married right away. I can't risk loosing them."
It is one that set of glands calling another.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
It takes roots and grows one day at a time.
Infatuation is marked by a feeling of insecurity.
You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy.
There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions,
little bits and pieces about your beloved that you would
just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil the dream.
Love says, "Be patient. Don't panic. They are yours. Plan your future with confidence.
Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement.
If you are honest, you will admit it is difficult to be in one another's company
unless you are sure it will end in intimacy.
Love is maturation of friendship.
You must be friends before your can be lovers.
Infatuation lacks confidence.
When they are away, you wonder if they are cheating.
Sometimes you even check.
Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened.
They feel that trust and makes them even more trustworthy.
Infatuation might lead you to do things you'll regret later,
but love never will.
Love is an upper. It makes you look up. It makes you think up.
It makes you a better person that you were ever before.
Love is quiet understanding and the mature acceptance of imperfection.
It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you-
to bolster your beloved.
You are warmed by their presence, even when they are away.
Miles do not separate you.
You want them near. But near or far, you know they are yours and
you can wait.
Infatuation says, "We must get married right away. I can't risk loosing them."
Poems: A Note Slid Under the Door; Sometimes; Silver Star
A Note Slid Under the Door
Some people don't know this;
A sound lowen than silence
begins out of the night that waits
lowen than silence, and the voice
descends finer than dust or moonlight
where people awake listen
beyond the dark, finer than
dust and mistake called life.
In that breath beyond silence
people awake hear this:
"it's the same if you die
or if you world is destroyed-
the world is here because
people found it, a faint
line low in sky, then
an island, or mainland, then
the place where you live.
Afterward, when you are gone,
the world wouldn't be there any more"
Some people don't know this.
Sometimes
When they criticize you how do you hold your wings?
I hold mine out and down, descent a little, then more.
Cool air comes. Nobody knows cares how long I descend,
and the way my eyes close makes me disappear.
They have their sky again. So thin life I have,
scribbling dust when I turn, trailing as if to follow
sometimes inside the earth, sometimes beyond this place.
If I accept what comes, another sky is there,
My serious face bends to ground, the dust, the lowered wings.
Silver Star
To be a mountain you have to climb alone
and accept all that rain and snow. You have to look
far away when evening comes. If a forest
grows, you care; you stand leaning against
the wind, waiting for someone with faith enough
to ask you to move. Great stones will tumble
against each other and gouge your side. A storm
will live somewhere in your canyons hoarding its lightning.
If you are lucky, people will give your dignified
name and bring crowds to admire how sturdy you are,
how long can you hold still for the camera. And some time,
they say, if you long last enough you will head God;
a voice will roll down from the sky and all your patience
will be rewarded. The whole world will hear it: "Well Done."
I believe these are all by the same author. I took a creative writing class my sophomore year of high school and I really liked poetry by him. I jot them down, but didn't note down his name...
Some people don't know this;
A sound lowen than silence
begins out of the night that waits
lowen than silence, and the voice
descends finer than dust or moonlight
where people awake listen
beyond the dark, finer than
dust and mistake called life.
In that breath beyond silence
people awake hear this:
"it's the same if you die
or if you world is destroyed-
the world is here because
people found it, a faint
line low in sky, then
an island, or mainland, then
the place where you live.
Afterward, when you are gone,
the world wouldn't be there any more"
Some people don't know this.
Sometimes
When they criticize you how do you hold your wings?
I hold mine out and down, descent a little, then more.
Cool air comes. Nobody knows cares how long I descend,
and the way my eyes close makes me disappear.
They have their sky again. So thin life I have,
scribbling dust when I turn, trailing as if to follow
sometimes inside the earth, sometimes beyond this place.
If I accept what comes, another sky is there,
My serious face bends to ground, the dust, the lowered wings.
Silver Star
To be a mountain you have to climb alone
and accept all that rain and snow. You have to look
far away when evening comes. If a forest
grows, you care; you stand leaning against
the wind, waiting for someone with faith enough
to ask you to move. Great stones will tumble
against each other and gouge your side. A storm
will live somewhere in your canyons hoarding its lightning.
If you are lucky, people will give your dignified
name and bring crowds to admire how sturdy you are,
how long can you hold still for the camera. And some time,
they say, if you long last enough you will head God;
a voice will roll down from the sky and all your patience
will be rewarded. The whole world will hear it: "Well Done."
I believe these are all by the same author. I took a creative writing class my sophomore year of high school and I really liked poetry by him. I jot them down, but didn't note down his name...
Two Poems/Songs Dawn M. presented me: All I Got and Prmise
All I Got
I heard you say that no one seems to care about you.
It's in your eyes, you think that life's unfair to you
Just give it all you got, my friend
Just give it all you got, it's not the end.
Cause you ought to know
There's a reson for these changing seasons
God only knows how much a heart can bear
So don't let go...
Everybody has their up and down times
Everyday needs to know how much they are loved
So hold on, it's not the end
As I remember, everything you touch
Would touch to gold
You held the secrets
To make your grandest dreams unfold
You were the very best of us all
But the sun that rises still falls
Its just a love song
Cause everybody needs a friend
I'll be right here for you
Just a simple prayer
It's from the bottom of my heart
That he'll never let you go.
Promise by Jessica Sills
As you sit there in silence,
wondering why,
I'll be your shoulder to cry on
till the tears run dry.
When you're hurt,
and you can't believe what they've done,
If you need someone to talk to,
I'll be the one.
If a close friend hurts you,
and you don't understand,
Remember I'm here,
I'll lend a helping hand.
Burdens are lighter when carried by two,
And I just want you to know
I'm here for you.
I heard you say that no one seems to care about you.
It's in your eyes, you think that life's unfair to you
Just give it all you got, my friend
Just give it all you got, it's not the end.
Cause you ought to know
There's a reson for these changing seasons
God only knows how much a heart can bear
So don't let go...
Everybody has their up and down times
Everyday needs to know how much they are loved
So hold on, it's not the end
As I remember, everything you touch
Would touch to gold
You held the secrets
To make your grandest dreams unfold
You were the very best of us all
But the sun that rises still falls
Its just a love song
Cause everybody needs a friend
I'll be right here for you
Just a simple prayer
It's from the bottom of my heart
That he'll never let you go.
Promise by Jessica Sills
As you sit there in silence,
wondering why,
I'll be your shoulder to cry on
till the tears run dry.
When you're hurt,
and you can't believe what they've done,
If you need someone to talk to,
I'll be the one.
If a close friend hurts you,
and you don't understand,
Remember I'm here,
I'll lend a helping hand.
Burdens are lighter when carried by two,
And I just want you to know
I'm here for you.
10 Things God Won't Ask
1. God won't ask what kind of car you drove; he'll ask how many people you drove who didn't have transportation.
2. God won't ask the square footage of your house; he'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
3. God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet; he'll ask how many people you helped to clothe.
4. God won't ask what your highest salary was; he'll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
5. God won't ask what your job title was; he'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
6. God won't ask how many friends you had; he'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
7. God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived in; he'll ask how you treated your neighbors.
8. God won't ask about the color of your skin; he'll ask about the content of your character.
9. God won't ask how people treated you; he'll ask how many people you treated with respect.
10. God won't ask why it took you so long to seek salvation; he'll lovingly take you to your mansion in heaven, and not to gates of hell.
2. God won't ask the square footage of your house; he'll ask how many people you welcomed into your home.
3. God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet; he'll ask how many people you helped to clothe.
4. God won't ask what your highest salary was; he'll ask if you compromised your character to obtain it.
5. God won't ask what your job title was; he'll ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability.
6. God won't ask how many friends you had; he'll ask how many people to whom you were a friend.
7. God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived in; he'll ask how you treated your neighbors.
8. God won't ask about the color of your skin; he'll ask about the content of your character.
9. God won't ask how people treated you; he'll ask how many people you treated with respect.
10. God won't ask why it took you so long to seek salvation; he'll lovingly take you to your mansion in heaven, and not to gates of hell.
Promise Yourself
To be strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think of only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful counteract at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
-Christen D Larson
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think of only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful counteract at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
-Christen D Larson
Sunday, January 4, 2009
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Getting a 4.0 in Real World
I was browsing through the internet and came across this...
Getting a 4.0 in the Real World
1. Learn from past mistakes and do no repeat the same mistakes in future.
2. Read many newspapers to get updated on what is going on the world.
3. Get good work experience and hands on practical knowledge- experience.
4. Find and mentor and ask for guidance and advice.
5. Network and build connections through joining organizations and other means of networking.
6. Commitment to continuing education.
7. Have fun in whatever you do (this makes you a productive person)
Getting a 4.0 in the Real World
1. Learn from past mistakes and do no repeat the same mistakes in future.
2. Read many newspapers to get updated on what is going on the world.
3. Get good work experience and hands on practical knowledge- experience.
4. Find and mentor and ask for guidance and advice.
5. Network and build connections through joining organizations and other means of networking.
6. Commitment to continuing education.
7. Have fun in whatever you do (this makes you a productive person)
Perfection To My Eyes
Perfection To My Eyes
All I ever wanted was to be part of your heart,
And for us to be together, and never be apart.
No one else in the world can even compare,
You're perfect and so is the love we share.
We have so much more than I ever thought we would,
I love you more than I ever thought I could.
I promise to give you all I have to give,
I'll do anything for you as long as I live.
In your eyes I see our present, our future and past,
By the way you look at me I know we will last.
I hope that one day you will come to realize,
How perfect you are when seen through my eyes.
A poem by brother- Jay Patel.
He is a great writer, and writes good poems, and I believe this was his very first that was published on Poetry.com and one of my favorites.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
You are my Sunshine Song
You Are My Sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away
The other nite, dear,
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms.
When I awoke, dear,
I was mistaken
And I hung my head and cried.
You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
I'll always love you
And make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me
To love another
You'll regret it all some day;
You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
You told me once, dear
You really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you've left me
And love another
You have shattered all my dreams;
You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Louisiana my Louisiana
the place where I was borne.
White fields of cotton
-- green fields clover,
the best fishing
and long tall corn;
You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Crawfish gumbo and jambalaya
the biggest shrimp and sugar cane,
the finest oysters
and sweet strawberries
from Toledo Bend to New Orleans;
You are my sunshine,
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Eleven Minutes
I just finished reading Eleven Minutes by Paul Coelho. This book was amazing. It touches all different topics, but its mainly about a life of a girl from Brazil who has big dreams about love, life, husband, kids, career, etc, but ends up entering the profession of prostitution when she come to Switzerland. She is very proud and happy of herself for who she is and what her profession is. The story goes on about her experiences with her clients, and specifically two clients who teach her about pain, love, suffering, and being happy. At times this book is confusing, but overall its a great story.Quotes from the book:
"When we meet someone and fall is love we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. I saw this happen today as the sun went down. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! No herons, no distant music, not even the taste of his lips. How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before vanish so quickly? Life moives very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds" (9)
"Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of the people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart." (16)
"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decison. but making mistakes is part of life. What does the world want from me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say yes to life?.... IfI must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre lifes out of my system. The little experience that life has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion- and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was thiers forever (as has happened often enough to me already) finally come to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there is no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine; its best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life." (26)
"I stood fir a long time by the rollen coaster, and I noticed that most people get on it in search of excitement, but that onces it startsm they are terrified and want the cars to stop. What do they expect? Having chosen adventure, shouldn"t they be prepared to go the whole way? Or do they think that the intelligent thing to do would be to avoid the ups and downs and spend all their time on a carousel, round and round on the sopt?" (47)
"But why? They're just paying for their own satisfaction." "No, that's where you're wrong. A mans doesn't prove's he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll be the best lover on the block." (77)
"All my life I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The personh who givens him or herself wholly, the person who feel freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free. That is why, regardless of what Imight experience, do or learn, nothing makes sense. I hope this time passes quicly, so that I can resume my search for myself- in the form of man who understands me and doest not make suffer. But whta I am saying? In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame somone else for what we feel. It hurts when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one looses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owing it." (90)
"She was just like everyone else, she endured her lonliness in silence, tried to justify everything she did, pretended to be strong when she was feeling weak or weak when she was feeling strong, she had renounced love and taken up to a dangerous profession... (100)
"Now you just see the glass of anisette before you?" he went on "Now, you jus see the anisette. I, on the other hand, because I need to be inside of everything I do, see the plant it came from, the storms the plant enduredm the hand that picked the grain, the voyage by ship from another land, the smells and colors with which the plant allows itself to be imbued before it was placed in the alcohol. If I were to paint this scene, I would pain all those things, even though, when you saw the painting, you would think you were looking at a simple glass of anisette." (105)
"Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightned because, whe it appears, it demolished all the cold things it finds in its path. No one wants their life throw into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under contol, adn are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of those supresed. Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all thier problems. They make the other person responsible for thier happiness adn blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected just ruined everything. Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it- which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know." (120)
"We take turns. One cannot exist without the other; no one can know how to humiliate another person if they themselves have not experienced humiliaion." (148)
"You experienced pain yesterday and you discovered that it lead to pleasure. You experienced it today and you found peace. That's why I'm telling you: don't get used to it, because it's very easy to become habituate; it'a a very powerful drug. It's in our daily lives, in our hidden suffering, in the sacrifices we make, blaming love for the destruction of our dream. Pain is frightening when it's shows its real face, but it's seductive when t come disguised as sacrifice or self-denial. Or cowardice. However much we reject it, we human beings alwaus find a way of being with pain, of flirting with it and making it part of our life." (201)
"But they didn't. She looked around her. People were walking along, heads down, hurrying off to work, to school, to the employment agency, to Rue de Berne, telling themselves: "I can't wait a little longer, I have a dream, but there's no need to realize it today, besides, I need to earn some money." Of course, everyone spoke ill of her profession, but, basically, it was all a question of selling her time, like everyon else. Doing things she didn't want to do, like everyone else. Putting up with horrible people, like everyone else. Handing over her precious body and her precious soul in the name of a future that never arrived, like everyone else. Saything that she still didn't have enough, like everyone else. Waiting just a little bit longer, like everyone else...." (225)
"A time to be born, a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is a planted;
A time to break down, a time to build up;
A time to weep, a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time to war and time of peace." (263)
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