INSPIRATIONAL QUOTATIONS: A few wordy lessons for life

WORDS have the power to make us heal and grow. They also have the power to start wars and make little Susie cry in the corner. But good, inspirational quotations for the better part help to shape our world and can move us deep down in our dark, squishy centers. In this rat race of life, sometimes we need to slow down and smell the roses. Life is a bloody brief candle, and if we can’t think of anything to inspire us, we can always turn to the inspirational words of others.

Inspirational quotations - Food for thought

"When you have to make a hard decision, flip a coin. Why? Because when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for"

“There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands” – Martin Buber

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LOVE POETRY: My poem - Dream Catch Me

I TEND to be a love-sick puppy at times. Falling for girls that are spoken for or aren't interested and having my heart minced by the ones who pretend they are - these seem to be common trends in my hopeless romantic life. But from the burning ashes of emotional hurt often comes inspiration!

I often have this recurring dream where I'm walking along a beach at sunset - hand-in-hand with the undiscovered love of my life. Sometimes I recognise the girl, but at other times it's someone that I have never seen or met before. I like to believe that I'm yet to meet the latter one.

Anyway, enough about me. Below is a poem I wrote a few months back about my recurring love dream. It's an amalgamation of my own love sick feelings and two of my favourite songs. It you are familiar with the Goo Goo Dolls and the work of Newton Faulkner, you may recognise a few lines. There is also a bit of Blaise Pascal thrown in there just to spice things up.

So grab a tissue or another beer and I hope my poem touches you in a platonic way.

DREAM CATCH ME

The warm sunset rays cast themselves upon the tame sea

Dancing on slow moving humps of blue,

They meet the shore with a gentle swish

Gobbling up footprints left behind with joyous laughter.

We have an endless soft blanket before us on which to paint our future,

The past is washed clean, and all we need to go forward is the touch of each others hands.

It is only you and me - the rest of the World doesn’t matter,

Happiness has been defined in a single day...

But alas this is not today,

Today is a recurring dream.

Here is gone.

We have become adept at convincing ourselves that we know what we want

- who we want

Blind to our own inevitable growth,

Maturity, wisdom, ambitions, desires, dreams.

Our ocean is made murky by socially constructed pettiness

Expectations, perceptions, but very real uncertainty,

Uncertainty that strangles one, causing a head-rush of confusion

A bottomless void that can’t seem to be filled.

A few beeps from an electronic device becomes a make or break moment,

Silly, really

But the will to make the dream reality overpowers.

Left alone in a painful silence

Forced to allow over-analytical thoughts free reign over a once clear state of mind,

My ocean becomes cold and muddy

Please, get me out of this frozen dirt.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing, they say,

We try to understand the emotional heart with our heads

The way we are conditioned to,

Futile, really.

Sometimes the head wins the battle,

I break my fingers to make a call, but that’s all it is...

Love is about giving – giving involves trust,

Love is giving someone the ability to hurt you but trusting that they won’t.

There’s a place I go when I’m alone

Do anything I want, be anyone I want to be,

But it is always you I see there and I can’t stop myself from falling.

That’s where I’m going, where are you going? Hold it close, don’t let this go,

Dream catch me – catch me when I fall

Take me to my ocean I have seen before,

Let me meet her

Show me what I know will one day find me and become my reality.

Everything’s wrong, but it’s alright...

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PRAVSWORLD: Inspiring you for a better tomorrow

WE could all do with a little more inspiration in our lives. Times are tough. Most of us are feeling poor, the future is uncertain, 2012 is looming … Sometimes it just takes one inspirational line to help us gain some perspective. After all, you could get hit by a taxi at any minute. To quote Homer Simpson, “you could wake up dead tomorrow!”

There’s more to life than money and cars and blogging – like clouds, ice-cream and puppies. Inspiration comes in many forms and can be a powerful thing. Below are some inspirational pictures and words, courtesy of www.pravsworld.com,  that I hope will help you gain some inspiration of your own.

Inspiration to chase your dreams:

Inspiration to cry:

Decision-making inspiration:

Inspiration to make the most of every moment:

Be careful what you say:

Relationship inspiration:

YOU

Big-ups to pravsworld.com and the peeps who took these inspirational photographs.

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LOVE: 8 reasons to feel good about the world and all it's people

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GOOD ADVICE: Free life lessons lent from loving people

1. The best is yet to come.
2. Forgive everyone everything.
3. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
4. Take deep breaths. It calms the mind.
5. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
6. The most important sex organ is the brain.
7. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
8. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
9. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
10. Time heals almost everything. Give Time time.
11. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
12. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
13. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
14. Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
15. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
16. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
19. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
20. What other people think of you is none of your business.
21. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
22. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
23. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
25. Make peace with your past so it won't screwup the present.
26. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take
no for an answer.
27. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,
we'd grab ours back.
28. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.
29. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to
you and no one else.
30. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it
for a special occasion. Today is special.

Happy Friday :)

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