There and Back Again

Watching: Survivor - Vanuatu
Reading: The Word (Irving Wallace)
Pondering: A day without laughter is a day wasted. (Charlie Chaplin)

I was going through what I like to call my treasure chest the other night and found my old, old journals from way back. In the pages of one of them, towards the end of the book, I found these random quotes/poems I used to collect and list in a book under the heading “apple of the day.” I remember how I loved to collect them back then. Here’s a few that still makes me ponder:

“Quien bien te quiere te har`a llorar.” (Whoever really loves you will make you cry.) - Spanish Proverb

“But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever. Had we never loved so blindly, never met - or never parted - we had ne’er been brokenhearted.” - Robert Burns

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” - Charlie Chaplin

“But sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience.” - Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” - Carl Jung

“You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. Without it, you go down to defeat.” - Charlie Chaplin

“If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” - Kahlil Gibran

“His thoughts were slow, his words were few and never formed to glisten but he was a joy to all his friends - you should have heard him listen.” - Unknown

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you have left open.” - John Barrymore

“As long as a secret is secure in your heart, you are its master and you can ride on it. As soon as you disclose it, it becomes your master and rides on you.” - Anonymous

“Life is but a stream, I go a fishing in.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying. And the same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying.” - Robert Harrick

“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower; hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.” - William Blake

“Write it in your heart that everyday is the best day of the year.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” - H. E. Fosdick

“Most of us spend 59 minutes an hour living in the past with regret for lost joys, or shame for things badly done - both utterly hopeless and weakening - or in a future wish we either long for or dread. The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable.” I.L. Miller

“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” - Millicent Fenwick