[Sojourn4]

The Man In The Glass
By Peter "Dale" Winbrow

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father or mother or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in you life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum
And think you're a wonderful guy.
But the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.



He's the fellow to please-never mind all the rest,
For he's with you clear to the end.
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass.
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.

[Raichan]

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.
-ELIZABETH GILBERT

Sometimes, truth isn’t good enough; sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.
-THE DARK NIGHT

But I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.
EAT, PRAY, LOVE - ELIZABETH GILBERT

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
AYN RAND

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Every passing minute is another chance to be who you desire to be. Source : http://twitter.com/ihatequotes

[Terrestrial Wisdom]

Just an amazing heart-felt song...




Sometimes, I feel the fear of...
Uncertainty stinging clear.
And I can't help but ask myself
how much I'll let the fear take the wheel and steer.

It's driven me before,
and it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal.
But lately I'm beginning to find that I,
should be the one behind the wheel.

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes.
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
I'll be there.

So if I decide to waiver my
chance to be one of the hive
Will I choose water over wine
and hold my own and drive?
Ohh-oh-oohh

It's driven me before
and it seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.
But lately I'm beginning to find that
when I drive myself my light is found.

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes, yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
I'll be there.

Would you choose water over wine...
Hold the wheel and drive?

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes, yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
I'll be there.

d-d-doo
d-d-doo
d-d-do d-doo
no no nooo
d-d-do d-doo

d-d-doo
d-d-doo
d-d-do d-doo
no no no no no

[Terrestrial Wisdom]

All of Incubus' songs are amazing...





Bat your eyes girl
We'll be otherworldly
Count your blessings
Seduce a stranger
What's so wrong with
Being happy
Kudos to those who
See through sickness yeah
Over and over and over and over and ooooo

She woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
She called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by
I suggest we
Learn to love ourselves before it's
Made illegal
When will we learn?
When will we change?
Just in time to
See it all knock down
Those left standing...will make millions
Writing books on the way it should have been

She woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by

Floating in this
Cosmic jacuzzi
We are like frogs oblivious
Soon the water
Starting to boil
No one flinches
We all flow face down

She woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by
Pass you by

[Raichan]

Remember never surrender, because the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore you from any scope.
RAZIA’S SHADOW - FORGIVE DURDEN

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
MADAME DE GIRARDIN

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.
AYN RAND

If your friend brings nothing to your life but grief or stress. She’s not really your friend
SOPHIA BUSH


Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
MAYA ANGELOU

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou


Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH

[Latoslapise]

Believe in yourself
Be who you want to be...

I will shed no tear,I will face my fear all alone
All the doubts in mind,I will leave behind

Lost in the dark,seek for the light
I hold out my hand into the endless night

To get through the time in strife in my life
I tell myself over to never give in

Feel your heartbeat inside you
Don't be afraid
Keep the faith
That's the key to all the doors ahead
Open up your way with the brighter hopes for today
The sun will rise upon your way

Believe in yourself
You're not alone
Believe in your strength
You'll find your way


My weakness inside is something i can't hide from your eyes
So fragile and fair,so much i can bear

Breaking the chain that binds you from pain
Through gentle rain,you're free once again

Searching for truth and love in my life
'Till i find my own i will never give up


Listen to the voice in your heart
Deep in your soul
Keep the faith
Let it work a miracle in your life
Never look back on sorrow and let go of your pain
The light of love shines upon your way

Feel your heartbeat inside you
Don't be afraid
Keep the faith
That's the key to all the doors ahead
Open up your way with the brighter hopes for today
The sun will rise upon your way

Believe in yourself
You're not alone
Believe in your strength
You'll find your way

[Raichan]

''There is the voice of reason. There are also the voice of an inner connection you have with yourself alone, the voice of intuition and the voice of passion. Do not be afraid to use them in a world that places too much value on the surface. No one has a bigger influence on how to love yourself other than you. Even when others validate you, if you don't validate yourself, you will continue to feel empty. Fight for a life that feels real to you'' Me.

We often question ourselves too much, more than other people even when other people are secretly enjoying the effects of their judgments.

This was an old quote.

I'll make it into a better one instead, since I've changed over the years;

With your voices and capabilities, defend justice with your heart -- not to be a hero, not to have a name and not with the idea that you would change the world overnight, but because even the world needs several more flickers of light against the gloom. Defend it now, defend it with a few words or right close to home, do not be afraid of not making enough difference because through time you will see it is all part of a greater purpose. - Me.

[LittleT]

'I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between the sky and sea like a grey skull. Maybe, forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were part of me.They were my landscape'- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
The great revelation had never come. The great revelation never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck in the dark. The privileged moment is, then, transitory and recognised as such by those that experience it, and yet it transcends time'-Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life' -Virginia Woolf
'This is a marketing holocaust, twenty four hours a day, for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death. So, to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination. To cultivate our own consciousness. Our own belief systems. We all need these skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.'- Harry Barthes in Detachment
'it's up to you to find beauty in the ugliest of days'- random quote I found on Tumblr.
'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift'-Albert Einstein
Embrace fanaticism. Harness foie de viure by pursuing intense interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others'-Elizabeth Wurtzel'Man's biggest problem is that his behavior is more easily influenced by small, but immediate and definite reinforcers than it is by large, but distant and uncertain reinforcers'-i forgot who stated this, I read it in a psychology book...

[StaceofBass]

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always". --Mahatma Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." --Mahatma Gandhi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world". --Mahatma Gandhi

[Raichan]