Harmonious Intentions

poignant musings.

You are not responsible for the care and feeding of other peoples' monkeys.
-Leila Gunn, referring, of course, to the monkeys on other peoples' backs

From here on out... we don't settle. We don't hang on to things that MIGHT work if they changed some day, we don't try to make our relationships into what we want them to be, we try to find relationships that ARE and continue to be what we want them to be from the start.
-Me, talking to a friend about relationships, which became repeated by myself and others so often as to become known as "The Tao of Becca"

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
-Marcel Marceau

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
-Martin Luther King, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, 12/10/1964

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-Mahatma Ghandi

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
-Ben Franklin

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human
loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a
comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one
desires to be.
--Anna Louise Strong

What we do in dreams we also do when
we are awake: we invent and fabricate
the person with whom we associate - and
immediately forget we have done so.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
-T. S. Eliot

Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Either Heaven or Hell will have continuous background music.
Which one you think it will be tells a lot about you.
-Bill Vaughan

To love someone is to see the face of God.
-Victor Hugo

[on AIDS and the Family Values motif:] We cannot praise the family
and then ignore the virus that destroys it.
-Mary Fisher

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead [Founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation]

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
-Arthur Fleming

All people on the planet, regardless of their unique heritage or tradition, are searching for a larger purpose. We all seek to give special meaning to our lives...When all is said and done, to be truly educated means examining one's own values and beliefs.
-Ernest Boyer, Sr. 1928-1995, [former U.S. Commissioner of Education]

Music is love in search of a word.
-Source unknown

Listen closely to the music of your dreams,
and you will hear a symphony
played forever in your heart.
-Source unknown

God gives the heart a voice to sound it's joy... and calls it Music.
-Source unknown

Music holds the secret, to know it can make you whole.
It's not just the game of notes, it's the sounds inside your soul.
-Source unknown

For the common things of every day
God gave men words, in the common way.
And he gave to the poet, words to reveal
The deeper things that people feel
But for the heights and depths no word could reach,
God gave men music - the soul's own speech.
-Source unknown

If you hate a person, you hate in them something that is a part of yourself.
What is not part of ourselves doesn't bother us.
-Source unknown

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
-Source unknown