This will probably my status on the upcoming vacation. I haven't really had the time to read real books ever since we started the semester so I am planning to do so after it. I think I badly need to freshen my mind and engage myself once again to the stories of the "other" world. Most books are very helpful because they can sometimes give answers to our questions in life. Some have answered mine; it might answer yours too.
Quotable Quotes from one of my favorite books:
Tuesdays with Morrie
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you shouldn't take anything for granted."
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
" Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."
"Learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live."
"The facr is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family."
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from your family, you don't have much at all."
"There's no experience like having children. That's all. There's no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."
"Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
"By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head evenm you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what giref is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.' "
"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."
"Do the kinds of things that come fro the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back."
"Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potentials, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now', you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it."
"It's not just other people we need to forgive; we also need to forgive ourselves. For ll the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened."
"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You can live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nutured while you were here."
"Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own."
xoxo,
Jeanne
Quotable Quotes from one of my favorite books:
Tuesdays with Morrie
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you shouldn't take anything for granted."
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
" Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."
"Learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live."
"The facr is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family."
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from your family, you don't have much at all."
"There's no experience like having children. That's all. There's no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."
"Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
"By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head evenm you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what giref is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.' "
"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."
"Do the kinds of things that come fro the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back."
"Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potentials, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now', you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it."
"It's not just other people we need to forgive; we also need to forgive ourselves. For ll the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened."
"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You can live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nutured while you were here."
"Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own."
xoxo,
Jeanne
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