from By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept...
'somewhere, this river joins another, then another, until--far from my heart and sight--all of them merge with the sea...may my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day i cried for him...'
'all love stories are the same.'
'yes, we are going to suffer--but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. and one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.'
'pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. perhaps this person will never be disappointed; perhaps she wont suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. but when that person looks back..she will hear her heart saying...what have you done...'
'i could have...at any given point in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't.'
'i can read your eyes. i can read your heart. you are going to fall in love and suffer'
'i noticed that he was beggining to perspire, despite the chill in the air...no one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eye's. and any woman with the least bit of sensitivity can read the eyes of a man in love.'
'i had loved him--if a child can knoww hat love means.'
'sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadnes grips us...we recognize that the magic moment of the day has passed and that we've done nothing about it.'
'there are moments when you have to take a risk, to do crazy things.'
'i spend day after day with my texts, and notebooks, making this superhuman effort to purchase my own servitude...why do i want that job?what does it offer me as a human being, as a woman?'
'i kept thinking about how few things i would have had to tell my children and grandchildren if i hadn't come with him.'
'the love he was talking about only exists in fairy tales. in real life, love has to be possible. even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. anything else is fantasy.'
'to those wise enough to understand that sometimes love is nothing more than the foolishness of childhood.'
'the wise are wise only because they love. and the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love...'
'lovers need to know how to lose themselves and how to find themselves again.'
'anyone who can conquer her heart can conquer the world'
'to lose my heart to you with a poem...i wish i didnt have to control my heart. if i could surrender...if love were easy...i'd want to stay drunk and be free to kiss him...but no!'
'i dont know what his fears are, but i know my own. i dont need new fears--my own are enough.'
'but love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. for when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesnt even matter whether we can keep the love on our side. to love is to lose control.'
'no, no, i cannot allow such a crack to form. no matter how small.'
'love is a trap. when it appears, we see only its lights, not its shadows.'
'theres nothing deeper than love. in fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. in real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.'
'some people always have to be doing battle with someone, sometimes even with themselves, battling with their won lives.'
'i wasnt looking for anything--not for a man and certainly not for love...i knew he was going to turn my world upside down. my brain warned me, but my heart didnt want to take its advice.'
'why do we notice the speck in our eye but not the mountains, the fields, the olive groves?'
'i admire you and i admire the battle you are waging with your heart.'
'there are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.'
'life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown--even when we dont want to and when we think we dont need to.'
'i was certainly not going to be passionate about something that was impossible.'
'the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is.'
'because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart,and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.'
'and there are defeats. no one can avoid them. but its better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what youre fighting for.'
'..my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and then i would suffer.'
'the gods throw the dice, and they dont ask whether we want to be in the game or not...the gods dont want to know about your plans and your hopes. somewhere they're throwing the dice--and you are chosen. from then on, winning or losing is only a question of luck.'
'and the universe always conspires to help the dreamer...'
'the universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.'
'its risky falling in love.'
'ive been in love before. its like a narcotic. at first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. the next day, you want more. you're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. you think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget about them for three hours. but then you get used to that person and you begin to be completely dependent on them. now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. if he's not there, you feel like an addict who cant get a fix. and just as addicts, steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, youre willing to do anything for love...what a horrible way to put it.'
'i wished i were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart--someone with whom i could spend a little time with without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. with that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. we could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. i wouldnt have to worry about serious decisions and hard words.'
'...love's path is really complicated.'
'when we were quiet with each other, i was able to see how close i felt to him.'
'neither of us said anything. love doesnt need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.'
'...weak but tyring to give the impression of strength. fearful of everything but telling herself it wasnt fear...'
'trying to judge her future loves by the rules of her past suffering.'
'...love is always new. regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our lives, we always face a brand new situation. love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere..we have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. the moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. and to save us.'
'i had never forgotten love, even when it had deemed me unworthy of fighting for it. but love had been difficult, and i had been reluctant to cross its frontiers.'
'i needed a love that was possible.'
'i realized that i had known nothing of love before.'
'about vampires. those creatures of the night, locked inside themselves, desperately seeking company. incapable of loving.'
'a thousand times i wanted to take his hand, and a thousand times i stopped myself. i was still confused--i wanted to tell him i love him, but i dint know how to begin.'
'love never comes just a little at a time...'
'...truth resides where there is faith.'
'...if i belive that i knew, then i would in fact eventually know.'
'we are our own greatest surprise...'
'...be willing to make mistakes.'
'love had flooded my sould, and there was no way i could control it.'
'i am always better than i think and stronger than i believe.'
'my hand reached out for his and found it. now it was his heart that was beating faster--i could almost hear it in the silence.'
'those four days with him had made up for an entire year in which so little had happened.'
'every road that i travelled led back to you...i opened every letter of yours afraid that you would tell me you had found someone.'
'somewhere in the world, a home awaited us.'
'my heart needed no more suffering'
'if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in the ebst way possible. if he has to make a choice, may he make it now. then i will either wait for him or forget him.'
'waiting is painful. forgetting is painful. but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.'
'if this is your world, i want to learn to be part of it.'
'fear because it was all new to me, and what is new has always scared me.'
'...my heart had so many doubts and needed so many answers.'
'...it would be better to die thatn to fail to love.'
'even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth all the penny of its price.'
'love doesnt ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful...maybe its the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell...that's why you dont ask--you act.'
'men always have their reasons...but the fact is that they always wind up leaving.'
'dont be sad. one of these days, you'll find another man--one you can love without taking so many risks.'
'a fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from a hundredth. if i have to fall may it be from a high place.'
'...when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. if one person really wants us, everyone does. but if were alone, we become even more alone. life is strange.'
'the day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behaviour in certain ways--and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. but by then, you dont know what to say. the hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.'
'God is here right now, at our side...in order to find God, you have only to look around.'
'he has been present every day of my life--whether i wanted him there or not.'
'there is some point which we have to wonder whether all our efforts is worth it.'
'the fate of the mountains is terrible...they are destined to look out at the same scene forever.'
'no one leaves on a journey without knowing where they are going.'
'in the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment, and impossible dreams'
'the moment of that kiss contained every moment i had ever lived.'
'...no single day is the same as any other...'
'we can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. its one thing to feel you are on the right path, but its another to think that yours is the only path.'
'love perseveres. its men who change.'
'but how to explain the suffering because of a man? its not explainable.'
(hehehehe...in random order...^_^)
(hehehehe...in random order...^_^)
How to make a Falling Star |
Ingredients: 1/2 cup of naivety 3/4 cup of laughter 1/4 cup & 1 tsp. of insecurity |
Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of sadness. Sprinkle a bit of craziness (it's not complete without that!). Serve chilled with a smile. And recently, i discovered that if you add a pinch of faith, it'll be a lot better. Yum!*Do not overindulge!* |
When i lost you, I was the one who loved you most, but between us you lost more. For someday I can love someone the way that i loved you but you will never be loved again the way that i did...
everything happens for a reason, nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. illness, injury, failures, love lost, memories of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of one's soul. without the small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved straight flat road to nowhere. it would be safe and comfortable but uttery pointless...
do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others, it is because we are different that each of us is special...
do not let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. by living your life, one day at a time, you live all the days of your life...
do not be afraid to encounter risks, it is by taking risks that we learn how to be brave...
do not run through life so fast that you forget, not only where you have been, but also where you are going...
Humankind get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again...
We cannot make anyone love us. All we can do is let ourselves be loved.
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." - Eleonora Duse
"This is courage...to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." - Euripedes
"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." - George Iles
The hardest thing to do is to watch someone you love, love someone else.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then its not the end.
Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
Men are not worthy of precious tears, they just make us look terrible...
Its amazing the things you realize when you lose someone; you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for grantd the days doing nothing when you could have been with them. anyone can be taken at anytime in our lives, but we always wait until theyre gone to say the things we never had the courage to before
Watching you walk out of my life hasn't made me bitter or cynical about love, but rather, it has shown me that if i wanted so badly to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along...
in the movie "in the mood for love," if someone had a secret they didnt want to share, they go up to a mountain, find a tree, carve a hole in it and whisper the secret into the hole...then they cover it with mud, leaving the secret there forever...
this is my hole...