Lauren's+Life+Lessons

http://alongtheriverinthevalley.wikispaces.com Life in all it's complexities, trial and errors, comes down to a basic concept. We live and we share what we have lived. People can try to script it down into a few base ideas and philosophies always lackng in some fundamental area. To ask yourself, "What I believe," is actually a step in itself. Then, idealy we have to stop and reflect on our most cherished beliefs. We find that what I consider to be the unadaulterated truth differs from yours, but in the end the common pursuits fill the gap.

 Nothing sure in this life but death and taxes. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

If a man can gap the bridge between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, Then maybe he was a great man.

Music is the harmonic connection between all living things.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know //nothing//.



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you //not// to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

I could have died for love- but I was born for living. I could have been a somebody but since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm wher each shall take His chamber

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as though you'll die today. I cannot sleep for dreaming, I cannot judge another. To hell with luck. I'll bring my own luck.

But man cannot be defeated. He can be destroyed but never defeated. She carried her head high enough- even when we believed that she was fallen.

//East of Eden Timshell-// Thou mayest live//.// And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. 

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

For I was forced to fall back on the unsatifactory conlusion, that while, beyond doubt, There are combinations of objects which have the power of effecting us, beyond our depth.

Come good sir, let the sun shine from behind the cloud First lay aside your black veil.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

The heart- allowed me no room for hesitation.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I am satisfied -- I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Who says I can't be free From all of the things that I used to be Rewrite my history Who says I can't be free.

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