The Prettiest Girl

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"God help you if you are an ugly girl,

Course too pretty is also your doom

Because everyone harbours a secret hatred

For the prettiest girl in the room.

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God help you if you are a phoenix

And you dare to rise up from the ash,

A thousand eyes will smoulder with jealousy

While you are just flying back..."

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(Lyrics: "32 Flavors" Ani Difranco)

Things I'll Never Say

If I could say what I want to say,

I'd say, "I wanna blow you away,

Be with you every night,

Am I squeezing you too tight?"

If I could say what I wanna see,

I want to see you go down

On one knee, "Marry me today."

Yes, I'm wishing my life away.

With these things I"ll never say

- Avril Lavigne

find a way to smile & never let it get away

Goodbyes will always hurt.

Pictures never replace having been there.

Memories (good or bad) will bring tears.

And words can never replace ‘those’ feelings.

Le Chateau Frontenac

"You Can Turn Off The Sun,

But I'm Still Gonna Shine."

~ Jason Mraz

"Don't"

"Don’t walk too close. Don’t breathe so soft.

Don’t talk so sweet. Don’t sing. Don’t lay oh so near...

Please don’t let me fall in love with you again."

~ Jewel

Basilique Sainte-Anne de Beaupre

"Learning is finding out what you already know.

Doing is demonstrating that you know it.

Teaching is reminding others that they

know just as well as you.

We are all Learners, Doers, Teachers."

Richard Bach

Keep Holding On

"You're not alone, Together we stand

I'll be by your side, You know I'll take your hand

When it gets cold, And it feels like the end

There's no place to go, You know I won't give in

No I won't give in"

Saskatchewan Landscape

I wanna walk & not run!

I wanna skip and not fall!

I wanna look at the horizon

& not see a building standing tall!

Laughter

"You can't deny laughter;

when it comes, it plops down in

your favourite chair and stays as long as it wants."

~ Stephen King

Just Be My Friend

Do not walk behind me, I may not lead.

Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Just walk beside me & be my friend.

God & Sky & Green

I'd love to live in a forest room
With moss beneath my feet,
And the ceiling made of leafy green
Where boughs of pine trees meet.

The lighting I'd like indirest

Just sunlight trickling through,

And here and there between the leaves,

A patch of Heaven's blue.

Oh, I'd love a little forest room

With walls of roughened bark,

And my only entertainment

Just the sweet song of the lark.

I'd let the whole world pass me by

And live a life serene,

With all the things I'd ever need -

Just God and sky and green.

~ Gelia K. Parker

Promises

God didn't promise days without pain,

laughter without sorrow,

or sun without rain...

...but He did promise STRENGTH for the day,

COMFORT for the tears,

and LIGHT for the way!

Only...

"Only as high as I reach can I grow,

Only as far as I seek can I go,

Only as deep as I look can I see,

Only as much as I dream can I be."

- Karen Ravn

(Montreal, 2008)

Worth Fighting For

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...

That's why people are so cynical about it.

It really is worth FIGHTING for,

BEING BRAVE for,

RISKING EVERYTHING for...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,

you risk even more."

~ Erica Jong

Secret Love

"I hid my love when young til I / Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; / I hid my love to my despire / Till I could not bear to look at light: / I dare not gaze upon her face / But left her memory in each place; / Where e'er I saw a wild flower lie / I kissed and bade my love goodbye. / I met her in the greenest dells / Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells / The lost breeze kissed her bright blue eye, / The bee kissed and went singing by, / A sunbeam found a passage there, / A gold chain round her neck so fair; / As secret as the wild bee's song / She lay there all the summer long. / I hid my love in field and town / Til e'en the breeze would knock me down, / The bees seemed singing ballads oer, / The fly's bass turned a lion's roar; / And even silence found a tongue, / To haunt me all the summer long; / The riddle nature could not prove / Was nothing else but secret love."

by John Clare

Real, Unconditional Love

"I have never met a person whose greatest need

was anything other than

REAL, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

You can find it in a simple act of kindness

toward someone who needs help...

...There is no mistaking LOVE.

You FEEL it in your HEART.

It is the common fiber of LIFE,

the FLAME that heats our SOUL,

ENERGIZES our SPIRIT &

supplies PASSION to our LIVES.

It is our connection to GOD and to EACH OTHER."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Twilight

"It's Twilight. It's the safest time of day for us...

The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way...

The end of another day, the return of the night...

Darkness

is so predictable, don't you think?"

Just Give

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally,

without expecting anything in return. To just give...

That takes courage,

because we don't want to fall on our faces

or leave ourselves open to hurt."

~ Madonna

Go Where There is No Path & Leave a Trail

"Looking back, I have this to regret;

That too often when I loved, I did not say so."
- David Grayson

"what does not kill me makes me stronger"

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow;

We must fail in order to know;

Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are

Washed away with tears."