Beautiful & Anonymous

Several beautiful quotes by unknown authors.

 
A girl asked a boy if she was pretty. He said no.
She asked him if he wanted to be with her forever.
He said no.
She then asked him if he would cry if she walked away.
He again said no.
She had heard too much.
She needed to leave.
As she walked away, he grabbed her arm and told her to stay, he said,
“You’re not pretty, you’re beautiful. I don’t want to be with you forever, I need to be with you forever. I wouldn’t cry if you walked away, I would die.”

 

The spaces between your fingers were created so that another’s could fill them in.

 

Have you ever wondered which hurts the most:
saying something and wishing you had not,
or saying nothing, and wishing you had?

 

The following quote is not by an unknown author, but it has to be here none the less:

Work like you don’t need the money,
love like you’ve never been hurt
and dance like no one is watching.

Randall G Leighton

A matter of equipment

A couple went on vacation to a fishing resort up north. The husband liked to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife liked to read. One morning the husband returned after several hours of fishing and decided to take a short nap. Although she wasn’t familiar with the lake, the wife decided to take the boat. She rowed out a short distance, anchored, and returned to reading her book.
 
Along came the sheriff in his boat. He pulled up alongside her and said, “Good morning Ma’am. What are you doing?” “Reading my book,” she replied…as she thought to herself, “isn’t it obvious?”
“You’re in a restricted fishing area,” he informed her.
“But officer, I’m not fishing, Can’t you see that?”, she said.
“Yes, but you have all the equipment. I’ll have to take you in and write you up.” replied the sheriff.
“If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with rape,” snapped the irate woman.
“But I haven’t even touched you.” groused the sheriff.
“Yes, that’s true,” she replied, “but you do have all the equipment.

Dropping the towel

Woman Drying Herself, painting by DegasA man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs.
 
When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.”
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.
 
The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, “Who was that?”
 
“It was Bob the next door neighbour,” she replies.
 
“Great!” the husband says, “did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

Outlooks on Life

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Perception, painting by Sabina Nore

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land,
or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Quotes by Helen Keller. Painting by Sabina Nore.

Charles Bukowski

“Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

Charles Bukowski

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.
An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

Charles Bukowski

The Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction
This is the law by which we’re creating our lives. The Law of Attraction states that like attracts like: debt attracts debt, negativity attracts negativity, failure attracts failure. At the other end of the spectrum, wealth attracts wealth, positivity attracts positivity, and success attracts success.

We transmit energy constantly; others pick up on that energy and gravitate towards us (or are repelled by us). The Secret is the most recent incarnation of the Law of Attraction, which states that like attracts like. It’s as simple as that.

Detail from The Wave by Sabina Nore

Detail from The Wave by Sabina Nore

You’re a positive person when you:

1. Stay in touch with your dark side and weaknesses, and are willing to grow towards healing and strength
2. See the positive qualities in other people
3. Feel compassion towards yourself and the world (we’re all doing the best we can!)
4. Listen to – and try to understand – other perspectives, regardless of how different
5. Give the benefit of the doubt
6. Express your true self in thoughts and actions, gently and honestly (and free others to do the same!)
7. Share your negative thoughts and emotions
8. Celebrate the success and happiness of other people
9. Feel fear and defeat, and keep persevering anyway
10. Follow your dreams and desires

Love Passion Obsession

Love

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
Mohandas Gandhi
 
“And think not you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Khalil Gibran
 
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
Euripides
 
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
“If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.”
Tanis HalfElven (Dragonlance)

Passion

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Angela Monet
 
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ”
Carl W. Buechner
 
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
Denis Diderot
 
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
E. M. Forster
 
“It’s the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”
Rebecca West

Obsession

“Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion.”
Paul Carvel
 
“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist’s obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”
Vince Aletti
 
“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”
Henry Moore

 

Dictionary Definition of
“Love”
 
1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
Dictionary Definition of
“Passion”
 
1. A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.
2.
a. Ardent love.
b. Strong sexual desire; lust.
c. The object of such love or desire.
Dictionary Definition of
“Obsession”
 
1. Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

 

Extinguish Thou My Eyes

Extinguish Thou my eyes: I still can see Thee,
deprive my ears of sound: I still can hear Thee,
and without feet I still can come to Thee,
and without voice I still can call to Thee.Sever my arms from me, I still will hold Thee
with all my heart as with a single hand,
arrest my heart, my brain will keep on beating,
and Should Thy fire at last my brain consume,
the flowing of my blood will carry Thee.		 Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehn,
wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören,
und ohne Füße kann ich zu dir gehn,
und ohne Mund noch kann ich dich beschwören.Brich mir die Arme ab, ich fasse dich
mit meinem Herzen wie mit einer Hand,
halt mir das Herz zu, und mein Hirn wird schlagen,
und wirfst du in mein Hirn den Brand,
so werd ich dich auf meinem Blute tragen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love Poems

Sonnet CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare

 

Marriage, painting by Sabina Nore

 

Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?.

Then seek not, sweet, the “If” and “Why”
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.

Christopher Brennan

PS: You can vote for these poems on Deep Spirits.

Is it a game?

What do most people not know about you?

The task is fairly simple… write down 5 things that most people don’t know about you.

5 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me
1. I brush my teeth after every meal.
2. I drink coffee all day long.
3. I don’t want to live in the city.
4. I received my first marriage proposal at the age of 6.
5. I have to paint every day, or else I feel strange (not in a good way).

You can add your 5 things below!

Magic (of) Numbers

Feel free to try it out yourself:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10 = 1111111111

Sonnet XVII

Lovers by Nicoletta TomasI do not love you as if you were the salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

 

Pablo Neruda

 

The term “sonnet” derives from the Provençal word “sonet” and the Italian word “sonetto”, both meaning “little song”. By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure. The conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history.

PS: You can vote for this poem on Deep Spirits.

Hang Drum!

What an absolutely beautiful instrument…

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Hang Drum

Like a 1950s flying saucer, the Hang drum’s sound is out of this world!

I would love to have one of these, but it seems they are not so easy to get a hold of.

 

About the Hang (Hang Drum)
Hang means “hand” in the Bernese language, and is pronounced “hung or hong”. The Hang was developed in Switzerland. It was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and the study of the diverse collection of instruments from around the world, such as Gongs, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, bells, etc. The instrument is played with the hands. Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note. The hemispehres are hardened by a process known as gas-nitriding. This is a thermal treatment process in which nascient hydrogen atoms diffuse into the steel and form nitride compounds with many of the alloys in the steel.