"You aren't going to be her first, her last, or her only.
She’s loved before, she will again,
but if she loves you now what else matters?
She's not perfect.
You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect.
But if she can make you laugh at least once,
cause you to think twice,
and admits to being human and making mistakes,
hold onto her and give her the most you can
She's not going to be thinking about you every moment,
but she will give you a part of her that she knows you could break.
Don’t hurt her,
don’t change her,
and don’t expect more than she can give you.
Don’t analyze.
Smile when she makes you happy,
yell when she makes you mad,
and miss her when she’s not there.
Love hard when there’s love to be had."
- Bob Marley

i was named ASAJJ VENTRESS

ASAJJ VENTRESS

sometimes you have to be apart from people you love.
but it doesn't mean you love them any less.
sometimes it even makes you love them more.

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love." And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said: "When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself... He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

...If you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."

I am a dreamer.........

"I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-

If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don't need to wish her anything, for she'll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"


-Fyodor Dostoevsky (White Nights)

William James

William James, that most American philosopher, once advised: "begin to be now what you will be hereafter". One might ask how? Our deepest guide in our beginning to be, is our imagination. Our ability to project, and mold our future selves from the myriad possibilities before us. And to imagine takes courage and effort. But it gives us hope too, hope that we can author our own destinies, hope that rightness of the decisions we make now will be borne out in the future. As much as we can be overwhelmed by the world, we can also draw hope from it. From beauty, from promise, from the simple fact that we have the talent to imagine our future selves from all the possible lives that pass before our eyes. We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

When the voices of children are heard on the green.

When the voices of children are heard on the green.
And laughing is heard on the hill. My heart is at rest within my breast.
And everything else is still.
Then come home my children, the sun is gone down.
And the dews of night arise.
Come, come, let us play, and let us away.
Till the morning appears in the skies.
No, no, let us play, for it is yet day.
And we cannot go to sleep.
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly.
And the hills are all covered with sheep.
Well, well, go and play till the light fades away.
And then go home to bed.
The little ones leaped and shouted and laughed.
And all the hills echoed.