Thoughts on a sunny Sunday morning

“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”

— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

Hurdled in

'And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world'

- Anne Frank

Expectation

... is the root of all heartache.

— William Shakespeare

So true. 

And so begins a new decade :)

Happy New Year! I hope 2011 brings with it lots of happiness, love, solace, laughter, cherished memories and surprises- the good kind :)

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land”

-Che Guevara

[Thanks for this Jo. Couldn't have said it better]

Simplicity

"The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame…. Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air…. The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragically. He goes on his merry way, his heart light, his soul at peace, without a goal, without nostalgia, without impatience. The world is his kingdom, and suffices him. The present is his eternity, and delights him. He has nothing to prove, since he has appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints."

- André Comte-Sponville

Constants

“I’ve learned that: goodbyes will always hurt, pictures can never replace being there, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heros often go unsung.”

— Unknown

My lyrical addiction

‎'Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it'

- Sarah Dessen

6th sense?

Sometimes, you just know. You hear the opening bars of a song, and know the goosebumps are on the way. You make a new friend, and know that it's the beginning of a lifetime of memories. You walk out of the airport in a country, and know you've come to the right place.

That instant synaptic connection.

Maybe the universe does have a plan for all of us :)

Sometimes you gotta just, be.

“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.”

— John Lennon