Heaven knows...

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard heart.

--Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Broken Dream

Have you ever been so close to having a dream come true that you couldn't bear to stay because you were afraid that it would all disappear? So you run away.

I have. And I wonder what would have happened if I had stayed....

This song that I found today brought it all back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6j5V1lE7U

Stars

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."

--Bill Watterson

One memorable day

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

--Charles Dickens in Great Expectations

Good morning, Belle

...and a good morning to you!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyP4kuvXe9A

O you must not be frightened...

O you must not be frightened ...if a sadness rises up before you larger than you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and all that do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

--(Rainer Maria Rilke--Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 8--Excerpt)

She remembered...

"At last she remembered her dream, rushed to the grass-plot, and there she saw him lying, apparently dead."

--from Beauty and the Beast