Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Perspective
it's so funny how your perspective of things change at different points in your life - and not just the age thing...but like how you think about a certain quote today can be completely different tomorrow if you had different experiences. I was just looking at some of my drafts and reading how I started the blog and I just couldn't finish it - I just didn't feel the same way I did when I was "inspired" by the quote the first time. But the funny thing is - I'm still inspired by the quote, but in a completely different way! Just imagine all the 'alterations' our mind has made about certain situations larger than a quote.... any who.. just thought that was interesting... not like this blog entry - sorry.
Friday, January 23, 2009
"Stop This World" - Ne-Yo
Okay, so, I didn't know if I should put this on this blog, but, hey, it's mine and I can do whatever I want! I originally just wanted to put famous quotes or whatever here, but, I can't help do songs as well... I mean, they have quotes in them too! :) So, here is what I think about this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxZ6moPP_8&feature=related
Okay... First, just let me say YES!!!!! Oh my Goodness.... Ne-yo, you fucking nailed it!!!! I think it's every womans dream to make a man feel like this... He did such a great job of explaining the feeling of just being in love. This song moved me so much - and yes, I'm a little bias since I'm a hopeless romantic... but, for real- for real... this song alone has made Ne-yo one of my favorite male artists. There are a few lines in the song I want to single out though, most of them are from the 2nd verse...:
I wanna start with the chorus...
" It's too good to be true
I don't deserve you
I never felt a love strong enough to
Stop this world from spinning"
Alright - wow, the last line is so powerful, and I don't think anyone who hasn't been in love will fully be able to apprehend what he's talking about. It's so beautiful when you are in this point in a relationship and it's sooooo good, that you don't even feel like you deserve to have it, just absolutely beautiful. The thing I like most about the last line is how he took the common saying "my world revolves around you" and took it to a whole other level - like, no, you have stopped my world, I'm am in complete awe - that's just how amazing your love is... like whoa dude.... ummm, can you teach seminars? hahahaha for real though. okay, moving on....
"In her smile is the most amazing dream
And in her eyes I fall asleep"
okay... another WOW moment.. maybe because I've experienced this myself.. it's been said that the eyes are the gateway to the soul, and I'm a believer - this line just paints the most beautiful picture of love in my mind... all the hope and promise that love carries and how it can really just feel so.... euphoric. This is absolutely my most favorite line.
Thank you Ne-yo for expressing love, in the most amazing way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYxZ6moPP_8&feature=related
Okay... First, just let me say YES!!!!! Oh my Goodness.... Ne-yo, you fucking nailed it!!!! I think it's every womans dream to make a man feel like this... He did such a great job of explaining the feeling of just being in love. This song moved me so much - and yes, I'm a little bias since I'm a hopeless romantic... but, for real- for real... this song alone has made Ne-yo one of my favorite male artists. There are a few lines in the song I want to single out though, most of them are from the 2nd verse...:
I wanna start with the chorus...
" It's too good to be true
I don't deserve you
I never felt a love strong enough to
Stop this world from spinning"
Alright - wow, the last line is so powerful, and I don't think anyone who hasn't been in love will fully be able to apprehend what he's talking about. It's so beautiful when you are in this point in a relationship and it's sooooo good, that you don't even feel like you deserve to have it, just absolutely beautiful. The thing I like most about the last line is how he took the common saying "my world revolves around you" and took it to a whole other level - like, no, you have stopped my world, I'm am in complete awe - that's just how amazing your love is... like whoa dude.... ummm, can you teach seminars? hahahaha for real though. okay, moving on....
"In her smile is the most amazing dream
And in her eyes I fall asleep"
okay... another WOW moment.. maybe because I've experienced this myself.. it's been said that the eyes are the gateway to the soul, and I'm a believer - this line just paints the most beautiful picture of love in my mind... all the hope and promise that love carries and how it can really just feel so.... euphoric. This is absolutely my most favorite line.
Thank you Ne-yo for expressing love, in the most amazing way.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
..."Love with no need to preempt grievance..." - Elizabeth Alexander, part of the 2009 inaugrational poem
So, this part of the poem was part of a bigger quote, I feel like I have to include the whole thing in order to get the full effect... I don't too much like the middle part of the quote though... just the first line and the last....
"What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance." ----
Oh love, oh love.... how I love love!!! :)
I wrote this the day of the inauguration... I didn't finish it - but thought that this was said enough :)
I wrote this the day of the inauguration... I didn't finish it - but thought that this was said enough :)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. "
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Aint that the truth! This goes hand in hand with "If I knew then what I know now...". Man, the power of wisdom and understanding. The sad part is that when we finally achieve it and want to teach it and share it (wisdom that is)- the ones who are seeking it won't listen. They are seeking it in the wrong places... the same places that we sought for it. They too must chase after whatever wisdom they desire, or think that they may possess, only then will they gain the wisdom, wisdom that life isn't a race, or a chase, or something to hurry and get to the finish line...
Hindsight, or retrospection... the fucking beauty of these things.... realizing later that what you did was sort of stupid, and knowing that you can't go back to fix anything about it now... it's a m-f-er! it's a funny thing though... because, just think how much happier people, life, or maybe man kind would be if we didn't learn from previous experience... how naive we would all be...how sadly innocent...no one would want to change... no one would want to grow... no one would try to prevent stupid shit from happening again...
And think of it the other way... if we had all the wisdom we would ever have at birth or close to it... no one would ever take risks, no one would challenge authority.. There would still be no need or room for change... growth... So perhaps we are created exactly this way.... to live forward and understand backwards... because that is the only way that man can survive, when faced with situations that we are destined to fail at...just to learn that you shouldn't do it... Perhaps thats what those seven deadly sins are... anyhow... I'm obviously way too tired, I cant even stay on the subject... guess I'll call it a night.. until the next quote... ! :) G'night.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Aint that the truth! This goes hand in hand with "If I knew then what I know now...". Man, the power of wisdom and understanding. The sad part is that when we finally achieve it and want to teach it and share it (wisdom that is)- the ones who are seeking it won't listen. They are seeking it in the wrong places... the same places that we sought for it. They too must chase after whatever wisdom they desire, or think that they may possess, only then will they gain the wisdom, wisdom that life isn't a race, or a chase, or something to hurry and get to the finish line...
Hindsight, or retrospection... the fucking beauty of these things.... realizing later that what you did was sort of stupid, and knowing that you can't go back to fix anything about it now... it's a m-f-er! it's a funny thing though... because, just think how much happier people, life, or maybe man kind would be if we didn't learn from previous experience... how naive we would all be...how sadly innocent...no one would want to change... no one would want to grow... no one would try to prevent stupid shit from happening again...
And think of it the other way... if we had all the wisdom we would ever have at birth or close to it... no one would ever take risks, no one would challenge authority.. There would still be no need or room for change... growth... So perhaps we are created exactly this way.... to live forward and understand backwards... because that is the only way that man can survive, when faced with situations that we are destined to fail at...just to learn that you shouldn't do it... Perhaps thats what those seven deadly sins are... anyhow... I'm obviously way too tired, I cant even stay on the subject... guess I'll call it a night.. until the next quote... ! :) G'night.
Intro
So, I've decided to create this blog so that i can comment on famous and not so famous quotes... so, when I post, I'll post the quote as the title and my "2 sense" after :)
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