Rebel Child

"Rebel children, 

I urge you, 

fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory."

Russell Brand

MySpot: Conquering Summer

"Just feel the magic in the air and the power in the breeze, 

Feel the energy of the plants, the bushes and the trees, 

Let yourself be surrounded by nature at its best, 

Calm yourself, focus and let magic do the rest."

Sally Walker

MySpot: Seeing the Grey amongst the Black & White

"When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. 

Black or white. 

Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside 

and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. 

Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. 

But most things in the world aren't either! 

Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. 

And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, 

we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. 

And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. 

Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, 

and He dances on the grey! 

Grey is okay."

C. JoyBell C.

MySpot: Winter Is on My Head

 

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, 

so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, 

so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

Jean Paul Richter

MySpot: The Cold of the Winter

"In the bleak midwinter

Frosty wind made moan,

Earth stood hard as iron,

Water like a stone;

Snow had fallen, snow on snow,

Snow on snow,

In the bleak midwinter,

Long ago."

Christina Rossetti - A Christmas Carol

In the Bleak Midwinter

"My dear,

In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.

In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.

In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.

I realized, through it all, that…

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. 

For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, 

within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,

Albert Camus"

MemorySpot: Love Direction

"Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, 

but looking outward in the same direction."

Antione Saint-Exupery

MySpot: Things Haven't Always Been a Walk in the Park

 

"Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult."

William Somerset Maugham