Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Quotes from Oprah.com


"In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment." --Ellen Glasgow

"Yet discovery, in the reading of a great original work, does not depend on its initial newness to us. No matter how often we begin it again, it seems to...expand again ahead of us." --Eudora Welty

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." --Anna Quindlen

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." --Paul Auster

"Through the use of books, I had the whole world at my feet, could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything." --Benjamin Carson

"A great book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it." --William Styron

"In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. " --Joan Didion

"I like the shape of muscle, and I like to have the muscle to move with power in the world." --Joanna Frueh

"Quick, name something wonderful about your body. Did the answer come easily, or are you stumped?" --Oprah Winfrey

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Promises

We say times change and so should we, but what about the promises that we make.
Are they bound to eternity or do they change their flavors with time?
Are promises meant to be broken?
Is making a promise a temporary thing in life?
More often I see that we end up keeping promises that have a short life span and we keep them up with the same enthusiasm sincerity and willingness, where as, those which are made for years on stretch like in marriages, over time becomes like a thorn in the throat. This I think is probably because the promise looses its true meaning.
So I feel if one makes a promise they should remember and it is equally important to renew it. Failing to do this is what creates room for assumptions, disrespect, miscommunication, misunderstandings, and one never finds the other person special enough (they take each other for granted). So promises by itself are never for life until we work on it.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Lost

Fresh as ripe lime i bounced around,
Fragrance enticing the senses
To grab me all stretched their tentacles
But I rolled smilingly to you

My eyes fluttering
Drowned in the aromas of fantasy and love
I chose the thorn
Ignoring the piercing edge with a shiny smile

Bounced on you playfully, enjoying the pricks
Smoothly went in the thorn and I oozed out crying
Crying but still smiling for it was you
But the drill went deep till it touched the core

My emotions entangled and squeezed out of life
My bouncy youthfulness stilled to death
Sacrificed the life for the death called love

I lost my youth I lost my smile
I lost my aim and faltered around
My focus lost I am still struggling to find
The me in ME and life that I am

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Smile

"Smile a while
and while you smile
smile a mile"

These were the words i penned when i was in school. Just to check if i can spread these words so that i comes back to me one day i wrote it in all slam books, in our college toilets(sorry for that) and where ever people could read it. Guess what--- last year somebody wrote the same words for me and told that these words were written by somebody famous and refused to believe my account about it. I guess i did become famous , though i cannot prove my claim to it. Interesting though!!!

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