Fourteen

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

— John Burroughs

"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
--Malcolm Cowley

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
--Jack Kerouac

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
--W. Earl Hall

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, and the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
--Shel Silverstein

Dear Eurydice,
I miss you.
No--that's not enough.
-
Dear Eurydice,
Symphony for twelve instruments.

((he pauses.
he hears the music in his head))

Love,
Orpheus

(Eurydice, Scene II)

"Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life."
-Jeanette Winterson

^ I want to meet whoever wrote that

"Desire is definitely not enough; you gotta be relentless."
--Randy Jackson

"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."
-Forrest Gump


"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
-Oscar Wilde

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Play Suggestion- Eurydice


I cant explain it. It's abstract but-- Please read it.
I wont be able to go to sleep until I retype some quotes from it
so here goes--

Orpheus- "Maybe you should make up your own thoughts, instead of reading them in a book."
Eurydice- "I do. I do think up my own thoughts."
Orpheus- "I know you do. I love how you love books. Don't be mad."
(scene 1)

Eurydice- "It can be interesting to see if other people--like dead people who write books--agree or disagree with what you think."
(scene 1)

Orpheus- "Your hair will be my orchestra and--I love you."
(scene 1)

Loud Stone- "Listen to her the way you would listen to your own daughter, if she died to young and tried to speak to you across long distances."
(Movement II, scene 2)

Eurydice- "Orpheus never liked words He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.
If we were in a resturant, sometimes I would get embarrassed because Orpheus looked sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.
But I wanted to talk to him about my notions.
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in the moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful."
(Movement II, scene 16)

Orpheus- "The music sounds better in my head than it does in the world."
(Movement II, scene 17)

Eurydice-
Dear Orpheus,
I'm sorry. I dont know what came over me. I was afraid. Im not worthy of you. But I still love you, I think. Don't try to find me again. You would be lonely for music. I want you to be happy. I want you to marry again. I am going to write out instructions for your next wife.
To My Husband's Next Wife:
Be gentle.
Be sure to comb his hair when it's wet.
Don't fail to notice
that his face flushes pink
like a bride's
when you kiss him.
Give him lots to eat.
He forgets to eat and he gets cranky.
When he's sad,
kiss his forehead and I will thank you.
Because he is a young prince
and his robes are too heavy for him.
His crown falls down
around his ears.
I'll give this letter to a worm. I hope he finds you.
Love,
Eurydice

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Impromptu personal thought-

1

bottling emotions is a fruitless task
when you feel as though heart has swelled so much that you can't contain it,
you aren't meant to.

Thirteen

As I put down my pen,

I know someone, somewhere is picking up theirs.

I know that someone, somewhere is playing a guitar for the first time.

I know that someone, somewhere is dipping a paintbrush and marking a field of white.

I know that someone, somewhere is singing a song that’s never been sung.

Perhaps someone, somewhere will create something so beautiful and moving, it will change the world.

Perhaps that somewhere is here.

Perhaps that someone, is you."

-http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

— Max Eastman

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts."

-The Last Kiss (2006)-

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You know, I think you try a little harder when you’re scared."

— Rocky Balboa

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Maya Angelou

"I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life."

— American Beauty

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— e.e. cummings

I squeeze the fabric
of your clothes when we hug so
you can’t blow away.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"Regret for the things we do can be tampered with time. It is regret for the things we do not do that is inconsolable."

— Sydney J. Harris

"I’m convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and that our mission is to never let it."

— Felicity

"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
-Julian Barnes

Twelve

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

--Chuck Palahniuk




"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

Alexander Dumas

"And though she be but little, she is fierce"

--William Shakespeare

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

--Fred Rogers




You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
--Pablo Picasso




"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."
--Jonathan Safran Foer
(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)




“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

— William Shakespeare

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

--Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

--Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

--Gloria Naylor

"We read to know that we are not alone."

--C.S. Lewis



"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered.

‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’"

--A.A. Milne

Eleven

"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."

--The Great Gatsby

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."

--Confucius


"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
--Mark Twain

"If I am breathing,
if my heart still has a beat,
I am loving you."

--Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love."

--Sandra Bullock
Oscars acceptance speech for Best Actress

"If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining."

--Dave Dunseath

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

--Anne Frank

If you are weary
and your smile abandons you,
I will give you mine.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music.

Oh I bet music looks beautiful."

--Sydney Wells, The Eye

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

--Stephen King

"…There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless."

--Sara Zarr

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

--Charles du Bois

^Yep, probably.

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

— Jane Austen