I'm moving

I have decided to include my quotes in my original blog. I have imported the previous blog posts into My Life Is Like A Song, and will post upcoming quotes there from now on. I have added a quotes label to find them easily.

Suze

Love Can Do That

”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

(thanks to FB friends Kimberley C.M., Jennifer S.H. and Jennifer C.M. for sharing via Natalie R.)

Later edit: I have to add that it is an incredible person who could live by these words...I wish every person on earth could, so that peace could be a possibility.

Love

Happy Valentine's Day!

While I was preparing dinner tonight, rather than listening to my regular playlists, I searched for love in my iTunes library. I have over 2300 songs in my libary. 134 songs have the word love in the title of the song (or as part of a word), the album name or the band.

Some songs didn't really belong, especially if love was not in the song title, but it was still fun to try to figure out why they came up.

Looking at the songs, most of them would not be considered love songs. The funniest one I think is Everyday I Love You Less and Less or I Love You More (Than You Like Me). The saddest is Goodbye My Lover or Jilted Lovers and Broken Hearts. My favourite title is Your Love Is a Song or Love Is The end.

Without a favourite love song with the word love in the name, here are my favourite love quotes from songs.

It's the heart that really matters in the end
(Little Wonders by Rob Thomas)

Love is the answer for most of the questions of my heart
(Better Together by Jack Johnson)

I heard them say love is the way
love is the answer that's what they say
(Wavin' Flag by K'naan)

Love Leaves a Memory

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal."

R.I.P. Sgt. Ryan Russell

If This Isn't Nice...

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Kurt Vonnegut

I saw this quote on Adam Van Koeverden's blog and wanted to remember it.

In case you need reminding, Adam is the Olympic and World Champion kayaker who carried the Canadian flag at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in 2008.

I also love the snowy painting he included on the blog post about cross-country skiing in Whistler.

Doing a little sleuth work, I learned that the watercolor Fresh Tracks was painted by The Deep Friar


It reminds me of my childhood. One of these days, I hope to go cross-country skiing. I used to love it!

Universe

"Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make it happen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have definitely noticed this lately. I am a firm believer and plan on "making a decision" more often.

For example, one of the things I had written down a year ago on my list of 101 things I wanted to do in the next 1001 days was to take my daughter to see penguins. I had researched which zoos or marine parks had penguins. I thought it was realistic if not easy.

I learned in the fall that The Toronto Zoo are bringing penguins for a new exhibit in 2011 making this goal much easier to accomplish.

This is just one example of the "universe" making things happen. Now I just have to visualize my million dollar winning ticket (but I have to buy it first) ;-)

GWB

"It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP but on GWB -- general well-being."
David Cameron, current British Prime Minister

Over 40 years ago, Robert Kennedy said the following:

”We will never find a purpose for our nation nor for our personal satisfaction in the mere search for economic well-being, in endlessly amassing terrestrial goods.
We cannot measure the national spirit on the basis of the Dow-Jones, nor can we measure the achievements of our country on the basis of the gross domestic product (GDP)

Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage.

It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.

It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”

This speech could have been written in 2010.