Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2012

Steve Jobs: Your time is limited... follow your heart

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary
– Steve Jobs

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Albert Einstein

Friday, February 5, 2010

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

"don't dream your life, but live your dream"
— Mark Twain

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Skating Blind: One woman's triumph over adversity

Touching story of a woman who has gone blind yet continues to skate -- an inspirational vignette of a triumph of the human spirit over adversity

 

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Blaze a trail of desire, through the darkening dawn

Stanza from Carly Simon's Let the River Run
Just love the imagery and cadence of this phrasing blaze a trail of desire, through the darkening dawn. I find something inspiring, exhilarating, about it that captures the imagination

Let the River Run

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

Silver cities rise,
The morning lights
The streets that meet them,
And sirens call them on
With a song.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark'ning dawn.

It's asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
The sky is the color of blue
You've never even seen
In the eyes of your lover.

Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
Running on the water,
Coming through the fog,
Your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Begin each day as if it were on purpose

Qutoe seems to be atrributed to Mary Anne Radmacher and appeared in the 2005 Rom-Co film: Hitch with Will Smith and Eva Mendes

Friday, August 29, 2008

Dream Deferred

The Poem "Harlem" also sometimes called "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

I actually wasn't familiar with the poem -- but just found something profound about the juxtaposition of these two words into this phrase

Friday, July 18, 2008

Why would you look back? The future's out there

Quote from Dawson Creek:

Joey: You never look back, do you?
Pacey: Why would you look back? The future's out there. And whatever it is, it's gonna be great.


Katie Holmes ... Joey Potter
Joshua Jackson ... Pacey Witter

Saturday, June 14, 2008

RENT: Without you

Songwriter: Jonathan, Larson

Without you, the ground thaws
the rain falls
the grass grows

Without you, the seeds root
the flowers bloom
the children play

The stars gleam
the poets dream
the eagles fly
without you

The Earth turns
the sun burns
but I die, without you

Without you, the breeze warms
the girl smiles
the cloud moves

Without you, the tides change
the boys run
the oceans crash

The crowds roar
the days soar
the babies cry
without you

The moon glows
the river flows
but I die without you

The world revives
colors renew
but I know blue
only blue
lonely blue
willingly blue
Without you

Without you, the hand gropes
the ear hears
the pulse beats

Without you, the eyes gaze
the legs walk
the lungs breathe

The mind churns
the heart yearns
the tears dry without you

Life goes on
but I'm gone
'cause I die, without you
without you
without you
without you.....

Friday, June 6, 2008

I count your eyelashes, secretly

R.E.M. - At My Most Beautiful lyrics

I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

I read bad poetry
Into your machine
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes
You always say your name,
Like I wouldn't know it's you,
At your most beautiful

(repeat chorus)

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes, secretly
With every one, whisper I love you
I let you sleep
I know you're closed eye watching me,
Listening
I thought I saw a smile