Pauline's live journal

Writer's Block: Clothing Options

2009-02-05T10:40:17Z

When it comes to clothes, would you rather be comfortable or fashionable?

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I'd rather choose comfortable.

Writer's Block: Feeling Better

2008-08-01T13:14:16Z

What makes you feel better when you're mad?

Submitted By kimmayeisblack

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I feel better when someone gives sympathy or care.

Writer's Block: The Eternal Nocturnal Struggle

2008-06-15T10:54:06Z

Vampires or werewolves?

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None of the above. I hate the two!

Writer's Block: Happy Friday

2008-05-19T09:55:24Z

What are you most looking forward to this weekend?

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Hmmm... Just hanging out here..:)

apolpau @ 2008-05-19T18:37:00

2008-05-19T09:39:48Z

Writer's Block: Hell Hath No Fury

2008-05-19T07:46:47Z

Who was the last person who really made you mad?

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Shine was the last one who made me mad!!!!!...She's so stupid!

Writer's Block: The sound of inspiration

2008-05-17T09:59:07Z

What type of music inspires you?

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RNB music & pop,,

Writer's Block: Reacting to my bad mood

2008-05-14T10:03:15Z

When you're having a bad day, how do you react?

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I'm quiet when I'm mad.. I sometimes do bad things when I have a bad day..

Writer's Block: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

2008-05-14T05:33:11Z

What is one thing you MUST do before you go to bed at night?

Submitted By twink

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Before i go to bed, i usually take a shower, drink milk & pray before I sleep..

Writer's Block: Scaredy cat

2008-05-14T05:30:53Z

What animal frightens you most, and why?

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The cockroach! I hate it, everytime i see it i feel so shocked..

Writer's Block: Pick an era, any era

2008-05-14T05:28:39Z

If you had to pick a time period to live in, which would you choose? Why?

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i want the future,coz' the future depends on what we do in the present & i want to know what will happen next..

Writer's Block: Where am I in the garden?

2008-05-14T05:22:58Z

What vegetable or fruit do you relate to most?

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i want to a strawberry coz' it's sweet & delicious..LUV IT!=)

JOURNAL

2008-04-18T02:37:34Z

"The future depends on what we do in the present"

Kalidasa:

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

Aristotle: Excellence Quote
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle: Excellence Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Bob Beamon: Excellence Quote
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Helen Keller: Excellence Quote
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

John W. Gardner: Excellence Quote
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

The above list of quotations is page 1 of a collection of motivational and inspirational quotes on Excellence.
Dickinson, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Renunciation / Is A Piercing Virtue

This poem amounts to a definition of "renunciation," or going-without, a
highly regarded Puritan virtue. Renunciation is defined both literally and in
metaphor. What chiefly concerns us here, with this prime example of excellence
in Emily Dickinson's poetry, is what has happened to turn a theory or a
reflection into poetry. The key, of course, is in the imagination of the poet,
for in all ages imagination of the poet has brought about the transformation
of personal revelation into poetry. As one well-known critic, R. P. Blackmur,
comments, "The puritan theory of renunciation, for example, will be not at all
the same ...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. =p

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.