Must Love Dogs…

Movie quotes always hit the spot for me!

“I think your heart grows back bigger ya know, once you get the shit beat out of you. And the universe lets your heart expand that way, cause thats the function of all this pain and heartache that you go through and you gotta go through that to come out to a better place”.

“I want to be in love. I want to wake up next to someone and see them smile, do the whole Sunday breakfast thing, go out and get the paper, stay in bed together all day”.

Victims of unrequited love…

“I’ve found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” What an extraordinary thought.

Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said “love is blind”. Now that is something I know to be true.

For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there’s another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert!

Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!

Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas’, the worst Birthday’s, New Years Eve’s brought in by tears and valium.

These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I’ve been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can’t swallow! All the usual symptoms…”

Quoting Iris from the movie “The Holiday”
- never saw it from the beginning until today, just HAD to post the introduction to the movie, so appropriate for some of the stages I’ve lived through in my life. Funny how you find these quotes when you’re already past learning your lesson… 

The heart dies…

The heart dies a slow death
Shedding each hope like leaves
Until one day there are none
No hopes
Nothing remains

Quote taken from the movie “Memoirs of a Geisha”

Pain

Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we are wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real.

What’s that saying?

Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer?

Because it feels so good when I stop!

- Meredith Gray words (Gray’s Anatomy)

Earth Day - Relationships

EARTH DAY and yes, more words from the Dalai Lama, need to get myself in tune with good vibes.

The Dalai Lama gives his thought about Relationships:

The need for simple human to human relationships is becoming increasingly urgent

Today the world is smaller and more interdependent. One nations problems can no longer be solved by itself completely.

Thus, without a sense of universal responsibility, our very survival becomes threatened.

Basically, universal responsibility is feeling for other people’s suffering just as we feel our own.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing that we want.

It is the realization that even our enemy is entirely motivated by the quest for happiness.

This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration