"You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do."
~Jodi Picoult 'Sing You Home'
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Quote of the day #17
You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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Break the glass, please - and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
~Paulo Coelho 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'
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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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Break the glass, please - and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
~Paulo Coelho 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept'
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Quote of the day #16
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim
~Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you
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Day-to-day things, the ordinary, the mundane is what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
~Cecelia Ahern 'Thanks for the Memories'
~Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you
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Day-to-day things, the ordinary, the mundane is what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
~Cecelia Ahern 'Thanks for the Memories'
Quote of the day #15
I'll suffer day and night, night and day. This could take weeks, months, possibly a year or more. Until one morning, I'll wake up and find I'm thinking about something else, and then I'll know the worst is over. My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more... When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive - I'll find love again.
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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.
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The world will become real when man learns how to love; until then we will live in the belief that we know what love is, but we will always lack the courage to confront it as it truly is. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
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When the Unwanted Guest arrives...
I might be afraid.
I might smile or say:
My day was good, let night fall.
You will find the fields ploughed, the house clean,
the table set,
and everything in its place.
~Manuel Bandeira 'Consoada'
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"He died while he was still alive."
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... and if I were to die then, despite all that had happened in my life, despite all my failures, ... the injustices I had suffered or inflicted on others, I had remained alive until the last moment, and could, with all certainty, affirm: "My day was good, let night fall."
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That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expert your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.
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A warrior of light knows that he has much to be grateful for. He was helped in his struggle by the angels... His companions say: "He's so lucky!" But he knows that "luck" is knowing to look around him and to see where his friends are, because it was through their words that the angels were able to make themselves heard.
~Paulo Coelho 'The Zahir'
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All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.
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The world will become real when man learns how to love; until then we will live in the belief that we know what love is, but we will always lack the courage to confront it as it truly is. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
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When the Unwanted Guest arrives...
I might be afraid.
I might smile or say:
My day was good, let night fall.
You will find the fields ploughed, the house clean,
the table set,
and everything in its place.
~Manuel Bandeira 'Consoada'
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"He died while he was still alive."
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... and if I were to die then, despite all that had happened in my life, despite all my failures, ... the injustices I had suffered or inflicted on others, I had remained alive until the last moment, and could, with all certainty, affirm: "My day was good, let night fall."
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That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expert your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
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I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.
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A warrior of light knows that he has much to be grateful for. He was helped in his struggle by the angels... His companions say: "He's so lucky!" But he knows that "luck" is knowing to look around him and to see where his friends are, because it was through their words that the angels were able to make themselves heard.
~Paulo Coelho 'The Zahir'
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Quote of the day #14
For Winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snow and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne
"...to understand life's essential lessons, all one need do is turn to the wonders of nature; even the most violent of rainstorms will calm when afforded time. And if we were granted seasons without snow and sin, we would never know the blossoms of spring and hope; and from such hope, if we are in luck, comes peace."
"Courage isn't the trait of those trying to be heroes; it lies in the ones who, in spite of being afraid, find the strength inside them to continue on."
~Kristine McMorris 'Letters from Home'
Monday, 6 February 2012
Quote of the day #13
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting..."
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"What's the world's greatest lie?" ...
"It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."
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"If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it."
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"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure..."
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"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
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"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
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"Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" ...
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure."
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"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
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"When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed."
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"Don't give in to your fears... If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart...
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
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"I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul."
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"It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."
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The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was a part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles.
~Paulo Coelho 'The Alchemist'
Monday, 30 January 2012
Quote of the day #12
"If you only read books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"...I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply. In doing so, however, I have led myself around in circles and hurt myself just as deeply. I say this not as an excuse or a means of self-justification but because it is true. If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well. So please try not to hate me. I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize."
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"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that."
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"Life is a box of chocolates."
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"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."
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"Letters are just pieces of paper. Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish."
~Haruki Murakami 'Norwegian Wood'
Monday, 16 January 2012
Lang-8 Diary #8-10
明けましておめでとう！
久しぶり！！Lang-8の皆さん、明けましておめでとうございます！（ちょっと遅れたかな？）最近ちょっと忙しかったので、日記を書くことと日本語の勉強を怠けていた。
ところで、皆さんは新年の抱負はあるの？私は、今年健康にもっと気をつけようと思います。と言う事で、早寝早起きに慣れるとか、もっと運動をして、ダイエットしてみる。（実は毎年そう言ってる、だけど成功できなかった。）そして、家でごろごろするのをもうやめて、仕事を早く見つける。もちろん、日本語の勉強も頑張ります！
幸せで実りある新年を迎えられますように。
ところで、皆さんは新年の抱負はあるの？私は、今年健康にもっと気をつけようと思います。と言う事で、早寝早起きに慣れるとか、もっと運動をして、ダイエットしてみる。（実は毎年そう言ってる、だけど成功できなかった。）そして、家でごろごろするのをもうやめて、仕事を早く見つける。もちろん、日本語の勉強も頑張ります！
幸せで実りある新年を迎えられますように。
君に似た誰か (Adele - Someone Like You)
君に似た誰か
君は身を固めたんだってね、彼女を見つけて、結婚したって聞いた。
君の夢は、かなったんだね。
私が君に上げながったものを、きっと彼女がくれたんだね。
ねえ、あなた、どうしてそんなに恥ずかしそうにしている？
遠慮したり、隠したり、君らしくない。
＊招待されないで、突然来るのは嫌いだけど、
そうせずにはいられない、この気持ちを堪えられない。
私の顔を見て、思い出してくれることを願った 私にはまだ終わりじゃないって。
※気にするな。君に似た誰かをみつける。
君の幸せだけを祈ります。
私のことを忘れないで、お願いだから。
君が言ったことを覚えてる、
「時に恋は続き、時に恋は傷つける。」
時間が経つのは早いと君は分かっている。
人生で一番いい時は、まるで昨日のことみたいです。
私たちは夏の霧の中で生まれて育った。
栄光の日々のサプライズは私たちの絆です。
Repeat ＊ ※
何よりも、心配も気配りもない。
後悔とか間違いは記憶が作った。
この世界が、こんなに甘くてにがいなんて、知らなかった。
Repeat ※ ※
(また歌詞を訳そうとした。この歌はとても悲しくて、感動した、大好きです。)
君は身を固めたんだってね、彼女を見つけて、結婚したって聞いた。
君の夢は、かなったんだね。
私が君に上げながったものを、きっと彼女がくれたんだね。
ねえ、あなた、どうしてそんなに恥ずかしそうにしている？
遠慮したり、隠したり、君らしくない。
＊招待されないで、突然来るのは嫌いだけど、
そうせずにはいられない、この気持ちを堪えられない。
私の顔を見て、思い出してくれることを願った 私にはまだ終わりじゃないって。
※気にするな。君に似た誰かをみつける。
君の幸せだけを祈ります。
私のことを忘れないで、お願いだから。
君が言ったことを覚えてる、
「時に恋は続き、時に恋は傷つける。」
時間が経つのは早いと君は分かっている。
人生で一番いい時は、まるで昨日のことみたいです。
私たちは夏の霧の中で生まれて育った。
栄光の日々のサプライズは私たちの絆です。
Repeat ＊ ※
何よりも、心配も気配りもない。
後悔とか間違いは記憶が作った。
この世界が、こんなに甘くてにがいなんて、知らなかった。
Repeat ※ ※
(また歌詞を訳そうとした。この歌はとても悲しくて、感動した、大好きです。)
Monday, 9 January 2012
Quote of the day #11
"When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love."
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"It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it."
~Mitch Albom 'For One More Day'
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"It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it."
~Mitch Albom 'For One More Day'
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