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LET'S SMILE WITH MARK TWAIN

From ADAM'S DIARY

                             after  MARK  TWAIN


Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl, and make allowances. She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy< she can't speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it and talk to it, and pour out endearing names upon it. And she is colour mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,  gray moss, green foliage, blue sky; the pearl of the dawn,  the purple shadows on the mountains, the golden islands floating in crimson seas at sunset, the palid moon sailing through the shredded cloud rack, the star jewels glittering in the wastes of space - none of them is of any practical value, so far as I can see, but because they have colour and majesty, that is enough for her, and she loses her mind over them. If she could quiet down and keep still a couple of minutes at a time, it would be a reposeful spectacle. In that case I think I could enjoy looking at her; indeed I am sure I could, for I am coming to realize that she is a quite remarkably comely creature - slender, trim, rounded, shapely, nimble, graceful; and once when she was standing marble white and sun-drenched on a boulder, with her young head tilted back and  her hand shading her eyes, watching the flight of a bird in the sky, I recognized that she was beautiful

Monday Noon

It there is anything on the planet that she is not interested in it is not in my list. There are animals that I am indifferent to, but it is not so with her. She has no discrimination, she takes to all of them, she thinks they are all treasures, every new one is welcome.

When the mighty brontosaurus came striding into camp, she regarded it as an acquisition, I considered it a calamity; that is a good sample of the lack of harmony that prevails in our views of things. She wanted to domesticate it, I wanted to make it a present of the homestead and move out. She believed it could be tamed by kind treatement and would be a good pet; I said a pet; I said a pet twentyone feet high and eighty - four long would be no proper thing to have about the place, because, even with the best intentions and without meaning any harm, it  could sit down on the house and mash it, for any one could see by the look of its eye that it was absent-minded.

Still, her heart was set upon having that monster, and she couldn't give it up. She thought we could start a dairy with it, and wanted me to help her milk it, but I wouldn't; it was too risky. The sex wasn't right and we hadn't any ladder anyway. Then she wanted to ride it, and look at the scenery. Thirty or forty feet of its tail was lying on the ground, like a fallen tree, and she thought she could climb it, but  she was mistaken, when she  got to the steep place it was too slick and down she came, and would have hurt herself but for me.






From EVE'S DIARY

AFTER THE FALL


When I look back, the Garden is a dream to me. It was beautiful, surpassingly beautiful, enchantingly beautiful;enchantingly beautiful; and now it is lost, and I shall not see it any more.

The Garden is lost, but I have found him, and am content. He loves me as well as he can; I love him with all  the strength of my passionate nature, and this, I think, is proper to my youth and sex. If I ask myself why I love him, I find I do not know, and I do not really much care to know.

It is not on account of his gracious and considerate ways and his delicacy that I love him. No, he has lacks in these regards, but he is well enough just so, and is improving.

It is not on account of his industry that I love him - no, it is not that. I think he has it in him, and I do not know why he conceals it from me. It is only pain. Otherwise he is frank and open with me, now. I am  sure he keeps nothing from me but this. It grieves me that he should have a secret from me, and sometimes it spoils my sleep, thinking of it, but I will put it out of my mind; it shall not trouble my happiness, which is otherwise full to overflowing.

It is not on account of his education that I love him - no, it is not that. He is self-educated, and does really know a multitude of things, but they are not no.
It is not on account of his chivalry that I love him - no, it is not that. He told on me, but I do not blame him; it is a peculiarity of sex, I think. Of course I would not have told on him, I would have perished first; but that  is a peculiarity of sex, too, and I do not take credit for it.

Then why is it that I love him ? Merely because he is masculine, I think.

At bottom he is good, and i love him for that, but I could love him without it. If he should beat me and abuse, I should go on loving him. I know it. It is a matter of sex, I think.

He is strong and handsome, and I love him for that, and I admire him and am proud of him, but I could love him without those qualities. If he were plain, I should love him; if he were a wreck, I should love him; and I would work for him, and slave over him and pray for him, and watch by his bedside until I died.

Yes, I think I love him merely because he is mine and is masculine. There is no other reason, I suppose . It just comes, none knows whence - and cannot explain itself. And doesn't need to.

It is what I think. But I am only a girl, and the first that has examined this matter, and it may turn out that in my ignorance and inexperience I have not got it right.

FORTY YEARS LATER

It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together - a longing which shall never perish from the earth, but shall have place in the heart of every wife that loves, until the end of time; and it shall be called by my name.

But if one of us must go first, it is my prayer that it shall be I; for he is strong, I am weak, I am not so necessary to him as he is to me - life without him would not be life; how could I endure it ? This prayer is also immortal, and will not cease from being offered up while my race continues. I am the first wife; and in the last wife I shall be repeated.

At Eve's Grave

Adam. Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.







                  

ENJOYING EVERYDAY LIFE QUOTES

Special thanks to my Father Alexandru





  

Teach love to those who hate, and let that love embrace you as you go out into the world.

May the teachings of those you admire become part of you, so that you may call upon them.

Remember, those whose lives you have touched and whose have touched yours are always a part of you, even if the encounters were less than you would have wished.

It is the content of the encounter that is more important than the form.

"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." ~ Author Unknown








”I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.” - Simone de Beauvoir







The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

(Oct. 1986)

Elie Wiesel






”The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” - Barbara Kingsolver





”Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel





"You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect." ~ Inspiring quotes by Buddha







”Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” - Ralph  Waldo Emerson







"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." ~ Author Unknown






When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" - Sydney  J. Harris





” Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it.” - Yrjo Kallinen






” It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.” - Judy Collins





”Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,” - Tara Brach






”Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.” -Henri Frederic Amiel








”Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” - Lillian Dickson






”Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude
For life. ” - Hafiz of Persia





”Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” - Buddha




” The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” - Norman Cousins










”The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” - Theodore Rubin







”Look, I really don't want to wax philosophical, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.” - Mel Brooks







”We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.” - Talmud






”Of course there is not formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” - Arthur Rubinstein

”Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.” - Melody Beattie






”Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” - Audre Lorde

”I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” - Leo C. Rosten

”No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” - Barbara de Angelis

”In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” - Audre Lorde

” Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.” - Tom Head




              




” The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” - Anthony Robbins



                           




” Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ” - Norman Cousins