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wonderful pictures

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Regular Stretching Program

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Limber up your lower body by performing the figure-four stretch. It will stretch your hamstring and buttocks.
Follow these simple steps:
1. Lie face up the floor with knees bent and feet flat. Lift right foot and place outside of right ankle on left thigh, just above the knee pointing out.
2. Lifting left foot and bending hand to 90 degrees, place left hand back of left thigh and reach right hand between legs so both hands meet behind left thigh.
3. Inhale, then exhale as you straightens left leg, pulling the left thigh toward chest and keeping hips centered. You will feel the stretch in the right side of your buttocks and or left hamstrings.
4. Hold for a count of 10, breathing evenly, then slowly release and lower left foot to floor.
5. Repeat for a total of 3-4 times, and then switch legs.
Perform this move as part of a regular stretching program. Aim to stretch for a total of 5-10 minutes a day, 4-5 days a week or after you perform any type of activity.
Keep the knee of the raised leg bent to target the buttocks more, after 4-6 weeks or when ready challenge your flexibility by grasping your leg around the calf instead of the thigh, keeping knee slightly bent.

Meditation Rich & Famous Style

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Achieve almost instant Karma with the mind techniques used by successful Hollywood celebrities.
Third-Eye Power
Assume a comfortable position and close your eyes.
Imagine a fiery sunset and a bright beam of white light shining towards you.
Imagine the light beaming into a third eye on your forehead. Let its power pour into your mind, giving you strength, determination, and energy.
Now visualize for at least five minutes a scenario starring you that expresses your dream.
The Out-of-Body Floating
Again, get comfortable and close your eyes.
See yourself lying in a grassy field and imagine your inner being is floating out of your body.
Imagine it expanding until it encircles the globe. Now let it reenter your body through your toes and move up to your head.
Listen for an ohm sound that meditators usually hear when they have achieved a chilled-out state. Chant, “Ohm”.
Stop chanting and think of yourself in a scene that manifests your true heart’s desires.
Practice these meditation techniques to maintain a healthy spirit and a peaceful tranquility.

How to stay young ...

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Do you want to look young and stay beautiful even when you are in your mid 30 or 40 and up? Even if you are jump up with all the workloads and other task or perhaps you stressed, don't fret. Maintaining beauty and health is easy with these simple secrets:

Secret 1 For your hair styles, keep your hair short or mid-length avoid having too long hair since you would make you look like an old witch. Try little bangs or even a side swept bangs, keeping your face visible and uncovered.
You could also highlight your hair, or simply color them with black or dark brown, to cover up revealing white hairs.

Secret 2 For your face, use anti-aging products daily to reduce aging lines. Do not overdo your make up, keep it light, as more of pastel and light tone. Use brown shade lipsticks to make you look like 15 years ago. Never over pluck your eyebrows if you don’t want to look like Cinderella’s wicked stepmother.

Secret 3 Taking care of your teeth is the most important thing, to avoid permanent tooth loose. Keep it white and shinny by using teeth whitening products sold in the market. Regular dental check up is also essential, to take off tartar and cavities from coffee, tea, wine and other foods.

4 Exercise daily, concentrating on your cardio and eating in healthy ways. Maintain your proper body figure by keeping your ideal weight. Be in proper body posture, standing and sitting straight as well will keep you sexy and young looking.

5 Even if you’re in a strenuous activity daily, always remember to get a real good sleep, atleast 8 hours at night. Your eyes will be the first evidence whether you’re getting enough rest or not, so take good care and look young getting rid of those bugging eye bugs.

Exercise

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The body needs exercise; there is no arguing that. Exercise not only helps us burn the excess load our body carries, making us lose weight and look trim, but it also promotes health and well-being. Regular exercise prevents our body from being afflicted with ailments such as heart disease, depression, and even cancer. Exercise gives the body more energy and strength, and makes the mind sharper and more alert. Exercise is good for the body.
Most people know this fact, that the body needs exercise. And yet, they still do not want to do it. Oh, they have their reasons. Some believe that exercise is too bothersome, or that they cannot set a regular time for exercise in their busy, busy schedules. There are some who think that doing exercise is too strenuous for their body, while some think that exercise is just plain boring.
So, how do you bridge the gap between the obvious fact that the body needs exercise and the person wanting it in the first place?
For people who find exercise boring, they should do some form of physical exertion that they would find fun in doing so they would do it regularly and even look forward to it. You could do a few laps on the pool. Maybe you could walk the dog and have the dog chase sticks or Frisbees. If you do not have access to a pool or does not own a dog, maybe a game of tennis your best friend would do the trick. Or maybe just a walk up and down the block would be enough. Exercise does not have to involve a trip to the gym all the time after all.
For people whose excuse is that they do not have time for exercise, or that they do not like exercising in the morning as most fitness gurus preach, then the solution is to find time for exercise that is convenient for them. It does not matter when this is, as long as it is done regularly and consistently. The right time for exercise is the time you make it right for you.
For people who feel discouraged because they do not really see any changes on themselves with their exercise routine, the answer to this concern would be to keep an exercise journal. By taking note of the number of sets and repetitions you did, how you are feeling before and after the workout as well as the intensity of the workout, you would have an actual record of your progress, not just a guess or a gut feel. And knowing how much work you are putting into your exercise and the actual results would definitely motivate you into going on with your routine and even trying harder.
For people who are bored with exercise, the answer to this would be to put variety in your routine. You don’t have to stick to the same routine day in and day out. Also, take a rest and a day off from exercise if you need to.
Exercise should be something you find fun in doing rather than a chore. Your exercise routine should suit you, and never the other way around.

Breast Cancer Prevention

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According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 213,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in American women last year. The good news is that there are several strategies that can help reduce the risk.
Consider the following lifestyle changes:
Stay physically active. Regular physical activity (at least 30 minutes 4-5 days a week) has been shown to protect against breast cancer.
Limit alcohol. There is a strong link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The type of alcohol consumed appears to make no difference. To help protect against breast cancer, limit alcohol to less than one drink a day or avoid alcohol altogether.
Maintain your health care. Early detection is key: in addition to monthly self examinations, women between ages 20 and 39 should have a clinical breast exam performed by a health care professional at least every three years; women 40 years of age or older should have annual breast exams and mammograms.
Supplement wisely. vitamin D, folic acid and antioxidants all may help decrease risk.
Reduce exposure to xenoestrogens. These chemicals with estrogen-like activity are found in common pesticides and industrial pollutants and as hormone residues in meat, poultry and dairy products.
Avoid exposure to radiation. Limiting the number of chest x-rays, especially at a young age, may decrease the risk of breast cancer.
Talk to your doctor. If you have close relatives with breast cancer, your personal risk is increased. Let your doctor know your family history, and discuss other ways you can help to prevent breast cancer.

To keep yourself trim, healthy and beautiful

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Going on a diet can be a good thing; however, there are so many newfangled diet styles out there that you just do not know which ones work and which ones are just fads.
But regardless of whatever dieting system or style you are an advocate of, there are ten kinds of food that you should be ingesting a lot of to keep yourself trim, healthy and beautiful.
Top 10 Healthy Foods
Fruits Research proves that eating at least 5 portions of fruits each day has very real health benefits. It can help to prevent heart diseases and some cancers.
Essential fatty acids (EFA). Essential fatty acids, also known as the good fat, is needed to keep the cells of the body functioning properly. EFA also helps improve the condition of the skin and makes the hair and fingernails grow healthier.
Garlic. Garlic is high in antioxidants and is a kind of food that is widely known to prevent cancer. Garlic also helps lower the body’s cholesterol levels and reduces blood pressure as well.
Green tea. Green tea is full of antioxidants that help prevent specific kinds of cancer from developing in the body. It also pumps up the immune system and helps lower the levels of cholesterol in the body.
Green vegetables. Vitamins A and E, as well as fiber and iron, are found abundantly in green, leafy vegetables. Vitamin A retains the moisture in the eyes, the skin and the mucous membrane, while Vitamin E helps maintain the skin’s elasticity. On the other hand, fiber improves digestion, and iron is needed for the production of red blood cells.
Milk. Milk is the best source of calcium and vitamin D for the body. Calcium combined with vitamin D is good for keeping the bones and teeth strong, and it prevents diseases like osteoporosis. Milk also has vitamin B2 and B12, which coaxes the body to produce more red blood cells. Red blood cells bring oxygen to the cells. Having a healthy supply of red blood cells swimming in the blood stream keeps the hair and skin looking healthier.
Soy. Soy also has cancer-preventing antioxidants as well as Vitamin E and amino acids. It helps the skin retain its smoothness and elasticity.
Vitamin C. Vitamin C boosts the immune system and makes the body less vulnerable to disease. Vitamin C is also an important key in the body’s collagen production, collagen being a chemical that keeps the skin elastic and wrinkle-free.
Yogurt. Yogurt is also a good source of calcium, vitamin D and vitamin B. Aside from these, yogurt contains friendly bacteria that assists in digestion, hydrates the skin and clears the immune system.
Chocolate. Yes, you read it right. Chocolate is an essential food to eat to keep beautiful. Chocolate encourages the production of endorphins and serotonin, hormones that generate a nice and pleasant feeling for the body. You look beautiful if you feel beautiful.
Do not forget water! Water keeps the body hydrated. When the body is hydrated, the skin becomes smooth, supple and youthful. The hair has more shine and bounce when there is enough water in the body, and the nails are stronger. Water also flushes out the waste and toxins out of the body.

Effective way to feel happier and calmer fast

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Daydreaming uses the power of visual imagination in an efficient and enjoyable way to activate relaxation.
Daydreaming is a simple, cost-effective way to feel happier and calmer fast.
Picture a place from your past, where you felt happy, secure, and peaceful. Then imagine yourself there, making all the sensory impressions - smells, sounds, sights - as sharp as possible.
Daydreaming benefits:
Relaxation
Conflict management
Reinforces values and beliefs
Boosts creativity and achieve goals
Boredom relief

Remedies for dark circles under the eyes

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It is always said that the easiest way to tell how old a woman is or how she generally takes care of herself is to look at her eyes. The eyelids and the skin under the eyes are among the most delicate areas of the skin. The skin on that area is so thin, it wrinkles easily and is susceptible to puffiness and darkening.
Puffy and dark circles under the eyes can make us look tired and appear older beyond our years. Women approaching their thirties and older generally address this area first when they try to rejuvenate themselves, because puffy and dark circles under the eyes are one of the more obvious indicators of aging.
What causes us to form dark circles under our eyes, also known as eye bags? We have to recognize and accept it with ourselves that having dark circles under the eyes is part of the natural aging process. Also, we could be genetically pre-disposed to develop them earlier. Dark circles under the eyes can also develop from factors from our own environment, such as pollutants and allergens in the air. In addition, crying our eyes out is a sure-fire ticket to having dark circles under the eyes.
Not a few women think that undergoing cosmetic surgery or using expensive creams are the only ways of dealing with dark circles under the eyes. This is not so. While it is not possible to be able to remove them completely all the time, there are ways that we can take to combat them, or at least to make sure that they do not get worse over time.
One of these ways of fighting dark under eye circles is to keep our bodies hydrated by drinking plenty of water and fruit juices every day. Eight glasses or two liters of water is the recommended amount. Water flushes out the toxins in our body and acts as a natural moisturizer for the skin.
Another way of doing it is to get plenty of sleep every night. We should get around seven to eight hours of sleep every night. Sufficient sleep allows the body to repair and rejuvenate itself. When the body is able to repair itself properly every day, the skin appears younger and healthier, including the skin around the eyes.
If you are a smoker, you would do well to stop smoking. Smoking robs the body of nutrients and dries out the water in our cells. It is not just our skin that suffers from smoking; the entire body suffers from the harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke.
Dark under eye circles home remedies:
Resting your eyes for thirty minutes or so with a slice of cucumber over each eyelid.
Putting on an eye pack that spent time inside the refrigerator before going to sleep.
Chilling a couple of used teabags with most of the water squeezed out of them and then taking a nap for fifteen minutes with the teabags on your eyelids.
Getting dark circles under the eyes is a part of the aging process, but you do not have to go under the knife just to be able to get rid of them.

Natural Breasts Care

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There are a number of herbs and vitamins for healthy breasts that show promise in the prevention of breast cancer and fibrocystic breast disease (non-cancerous breast lumps).
Cancer of the breast is the leading cause of death for women in the US where it is estimated that 1 in 9 women will get breast cancer before she is 85.
The inclusion of herbs and vitamins for healthy breasts, accompanied by a wholesome nutritious diet and exercise are important factors in maintaining healthy breasts.
One of the main contributing factors to breast cancer seems to be hormonal imbalance – in particular the hormone estrogen, which can promote abnormal tissue growth in breasts. However, there are a number of herbs that women can include in their diets which work to gently balance women’s hormones and help in the promotion of healthy breasts.

Clean, well-groomed appearance, neither flashy nor fussy

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Fashion experts have differing views on the French manicure. Some think that the French manicure has gone passé and outdated, while some are of the opinion that the French manicure is a classic that will never go out of style. But whatever the fashion gurus think, many women go for the French manicure because of its simplicity and the natural look that it evokes. The French manicure also gives the nails that clean, well-groomed appearance that is neither flashy nor fussy.
But first, what is a French manicure? A French manicure is a style of polishing the nails wherein white paint is applied to the tips of the fingernails, and the rest of the nails are given a pink coat or painted with sheer polish that is colored either pale pink or very light beige. The French manicure is very good for short nails and nails that have a moderate length.
Before you start giving your nails a French manicure, make sure you have followed the general rule for putting on nail polish. You should prep your nails first by removing old nail polish with acetone remover. Then go and clean your nails and give them a trim.
Once you are done cleaning and trimming your nails, go ahead and apply a base coat to your nails. Keep this base coat thin and even. Afterwards, put a tip guide to your nail. This is supposed to cover the lower part of your nail as well as follow the curve of your nail tip’s natural white. When you are done with that, apply white polish to the exposed tips of your fingernails, and then let them dry. Keep the area that you will paint white thin. If you go too widely on the white paint, your nails will look chunky. Also, if you do not feel comfortable with stark white tips, you can use off-white polish instead.
When the white polish on the tips of your fingernails is dry, remove the nail tip guides thoroughly. And then, paint the entire length of your nails with a beige polish. Two coats of this polish may be necessary. After this, put a layer of top coat on your nails. This is the last step; after putting on the top coat, dry your nails and make sure they dry completely.
To extend the life of your French manicure and to keep your nails nice and looking well-groomed, you should make it a point to apply an extra layer of top coat on your nails every night.
For all its seeming simplicity, putting on a French manicure can get really tricky. Most drugstores and beauty shops sell readily-assembled nail polishing kits especially made for the French manicure. If you need extra help, you can find these kits very useful.
If you want to try out the French manicure but you are afraid to do it yourself, you can always visit a nail salon and have your nails done there. French manicure often costs extra than a regular polish because of the degree of accuracy needed for the job. It may be an expense, but it is worth it.

The popular intimate wax for women

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Brazilian Wax
By Beverly Smith
Brazilian waxing is a type of waxing involving the bikini area. The Brazilian wax removes the hair around the panty line, leaving back what is known as a landing strip or a broader vertical strip.
Brazilian wax is harder than most depillatory wax. Because it cools to become more solid, it misses less hairs. That is why this wax is better for brazilian bikini wax jobs.
This is most popular with twenty- and thirtysomethings - among whom thong underwear is most popular - but waxers say they also see teenagers and senior citizens. Approximately 25 percent of the Beauty Craze salon clients opt for "everything off."
Girls in their 20s have Brazilian wax done because it is expected of them in their generation. It is just as expected as shaving your legs for that age group.

All about artificial nails

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Artificial nails, or acrylic nails, are very pretty. You can have them at any length and at any color. You can indulge in the whimsical and have designs painted on them. You can even have artificial nails pierced and wear nail rings.
What are acrylic nails? Acrylic nails are also known as fake nails, artificial nails that are glued onto the real nails. A lot of women like wearing them for various reasons. Some women feel that wearing long nails make them feel pretty and feminine, but they find that letting their real nails grow longer instead of wearing acrylic nails can be too much of a hassle. Real nails, after all, can get very brittle if allowed to grow long, and they chip off.
Some women, on the other hand, wish to look their best for a certain special event or occasion, and that includes doing up their nails. Acrylic fingernails painted with an elaborate design are an instant standout.
There are also some women who deliberately go for artificial fingernails in order to put a stop to their nail-biting habits. Acrylic nails, after all, are not that easy to come by, and a nail-biter would definitely think twice before chewing on her exquisitely done nails.
Women who want to have the perfect set of acrylic nails get them done by a professional at a nail salon. However, a session at a nail salon for this purpose can get quite expensive, and acrylic nails need to be maintained at least every two weeks. Not all women can afford to spend that much just to get their nails done.
Fortunately, acrylic nails can be done at home. Doing your own artificial nails at home is not easy at first and it does take some work, but with practice, you can get the hang of it.
Below is a step-by-step process to getting artificial nails:
Clean your nails. Make sure that your cuticles are pushed back and that whatever old polish you have on your natural nails are removed. You should also trim your natural nails as close as possible, but not too close. In case you snag your acrylic nails, the fake nails can tear away a part of your natural nails as well. Such an injury is not only very painful but can also lead to infections. Besides, having natural nails visible underneath the acrylic nails do not look neat.
Some nail experts claim that you should rough up your nails by rubbing a grit filing block on them first before applying the acrylic tips to make sure the tips adhere closely. Some, however, do not think this is necessary at all. Whether you choose to rough up your nails or not, keep in mind that roughing up the nails can damage your natural nail bed.
Once your nails are clean and dry, put some nail glue on your nails and then drop the acrylic tips. Make sure that the tips fit your nail bed as closely as they can. If they do not fit the size of your nails, file them until they do. Adjust the nails quickly before the glue dries so they would not appear crooked. In case the nail glue dries before you could get the fake nail off, you would just have to soak the finger in a nail soak to get it off and repeat the process.
Trim the acrylic nails to your desired length. If this is your first time to put acrylic nails on, start with a moderate length just to get used to the feel and to avoid injuring yourself.
Mix the liquid acrylic with the powder acrylic in a dampen dish, and then carefully apply the mixture to your fake nails like you would a nail polish. Take care not to put any of the mixture on your natural nail bed, or else it could lead to the development of fungi on your nails.
When you are done with that, the last step would be to buff your nails and put on nail polish.
Artificial nails are very pretty, and they last longer than nail polish on natural nails – two to four weeks for the acrylic ones compared to two to five days on polished natural nails. If you need to remove your fake nails, what you need to do is to soak your nails in a nail soak, which often consists of acetone. Soaking can be done in half an hour. Never, ever snap your acrylic nails off because it might tear away some of your natural nails in the process.
If you have acrylic nails, you will need to apply nail oil on them once a day. Also, try not to apply too much pressure on your nails to avoid injuring yourself, and wear gloves whenever you are doing housework. The chemicals in most household cleaning products cause the acrylic to weaken and discolor.

Permanent solution to unwanted hair

2007-10-22T01:55:00.000-07:00

It really depends on who looks at it, but hair found on the face, on the back, on the chest, under the arms, on the legs and in the bikini area is generally thought to be unsightly. Such unwanted hair prevents us from wearing some types of clothes, like sleeveless tops, skirts or skimpy bikinis. It also affects our self-confidence to a certain degree.
We women really spend some time and effort into getting rid of the unwanted hair on our bodies. Shaving is the most convenient way of doing it, but also the most time consuming. Sometimes, shaving the underarms and the legs can be a daily chore, and it puts us at risk of having in-grown hair. Some women resort to plucking and waxing, but oh boy, don't they hurt. Besides, they grow back, anyway.
There is a way, however, of dealing with unwanted hair more permanently, and that is undergoing laser hair removal treatment. In laser hair removal treatment, a dermatological surgeon focuses a laser on the part of the skin that is to be treated. The laser then creates a reaction in the melanin in the hair follicles of the treated area. The reaction is supposed to make the hair strand shed and to discourage the hair follicle from producing new cells that will lead to hair growth. Laser hair removal treatment takes four to six sessions to complete, as hair enters different phases of growth.
Laser hair removal treatment, however, works best only with people who have fair skin and dark hair. The laser machine is set to react to the melanin in the skin, so dark-skinned people stand the risk of having their skin being burned by the laser. The laser focused by the machine also generally does not react to blond or red hair, because hair with such colors does not have enough melanin in the strands.
If you think you are a good candidate for laser hair removal treatment, the first thing you should do is to check out the dermatological clinics in your area. You can come up with a list from the phone directory or from the Internet. Look for a clinic where the one operating the laser machine is a real doctor specializing in dermatology or cosmetic surgery. If you are comfortable with it, you can also go for clinics where the machine is run by technicians, as long as there is a doctor supervising the session. Read reviews as you make your list, or you can ask your friends or family members who have undergone the treatment for recommendations.
Once you have picked a clinic, the next step would be to make an initial consultation with the doctor of your choice. Visit the clinic and take note of how clean the premises are and how friendly and helpful the personnel in the clinic are. When you come face to face with the doctor, ask him questions about the field he or she is in, about the machine he or she is using, and the credentials he or she has. Ask as well what form of payment the clinic accepts.
If you already feel confident with your choice, then go ahead and make a schedule for your first session. On every session, all the people involved in the treatment - the doctor, the technician and you - should be wearing eye protection. After all, it is laser you people will be handling, so it is important to keep the eyes protected on every treatment. The treatment is not really painful, but the doctor or the technician will nonetheless apply a gel on your skin to make it numb.
The parameters of the laser hair removal treatment, such as the condition of the skin on the area to be treated and the condition of the hair, will be entered into the machine. The laser will then be allowed to pulse on the skin briefly to check if the data entered on the machine is correct, and then the treatment commences.
After every session, take a couple of days off to rest if you think it is necessary. Keep the treated area clean and moisturized, and use only products that are gentle on the skin. Avoid exposing yourself to the sun, because if your skin gets darker, the effectiveness of the succeeding sessions might lessen considerably. If there is a little swelling, apply an ice pack or cover the skin with soft and clean cloths soaked in ice water to relieve the swelling.
It is possible for complications to arise after each session of the treatment. If the swelling does not go away and blistering of the skin is present, you should go and see the doctor who did the treatment on you as much as possible. They should be equipped to handle such complications.
Laser hair removal treatment is a good way of getting rid of unwanted hair permanently. However, you must remember that this treatment is not for everybody. Consider your choices carefully before going through the process

Simple tips on how to avoid varicose veins

2007-10-22T01:54:00.001-07:00

varicose veins are the condition of having abnormally dilated or swollen veins in the legs. Women are prone to the development of this condition. Varicose veins are developed by several factors; among some are heredity, pregnancy and age. Regardless of different cause, you can still avoid this condition and enjoy fuller and healthier legs with these simple tips.
1. Always be in good posture, when standing; stand up straight with your relaxing legs.
2. Maintain a normal body weight, avoid malfunction of the circulatory system that would cause pressure of the leg vein.
3. When sitting; feet should be down on the ground, avoiding crossing your legs to decrease leg vein pressure.
4. Have a regular exercise such as walking, jogging, cycling and swimming.
5. Avoid standing in a long period of time. If your job requires you to do so, always use support hose stockings that could help blood pump more efficiently back to the heart.
6. If you’re sitting for a long period, stretch your legs rotate your ankles and reflex your toes while sitting down.
7. Always wear clothes that would not constrain your legs, waist and groin.
8. Avoid too high-heels especially when your job requires you to stand for over long period of time.
9. For strenuous activity that involves your legs and feet, avoid washing with water immediately, allow your legs to rest for a few minutes.
10. When lying down for rest, elevate your legs 6- 12 inches by using pillows or any means to allow the blood in the lower legs to flow back into the heart.

Remedies for body itch

2007-10-22T01:52:00.000-07:00

Beach trips, picnics, camping and other outdoor activities can be very fun but sometimes it can leave you scratching.
Here are some remedies for body itch:
1. If your skin got dry and irritated caused by chlorine or salt water. Try using hydrating, soothing agent such as glycerin or calming cream, you can find some in the store.
2. During camping and you get a red, itchy rash due to poison ivy or poison oak. You can reduce skin irritation by applying some anti-inflammatory like hydrocortisone or some available products can be found in the shop such as cooling sprays or skin relief crème.
3. To reduce itchiness due to insect bites. Try some antibacterial like tea tree oil or cooling agents like camphor

How to treat damaged skin

2007-10-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

Exfoliating removes a superficial layer of the stratum Corneum, the topmost portion of the epidermis, which serves as protective barrier for the skin. Once this layer is gone, skin becomes vulnerable to sunburn, wrinkles, sun spots and cancerous lesions. Both chemical and physical exfoliators can raise these risks, as can professional treatments like microderm abrasion and chemical peels, which penetrate deeper and remove even more skin cells.
Remedies: 1. Exfoliate at night so that while you sleep, skin has time to repair its barrier and replace the oils you’ve stripped away. 2. Be diligent about using sunscreen with an SPF of atleast 15 everyday, and stop exfoliating 48 hours before you head off on a sunny vacation. 3. After going microdermabriason or a chemical peel, avoid at-home exfoliators for 2 days, slather on the sunblock, and stay in the shade for 2 weeks.
Broken Capillaries
Harsh scrubs or even a too-rough wash cloth can cause microscopic tears in the skin and break blood vessel.
Remedies: 1. Using gentle pressure, apply facial scrub to wet skin with your hands or soft cotton pad. 2. Avoid scrubs that contain irregularly shaped particles such as fruit pits or crushed nut-shells, which can increase the risk of tearing. Instead, choose products made with fine synthetic grains.
Irritated, Itchy skin
Using two physical exfoliants together such as a scrub plus a facial puff or combining a physical one with a chemical one for example scrub followed by lotion with colic acid can remove too much the skin’s protective layer and increase sensitively.
Remedies: 1. Use either a physical exfoliators or a chemical one not both at the same time.
Breakouts
Over-exfoliating strips away beneficial oils, making the pores secrete more of them.
Remedy: 1. Use an over the counter treatment containing glycolic or salicylic acid or a scrub made specifically for acne-prone skin.
Post-waxing Damage
Some chemical exfoliators can weaken the bonds between cells, making it easier for wax to remove a deeper layer of skin.
Remedy: 1. Stop using product that contains AHA or retinoid atleast a week before the aesthecian aware of what’s in your skin-care regimen.

How to prevent nail coat problems

2007-10-22T01:50:00.001-07:00

Yellowing, brittleness and ragged cuticles. These are the most common nail problems especially during the summer.
Here's some tips to solve this problems:
Yellowing Heat can bake polish into your nails, leaving behind a sallow tint. To prevent, prep nails with two layers of a base coat and choose light, sheer polish colors.
Brittleness Chlorine and air-conditioning can weaken nail surfaces. Protect them by applying a formaldehyde-free strengthener once a week.
Ragged Cuticles A dip in the pool or ocean can be drying. Before you go swimming, dab on a moisture-rich balm on your cuticles

Oily Skin Care

2007-10-22T01:48:00.000-07:00

You’ve just washed your face and ten minutes later, voila, your skin feels oily all over again. Sound familiar? Prepare yourself to glow with confidence, even if your skin usually has an oily shine. Relax and follow a few simple steps and you’ll soon be on your way to drier, cleaner-feeling skin that glows with radiance!
When trying to look your best, having oily skin can pose quite the dilemma. Having your picture taken when you’ve forgotten your powder compact can be a nightmare. The shine from your face may appear in your photograph as well, giving your visage a glossier look than is natural. In hopes of clearing up your complexion, you may worry about what kind of moisturizer to use, which cleansing products and which types of makeup. First things first – decide if you’ll be using a liquid or a powder makeup product to combat your complexion conundrum. If you opt for a liquid foundation, select one in your skin tone that is specially formulated for oily skin.
If you don’t like the way it feels to cover your entire face with liquid makeup, a pressed powder compact can really tone down the shiny look that results from an oily complexion. Check out powder compacts in your local drug store if you’ve got a budget to consider. If you have a little more cash to burn or if you really want a nice compact, consider checking out the designer makeup in department stores. If you need help picking out the right color for your skin tone, you can request assistance from a cosmetologist in the department store.
To battle this annoying skin problem, always try to keep some pressed or loose powder handy. Wash your face in the morning and before bed, and up to once or twice additionally if necessary. Do be careful not to over-wash your face, as too much cleansing may cause excessive dryness and flaking.
To further tend to your complexion, complete the following steps:
Drink lots of fluids - especially water.
Follow a balanced diet, and consume low-fat foods, fruits and veggies.
Enjoy a diet rich in proteins but avoid excessive amounts of salty and sugary foods. This includes chocolate and junk food! (Sigh!)
Take vitamins.
Maintain a regular facial cleansing routine.
Use hot water when cleansing and avoid harsh cleansing products.
Use an astringent to deep cleanse your face.
Stick with oil-free makeup products.
Exercise as often as you can, and avoid wearing makeup while doing so.
As tough as it may be, try not to touch your skin unnecessarily.
Change your pillowcase more often to prevent residue from clogging your pores overnight.
Exfoliate with a facial scrub product a minimum of once a week.
Apply a facial mud masque at least once a week to zap the oil from your skin.

to keep your lips dry

2007-10-22T01:44:00.000-07:00

When you greet people, your smile is probably the first thing that catches their attention.
A smile, especially one that reaches the eyes, can be engaging enough to beckon someone’s interest and winning enough to hold their attention.
Oftentimes, people place all the attention on beautiful, white teeth that shine out through your smile. While this is important, the health of your lips is also important.
If your lips are sore and cracked, a smile can be painful and therefore, less engaging.
When you talk, your lips move constantly and therefore dry, cracked lips can create a desire to remain silent.
An ounce of prevention (once or twice a day) is worth a pound of cure (all day long).
Preventative measures can be as simple as:
Applying a small coat of Vaseline or lip balm when using a dry lipstick.
Using a bit of lip balm to moisturize as you sleep.
Using a lip balm before going out into harsh weather, especially one with a good SPF factor to protect them from the sun’s rays.
Drinking plenty of water to keep your lips hydrated and supple.
Avoiding the use of lipsticks that can dry out your lips if they have become chapped.
Resisting the urge to lick your lips (saliva does not moisturize).
Resisting the urge to nibble at your lips.
Using a toothbrush with soft bristles to remove flaky skin from your lips.
Remember that pain is unnecessary, lips that hurt can and should be avoided, and there are many products available to help us.

Helpful changes that make a difference

2007-10-22T01:43:00.000-07:00

Acne is one of the most common skin complaints that affects most people during teenage years but also extends into adult life.
Heredity, stress and hormones influence the appearance of inflamed hair follicles, which result in acne breakouts. Diet changes can be helpful in reducing acne:
Eat more antioxidant-rich foods, including fruits and vegetables.
Include omega-3 fatty acids like wild Alaskan salmon or freshly ground flaxseeds to help reduce and prevent inflammation.
Drink lots of water to keep the skin hydrated and healthy.
Limit processed and refined foods, and opt for whole, healthful foods instead.

How to select the best perfume fragrance

2007-10-22T01:42:00.001-07:00

The use of fragrances is an art that is as old as civilization itself. The secrets of perfumery began its development in ancient Egypt, and it was then enhanced and spread to the world by the Romans and the Arabians.
Why do we, men and women alike, use fragrances? To that question, there are many answers. Some use fragrances as a form of personal _expression, a way of making a statement about his- or herself without saying a word. Others use perfumes to make themselves more attractive and create a more favorable impression on others. Still others use perfumes to enhance their mood and to improve their general well-being.
We all have reasons for using fragrances. But before you head out to buy a bottle of scent, did you know that our bodies have a unique scent signature that makes us take easily to some types of perfumes, but not to others? So, a kind of perfume that is great on, say, your best friend may not work out for you. Our scent signature is the particular chemistry of our body, and our body chemistry is strongly affected by our diet, our lifestyle choices (whether we drink or smoke or exercise regularly), the medication that we take (if we are taking any), and other factors. Our skin type and general coloring also dictates which type of scent will smell good on us. With this in mind, what then is the best way to go about choosing what fragrances will work for us? In selecting a type of perfume, there are three keys that you should remember: theme, notes and concentration.
Theme, also known as accord, is what differentiates one fragrance from another. The theme of a perfume depends on its base, and there are four basic scent bases:
Citrus. Citrus-based perfumes are light and fresh. They are made from citrus fruits like oranges, mandarins, lemons and bergamots.
Floral. Floral scents are based on flowers, either from a single flower or a mix of different kinds. Flowery perfumes are sweet and strong.
Earth. Perfumes with an earth base are made from minerals or from plants other than flowers. Sample earth bases are sandalwood, honey, cinnamon and vanilla. Earth-based scents are simple yet mysterious.
Musk. Musk bases are taken from the odorous sacs of animals, particularly the Asian musk deer and the civet. However, because of ethical issues, perfume companies now create musk scents synthetically. Musk fragrances are heavy and sexy.

How to shave your legs properly and safely

2007-10-22T01:41:00.000-07:00

Shaving the legs is part of nearly every woman’s grooming regimen. Legs with smooth, silky-soft and closely shaven skin are considered sexy. But while modern technology has brought to us means to make our legs hair-free for a longer term, if not permanently, women still turn to the good old razor to do the job for them. It is most likely because shaving is still the fastest, the easiest and the most convenient way to keep the legs free from unwanted hair. It is also the least expensive.
But shaving the hair off our legs needs to be done correctly, or else we will end up with dry legs that are unevenly shaven, sometimes with nicks and little cuts that are prone to infection, and sometimes with rashes. Legs that are shaven properly will have a nice and smooth feel that can last for several days.

How to emphasize and maintain a sexy look for your legs

2007-10-22T01:40:00.001-07:00

sassy miniskirts boasting miles of gorgeous legs to long, silky skirts subtly showing off beautiful legs through tasteful slits – fashion is your friend when it comes to accentuating your wheels.
To emphasize your legs with very minor adaptations to your normal cleansing and beauty routines, read on for a few quick tips to bring out and maintain a sexy look for your legs.
Don’t rush when you shave. Nothing ruins a super-close shave like nicks from a hurried shave. Hastily shaving your legs may cause the razor to snag your skin and remove tiny chunks at a time, especially around your knees, ankles and the thin areas of flesh on your shins. To combat nicks from shaving too quickly, rinse away the blood before exiting the shower, blot with a tissue or toilet paper and apply a tiny corner of tissue to your wound. Allow it to dry the blood and decide whether the cut necessitates a bandage.
Moisturize! Shine adds a whole new dimension to smooth legs. A fragrant lotion creates softness and newly applied lotion creates a nice glow that draws attention to your silky legs. See: Moisturizing Creams For Skin Types
Use a loofah pad to exfoliate and buff out imperfections. Sometimes tiny blemishes caused by ingrown hairs or minor skin conditions render legs to be not as smooth as they once were. By gently exfoliating at least once or twice a week, your legs can be healthy, soft and blemish-free with very little effort. If you aren’t sure what a loofah pad looks like, visit the beauty aisle of your local drugstore, supermarket or superstore. They typically have a beige-colored surface on one side and a terrycloth type surface on the other. These items usually only cost a dollar or two, and they’re well worth the investment!
Try a vitamin-rich body scrub. While exfoliating with the loofah pad provides a great scrubbing motion, indulging in a luxurious body scrub is as good for the senses and the spirit as it is for the body. The nutrients contained in the scrub potion nourish the skin and welcome healthier cells to replace the dead skin cells shed through exfoliation. Don’t just scrub away old cells – promote new ones!
Exercise! While the aesthetic elements mentioned above will truly lend themselves to the overall condition of your legs, these products and practices won’t do a thing for your muscle tone and body mass. To keep your legs in swimsuit shape all year long, consider engaging in regular exercise several times a week. Get into a good habit of running, walking or jogging, bike riding, stair climbing or doing simple exercises like leg-lifts. Even the smallest amount of exercise can be beneficial to your body as you build your way up to longer routines.
Sometimes, legs may not be fat, but just look heavy, because of bad circulation. Put your legs and feet up. Also, avoid standing for prolonged periods of time to reduce the appearance of varicose veins.
Show the world your sexy legs!

Three hot winter manicure styles for your nails

2007-10-22T01:38:00.000-07:00

With the winter chill in the air, keeping nails sexy and strong becomes a challenge. Nails break more easily than usual and cracked, dry skin on hands and feet often take precedence over the appearance of one’s fingertips and toes. However, despite the inconvenience of winter’s cold bite, keeping short, sexy nails has never been more stylish. Read on to discover three hot styles for cool winter nails!
Manicure style #1:
Attempt a spin-off of a traditional French manicure. Instead of the customary pink with white tips, try a pale blue with white tips and a tiny white snowflake painted on one or two of your nails. To achieve this style, apply a base coat followed by two coats of pale blue. Once the blue dries, apply a small border of white polish to only the tips of your nails. If you don’t trust your hand to be steady enough to paint the design, check the beauty sections of various stores for snowflake decals and appliqués. Not into the blue and white combo? Choose any two colors you like and invent your own contemporary French manicure. And don’t forget your toes!
Manicure style #2:
Go dark and sexy. Keep your nails short and rounded and apply several coats of a rich color like maroon, purple, navy or deep green. Check out the newest shades in the makeup section of your favorite local stores and select a few shades to last you the next few months. Apply a base coat to strengthen your nails and follow with two coats of your desired dark hue, followed by a topcoat. For a creative twist, apply a decal, rhinestone or a mostly-transparent topcoat boasting glitter or gloss.
Manicure style #3:
Lay on the metal. Metallics are in this year, so don’t be afraid to be a little daring when it comes to dressing up your nails. Trim and file your nails to a short, rounded or slightly squared-off shape and apply base coat, two coats of color and finish with a topcoat. If you still aren’t convinced, consult a beautician in a cosmetics department or even ask your hairstylist for her opinion. Nail Expert Carolyn Cianciotto notes that the hottest looks this season are short, dark and oval. Red nails, though traditional, are very popular. Short and sheer nails are “working girl sexy,” she adds, admitting that many men prefer reds and French manicures with nails not too long and not too short.
No matter which style appeals most to you, try to keep your nails healthy and strong throughout the cold winter season. Enjoy sexy, attractive nails without spending a bundle at the salon. Feel free to apply a clear topcoat from time to time to keep your polish from chipping, and when it does chip, perhaps that’s a sign that it’s time for a new color.

Breast augmentation for women

2007-10-22T01:32:00.000-07:00

Breast implants, technically known as augmentation mammoplasty, or simply breast augmentation is a surgical procedure to enhance the size and shape of a woman's breast for various reasons:

To enhance the body contour of a woman who, for personal reasons, feels her breast size is too small.
To correct a reduction in breast volume after pregnancy.
To correct a defect in the development of the breasts, such as having breasts of unequal sizes.
As a reconstructive procedure following breast surgery.
Breast implants are the most popular cosmetic surgery procedures followed by liposuction and nose reshaping.

The popularity of breasts augmentation is fueled mostly by women's desire to look the sexiest they can be (and breast implants do result in attracting more appreciative stares from men).
Celebrity breast implants are also a big factor, particularly for teens and young women who try to emulate their idols.

There are many different options for you to consider when choosing to have breast augmentation, starting with the many types of breast implants available. The information available can be overwhelming, but once you have chosen a plastic surgeon you can discuss with them the pros and cons of each implant and find out what which would be best for you and your anatomy.

Most surgeons have their own preference of make and style of implant they use. Rather than try to choose which implant would be best for you ask a plastic surgeon for his recommendation and the reasons why. Remember what shape and style looks and feels great on one patient may not look and feel as good on you.

Before you decide to go forward with breast implant surgery, you should also consider the following:

Many of the changes to the shape of the breast after implantation are irreversible.
Removal of the implants may leave unacceptable dimpling, puckering, wrinkling, or other cosmetic changes to the breast.
Breast implants may affect your ability to produce milk for breast feeding.
Breast implants make routine screening mammography more difficult.
Implants cause alteration of nipple and breast sensation.
Pain of varying intensity and duration may occur and persist following breast implant surgery.
Blood and other fluids can pool around the implant causing hematoma and infections. You may end up back in the operating room so that your doctor can find the cause of the bleeding.
Breast implant surgery carries the same general risks as other surgical procedures.
Insurance will most likely not pay for the procedure, if it is not medically necessary.
Take these risks into consideration, consult with your doctor and make sure you are making a fully informed decision before you proceed with breast augmentation.

Also see: Cellulite Remedies

How to look fabulous at 40 and above

2007-10-22T01:30:00.000-07:00

As the adage goes, life begins at 40. Your face may no longer glow with youth like it did when you were still in your twenties, and your body may no longer be as supple as it used to be. Probably, there are some sags and bulges where none used to be.

But despite the ravages of time on her physique, the fact is that a woman in her 40s is much more interesting than a woman in her twenties. She is more seasoned, poised, confident and wise. She knows what she wants and is not afraid to go for it. She has a more definite sense of style – that is, if she allowed herself to develop it.

Sadly, many women simply let themselves go when they reach their 40s. They no longer bother to update their hairstyle and wardrobes. A woman in her 40s may think that because she is not getting any younger anymore, there is no longer any purpose to going out of her way to make herself look good. But that shouldn’t be the case. There is no reason why a woman in her 40s can’t look good. It’s just a way of knowing how.

The first step to looking fabulous at 40 is accepting that you are no longer young and that you cannot turn back the time. The most sophisticated methods of nipping and tucking and other forms of cosmetic surgery will not stop your aging. Face it and let yourself age gracefully.

most common fashion mistakes

2007-10-22T01:23:00.000-07:00

Fashion mistakes happen. I have committed them, and I am sure that you have, too. Your mother has had them, your friends and co-workers have had them. Even celebrities and top runway models make their boo-boos every now and then.
Fashion mistakes happen. You spend a bit of time in front of the mirror throwing some clothes on and putting on some makeup. You think you have got it all right, but once you step out to face the world – boom! Disaster happens.

Fashion mistakes happen. But why does it happen for us? Well, it could be because we liked an outfit that we saw on TV or on a magazine and thought it would work well on us too. Maybe we spotted something really nice and dressy while window shopping and bought it out of impulse. Maybe we listened to our mothers or our best friends even though the little voices inside our head are screaming that we should not follow their advice. It could be any reason.

But as inevitable as they may seem to be sometimes, fashion mistakes do not have to happen all the time. Careful attention to detail is all it takes.

Here are some of the most common fashion mistakes that we can commit, or have perhaps committed at some time.

Unsuitable colors. A certain color or a certain shade may look pleasing to the eye. However, there are some colors that suit only certain skin tones; they would look disastrous on others. The tip here is to try out colors and to pick the ones that suit your skin tone. Never choose colors that make you too pale or washed out.
Unfitting clothes. If you are a plus size person, stick to the plus sizes and quit squeezing yourself into clothes that do not give you room to move. Sure it may look okay while you are standing up, but when you sit down, accidents can happen. An unwanted bulge may show – or worse, a button or a seam could pop.

Inappropriate makeup. What time of the day is it? Are you going to work, an afternoon date at the park, to the gym, to a party, or to a rock concert? The key to correct makeup is that it should be light at daytime and heavy at night. Also, wear colors that flatter your face and match your outfit.

Wrong color pantyhose. Your pantyhose should match the color of the hem of your skirt and/or the color of the shoes you are wearing. Therefore, if you are wearing a black skirt with black shoes, choose black stockings or pantyhose. If you are wearing a black skirt with brown shoes, wear brown or flesh-colored stockings or pantyhose.

Scruffy shoes. Nothing ruins an outfit more than a pair of dirty or rundown shoes. Keep your shoes clean; leather shoes should always look polished. If your shoes need repair, take them to a repair shop at once. Also, quality beats quantity; invest in a good pair of shoes even if they are pricey. They will last longer than the shoes you buy in thrift stores.

Odd nails. Fingernails should be properly filed and kept at a decent length. If you polish your nails, take the time to repair the chipped paint or do them over as soon as possible when you get home. Use sedate colors on your nails for going to work on weekdays; bright and funky colors should be left for the weekends.

Slipping slips. When you wear a slip, make sure that it does not show beneath the hem of your skirt and that they fit snuggly around your waist. Best buy them in different lengths. To make it seem that you are not wearing a slip, wear one that matches the color of your dress or skirt.

Underarm stains. These look hideous, especially when you are wearing a white top. The solution to this is a good deodorant or a dress shield.

Visible bra lines. If the straps of your bra falls off your shoulders, or if it rides up the back or does not give your bosom a lift, then your bra does not fit you. Make sure your bra fits you perfectly.

Roots. Full-colored hair needs to be touched up once every four to eight weeks so the roots do not show. If you do not have the time for this or cannot afford it, opt for highlights instead. Also, choose colors that complement your skin tone.

Fashion mistakes happen. But with careful attention to details and with knowing what looks good on you, they do not have to happen at all.

how to keep agood man

2007-10-22T01:09:00.000-07:00

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The five things women do that annoy men and kill intimacy.
The inside tips married women know about the tell-tale signs of a great guy.

And you'll also get a FREE trial to Christian Carter's exclusive Dating Advice For Women eLetter.

to be more lucky

2007-10-22T00:51:00.000-07:00

If nothings been going right, if it seems like too many things or people are
working against you, or if you have several different areas of life that all need
help at the same time, this might be just the good luck spell you've been looking
for! This good luck spell is one of my personal favorites, because it takes every
situation, no matter what it might be and manages to turn everything into a
situation that somehow benefits you in some way. Within a day or two of casting
this spell most people notice a growing feeling of being extremely lucky, like no
matter what happens, it will somehow work to their benefit, and it does! A person
who lost their job, finds a better one making more money. A person who broke
their leg meets their future spouse at the hospital and on and on the list goes so
that no matter what's going on in your life, it helps you come out the winner!

romantic peoms

2007-10-21T23:52:00.000-07:00

Every time we embrace,
I go to that far away place
When we just walk hand in hand.
I’m in never, never land.

Whenever I look into your eyes,
I begin to get butterflies,
Then my heart skips a beat,
And our lips passionately meet.

You are always on my mind,
Your face is all it can find.
I think about you every day
And know it’ll all work out some how, some way.

Some say we’re dumb and foolish
Some say we should do as we wish
But all my heart could ever do
Is tell you that I’ll always LOVE YOU.

A Blue Star In Your Eye
My love for you flies.
Soaring higher and higher,
And touching the skies.

I reached up above,
And pulled a star from the sky.
To place it within,
Your precious minds eye.

To dwell there forever,
As my love for you.
On the wings of our love,
Enduring and true.

I honor you my darling,
With all that I am.
Please darling please,
Will you be my man?

There are so many things,
My heart wants to say.
I love you sweetheart,
There is no other way.

Absence
My love is like the sun that warms me when I am cold,
And like the cool water of the brook that refreshes me.
My love knows the secret pleasures of my soul,
And delights with me in fulfilling them.
Who is my love but the soul of my soul,
And the reason for every beat of my heart.
Who fills me with life in the joy of her presence,
And returns to me more than I have given.
Come to me, my love, I die without you.
Each day is eternity, waiting for your touch.
Remove the tears from my eyes and the ache in my heart,
Be closer than my breath, all my days, all my nights.

A Dream In The Night
Lost in confusion and total self bliss
I've found the relation between dream and wish
A dream is a fantasy lived only while asleep
But a wish has a compass vast, far and deep.
A dream can bring true the wish never thought
As your mind wanders aimlessly and feelings are sought.
But a wish is a simple, momentous undertaking
A grasping of things while still in the making.
Now my understanding of wish and of dreams
Have broadened my scope - or so it would seem
But still I'm confused and nothing is clear
Because you are a wish, yet a dream so dear.
With the breath of each day, I wish for your sight
Visions of loveliness turned to dreams in the night
You've become such a fantasy with realistic tones
I long for your love and time spent alone
Sadly enough my dreams cause confusion
For all their purpose are meager illusion
And though the dawn of each day may be cheerful to sight
I fear the darkness and my continuing fight.
For now its a war - a battle within
A dreadful nightmare which rationality must win
What should I do? Where shall I begin?
Should I ask for your love or remain a dear friend?
In my dreams youre my lover and my world is complete
But in life your a martyr to hope so elite
I've grown to know you and care with a passion
But fear lies within mutual attraction.
If I am to approach you with some indication
Would I strengthen our friendship or cause detonation?
This is the confusion, the struggle, the fight,
Until I am sure, youll remain a dream in the night.

A CUTE POEM FOR A CUTE GIRL
You changed my world with a blink of an eye
That is something that I can not deny
You put my soul from worst to best
That is why I treasure you my dearest Marites

You just don't know what you have done for me
You even pushed me to the best that I can be
You really are an angel sent from above
To take care of me and shower with love

When I'm with you I will not cry even a single a tear
And your touch have chased away all of my fear
You have given me a life that I could live worthwhile
It is even better everytime you smile

It so magical those things you've made
To bring back my faith that almost fade
Now my life is a dream come true
It all began when I was loved by you

Now I have found what I am looking for
It's you and your love and nothing more
Co'z you have given me this feeling of contentment
In my life something I've never felt

I wish I could talk 'til the end of day
But now I'm running out of things to say
So I'll end by the line you already know
"I LOVE YOU" more than what I could show

A Gift Of Love
My gift to you is my love
Given from deep within my heart
It is the best I have to offer
And its yours until this earth we depart

You have captured a part of me
A part so very fragile that I am in fear
For it is my heart I have lost
To you my love, the one I hold most dear

I chose to love you now
With all that I have and all that I am
And I pray that God follows us
To guide our steps as we cross this land

For it is with His blessings
We will live most at peace with each other
For He is the reason after all
We found one another ........ I Love You!

All Because of You
Dark days become sunny
Frigid days become warm,
Rainy days become cloudless
And lightning got wiped away from the storm.

Oceans sing,
Rocks cry out,
Mountains roar,
And tree branches shout.

The stars fall
Right out of the sky.
The moon winks
And the sun went dry.

All because you said one thing
All because you said it true
All because you made me smile
All because you said I love you.

ALL I CAN'T SAY
There are so many words I cannot say,
when I look into your eyes.
I want to be able to tell you one day,
but I'm left speechless every time that I try.

You must have stumbled across the key,
and discovered so much more.
You found a hidden place in me,
you found my heart and opened the door.
And I cried in pain
of losing my dear friend.

Will it ever be the same again?
If it passes will it be the end?
I realized it was worth so much,
as I lie in bed that night.
So I allowed my soul to be touched,
without even putting up a fight.
Are my eyes deceiving me,
when I see you standing there?
Are you playing games,
just to prove I care?

You speak my name in a prelude,
in a reference to love,
with such loving attitude,
as if it were a message from above.
With the palms of your hands
pressed firmly against mine,
a white doves lands,
and the sun begins to shine.

Someday I will see,
though that day has not come yet.
You'll say you love me,
but will you ever forget?
If that happens and my spirit dies,
if my emotions drop,
will you want to hold me when I cry?
Or will the love just suddenly stop?
We can't expect to fall in love and never cry.

You'll stay and play your part,
but after the beauty starts to die,
will your footprints still be on my heart?
Though it would be hard to say goodbye,
your friend I'll always be,
as long as we always try,
to keep the friendship between you and me.

The letter I will not send
will casually inquire,
how could you have brought it to an end?
I was your one desire.
After this life is over,
you'll be one person I know I'll miss.

It'll be too late to start over, and so I leave you with this...
I'll hold you for a lifetime,
if you'll just hold my hand.
We could have a wonderful time,
in the days we have not yet planned.

A Love Letter to His Darling
My sweetest one, now I call on you
I have never loved as I love you.
If you cannot give your heart to me
I will still - and ever - love thee.

My mind is weary, as the sunflower
I am thinking about you every hour,
not a second goes by; I know not why
unless I am dancing with you.

O, answer me and say you care!
my darling one, thou art so fair,
with radiant beauty that captures
my heart and grace from within
that lights every star.

I long to hear you singing again
pretty words of love in gentle refrain,
just a a word from you, on paper of blue,
will tell me if the greatest love is true.

Always Listening
I am listening for your footsteps
on the stones along the path,
I am listening for the echo
of your cheerful ready laugh.
I am listening for the whisper of endearments
I am listening for the sigh
that used to follow every kiss.
I am listening for the heartbeat
that once throbbed against my chest,
and deep within my pillow
my hungry ears are pressed
to still the sound of emptiness
that now is in my heart.
I sleep and visit dreamland
beyond some distant star

Always And Forever
Basking in the warmth of your smile
And the music of your laugh
I feel your tenderness
And your oh so witty style

I don’t know why god blessed me
With such a friend as you
But it makes my pleasure complete
And very happy too

The way you always know me
And exactly what to do
When my loneliness gets me down
And I’m so very blue
The way you see into my soul
And looked behind my eyes
And I don’t have to hide my feelings
And put on a disguise

With you I learned to trust
And as I person I have grown
Who could have possibly told me
How could I have known
That you would come in to my life
And my beauty would start to bloom
And like a pretty butterfly
Come out of my cocoon

To share your tender heart
The warmness of your smile
The courage of your wisdom
For these I’d walk for miles

To be thinking of a time
When you’d no longer be there
For me to gaze upon in delight
And all our feelings share
Is not acceptable to me
Because in my life
Is where I want you to be
Always and forever.

A MILLION TIMES
I have seen you a million times
And every time I see you
I fall in love with you all over again
My heart starts to race
My frown turns into a smile
And all my worries are now in my past
When you smile at me my heart melts
You give the sweetest hugs
Every time you hug me
Your smile is like a new day
Your sense of humor is like no other
The ability you have to make me smile
Is all you need you love me
Your laugh is so soft and sweet
Just looking in your eyes
Makes me melt inside
Your lips look so soft
Soft enough to kiss
You, yourself relive me from all pain
Your hands are as soft as a pillow
The way you comfort me is amazing
Every time we say good-bye
I start to cry
I say good-bye to you too many times
I said good-bye to you a million times

Amazing
It's Amazing...
How one person can change your life
How a smile from you can erase everything bad
How life seems less scary when you're holding my hand.

It's Phenomenal...
How fate brings two strangers together
How I survived before I knew you
How, whenever I'm with you it's like a great new adventure.

It's Beautiful...
How love can be so unconditional
How learning about you is like reading my favorite story.
How loving you is so easy.

And I'm so thankful...
That I'm able to know this
Amazing
Phenomenal
Beautiful person
And because...
I LOVE YOU

Angel Of My Heart
How can the luminous moon greet the darkling night sky?
How can the crashing waves beat against the rocky shore?
Until my heart has oneness with your own,
I cannot feel a part of this world until we meet!

How can the morning dove call to the cooling East wind?
How can majestic mountains reach high to the lofty heavens?
Until my lips have union with yours of such beauty,
I cannot be satisfied for your kiss that takes my breath!

How can the parched earth open her mouth to the rainstorm?
How can winter melt at the obedience of Spring's arrival?
Until my longing arms have encircled your waiting chest,
I cannot be fulfilled in my desire to hold you near!

How can the newborn baby still suckle
fervently on his mother's nurturing breast?
How can time's hand still move in never-ending circles?
Until my wanton temple has union with your Princely body,
I cannot feel at one with the angel of my heart!

You are the moon to my night! The waves against my shore!
the dove to my East wind and the mountains to my sky!
You are the rain to my thirst, the Spring to my winter!

AN ANGEL'S CRIME

An angel tantalizes me with heaven's fire,

To covet a life just beyond my grasp.

Years paint the path of forbidden desire,

As his wings burn my skin.

Woe to you, forbidden Angel,

Oh blissful agony drown my cries,

Expose my souls ravenous despair,

Gratify me with your wings afire.

A RAY OF SUNSHINE
I saw you from a distance
And I liked what my eyes did see
But not sure if we were meant to be
Still I made my way just to see
If I could find out that you were the one for me

I smiled and said, "Hello!" and you did just the same
What a pleasure you showed to me
But little did I know as we talked along
My heart opened to you and went on to sing a song

You made me smile and you made me laugh
I found you so special in many ways
People say that love is the key to a relationship
But it was in your kiss that holds the key

You brought a ray of sunshine to my life
And I smiled from ear to ear
Thinking of you is what I do each day
To savour the special moments in every way

Where have you been all my life?
Without you, my baby, I just can't survive
Such is a wonderful person you will ever be
Forever my love, you are so sweet to me

A RED, RED ROSE
O my luve's like a red, red rose.
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like a melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a'the seas gang dry.

Till a'the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o'life shall run.

And fare thee weel my only Luve!
And fare thee weel a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile!

A POEM FOR A SPECIAL SOMEONE

You are my inspiration
having you in my life
revived my sleeping devotion
You are indeed a special someone

Loving you gives me hope
to free this misery that I coped
in those times I gave up
You came and I stood up

Never will I forget
how you always cheer me up
every time I’m sad
and for that I’m glad

Whenever I’m lonely
You were there for me
keeping my heart alive
with your every smile

I dedicate this poem to you
to show how much you meant
to me I love you
My special someone

AT LAST
At last, when all the summer shine
That warmed life's early hours is past,
Your loving fingers seek for mine
And hold them close at last at last!
Not oft the robin comes to build
Its nest upon the leafless bough
By autumn robbed, by winter chilled,
But you, dear heart, you love me now.

Though there are shadows on my brow
And furrows on my cheek, in truth,
The marks where Time's remorseless plough
Broke up the blooming sward of Youth,
Though fled is every girlish grace
Might win or hold a lover's vow,
Despite my sad and faded face,
And darkened heart, you love me now!

I count no more my wasted tears;
They left no echo of their fall;
I mourn no more my lonesome years;
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!

Perfect Love
Sunday mornin', when the paper comes
Let's read it front to back and see what's goin' on
Drink our coffee by the flower bed
And talk about the stuff that's runnin' through our heads
When you look at me the way you do
I can't help but look right back at you

(Chorus:)
Yeah, this is a perfect love
We're doin' nothin' but
What a perfect love does
We're not try'n' to make history
It's just you and me
In a perfect love

Hey, let's drive to the edge of town
See what there is to see, and then turn back around
Stop by and see your mom and dad
And hear 'em talk about the busy week they had
Then let's take a walk beside the lake
See what kinda fun we can make

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge:)
Oh, ain't it a perfect love
I know you love me just because

(Repeat chorus)

Oh, ain't it a perfect love
(This is a perfect love)
Oh, ain't it a perfect love
(Ain't it a perfect love)
Oh, ain't it a perfect love
(Yeah, we got a perfect love)

PLEASE FORGIVE ME
Still feels like
Our first night together
Feels like the first kiss
It’s getting better baby
No-one can better this
Still holding on
You’re still the one
First time our eyes met
Same feeling I get
Only feels much stronger
I wanna love you longer
You still turn the fire on

(Chorus)
So if you’re feeling lonely, don’t
You’re the only love I ever want
I only wanna make it good
So if I love you a little more than I should
Please forgive me
I know not what I do
Please forgive me
I can’t stop loving you
Don’t deny me
This pain I’m going through
Please forgive me
If I need you like I do
Please believe it every word I say is true
Please forgive me
I can’t stop loving you

Still feels like our best times are together
Feels like the first touch
Still getting closer baby
Can’t get close enough
Still holding on
Still number one
I remember the smell of your skin
I remember everything
I remember all your moods
I remember you, yeah !
I remember the nights you know I still do

(Repeat Chorus)

One thing I’m sure of
Is the way we make love
One thing I depend on
Is for us to stay strong
In every word and every breath I’m praying
That’s why I’m saying

Please forgive me
I know not what I do
Please forgive me
I can’t stop loving you
Don’t deny me
This pain I’m going through
Please forgive me
If I need you like I do
Please believe it every word I say is true
Please forgive me
I can’t stop loving you

THE POWER OF LOVE
The whispers in the morning
Of lovers sleeping tight
Are rolling like thunder now
As I look in your eyes

I hold on to your body
And feel each move you make
Your voice is warm and tender
A love that I could not forsake

(First chorus)
'Cause I am your lady
And you are my man
Whenever you reach for me
I'll do all that I can

Lost is how I'm feeling lying in your arms
When the world outside's too
Much to take
That all ends when I'm with you

Even though there may be times
It seems I'm far away
Never wonder where I am
'Cause I am always by your side

(Repeat first chorus)

(Second chorus)
We're heading for something
Somewhere I've never been
Sometimes I am frightened
But I'm ready to learn
Of the power of love

The sound of your heart beating
Made it clear
Suddenly the feeling that I can't go on
Is light years away

(Repeat first chorus)

(Repeat second chorus)

SEA OF LOVE
Do you remember when we met
That's the day I knew you were my pet
I want to tell you how much I love you

Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you how much I love you

Come with me, to the sea

Do you remember when we met
That's the day I knew you were my pet
I want to tell you how much I love you

GUITAR SOLO

Come with me, to the sea

Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I want to tell you how much I love you

Come with me, to the sea

SECOND CHANCE
What do you do when love comes along
And offers your heart a chance to move on
With no guarantees, no safety net?
You trust what you feel; you take that first step

(Chorus:)
Just close your eyes
Reach for the moment
Before it slips by
Here is your second chance
Take it and fly

The weight of the world, the need to survive
Has made you believe that you're got no right
Then, out of the blue, you meet someone
Who offers a place warm as the sun

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge:)
Just when you think love is a distant dream
Oh, fate gives you wings

(Repeat chorus)

SHE'S OUT OF MY LIFE
Ooh...
She's out of my life
She's out of my life
I don't know whether to laugh or cry
I don't know whether to live or die
And it cuts like a knife
She's out of my life
Ooh...
She's out of my hands, ooh
She's out of my hands
To think for two years that she was here
And I took her for granted; I was so cavalier
Now, the way that it stands
She's out of my hands

So I've learned that love is no possession
And I've learned that love won't wait
Now, I've learned love needs expression
But I've learned much too late

And she's out of my life, out of my life
Damned indecision and cursed pride
Kept my love for her locked deep inside
And it cuts like a knife
She's out of my life

Ooh...
She's out of my life

SIGN YOUR NAME
Fortunately you have
Someone who relies on you
We started out as friends
But the thought of you just caves me in
The symptoms are so deep
It is much too late to turn away
We started out as friends

Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my baby
Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my lady

Time I'm sure will bring
Disappointments in so many things
It seems to be the way
When you’re gambling cards on love you play
I'd rather be in Hell with you baby
Than in cool Heaven
It seems to be the way

Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my baby
Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my lady

Birds never look into the sun
Before the day is gone
But oh the light shines brighter
On a peaceful day
Stranger blue leave us alone
We don't want to deal with you
We'll shed our stains showering
In the room that makes the rain

All alone with you
Makes the butterflies in me arise
Slowly we make love
And the Earth rotates
To our dictates
Slowly we make love

Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my baby
Sign your name
Across my heart
I want you to be my lady

SORRY
Male talking softly

Yeah, yeah
(Spoken) Just listen
All this time it's been on my mind
But I never said it
Went along like I did no wrong
But now I regret it
Should've probably listened more
Held your hand and opened doors
I've been taking you for granted
But I swear I never meant it

(Wanted many times to apologize)
But it often went unsaid
(Got to figure out how to tell you now)
What's been going through my head

Sorry
Not an easy word to say
But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away
And there's just no way that I can live
Unless I know that you'll forgive
Sorry
Baby, I'm so, so (spoken) sorry

Girl, I'm hoping it's not too late
I cross my fingers
Cross my heart I'm about to change my ways
Starting with this one word
Promise I'm gonna stay around
No more hanging out
Let's reunite
I'll make it right
Cuz I need you in my life

(Sorry) Whoah
(Not an easy word to say) Sorry baby
(But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away) Don't walk away
And there's just no way that I can live
Unless I know that you'll forgive
Sorry
Baby, I'm so, so, so (spoken) sorry

Sorry for the times I didn't realize
That holding back my feelings brought tears to your eyes
Sorry for the times I didn't understand
A simple word that you deserved
Could make me a better man
Whoah

(Sorry)
(Not an easy to word to say) Not an easy word
(But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away) Don't walk away
(And there's just no way that I can live) I can live
(Unless I know that you'll forgive) Just no way
(Sorry)
Now baby
(Overlapping) Baby-aaaby-baby, please
I'm so, so (spoken) sorry

(Sorry) For all the times I made you cry
(Not an easy to word to say) For all the times I told you lies
(But I'm worried)
All the times I wasn't fair
(If I don't you'll walk away)
(And there's just no way) For all these things, yeah
(That I can live) I can live
(Unless I know that you'll forgive) Unless I know you'll forgive me, ba-aa-aabe
Baby, I'm so, so, (spoken) sorry

Ooh ooooh
(Sorry) Sorry
(Not an easy word to say) Yeah
(But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away) Yeah
(And there's just no way that I can live) Just no way that I can live
(Unless I know that you'll forgive) Please forgive me, baby, yeah
(Sorry)
Baby, I'm so, so (spoken) sorry

Male talking softly

Yeah, yeah
(Spoken) Just listen
All this time it's been on my mind
But I never said it
Went along like I did no wrong
But now I regret it
Should've probably listened more
Held your hand and opened doors
I've been taking you for granted
But I swear I never meant it

(Wanted many times to apologize)
But it often went unsaid
(Got to figure out how to tell you now)
What's been going through my head

Sorry
Not an easy word to say
But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away
And there's just no way that I can live
Unless I know that you'll forgive
Sorry
Baby, I'm so, so (spoken) sorry

Girl, I'm hoping it's not too late
I cross my fingers
Cross my heart I'm about to change my ways
Starting with this one word
Promise I'm gonna stay around
No more hanging out
Let's reunite
I'll make it right
Cuz I need you in my life

(Sorry) Whoah
(Not an easy word to say) Sorry baby
(But I'm worried if I don't you'll walk away) Don't walk away
And there's just no way that I can live
Unless I know that you'll forgive
Sorry
Baby, I'm so, so, so (spoken) sorry

STARS
Anyone who ever held you
Would tell you the way I'm feeling
Anyone who ever wanted you
Would try to tell you what I feel inside
The only thing I ever wanted
Was the feeling
That you ain't faking
The only one you ever thought about
Wait a minute, can't you see ?

(Chorus)
That I wanna fall from the stars
Straight into your arms
I, I feel you
I hope you comprehend

For the man who tried to hurt you
He's explaining the way I'm feeling
For all the jealousy I caused you
States the reason
Why I'm trying to hide
As for all the things you taught me
It sends my future
Into clearer dimensions
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay a minute, can't you see

(Repeat Chorus)

Too many hearts are broken
A lover's promise
Never came with a maybe
So many words are left unspoken
The silent voices are driving me crazy
After all the pain you caused me
Making up could never be your intention
You'll never know how much you hurt me
Stay, can't you see

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

SWEAR IT AGAIN
wanna know
Whoever told you I was letting go
Of the only joy that I have ever known
Girl, they were lying
Just look around
And all of the people that we used to know
Have just given up, they wanna let it go
But we're still trying

So you should know this love we share
Was never made to die
I'm glad we're on this one-way street
Just you and I
Just you and I

(Chorus:)
I'm never gonna say goodbye
'Cause I never wanna see you cry
I swore to you my love would remain
And I'd swear it all over again--and I I'm never gonna treat you bad
'Cause I never wanna see you sad
I swore to share your joys and your pain
And I'd swear it all over again

Some people say
That everything has got its place and time
Even the day must give way to the night
But I'm not buying
'Cause, in your eyes
I see a love that burns eternally
And, if you see how beautiful you are to me
You'll know I'm not lying

Sure, there'll be times we wanna say goodbye
But, even if we tried
There are some things in this life
Won't be denied
Won't be denied

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge:)
The more I see of you
Is the more I know I love you
The more that I'm sure
I want you forever and ever more
And the more that I know
Oh, that I'm never gonna let you go
Gotta let you know that

(Repeat chorus)

The closer I get to you
The more you make me see
By giving me all you've got
Your love has captured me
Over and over again
I try to tell myself that we
Could never be more than friends
And all the while inside
I knew it was real
The way you make me feel
Lying here next to you
Time just seems to fly
Needing you more and more
Let's give love a try
Sweeter than sweeter love grows
And heaven's there for those
Who fool the tricks of time
With hearts in love will find
True love
In a special way

THE FIRST TIME
You know I won't forget
The time we shared together holding hands
And walking in the park
Sometimes we'll have to do it all again
We were so happy then
I have no regret

Can you tell from the look on my face that
I love you more today

Chorus
The first time I look into your eyes I cried
Do you remember the first time
We fell in love
You look into my eyes wiped the tears away
The first time
When we fell in love

Althought sometime has passed
I still remember just like it was yesterday
The time is moving fast
The love I have for you
Time won't ever change I'll always feel the same
Now until the end

Memories we've shared will live forever
Deep inside my heart I know I'll never fall again

The Next Time I Fall
Love, like a road that never ends
How it leads me back again
To heartache
I'll never understand
Darling, I put my heart upon the shelf
'Til the moment was right
And I tell myself...

(Chorus:)
Next time I fall in love
I'll know better what to do
Next time I fall in love
Ooh, ooh, ooh
The next time I fall in love
The next time I fall in love
It will be with you

Oh, now, as I look into your eyes
Well, I wonder if it's wise
To hold you like I've wanted to before
Tonight
Ooh, I was thinking that you might
Be the one who breathes life
Into this heart of mine

(Repeat chorus)

(Bridge:)
Next time, I'm gonna follow through
And if it drives me crazy
I will know better why
The next time I try

(Repeat chorus)

Next time I fall in love
Oh, whoa, oh
Next time I fall in love
Ooh, ooh, ooh
The next time I fall in love
The next time I fall in love
It will be with you

Touch
Blue is the ocean in your eyes
Blue as cool September skies
As a lonely waterfall
Red is the fire in your heart
For the passionate love that we make
As the sunset is fading away

Angel, heaven starts here tonight in your arms
While I drown in your body,
get lost in your charms
Now that you're here, angel, don't go
Let's keep the mood nice and slow

(Chorus 1:)
All I want is your touch
All I want is your heaven right here by my side
Ev'ry night
All I want is your touch
All I want is your tenderness here in my life
Every morning and night
Girl, 'cause your touch is so right

Yes, I've been thinking about you
I've imagined the feel of your body
And how it will be when we move

Darling, magic's alive tonight in your arms
While I drown in this moment,
get lost in your charms
Now that you're here, don't move too fast
Let's make the moment last

(Repeat chorus 1)

I don't want nobody else
And you'll see that my body is aching
I'm hopelessly taken by you

(Chorus 2:)
All I want is your touch
All I want is your heaven right here by my side
Ev'ry night
All I want is your touch
All I want is your tenderness here in my life

(Repeat chorus 1)

'Cause your touch is so right
'Cause your touch is so right

to get love back

2007-10-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

what can you do?

I have helped many men and women just like you get back together with their ex's. While I cannot promise that you will get your girlfriend or boyfriend back (to do so would be impossible and unethical), I can give you a powerful plan that has worked for many others in the past

This plan evolved through my work with hundreds of singles over a period of years. This isn't a guess about what might work. My plan has proven to be the steps that will be most effective in repairing your relationship. It's based, not only on my experience, but also on the scientific research of psychologists on relationships and human behavior

. I love to help people save a relationship that is valuable to them, I find it very satisfying, and now I want to help you get back together with your lost love. To prove the effectiveness of what I can teach you, I want to show you a few excerpts from emails I have received from people who have used my plan to get back their ex boyfriends and girlfriends:

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How Can You Get Started?First of all, I want you to know that your situation is NOT necessarily hopeless. It may seem that way right now but once you discover my powerful, proven plan for getting back your ex you will feel much more confident about how to proceed - it addresses a wide variety of situations and circumstances and may substantially increase your chances of getting your loved one back.

In the past, I only revealed this plan in one-on-one consultations that cost $60 an hour or more. However, I found that I didn't have enough time to explain the process this way. At least not in the depth I would like. So I've taken that exact same information and created an ebook called "How to Get Back Your Ex." It outlines everything that you need to know... it's exactly what I would say to you if we were talking to each other face-to-face. When you get this book you will have a clear, actionable, step-by-step plan to follow... you won't have to guess about what is the best thing to do and you'll avoid the common mistakes that people make. I'll show you precisely what you can say and do in order to encourage the change of heart that will bring the two of you back together.

Please don't do any of this...Unfortunately, the things people naturally try to do after a break up actually end up pushing their ex further away... even though it seems like the right thing to do at the time! Have you tried any of this to get your ex back:

Telling them you love them over and over?
Apologizing and swearing that things will be different from now on?
Using money, kids, jealousy, or some other kind of manipulative leverage to "force" them to come back?
Acting depressed so that they will feel bad for you and come back?
Giving your ex reassurance that you have changed so they should try again?
Trying to reason and argue with them about why they should give the relationship another chance?

These things that most people try are actually counter-productive. People actually end up pushing their ex boyfriends or girlfriends further away making it less likely they will ever get back together! Please don't make any of the above mistakes.

I will show you a better way. A way that will allow you to increase your ex's respect for you, raise their attraction for you, and help repair any mistakes that may have been made after the break up. Basically, what we will attempt to do is remove all barriers to getting back together.
Here is just some of what you will learn from the ebook:

There are 3 very specific things you should do over the next month that will dramatically increase your chances of getting back your lost love.

I'll outline the precise conversation that should take place between you and your ex when it comes time to get back together (but only after a lot of preparatory work of course!). I'll also explain why this approach works so well.

What brought you together initially (attraction) will be what brings you back together now. This is the only consistently effective approach to getting them back

. In the ebook, I'll show you a very specific way of how to use it to get back your ex boyfriend or girlfriend.

What should you do if your ex boyfriend or girlfriend is dating someone else right now? Most people are surprised at the answer.

How are you supposed to act around them if you see them? This is a critical aspect of getting them back... unfortunately, a lot of people make serious mistakes in this area.
Discover why most attempts people make to get back their ex are horribly ineffective... and what you should do instead so they will be drawn back to you.

Find out why (up until now) your ex has resisted all your attempts to get back together. Understanding this concept alone may mean the difference between getting back together and staying apart forever. This is a real eye opener for most.

Can't stop thinking about your ex girlfriend or boyfriend? Are these obsessive thoughts interfering with school or work? On page 23 I'll teach you how you can "turn off the switch" and stop thinking about them whenever you want.

In 2000, an important study was done by psychologists that pinpointed exactly what "happy couples" do that makes both partners feel more satisfied and happy with the relationship.
What should you do if your ex won't talk to you? The solution to this problem is deceptively simple.

I'll show you what NOT to do and say when you talk to your ex or see them again. This information is very important. A few specific things - things that may be very tempting to talk about - should *not* be discussed with your ex under any circumstances.

Obviously, arguments are obstacles to getting back together (your ex will use them as evidence that you guys SHOULDN'T be together). It's important that there aren't any fights while you are using the "How to Get Back Your Ex" plan. I'll give you a technique you can use make an argument practically impossible.

This will work when you are together again too.
Apologizing often does more harm than good. I'll explain why and what you should do instead to repair your relationship without groveling.

Research done in the 1970's uncovered the 5 characteristics of doomed relationships. It's unfortunate that even after 30 years most people don't know about this because it's so important if you guys are going to stay together after I help you repair the relationship.
Use this plan to increase your chances of getting back together with him or her - even if they broke up with you!

I'll help you approach them in such a way that they are struck by how different you seem (in a good way). This is one of the "keys" to getting another chance with them.
... and much more...

I've been doing this a while now and I've updated the ebook whenever needed (last update 9/07) so that everything is addressed... it's very complete.
The plan that I will outline for you does not involve some of the common (but ineffective) suggestions you will find elsewhere such as apologizing, writing a love note, buying them a gift, or doing something sweet for them. Beware of this kind of advice as it may only push your ex further away from you. Also, this plan does not, in any way, involve stalking or harassing your ex.

Here's How You Can Get Started on This Process Immediately..."How to Get Back Your Ex" is an ebook so it's available for immediate access... this means that just 5 minutes from now you can be sitting at your computer reading it and getting started on the step-by-step instructions.

The ebook is in PDF format so it will work with both Apple and Microsoft computers. If you are new to the internet, please don't be intimidated by the terms "ebook," "download," or "PDF."

The entire process is very simple and is outlined for you in detailed step-by-step instructions. I get orders from all kinds of people and very, very few people have any difficulties of any sort. As I already mentioned, I used to charge around $60 an hour for a one-on-one consultation but you can get the exact same plan for much less than that... only $24. You will have immediate access to it by placing your order on my secure server by clicking on the link below now. You can pay with a credit card, PayPal, or check.

I also want to reassure you that your satisfaction is completely guaranteed. If at any time, for any reason, you are dissatisfied simply let me know and I'll refund your money. No questions asked. No hassles. No strings attached. I truly believe that this ebook will help you and I want to make sure that you are comfortable with taking this step toward getting back your lost love.
NEW: I just added an exciting new resource for you to use as a supplementary companion to the "How to Get Back Your Ex" ebook.

It's called the "Self-Consultation Questionnaire."
These are the same questions I ask during a consultation and the same answers I would give. This 18 page questionnaire allows you to get advice custom tailored to your specific situation and adapt the plan to your unique circumstances. This is a unique and helpful addition to an already proven plan.

As of right now you can get both the How to Get Back Your Ex ebook and the Self-Consultation Questionnaire for the same price I used to charge for just the ebook. The feedback I've been getting so far has been very positive and I might be raising the price of this package soon as my advertising costs have increased substantially.

Please do not delay. It is important to get this information now because I know from experience that the sooner you get started on this process, the better your chances of getting back together with your ex boyfriend or girlfriend.

change and how to deal it

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Change is all around us today.
We change bosses.
We change departments.
However, unless, as individuals, we come to grips with the underlying psychological effects of radical change,
we will be ill-equipped to deal with that change and to help others deal with the change. This one day workshop will provide participants with the necessary skills for change management in
the workplace.

What participants will learn:

Accept there are no normal or abnormal ways of reacting to change, but that we must start from where we are.
See change not as something to be feared and resisted but as an essential element of the world to be accepted.
Understand that adapting to change is not technical but attitudinal. Change is not an intellectual issue but one that strikes at who you are.
Recognize that before we can embrace the way things will be, we must go through a process of grieving, and of letting go of the “way things use to be.”
See change as an opportunity for self-motivation and innovation.
Identify strategies for helping change be accepted and implemented in the workplace.

how did i fall in love

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Remeber when, we never needed each other The best of friends like Sister and Brother We understood
, we'd never be, Alone Those days are gone, and I want so much The night islong and I need your touch Don't know what to say I never meant to feel this way Don't want to be Alone tonight Chorus: What can I do
, to make it right Falling so hard so fast this time What did I say
, what did you do? How did I fall in love with you? I hear your voice And I start to tremble Brings back the child that, I resemble I cannot pretend,
that we can still be friends Don't want to be, Alone tonight Chorus: What can I do, to make it right Falling so hard so fast this time What did I say,
what did you do? How did I fall in love with you? Bridge: Oh I want to say this right And it has to be tonight Just need you to know,
oh yeah I don't want to live this life I don't want to say goodbye With you I wanna spend The rest of my life Chorus: What can I do,
to make it right Falling so hard so fast this time What did I say,
what did you do? How did I fall in love with you? What can I do, to make it right Falling so hard so fast this time Everything's changed, we never knew How did I fall in love with you?

wonderful monuments all over the world

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ancient monuments in cairo

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pictures for alex

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egyptian monuments in the dark

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pictures for egypt

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cars

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romantic pictures

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razan's pictures

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georges wassouf pictures

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georges wassouf

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Alpha Nutrition

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Alpha Nutrition Changing Eating Behavior
The basic problem with proposing diet revision as therapy is that eating behaviors are deeply rooted in a psychosocial matrix and are not rationally determined. Diet revision attempts to introduce rational determination of eating behaviors and food selection. The social basis of eating patterns often conflicts with individual needs and opposes the attempts made by an individual to modify diet as a means of restoring or maintaining health.

Stephen J. Gislason MD

Food sharing has deep biological roots. Eating is a social activity and it is difficult for anyone to eat alone. Food selection is a kind of social cement. Eating patterns are determined by social forces including ethnic traditions, religious rules, family traditions, etiquette, and the habits of the local community. Sharing food with others is a prerequisite of close social grouping. The best way to become a social outcast is to eat differently.

The social basis of eating patterns often conflicts with individual needs. The biologic need is to self-regulate - to find an individual, adaptive path. Individual needs may differ from the needs of the group. When a patient is ill and needs to change food choices support tends to be short-lived. Therapists need to work with couples and families to modify one person's diet long-term. Usually there are group benefits. The best way to proceed with diet revision is with the full understanding and support of a social group. When this is not possible, the individual needs extra understanding and motivation to cope with social pressures that resist changes, however beneficial they may be.

Alpha Nutrition Instructions

While important health benefits can be achieved through diet revision, there is resistance to lasting changes in food habits. Basic knowledge presented in the Alpha Nutrition Manual invites you to consider the psychological and behavioral aspects of eating. While important health benefits can be achieved through diet revision, there is resistance to lasting changes in food habits. You consider concepts such as:

Different eating patterns go with different lifestyles.
Eclectic eating patterns
Disorganized and Dysfunctional eating
Compulsive eating and food addiction

Food and beverages contain a variety of molecular switches that are usually well-concealed in the course of day-to-day living. In children on controlled diets with parents and teachers monitoring closely, flip-flops are obvious and can often be related to eating or drinking specific foods. To keep matters simple, we refer to a "food reaction" which triggers behavior change, but we infer that many changes are going on at the same time in the child's brain

It is as if the child's entire identity shifts, complete with totally different attitudes, thoughts, and personality characteristics. Younger children have less ability to smooth their transitions than adults. The 4 year old child who spends 10 minutes screaming loudly and then bites her mother, shouting "I hate you" will be excused by most loving parents.

But adults displaying the same behavior in the wrong context may end up in jail or the psychiatric ward. The child's behavior was triggered by chocolate cake, jello and ice cream at a birthday party. The adult's outburst may be triggered by lasagna, red wine, cheese, and chocolate mousse at an expensive restaurant.

The children we observe doing flip-flop, food-triggered personality shifts, also have fits of rage, and the worst-afflicted display frighteningly aggressive behavior, attacking other children or their parents. Children's temper tantrums can be fully developed rituals of hate, violence and self-destructive behavior and often contrast remarkably with the "normal" state. The children who continue to be volatile and flip-flop in an uncontrolled fashion soon get the reputation for being "bad" and tend to develop negative, antisocial personalities. The worst afflicted may end up as some of our more destructive citizens, sometimes in jail. The tragedy of these destructive outcomes is that it may be preventable by an early change in the child's food supply. Similar shifts from state A to state B occur in adults. Adults report different sets of thoughts in the different states. More insightful adults will describe distinct personalities. An angry, gloomy side may alternate with a happier, more affectionate, generous personality. Women have been generally more forthcoming in describing their personality shifts.

There are typical emotional experiences during diet revision. Certain foods can trigger flip-flops and that thinking and feeling can change remarkably as the molecular contexts in the brain change. Rather than pretending that patients ( an physicians) are perfectly integrated, rational creatures, totally in control, we acknowledge that all human beings can be irrational, compulsive, unstable, and vulnerable to incoming molecular influences. Several two-state descriptions are helpful, although no single two-state description is ever completely true. We will notice, for example, that most people, as they change, will flip-flop between an adult and child mode. The adult reads this book, develops interest and understanding of change and plans a health-seeking transformation. The child is resistant to change, petulant, irrational, and demands instant gratification.

Men and Women Are Different

There are important differences between the experiences of men and women. Women may be more likely to eat food when they are short of love and affection, when they feel oppressed, or depressed. Sometimes food abuse is connected to alcohol and drug abuse in both men and women who have had terrible experiences as children, especially sexual abuse. Oppression tends to push women especially into compulsive and disorganized eating. Too many women are trapped at home living an emotionally impoverished and constrained life with few rewards except food. For some women even then food pleasures may feel illicit. Some women attempt to hide their indulgences or go to extreme lengths to conceal evidence of over-eating (especially weight gain) by inducing vomiting, purging, or exercising in a fanatical manner. A host of desires, fears, frustrations, and inhibitions tend to get focused on food and body image. Food can become a comforter and saboteur at the same time.

Men's denial tends to be more complete, and they seldom admit to feeling guilty. Men tend to become angry and withdrawn whenever their eating and drinking habits are challenged. Anger replaces guilt. Men turn their anger into an eating or drinking binge and feel totally justified. They are less motivated by body image, but often want to be associated with an athletic image and identify strongly with sports. Even the most overweight, out-of-shape man can still imagine himself on the football field, calling the plays - with beer in one hand and hot dog in the other, he will protest loudly when the quarterback fumbles the ball. This is an emotional point-of-view that requires no physical fitness.

The Alpha Nutrition Program

The Alpha Nutrition Program notes explains the psychology of eating patterns, eating problems and suggests way of dealing with the resistance to change. The supplemental notes for each disorder addressed by the program also describes the psychology of change in that specific disorder.

Elemental Nutrient Formulas

Alpha Nutrition specializes in elemental nutrient formulas, the pure expression of nutrient biochemistry. We use the concept of nutrient modules to create nutrient formulas. A definition of modules is: a unit that is combined with others to form a larger structure or system, and is self-contained enough to be easily rearranged, replaced, or interchanged to form different structures or systems.

We provide a choice of nutrient modules so that food can be replaced, nutrient intake can be supplemented and balanced in a variety of ways. These precise nutrient sets are formulated by assembling nutrients into modules that supply energy, electrolytes, antioxidants, phosphate, vitamins, minerals, neurotransmitter substrates and amino acids as the protein building blocks. The formulas are all packaged as dry powders to be mixed with water or juices and taken orally.

We provide a choice of nutrient modules so that food can be replaced, nutrient intake can be supplemented and balanced in a variety of ways. These precise nutrient sets are formulated by assembling nutrients into modules that supply energy, electrolytes, antioxidants, phosphate, vitamins, minerals, neurotransmitter substrates and amino acids as the protein building blocks. The formulas are all packaged as dry powders to be mixed with water or juices and taken orally.

We provide a choice of nutrient modules so that food can be replaced, nutrient intake can be supplemented and balanced in a variety of ways. These precise nutrient sets are formulated by assembling nutrients into modules that supply energy, electrolytes, antioxidants, phosphate, vitamins, minerals, neurotransmitter substrates and amino acids as the protein building blocks. The formulas are all packaged as dry powders to be mixed with water or juices and taken orally.

Nutrient Formulas, Meal Replacement

Alpha ENF provides a complete set of nutrients whenever it is used. Alpha ENF and Alpha PMX are hypoallergenic, meal-replacement formulas that supply nutrients in their elemental form - bottles full of nutrients. The high nutrient density of Alpha ENF and PMX can be used strategically to support nutrition whenever nutrient or caloric deficiency is a concern and can curb appetite when weight loss is the goal.

music questions

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Celebrate the day Woodstock opened on August 15, 1969 with this special collection of music quotations...

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."-- Joseph Addison

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."-- Joseph Addison

"Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both."-- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs."-- Tori Amos

"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."-- Eric Anderson

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."--Maya Angelou

"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."-- Louis Armstrong

"Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore."-- Jacques Attali

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."-- Berthold Auerbach (1812-82) German writer

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."--Johann Sebastian Bach

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."-- June Masters Bacher

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."--Joan Baez

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."-- Sir Thomas Beecham

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87) American clergyman

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) German composer

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."-- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends

mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."-- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music can change the world. "-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."

- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925) American writer, educator, University of Southern California sociologist

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."-- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) American conductor, composer

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."-- Benjamin Britten

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93) American Episcopal bishop

"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."-- Phillips Brooks (1835-93)American Episcopal bishop

"I've outdone anyone you can name — Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he
wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."-- James Brown

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "-- James Brown

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."-- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."-- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) [Lord Byron] English romantic poet

"Music is a means of rapid transportation. "-- John Cage

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist

"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."-- Truman Capote (1924-84) American novelist

"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."-- Mariah Carey

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) British historian, essayist

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

"All music comes from God."-- Johnny Cash

"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "-- Edgar Cayce

"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "-- Ray Charles

"Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I’d be in a prison if I didn’t. "-- Paula Cole

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert."-- Pat Conroy

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."-- Noel Coward

"As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty."-- Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence

"At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else—whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring music or another human being—our studies have shown that what we are really coming in sync with is ourselves. Not only do we feel more relaxed and at peace, but this entrained state increases our ability to perform well and offers numerous health benefits."-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution

"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."-- Jim Davis

"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "-- Miles Davis

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."-- Dixie Chicks, Sin Wagon

"I'd rather be alone like I am tonight, than settle for a kind of love that fades before the morning light."-- Dixie Chicks, I Believe In Love

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music."-- Agnes de Mile (1905-93)

"Number is the Word but is not utterance; it is wave and light, though no one sees it; it is
rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number."-- Maurice Druon From the Memoirs of Zeus

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. "-- Lawrence Durrell

"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."-- Gerald Early writer, baseball documentary

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ...I get most you in life out of music. "-- Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."-- (1875-1955) German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."-- George Eliot (1819-80)

"You are the music while the music lasts."--T. S. Eliot

"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."-- (1803-82) American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist

"The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage."--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Art" Essays: First Series)

"The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. "-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wish someone would help me write this song.-- Pink Floyd, Three Wishes

"Then one year you find ten years have gotten behind, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.-- Pink Floyd, Time

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year."-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

"Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?"-- Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

"You bought a guitar to punish your Mom."-- Pink Floyd, Welcome To The Machine

"Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all, together we stand, divided we fall."-- Pink Floyd, Hey You

"For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination."-- Pink Floyd, Keep Talking
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."-- Aretha Franklin
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. "-- Robert Fripp

"There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil. "-- Peter Gabriel

"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "-- Jerry Garcia

"Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life."-- Stephen (F.) Gaskin (b. 1935)American writer, author

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Syrian-born American mystic poet, painter

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"--Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)

"I call architecture frozen music."-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer, scientist, master of poetry, drama and novel

"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul."-- Katie Greenwood

"All the sounds of the earth are like music."--Oscar Hammerstein(1895-1960)

"Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the
waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you. "-- Jimi Hendrix

"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it."-- Buddy Holly

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American associate justice, US Supreme Court

"I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened."--John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)

"Country music is three chords and the truth."-- Harlan Howard

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."-- Edgar Watson Howe

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."-- Victor Hugo (1802-85) French poet, dramatist, writer

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."-- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) British writer

"The history of a people is found in its songs."-- George Jellinek

"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."-- Bruce Jenner

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."-- Billy Joel

"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics."-- James Weldon Johnson

"The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what it is the Source." "-- B. B. King

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68) African-American reverend, civil rights leader

"Music is Love in search of a word."-- Sidney Lanier (1842-81) American writer, musician

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."-- Geoffrey Latham

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."-- Walter J. Lippmann

"Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind."-- Hal A. Lingerman

"The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action. "-- Kenny Loggins

"People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet."-- Witold Lutoslawski

love questions

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Love Quotations

"Teach only love for that is what you are."-- A Course In Miracles

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."-- Alfred Adler

"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."-- Nelson Algren

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."-- Margaret Anderson

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."-- Barbara De Angelis

"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."-- Louis Aragon

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."-- Jean Anouilh Ardele

"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces."-- Hannah Arendt

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."-- Aristotle

"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."-- St. Augustine

"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."-- Myrtle Auvil

"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."-- Francis Bacon

"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."-- Pearl Bailey

"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."-- Richard Bandler

"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."-- Julian Barnes

"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."-- Lynda Barry

"It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair."-- Charles Baudelaire

"When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being."-- Ernest Becker

"Love is the river of life in the world."-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Honor the ocean of love."-- George De Benneville

"And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]"-- Bible

"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"-- Bible
Corinthians

"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]"-- Bible

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."-- William Blake

"Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar."-- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."-- Paul Bourget

"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."-- Andre Breton

"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master."-- Robert Bridges

"All the little emptiness of love!"-- Rupert Brooke
"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."-- Leo Buscaglia

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."-- Lord Byron

"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."-- Italo Calvino

"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."-- Truman Capote

"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."-- Thomas Carlyle

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."-- Amy Carmichael

"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."-- Pat Carroll

"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."-- Catullus

"Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall."-- David Chambless

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."-- Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."-- Mary Cholmondeley

"You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories."-- Melanie Clark

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."-- Charles Caleb Colton

"Love is a tyrant sparing none."-- Pierre Corneille

"Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb."-- Stephen R. Covey

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."-- Joan Crawford

"Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts."-- Richard Crawshaw

"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."-- Quentin Crisp

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."-- Roy Croft

"The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet."-- Frank Dane

"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."-- Alexis Delp

"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way."-- Yogi Desai

"I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love."-- Princess of Wales Diana

"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."-- Baba Dioum

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."-- John Donne

"Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses."-- Lord Drewar

"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."-- Henry Drummond

"Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds."-- John Dryden

"We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled."-- Du Coeur

"The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound."-- Maureen Duffy

"To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together."-- Marguerite Duras
"All mankind loves a lover."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We always come back to our first love."-- Etienne

family questions

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Family Quotations

"Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it."-- Akhenaton

"My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down."-- Louisa May Alcott

"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them."-- Richard Allen

"A dramatist is usually thought of as a slightly benighted child of nature who somehow or other did it all on a Ouija board."-- Maxwell Anderson

"Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it . . ."-- Mario Andretti

"None but a mule denies his family."-- Anonymous

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they

would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."-- Susan B. Anthony

"The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants."-- Aristotle

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."-- Aristotle

"I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters."-- Lance Armstrong

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."-- Richard David Bach

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."-- Francis Bacon

"Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive."-- Stella Benson

"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."-- Ugo Betti

"We are each other's business: we are each other's magnitude and bond."-- Gwendolyn Brooks
"I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold."-- Jimmy Buffet

"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family."-- Robert C. Byrd, US Senator

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."-- George Burns

"I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so."-- Samuel Butler

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."-- Chinese Proverb

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently."-- Chinese Proverb
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."-- Tao Le Ching

"If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree."-- Michael Chrichton

"What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way."-- Jean Illsley Clarke

"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional."-- Laurie E. Colwin

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."-- Confucius

"The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent."-- Yvonne De Gaulle

"It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home."-- Alvaro de Solva

"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."-- Charles Dickens
"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."-- John Donne

"But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man."-- George Eliot

"Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better."-- George Eliot

"There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent."-- T. S. Eliot

"A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are books. . . which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A small family is soon provided for."-- English Proverb

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."-- Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."-- Robert Lee Frost

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."-- Margaret Fuller

"Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family?"-- Marmontel Gretry

birth day question

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Birthday Quotations

"Here's a birthday spanking, Sent you on a card, One, Two, Three, Put them right on hard, Four, Five, Six One to live on, one to grow on, One to make you fat. "--Anonymous

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."-- Susan B. Anthony

"Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age."-- Richard Armour

"Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened."-- Cora Harvey Armstrong

"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."-- Richard Bach

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself. "--Ethel Barrymore

" To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

" If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself."-- Ubie Blake

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. "-- Robert Bolt

" Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made."-- Robert Browning

"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. "-- Buddha

" There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know."-- Lewis Carroll

" The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. "--Johnny Carson

"The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others."-- Marcus Cato

" Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."-- Maurice Chevalier

"So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition! "-- Cicero

" Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."-- Georges Clemenceau

" No wonder I'm unhappy - My twin forgot my birthday. "--Jerry Dennis

" I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do."-- Phyllis Diller

" If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."-- Euripides

"My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is."-- Tripp Evans

" To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. "-- Cliff Fadiman

" One to-day is worth two to-morrows. "--Benjamin Franklin

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. "-- Erich Fromm

" Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty."-- Robert Frost

" A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-- Robert Frost

"Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese."-- John Paul Getty

"Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. "-- Kahlil Gibran

" There is still no cure for the common birthday. "--John Glenn

" You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime."-- John P. Grier

"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun."-- Bishop Hall

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."-- George Harrison
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."-- Audrey Hepburn

" Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? "--John Heywood

"Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by one's actions. "-- Robin Hood

"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."-- Bob Hope
" Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."-- C.E.M. Joad
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "-- Samuel Johnson

""The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

questions about dream

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"When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been."--Patch Adams

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."--Louisa May Alcott

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."--James Allen

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."--Anonymous

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-- Charles William Dement

"Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become."--Anonymous

"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth--if this; dream a great dream."--John A. Appleman

"Hope is a waking dream."-- Aristotle

"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."--Toni Cade Bambara

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."--Sir James M. Barrie

"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."--Erma Bombeck

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."--Emily Bronte
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing--where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."--Phillips Brooks

"Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."--Joyce Brothers

"Empower your dreams with deadlines."--H. Jackson Brown

"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever that dream might be."--Pearl S. Buck

"Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets."--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"In dreams begins responsibility."--William Butler Yeats

"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."--Steven Callahan

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life."--Joseph Campbell

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."--Elias Canetti

"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."--Ralph Charell

"The way I see it, there are two kinds of dreams. One is a dream that's always going to be just that..... A dream. A vision that you can never really hold in your hand. Then there's a dream that's more than a dream its like.... A map. A map that you live by and follow for the rest of your days Knowing that someday your going to stand on top of that Mountain holding everything you thought of Right There In Your Hand!"--Robert Cooper

"I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future."--David Copperfield

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."--Leonard da Vinci

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."--Belva Davis

"A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace."-- Walter de la Mare

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."--Walt Disney

"To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."--Bernard Edmonds

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."--Albert Einstein

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."--Douglas Everett

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."--William Faulkner

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."--William Faulkner

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."-- William Faulkner

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."--Charles Fisher
"When you cease to dream you cease to live."--Malcolm S. Forbes

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe."--Anatole France

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."--Sigmund Freud

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."--Robert Fulghum

"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food."--Dorothy Gilman

"It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow."--Dr. Robert H. Goddard

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."--Goethe

"I dream, therefore I become."--Cheryl Grossman

"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?"--Oscar Hammerstein II

"The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream."--Marilyn Harris

"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."-- H. F. Hedge

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."--Jesse Jackson

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."--William James

"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."--Thomas Jefferson

friendship question

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Friendship questions on Friends and Friendship questions

"Friends are born, not made."-- Henry Adams

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."-- Joseph Addison

"Choose your friends like your books, few but choice."-- American Proverb

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."-- Anonymous

"There are no such things as strangers, only friends we haven't met yet."-- Anonymous

"Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him."-- Apocrypha -- Ecclesiasticus 9:10

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.-- Aristotle

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."-- Aristotle

"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."-- Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."-- Aristotle

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half."-- Francis Bacon

"Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end."-- John Boyle O'Reilly

" False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."-- Christian Nevell Bovee

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."-- Charlotte Bronte

"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away - and leaves behind only silence."-- Pam Brown

"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."-- Anatole Broyard

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."-- Eustace Budgell

"Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life."-- James Francis Byrnes

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."-- Albert Camus

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."-- Albert Camus

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."-- Albert Camus

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."-- Dale Carnegie

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."-- Mary Catherwood

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."-- Charles Caleb Colton

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never."-- Charles Caleb Colton

"The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong."-- Pierre Charron

"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in an hour."-- Chinese Proverb

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. "-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."-- John Churton Collins

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."-- Confucius

"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."-- Ed Cunningham

"It is the friends that you can call at 4 A.M. that matter."-- Marlene Dietrich

"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."-- Jean de La Fontaine

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."-- Madame de Tencin

"My friends are my estate."-- Emily Dickinson

"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."-- Bejamin Disraeli

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."-- George Eliot

"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."-- George Eliot

"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."-- Euripedes

"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."-- Dame Edna Everage

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."-- Henry Ford

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."-- E. M. Forster

" The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."-- Ulysses S. Grant

"The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."-- Edward Everett Hale

"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."-- Katherine Hathaway

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."-- Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."-- Elbert Hubbard

"Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."-- Elbert Hubbard

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."-- Lee Iacocca

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2007-10-20T11:00:00.000-07:00

The wedding speech is a special thing. While there are many different kinds, speeches coming from the bride, bridesmaids, best man, the groom, or close family of the couple, each and every wedding speech is special. Whether it’s something humorous, to make you laugh while you wipe away tears of joy, or something sentimental, that touches your heart, it will leave a lasting impression in the What the wedding speech offers:memories of those who attend and those who are part of the wedding.
What the wedding speech offers:For the Bride:

For the bride, the wedding speech is a chance to give her sincere thanks and love to those who have attended her wedding. She is able to express emotions and feelings to those who care about her the most. At such an emotional and important time, a bride who gives a wedding speech is one who will leave a memory to be cherished by those who love her. She is so excited and happy, and full of different emotions at this time. Seeing a bride give a wedding speech can put a tear in the eye of the hardest of men.
For the Groom:
Similarly, the groom has a chance to express his feelings and gratitude to his family, friends and associates who have attended his wedding. These people have joined in and helped him celebrate one of the best times in his entire life. What better way to thank them than with a wedding speech? He is overjoyed, probably a bit nervous, excited and relieved that she’s finally his! A speech from a groom is a special thing to remember, and the bride surely will look on his speech as something wonderful to cherish.
For the Bridesmaid:
Most often the sister or best friend of the bride, the bridesmaid is a special person in the wedding. She is probably more excited with the whole event than the bride! She is overjoyed at her friend’s happiness, and through a wedding speech, she can express her love, happiness, and best wishes to the happy couple. The bridesmaid’s wedding speech will be very important to the bride. These two most likely share a special bond, and the speech will be cherished forever by the bride, and she will remember it fondly.
For the Best Man:
Here is where we will most likely get our humor. We just have to love those best men! He is proud, happy, and excited for his best friend or brother, the groom. His wedding speech is sure to be filled with love, best wishes, and plenty of witty remarks! He has the chance to share special and embarrassing childhood stories, references and any funny nicknames of the groom that he chooses. He reserves the right to ask if the bride has a sister, or single friend. Although he seems the tough and funny guy, he is full of emotions as well, as his best friend ‘ties the knot.’
Here is where we will most likely get our humor. We just have to love those best men! He is proud, happy, and excited for his best friend or brother, the groom. His wedding speech is sure to be filled with love, best wishes, and plenty of witty remarks! He has the chance to share special and embarrassing childhood stories, references and any funny nicknames of the groom that he chooses. He reserves the right to ask if the bride has a sister, or single friend. Although he seems the tough and funny guy, he is full of emotions as well, as his best friend ‘ties the knot.’

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2007-10-19T12:20:00.000-07:00