We Determine Our Fate By The Way We Live.

(I was told to leave it to fate. I ask shouldn't we try to determine our fate?)

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Should we leave our fate to chance, when we could perhaps determine its outcome?

- Ghostwise

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“We create our fate every day we live”

- Henry Miller


I want to tell her that we create our fate every day by the way we live.

- Ghostwise

An Island Of My Own Within Walls.

(Thanks to Island Girl for inspiring the theme)

She carries in the dishes,

And lays them in a row.

To an isle in the water

With her would I go.

- William Butler Yeats

Some dreams made in the daylight,
Are as sweet as those in the night.

- Ghostwise

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An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

- Henry David Thoreau



An island of my own,
Within the four grey walls that confines me.


- Ghostwise

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day

"Look to this day,
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence;
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day,
such is the salutation of the dawn."

- The Sufi (1200 BC)


Look to this day, for it is all you have.
Don't mislead yourself about tomorrow.
For if you do not live this day well
You have no tomorrow.

- Ghostwise

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"Nothing is worth more than this day."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Except tomorrow when tomorrow is here.

- Ghostwise

The Avaaz Petition stands at 700,000

Sleep

Some praise the Lord for Light,

The living spark;

I thank God for the Night

The healing dark.

- Robert William Service, "Weary", first lines


Those that can’t embrace the dark will curse the light.

- Ghostwise

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Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.

- Marlene Dietrich, 1962

"I don’t like to sleep alone. No one does. Do you?"

- Ghostwise