My quote for life

I think most of us have one or more favorite quotes. Usually choose quotations that inspire or motivate us or simply reflects that loans or personal values.

At some point in life I felt the need for a quote to represent more than just an inspiration. Become a personal statement to me accountable to what is already important to me and to take action. Not to postpone my finding excuses for not becoming who I suggest and I felt good to get.

Most likely not only to me it is easier to realize something than to put into action. So I decided I
realize what is important to my life and I choose a quote that to convert it into personal statement.

When I say important, I mean the awareness of a thing in my life which influences all my life plans. So when I set the first motto (as story here) I left the idea of balance between all areas
of life, and I had personal statement:

Imagine life as a game in which five juggle the ball in the air. Call them: family, friends, work, faith and health.

The major difference between a single quote and a personal statement is your personal motto that helps me daily to remember what is important to me and do actions to reach or remain there. A quote defines some point, as appropriate:

Do not go before me, could not follow you / Do not go behind me, could not be the one who leads / Walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus - for me was and is the definition of leadership.

Yes, a motto is more: it is a free action.
It is both proof of recognition (awareness) to clear my place in life, but also setting the bar for going further. If a quotation rules apply in a plan of life, a motto applies to any plan of life.

Personal motto in life is now my blog in your email signature, sometimes on the desktop or printed and pasted on walls around the house or office next to the laptop somehow. Moreover, I look at it daily and wonder: "I do what I wanted to do? If not, why? "

In the end I wonder what quotes (personal statement) do you have in life right now and meant for you. Have helped you or still help?

If my life would end tomorrow... and if I knew this today...

If for a moment, Allah/God would forget that I am just a rag doll and HE would give me as a gift a piece of life, I would take advantage of it as much as possible I could.

Probably I would not say what I think, but certainly I would think before I say something. I would give value to things, not for what its represent, but rather for what it means.

Maybe I would get just some sleep, sure I would dream more, knowing that for every minute we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light. I go where others stop, I would wake when others sleep. 

If God would give me just a few more days to live, I would dress with simplicity, I'd long with my belly on the ground, sticking with my body and soul of the earth. I would show people how much they are wrong thinking that they cease to love when they get older, without knowing that when they cease to love, actually they are getting older.

To a child I would give him wings, but I let him learn to fly alone. The old ones I would teach them that death comes not with old age, but rather with the forgetting.

I live between people and I learn everyday... I wish I could have time to learn more... I wish I did this before when time for me seemed to be an endless space.

I learned that a person has no right to look with superiority to another one, except when this person is helping the other to raise up.

Say always what you feel and do what you think!

For my beloved husband

If I knew that today is the last time I see you falling asleep, I would hug you strongly in my arms and I would ask Allah to watch over your soul!

If I know that these are the last minutes I see you, I would tell you I LOVE YOU and I ignore it, ashamed, the fact that you already know it.

There is always a 'tomorrow' and life gives us another opportunity to do things right, but if I am wrong and this is the last day we have left, I would like to tell you how much I LOVE YOU and I'll never forget you!

  

Tomorrow is not guaranteed to anyone, young or old. Today could be the last time you see your loved ones. Do not wait, act now, because it is possible that "tomorrow" never comes and surely you will regret the day that you have not made time for a smile, a hug, a kiss and you was too busy to address your loved ones one last wish.

Keep in touch with those you love, whisper to their ear that you need them, love them and care for them, take time to tell them 'I understand you', 'forgive me ',' please ',' thank you 'and all other words of love that you know.

Nobody will remember you for your secret thoughts. Ask Allah for strength and wisdom to express what you think.

Prove your friends and your beloved ones how much they mean for you!

 With love for my husband,

With friendship for my friends,

Kadreyah

 

10 Days of LOVE

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns out quickly. For long lasting, steady warmth (with delightful bursts of intense heat from time to time), you must carefully tend the fire.

Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right.

 

Feel your heart free to share the love inside and let the ones you care about them to know this! Share your feelings for the ones that live in your heart: Allah/God, your husband/ wife, your fiance/ fiancee, your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters, your friends.

Leave your love comments for your heart owners!

In the end, I dedicate to my Husband, our families and friends, as to all the blog readers the next song:

Amazing trees

It was Buddha who said:
"A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down."

And Joyce Kilmer immortalized the grace and beauty of trees in poetry:

"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree."

Here I present some of the most amazing and unusual trees from around the world. 

 

 

Night Wind: Egypt 

      by: Teresa Hooley (1888-1973)

 

We woke and watched the stars all jewel-bright.
Sudden I heard, as I lay lover-warm
In the encircling hollow of your arm,
The old sad wind of Egypt in the night--

The desert wind that sifts the shifting sand
O'er buried cities and tombs of vanished kings,
Sad with the knowledge of forgotten things
And old with memories none may understand.

Dead kings knew love and passion ere they slept,
Dead cities once were glad with color and light.
Dust now, and sand.... The wind passed through the night.
I turned to you and hid my face and wept.