My Little Philosophies on Life Faith and Everything!
*Although laughter sometimes may seem unruly or unwarranted, I can simply say I do not live to laugh but laugh to live. I have to laugh, even when the joke is not funny.*-MCA
*The Beauty of a musician is the ability to feel through a single note- It is the ultimate unconditional and universal love.*-MCA
*Whisper in the breeze and I will hear you, Laugh in the rain and I will Dance with you*-MCA
*Do Not ever fear the world for it is beautiful in Chaos and Uncertainty with never ending possibilities.*-MCA
*I am literally a walking contradiction in everything from my world political views to how much I love and hate every person who walks the Earth, and that is what makes me beautiful. -MCA
*Life is really a series of little things- the biggest cruelty in the history of the world was all the little things that go missed. I walk down the street and smile at everyone- sometimes its matched and I know by my simple smile I might of made someone’s day a little brighter- whether inside I could cry at any given moment- I made someone’s day just by a smile. its the tiniest of little things but you making someone’s day as simple as that can in effect makes hundreds of peoples days. I figure on my worst day I effectively impact a hundred or more people, just by a little thing. -MCA
*I’m tragically faithful to humanity when it comes down to it- I have faith even when the entire world is crumbling around me
many times I’ve been a mess a humble crumbling lost mess- but then the clouds part and a bird sings and there’s a little bit of light from a homeless persons smile - and that right there gives me strength to keep faith in humans and life really, the thing is I casually say I can always be worse even when I’m at my worst and that is because I’ve been there done that and still had faith to look at someone even worse off and know that even that person has faith when they have nothing to hold onto at all. -MCA
*It's not that I’m oblivious to the here now and brutality of reality , I just choose to look past the dirty streets and the piss smelling subways and look farther past it all and prefer to believe the greatest even when its the hardest to find -MCA
*we are but a creek amongst the possibilities of waterfalls -MCA
*I think that faith is an idea, its easy to form and mold and grow.. a belief is something much harder to change. a faith is a concept and an idea of feeling in something you cant prove- I believe in nothing but I have faith in everything -MCA
*I've just accepted that someone needs to take the weight of the world with all its ugliness and beauty with open arms, I’m strong enough to do that with honor -MCA
*I guess when push comes to shove about my grand philosophy on life- I look at it like the dandelion- the most overlooked and unappreciated flower called a weed. why its called a weed I have no idea since its part of the family that the Zinnias are and the sunflower-but- I'm a dandelion in my own right, I’m a little weed that can grow anywhere just give me 5 minutes of light and a shower and someday Ill be beautiful then pretty soon I’m no more than a bit of fluff on the breeze to be magic to some fairy tale -MCA
*When all else fails, I know I'll still have my daydreams. -MCA
*if there’s not going to be a tomorrow- at least I know I didn't waste today. -MCA
*Don't think for a second you know me merely by looking at me. Don't judge a book by it's cover. I am not a pretty girl, I am a beautiful woman because I have a beautiful soul. Outward beauty is fleeting- and is gone in but a blink. -MCA
*Chaos is my favorite color- not because its uncontrolled- but because it's nothing with possibilities of something. Black is not the lack of color but every color possible combined. I dress myself in chaos black- untamed but possible. -MCA
* I believe in love at first sight, not because I've had it, but because it's something I've always wanted. How can you have a need or a want for something that doesn't exist. -MCA
*Faith is something even the most ignorant can find. A church is not built on faith alone- it's built with rocks stone mortar and a plan. It's founded on the soil the earth and the Faith that is instilled with the very air the builders breathe to make that stone building beautiful. The house of God is in everyone and everything- a church is not the house of God, but filled with the Faithful it becomes a city of Him. -MCA
*I am beautiful, because of the people I surround myself with. People who exude faith- life- creativity-love- open mindedness- hope - they become me.. they are what surrounds my dull life in sheer beauty. I am beautiful, because you are. -MCA
©MCA2007
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My Heart note-
Let us all regain our voice and share it in strength in global unison sing-
Sing at the top of your lungs all the hope in your soul.
Sing and share your knowledge the truth and the way it can be.
Let us no longer be blind to our brother our sisters our children and our elders-
Let us no longer be deaf to the songs each of us sings in silent soliloquy-
Let us hold hands and hug for not one is a stranger for we are all but one-
Let us be fruitful and share what we have-
Let not our brothers and sisters our hope our future our past
die another day in vain in hopelessness in gutters and in pain-
Let us Hear-
Let us Sing-
Let us Dance.
*MCA-07*
~Excerpt from Let Us Listen a Poem in length read it on my homepage.
at freewebs dot com forward slash melcanderson
(lol sorry it wouldn't let me type it for some reason CT hates my web addy)
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That I Live By-
*Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature . . . life is either a daring adventure or nothing.* -Helen Keller
*No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.* -William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
*Give me Liberty to know utter and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all other liberties.*-Milton
*To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wildflower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour*
-Blake
*A brief candle, both ends burning, an endless mile, a bus wheel turning; a friend to share a lonesome time a handshake and a sip of wine, say it loud and let it ring,-that we are all part of everything- the future present and the past- fly on proud bird, you are free at last.* -C.Daniels
*If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.* -Francis Bacon
*You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile good.* -Charles Carlson
*We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.* -William Lloyd Garrison
*We must either find a way or make one.* -Hannibal
*Always listen to experts. They're tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.* -Robert Heinlen
*Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.* -David Hume
*Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.* -Thomas Henry Huxley
*I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.* - In a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith (1816)
*"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know*. -John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
*He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still *-Lao-Tsu. Tao Teh King
*We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.* -Charles Kingsley
*Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.* -Michelangelo
*We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children.* -Native American proverb
*No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.* -Eleanor Roosevelt
*There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second*. -Logan Pearsall Smith
*What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the Earth itself.* -Tamil proverb
*Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. *-Albert Payson Terhune
*Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint.* -Mark Twain
*Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.* -Mark Twain
*Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.* -Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary
*There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.* -Edith Wharton
*The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.* -Frank Lloyd Wright
*There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.* -Ralph Waldo Emerson
*The Earth laughs in flowers.* - Ralph Waldo Emerson
*The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.* - Taoist sage Lao-tzu
*"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more."* - Jules Renard
*"I am not young enough to know everything."* - Oscar Wilde
"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." - Chief Aupaumut (American Indian Chief of the Mohican)
*The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit." *- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
*Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." *- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
*"To be really enjoyed, sleep, health and wealth must be interrupted." - Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)
*"If you talk too much you're likely to give yourself away." - Spanish Proverb
*"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1940~)
*"One may be humble out of pride." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
"I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it." - Coco Chanel (1883-1971) [Gabrielle Chanel] French Couturier
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th U.S. President (1961-63)
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty." - William James 'Will' Durant (1885-1981)
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it." - Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." - Ovid (43BC-17AD) [Publius Ovidius Naso] Roman Poet
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." - James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921)
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Whitman Say's it Best
This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and
the animals, despise riches,
give alms to everyone that
asks, stand up for the stupid
and crazy, devote your
income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not
concerning God, have
patience and indulgence
toward the people, take off
your hat to nothing known or
unknown or to any man or
number of men, go freely with
powerful uneducated persons
and with the young and with
the mothers of families, read
these leaves in the open air
every season of every year of
your life, re-examine all you
have been told at school or
church or in any book, dismiss
whatever insults your own
soul, and your very flesh shall
be a great poem and have
the richest fluency not only in
its words but in the silent lines
of its lips and face and
between the lashes of your
eyes and in every motion and
joint of your body...
- Walt Whitman
