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  FELICIDADE REALISTA Martha Medeiros A princípio bastaria ter saúde, dinheiro e amor, o que já é um pacote louvável, mas nossos desejos são ainda mais complexos. Não basta que a gente esteja sem febre: queremos, além de saúde, ser magérrimos, sarados, irresistíveis. Dinheiro? Não basta termos para pagar o aluguel, a comida e o cinema: queremos a piscina olímpica e uma temporada num spa cinco estrelas. E quanto ao amor? Ah, o amor... não basta termos alguém com quem podemos conversar, dividir uma pizza e fazer sexo de vez em quando. Isso é pensar pequeno: queremos AMOR, todinho maiúsculo. Queremos estar visceralmente apaixonados, queremos ser surpreendidos por declarações e presentes inesperados, queremos jantar a luz de velas de segunda a domingo, queremos sexo selvagem e diário, queremos ser felizes assim e não de outro jeito. É o que dá ver tanta televisão. Simplesmente esquecemos de tentar ser felizes de uma forma mais realista. Ter um parceiro c...

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging  because things may get better.  To the confident it is inspiring  because the challenge exists  to make things better. King Whitney Jr.

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there? Walt Whitman

"A cada dia que vivo, mais me convenço de que o desperdício da vida está no amor que não damos, nas forças que não usamos,na prudência egoísta que nada arrisca e que, esquivando-nos do sofrimento, perdemos também a felicidade. A dor é inevitável. O sofrimento é opcional." ( "Every day I live , the more I am convinced that the waste of life is the love that we do not give, the forces that we do not use ,   in the selfish prudence that risks nothing and that by dodging us from suffering, we miss happiness . Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ") "Amor é dado de graça, é semeado no vento, na cachoeira, no eclipse. Amor foge a dicionários e a regulamentos vários." "Amor é primo da morte, e da morte vencedor, por mais que o matem (e matam) a cada instante de amor. " Carlos Drummond de Andrade

"If you judge people,  you have no time to love them"  Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 So often times it happens that  we live our lives in chains And we never even know  we have the key. Lyrics from Already Gone , peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album

If you don't get everything you want,  think of the things you don't get  that you don't want.  ~Oscar Wilde

“The whole moon and the entire sky  are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass." ~Dogen

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.   ~ Shirley MacLaine

 “The great loneliness—like the loneliness a caterpillar endures, when she wraps herself in a silky shroud, and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems that we too must go through such a time of great loneliness, when life as we have known it is over—when being a caterpillar feels somehow false, and yet, we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.”  -Elizabeth Lesser

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate  you - pull your beard, flick you face -  to make you fight.  Because once they've got you violent,  then they know how to handle you.  The only thing they don't know how to handle  is non-violence and humor.  ~ Jonh  Lennon

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”  – Dr. Seuss

I travel a lot;  I hate having my life disrupted by routine.   ~Caskie Stinnett

 "BRAZIL, HOW CAN SO MUCH LOVE BE INSIDE OF YOU?!."  ~ Stevie Wonder (Rock in Rio, September 2011)

 “ The purpose of life, after all, is to live it,  to taste experience to the utmost,  to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences .”   ~Eleanor Roosevelt

    Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.   ~Denis Waitley 

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read,  and all the friends I want to see.   ~John Burroughs

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."   ~Victor Hugo

  How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.    ~Publilius Syrus

"THERE IS NO DELIGHT IN OWNING  ANYTHING UNSHARED"  ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca