Zoey's blog: "My Heart"

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you. -Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Gibran

It is a spiritual axiom(truth) that every time we are disturbed(angry), no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. 12&12 pg. 90

An elder Cherokee chief took his grandchildren into the forest and sat them down. He said to them "A fight is going on inside of me. This is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is the wolf of fear, anger, arrogance, and greed. The other is the wolf of courage, kindness, humility, and love." The children were very quiet and listening to their grandfather with both ears. He then said to them "This same fight between the two wolves that is going on inside of me is going on inside of you, and inside every person." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked the chief, "Grandfather, which wolf will win the fight?" He quietly said, "The one you feed." --The Cherokee Nation

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For Love is sufficient unto Love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather,"I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your couse. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; and to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. Kahlil Gibran

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars. As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek! William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer