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  • Rakovina
    Rakovina Member Posts: 51
    edited January 2014

    What a beautiful picture.

  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 360
    edited January 2014

    That's a great way to start my day TheDivineMrsM.. Especially on the day of my Zometa infusion..

    Hugs

    Ebru

  • Bonitaj
    Bonitaj Member Posts: 20
    edited January 2014

    I know this is more than A Quote... But this was one of my (Big) sister's favorite songs.. we danced to it together along with some of the besties.. My sister Patricia or Pat as she was called by many.. was a loving, caring and gentle spirit. she died of complications, resulting from her CANcer treatments.. I miss her so. She was the perfect older sister.. She shared her friends with me.. They all became my big sisters. Funny when I look back on our time together, I remember 'Just how much fun we had'.. 'We Danced'..!!  Loveforlife.. your post brought these memories back to my conscious mind.. Thank you.. Thank you all for so much inspiration.. Hugs and love, Bj

    Just wanted to share..

    I Hope You Dance is a crossover country pop song written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers, and recorded by country singer Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert.

     hope you never lose your sense of wonder
    You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
    May you never take one single breath for granted
    God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
    I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
    Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
    Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
    And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

    I hope you dance
    I hope you dance

    I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
    Never settle for the path of least resistance
    Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
    Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
    Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
    When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
    Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
    And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

    I hope you dance
    I hope you dance
    (Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
    I hope you dance
    I hope you dance
    (Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

    I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
    Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
    Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
    And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

    Dance
    (Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
    I hope you dance
    I hope you dance
    (Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

    Friends, my sisters,, from other mothers,  "I Hope and Pray We All Dance"..

    Link to this song.. http://youtu.be/RV-Z1YwaOiw

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Boni, "I Hope You Dance" has always been one of my very favorite songs. The lyrics are so perfectly pure. Lee Ann's vocals are also perfection.  The video with her daughters always mesmerized me.  I loved it when it first came out.  Now, years later, after diagnosis, there are times I hear this song and it brings me to tears.

  • Bonitaj
    Bonitaj Member Posts: 20
    edited January 2014

    TheDivineMrsM.. It brings me to tears also.. but they are happy tears.. Tears of Hope, Tears of Joy and Tears of Happy Days to come.. for which I really "Hope We All Remember To Dance"..!! (((HUGS TO ALL))) Bj

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Yes, Boni, I agree.

  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 360
    edited January 2014

    great song with awesome lyrics Bonitaj :)

    Hugs

    Ebru

  • Rakovina
    Rakovina Member Posts: 51
    edited January 2014

    “The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”

    Tanya

  • bestbird
    bestbird Member Posts: 232
    edited January 2014

    "When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

    Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning

  • barsco1963
    barsco1963 Member Posts: 879
    edited January 2014

    Great thread Ebru! And lots of fantastic quotes to read through.

    I like "Humour is one of life's greatest shock absorbers"   Comes in handy now and again.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Bestbird, I made your quote my status today on FB, such true words.

  • Jill49
    Jill49 Member Posts: 25
    edited January 2014

    “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be
    continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in
    no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. 

    – Pema Chodron

  • nihahi
    nihahi Member Posts: 1,068
    edited January 2014

    Comparison is the thief of joy.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Honestly, all these quotes are just blowing me away, so profound, so true, so meaningful.

  • Safetyyfirst
    Safetyyfirst Member Posts: 31
    edited January 2014

    "it's better to have loved and loss, then never to have loved at all."

  • bestbird
    bestbird Member Posts: 232
    edited January 2014

    Ebru, what a fabulous thread!  You are the indeed the Queen of Topics!

    Divine, I am glad that the quote resonated with you!  Mr. Frankl's book, "Man's  Search for Meaning," is one of the most profound missives I've ever read - highly recommended!

    Nihahi, what a profound quote... and oh so true!


  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Bestbird, a FB friend asks me for book suggestions and comments on books I mention that I've read, and vice versa. When I posted this quote, she immediately replied "Man's Search for Meaning" is an excellent book.  I went right to my library page and placed a hold on it.  I also looked it up on Amazon and it has stellar reviews.  Looking forward to reading it. 

  • lilylady
    lilylady Member Posts: 478
    edited January 2014

    Off of a Life Is Good T-shirt I got for Christmas

    "Be the person your dog thinks you are!"

    Maybe isn't the profound thought some of the others are but if you have a dog and they have looked at you with that "you are my hero and I adore you look" you know exactly what I mean. It is a lot to live up to.

  • Rakovina
    Rakovina Member Posts: 51
    edited January 2014

    Lilylady love it.  It reminds me of that old joke:

    Whats the difference between a new puppy and a new husband -

    After a year the puppy is still excited to see you when you come home!

    Tanya

  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 360
    edited January 2014

    So be it!

    me

  • redwolf8812
    redwolf8812 Member Posts: 580
    edited January 2014

    Posted on facebook (on a t-shirt):

    "LORD, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things I can't."

    - Penny

  • Bonitaj
    Bonitaj Member Posts: 20
    edited January 2014

    Dearest Penny.. (redwolf8812) you gave me a really good laugh..!! Loopy Thank you.. coffee and wine..!! Love it ..!! Laughter is good for the soul.. Still smiling. Bj


  • Brendatrue
    Brendatrue Member Posts: 487
    edited January 2014

    If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,

    do you think

    ghosts will do it after?

    Kabir

  • Bonitaj
    Bonitaj Member Posts: 20
    edited January 2014

    And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The ProphetSo I wanted to share, I am grateful for all of you here on bco.. your spirits bring joy to my heart in the midst of this journey.. Learning to live and living this new life seems to be filled with many bumps in the road, difficult and confusing times.. sad and happy moments.. fears and much uncertainty. But all of you, this Living Life Sisterhood ..  (not to leave out anyone.. Guys who may find themselves thrown on this road) make the journey' easier to travel.. Thank you all, Sending (((HUGS))) and love. Bj 
  • LizLemon
    LizLemon Member Posts: 191
    edited January 2014

    "You don't have a Soul.

    You are a Soul.

    You have a body." - C.S. Lewis

    "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne

    "You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." - Paulo Coehlo

    "The best way out is always through..." - Robert Frost

    "The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand." - Rumi

    "We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin

    "I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya

    "The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi

    "If all you can do is crawl, start crawling." - Rumi

  • nihahi
    nihahi Member Posts: 1,068
    edited January 2014

    OMG.....I want to apologize to everyone. I just this minute realized this is meant to be for Stage IV's only. I truly respect the rules of bco....I did not mean to intrude. Again, I apologize.

  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited January 2014

    Liz, such profound quotes I've never heard before...reading them and letting them sink in.

    nihahi, I never even read your signature so wasn't aware of your stage...and loved your quote as well, as it is true.

  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 360
    edited January 2014

    great quotes.. So happy we have them pouring in!! And they are stagefree, so please all BCO sisters feel free to add in.. 😉

    Hugs

    Ebru

    Btw today's quote from me: 

    İn 3 words İ can sum up everything İ've learned about life: it goes on

    Robert Frost

  • Loveforlife
    Loveforlife Member Posts: 67
    edited January 2014

    Boni - I'll be dancing until I'm a whisper dancing on the wind. I love that song.

    Thanks everyone for sharing amazing quotes.

    Liz - thanks for sharing more Rumi. Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz are some of my favorites.

    Not a quote, but a poem by Mary Oliver that I'd like to share. It reminds me that being open and able to pay attention to all the tiny details of life is a blessing.

    The Summer Day

    Mary Oliver

    Who made the world?
    Who made the swan, and the black bear?
    Who made the grasshopper?
    This grasshopper, I mean-
    the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
    the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
    who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
    who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
    Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
    Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
    I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
    I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
    into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
    how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
    which is what I have been doing all day.
    Tell me, what else should I have done?
    Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?

  • stagefree
    stagefree Member Posts: 360
    edited January 2014

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