I'm not entirely sure what to write about today, I'll just keep typing and see what spills from my inner thoughts.
Carrying on from my highly philosophical post yesterday, I may dedicate this one to certain quotations and sayings that I rather like/feel are quite poignant/relevant.
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -Buddah
While I do generally feel this is some very sound advice, as I am currently revising for exams, the way i've found focusses my mind on the task at hand, is looking to the future and what I can have if I do well, and what I'll lose if I don't!
This is a quote I most certainly agree with, (although i'm inclined to add "and to take all photographs I want to take." I constantly find myself mulling thoughts over in my head when I'm trying to sleep, I long to have more time to read and go for walks, pesky schoolwork gets in the way, however, if I work hard enough, it will all pay off in the end as I may be able to have my own library, and take walks in the countryside while on holiday with a couple of friends in Yukon - it's all a matter of perspective.
“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” - Bernard M. Baruch
Fairly self explanatory really, if someone isn't making time for you, don't go out of your way to make time them, whether positively or negatively. No need to argue, always be the bigger man!
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde
I'd like to saythat this quote sums me up, true, sometimes I don't understand what i'm saying, but I don't think that's due to intelligence, more....babbling.
I will take this opportunity to also share with you one of my favourite poems, one I studied in year 10.
THE MANHUNT
"After the first phase,
after passionate nights and intimate days,
only then would he let me trace
the frozen river which ran through his face,
only then would he let me explore
the blown hinge of his lower jaw,
and handle and hold
the damaged, porcelain collar-bone,
and mind and attend the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade,
and finger and thumb the parachute silk of his punctured lung.
Only then could I bind the struts
and climb the rungs of his broken ribs,
and feel the hurt
of his grazed heart.
Skirting along,
only then could I picture the scan,
the foetus of metal beneath his chest
where the bullet had finally come to rest.
Then I widened the search,
traced the scarring back to its source
to a sweating, unexploded mine
buried deep in his mind,
around which every nerve in his body had tightened and closed.
Then, and only then, did I come close."
Simon Armitage, 2007
Finally, I shall leave you with what I think is my all time favourite quote, penned my Lord Alfred Tennyson:
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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