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"When our lives are through, we will regret only that we loved too little, never that we loved too much." "But if I love others, I will be vulnerable; I will appear weak; I may get hurt. Remember, someday you'll be dead. It won't last forever. So while you still have life, love everybody you can love. Love them as much as you can love them. Love freely." - Rich Mullins

To love without expectations. To love without demanding change. To love without not wanting something in return. This is what it means to love. It is not conjuring up a warm fuzzy feeling but rather an act of will and a choice in behavior to surrender to self and put others above yourself.
One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves. - Cardinal John Henry Newman

"A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and certainly accesible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence."
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." - John Stuart Mill

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I have all of sudden gotten very nostalgic.(It actually happens quite often on the grandest of scales) I am listening to Louis Armstrong right now, just finished up with some Bing Crosby and Bobby Darin. "A kiss to build a dream on." Ah what a nice sentiment to dwell on. The past always seems to be better than the present doesnt it? We live in the past and look forward to the future and forget to live in the present.

So have you ever read the Sermon on the Mount? Its pretty amazing stuff. So your suppose to love your enemey? Mourn over your sin? Submit to God? Have peace in God? Live by faith rather than works? Turn the other cheek? Give to the needy? Pray? Not store up treasure on earth? Not worry? Dont judge others? Wow, what a list. You know some churches used to believe the purpose of the Sermon on the Mount was to show us how sinful we were because of the seemingly unreachable task of living out what the Sermon preaches. All too often I find myself admiring Jesus and not living like him. The difference between the two is the difference between heaven and hell.

Within the last couple years I have realized something about myself. That even though I may get meloncholy at times that all the drama in our lives that seem to dictate so much really adds up to less than a hill of beans. A healthy dose of indifference never hurt anyone and once you start taking the pill it makes life more enjoyable.