'There it is, life's beating heart'

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

I watched the movie Delta of Venus the other day. Its adapted from one of my favorite books. It reminded me of the beautiful complexity of life.

In my need for sweetness I had too much sugar. In my need for a challenge, I had too much pain. I didn't realize that the richness is defined by a shadow of loss.

Then I watched this movie. Some Anais Nin quotes for you; she 'gave female desire its own language.'

"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."  

"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." 

  

I don't believe in age

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a thinker, advisor, politician working for many decades. Some of his inspiring words, which illustrate why age doesn't matter, and why we need to keep up the good fight:

(source, The Christian Science Moniter, volume 103 issue 13, reported by Dave Cook)

"What formed me was World War II and the realization of how far humanity can go in doing wrong things to itself....human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events." --Zbigniew Brzezinski