One Tree Hill quote

Kahlil Gibran once wrote:

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul . If either be broken, you can but toss and drift or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining...and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

it's like your purpose and the enthusiasm of fulfilling that purpose...without the other, you'd be like a man without a cause. what's the use of finding out your reason when you don't have the passion to achieve it? and yet, what can you benefit with your overflowing passion when you don't have the direction to sail with it? worse is the man without both, and blessed is the one who possessed them.


at some points in our lives, we are driven by eagerness to do something, to achieve something, to gain something, to own something...and make that as our goal. by all means, we are utilizing all our efforts, time and money to fulfill what we aimed for, making sacrifices and dealing with the challenges. when we focus our eyes on just the goal, the prize at the end of the journey, of the thing that we very much desire to gain and somehow forgot to enjoy the journey itself, then our reason is suffocating, stifling and insipid.

some of us may think that traversing life should be enjoyable, having much fun and be with the flow...for life just passes once, so, why waste it worrying about anything or making hard decisions? why not experience all the amusing things life could offer us...and just pay the price later? indeed, it would seem very exciting and thrilling to think for such, but then those good things wouldn't last for long...and we may be delivered to our own doom later on as we realize that these tangent things are just actually the wrapper of a much heavier gift, the attractive cover of a meaningful book, the wallpaper of a much complicated system.

as we sail through life, we need to have both our reason and our passion to go through the waves. we need to have our vision to be focused far ahead with our hearts set out to sail beyond and aim for our specific destination in life. only then can we truly appreciate the journey we are in right now.

One Tree Hill quote

"secret...for getting back?
no secret...start shooting one day and deal with the pain.
somewhere along the way, it gets easier."

-Lucas Scott

only then can we truly heal if we are ready enough to face the pain and deal with it. there is actually no secret on how to get over it. no one can teach you when and where you should start moving on, how to do it and the like. the answers are all in you, all depends on you. and yeah, at some point along the way of getting back, you'll find it easier to deal with...and you'll just be surprised.

One Tree Hill quote

"Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past...
Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
-JFK, quoted by Brooke Davis

true, we shouldn't be taking the blame for what happened in our past, not to look grudgingly back, rather to set our eyes up front and take what steps are needed for us to succeed. let the past be the past, we can set to change our future if we will it. for the bad memories of our past, dust it off and try again..for the good memories, treasure them and cherish them...for the future is held hanging on what we decide to do now, and only then can we take the right steps forward if it dawned unto us how to take the responsibility of shaping our own future.

Movie Review: In the Land of Women

Get ready to fall.

Director: Jon Kasdan
Writer: Jon Kasdan
Release date: 20 April 2007 (USA)
Genre: comedy / drama / romance

Casts:
Elena Anaya for Sofia
Adam Brody for Carter Webb
Makenzie Vega for Paige Hardwicke
Kristen Stewart for Lucy Hardwicke
Meg Ryan for Sarah Hardwicke

A quite interesting movie...
how would you feel if you're a guy and you were linked with the entire female members of a family? yeah, the mom and the 2 daughters got an eye on you...
oh wait, to add up for being stuck up in the world of women..care for your demented, dying grandma. now, that's more like it. Carter's life revolved among these women.
when he broke up with his famous actress girlfriend, his idea of taking a time off may not be exactly what's in store for him when he went to the suburban Detroit. he got caught up with a web of drama and heartaches until he was able to find his way back to face the world.

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