Quotation Tuesday 2!
It's Quotation Tuesday again, and today's quote is from the book Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
Think about how many people you've met so far in your life. And how many of those would it break your heart to lose? And other than relationships, what else in life has the power to make you emotional? Our complicated lives get simple fast when we think of them in terms of only the people and things we're emotionally invested in. My list is pretty short.
There are things in my life so good that I become consumed with the idea of holding onto them. If I let it, the pain of what it would feel like to say goodbye can haunt me before I've even lost anything. Sometimes it's just a tiny, sentimental kind of sadness. Like I wonder if someday, when I move from this little house I'm renting, maybe no one will water the little garden I've planted, and it will dry up and blow away. But I'm okay if that happens.
There are heavier things though. Like the fact that Maddy had a birthday yesterday, and in the past few months grey hairs have started to sprout up all over her muzzle. When we went on an especially long hike the other day, for the first time ever she was tired before I was. She wasn't having fun anymore and we were still a long way from home. She looked at me full of guilt, like she was disappointing me by needing to go slowly. These are just the first shadows of something still far away, but it makes me just sick to be reminded of what's coming.
And then there are the darkest places, the impossibly painful thoughts of someday having to say goodbye to certain people.
I love the A.A. Milne quote because it's a reminder that the pain we feel when saying goodbye is evidence of something rare and wonderful having happened to us. When I think of losing something I love I tell myself the little Winni-the-Pooh quote and it reminds me to be glad.
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." — A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
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osumarko Tuesday, February 02, 2010
I love Winnie the Pooh.
Great blog. It reminds me of the song "Only Love Can Break Your Heart".
holger Tuesday, February 02, 2010
first of all
i am hanging my picture next to the door
i am new here
and anything else but the air around me
a little shy
because i don't feel cold anymore
and i hear the ocean double-time
in my cup
and next to me
nobody there to deem me foggy
when i am swinging in my shell
the friend who wants to shake with me
when everything is new
warm quiet warm
i moved into this house
in league with faithful water-bows
to wet my garden
in shapes of lowering flocks of my soul
i fall in buckets
i shoot through hose
and this is new to me too
i don't have to decide
between falling in love and shining shoes
Bilal Tuesday, February 02, 2010
:) ...Thanks for this quote. I will definitely share this one.
Wendy Robertson Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Hi Bridgette....Ahhh. nothing like the classics from A.A. Milne
I thought this one fit perfect for this week. I have had so many puppies licking and kissing me all week long as I sang to the tune I wanna kiss de girl. and I felt like well
ahhh....
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romeo Wednesday, February 03, 2010
All Dogs Go to Heaven - Soon You'll Come Home
George Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Thanks for finding just the right quote to soften a sad anniversary for me. I'll be thankful for the time spent with a family member and remember to appreciate everyone around me that I care about.
Thank you.
Marie M.C. Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Love Winnie-the-Pooh (and Tigger, too). Love your quote. The poem by Holger is moving. Who is he? she? Did Holger write it? Is it a quote?
Please forgive my detour from the road to love. Here's my current favorite quote:
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle
Bud Wednesday, February 03, 2010
I don't know who originally said this but I have always loved this quote.
"The only way to get to where you are going is to have passed thru where you have been."
holger Wednesday, February 03, 2010
hello marie, regarding the detour of your comment, i wrote the poem, i am glad you like it. it's for brigitte, basically it's her poem, if she don't mind...check her video "elusive". i am a stealer and brigitte really hits my soft spots, at large a great inspiration. i wrote it a while ago and now reading her blog, it just matches very well with the house and garden theme above, so i thought i'd post it here
holger
AleXinBue Thursday, February 04, 2010
That´s a real quote, good one.
This one is also real:
"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given." - Deepak Chopra
Thank you for giving us your good mood.
Jon Thursday, February 04, 2010
Great quote, very fitting for us as our little guinea pig passed on Monday night.