“I want to be the kind of woman who, when her feet hit the floor in the morning the devil says “”Shit, she’s up again!””

Just opened my emails and this quote was sent to me by a friend… It put a smile on my face, gave the tone of my day and linked in a strange way to the poems Rilke’s Book of Hours, Love Poems to God, I am reading.

Here is one of my favorite ones:

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There are couples a matchmaker would match every time – and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

~Robert Brault

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Driving back from the Berkshires, I stopped in an Antique shop and stumbled upon this great vintage Playboy from April 1973 -filled with fun articles, advertising essentially about whiskey, cigarettes and heavy duty answering machines (remember those?!?).

I laughed reading it on the way back home. I am happy to report that todays men have much evolved since those days: I spotted 2 not so funny cartoons about non-consensual sex that chilled my spine and had me showing some teeth (adopting angry bear style now that i met one) and that would never be published today.

But I must say that we have lost the fun and general tone that was the norm back then. What happend ? I don’t believe things were much easier in 1973 unless of course you were a Playboy man!

“Darling, please promise me we won’t end our honey moon in Paris without seeing Paris.” Kiraz

They smoked after hiking!

There was Whiskey after Ski!
And they even compared themselves to Emperors…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can’t shake.  For others, it’s a disease they cannot seem to catch.  ~Terri Guillemets

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Everybody takes himself and others seriously. That’s the way of the ego to exist. Start being a little more playful and you will see ego evaporating. Take life non seriously, as a joke — yes, as a cosmic joke. Laugh a little more. Laughter is far more significant than prayer. Prayer may not destroy your ego; on the contrary, it may make it holy, pious, but laughter certainly destroys your ego. When you are really in a state of laughter, have you observed? — the ego disappears for a moment. You are again a child, giggling. Again you have forgotten that you are special. You are no longer serious; for a moment you have removed your fixation.

That’s why I love jokes — they are poison to your ego!

~ OSHO
from http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Jokes/Life_is_a_Cosmic_Joke.htm

I love my girlfriends – specially when they send me these kinds of articles:

A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage.Writes the Daily Telegraph – so happy the English didn’t miss on the occasion to poke at their neighbor’s sexual reputation!

After the Divorce, “the 47-year-old ex-wife then took him back to court demanding 10,000 euros in compensation for “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage”.
21 years pre-Social Media age… now in 21 seconds, it’s on Twitter!

But a judge in the south of France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence ruled: “A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent.”

Sex is as necessary as food & money for a relationship to work… a sure sign of it’s disappearance is when the last two start to compensate.

“By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other.”

That’s the LAW!

~ She