I Want To Believe

"Don't give up!"

Mensagens de Aniversário

Pode até parecer preciosismo mas gosto de receber aqueles SMS à meia-noite (ou perto), a dar os parabéns. Eu costumo dizer às pessoas que não me faz diferença e que não respondo de volta, mas a verdade é que sei que as pessoas mais importantes (e que não estão comigo presencialmente) vão enviar na mesma... e acabo por responder na maior parte das vezes! :P
As primeiras, mais juntinho às 0h00, têm sempre o mérito de mostrar que a pessoa esteve pelo menos alguns minutos comigo na lembrança, o que obviamente é boa sinal! :) Mas qualquer outra mensagem, por mais simples que seja, é sempre bem vinda.

Tive a sorte de receber mensagens de vários tipos. Aquelas mais juntinho às 0h00, aquelas de quem está desde sempre na minha vida, aquelas mais simbólicas de alguém que já me acompanha há vários anos e continua a olhar para mim como uma referência, aquelas mais engraçadas, aquela absolutamente deliciosa.......! :) Como resultado, dormi feliz e acordei bem disposto. E isso é algo que eu agradeço sobretudo àqueles que agarraram no telemóvel e enviaram um bocadinho de felicidade para mim, instantaneamente.

Que seja então um dia feliz... é que ter um quarto de século assusta um bocado!

Véspera - A Lista

Só para o caso de alguém querer ideias...
...gravador de DVD's...
...relógio de pulso com cronómetro...
...um peluche do Gizmo...
...uma peça de roupa à medida...
...um beijinho de alguém especial...
...qualquer coisa comprada com os €8,25 que alguém me deve...
...qualquer outra coisa que, mesmo sem grande utilidade, tenha algum simbolismo.

Kamehameaaah? :|

Escondido na letra

And I can't fight this feeling anymore
I've forgotten what I started fighting for
It's time to bring this ship into the shore
And throw away the oars, forever

Adivinha

Pergunta: Quando é que se sabe que alguma coisa está a condicionar demasiado a tua vida?
Resposta: Quando começam a marcar reuniões para a hora de jantar, no teu dia de anos.

É esticar um bocadinho a corda... e não é a melhor forma de começar.

Consciência

Ben Wade: Proverbs 13:3. "He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life. He that opens his lips too wide shall bring on his own destruction".
Charlie Prince: Amen.

Começar pelo fim

Lewis: Start at the end. You can't tell a story if you don't know where it's going.

Será que existe [mesmo] alguém assim?

"Writing is sorting out the mess of life."

Wendy: I know you're not always perfect. I know you have tons of problems, defects, imperfections... but who doesn't? It's just that I prefer your problems.
[... ]
Wendy: I know most girls they get weak on their knees for what's beautiful, you know, that's all they see, that's all they want. But I'm not like that. I don't just see what's beautiful. I fall for the other stuff. I love what's not perfect. It's just how I am.

Ser Campeão é...

"Sempre que salto, salto para o infinito..."

(Nelsón Évora, novo campeão olímpico - Triplo Salto)

The Call

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

Just because everything's changing
Doesn't mean it's never
Been this way before

All you can do is try to know
Who your friends are
As you head off to the war

Pick a star on the dark horizon
And follow the light

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When it's over
No need to say good bye..

Now we're back to the beginning
It's just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can't feel it too
Doesn't mean that you have to forget

Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
Til they're before your eyes

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye

You'll come back
When they call you
No need to say good bye...

(Regina Spektor - The Call)

nekorbtraeh

Jesse: I fell in love with your father because of the way he told a joke...
William Harding: It doesn't always work...
Jesse: My point is... it's all pretty arbitrary! Your whole life, people are gonna ask you to be weak. They're gonna practically beg you. But all anyone really wants is for you to be strong.

Gestos...

...que dispensam qualquer palavra.

Mais um ano

"Where there's a will there's a way",
I know that's what they say.
But sometimes you win
and sometimes you lose,
it ain't always up to you.

Raze the windmills in your mind,
and leave your sanity behind.
'Cause once we compromise the quest,
we don't always do what's best.

Presente

Oogway: You are too concerned with what was and what will be! There's a saying... Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Dar e receber

Frank Allen: You ever hear of chaos theory, Ed? It's a science. It tries to determine underlying patterns in chaotic systems: Weather, ocean currents, blood flow, that sort of thing.
Well, it turns out that there are few things more chaotic than the beat of a human geart.
Speeding up, slowing down. A pretty face, a flight of stairs. It's always changing depending on what's happening to us out there. It's an erratic son of a bitch.
But underneath all of that bump-a-ta-bump mess, there is, in fact, a pattern. A truth.
And it's love.
The most important thing about love is that we choose to give it... and we choose to receive it, making it the least random act in the entire universe.

Pronto Para Viver

Para dar o passo seguinte é preciso... estar pronto para viver!

Please don't be scared
I won't disapoint you
Just look at my face
I shouldn't love you anyway

I wanna try it
I think I'm already trying
I'm already trying

Because I believe it
Yes I believe it
And I am trying...

Please keep fighting
Keep fighting...
Together we can build something beautiful
Please keep fighting
Together we'll build love...

I can't live without you
Could I ever learn how to live with you?

(...)

Please keep fighting
Together we'll build love...

Don't you give up now on me
I won't give up on you...

"Precioso"

Nero: Wait...you forgot this!
Dante: Keep it...
Nero: What?! I thought this meant a lot to you...?
Dante: That's the only kind of gift that's worth giving... :)