Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Spirit Dancer]

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us
tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden
over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses
that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

[Spirit Dancer]

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future.
You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Henry Ward Beecher

[Spirit Dancer]

Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Old Eskimo proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with the
worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful.

unattributed

[Fancy]

Just saying "no" prevents teenage pregnancy the way "have a nice day" cures chronic depression.

-Faye Wattleton

[BestButchBoy]

“Don’t dream it, be it."

Frankenfurter, Rocky Horror Picture Show

[Oiler41]

“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.” - Dale E. Turner

Glynn

[Sybelle]

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

[Medusa]

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

--Steve Jobs
US computer engineer & industrialist (1955 - )

[Enchantress]

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

~ Rene Daumal

[Sybelle]

“I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information; and it can lack the miracle of love.”” Jan Denise

[Sybelle]

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

[Sybelle]

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

[gotoseagrl]

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

e. e. cummings

[Spirit Dancer]

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman

[Spirit Dancer]

Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
Edwin Louis Cole

[Spirit Dancer]

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
Michael Graves

[Spirit Dancer]

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

[tuffboi29]

Today we would pass through the scenes of our youth like travelers. We are burnt up by hard facts; like tradesmen we understand distinctions, and like butchers, necessities. We are no longer untroubled - we are indifferent. We might exsist there; but, should we really live there?



-Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front

[BestButchBoy]

FEAR

Always feels bad
Motivates grasping
Seizes control
Insists on certainty
Needs everything

LOVE

Always feels good
Motivates liberation
Relaxes control
Accepts uncertainty
Needs nothing

[Rook]

Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him? ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi

[Mister Bent]

“Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith."
- Michel de Montaigne

[Enchantress]

The true joy of life is not in the grand gesture but in the consecration of the moment...

[BullDog]

Hope will never be silent.
- Harvey Milk

[gotoseagrl]

“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”

[simpleasdirt]

"you can lead a heart to love but you can't make them fall"-- I have no clue

[BestButchBoy]

If it's not fun, don't do it.

[simpleasdirt]

You can't keep a good man down.(?)

[Liam]

If a flower blooms once, it goes on blooming somewhere forever. It blooms on for whoever has seen it blooming.

—Sounder, William H. Armstrong, 1969

[Rook]

[Stuart realizes who he's dealing with]
Col. Stuart: Oh, McClane. John McClane. The policeman hero who saved the Nakatomi hostages. I read about you in People Magazine. You seemed a bit out of your league on Nightline, I thought.
John McClane: Hey, Colonel. Blow me! How much drug money is Esperanza paying you to turn traitor?
Col. Stuart: I think Cardinal Richilieu said it best. 'Treason is merely a matter of dates'. This country's got to learn that it can't keep cutting the legs off of men like General Esperanza. Men who have the guts to stand up against Communist aggression.
John McClane: And Lesson #1 starts with killing policemen. What's Lesson #2, the neutron bomb?
Col. Stuart: No. I think we can find something in between. Watch this...
[after Col. Stuart caused a plane to crash]
John McClane: [crying] Mother fucker.
[after triggering an airplane crash; into the radio]
Col. Stuart: That concludes our object lesson for this evening. If the 747 we requested is ready on time and General Esperanza's plane arrives unmolested, further lessons can be avoided. Out.

& of course

John McClane: That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. Dosen't show up on your airport X-ray machines, here, and it cost more than you make in a month.
Carmine Lorenzo: Hey! You'd be a surprised what I make in a month.
John McClane: If it's more than a dollar ninety-eight I'd be very surprised. Hey, Carmine, let me ask you something. What sets off the metal detectors first? The lead in your ass or the shit in your brains?
[under his breath]
John McClane: Fat fuck.

[Toofrufru]

Children wish to be adults, and adults long to be children, it’s a question of being carefree but dependent, or careworn and independent. Satisfaction lies in settling on the spot where the two paths cross.

[Kätzchen]

Thomas Merton (b. 1915 - d. 1968), born in France, a trappist monk of the Abbey of Gesthamani in Kentucky, was an American Catholic writer, poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained into the priesthood and given the name Father Louis. (Link for further info (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton))

Not only am I a huge fan of Czeslaw Milosz, but I'm a huge fan of Thomas Merton... I wanted to leave a few of his quotes here this morning and a poem, too.

Quotes:
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Peace demands themost herioc labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to someonebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Thomas Merton's Marian Poetry:

Evening: Zer0 Weather (1947)

Now the lone world is streaky as a wall of marble
With viens of clear and frozen snow.
There is no bird song there, no hare's track
No badger working in the russet grass:
All the bare fields are silent as eternity.

And the whole herd is home in the long barn.
The brothers come, with hoods about their faces,
Following their plumes of breath
Lugging the gleaming buckets one by one.

This was a day when shovels would have struck
Full flakes of fire ut of the land like rock:
And ground cries like iron beneath our boots.

When all monks come in with eyes as clean as the cold sky
And axes under their arms,
Still paying out Ave Maria's
With rosaries between their bleeding fingers.

We shake the chips out of our robes outside the door
And go hide in cowls as deep as the clouds,
Bowing our shoulders in the church's shadow, lean and whipped,
To wait upon your vespers, MOther of God!

And we have eyes no more for the dark pillars or the freezing windows,
Ears for the rumorous cloister or the chimes of time above our heads:
For we are sunken in the summer of our adoration,
And plunge, down, down into the fathoms of our secret joy
That swims with indefinable fire.

And we will never see the copper sunset
Linger a moment, like an echo, on the frozen hill
Then suddenly we die an hour before the Angelus.

For we have found our Christ, our August
Here in the zer0 days before Lent -
We are already binding up our sheaves of harvest
Beating the lazy liturgy, going up with exultation
Even on the eve of our Ash Wednesday,
And entering our blazing heaven by the doors of the Assumption!

[Andrew, Jr.]

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

Lily Tomlin

[Mister Bent]

I see before me the Gladiator lie:
He leans upon his hand - his manly brow
Consents to death, but conquers agony.

- Lord Byron

[Hack]

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

[Fancy]

From one preteen to another, "A sports bra is like a hug. A very tight hug!"

LOL

[Guy]

The art of relationship is all in appreciation

[Rook]

Joe Black: I don't care Bill. I love her.
William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
Joe Black: Then what is it?
William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters.
Joe Black: Which is what?
William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.
Joe Black: So that's what love is according to William Parrish?
William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
Joe Black:[in protest] Those were my words.
William Parrish: They're mine now!

long movie, good content...

[Fancy]

"there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted--each pond with it's blazing lilies is a prayer heard and answered lavishly, each morning, whether or not you have ever dared to be happy, whether or not you have ever dared to pray."

-Mary Oliver, Morning Poem

[Liam]

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
—The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937

[Toofrufru]

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
~Marian Wright-Edelman

[Soon]

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

--French Proverb

[Kätzchen]

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

:blueheels:

[Kobi]

Paranoia is having all the facts - William Burroughs

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth - Albert Einstein

[PinkieLee]

Love all that you can, give all that you have, smile away your days, and dream away your nights.

[BestButchBoy]

Always keep your face toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

~Walt Whitman

[JakeTulane]

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” - Lord Byron

[JakeTulane]

“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.” - Jerome K. Jerome

[JakeTulane]

"Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life” - Ella Wheeler

[Ms. Tabitha]

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

:flyaway:

[Hack]

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -- Thorton Wilder

[always2late]

"Nobody sees a flower, really--it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time." - Georgia O'Keefe

[katzietootle]

Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

[Hack]

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[gotoseagrl]

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” - Keri Russell

[JakeTulane]

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles

[JakeTulane]

“Change is the essence of life.Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” - Author Unknown

[Fancy]

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way.

-Lynda Barry

[always2late]

A real man doesn't love a million girls, he loves one girl in a million ways.

[Ms. Meander]

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

[Liam]

An egg, because it contains life, is the most perfect thing there is. It is beautiful and mysterious.
—The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White, 1970

[PinkieLee]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

[PinkieLee]

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington

[Kätzchen]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

*AMEN* Pinkie!!!!!


My quote today comes from a Communications professor (in my past undergrad years):

"Go forth and use every heartbeat wisely," ~ Dr. Alena Ruggerio

[Spirit Dancer]

When we perform an act mindfully--be it meditating, vacuuming or playing Scrabble
with a child--we nourish ourselves, as well. Rather than scattering our concentration
on a dozen things at once, we focus. We slow down. We give ourselves time to calm
down from the inside out and the luxury of saying: Nothing is more important right
now than this moment, this deed. We may not get as much done by day's end, but
we can feel more peaceful and satisfied with the work itself. That's a good way
to think of it: Mindfulness is quality time for the soul.
Shana Aborn

[Spirit Dancer]

Mindfulness means
paying attention
in a particular way;
on purpose,
in the present moment,
and nonjudgmentally.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

[Spirit Dancer]

One needs something to believe in, something for which
one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel
that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

Hannah Senesh

[Diva]

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

~Monica Baldwin

[Arwen]

I'm not bad. I'm just drawn this way.
~Jessica Rabbit

[Diva]

I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.

~Emily Dickinson

[Duchess]

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.(f)

Alan Alda (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Alan&Author_Last_Name=Alda&Movie=)
American, Actor Quotes

[Duchess]

Those who have not yet accepted their own imperfection are the first ones to judge and critisize the faults of others..(f)

Sidd G (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Sidd&Author_Last_Name=G&Movie=)

[2myladyblue]

i believe ~ alix olsen :writer:

i believe misogyny and patriarchy are closet homo lovers and they screw over their sisters cause they're scared to screw each other.
...
I believe there are too many lonely lesbians looking for a lover and if some would lift their cool masks maybe they would find each other.
i believe people and products both need less packaging cause bullshit is still bulllshit when you pull off all the wrapping.
i believe people are see-through if you hold em up to the light :brightbulb: i believe people are enlightening if you plug em in right.
...
I believe in survival of the fittest--if you're ranking members of a gym but if you're talking about the human club, you gotta let everybody in.
i believe you should learn more than one language you should learn to talk in tongues and lips i believe in nipples and skin and toes and hips.:bellydancer:
i believe in noise from teeth and throats and cunts the noise of poetry, music, laughter, after screaming cunnilingus.
i believe women are sexy without makeup or clothes :drool: i believe women are sexy when they're reciting prose
...
i believe small talk is for small people who have nothing much to say if you really think its so nice out shut up and go enjoy the fucking day
i believe wall street invented the criminal mentality the easter bunny laid mandatory heterosexuality

i believe mutual masturbation makes a lot of sense
i don't believe in a white picket fence
i believe in picking fights and picketing riot dykes
i believe in loving in groups, i believe in loving alone.
i believe in hardship, in travelling through hard shit then i believe in coming home.
....
i believe cell phone culture is ridiculous imprisoning us in the cell of a social fetish

i believe baby dollls should have realistic clits. so baby dykes can start getting used to it.

and i believed that guy i waited on today who said i'm one hundred percent nice i don't bite
i said i believe you sir and i'll take the beer can you believe i'm one hundred percent queer
and i talk it and i teach it and i poet and i preach it and I hold it and I mold it and I know it so I give it. cause i'm sure that I believe i'm still learning how to live it.
:clap: :cheer: :byebye:

[Rook]

"Me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against the stranger." ~ Bedouin Proverb

:beerbros:

[femmedyke]

so, these fine forces, in conjunction, propel the high poetic function, as in a love-adventure they might play! you meet by accident ; you fell, you stay, and by degrees your heart is tangled; you're ravished quite, then comes a touch woe. and there's a neat romance, complete ere you know! let us then, such a drama give J. W. Goethe- Faust

[Butterbean]

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

~Eric Fromm

[BestButchBoy]

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Anais Nin

[Diva]

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

[Diva]

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

~Cynthia Ozick

[Soft*Silver]

I want to make this into a sign for out in my garden...

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

[Toofrufru]

“Peace is not something you wish for;
It's something you make,
Something you do,
Something you are,
And something you give away.”
Robert Fulghum (1937)

[katzietootle]

<-----You were born an original. Don't die a copy

[Hack]

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Just_G]

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgivinig. It is loalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

~not sure who said this~

[JakeTulane]

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

[JakeTulane]

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola

[JakeTulane]

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes

[Fancy]

Get set, ready, go! Start using your wings now; they need some exercise.

~ Paulo Coelho

[always2late]

"You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them." - Anonymous

[Fancy]

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”
~Victor Hugo

[Butterbean]

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

~Mother Teresa











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[Liam]

I speak quietly,
I do not sing,
I whisper, for beauty
is a fragile thing.

—"Marigolds," Everything Glistens and Everything Sings, Charlotte Zolotow, 1987

[UofMfan]

Opinions are like A-holes, everybody has one.

I know, very profound :blink:

[gotoseagrl]

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." Vincent Van Gogh

[Kätzchen]

I'm up working late tonight and came across something in my readings that I thought I would leave here. It's found in Chapter 2 - "Striving for Home: Community, Collaboration and Sustainability," in Ted Bernard's (2010) Hope & Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. (www.newsociety.com)

Striving for home implies finding a community such as Athens with a resilient social structure and lots of social capital woven into the complex networks occupied by smart and caring people. These communities have the marking of a deep economy with locally owned businesses, organic farmers, farmers' markets, locavores, craftspeople, cyclists, and purveyors of slow food. They strive for environmental and social justice. there are ample "third places" (niether work nor home) to gather and celebrate. Such communities retain some of their natural and historically significant landscapes and folks have a few notions about their bio-region and what happens beyond the bounds of their place. Just as they invest in social capital by nurturing soils, waters, forests, steep slopes, and biodiversity. And the "wage" peaceable campaigns to save this sacred thing called community. As Moore writes in the epigraph for this chapter, community evolves in this "struggle for community."(Bernard, 32)

[Diva]

Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing.

~Stacey Charter

[JakeTulane]

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C. S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keefe

[JakeTulane]

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" -
Walt Whitman

[always2late]

"How a person plays a game shows something of their character, how they lose shows all of it." - Anonymous

[Fancy]

"I think I was born happy. If I have a bad moment, it doesn't take me long to switch the gear back. I say, "That sucked," and move on."

~ Renée Zellweger

[Liam]

I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

—The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White, 1970

[Butterbean]

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

~William Wordsworth










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[SassyLeo]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein

[Duchess]

LETTING GO

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.. You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something.. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye.. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains .......

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth......

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you.

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.... ..

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude.... ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him.........

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship. ....

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.. .....

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed ............

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

~By Rev. T.D. Jakes

[Hack]

Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent-thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Lady Pamela]

"When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

~ Cree Prophecy ~

[Lady Pamela]

Healing without active participation
Serves only the physical.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Ask yourself honestly in duress..
"What is my body trying to tell me?"
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Healing has to be on all levels.
To heal one without the other
Ensures the return of what ails you.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Healing
is a leap forward spiritually.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

True healing
involves body, mind and Spirit.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Do not request healing
When you harbour hate.
It will be a short term fix.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Do not look for expensive cures,
New age fads.
Examine your thinking.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

In the midst of your suffering
You are not alone,
Surrounded by those
Urging you on.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Holding bad thoughts
Ends in disease.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Anger unrecognised
Will kill you,
One way or the other.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Instead of fighting beaurocracy
And non-hearing doctors,
Become your own physician.
Ask in the darkness,
"What do I need to acknowledge?"
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

[Enchantress]

This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.”

~ Dalai Lama

[Glenn]

Man lives by believing something. Not by debating and arguing about many things.- Thomas Carlyle

[always2late]

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will be taught to fly - Frank Outlaw

[Liam]

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

—The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[NJFemmie]

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Joyce Maynard

[katzietootle]

...i dont miss you at all but ...i miss the person i thought you were

[JakeTulane]

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” - Lloyd Alexander

[JakeTulane]

"I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries” - Theodore Isaac Rubin

[Fancy]

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

~ Robert Fulghum

:veggie:

[Guy]

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

[Kätzchen]

I guess I just had my first giggle of the day!

I can totally relate to this quote! *hehe*

"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask!"

~ Minnie Driver

[Butterbean]

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947







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[BestButchBoy]

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.3

[evolveme]

That many of us do not love our queer selves I take as a given particularly for those of us...who grew up before there was a community that offered us some kind of loved vision of our lives. All too many of us have grown up in the shadows of contempt and horror, and made what we could through stubborn survival. Sometimes that has meant we became sad or abusive or woefully self-destructive. We have lost friends, time, a sense of meaning or purpose in what we do. We have lost little bits of ourselves we did not know were precious. Sometimes we managed to piece together a sense of self that got us through another day, one day at a time, always hopeful for a better day. That too is a mystery and a poem. Our stories are complicated, astonishing, scary, and hopeful as any parable. Made over into verse, our stories can become life-saving. Poetry is that for me, the life-saving examination of experience shaped in language - at the best gospel and revelation. What we make of our stories is what comes after, but what is shared cracks open all that came before, shifts the perspective, and alters the landscape. Sometimes that is a seared and searing revelation of the awful. Sometimes it is the heartening whisper of hope. All of it begins in the soul alone with the page shaping words to purpose, inventing a loved version of what is known...

Sympathetic magic. Bad poetry.
You do not have to despair.

- Dorothy Allison
from "Sympathetic Magic"

[2myladyblue]

Never let it be said that your anal retentive attention to detail never yielded positive results! {Dogma}

[Diva]

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[JakeTulane]

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” - Anais Nin

[JakeTulane]

"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” - Marcus Aurelius

[Liam]

Every stone is different. No other stone exactly like it....God loves variety. In odd days like these...people study how to be all alike instead of how to be as different as they really are.

—Dobry, Monica Shannon, 1934

[Arwen]

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese proverb

[Butterbean]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/nsjatl/SGKTcZxljBI/AAAAAAAADgo/HKrPj48cAAE/s800/CandleLove_Post.jpg










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[always2late]

"The essential thing is not knowledge, but character." ~ Joseph Le Conte

[Guy]

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.

[Rook]

Alec: You cannot have the Pretenders' first album! That's mine.
Leslie: I bought it.
Alec: You did not! You can have all the Billy Joels... except The Stranger.
Leslie: I'm taking Thriller and Mahler's ninth.
Alec: Kevin is so fond of Mahler.
Leslie: I moved in with Jules.
Alec: Oh how nice, roomies again... No Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simons.
Leslie: You got me those for Valentine's Day. Remember?
Alec: You ran out on this relationship. You take the consequences.
Leslie: I didn't run out on anything. You ran out.
Alec: You fucked Kevin.
Leslie: You fucked many!
Alec: Nameless, faceless many!
Leslie: I feel much better now, thanks.
Alec: You're not taking The Police.
Leslie: Anyway, I didn't just fuck Kevin! I was confused and angry, and I care about him deeply.
Alec: Get your clothes, give me the keys and get out! Now!
Leslie: I can't believe this is happening to us.
Alec: Wasted love! God, I just wish I could get it back!

{odd how this part always reminds me of my very first Break-up..don't ask which was Me...}

[Rook]

Kirby: It's true love, my friend.
Kevin: Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.
Kirby: You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in... how long? What is it... a year... maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution?
Kevin: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony... palimony... it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
Kirby: It's the only illusion that counts, my friend.
Kevin: Says who?
Kirby: Anyone who's been in love.
Kevin: Love sucks.
Kirby: So does your attitude.

:blink:

[BestButchBoy]

"YABBA DABBA DOO"

Fred Flintstone

[Kätzchen]

I'm a huge fan of the Indian (Bengali) intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath - he was expert in a variety of subject areas: In his time (era) he was a popular poet, musician, novelist.... his writings reshaped Bengali literature and music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How I came to learn about him - my exposure to his writings - was through my friend Robert, who lived up in the hills of Ashland - the Greensprings area. He collected his books - his writings. Robert put on some of music and handed me a book one starry, warm summers' night and he had me read some beautiful prose that TAgore authored.

It was one of those extended moments hazed by "blue sparkles" and I will never forget the long drawn out conversations I had with Robert about Tagorian philosophy! Robert was such a character that, I took my friend Brynn out there one summer to meet him and she soon came to see what it was that I enjoyed about late night conversations, out on the Greensprings, with Robert! His property was absolutely beautiful - rustic cabin, acres of pines, deer that wandered throughout the land, a gazebo that stood near a natural babbling creek - out in the middle of nowhere! *Those were the days!*

Anyhow, here's some quotes authored by Tagore:

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

And my all-time favorite:

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

:blueheels:

[adorable]

"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

[Glenn]

We have everything necessary in the world today to bring about the millennium. Only selfishness makes it impossible.- Paramahansa Yogananda

[Glenn]

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: Where knowledge is free:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches it's arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father; let my country awake!- Tagore

[JakeTulane]

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[gotoseagrl]

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." Emily Bronte

[Liam]

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.

—Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926

[Kätzchen]

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: Where knowledge is free:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches it's arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father; let my country awake!- Tagore

I thought about posting this quote last night: He was passionate about what was happening in his society - incongruencies at a deep socio-cultural level; and I wanted to say a hearty - AMEN - when I read this quote, this morning!

Thanks "Popcorninthesofa" !!!

:blueheels:

PS/ wouldn't is be something is a revolution like this took place in the hearts of people here in our American society??? Indeed, "Let my country awake!"

[diamondrose]

The following poem is a poem my roommate gave to me when my dog passed away

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its aweful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.
-Irving Townsend


my own words~ this poem is so true. I adopted my dog from a shelter, knowing full well that he was a senior dog, yet I wouldn't give up the 3 years I got with him for anything. I find peace within myself knowing that I gave him a happy and loved final 3 years.
Fatboy- You are still alive in my heart 1/23/2009

[Toofrufru]

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”


Audrey Hepburn

[BestButchBoy]

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE

[Diva]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Old Klingon Proverb (From "Kill Bill")

[BestButchBoy]

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." --Robert Frost

[JakeTulane]

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.” - Hugh Walpole, Sr.

[JakeTulane]

“It's a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.” - Cameron Diaz

[JakeTulane]

"May you find serenity and tranquility
in a world you may not always understand.

May the pain you have known
and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life
facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Always know that there are those
whose love and understanding will always be there,
even when you feel most alone.

May a kind word,
a reassuring touch,
and a warm smile
be yours every day of your life,
and may you give these gifts
as well as receive them.

May the teachings of those you admire
become part of you,
so that you may call upon them.

Remember, those whose lives you have touched
and who have touched yours
are always a part of you,
even if the encounters were less than you would have wished.
It is the content of the encounter
that is more important than its form.

May you not become too concerned with material matters,
but instead place immeasurable value
on the goodness in your heart.
Find time in each day to see beauty and love
in the world around you.

Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard
you may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present
may become one of your strengths in the future.
May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.

May you find enough inner strength
to determine your own worth by yourself,
and not be dependent
on another's judgment of your accomplishments.

May you always feel loved.” - Sandra Sturtz Hauss

[daisygrrl]

Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain.

--from Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg

[cinderella]

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
American poet (1892 - 1950)

[moxie]

"To hate is to show you still care. Who needs that? Focus on what's really important." - Henry Rollins

[2myladyblue]

Virtue is relative at best. There's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west. ~ ani difranco
:carride:

[Fancy]

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

[Sam]

May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share, for every sigh a sweet song and an answer for each prayer.

[Fancy]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

[Soon]

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison. And the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while. And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me.

[JakeTulane]

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life” - Greg Anderson

[JakeTulane]

“We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.” - Maya Angelou

[theoddz]

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy were married 52 years, until her death in 1994. He had this to say about her:

"If Jessie has a triumph, I feel that it's mine. Or when I read that she is beautiful, I feel wonderful. She's mine."—Hume Cronyn

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1/aappleton218/classicmisc1/Actresses02/lovelyjessica.jpg

:awww:

~Theo~ :bouquet:

[Spirit Dancer]

Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your
growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one
increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows
that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches
that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement
is the art of making life--your life--a masterpiece.

Wilferd A. Peterson

[Spirit Dancer]

A tree has both straight and crooked branches; the symmetry of the tree,
however, is perfect. Life is balanced like a tree. When you consider
the struggles, difficulties, and sorrows as a part of it,
then you see it as beautiful and perfect.
George M. Lamsa

[Spirit Dancer]

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which people cease
to live unreflectively and begin to devote themselves to
their lives with reverence in order to raise them to their
true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-live.
Albert
Schweitzer

[Passionaria]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead.

[Semantics]

Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation.
One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

Rob Brezsny

[Fancy]

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~Kahlil Gibran

[Diva]

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

~Leo Buscaglia

[UofMfan]

MARIPOSA DE OTOÑO

La mariposa volotea
y arde -con el sol- a veces.

Mancha volante y llamarada,
ahora se queda parada
sobre una hoja: que la mece.

Me decían: -No tienes nada.
No estás enfermo. Te parece.

Yo tampoco decía nada.
Y pasò el tiempo de las mieses.

Hoy una mano de congoja
llena de otoño el horizonte.
Y hasta de mi alma caen hojas.

Me decían: -No tienes nada.
No estás enfermo. Te parece.

Era la hora de las espigas.
El sol, ahora,
convalece.

Todo se va en la vida, amigos.
Se va o perece.

Se va la manò que te induce.
Se va o perece.

Se va la rosa que desates.
También la boca que te bese.

El agua, la sombra y el vaso.
Se va o perece.

Pasò la hora de las espigas.
El sol, ahora,
convalece.

Su lengua tibia me rodea.
También me dice: -Te parece.

La mariposa volotea,
revolotea,
y desaparece.~ Pablo Neruda

[Mister Bent]

"Even your breath stinks of mediocrity."

- Sue Sylvester

[Kätzchen]

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware,"
~ Martin Buber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber)

[Enchantress]

To be able under all circumstances
to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue;
these five things are
gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

~ Confucius

[Diva]

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.


~I Ching

[adorable]

""But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."”
~Lewis Carroll

[JakeTulane]

“Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde

[Diva]

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

~John Steinbeck

[Diva]

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Fancy]

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
~Elvis Presley

[always2late]

To celebrate Pride...some of my favorite quotes:

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~ Homer

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. ~ Johann von Goethe

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~ Robin Tyler

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." ~ Shelly Roberts

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~ Paul Newman

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~ Martina Navratilova

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ~ Francis Maude

[Arwen]

"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge." - Napoleon Hill

[Arwen]

May the blessing of
the Strong Protector,
the Bringer of Summer,
the Spinner of the Day-Star,
be upon me as I set forth today.
Beauty of the glad day be mine,
And with the beatitude of brightness,
May I come home in joy.
— Caitlin Matthews (Celtic Devotionals)

[Kätzchen]

The expanded concept of tolerance does not remain restricted to the sphere of religion but can be generally extended to tolerance of others who think differently in any way. Within today’s pluralist societies where the traditions of various linguistic and cultural communities come together, tolerance is always necessary "where ways of life challenge judgements in terms of both existential relevance and claims to truth and rightness" ~ J. Habermas

LINK (http://habermasians.blogspot.com/2005/08/tolerance-makes-great-demands-jrgen.html)

[Beau]

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[Mister Bent]

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

- Robert McCloskey

[2myladyblue]

"Either the rights to live and to die are both sacred, or neither is." ~Treska Lindsey

[2myladyblue]

your face crept into that space between my reflex and my resolve
kinda like the crevice you don't notice
til it takes down the damn wall.

and now we are sitting in the window
your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee
and I am checking my pulse,
making sure it hasn't quit on me.

and I'm sorry if you think that I knew
what I was doing
I guess what I do best is look like I'm in control
but tonight, tonight, I am a soft and untamed thing
and I will wrap my breath around you until your exhale comes clean.
I am checking my pulse.
I am checking my pulse.

you are the buried penny at the bottom of the pool
so I guess that makes me the fool diving deep for you
I'll stick you in my pocket
all shiny, all precious, and all not mine
a hidden, forbidden treasure
baby, you're the worst kind.

cause underneath the surface, all things loom larger
so I'm searching for your edges
to fish you up, ship you up out of the water
and you are that sweet wish that she's thrown
I would have caught you in the air, girl, had I known.

and now the space between these bodies
surpasses the sum of its parts
so I am crawling in-between these moments
balancing words hoping I don't get stuck.
and I was just thinking 'distraction'
now I'm thinking distraction's a wonderful thing
cause I was casually splashing
and now I'm a casualty slowly sinking.

cause in hot water, my brain just kinda puckers up
and I'm drowning jaws wide open now cause my mouth
it just won't seem to shut.
and you might just be a shiny thing
but you are the shining thing that I am pursuing
and when I said "you talk too much"
it was cause there was stuff I'd rather you'd have been doing.


and then you take my breath
I say "hey, I need that to get back to the top"
"but we're beautiful down here", you say
"you know, girl
the world won't stop".
and we are sitting in the window
your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee
and I am checking my pulse
making sure it hasn't quit on me.
I am just checking my pulse
making sure it hasn't quit on me.
I am just checking my pulse
making sure she hasn't quit on me
yet.

[Blade]

The greatest thing you can give your children are roots.....and wings....

[JakeTulane]

"My words rained over you, stroking you.
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.
I go so far as to think that you own the universe.
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

- Pablo Neruda

[Soon]

Wish

Just your hot heart,
nothing more.

My Paradise, a field,
no nightingales,
no strings,
a river, discrete,
and a little fountain.

Without the spurs,
of the wind, in the branches,
without the star,
that wants to be leaf.

An enormous light
that will be
the glow
of the Other,
in a field of broken gazes.

A still calm
where our kisses,
sonorous circles
of echoes,
will open, far-off.

And your hot heart,
nothing more.

[JakeTulane]

"They are all gone into the world of light,
And I alone sit lingering here;
Their very memory is fair and bright,
And my sad thoughts doth clear."
~ Henry Vaughan, from Silex Scintillans 'They are all gone'

[JakeTulane]

"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

[JakeTulane]

Remembrance is a golden chain
Death tries to break,
but all in vain.
To have, to love, and then to part
Is the greatest sorrow of one's heart.
The years may wipe out many things
But some they wipe out never.
Like memories of those happy times
When we were all together.
~ Author Unknown

[Toofrufru]

Contentment makes poor men rich.
Discontent makes rich men poor.
--Benjamin
Franklin

[UofMfan]

He is one of my favorites, ranks up there with Neruda. I actually read this one the day before yesterday.

Wish

Just your hot heart,
nothing more.

My Paradise, a field,
no nightingales,
no strings,
a river, discrete,
and a little fountain.

Without the spurs,
of the wind, in the branches,
without the star,
that wants to be leaf.

An enormous light
that will be
the glow
of the Other,
in a field of broken gazes.

A still calm
where our kisses,
sonorous circles
of echoes,
will open, far-off.

And your hot heart,
nothing more.

[Spirit Dancer]

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade

[Spirit Dancer]

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. -- William Shakespeare

[Spirit Dancer]

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare

[always2late]

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone." - Will Henry

[Hack]

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
- Andre Gide

[Soon]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[Diva]

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

~Eileen Mayhew

[Diva]

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

~Golda Meir

[purepisces]

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Ghandi

[purepisces]

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray

[PinkieLee]

"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."

— Eat, Pray, Love

[Just_G]

Never give up on someone that you can't go a day without thinking about!

A friends fb page today

[MrSunshine]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

[Butterbean]

Faith is a passionate intuition.

~William Wordsworth












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[BestButchBoy]

“This is the last shot we got…Now boys, don’t get caught watchin’ the paint dry!"

Wilbur “Shooter” Flatch, Hoosiers

[Diva]

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

~Arnold H. Glasgow

[Diva]

Snark is clever and funny and easy to spread. Snark protects us from confronting the truth of the situation, and snark is incredibly easy to do. Snark is fun, but it doesn’t look good on you.

~Seth Godin

[Arwen]

Pay attention not to what the finger points at but at what the finger points away from.

[Diva]

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

~ Jane Austen

[Gemme]

Snark is clever and funny and easy to spread. Snark protects us from confronting the truth of the situation, and snark is incredibly easy to do. Snark is fun, but it doesn’t look good on you.

~Seth Godin






Does too!

*turns this way and that*

Looks fine to me. ;)

[Diva]

Does too!

*turns this way and that*

Looks fine to me. ;)




Of COURSE it looks fine to US because we're so cute at it................

Snark~o~Licious....................

[tuffboi29]

Your revelution makes me wonder were COULD we go,if we could all drop the empty pursuit of props and the ego, and revolt back to out roots, use a little commen sense, on a quest to make love daylight soul; no pretense.



-slam poet Sally Jones

[Boots13]

There is no delight in owning anything unshared

seneca

[Arwen]

"The older one gets the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed: it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace."

-Madame Curie, 1928

[tuffboi29]

I cant even quote this one...so Im just goin to share it...Please pass this one on.It has a message that I think we should all hear.

YouTube- Katie Makkai - Pretty

[Diva]

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

~Lin Yutang

[JakeTulane]

"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together." - Barbara De Angelis

[JakeTulane]

“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist” - Marquis De Sade

[JakeTulane]

“We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.” - Dalai Lama

[Diva]

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

~Frida Kahlo

[Diva]

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

~Maya Angelou

[Diva]

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

~Buddha

[Fancy]

“I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.”
- Mae West

[purepisces]

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino

[PinkieLee]

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the people I can and the wisdom to know that person is me.

~ words of wisdom stolen from a friend's facebook page!

[Kätzchen]

"I don't want to live in a culture of despair - I'd like to live in a culture of hope," ~ Natalie Merchant

[femmedyke]

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman

[Butterbean]

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

~Joan Didion















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[femmedyke]

"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face.
My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."
— Alice Hoffman (Incantation)

[Soon]

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

--Virginia Woolf

[Mister Bent]

"...we Irish come through the door fists and hearts first."
- Bruce Springsteen

[chefhottie25]

a few years ago I wrote this poem for a dear friend. It is very special to me.


Asian Pears
Your story was this: you were happy
then you were sad.
You slept, You awakened...
Sometimes you ate persimmons.
At times you spoke, at other times you were silent.
What could you say? mostly it seems you were silent.
Actions were taken
or not-
It doesn't matter what they will make of you.
Of your days... they will be wrong.
They will never speak of the little girl propelled into womanhood.
All the stories they tell will be of their own bromidic invention.
You were happy, then you were sad.
Sometimes you ate asian pears.

[Soon]

"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
Write yourself.
Your body must be heard."

— Hélène Cixous

[Kätzchen]

Esse

I looked at that face, dumbfounded.

The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn't notice them.

What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird?

A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute? - and in a whiteness tinged with pink two sculpted holes, containing a dark, lustrous lava.

To absorb that face but to have it simultaneously against the background of all spring boughs, walls, waves, in its weeping, its laughter, moving it back fifteen years, or ahead thirty.

To have. It is not even a desire. Like a butterfly, a fish, the stem of a plant, only more mysterious.

And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, leap, rend your clothing, repeating only: is!

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things: A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

(1954)


~ Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems 1931-1987

Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky
Copyright © Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky (1988)

[Diva]

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

[Kätzchen]

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley


>>>>> *amen* <<<<<<

[Diva]

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

~Author Unknown

[BestButchBoy]

I can find a lot of women willing to ride in the town car with me. I long to find a woman who is willing ride the bus with me.

A metaphor.

[Diva]

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.

~Alexander King