Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Diva]

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

~Dinah Mulock

[gotoseagrl]

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

[Enigma]

The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.

It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

~ William Shakespeare ~

[UofMfan]

"Más rápido cae un mentiroso que un cojo."

[Mister Bent]

"The only things that will get a married man laid that won't get a single
man laid are adultery and whores. Intelligence and humor (and your smell) are what
get you laid. That's what got you laid when you were single. That's what gets you laid
when you're married. Everything still works in marriage: especially intelligence and humor.
Because the sexiest thing is to know you."

- Christina Hendricks

[Queerasfck]

"Because the sexiest thing is to know you."

- Christina Hendricks


Agreed. The sexiest thing is to know ME.

[Hack]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” -- e.e. cummings

[Andrew, Jr.]

What's the difference between unique and very unique?

We put in our two cents, but only get a penny for our thoughts. What happens to the extra penny?

Don't make me explain the jokes. Mark Giles

Writing is easy. Life is hard. Neil LaBute

:rrose:

[Andrew, Jr.]

There are many flags in many lands,
There are flags of every hue;
But there is no flag, however grand,
Like our own Red, White and Blue.

:usa:

[Jerseyboi]

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[moxie]

there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late
— Charles Bukowski

[nycfem]

Bukowski fan in the house (me). Awesome quote!


there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late
— Charles Bukowski

[Spirit Dancer]

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Howard Cosell

[Sachita]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

[Spirit Dancer]

To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Berson

[Spirit Dancer]

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take
total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John Maxwell

[SnackTime]

Strength is a product of struggle.

Unknown

[SnackTime]

Spirit...has 50 times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.

Unknown

[Diva]

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

~Gerard Way

[Diva]

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

~Cesar Chavez

[Diva]

The good die young, but pricks live forever.

~Lewis Black

[Andrew, Jr.]

Whenever I see a soldier boy
No matter where it be
I give him salutation
For he means so much to me

He's not the boy we used to know
In store, at desk, or plow
He's a defender of our faith
He's in the service now

He keeps Old Glory flying
On land, and air, and sea
He lives to make our homes secure
He dies to keep us free.

[oblivia]

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

[oblivia]

"Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are." ~ Amy Bloom

[gotoseagrl]

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Kätzchen]

"It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women,"

~ Kofi Annan (then UN-Secretary General, 2006)

[oblivia]

Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

~Ambrose Bierce

[Diva]

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

~Author Unknown

[Diva]

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

~Buddy Hackett

[oblivia]

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

~Buddy Hackett


LOL In our family, that applies whether you're a grown-up or a kid (read: man-child). Whatever is made, totally up to you to like it or not but if it's not (AFTER you've tried it) then you're on your own to go make somethin' else. :)

[Massive]

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful - Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow - Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any - Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me - Alice Walker

Virgil - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
~I Miss you by Claudia Ghandi


Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

[Diva]

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

~Maria Robinson

[Diva]

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

~Basho

[Fancy]

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”

-Rainer Maria Rilke

[Diva]

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Anderson

[PinkieLee]

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” — Albert Schweitzer

[PinkieLee]

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward

[Diva]

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

~Jane Austen

[Ms. Tabitha]

We must be the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

[Just_G]

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
~Erica Jong~

[JakeTulane]

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” - C.S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

“Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Diva]

Make conscientiousness and sincerity Your grand object. Have no friends not equal to Yourself. If You have done wrong, be not ashamed to make amends.

~Confucius

[Kätzchen]

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

~Jane Austen






I had no idea that J. Austen was the author - I've heard this quote from time to time, over the years, and I appreciate the way she is able to convey this timeless principle.

[miss entycing]

A beautiful woman is like a wild rose....
Lovely and calm... but willing to draw blood in her defense.
unknown-

[Massive]

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts.
The Buddha

The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
Atisha

Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.
Buddhist Saying

In what is seen, there should be just the seen;
In what is heard, there should be just the heard;
In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed;
In what is thought, there should be just the thought.
He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill.
Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.
Sutta Nipata II,14

These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood.
Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings,
How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
The Dhammapada

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.


Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them, humanity cannot survive.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

[2myladyblue]

it's not so much that we got closer
it's that her face just got bigger
and by the time it was filling up my whole view
i figured my face had got bigger too
so i used it to try and sway her
say something to her
make my case
but my face
never had a chance
all along it was the wrong song and dance
i just stood there
without even a stance
helpless to her advance
and her retreat
backspace, delete

it wasn't so much that we fell in love as
my life just seemed to come down
to a slow walk on a straight line
between her smile and her frown
and maybe we never were as close
as we should have been
but i didn't know
what i know now then
yeah i didn't know what i
know now then

[Enchantress]

"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd"...

Alexander Pope

[oblivia]

"Evey day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthing, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
~Sir Winston Churchill

"Honor does not have to be defended."
~Robert J. Sawyer

[Diva]

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where one's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

~Edward P. Morgan

[Diva]

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

~Charles W. Eliot

[always2late]

"My webs were no miracle, Wilbur. I was only describing what I saw. The miracle is you." ~ Charlotte :)

[Toofrufru]

There is pleasure in new friendships, comfort in old ones, and sweet memories in those we’ve lost.

Gardening is an ancient and universal passion that enables you to remain rooted in the present but provides glimpses of the future as wisdom grows, wit blossoms, and ideas bear fruit.

[Butterbean]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

~Author Unknown




The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.


~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead





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[2myladyblue]

waiting in the bus stop with a seat at least
when across the street a #7 Rainier jerked
to a belching screech so
my eyes rested on an extraordinarily
beautiful Black woman about our age
Her sloping cheekbones caught the light
in an amazing deep mulberry glow
I wanted to run through traffic
bang on the door as the bus groaned away
to tell her
You're the loveliest sight of my whole day
Thank you!
Staring down at my purple knees
I knew with such a hard ache
in my sore feet
that she'd just think
I was plum crazy

[2myladyblue]

A young Black man
arguing passionately
with 3 white ones who are
not in favor of women's rights

[PinkieLee]

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison

[PinkieLee]

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette

[Kätzchen]

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.



Without love, we are birds with broken wings.


Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.


Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially yourself.


:candle::candle::candle:

[femmedyke]

The Journey
By Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
What you had to do, and began,
Though the voices around you
Kept shouting
Their bad advice—
Though the whole house
Began to tremble
And you felt the old tug
At your ankles.
"Mend my life!”
Each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do
Though the wind pried
With its stiff fingers
At the very foundations
Though their melancholy
Was terrible.
It was already late
Enough, and a wild night,
And the road full of fallen
Branches and stones.
But little by little
As you left their voices behind,
The stars began to burn
Through the sheets of clouds,
And there was a new voice
Which you slowly recognized as you own,
That kept you company
As you strode deeper and deeper
Into the world,
Determined to do
The only thing you could do---
Determined to save
The only life that you could save.

[afixer]

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
~ John Wooden 1910 -2010

[BestButchBoy]

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

~ Sophia Loren

[Diva]

When considering praise or criticism first consider the source.

~Jeff Daly

[Diva]

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

~Winston Churchill

[Enchantress]

"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

[afixer]

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
~ Henry David Thoreau

[PinkieLee]

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~
Maya Angelou

[PinkieLee]

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ~ Maya Angelou

[PinkieLee]

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~ Hugh Sidey

[Fancy]

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

~Vera Wang

[oblivia]

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."
~Joseph Campbell

[Butterbean]

When the student is ready, the master appears.

~Buddhist Proverb




Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

~Zen Buddhist Proverb

[Fancy]

I'm just trying to change the color of your mood ring...

;)

[violaine]

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[Lillie]

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. - Anthony Robbins

[Jet]

If I would have been a ranch, they would have named me 'the bar nothing.'
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—Rita Hayworth, Gilda

[2myladyblue]

in my body where yours slept around me
like the gold grass hollow
deer leave in the morning meadow
or the curve of a white rib
beached on the rocks
I carried back to admire
along the path to my door
A tenderness is yours I feel for
the mountain which centers my life
We are wary of old words used
to describe these circles
We awaken at dawn leave each other dreaming
slip into the wild edge where reason fails
your branches shelter
mine flower

[2myladyblue]

I Like a Woman Who Packs

not because she wants to be a man because she knows
I want a butch
who can loop my wrist with leather, whisper Stay right here
I have something I need to do to you
who can smile wide when I ask her to dance
because I've noticed the bulge in her pants
Tells me to come back for a slow number
because she doesn't do fast
I like a woman who'll make me beg her for it
Ride me till I forget my name, the date
the president, prime minister & every head of state
I like to sashay down the street a bit
with her watching my legs & breasts & ass
while I watch her hands & mouth
& the neighbors gasp
I like a woman who can make me over
into whatever she wants
as long as she wants
I like a woman who can make me over
into whatever she wants
as long as she wants
wet & hungry to my heart
I like it when she grabs my hair
says Don't move until I tell you
I like a woman who packs
stands behind me in a crowded room leaning into my back
whispers in my ear
Hey you wanna give it up to me?
I like her tall or short heavy or slim
walking or riding a chair brown or pink old or young
I like a woman who can take me under
wen she takes me over
then let me suck her, get in trouble, snap her gloves
I like a woman who wants to be
the best fuck I've ever had
I like a woman who snacks

[Massive]

When we are together I stay awake all night
When I'm on my own I cannot sleep
Blessed be God for these two insomnias
And the difference between them.
Rumi

Love is a moment that lasts forever...
Julie Wittey

L'amor chi move il sole e l'altre stelle.
[Love that moves the sun and the other stars].
Dante

Will you still love me when I'm sixty-four?
Paul McCartney

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences."
Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

What the world needs now,
Is love,
Sweet love.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Unknown

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Once I dropped a tear in the ocean. When I find it is when I'll stop loving you.
Anonymous

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao-Tzu

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Latin proverb

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

:stillheart:
:bunchflowers:
:love1:

[Kätzchen]

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[Sybelle]

I've seen this posted before, but just some thoughts to carry this soul:

To let go does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
it's the realization I can't control another.
To let go is not to enable,
but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
it's to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
it's to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

[NJFemmie]

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”

[Jet]

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haha

[Ms. Tabitha]

May you always have work for your hands to do
May your pockets hold always a coin or two
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain
May the hand of a friend always be near you
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you

[always2late]

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. - Sally Koch

[2myladyblue]

Night, on a blanket
that smells faintly of dog
we shed our clothes
and lie in our skins, breathing.
The taste of your mouth is the first moment
home after a journey.

When I close my eyes, the stars
approach, opening
filmy auroras
pink, yelow, and blue
like first thoughts
of the sky
imagining
you.

[Ms. Meander]

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

- Marian Wright Edelman

[2myladyblue]

If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up space. ~ Flo Kennedy

[JakeTulane]

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." ~Henry Ward Beecher

[JakeTulane]

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

[JakeTulane]

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

[Butterbean]

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

~Thomas á Kempis









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[Diva]

A smile confuses an approaching frown.

~Author Unknown

[Jet]

Greatest movie quotes according to the American Film Institute


"Oh-oh-oh, sweet mystery of life - at last I found you!"

"Mama says stupid is as stupid does."

"I am, George. I am."

"Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings."

"Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie."

"Throw that junk."

"Strike me pink!"

- "I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me."
- "It's a combination of all three."
- "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?"
- "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
- "The waters? What waters? We're in the desert."
- "I was misinformed."

"We all go a little mad sometimes... Haven't you?"

- "I used to hate the water."
- "I can't imagine why."

"I wish I knew how to quit you."

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."

"I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"Well, I believe in the soul, the c--k, the p---y, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good Scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent crap...I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."

"Sing out, men. We open at Leavenworth on Saturday night."

- "Surely you can't be serious."
- "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

"What the hell happened?"

" Oh! You cursed brat. Look what you've done. I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness."

"I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."

"If you build it, he will come."

"But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle - built - for - two."

"They're heee-re."

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto."

"I do not like the panties drying on the rod."

"A thing worth having is worth cheating for."

"I am not an animal! I am a human being."

"Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble."

"Snakes. Why'd it hafta be snakes?"

"Well, a boy's best friend is his mother."

"We'll always have Paris."

"Food fight!"
AND
"Toga! Toga!"

"I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all."

"Is it safe?"

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
AND
"I love it. God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life."

- "You know what they call a - a - a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?"
- "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
- "No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f--k a Quarter Pounder is."
- "Then what do they call it?"
- "They call it a 'Royale' with cheese."
- "A 'Royale' with cheese!...What do they call a Big Mac?"
- "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it 'Le Big Mac.'"
- "'Le Big Mac!' What do they call a 'Whopper'?"
- "I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King."

"Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever."

"That's mighty brave talk for a one-eyed fat man."

"Well sir, goin' 'ome...'Ome, sir."

"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon."

"That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people."

"Houston - we have a problem."

"Shaken, not stirred."

"I can stand anything but pain."

"Never be jealous again. Never doubt that I love you more than the world. More than myself."

"Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!"

- "And after you shot him, how did you feel then?"
- "Hungry."

"Aaaaawl-right-y-then."

"Sanctuary!"

" I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"

"But it's straight down the line for both of us."

"I'll live to see you - all of ya - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet!"

"I'm NOT gonna be ignored, Dan."

"Will you bring me five more martinis, Leo? And line them right up here."

"When you give up your dreams, you die."

"For the woman - the kiss, for the man - the sword."

"Jungle Red."

"You should be kissed - and often, and by someone who knows how."

"Magic Mirror on the Wall, Who is the fairest one of all?"

"I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be."

"That's, uh, quite a dress you almost have on."

"Well, I'll wear the darn clothes if you want me to - if-if you'll just, just like me."

"Goooood morning, Vietnam!"

"Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind."

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need - roads."

"Only my friends call me wop."

"I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating."

"Turn to the ri-i-ght."

"He's got a real purty mouth, ain't he?"

"I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."

- "Steady boy. Just keep telling yourself you're a girl."
- "I'm a girl...I'm a girl...I'm a girl."

"Get your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"

"Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself: 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?"

"Frau Bleucher." (followed by the whinnying and neighing of horses)

"No patty fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times."

"I didn't recognize you. You should lay off those candy bars...You're a mess, honey."

"I'm such a fool, such an old fool. These are only tears of gratitude - an old maid's gratitude for the crumbs offered...You see, no one ever called me darling before."

"Well, if you get a good break, you'll be out of Tehachapi in 20 years and you can come back to me then. I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck...Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."

- "I'm in love with you."
- "Snap out of it!"

"It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God."

"Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter the four million year old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery."

"Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia."

"Hello, gorgeous."

"Hitler was better looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill."

"She cut off her nipples with garden shears. You call that normal?"

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked, and I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place."

"I never drink wi-i-ine."

"Put me in your pocket, Mike."

"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end."

"Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight!"

"Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time."

"The only question I ever ask any woman is: 'What time is your husband coming home?'"

"Feed me! Feed me!"

"I forgot my mantra."

"Yo, Adrian!"

"Ah, then it's a gift."

"One Rocco, more or less, isn't worth dying for."

"Your general appearance is not distasteful."

"They abide and they endure."

"I like to watch (TV)."

"And her daughter, Gypsy."

"You're a very nosy fellow, kitty-cat, huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh, no? Want to guess? Huh, no? OK. They lose their noses."

"You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you? Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid!"

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

"Want me to do your hair?

"Oh, Frank, my lips are hot. Kiss my hot lips."

"Attica! Attica!"

"Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"

"Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it."

"This is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is a war of the people - of all the people - and it must be fought not only on the battlefield but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom...This is the people's war. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it, then. Fight it with all that is in us, and may God defend the right."

- "Overtaxed, overworked and paid off with a knife, a club or a rope."
- "Why, you speak treason."
- "Fluently."

"If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!"

"Because when you're a call girl, you control it, that's why. Because someone wants you...and for an hour...I'm the best actress in the world."

"Wendy, darling. Light of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya... I'm just gonna bash your brains in."

"O-Lan, you are the earth."

"You always said you could shoot. I never believed ya."

"People all say that I've had a bad break, but today - today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."

"But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom. Case dismissed."

"Shapeley's the name - and that's the way I like 'em!"

"Say hello to my little friend."

"I ain't so tough."

"And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."

"It was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost."

"I know you are, but what am I?

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"

"Only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted...A. Always. B. Be. C. Closing. Always Be Closing."

"I killed you. Haunt me then. Haunt your murderer. I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life. I cannot die without my soul."

"What do they think I am, dumb or something? Why I make more money than Calvin Coolidge put together."

"I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

"Oh, and Senator, just one more thing. Love your suit!"

"Look, you shoot off a guy's head with his pants down, believe me, Texas is not the place you want to get caught."

"I don't know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?"

"First the hunt, then the revels!"

"Now, she lies in 1,500 fathoms. And with her, more than half our shipmates. If they had to die, what a grand way to go! For now they lie all together with the ship we loved and they're in very good company. We've lost her, but they're still with her."

"I am Mata Hari, my own master."

- "I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth."
- "I tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth."

"Oh, oh, I've got a helmet. I've got a beauty."

Link for the films that featured this quotes.
http://www.filmsite.org/moments000.html

[JakeTulane]

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

[JakeTulane]

“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

[JakeTulane]

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” - Peace Pilgrim (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace Prophet, 1908-1981)

[Spirit Dancer]

Study yourself. Find your strong points and make them stronger
as well as your weak ones and strengthen them. Study yourself
carefully and you will see yourself as you really are.
Theron Q. Dumont

[Spirit Dancer]

Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and people
can find every truth connected with their beings, if they will dig deep into the mine
of their souls; and that they are the makers of their character, the molders of their
lives, and the builders of their own destinies, they may unerringly prove, if they will
watch, control, and alter their thoughts, tracing their effects upon themselves, upon
others, and upon their lives and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient
practice and investigation, and utilizing their every experience, even to the most
trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of themselves
which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power.

James Allen

[Spirit Dancer]

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

[Spirit Dancer]

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the
disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life
is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It
takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
William L. Shirer

[Spirit Dancer]

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone,
she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary
walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

[Spirit Dancer]

The real man smiles in trouble,
gathers strength from distress,
and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

[Fancy]

“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.”

-Ogden Nash

[cinderella]

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

[Liam]

"I like the the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex."

—Archie Carr, The Windward Road

[Fancy]

"Is your caravan lost? It is if you no longer weep from gratitude or happiness, or weep from being cut deep with awareness of the extraordinary beauty that emanates from the most simple act and common object." - Hafiz

[PinkieLee]

"My wish upon this shooting star is that your heart be happy." -Gilbert

[always2late]

The Summer Day
by Mary Oliver

Who made this world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
The grasshopper, I mean
the one who has flung herself out of the grass
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what do you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

[Rook]

Vince Larkin [John Cusack]: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by observing its prisoners." Dostevsky said that... after doin' a little time.
Duncan Malloy [Colm Meaney]: "Fuck you!" Cyrus Grissom said that after putting a bullet in my agent's head, okay?

{'sweet home alabama' sung in the background }
Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.
~ Garland Green ~ [Steve Buscemi ] - Con Air


:rainbowAfro:

[Enchantress]

"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."

~ Alexander Pope

[oblivia]

"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

[JakeTulane]

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales

[JakeTulane]

"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it." - Marcus Aelius Aurelius

[BestButchBoy]

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2

[Butterbean]

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

~Jean de Boufflers






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[JakeTulane]

"Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. They joy is found in listening to the music in each moment." - Alan Watts

[evolveme]

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

- Noam Chomsky

[Rook]

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

~ Federico Garcia Lorca ~

:glasses:

[BestButchBoy]

To know someone deeply
Is like hearing the moon through the ocean
Or having a hawk lay bright leaves at your feet.
It seems impossible, even while it happens.

-Mark Nepo

[Oiler41]

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ~Doug Larson

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault

Glynn

[JakeTulane]

"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." - -- Julia Butterfly Hill

[JakeTulane]

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." -- Lao Tzu

[JakeTulane]

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misconceptions." -- Gerald Jampolsky

[afixer]

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding.
But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
-Walt Disney

[Janstevie]

I wrote this at Christmas time for a woman called ROSE, she has been my muse for a couple of years now.

You MUST sing it to tune of RUDOLF THE RED NOSE REINDEER.

Rose has a couple of puppies
Hidden down her sweater top
And if you ever saw them
You would think their gonna pop

One of the little puppies
Has a cherry for a nose
And i would love to see it
Can i have a peek dear Rose

Then one frosty christmas night
Rose fell on her ass
And the puppies both fell out
And rolled round in the grass

Then as i watched her struggle
To put them back inside her bra
I smiled and i whispered to her
I love them just the way they are.

[UofMfan]

La realidad no es como la pintan.

[Mister Bent]

"Think of him as the anti-metrosexual, the opposite of that guy who emerged in the 1990s in all his pedicured, moussed-up, skinny-jeans glory. That man-boy was searching for his inner girl, it was argued. The retrosexual, however, wants to put the man back into manhood."

— Lini S. Kadaba, Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr. 7, 2010

[Rook]

{holding gun up to her own temple} " Be not so long to speak; I long to die!"
Juliet
♥♦♥
"Tempt not a desperate man!"
Romeo
♦♥♦
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.
Mercutio
♦♥♦
I am Fortune's Fool !!!
Romeo

[Enchantress]

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is it's hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.

[Soon]

"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."

[Butterbean]

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

-Frida Kahlo, Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939






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[Hack]

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

[Kätzchen]

"Viewsheds don't stop at political boundaries,"~ an Athens, Ohio county development planning officer (Bernard - 2010, p. 5).

[always2late]

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." - Jane Smiley

[Kätzchen]

From Ch. 7 - Gathering the Borderlands: The Sky Islands of the Southwest


An excerpted poem - titled: "Old Earth," by Drum Hadley (2005). In, Voice of the Borderlands, pp. 16. Rio Nuevo, 2005.

Old Earth

We are gathering these Borderlands together,
Mesas, arroyos, and valleys as far
as our eyes can see,
Blue mountain range upon mountain
range forever,
Turning towards dawnlight, then
into the evening West,
As far as pale North sky circling South,
to where vaqueros
Come crossing horseback by the
broken mesas in Mexico.
(Bernard, 2010 - p. 138)

[Jerseyboi]

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~William Shakespeare :praying:

[gotoseagrl]

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”

[simpleasdirt]

" All they got is freedom and pride; keeping their word and taking care of each other. "

" All they got are rules "

" They're not written down you damn fool, they're lived."

" They don't work for anybody. They work for their life." ~~~~Movie quotes- Monte Walsh

[afixer]

"We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
- Tennessee Williams

[Scota_Parisi]

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

[Scota_Parisi]

“What is the quality of your intent?

Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.

My intent will be evident in the results.”

[Scota_Parisi]

“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.”

[Tommi]

My My Miss Amerian Pie:hangloose:

[Diva]

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Anderson

[JakeTulane]

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” - Charles R. Swindoll

[Diva]

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

~Richard Bach

[JakeTulane]

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~William Shakespeare

[Duchess]

Be wise to insure that every idle word spoken is carried with peace, driven with love, and filled with hope. For this we know is certain, one day our words will become our last. (f)

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

[Arwen]

"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

-Joseph Addison (1672-1719) British Essayist

Truly spiritual people are light-hearted and filled with joy! They love a good laugh and are the first to share a smile. These are the kinds of people who brighten our day just by showing up. How much we can learn from this! We're all connected, so it makes sense that if one person is "up" it helps all of us to rise up. Let's be the person who shines through the clouds today.
-Lissa Coffey

From one of my favorite daily emails...Coffeytalk.

[ravfem]

.....

Will you still love me when I'm sixty-four?
Paul McCartney

.....



:stillheart:
:bunchflowers:
:love1:

i will. Even more than i do today, if that is possible.

:stillheart:

[Butterbean]

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

~David Letterman

[2myladyblue]

I tell you, Chickadee
I am afraid of people
who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
turn to poison
in the ducts
Ask the next soldier you see
enjoying a massacre
if this is not so.

People who do not cry
are victims
of soul mutilation
paid for in Marlboros
and trucks.

Resist.

Violence does not work
except for the man
who pays your salary
Who knows
if you could still weep
you would not take the job.

[moxie]

"It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear." - Henry David Thoreau

[JakeTulane]

“Our greatest strength as a human race is our ability to acknowledge our differences, our greatest weakness is our failure to embrace them.” - Judith Henderson

[JakeTulane]

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.” - Ani Difranco

[JakeTulane]

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices no more easily made. And give, give in any way you can, of whatever you posses. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.” - Kent Nerburn

[Diva]

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

~James Arthur Baldwin

[Diva]

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

~D. H. Lawrence

[Scota_Parisi]

“Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.” Edward de Bono

[Scota_Parisi]

“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on "giving as good as they get." Elbert Hubbard”

[always2late]

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

[Duchess]

"Words are the ambassadors of our intentions. How we say what we say makes a statement about who we are."

~ adapted from Susan Harrow

[Duchess]

Take care the words that escape your lips. All the apologies in the world won't change the impact. (f)

~Duchess

[gotoseagrl]

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
Edith Wharton

[purepisces]

Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog. ~ Sidney Jeanne Seward

[Andrew, Jr.]

Draw a circle - not a heart - around the ones you love, because hearts can break, but circles go on forever.

Ending relationships are like band-aids; if you don't pull it off fast it will hurt.

[Ms. Tabitha]

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond

[Scota_Parisi]

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” Thomas S. Szasz

[oblivia]

"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Arwen]

Wolves who let themselves get distracted by rabbits have only themselves to blame if they miss their chance at a deer. Mark Stanley (http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01155.htm)

[Spirit Dancer]

nothing is in vain or without profit to the humble soul: like the bee,
it takes its honey from the bitter herbs; it stands always in a state
of divine growth, and everything that falls upon it is a dew of Heaven to it.

william law

[Spirit Dancer]

when humility enters our souls, we are at last able
to perceive that we do not live alone in the world
but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden
in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.

u.s. anderson

[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 of oneself cultivates wisdom.
Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion.

Stonepeace

[JakeTulane]

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."-- Joseph Addison

[JakeTulane]

"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."-- Phillips Brooks

[JakeTulane]

"Patience is the art of caring slowly."-- John Ciardi

[Butterbean]

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.

~Martin H. Fischer
















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[Fancy]

A woman in love can't be reasonable,
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
~Mae West

[nowandthen]

Strung together like your pearl neckless, touched by sunlight,
reflecting the light in your eyes as you gaze upon me,
melting my hard shell into a pool,
that holds the moonlight,
inviting divinity in and demanding our attention
10'
:glasses:

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Smile, breathe, and go slowly." Thich Nhat Hanh

"To sit in shade on a fine day, & look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." Jane Austen

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb

[UofMfan]

Ignorance is bliss.

[Semantics]

Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.

We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place,
And now and again one wakes and uplifts its head;
How still you are- your gaze is on my face-
We watch the swans and never a word is said

[violaine]

". . . it is not enough to believe what you see. you must also understand what you see . . ."

-- leonardo da vinci

[evolveme]

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

- Erica Jong

[evolveme]

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

- Erica Jong

[2myladyblue]

a girl with the sun of her youth at her back
and the shadow of her womanhood
before her on the stones
is approaching with a delicate
clip clop clack
her sandals full of toes
that i suppose are headed home
:blueheels:
it's early in the evening
and up and down the river
people begin to gather
pearls of laughter
on a strand
:blueheels:
i thought solitude would save me
it was pious
it was grand
:blueheels:
but the monk that walked beside me
just let go of my hand

[violaine]

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
— Marilyn Monroe

[2myladyblue]

32 Flavors ~ ani

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not between you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might wanna turn your head
cuz some day you are going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said

both my parents taught me about goodwill
and i have done well by their names
just the kindness i've lavished on strangers
is more than i can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so i would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
'til i passed and left them alone

and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cuz everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past

i never tried to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and i would like to state for the record
i did everything that i could do
i'm not saying that i am a saint
i just don't wanna live that way
no i will never be a saint
but i will always say

squint your eyes and look closer
i'm not betwen you and your ambition
i am a poster girl with no poster
i am thirty-two flavors and then some
and i'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might wanna turn your head
cuz some day you might find you are starving
and eating all of the words that you said

[purepisces]

Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz

[oblivia]

"If given the choice, choose what makes your life larger rather than smaller."
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[Diva]

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friend, as she would have done for you!

~Diane Kathleen Rowland

[Diva]

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

~Arthur Miller

[2myladyblue]

First they came for the
socialists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left
to speak for me.

~ Pastor Martin Niemoller

[2myladyblue]

"When I dare to be powerful---
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid."
~Audre Lorde
(Feb.18, 1934 - Nov. 17, 1992)

[2myladyblue]

"Because we're a marginalized group, we end up having an external perspective on society. It gives us some freedom, some levity to rise above the basic mode of thought and contemplate outside of the system." ~ Alix Olson

:LGBTQFlag:

[Enchantress]

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Khalil Gibran ~

[Diva]

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

~From a headstone in Ireland

[Diva]

Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.

~Author Unknown

[femmedyke]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
- Miss Piggy

[JakeTulane]

“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.” - Win Borden

[JakeTulane]

“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.” - Author Unknown

[UofMfan]

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me eight times, I must be a f--king idiot." ~ Jon Stewart :)

[Spirit Dancer]

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
- Anais Nin

[Spirit Dancer]

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.
- Abraham Cowley

[Spirit Dancer]

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

[kassykit]

"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire." - Bern Williams
"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil" -unknown

[Butterbean]

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

~Sigmund Freud







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[Enchantress]

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Seely Brown

[Fancy]

It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice

~Ricky Martin

[Andrew, Jr.]

Live simply so others can simply live. :praying:

[BestButchBoy]

“Be sincere, be brief, be seated."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Scota_Parisi]

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” C.S. Lewis

[Scota_Parisi]

“This moment contains all moments.” C.S. Lewis

[always2late]

You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world ~ Jill Bolte Taylor

[cinderella]

"Don't you know that the world is a cesspool - that if you rip off the front of houses, you'll find swine living there?"

A quote from Joseph Cotton as Uncle Charlie in 'Shadow of a Doubt'...that line always stayed with me. Often, I've thought it to be true...

[always2late]

We don't have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not to go into ~ Anne Lamott

[2myladyblue]

"I dreamed that for a moment time stood quietly, and the vision became but the shadow of an infinitely greater world--and I had within the grasp of consciousnes a transcendental experience." ~ Ansel Adams

[2myladyblue]

"As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of the flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can." ~ John Muir

[Scota_Parisi]

"Does 'real' mean having things that buzz inside you and a handle that sticks out?" Velvee, Velveteen Rabbit Quotes

:| Insert very ornery giggle here :tease:

[JakeTulane]

"The result of our people-judgments is that we often throw away someone's ideas because they are voiced by the wrong person or because we don't agree with all of their ideas." —Thayer White

[JakeTulane]

"The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them." —Lao Tzu

[JakeTulane]

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Author Unknown

[Fancy]

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”

John Muir

[Spirit Dancer]

The perception of the Comic is a tie of sympathy
with other people, a pledge of sanity. We must
learn by laughter as well as by tears and terror.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[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]

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a
summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching
the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

John Lubbock

[Spirit Dancer]

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees
only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only
reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indra Devi

[Spirit Dancer]

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

[Spirit Dancer]

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Elbert Hubbard

[Spirit Dancer]

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson

[Diva]

Dolphins are just gay sharks.

~Sue Sylvester, from GLEE

[Just_G]

Love is fire. But whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down, you can never tell.
~Jason Jordan~:candle:

[cinderella]

"Every form of refuge has it's price."

'Lying Eyes' - The Eagles

AKA "There's no such thing as a 'free lunch'."

[JakeTulane]

“All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while,wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing” - David Viscott

[JakeTulane]

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” - Edgar Allan Poe

[sylvie]

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
~Mark Twain

[Spirit Dancer]

Stars hid your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.
~ From The Talented Mr. Ripley

[adorable]

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead." ~James Joyce

[Kätzchen]

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice,"

~ Friedrich von Schiller
(German Poet, Dramatist, Philosopher and Historian)

[EnderD_503]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Blade]

"kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade". Karl Childers

[BestButchBoy]

“When things go wrong don’t go with them."

Elvis Presley

[Toofrufru]

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come...
The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”


Audrey Hepburn