Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." ~Jane Austen

[JakeTulane]

"Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again." ~Robert Brault

[JakeTulane]

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." ~Sylvia Plath

[Rook]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

:glasses::candle:

[always2late]

When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. - Sufi epigram

[afixer]

"Life is a bad game, imperfect and unfair. Let us play it well."
- Bilal Said

[Fancy]

Know when to tune out.
If you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other people's mistakes.
-Ann Landers

[JakeTulane]

“I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.” - D.H. Lawrence

[JakeTulane]

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." - Voltaire

[Arwen]

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus

[Andrew, Jr.]

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Mark Twain

[PinkieLee]

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field

[PinkieLee]

People often say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ~ Salma Hayek

[Duchess]

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image(f)

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Johann+Wolfgang+Von&Author_Last_Name=Goethe&Movie=)
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

[Duchess]

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.(f)

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

[chefhmboyrd]

remember.........
we are all made of meat.
:canoworms:

[Duchess]

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.(f)

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

[2myladyblue]

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
~ Robert Hutchins

[2myladyblue]

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.
Faith is belief in spite of, or even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
~Mark Twain

[oblivia]

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
~Oprah Winfrey

[Diva]

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

~Annita Manning

[JakeTulane]

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” - Morrie Schwartz

[JakeTulane]

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.” - James Earl Jones

[JakeTulane]

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” - Johnny Depp

[Diva]

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!

~James Beard

[Butterbean]

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

-Leo Buscaglia





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[always2late]

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

[Ms. Tabitha]

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- George Santayana

[PinkieLee]

Let no one nor no thing spoil a beautiful day, a wonderful moment or a peaceful life... for surely it is those things that make living worthwhile. ~ C. Daughtery

[Arwen]

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together." -Bette Davis

[gotoseagrl]

“No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.” Gail Sheehy

[2myladyblue]

"That is classic enigmatic!" ~ The Doctor

[always2late]

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

[Fancy]

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
-Edith Wharton

[JakeTulane]

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope." ~Edgar Howe

[JakeTulane]

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all." ~Emily Dickinson

[JakeTulane]

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way." — Pablo Neruda (100 Love Sonnets/Cien Sonetos De Amor)

[Spirit Dancer]

The truth of the matter is that you always
know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

[Spirit Dancer]

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make
the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

[Spirit Dancer]

There is no evil in the universe which is not the result of ignorance,
and which would not, if we were ready and willing to learn its lesson,
lead us to a higher wisdom, and then vanish away.

James Allen

[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]

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are,
what you believe, shine through every sentence
you write, every piece you finish.

John Jakes

[Spirit Dancer]

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned
to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned
to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being
accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Don Miguel Ruiz

[Ms. Tabitha]

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
~Erma Bombeck

[Spirit Dancer]

“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

[CrankyOldGuy]

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.
Peter Block

[Kätzchen]

Poppies
by Mary Oliver

The poppies send up their
orange flares; swaying
in the wind, their congregations
are a levitation

of bright dust, of thin
and lacy leaves.
There isn't a place
in this world that doesn't

sooner or later drown
in the indigos of darkness,
but now, for a while,
the roughage

shines like a miracle
as it floats above everything
with its yellow hair.
Of course nothing stops the cold,

black, curved blade
from hooking forward—
of course
loss is the great lesson.

But I also say this: that light
is an invitation
to happiness,
and that happiness,

when it's done right,
is a kind of holiness,
palpable and redemptive.
Inside the bright fields,

touched by their rough and spongy gold,
I am washed and washed
in the river
of earthly delight—

and what are you going to do—
what can you do
about it—
deep, blue night?

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem142.html

[Diva]

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.

~H. Fred Dale

[Diva]

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

~Marcelene Cox

[JakeTulane]

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle

[JakeTulane]

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert Heinlein

[JakeTulane]

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn

[always2late]

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha

[BestButchBoy]

“Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think."

Guy Lombardo

[Mister Bent]

"If you could understand crazy, it wouldn't be crazy."

From Splice

[Rook]

The world is new to us every morning - this is G-d's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.
-Baal Shem Tov-

:wine:

[Mister Bent]

"You ain't lived 'til you've had your tires rotated
By a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman."

- Bruce Springsteen

[oblivia]

"The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
~Henry Miller

[JakeTulane]

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

[JakeTulane]

I cannot sleep in your prescence.
In your absence, tears prevent me.
You watch me My Beloved
On each sleepless night and
Only You see the difference - Rumi

[Diva]

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

~Confucius

[Diva]

To have life more abundant, we must think in the limitless terms of abundance.


~ Thomas Dreier

[afixer]

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

— Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax

[Andrew, Jr.]

There is no substitute for athletics.

Robert F. Kennedy

[PinkieLee]

Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! ~ Anne Frank

[chefhmboyrd]

fret not for the future
for soon it will be the past
and you will have missed your present

@

[Janstevie]

For those of you who have never loved a pet, there is a part of your heart that has never been unlocked.

[JakeTulane]

"Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive." - Stacey Charter

[JakeTulane]

“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...” - Frances Burnett

[JakeTulane]

“The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.” - Brian Kessler

[gotoseagrl]

"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness." Frederich Nietzsche

[JustLovelyJenn]

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion

[JustLovelyJenn]

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ~Dave Barry

[JakeTulane]

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." - Rumi

[JakeTulane]

“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it” - Sylvia Bremer

[JakeTulane]

“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation." - Author Unknown

[Arwen]

"Of all the liars in the world sometimes the worst are our own fears." - Rudyard Kipling

[Pixie]

A conversation without tea is like the night sky without stars
-Turkish saying

[Kätzchen]

"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification,"

Moritz Schlick (German Philosopher, founder of the Vienna Circle)

[afixer]

"I myself was written off and left as dead.
As they said, I was not expected to make it through the night.
But they did not know that the night was mine."
-Nick Tosches

[BestButchBoy]

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Mitmo01]

"Poetry is like bread,” he wrote. “It should be shared by all, by scholars and peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."--Pablo Neruda

[Diva]

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

~Chinese proverb

[Enchantress]

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

~ Rose Kennedy

[Diva]

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

~Benjamin Disraeli

[MysticOceansFL]

One night I had a wonderous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat.
But Lord, they are to big for feet."

"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you alone
I challenged you to walk of faith,
But you refused and made me wait."

"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."

"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."

aka unknown

[JakeTulane]

"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg

[JakeTulane]

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person." - Eric Fromm

[Duchess]

The reason a dog has so many friends
is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
(f)
~ Author Unknown ~

[Duchess]

They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how you made them feel.
(f)
~ Carl Buehner ~

[Duchess]

Never underestimate the power of jealousy to change or destroy feelings. Never underestimate that.
(f)
~Anonymous~

[T D]

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "

[always2late]

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you - Oscar Wilde

[Fancy]

"Each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an avg of 1500 miles. ......fuel-thirsty steps include processing, packaging, warehouseing, and refrigeration. If every US citizen ate just one meal a week composed of local/organic meat & produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 mil barrels of oil EVERY WEEK."
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

[ButchEire]

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

[Boots13]

They stumble that run fast.

... said William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.

[always2late]

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw

[JakeTulane]

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Herman Cain

[JakeTulane]

“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." - Buddha

[PinkieLee]

In order to succeed in life...you need three things - a wish bone, a back bone and a funny bone.

[JakeTulane]

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” - Dale Carnegie

[Diva]

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

~Paul Valery

[Diva]

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

~Maya Angelou

[Diva]

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

~Buddha

[ravfem]

“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. ”

—Tenzin Gyatso
(1935-); The 14th Dalai Lama

[Andrew, Jr.]

"But we are married. We are married to our profession. We are married to what we believe, and we are married to the whole substance of our beings."

Roy Horn


"Everything was the show. My life was the show and the show was my life."

Siegfried Fischbacher

[gotoseagrl]

"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
Hugh Mackay

[Rook]

*After Bitchfest back n forth for 10 minutes*
Bro: " you're an ass, this conversation's over"
Me: "Fine"
Bro "And one other thing, u fuckin dyke..."
Me:" You're right about one thing, dipshit"
Bro :-stunned- "What?"
Me: "I'm done talking to you" -removing hearing aids-

:thefinger: :deaf:
gotta love squabbling siblings...

[nowandthen]

Dalai Lama:
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come :glasses:

[EnderD_503]

"There has never been a great athlete who has died not knowing what pain is." Bill Bradley

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." Anson Dorrance

"Pain is temprorary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong

"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." Charles Barkley

[SuperFemme]

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
ALBERT MEMMI, Racism

[Jesse]

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin

[BestButchBoy]

You're not here to just get by. You're here to live life with excellence.
Excellence requires your focused effort and devotion. Excellence comes from your commitment to getting it right.

Excellence is well worth all that effort and commitment. When you live with excellence, you live at life's highest level.

If you're going to do something, do what's necessary to do it with excellence. If you're going to spend the time and make the effort, make enough effort to make it great.

You are absolutely capable of achieving excellence in your own unique ways. Why would you settle for anything less?

Instead of merely getting by, get excited about your best possibilities. And then get going on fulfilling them with excellence.

The whole world is lifted higher by those who choose to create excellence. Be a source of relentless excellence and truly make a difference.

-- Ralph Marston


Give your day [and your life] hell.

[Oneida]

It's all fun and games until Marketing comes to the meeting...

[afixer]

There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
- Frank Zappa

[Diva]

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

~Samuel Smiles

[Spirit Dancer]

The most extraordinary thing about
the oyster is this. Irritations get
into its shell. It does not like them.
But when it cannot get rid of them,
it uses the irritation to do the
loveliest thing an oyster ever has
a chance to do. If there are
irritations in our lives today,
there is only one prescription:
make a pearl. It may have to be
a pearl of patience, but, anyhow,
make a pearl.
And it takes faith and love to do it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Spirit Dancer]

Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater
value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting.
The sun, having set, comes up. The tide ebbs, but always flows in again.
Fred van Amburgh

[Spirit Dancer]

People have been wonderful
to me in the good times
and the bad,
and I've come to believe
that you do indeed reap
what you sow.
For those who constantly
gripe about life, I turn
and walk away.
For those who speak
negatively about people
behind their backs,
I move on.

Bob Losure

[Spirit Dancer]

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay
to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism
a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

[nowandthen]

The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering. In other words, the enhancement of fundamental values is indispensable to our basic quest for happiness.
:praying:

[Butterbean]

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

~Babatunde Olatunji










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[Boots13]

“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”

Descartes

[Fancy]

An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of the day.
“I envy a holy man, who is content with so little,” commented the sovereign.
“I envy Your Majesty, who is content with less than I. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and mountains of the whole wide world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my soul. Your Majesty, however, has only this kingdom.”

~from Paulo Coelho's blog

[JakeTulane]

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." ~Charles M. Schultz

[JakeTulane]

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair." ~William Cowper

[JakeTulane]

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey

[Just_G]

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

[afixer]

"Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus in the house, or a rose garden out in the side yard... having a lover and friends who look at you as a true living breathing entity, one that is human but made of very fine and moist and magical things as well... a lover and friends who support the ciatura in you... these are the people you are looking for. They will be the friends of your soul for life. Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows."

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run with the Wolves)

[T D]

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment
wisely and earnestly.

~ Buddha ~

[Jesse]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

[JakeTulane]

“What is heard has to be pondered over. What is pondered over has to be put into practice. It is only when all three are accomplished that the realization of Bliss can be attained.” - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

[JakeTulane]

“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done” - Rudolf Flesch

[JakeTulane]

“Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.”- Joseph Campbell

[The_Lady_Snow]

" "I rather die on my feet than live a lifetime on my knees."

[nowandthen]

in a voice, comfort in live experience, knowledge of connection, being witnessed through the lens of divinity and comfort in breath...

[Enchantress]

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

~William Penn

[Butterbean]

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.


~Robert Green Ingersoll

[PinkieLee]

Like roses in a garden, kindness fills the air
with a certain bit of sweetness as it touches everywhere.
For kindness is a circle that never, never ends
but just keeps ever-widening in the circle of our friends.
For the more you give, the more you get is proven every day,
And so to get the most from life, you must give yourself away...

[BestButchBoy]

“If you are coasting, it means you are going downhill."

C. P. Fulford Jr.

[UofMfan]

Practice what you preach.

[always2late]

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks

[Fancy]

You don't put an age on dreams. Just follow your heart.
~Dara Torres

[Diva]

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

[PinkieLee]

When you wake up wearing your cranky pants because your happy pants are at the dry cleaner and the skinny pants you gave to Goodwill...The only solution is to bust out the SASSY pants!

[Enchantress]

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~Dalai Lama

[Butterbean]

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt









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[JakeTulane]

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." -- Author Unknown

[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

[JakeTulane]

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?" -- Leo Buscaglia

[chefhottie25]

one of my all time favorites by pablo neruda...yes it is in spanish. i can't seem to find the english translation online..but it is on page 55 of his book the yellow heart.




Recuerdos de la amistad, Pablo Neruda
Era una tal obstinación
la de mi amigo Rupertino
que empeñó su desinterés
en siempre inútiles empresas:
exploró reinos explorados,
fabricó millones de ojales,
abrió un club de viudas heroicas
y vendía el humo en botellas.

Yo desde niño hice de Sancho
contra mi socio quijotesco:
alegué con fuerza y cordura
como una tía protectora
cuando quiso plantar naranjos
en los techos de Notre-Dame.
Luego, cansado de sufrirlo,
lo dejé en una nueva industria:
«Bote Ataúd», «Lancha Sarcófago»
para presuntos suicidas:
mi paciencia no pudo más
y le corté mi vecindad.

Cuando mi amigo fue elegido
Presidente de Costaragua
me designó Generalísimo,
a cargo de su territorio:
era su orden invadir
las monarquías cafeteras
regidas por reyes rabiosos
que amenazaban su existencia.

Por debilidad de carácter
y amistad antigua y pueril
acepté aquellas charreteras
y con cuarenta involuntarios
avancé sobre las fronteras.

Nadie sabe lo que es morder
el polvo de la derrota:
entre Marfil y Costaragua
se derritieron de calor
mis aguerridos combatientes
y me quedé solo, cercado
por cincuenta reyes rabiosos.

Volví contrito de las guerras:
sin título de general.
Busqué a mi amigo quijotero:
nadie sabía dónde estaba.

Lo encontré luego en Canadá
vendiendo plumas de pingüino
(ave implume por excelencia)
(lo que no tenía importancia
para mi compadre obstinado).

El día menos pensado
puede aparecer en su casa;
créale todo lo que cuenta
porque después de todo es él
el que siempre tuvo razón.

[Arwen]

"There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society - outside of a kennel" The Women

[BestButchBoy]

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? ~Author Unknown

[Oiler41]

Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Glynn

[JakeTulane]

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves." - Blaise Pascal

[JakeTulane]

"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them." - Cato the Elder

[Toofrufru]

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb

[nowandthen]

A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.
:glasses:

[Diva]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~Berthold Auerbach

[Diva]

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

~Michael Torke

[Spirit Dancer]

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Spirit Dancer]

“Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.”
Carly Patterson

[Spirit Dancer]

“I count life just a stuff, to try the soul's strength on.”
Robert Browning

[Jet]

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who do nothing.

[Diva]

One good thing about music ~ when it hits you, you feel no pain.

~Bob Marley

[Glenn]

Here are some quotes from one of our founding fathers: Thomas Jefferson

When the people are afraid of their government, there is tyrany; when the government is afraid of the people there is liberty.

A Bill Of Rights is what people are entitled to againest every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent to the body and stamp no charactor on the mind. Let your gun therefore, be your constant companion in your walks.

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned- this is the sum of good government.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is natural manure.

[BestButchBoy]

“I can’t be left unsupervised."

Ron Wood

[Diva]

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Diva]

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.

~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950

[Diva]

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

~Abraham Lincoln

[nowandthen]

Desire born from a time past, your skin simmers in the sunlight and dances across my pallet engraving your initials on my heart:glasses:

[nowandthen]

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[Jet]

The Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

[gotoseagrl]

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”

[afixer]

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself, any direction you choose
- Dr.Seuss

[BestButchBoy]

"He's my favorite human."

Harry MacAfee

[Oiler41]

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. - Stephen King

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. - Thomas Jefferson

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucius

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Glynn

[nowandthen]

Compassion is like a sense of caring, of concern for others’ difficulties and pain. Not only family and friends, but all other people, even enemies. If we think only of ourselves and forget about other people, our minds occupy a very small area and even tiny problems appear very big. When you develop concern for others, your mind automatically widens; your own problems, even big ones, will not be so significant.

[Duchess]

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.;)

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

[Duchess]

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.(f)

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

[Butterbean]

All God's angels come to us disguised.

~James Russell Lowell







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[Spirit Dancer]

Acceptance is the truest
kinship with humanity.

G.K. Chesterton

[Spirit Dancer]

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

Will Garcia
(AIDS patient)

[Spirit Dancer]

God does not make clones. Each person is different, a tribute
to God's creativity. If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves,
we must accept people as they are and not demand
that they conform to our own image.
Henry Fehren

[betenoire]

Best thing I've heard/read in a while. Now I have a crush on this guy.

3k9qCflOJ50

Stop Signs by Shane Koyczan

Its all stop signs,
It’s all lines that shouldn’t be crossed,
It’s all interpretations that have been lost in translation.
Even when the meaning has been embossed in something that redefines stop signs
Something that erases and redraws lines For all the times curiosity gets the better of us
But until it gets the best we can test the lines,
Until it gets the best it’s all stop signs.

And then there’s you.
And I wanna kiss you so bad I’d be willing to
Cut off my own head and just throw it towards your lips
And you’d be well within your rights
To just swat it to the floor
but I’d redefine hardcore
lying there at the tips of your toes
because God knows I’d be trying to figure out
some way to roll towards them.
and maybe that’s crossing the line,
maybe that’s a little creepy.
did I mention that I like you?
And if I knew you better than I do
Then I’d probably know that creepy isn’t the way to go
So how’s this:
I wanna kiss you like a traffic jam,
I wanna move slow,
I wanna stop and go like I know at least I’m moving towards you.
And there’s no use weaving through the gridlock
because every clock keeps probably ticking and tocking
And only there’s time for all the amazing
In-between that’s been seen and heard
and each word that’s passed between us
like someone with somewhere to go and
I know I hardly know you so let’s go slow
like a turtle with a purpose let’s not miss a single minute
because every sixty seconds contained within are about two hundred times where
I’ve tried to coax each smile to bloom into a laugh
and the exact science of math can’t begin to calculate half
the time it would take to
make misery turn itself into a punch line,
one that was willing to mine past silver and gold
just looking for someone to tell you that’s never been told
I wanna hold you like mine were the last arms in the world
I want them curled around you like the red and white stripes on a barber pole I wanna give you a lump of coal for Christmas
and tell you in a million years its gonna be a diamond and will you wait for me til then?
Because that’s when I’ll be evolved enough
to melt all the other brains of men on earth
Maybe I’ve got a shot if all that remains are two gazelles and saringetti planes and me
of course if you’re willing to make sweet sweet love with animals I’ll totally understand. I’m good like that.
I’ll band together with whatever vegetation is left living,
Me, three weeds and a rubber plant will spend thanksgiving
saying how grateful we are that you’re happy.

I want you to feel like the banana peel under Charlie Chaplin's shoe
cos it’s you that brings the house of this heart down
It’s you that’s the chamber of commerce
in a town that’s got nothing to offer
but everything everyone can’t find everywhere else under the sun
I’m done with all of the every that
done thinking about where it is I’m going
I’m figuring out where it is I’m at.
And that has got to be the sign that one will stop me from trying to calculate the sum total of someone is that
This biological calculus has ever done anything for me
Other than be the something that keeps me seeking to solve problems that don’t exist
Like a swat team sharp shooter with cataracts
I’ve missed the point more times than certain Americans have been elected to the oval office,
which is always once too often,
And let’s face it sometimes two times too many.
But this time
I’m willing to pay interest on the penny for your thoughts
Mortgage my mind finance an expedition that
would find me a better way to get to know you
cos I’ve read through the short story of my life
and found that your name stands out on the page
your slightest look unlocks the tumblers on my ribcage
and you can engage my sincerity
when I lift my heart towards you and tell you in a million years it’ll be less than dust
the slightest gust will blow it away
but you’ll have to listen to wind chimes say that you’re still waiting for me
don’t tell me you’re not beautiful
you’re the kind of beautiful the blind would see
if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight
when you tell me you’re not gorgeous I wanna pop out your left eye and show it to your right.

You’re worth crossing whatever distance it would take
Worth building bridges to make a connection
Because I’ve been secretly stealing stop signs
Repainting traffic lines so that it can only go one way
Because as far as I can tell dedication is the better part of foreplay
And I admit it I’m committed everything I’ve done I did it to make you smile
Cos it’s been the largest part of a long while
Since I had someone do that for me.
You feel like comedy after three years of being on the bandwagon of calamity
and I can’t be bothered with the tragedy of
not trying to get to know you I’ve been through enough wretchedness to know
that some flowers can still grow through the garbage
and you make me wanna take up gardening.
I’ve seen sadness drain the spirit out of this history
and if the worst is yet to come,
anyone who took the time to get to know me
knows I don’t run partly because I’m not athletic
but mostly because that’s life and i've met it head on.
I’ve gone the distance more times than
George Lucas has looked at Jar Jar Binks and thought fuck.
And until I can’t feel I can still fill
My days trying because I’m yours from the bottom to the top
And I’m not just saying I’ll be here for you, I’m saying I’ll never stop.

[Diva]

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

~Barbara De Angelis

[Semantics]

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

[Kätzchen]

"The purpose of ethics is to assign definite boundaries to all instincts clamoring for satisfaction, to establish order among contradictory demands, and harmonize the opposing claims that arise in social intercourse,"

Moritz Lazarus
(German Philosopher & Psychologist)

[always2late]

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
- Jonathan Swift

[afixer]

“Friendship is never established as an understood relation.
It is a miracle which requires constant proofs.
It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith."
- Henry David Thoreau

[nowandthen]

In these days, the blood of the cross has been transformed into Kool-Aid, & many are dipping in for upward mobility.:glasses:

[Rook]

"At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accepts that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you."

~ Pete Postlethwaite ~

:glasses: :candle: :hamactor:

[Diva]

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

~August Wilson

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Treating the whole world as if it works for you doesn't suggest your special, it means you're an ass."

Raina Kelley, Newsweek
Heartless Bitchess Website

:thumbsup::freak::cheer:

[always2late]

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” - Abba Eban

[Fancy]

My favorite lady, Maya Angelou:

“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

:)

[BestButchBoy]

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."

Fred Astaire

[Just_G]

Sometimes people get hurt when they are in love and they get their hearts broken. They always associate hurt with love from then on....therefore, they do not know how to love or be loved ever again.

~I just said that~

(and I think it is truly sad because they might be missing out on the best thing that could have happened to them!)

[Enchantress]

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

[2myladyblue]

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

~The First Lady of Song
(Ella Fitzgerald)

:blueheels:

[2myladyblue]

A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination, prepared to be herself and only herself.
~Maya Angelou

[2myladyblue]

The Gross, Gross Man ~ Bif Naked

he keeps looking at me with his groping, watching eyeballs:
gross! we women, we are supposed to just drop our eyes and be quiet.
Just don't look at the gross, gross man and hope he quits ogling.

believe it or not, i want to flip him the bird ya know?

but i don't, cuz we women don't.
once i gave the finger to a bunch of construction dudes, but they were
yelling really bad stuff about my "cookie."
it just got 'em all riled up, and then they yelled, "dyke!"
and i had pms so i cried all the way home.

gross, gross man still gawking as i sit here writing... what's he thinking?
gee, maybe i'll invite him up to my sex den and he can fondle my boobies...
yeah, right!

stupid gross man, quit staring! gosh, he just won't let up.
it makes me feel really uncomfortable i wish i could just crawl under a rock!
'cuz we women are supposed to just feel bad about ourselves:
like we're doing something wrong. i'm not! i swear!

being "we women" sucks!
fuck you!

[2myladyblue]

Such a powerful woman...

"We are changing the world.
We will change the world.
We have to, for our children."

"It is posible and we can never lose hope."

"Every single one of us makes a difference, every single day."

[2myladyblue]

"Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things..." Ansel Adams

[always2late]

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life - music and cats." -Albert Schweitzer

[Fancy]

When I was a kid, my father had this dog that started to get all weak and sickly. He takes it to the vet, he examines it and says a maggot must have laid eggs in the dog's butt. The baby maggots have crawled up, now they've started to grow, and eventually they're gonna eat the dog alive from the inside. He says it should be put to sleep, because it's an old dog anyway. But father won't do it. He takes the dog home, he puts it on the bed, he reaches up into the dog, picking out the maggots with his finger, one by one. It takes him all night, but he gets every last one. That dog outlived my father. That's love, Sam.

-Maggie (Addicted to Love - 1997)

[Medusa]

"When the soulful life is being threatened, it is not only acceptable to draw the line and mean it, it is required." - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from "Women Who Run with the Wolves"

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attitude of the strong."
Gandhi

"Without forgiveness, there is no future."
Desmond Tutu

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."
Andrew Gide

[Jesse]

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius

[Diva]

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

~Chevy Chase

[Diva]

If you act like a schmuck,
If you walk like a schmuck,
If you talk like a schmuck,
More than likely, you're a schmuck.


~Adapted by me

[Enchantress]

“Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived”

Zen Proverb

[Arwen]

"Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of thought within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations." -Ernest Holmes

[always2late]

"Do what makes you happy. Be with who makes you smile. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live"

[Janstevie]

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

[Fancy]

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant.

-Ellen

[Jesse]

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius

[Fancy]

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

-Bruno Bettelheim

[Duchess]

True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.(f)

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

[Duchess]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.(f)

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

[EnderD_503]

"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion." Muhammad Ali

"We’re in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me. And, we can stay here -- get the shit kicked out of us -- or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell one inch at a time.

Now, I can’t do it for you. I’m too old. I look around. I see these young faces, and I think -- I mean -- I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who’s ever loved me. And lately, I can’t even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know, when you get old in life things get taken from you. I mean that's...part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small -- I mean one-half a step too late, or too early, and you don’t quite make it. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don’t quite catch it.

The inches we need are everywhere around us.

They’re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch, because we know when we add up all those inches that’s gonna make the fuckin' difference between winning and losing! Between livin' and dyin'!

I’ll tell you this: In any fight, it’s the guy who’s willing to die who’s gonna win that inch. And I know if I’m gonna have any life anymore, it’s because I’m still willin' to fight and die for that inch. Because that’s what livin' is! The six inches in front of your face!" Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday

[miss entycing]

“It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce”

"If Christians want us to believe in a Redeemer, let them act redeemed”

~Voltaire

[always2late]

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

Bill Gates

[Fancy]

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

~Polish Proverb

[PinkieLee]

"Self-empowerment is learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself." Doc Childre

[Jesse]

Any belief that creates fear or feelings of unworthiness is a lie! - Says ME

[Jesse]

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

[Butterbean]

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~Japanese Proverb






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[Kätzchen]

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.

-Salman Rushdie

[afixer]

Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

[afixer]

To The Whore Who Took My Poems

some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have my
paintings too, my best ones; its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn't you take my money? they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I'm not Shakespeare
but sometime simply
there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise;
there will always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.

Charles Bukowski

[Enchantress]

"Avoid the crazy train at all costs. The tickets are cheap but the ride is long and scary"

[Spirit Dancer]

Negative thinking will always lead to failure
and nervous prostration; but positive faith--positive thinking--will lead you
towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

Albert E. Cliffe

[Spirit Dancer]

Positive thinking is not always the easiest course of action when confronting
difficulties. If, however, we can remain focused on keeping hope strong
and not succumbing to negative influences, we will meet with success
in dealing with anything life may throw in our path.

Hiram Rogers Lloyd

[Spirit Dancer]

If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran

[Oneida]

"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."
Anne Lamott


"You can either practice being right or practice being kind."
Anne Lamott

[miss entycing]

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”

~ Mae West

[miss entycing]

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”


“I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain dark things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

~ Pablo Neruda

[Diva]

Deep experience is never peaceful.

~Henry James

[Diva]

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

~Nhat Hanh

[Kätzchen]

Deep experience is never peaceful.

~Henry James


True, True, True!

*amen*

Thanks for this quote, ((((( DIVA ))))))

[Diva]

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

~Terri Guillemets

[Jesse]

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

[Jesse]

This is one of my favorite quotes. This is for you Diva!

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

[Kätzchen]

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were saltprose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

Where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda


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(out of all his poetry, I think this sonnet is exquisite)