Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[PinkieLee]

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

Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown

[Duchess]

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

[Duchess]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

~Leo Aikman

[Janstevie]

A break up is like a broken mirror, it's better to leave it broken than to hurt yourself trying to fix it.

[weatherboi]

“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It is also the price of having a highly intelligent, driven, desirable woman in your life--but it is worth paying... and will make you a better man in the end.”—John Alanis

[Fancy]

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

[Arwen]

"Love is not a doctrine. Peace is not an international agreement. Love and Peace are beings who live as possibilities in us."

-Mary Caroline Richards, (Centering, 1964)

[Medusa]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

[Spirit Dancer]

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.
If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits,
we've suddenly made those beliefs real.
Anthony Robbins

[Spirit Dancer]

Our beliefs are so powerful that they color our entire world.
We literally see what we believe, but we can--and most of us
do--fail to take responsibility for what we see, especially what we see within.
Hugh Prather

[Spirit Dancer]

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
This power becomes available to you just as soon
as you can change your beliefs.

Maxwell Maltz

[Spirit Dancer]

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find
what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it—every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller

[Spirit Dancer]

If your heart and mind are in harmony
anything is possible.
SD

[Diva]

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


...and up on the Quote Wall it goes! Thank You, sweet J!

[Diva]

One sees great things from the valleys; only small things from the peak.

~G. K. Chesterton

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[Butterbean]

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

~A.A. Milne






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[miss entycing]

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

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

-- Dr. Seuss

[Jesse]

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubos

[Charming Texan]

This heart is not
a summer field
and yet.....
how dense love's foliage
has grown.


Izumi Shikibu

[2myladyblue]

"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together."

[Passionaria]

If you aren't putting out, don't ask me where I've been ~ MOI
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[miss entycing]

I have you. A lover and a friend. You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe.
Without you, life wouldn't be the same.
Please don't ever go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.
-- Basia


I'm not supposed to love you, I'm not supposed to care, I'm not supposed to live my life wishing you were here.
I'm not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I'm sorry I can't help myself, I'm still in love with you.
-- Author Unknown

[Fancy]

“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

~Kahlil Gibran

[miss entycing]

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-- Emily Dickinson


If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.
-- Author Unknown

[nowandthen]

Paradoxical as it may sound, success in walking the path of knowledge does not lie in the outcome of our struggle, but only in how impeccably we struggle, because it is this struggle which forcs us to move our point of perception. Theun Mares:sunglass:

[2myladyblue]

"I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45" ~ Mick Jagger :rofl:

[2myladyblue]

:stillheart: Feet on ground
:stillheart: Heart in hand
:stillheart: Facing forward
:stillheart: be yourself

[2myladyblue]

Unloved ~ Jann Arden

There will be no consolation prize, this time the bone is broken clean
No baptism, no reprise and no sweet talk of victory
All the stars have fallen from the sky and everything else in between
Satellites have closed their eyes, the moon has gone to sleep
Unloved, unloved
Unloved, unloved
Here I am inside a hotel choking on a million words I said
Cigarettes have burned a hole and dreams are drunk and penniless
Here I am inside my fathers arms, all jagged bone and whisky dry
Whisper to me sweetly now and tell me I will never die
Unloved, unloved
Unloved, unloved
Here I am, an empty hallway, broken window, rainy night
I am 1962 and I am ready for a fight
People crying hallelujah while the bullet leaves the gun
People falling, falling, falling and I don't know where they're falling from
Are they unloved, unloved
Unloved, unloved
Hoping that the kindness will lead us past the blindness
And not another living soul will ever have to feel
Unloved, unloved
Unloved, unloved
Unloved, unloved
:canada:

[Just_G]

‎"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll."
- Donald Miller

[PinkieLee]

Nothing like a lil' Will & Grace reruns, a xanex and a vodka chaser to make you smile...

"Oh, Honey. You're simple, you're shallow and you're a common whore. That's why we're soul mates. " ~ Karen

[The_Lady_Snow]

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”

[nycfem]

What a fabulous John Waters quote!

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”

[chefhottie25]

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

[Rook]

Catechism For A Witch's Child
by J L Stanley

When they ask to see your gods,
your book of prayers,
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird's wing.
Tell them you believe
in giant sycamores mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open,
spilling streams of molten ice to earth,
and tell them how you drank
the holy wine of honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your Mother
who never taught you
death was life's reward
but who believed in the earth
and the sun
and a million, million light years
of being.

:glasses::wine:

[Jesse]

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

[Diva]

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

~Kahlil Gibran

[Diva]

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

~Chinese Proverb

[Diva]

Unless You want to fuck me, why do You care what I look like?

~Eminem

[nycfem]

I liked this so much that I looked on google for his other poems and found his website, a great collection of his own and his favorite poems:

http://www.jlstanley.com/Labyrinth.html

Catechism For A Witch's Child
by J L Stanley

When they ask to see your gods,
your book of prayers,
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird's wing.
Tell them you believe
in giant sycamores mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open,
spilling streams of molten ice to earth,
and tell them how you drank
the holy wine of honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your Mother
who never taught you
death was life's reward
but who believed in the earth
and the sun
and a million, million light years
of being.

:glasses::wine:

[PinkieLee]

More words of wisdom from friends on Facebook...

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. As long as we have hope, tomorrow awaits. And as long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste.

[Janstevie]

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

[Jesse]

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." -Anon

”If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim” -Jackson Brown, Jr.

”Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound and how raindrops taste like tears without pain” - Anon

”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" --Mary Manin Morrissey

[Butterbean]

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard







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[Diva]

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

~Elbert Hubbard

[Diva]

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

~Ovid

[Jet]

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for?
Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps!
A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm.
Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune!
Every formation a parade!
I LOVE the Corps! —Aliens

[Oneida]

one taste of the bait is worth the pain of the hook...

[Diva]

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

~Thomas Jefferson

[Diva]

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

~George Bernard Shaw

[Diva]

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

~Socrates

[ravfem]

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
~Plato

[Kätzchen]

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[Ebon]

"He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope."

Italian Proverbs

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/love_is_much_like_a_wild_rose-beautiful_and_calm/215052.html)”

[Leigh]

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[Liam]

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
—Carl Rogers

[Leigh]

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[EnderD_503]

"Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them." - Carlos Castaneda in A Separate Reality. One of the most influential books I've ever read.


"A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything." - Carlos Castaneda

[Duchess]

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.(f)

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

[Enchantress]

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

Pericles

[Diva]

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

~Earl Wilson

[Diva]

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

~Robert Orben

[Diva]

Laughter is an instant vacation.

~Milton Berle

[chefhottie25]

It's a simple poem...and it's for my browneyedgirl.

And I Have You

Rain has drops
Sun has shine
Moon has beams
That make you mine

Rivers have banks
Sands for shores
Hearts have heartbeats
That make me yours


Needles have eyes
Though pins may prick
Elmer has glue
To make things stick


Winter has Spring
Stockings feet
Pepper has mint
To make it sweet


Teachers have lessons
Soup du jour
Lawyers sue bad folks
Doctors cure


All and all
This much is true
You have me
And I have you


Written by Nikki Giovanni

[tuffboi29]

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. -Benjamin Franklin

[Kätzchen]

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart,
but flows from one which is loved.

~Christopher Paul Rubero

[Venus007]

"He who gives up safety for freedom deserves neither" Benjamin Franklin

[Janstevie]

Never look down on anybody, unless you are helping him up.

[nowandthen]

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others. Whether we like it or not, we're all connected, and it is unthinkable to be happy all by oneself. Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish, let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others. :glasses:

[Butterbean]

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

~David G. Myers, Social Psychology









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[Kätzchen]

The Cloud

by Percy B. Shelley


I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;

Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when Sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath,
Its ardors of rest and of love,

And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest, on mine aery nest,
As still as a brooding dove.
That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor,
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof,
The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
Are each paved with the moon and these.

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone,
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim
When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape,
Over a torrent sea,
Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof,--
The mountains its columns be.
The triumphal arch through which I march
With hurricane, fire, and snow,
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair,
Is the million-colored bow;
The sphere-fire above its soft colors wove,
While the moist Earth was laughing below.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.

[Jesse]

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives ~ Anthony Robbins (http://www.finestquotes.com/author_quotes-author-Anthony%20Robbins-page-0.htm)

[Diva]

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

~Confucius

[Diva]

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.

~Henry David Thoreau

[2myladyblue]

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

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else --
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

:rrose:


~LadyBlue

[2myladyblue]

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. :giggle:

:blueheels:
~LadyBlue

[2myladyblue]

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

:blueheels:
~LadyBlue

[2myladyblue]

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not uterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind; a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

:blueheels:
~LadyBlue

[2myladyblue]

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a :present: and not giving it." ~ William Arthur Ward

:blueheels:
~LadyBlue

[Duchess]

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.(f)

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

[chefhottie25]

Danse Russe


If I when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,—
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,—

Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?

William Carlos Williams

[nowandthen]

From one viewpoint, religion can be seen as sort of a luxury. If you have religion, that’s good, but even without it you can manage and survive - but we can't survive without human affection. While anger and hatred, like compassion and love, are part of our mind, I still believe the dominant forces are compassion and affection. Therefore, usually I refer to these human qualities as spirituality.

[Guy]

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.

[Mister Bent]

"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
- Sean Lennon


"Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer."
- Erica Jong

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism."

[Oneida]

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

- Abraham Heschel

[Kätzchen]

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

-George Bernard Shaw

[SuperFemme]

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.” - William Arthur Ward

"I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability." - Susan Boyle

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings." - Helen Keller

[Spirit Dancer]

I respect faith, but doubts are what get you educated.
Wilson Mizner

[Spirit Dancer]

Human beings are human beings before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible human beings, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

John Stuart Mill

[Spirit Dancer]

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can—and surely will at times—fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce Brothers

[chefhottie25]

The Forgiveness Parade


There's nothing like a full moon reflected in the eyes of a blind man
using a telescope to stir a bowl of Russian alphabet soup
for the cosmonauts who orbited the shadow of Jupiter
and are landing in an ocean of tears
shed by cold blooded murderers who miss their mothers convulsively
in their prison cells being wheeled caravan-style down Oswald Boulevard
as part of the Forgiveness Parade where relatives of the victims
stand quietly holding banners like 'Apology Accepted' as the vandals
stumble past in shackles followed by the hijackers and the pickpockets who
march single file up the fire escape of a skyscraper built by arsonists.

Jeffrey McDaniel

[Ebon]

when I see her
my head becomes a mess
that beautiful laugh
that innocent smile
the light inside of her eyes
makes it all worthwhile
she stands by my side
I protect her and keep her safe
when she says she loves me
I can trust that she means it
I can see it in her eyes
this time it's real
when she finally finds me
my heart will run to her and her's to mine
before we have each other in sight

[2myladyblue]

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often dificult to tell which was which.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

There is a theory which states that if every anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

[2myladyblue]

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

:giggle: When someone says..."A penny for your thoughts..." and you 'put your :2cents: in'....what happens to the other penny?

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted and musicians denoted? :musicnote:

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I"m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose....it'll be much harder to detect!

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

[miss entycing]

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver

[2myladyblue]

Every great dream beings with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

I freed a thousand slaves & could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

[2myladyblue]

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Surely the immuntable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

[Duchess]

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.(f)

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

[chefhottie25]

A different kind of love poem for my baby...
And because love battles
not only in its burning agricultures
but also in the mouth of men and women,
I will finish off by taking the path away
to those who between my chest and your fragrance
want to interpose their obscure plant.

About me, nothing worse
they will tell you, my love,
than what I told you.

I lived in the prairies
before I got to know you
and I did not wait love but I was
laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose.

What more can they tell you?
I am neither good nor bad but a man,
and they will then associate the danger
of my life, which you know
and which with your passion you shared.

And good, this danger
is danger of love, of complete love
for all life,
for all lives,
and if this love brings us
the death and the prisons,
I am sure that your big eyes,
as when I kiss them,
will then close with pride,
into double pride, love,
with your pride and my pride.

But to my ears they will come before
to wear down the tour
of the sweet and hard love which binds us,
and they will say: “The one
you love,
is not a woman for you,
Why do you love her? I think
you could find one more beautiful,
more serious, more deep,
more other, you understand me, look how she’s light,
and what a head she has,
and look at how she dresses,
and etcetera and etcetera”.

And I in these lines say:
Like this I want you, love,
love, Like this I love you,
as you dress
and how your hair lifts up
and how your mouth smiles,
light as the water
of the spring upon the pure stones,
Like this I love you, beloved.

To bread I do not ask to teach me
but only not to lack during every day of life.
I don’t know anything about light, from where
it comes nor where it goes,
I only want the light to light up,
I do not ask to the night
explanations,
I wait for it and it envelops me,
And so you, bread and light
And shadow are.

You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I expected you,
and Like this I need you,
Like this I love you,
and to those who want to hear tomorrow
that which I will not tell them, let them read it here,
and let them back off today because it is early
for these arguments.

Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.

Pablo Neruda

[Jesse]

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. ~James Allen

[nowandthen]

The Velveteen Principles
#1: Real is Possible
#2: Real is a Process
#3: Real is Emotional
#4: Real is Empathetic
#5: Real is Courageous
#6: Real is Honest
#7: Real is Generous
#8: Real is Grateful
#9: Real Can Be Painful
#10: Real is Flexible
#11: Real Love Endures
#12: Real is Ethical

[Diva]

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

~Jesse Jackson

[Diva]

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

~Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

[JustBeingMe]

The ONLY GOOD Snake is a DEAD ONE!!!....my Nanny(Grandma) used to say this all the time when we saw snakes.
She'd been bitten several times over the years by rattle snakes and copper heads, and a moccasin or two. She was a tuff woman.

[SassyLeo]

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

- Mark Twain

[Kätzchen]

http://www.jesse-estes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/FallColor_B03.jpg

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

~ Rachel Carson

[Soon]

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

~Doris Lessing

[Jesse]

:Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam:-
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/lukewarm_acceptance_is_more_bewildering_than/345719.html)”

[Janstevie]

There are four basic food groups,

Milk chocolate
Dark chocolate
White chocolate &
Chocolate truffles.

[Venus007]

Because I am Tactful and Lewd by Rick Kempa

In Grandma’s basement, let’s fuck
on something that doesn’t squeak,
cuz she’s not snoring like she’d
snore if she weren’t listening.
(Grandpa we won’t think about.
even if I hollered when we
came instead of biting at
the pillow Grandma made,
he wouldn’t dismount from his dreams.)
When we don’t go to town with them
to eat prime rib, I’ll holler until
the horses bolt, and the hawks kick
the fattest chick out of the nest,
and the Brahma bull comes bawling
home, and the greyhounds leave the cats
alone, and the mice spill out of
the loves of hay, and the wind blows
and blows and blows us all away.

[nowandthen]

If you don't muster the courage to think critically about your situation, you'll end up living a life of conformity & complacency.

[Janstevie]

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the ageing process... it may not be true, but do i dare take that chance.

[weatherboi]

I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

Mountain Man from the movie "Deliverance"

[weatherboi]

He got a real pretty mouth ain't he?

Toothless Man from the movie "Deliverance"

[2myladyblue]

:nurseshot: "I have lived and slept in the same bed with English counteses and Prussian farm women...no woman has excited passions among women more than I have"

:nurseshot: "I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results"

:blueheels:
~LadyBlue

[2myladyblue]

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ~ Mary Harris Jones

& of course....

"I'm not a humanitarian...I'm a hellraiser! ~ Mary "Mother" Jones

(Irish-born, Canadian raised US labor agitator who helped found the Social Democratic Party)

:canada:
~LadyBlue

[Mister Bent]

“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”

- Joan Didion

[Jesse]

Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"-
"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
"Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody."

[Mitmo01]

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."
— Pablo Neruda

[Mitmo01]

"Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life"--Pablo Neruda

[The_Lady_Snow]

"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."

[ravfem]

I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone

by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Annemarie S. Kidder

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone
enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small
enough
to be to you just object and thing,
dark and smart.
I want my free will and want it accompanying
the path which leads to action;
and want during times that beg questions,
where something is up,
to be among those in the know,
or else be alone.

I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection,
never be blind or too old
to uphold your weighty wavering reflection.
I want to unfold.
Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent;
for there I would be dishonest, untrue.
I want my conscience to be
true before you;
want to describe myself like a picture I observed
for a long time, one close up,
like a new word I learned and embraced,
like the everday jug,
like my mother's face,
like a ship that carried me along
through the deadliest storm.

[Jesse]

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jameslanea194689.html)

[ravfem]

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk ~ Joyce Brothers

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all ~ Ovid

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness ~ Sarah McLachlan

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully ~ Jeanette Winterson

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead ~ Bertrand Russell

[miss entycing]

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course!”

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't."

~Marilyn Monroe

[Kätzchen]

"It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black."

-Paul Newman

[Just_G]

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
-Walter Anderson

[Arwen]

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror – Ken Keyes, Jr.

[Janstevie]

It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.

[PinkieLee]

Conquer the devils with a little thing called love ~ Bob Marley

[The_Lady_Snow]

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

[Passionaria]

:candle: I'm no longer looking for the perfect love, I want to become it......

MOI

[Kätzchen]

http://ubuntuforums.org/picture.php?albumid=404&pictureid=1392


I'm a huge fan of Gary Larson Cartoons!
I wish I could find my favorite of his online, but this is one of my top favorites!

[Ebon]

Someday, you will find one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life.

[Spirit Dancer]

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.”

[Spirit Dancer]

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
(Letters to a Young Poet)
~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Spirit Dancer]

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom. Not feared, save as men may fear the dignity of a man, old and wise.'
(The Window on the West)
~J.R.R Tolkien

[Kätzchen]

YWl4_SQ5t7g

[Duchess]

A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.(f)

Woody Allen (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Woody&Author_Last_Name=Allen&Movie=)
1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian


People must be taken as they are, and we should never try to make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.(f)

Edmund Burke (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Edmund&Author_Last_Name=Burke&Movie=)
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

[asphaltcowboi]

my brother reminded me of this yesterday.

if you keep doing what your doing,
you will keep getting what your getting

[The_Lady_Snow]

~ Racism has been an integral component of American culture since its founding upon the genocide of Native Americans, and the forced slavery of Africans and Afro-Americans~

[Fancy]

‎"See Beyond Black and White"" The causes of any conflict lie in strong attachment to certain views, and the core of Buddha’s teaching is of great help here. All phenomena, in addition to being transient, arise and disappear according to a complex set of conditions. When we apply this truth to conflict, we give up the simplistic, black-and-white picture through which conflict is usually described and perpetuated. Views about the “good guys” and the “bad guys”simply do not correspond to the reality.
--Zarko Andricevic, Tricycle Daily Dharma

[JakeTulane]

"Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over." - Gloria Naylor

[JakeTulane]

"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life." - Author Unknown

[Jesse]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Scnn9NMv0oc/R4G3ViW3_-I/AAAAAAAACdk/g19vHJnCHT4/s1600/image012.jpg

[Fancy]

O for the sunshine
And motion of waves
In a song!
~Walt Whitman

[Passionaria]

To laugh at somebody else's shortcomings is one of the lowest things you can do. If you must laugh, laugh at your own weaknesses; laugh at your own stupidities. This is far better than laughing at someone else. By being able to laugh at your own faults, at least you become aware of your own lower or false nature. If you can laugh at your own lower nature, this means you are evolving, and this is consoling. You will be fit for immortality, or at least, you are getting closer to it. When you laugh at yourself, this means that you are slowly becoming aware of your own ignorance. This is a good sign. Once you realize that you are ignorant, then it is easy for the Guru to work on you. Many disciples or devotees simply say they are ignorant, but they really do not mean it. Deep down in their minds they think that they know many things. Actually they do not realize their own ignorance. A person who laughs as his own weaknesses and faults realizes and recognizes his own ignorance. He can easily evolve and rise to the Supreme State of Blissful Laughter. He can soon laugh, watching the whole universe as a play of God. Therefore, children, do not tease or make fun of others. it is very painful for Mother to see Her children behaving so cheaply.

http://www.ammaireland.org/images/amma-prayer.jpg

:rrose: AMMA ~

[Jesse]

The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman

[JakeTulane]

"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

[JakeTulane]

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” - John Wooden

[JakeTulane]

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain." - Susan B. Anthony

[nowandthen]

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intelligence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.:praying:

[Soon]

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

--Susan Sontag

[purepisces]

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

[always2late]

"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

[JakeTulane]

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” - William James

[JakeTulane]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Maryanne Williamson

[JakeTulane]

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine

[Oiler41]

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." ~ Plato

Glynn

[Soon]

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~Alexandre Dumas

[Ashton]

"Wimmins, Wimmins is the causin' of it all"

:cigar2:

[Spirit Dancer]

One who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake

[Ebon]

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[BestButchBoy]

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."

Plato

[miss entycing]

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
-- George Bernard Shaw


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.
When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon!
-- Author Unknown

[Massive]

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown

I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland

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

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown

"Multiply it by infinity, take it to the depths of forever and you'll still only have a glimpse of how much I love you."
- Author Unknown

"Why do I love you? Because you are and always have been my dream."
- Author Unknown

:stillheart:
:bunchflowers:
:love1:

[Jesse]

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein

[always2late]

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

[Duchess]

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.(f)

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

[Duchess]

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.(f)

John F. Kennedy (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=John+F.&Author_Last_Name=Kennedy&Movie=)
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

[Duchess]

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.(f)

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

[BestButchBoy]

“Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."

Dorothy Parker

[chefhottie25]

found an old syllabus from undergrad. It was a writing from a femenist view point. I always liked the poem...


the victims

When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it and
took it in silence, all those years and then
kicked you out, suddenly, and her
kids loved it. Then you were fired, and we
grinned inside, the way people grinned when
Nixon's helicopter lifted off the South
Lawn for the last time. We were tickled
to think of your office taken away,
your secretaries taken away,
your lunches with three double bourbons,
your pencils, your reams of paper. Would they take your
suits back, too, those dark
carcasses hung in your closet, and the black
noses of your shoes with their large pores?
She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take it
until we pricked with her for your
annihilation, Father. Now I
pass the bums in doorways, the white
slugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in their
suits of compressed silt, the stained
flippers of their hands, the underwater
fire of their eyes, ships gone down with the
lanterns lit, and I wonder who took it and
took it from them in silence until they had
given it all away and had nothing
left but this.

Sharon Olds

[Kätzchen]

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore

[Jesse]

SELF WORTH

After a while you learn a subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul;

And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security;

And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises;

And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child;

And you learn to build your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans.

After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get to much;

So plant your own garden and decorate your soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers;

And learn that you really can endure,.. That you really are strong, and you really do have worth! - Shane Clark

[Kätzchen]

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
Bees build around red liver,
Ants build around black bone.
It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks,
It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam
Of gypsum, iron sheets, violin strings, trumpets, leaves, balls, crystals.
Poof! Phosphorescent fire from yellow walls
Engulfs animal and human hair.

Bees build around the honeycomb of lungs,
Ants build around white bone.
Torn is paper, rubber, linen, leather, flax,
Fiber, fabrics, cellulose, snakeskin, wire.
The roof and the wall collapse in flame and heat seizes the foundations.
Now there is only the earth, sandy, trodden down,
With one leafless tree.

Slowly, boring a tunnel, a guardian mole makes his way,
With a small red lamp fastened to his forehead.
He touches buried bodies, counts them, pushes on,
He distinguishes human ashes by their luminous vapor,
The ashes of each man by a different part of the spectrum.
Bees build around a red trace.
Ants build around the place left by my body.

I am afraid, so afraid of the guardian mole.
He has swollen eyelids, like a Patriarch
Who has sat much in the light of candles
Reading the great book of the species.

What will I tell him, I, a Jew of the New Testament,
Waiting two thousand years for the second coming of Jesus?
My broken body will deliver me to his sight
And he will count me among the helpers of death:
The uncircumcised.

Warsaw, 1943
By Czeslaw Milosz from "Selected Poems", 1973
Translated by Czeslaw Milosz
© Czeslaw Milosz

[BestButchBoy]

“If you get to thinking you are a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."

Will Rogers

[Janstevie]

My Heaven

Nothing shatters nothing breaks
Nothing hurts nothing aches
We've got ourselves one hell of a place .. in my heaven
Looking down at the world below
A bunch of whinning, fighting schmo's
Up here we've got non of those .. in my heaven

There's pools and lakes and hills and mountains
Music, art and lighted fountains
Who needs money here, no one's counting .. in my heaven
No one works, we all just play
We pick the weather everyday
If you change your mind, well that's ok .. in my heaven

Grandma's up here, grandpa too
In a condo with to die for view
There's presidents and movie stars
You just come as you are
No one's lost and no one's missing
No more fighting just hugs and kissing
And all these stars are just wishing .. in my heaven

There's little white lights everywhere
Your childhood dog in dad's old chair
And more memories than your heart can hold
When Sting's singing "Fields of Gold"
There's neighbours, thieves and long lost lovers
Villains, poets, Kings and mothers
Up here we forgive eachother .. in my heaven

For every soul that's down there waiting,
Holding on still hesitating
We say a prayer of levitating .. in my heaven
You can look back on your life's lot
But it can't matter what your not
By the time your here we are all you've got
In my heaven

[Diva]

There are no facts, only interpretations.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

[Diva]

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

~John Burroughs

[Oiler41]

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

~John Burroughs

Indeed.

Glynn

[The_Lady_Snow]

~ Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then. ~

[Diva]

What are you, a travel agent? 'Cuz you're trying to send me on a guilt trip!

~Homer Simpson

[Duchess]

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

~John Burroughs

AMEN sister!!!

[Duchess]

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

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

[Duchess]

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. (f)

~ Carol Tavris

[chefhottie25]

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say...
zora neale hurston

[afixer]

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
- Sam Keen

[Fancy]

The Summer Day

Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This 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 is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

[JakeTulane]

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low." - Henry Ward Beecher

[JakeTulane]

"Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” - Voltaire

[Fancy]

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

[always2late]

Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.-Howard Thurman

[Jesse]

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine

[JakeTulane]

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." - Helen Keller

[JakeTulane]

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open." - Bob Marley

[JakeTulane]

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

[The_Lady_Snow]

"If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander."

[nowandthen]

Sometimes harsh words or physical intervention may be called for. Patience safeguards our inner composure: we are in a stronger position to judge an appropriately non-violent response than if we are overwhelmed by negative thoughts and emotions. It is the opposite of cowardice, which arises when confidence is lost as a result of fear. Being patient means we remain firm even if we are afraid. :praying:

[Diva]

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

~Jose Bergamin

[Diva]

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

~Lara St. John

[Toofrufru]

According to a Japanese legend, two monks were walking down the road when they saw a finely dressed young woman standing before a large mud puddle. She explained that she had no way of crossing the water without ruining her clothes. Without saying a word, the first monk picked her up in his arms and lifted her safely across the obstacle. A few hours later the second monk said in an accusatory tone, "How could you have picked up that lady? Don't you know that the rules strictly forbid us to touch a member of the opposite sex?" His friend smiled and then replied, "I put the woman down back at the puddle. Are you still carrying her?"

[Arwen]

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

-Edward Bulwer-Lytto

[Duchess]

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.(f)

Buddha (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=&Author_Last_Name=Buddha&Movie=)
Indian, Leader Quotes

[Glenn]

Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable- Sri Yukeswar

[Kätzchen]

" The bigger stones give it character. The rock is what makes this waterfall."

-Paul Collins

[Ebon]

“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man”

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Janstevie]

Dont wonder why people go crazy,
Wonder why they dont.

[Leigh]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff120/girly-girl-graphics/friend_quotes/0571-07-31-2009.png

[Kätzchen]

http://www.tomledree.com/img/boats.jpg

[jenny]

"Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

[Lady Pamela]

http://www.sayings.biz/meaningfulquotes1.jpg

[Fancy]

* * *
“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”

-Martin Luther

[jenny]

"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Mister Bent]

Tears, Oily Tears . . .
James Schuyler

Crying is a habit with me.
You mustn’t mind: onions make me
smog
headlines in the Daily News,
not getting enough sleep
going to the movies and not going.
Fear of getting bawled out by people shorter than me,
animals in zoos,
deserted buses late at night,
teargas, hunger, frustration
sob
and, oh, yes,
superfluous lines of verse and great beauty
move me to tears,
sliding out of me like oil
out of an over-oiled electric fan

[Mister Bent]

This Room
John Ashbery

The room I entered was a dream of this room.
Surely all those feet on the sofa were mine.
The oval portrait
of a dog was me at an early age.
Something shimmers, something is hushed up.

We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.

[Fancy]

Humility is one of my best attributes, humbly speaking of course.

(overheard at work)

I love actors...

[Janstevie]

Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Tits
By Pam Ayres


Oh, I wish I'd looked after me dear old knockers,
Not flashed them to boys behind the school lockers,
Or let them get fondled by randy old dockers,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits.


'Cos now I'm much older and gravity's winning.
It's Nature's revenge for all that sinning,
And those dirty memories are rapidly dimming,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits


'Cos tits can be such troublesome things
When they no longer bounce, but dangle and swing.
And although they go well with my Bingo wings,
I wish I'd looked after me tits.


When they're both long enough to tie up in a bow,
When it's not the sweet chariot that swings low,
When they're less of a friend and more of a foe,
Then I wish I'd looked after me tits.


When I was young I got whistles and hoots,
From the men on the site to the men in the suits,
Now me nipples get stuck in the zips on me boots,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits


When I was younger I rode bikes and scooters,
Cruising around with my favourite suitors.
Now the wheels get entangled with my dangling hooters,
I wish I'd looked after me tits.


When they follow behind and get trapped in the door,
When they're less in the air and more near the floor,
When people see less of them rather than more,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me tits

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind."

[JakeTulane]

“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.” - Pablo Neruda


:rrose:

[JakeTulane]

"I'll always be beside you until the very end, wiping all your tears away, being your best friend. I'll smile when you smile and feel all the pain you do, and if you cry a single tear, I promise I'll cry too." - Anonymous

[Glenn]

You were my little babygirl,
and I shared all your fears.
Such joy to hold you in my arms,
and kiss away your tears.
But now you're gone, there's only pain
and nothing I can do.
And I don't want to live this life,
if I can't live for you. - Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)

"We had a death pact, and I have to keep my end of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans, and motorcycle boots good-bye."- Note found on his body.

[jenny]

"if there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Duchess]

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.;)

George F. Will (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=George+F.&Author_Last_Name=Will&Movie=)
1941-, American Political Columnist

[2myladyblue]

"Frisky, most silver, serene---
bright step at the margins of air, you
tiny colosus and
winsome and
master me, easy in sunlight, you
gracious one come to me, live in
my life."

~ Dennis Lee

[2myladyblue]

She Sings Songs Without Words
by Harry Chapin

I was thrown on the cobblestones, tossed at her feet
My fool's mouth was filled with the dust from the street
An out of work court jester with nowhere to go
And no need to speak, for she seemed to know

She sings the songs without words
Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard
She knows more of love than the poets can say
And her eyes are for something that won't go away

This mad mocking town, and its dishonored guest
Disappeared in the colors that danced on her dress
She led me to safety in a forest of green
And showed my stale eyes some sights never seen

She sings the songs without words
Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard
She knows more of love than the poets can say
And her eyes are for something that won't go away

She spins magic and moonlight in her meadows and streams
And seeks deep inside me and touches my dreams
The morning comes smiling and I laugh with no sound
And snuggle in silence and the sweet peace I've found

And she sings the songs without words
Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard
She knows more of love than the poets can say
And her eyes are for something that won't go away

No they won't go away
Go away

[2myladyblue]

This machine kills fascists.

[Fancy]

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
--Peace Pilgrim

[Jesse]

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~Will Durant


I would have preferred this quote to have said, "some" rather than "most" ... that said, I still like the intent of the quote.

Jesse

[Jesse]

The Touch of the Masters Hand

Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old violin,
but held it up with a smile; "What am I bidden, good folks," he cried,
"Who'll start the bidding for me?" "A dollar, a dollar"; then two!" "Only
two? Two dollars, and who'll make it three? Three dollars, once; three
dollars twice; going for three.." But no, from the room, far back, a
gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow; Then, wiping the dust
from the old violin, and tightening the loose strings, he played a melody
pure and sweet as caroling angel sings.

The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low,
said; "What am I bid for the old violin?" And he held it up with the bow.
A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two? Two thousand! And who'll make
it three? Three thousand, once, three thousand, twice, and going and
gone," said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not
quite understand what changed its worth." Swift came the reply: "The touch
of a master's hand."

And many a man with life out of tune, and battered and scarred with sin,
Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin, A
"mess of pottage," a glass of wine; a game - and he travels on. "He is
going" once, and "going twice, He's going and almost gone." But the Master
comes, and the foolish crowd never can quite understand the worth of a soul
and the change that's wrought by the touch of the Master's hand.
Myra 'Brooks' Welch

[Kätzchen]

"I like to walk alone on the country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides; putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth. In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious path. People usually consider 'walking on water' or in 'thin air' a miracle: But I think the real miracle is not to 'walk on water' or in 'thin air;' but to walk on Earth. Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black curious eyes of a child: our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh, "Miracle of Mindfulness"

[Diva]

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

~Arthur Freed

[Diva]

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

~Moliere

[Diva]

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

~Roger Moore

[Jesse]

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

[Soon]

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. "

— Raymond Carver

[Diva]

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

~Douglas Horton

[Diva]

Nowadays people lead lives of noisy desperation.

~James Thurber

[Arwen]

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.” ~ Ovid

[Arwen]

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.” ~ Colin Raye

[Diva]

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

~Mohandas Gandhi

[Diva]

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

~John Maxwell

[gotoseagrl]

"The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money." Plautus

[Kätzchen]

The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


~ Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

[JakeTulane]

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -Albert Einstein