Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~Erma Bombeck

[JakeTulane]

"Those pointing the finger and accusing already have three fingers pointing back at themselves" - Anonymous

[jenny]

“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.” ~ Harry Chapin

[Fancy]

Some say that when beauty fades, love goes. Isn't it the other way around? Beauty fades only when love is gone.
-Marjorie Holmes

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired."

[PinkieLee]

Words of wisdom on facebook...

"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."

[wolfboi]

Please share with us what your favorites are.

Namaste,
Andrew

THE BEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN THE WORLD CANNOT BE SEEN OR EVEN TOUCHED THEY MUST BE FELT WITH THE HEART

[Leigh]

http://gi175.photobucket.com/groups/w128/MNYGK3EPZN/10xajr7.jpg

[ravfem]

I am unique.

There has never been another person like me since time began, so there is nothing and no one to compare or compete with....

...This immeasurable part of me is where my power is.

Comparing myself with others makes me feel either superior or inferior, never acceptable exactly as I am. What a waste of time and energy!

We are all unique, wonderful beings, each different and special. I go within and connect with the unique expression of eternal Oneness that I am and we all are. Everything in the physical world changes.

As I flow with these changes, I keep relating to that inside me, which is deeper than any change.

I am incomparable.

~ Louise Hay

[Fancy]

I was saying it out loud in my head.

-Overheard at work

[jenny]

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig." ~ Robert Heinlein

[jenny]

"in those days, we finally chose to walk like giants & hold the world in arms grown strong with love & there may be many things we forget in the days to come, but this will not be one of them." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople" [September 11 Tribute]

[Just_G]

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

~Whitney Griswold~

[violaine]

“rude, shocking, depraved, tasteless—Callahan gets called all the adjectives that cartoonists crave to hear.”
-- Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons

[jenny]

"None of us know what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives." ~Kathleen Norris

[Mister Bent]

“The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing
but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.”

- Jo Coudert

[Soon]

People change and forget to tell each other.

~Lillian Hellman

[nowandthen]

"Don't spend your life with someone you can live with. Spend it with someone you can't live without - AND that can't live without you!":praying:

[BestButchBoy]

Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.
~Ernest Hemingway

[Jet]

http://gi175.photobucket.com/groups/w128/MNYGK3EPZN/10xajr7.jpg

They could use that in the PTSD thread

[Lady Pamela]

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[Jesse]

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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 (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/kahlilgibr136982.html)

[moxie]

"A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy." - George Jean Nathan

[Jesse]

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/billcosby131802.html)

[Passionaria]

If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say.
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier. Just a little bit easier.
Say you just can't live that negative way,
If you know what I mean;
Make way for the positive day...........

Bob Marley ~ Rastaman Vibration

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[Fancy]

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

[jenny]

"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art." ~Wynetka Ann Reynolds

[Scota_Parisi]

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

--- Irving Townsend ---
"The Once Again Prince"

[Arwen]

"The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart."

-Edwin Way Teale

[Kätzchen]

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

-Victor Hugo

[JakeTulane]

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” - Catherine Ponder

[JakeTulane]

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars." - Henry David Thoreau

[Fancy]

If you aren't pushing your limits, you aren't going far enough, and you still don't know who you are.

- Paulo Coelho

[jenny]

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."
~ Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love

[Rook]

Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it.

~Ken Hart

[Rook]

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

~Norman Schwarzkopf

[Rook]

“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear”

Thomas Jefferson

Translation to current day

Question the very existence of a supreme being, for if there is one, they must rather have people who question them and use logic.... then follow something blindly out of fear."

[Arwen]

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.~Buddha

[jenny]

"how many people can you love before it's too much? she said & i said i didn't think there was any real limit as long as you didn't care if they loved you back." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Jesse]

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it.
Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you
change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

~ Gary Zukav (http://www.sapphyr.net/smallgems/quotes-author-garyzukav.htm) & Linda Francis - The Heart of the Soul ~

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises."

[Mister Bent]

Everywhere being nowhere,
who can prove
one place more than another?
We come back emptied,
to nourish and resist
the words of coming to rest:
birthplace, roofbeam, whitewash,
flagstone, hearth
like unstacked iron weights
afloat among galaxies.

- Seamus Heaney

[jenny]

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

[asphaltcowboi]

this is very true and beautiful... check it out...really touched me

http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/theseasonsoflife.htm> (http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/theseasonsoflife.htm>)

[Diva]

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

~Charles C. Finn

[Diva]

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

~Peter F. Drucker

[always2late]

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

[chefhmboyrd]

nice guys don't finish last, they are just never finished......

[Fancy]

I love seeing 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

[SuperFemme]

“Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.” – Susan Wendell

[Janstevie]

Lead me not into Temptation... i know a short cut follow me.

[Leigh]

http://gi175.photobucket.com/groups/w128/MNYGK3EPZN/mlkj.jpg

[Mister Bent]

"Someone needs to get down on my Johnson."

- Liam, True Blood, Season 1 Episdoe 3

[BestButchBoy]

I could drink a case of you darling
and I’d still be on my feet.

~Joni Mitchell

[Duchess]

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.(f)

Rhonda Britten (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Rhonda&Author_Last_Name=Britten&Movie=)
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

[Nat]

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shops and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you

ee cummings

[Kätzchen]

When I die if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister
Walking the street beside you:
And when you need me put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give me.

I want to leave you something -
Something better than words or sounds.

Look for me in the people I've known or loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind.

You can love me most by letting hands touch hands;
By letting bodies touch bodies;
And by letting go of children that need to be free.

Love doesn't die; people do.
So when all that's left of me is love,
Give me away.

-Merritt Malloy

[Arwen]

Worry about the Amazon - it's the lungs of the world. Destroy it and we destroy the world. Come here and see for yourself. Hire local people to take you into the jungle like me and we will have an alternative source of income through tourism. Moises "Baruga" Soria Huane (Peruvian logger)

From http://www.walkingtheamazon.com

[Jesse]

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." -Jonathan Carroll
(http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/2448)

[gotoseagrl]

being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land

(do lovers suffer?all divinities
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad?only their smallest joy's
a universe emerging from a wish)

love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star

- -do lovers love?why then to heaven with hell.
whatever sages say and fools,all's well

ee cummings

[Jesse]

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/murielruke128802.html)

[jenny]

"she held her grief behind her eyes like an ocean & when she leaned forward into the day it spilled onto the floor & she wiped at it quickly with her foot & pretended no one had seen." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[JakeTulane]

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Far away there 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

[JakeTulane]

""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." - Louisa May Alcott


"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

[jenny]

"i sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & i think to myself, this is one thing i will never regret & i carry that quiet with me all day long." ~ Brian Andreas [Storypeople]

[jenny]

"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of other houses, a yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back, with wonder." ~ Kevin Arnold, "The Wonder Years"

[Diva]

One day, a scorpion looked around and decided that he wanted a change. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. "Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?" But knowing all about scorpians, the frog said, "If I let you on my back, you will sting me and kill me!" The scorpian argued, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!" Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. "Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN sting me & kill me?" said the frog. "Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!" So the frog agreed to take the scorpian across the river. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws sticking into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current. Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. "You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?" The scorpion shrugged, "I could not help myself. I'm a scorpian, it is my nature." Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

~Attributed to Aesop

[MsTinkerbelly]

Quote Of The Day - Anne Rice

"For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten ...years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.

"In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of ...Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen." - Famed novelist Anne Rice, from her Facebook page.

[The_Lady_Snow]

~Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ~

[jenny]

"Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."
~ Eduardo, (Anais Nin's Cousin in the movie Henry & June)

[Soon]

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

~Dorothy Parker

[violaine]

i am as bad as the worst, but thank goodness, i'm as good as the best.

--Walt Whitman

[Jesse]

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we_all_should_know_that_diversity_makes_for_a/152824.html)”
http://thinkexist.com/i/sq/as5.gif Maya Angelou (http://thinkexist.com/quotes/maya_angelou/)

[sylvie]

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

[JinxdGirl]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[JinxdGirl]

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

[Jesse]

"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
Albert Einstein (http://www.wow4u.com/alberteinstein/index.html)

[BestButchBoy]

The beat goes on

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La-dee-da-dee-dee
La-dee-da-dee-da

~Sonny and Cher

[jenny]

"Most people she never tells about the tightrope because she doesn't want to listen to their helpful comments from the ground." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[jenny]

"The only difference between where you are right now, and where you'll be next year at this same time, are the people you meet and the books you read." ~ Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

[Jesse]

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamjam105952.html)

[Enchantress]

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."

Mahatma Gandhi

[Jesse]

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -Native American

[Janstevie]

Take a look at this paragraph. Can you read what it says? All the letters have been jumbled (mixed). Only the first and last letter of ecah word is in the right place:

Read it fast, dont study each word.

I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.

[BestButchBoy]

I have a life. And it only goes in one direction. Forward.

Don Draper

[afixer]

‎"I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them.
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-Augusten Burroughs

[JakeTulane]

"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible." --Montaigne

[JakeTulane]

"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up".--Charles Langbridge Morgan

[JakeTulane]

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[jenny]

"At some point we have to face the certain reality: despite all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found in one thing - shopping." ~ Ling Woo, "Ally McBeal"

[Jesse]

After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election
Famous Speech by Susan B. Anthony
Stump Speech in all 29 postal districts of Monroe County, New York, in 1873
Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution,
beyond the power of any state to deny.

The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.

For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.

To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion
into every home of the nation.

Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States,
entitled to vote and hold office.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/sometimes-i_feel_discriminated_against-but_it/226377.html)”

[Tommi]

Then, you'll be too busy to notice that I've won the quilt and rode off into the sunset. I'm glad Snowy distracts you!

Medusa, it's OKAY, I am a lucky winnder too, There will be two quilts. One is also from the Swapghan Thread: being assembled by Bit, who said she will mail to The ButchFemmePlanet address.

RAFFLE DONORS, If you have not already done so, please post in the Raffle Thread, or PM Medusa, or Me on how, when and where you plan to provide the Raffle Donation.

The Raffle List needs to be updated, as some have not responded, some needed to withdraw, and some have disappeared into the sunset , and I no not where they are. Plus, NEW some new things need to be added this weekend.

Folks not able to attend want to buy Raffle Tickets, so, it will be great we can hear from Ya'll.

Tommi (See Raffle link below)

[jenny]

"Men may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it." ~ Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"

[Kätzchen]

"Thy words have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee,"

-King David
(Psalms 119:11)

[Rook]

***ATTENTION*** to everyone who wants to fuck up my day... Please form an orderly queue so it wont take me as long to tell you to FUCK OFF.( Making some lasagna for my baby girl) Enjoy your day ~ Longtime boo-boo Friend, Mia !!

[JinxdGirl]

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu

[Nat]

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

by N. Scott Momaday

I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows
I am an eagle playing with the wind
I am a cluster of bright beads
I am the farthest star
I am the cold of dawn
I am the roaring of the rain
I am the glitter on the crust of the snow
I am the long track of the moon in a lake
I am a flame of four colors
I am a deer standing away in the dusk
I am a field of sumac and the pomme blanche
I am an angle of geese in the winter sky
I am the hunger of a young wolf
I am the whole dream of these things
You see, I am alive, I am alive
I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to the gods
I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful
I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte
You see, I am alive, I am alive

[Diva]

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

~The Little Prince

[jenny]

"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Rook]

I consider my submissives to be royal guards during a time of peace. I expect them to be honorable (wo)men who are well-mannered, intelligent and well spoken, courteous, and to always carry themselves with grace. These are also traits they should expect in me.

-- -- Lady Cocoa

[Diva]

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

~Albert Schweitzer

[Diva]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

~Samuel Johnson


(I'm thinkin' this applies to women, too.)

[JakeTulane]

"Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and trouble. It's becoming quietso we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Seize every day as an adventure and your spirit will soar when you discover the wonderful surprises life has to offer." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the emorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring." - Robert Jones Burdette

[Fancy]

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”

~Thoreau

[Jesse]

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

[jenny]

"Now Woody, he's been my pal for as long as I can remember. He's brave, like a cowboy should be. And kind, and smart. But the thing that makes Woody special, is he'll never give up on you... ever. He'll be there for you, no matter what." ~ Andy, "Toy Story 3"

[BestButchBoy]

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Discrimination is a disease."

[Leigh]

LOL omg I saw this and had to post it, its hilarious :lol2:


http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp190/FindStuff2/Quotes%20and%20Sayings/Funny/funny-1-1.jpg

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

[jenny]

“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.” ~ Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"

[jenny]

"In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, 'If you fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination.' And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[The_Lady_Snow]

~ The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.~

[Arwen]

"The one thing the Doers of the world Do, apart from Do amazing things, is to inspire the rest of us to go and Do amazing things. They are
fire-starters." Alastair Humphreys The Do Lectures

[Diva]

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

~Dodie Smith

[Diva]

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

~Chinese Proverb

[Diva]

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e.e. cummings

[jenny]

"I only do this until I get dizzy & then I lay down on my back & watch the clouds, she said. It sounds simple but you won't believe how many people forget the second part." -Brian Andreas

[Fancy]

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

-Katherine Hepburn

[jenny]

"You may be two of the stupidest teens I've ever encountered - and that's saying something. I once taught a cheerleading seminar to Sarah Palin." ~ Sue Sylvester, "Glee"

(Pssst... for all you Gleeks out there... new shows start Sept. 21!!!)

[afixer]

"Some people meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they try.
I don't expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust me, there are some loves that don't go away.
And maybe that makes them crazy, but we should all be so lucky to end up with somebody who never lets go."
-Ally McBeal

[Jesse]

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh

[Jesse]

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The_Lady_Snow]

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

[Mister Bent]

"That's life. One minute you're on top of the world, the next minute some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower."

- Joan Holloway

[Mister Bent]

"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it."

- Roger Sterling

[jenny]

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." ~ Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

(in honor of my Tuesday deadline, which whooshed by nearly two hours ago, pretty much unnoticed by my co-workers...)

[Diva]

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~Boris Pasternak

[Diva]

Be ready to be surprised.

~Loesje

[Diva]

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

~Ashley Montagu

[BestButchBoy]

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato

[always2late]

It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck

[JakeTulane]

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist Proverb

[JakeTulane]

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge." - Voltaire

[JakeTulane]

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." - e. e. cummings

[jenny]

"He told me that once he forgot himself & his heart opened up like a door with a loose latch & everything fell out..... And he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order but finally he gave up & left it there in a pile & loved everything equally." - Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Jesse]

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. ~Penny Ward Moser

[FeminineAllure]

“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”


—Bernard Berenson


“Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.”


—Dwight Longenecker


“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.”


—A Course in Miracles

[turasultana]

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."
— Philip K. Dick

[Jesse]

Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine

[jenny]

"They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style." ~Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"

[Mister Bent]

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

- Alice Walker

[Leader]

Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and
lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.


I found that in high school and memorized it.... but haven't thought about it in years. Thanks for posting this.

[JakeTulane]

"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled." - Johnny Depp

[JakeTulane]

“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned"" - Epictetus

[JakeTulane]

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.” - Marianne Williamson

[Kätzchen]

Reference:

O'Toole, J. & Bennis, W. (2009, June issue). What's needed next: A culture of candor. The Harvard Business Review (pp. 54-61). www.hbr.org (http://www.hbr.org)


"We won't be able to rebuild trust in institutions until leaders learn how to communicate honestly - and create organizations where that's the norm,"
-James O'Toole & Warren Bennis


(Excerpt from their article on 8 ideas on how to promote the Culture of Candor):


Tell the Truth (We all have an impulse to tell people what they want to hear. Wise executives tell everyone the same unvarnished story. Once you develop a reputation for straight talk, people will return the favor).
Encourage people to speak truth to power (It's extraordinarily difficult for people lower in a heirarchy to tell higher-ups unpalatable truths - but that's what the higher-ups need to know because often their employees have access to information about problems they don't. Create the conditions for people to be courageous).
Reward contrarians (Your company won't innovate successfully if you don't learn to recognise, then challenge, your own assumptions. Find colleagues who can help you do that. Promote the best of them. Thank all of them).
Practice having unpleasant conversations (The best leaders learn how to deliver bad news kindly so that people don't get necessarily hurt. That's not easy -- so find a safe place to practice).
Diversify your sources of information (Everyone's biased. Make sure you communicate regularly with different groups of employees, customers, and competitors, so that your own understanding is nuanced and multifaceted).
Admit your mistakes (This gives everyone around you permission to do the same).
Build organizational support for transparency (Start with protection for whistle-blowers, but don't stop there. Hire people because they created a culture of candor elsewhere - not because they can out-compete their peers).
Set information free (Most organizations default to keeping informations confidential when it might be strategic or private. Default, instead, to sharing information - unless there's clear reason not to).

Note: The above ideas are valuable for the way we conduct ourselves in our ordinary life relationships with others. To me, this is great way to increase our ability to be effective communicators in any type of environment - whether it is in the workplace or at home in our family arrangements (a partner/lover or especially with children - no matter their age - and with our beloved pets)!!!


Wellness wishes for all,
~ALK
:stillheart:

[jenny]

"I need some time to figure out if you're the love of my life or a pathological liar." ~ Jackie, "Nurse Jackie"

[Fancy]

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that it is not all she longs to be.

-Betty Rollins

[Laerkin]

Hmmm. Definitely thought provoking. I certainly consider myself a feminist though I know we come in all kinds of flavors.

I think the quote is true of most of the strong, independent women that I know, but I worry that there is an assumption lurking underneath that says feminists are anti-sexuality and anti-sexual expression. Or I could be reading too much into it (more likely the case).

Great post, Fancy. Lots to chew on and marinate in. ;)

My totally non-thought provoking contribution is:

If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time. ~Louise Sammons

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object, the difference is that it is not all she longs to be.

-Betty Rollins

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart."

[Fancy]

Hmmm. Definitely thought provoking. I certainly consider myself a feminist though I know we come in all kinds of flavors.

I think the quote is true of most of the strong, independent women that I know, but I worry that there is an assumption lurking underneath that says feminists are anti-sexuality and anti-sexual expression. Or I could be reading too much into it (more likely the case).

Great post, Fancy. Lots to chew on and marinate in. ;)

My totally non-thought provoking contribution is:

If you use the electric vibrator near water, you will come and go at the same time. ~Louise Sammons

Yeah, I'm over thinking it, too. Something about stereotyping a group and how that often backfires keeps coming to mind.

But, darn that quote you added was funny! :)

[Mister Bent]

"I'll show my weiner on your website." - Jason Stackhouse


"Don't blame the Ferrari just because yo' ass can't drive." - Lafayette

[jenny]

"I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[afixer]

If people did not indulge in such abject evasions as the claim that some contemptible liar “means well”—that a mooching bum “can’t help it”—that a juvenile delinquent “needs love”—that a criminal “doesn’t know any better”—that a power-seeking politician is moved by patriotic concern for “the public good”—that communists are merely “agrarian reformers”—the history of the past few decades, or centuries, would have been different.
- Ayn Rand

[jenny]

"Evil shrieks loudly while goodness clothes the world in silence." ~ Wafa Sultan

[jenny]

"We are born naked. After that, it's all drag." ~ RuPaul

[turasultana]

“Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss,
I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark”

--Monty Python

[BestButchBoy]

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jesse]

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

[Fancy]

"Mooooom, stop calling me food!"

-Bear
:)

[SmoothButch]

"God put me on Earth for three reasons - to make loud music, gay videos and make a damn ruckus!" ~ Lady Gaga







.

[miss entycing]

you wonder why Im cold
why I stay hidden within myself
why my heart doesn't feel
you wonder if I can open up
if the love I have will ever emerge again
will it ever trust enough?
you try to analyze..
your pretty little words
how tired of them Ive become
your voice.. same promises
different excuses
you...
wanting my heart.. my trust
and me, giving in every time
will I ever learn?
you wonder why I run
I run from the lies
from the pretty little words
I hide from the promises
I fear them, and I dread them
all wanting something from me
pretty little promises
they come with a price
always an ultimatum
and always, Im left broken
you wonder why I hide..
I hide from the games
just leave me be
I'm where I need to be
Im free.. Im happy...
why can't that be enough?
It is for me..
you wonder why its not you anymore
not your words
not your promises
why I wont let you in anymore...
because its you....
you, that lies
you that scares me the most
you I cant trust
and its you that wont let me go
I was happy, I believed in you
I was free to decide, if I wanted..
the desire was there
I wanted you
why couldn't that be enough for you?
it was for me..
let me go,
just leave me be.

an original, by me.

[Mister Bent]

"...the protections enshrined in our U.S. Constitution apply to all Americans and that our dream of equality and freedom deserves protection."

- Geoff Kors, executive director for Equality California

[jenny]

"The only thing I've ever successfully made in the kitchen is a mess. And several small fires." ~ Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City"

[BestButchBoy]

"After all, I want everything I want."

~Roger Sterling

[jenny]

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." ~ Ralph W. Sockman

[Diva]

What then in love can woman do?
If we grow fond they shun us.
And when we fly them, they pursue:
But leave us when they've won us.

~John Gay

[theoddz]

eh hehehehehe.....this from Lady Gaga (on celibacy):

"I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they're going to take my creativity from me through my vagina."

:pointing:

~Theo~ :bouquet:

[jenny]

"I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.”

[turasultana]

"Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you.
And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

— Neil Gaiman

[Mister Bent]

"I WONDER: is reincarnation real or just some goofy idea I picked up in a former lifetime?"

- Sy Safransky

[Fancy]

It makes me far more confident to know I can hold my own in a fight than it does to look in the mirror and think I look beautiful.

~ Jessica Alba

[Kätzchen]

Naked you are simple as one of your hands;
Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round.
You've moon-lines, apple pathways
Naked you are slender as a naked grain of wheat.

Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba;
You've vines and stars in your hair.
Naked you are spacious and yellow
As summer in a golden church.

Naked you are tiny as one of your nails;
Curved, subtle, rosy, till the day is born
And you withdraw to the underground world.

As if down a long tunnel of clothing and of chores;
Your clear light dims, gets dressed, drops its leaves,
And becomes a naked hand again

- Pablo Neruda

[EnderD_503]

Invictus by William Ernest Henley - Still haven't seen the movie they named after it, though. Would like to.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

[turasultana]

"They're like humans but miniature. Teacup humans."
-eric northman (true blood)

[JakeTulane]

“The key to change... is to let go of fear.” - Rosanne Cash

[JakeTulane]

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” - Flora Whittemore

[JakeTulane]

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

[moxie]

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Diva]

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Jesse]

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn

[turasultana]

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

-Joseph Campbell

[Jett]

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

[Kätzchen]

quoting from the story I'm reading today: It's part of an ongoing dialogue betwee my favorite protaganist Bob Dollar, and, Mr. Cluke.



"Now Bob," said Mr. Cluke, slapping his cheeks with a manly heather aftershave lotion, "you cannot go down to Texas wearing brown oxfords. Take my word for it. I've spent enough time down there to know a pair of brown oxfords can set you back with those people [...] It wouldn't hurt for you to get a pair of dress slacks and some long-sleeved shirts. But for sure you got to get yourself a decent pair of cowboy boots and wear them. You don't need to wear the hat or western shirts, but you got to wear the boots."

"Yes sir," said Bob, seeing the logic of it.

(Annie Proulx, 2002: p. 10)


That's as far as I got in my book today, before I feel asleep...

[MysticOceansFL]

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.


by Sheelagh L

[Ebon]

"All Is One" The Universe

[JakeTulane]

“He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.” - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.” - E. M. Forster

[JakeTulane]

“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret” - Salvador Dalí

[JakeTulane]

“If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal” - Fran Lebowitz

[dixie]

"Be kinder than necessary for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle..."

[Diva]

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.

~Unattributed

[Diva]

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

~Napolean Hill

[Diva]

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead.

[Fancy]

“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

-Chuang Tzu

[Janstevie]

Never allow someone to be your prioity, while allowing yourself to be their option.

[jenny]

"Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Janstevie]

The 12-step chocoholic's program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE.

[Fancy]

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

-Wendell Berry (http://brtom.typepad.com/wberry/)

[turasultana]

I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug.

The Dude - Big Lebowski

[Diva]

Beauty comes from the inside. Your naked face, gray hairs and softer body are beautiful just exactly the way they are because they tell the story of the life You've lived. Your laughter, struggles, courage and determination up until this point all combine to make a powerful source of energy within You that illuminates Your face so that the world can see the remarkable story painted there.

~From "Queen Of Your Own Life" by Kathy Kinney & Cindy Ratzlaff

[jenny]

"If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs." ~ Tina Fey

[Jesse]

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
- Alice Duer Miller

[always2late]

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. - Voltaire

[JakeTulane]

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

[JakeTulane]

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.” - Amy Tan

[JakeTulane]

“Nothing is more practical than finding your God, that is, than falling in a love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, what you will do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.” - Pedro Arrupe

[turasultana]

"I’m sorry you fell in love with a serial killer, alright. But honestly, who hasn’t?"

Arlene to Tara - True Blood.

[Jesse]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

[Kätzchen]

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher a storm, but to add color to my sunset."

-Rabindranath Tagore

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[Soft*Silver]

"to have clean toes is a necessity of life"

Mr Smitty the twelve year old, one eyed, rocking on, limping kitty

[BestButchBoy]

“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”

~Don Draper

[JakeTulane]

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." ~Langston Hughes

[JakeTulane]

"For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously." ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903

[JakeTulane]

"The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency." ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons

[Mister Bent]

"Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out."

- Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

[MysticOceansFL]

:candle: Don't let today's disappointments
cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.:candle:

- Author Unknown -

[Mister Bent]

"It ain't possible to live unless you're crossing somebody's line."

-Lafayette, True Blood

[Fancy]

There's a storm-tossed ship tonight out on the water
There's a soul that sails alone out on the blue
There's a dreamer with her eye upon the heavens
They're all looking for a way to make it through

You can trust the moon to move the mighty ocean
You can trust the sun to shine upon the land
You take the little that you know and you do the best you can
And you see the rest with the simple faith of man

(partial lyrics) Bill Staines

[Duchess]

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.(f)
Marya Mannes (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Marya&Author_Last_Name=Mannes&Movie=)
American, Journalist Quotes

[SuperFemme]

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.

Florynce R. Kennedy

[Kätzchen]

"It ain't possible to live unless you're crossing somebody's line."

-Lafayette, True Blood


Awesome line of thought and process!
~D.

[Kätzchen]

"All we need to know about truth is encapsulated in the way the truth predicate solves a simple syntactic problem."

- Max Kölbel (2001)

"Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics."
In, The Journal of Philosophy, XCVIII (XII), 613-635.
New Hall/ University of Cambridge.

[Fancy]

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

Len Santos

[always2late]

"If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. " -Thoreau

[Duchess]

"The future is not just a series of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, and then realized next in activity."(f)
~ adapted from John Schaar

[JustJo]

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~~Albert Einstein ~~

[turasultana]

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

---Colin Wilson

[Jesse]

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine

[Arwen]

Bloom where you are planted.


This has been a motto of mine for a long time. :)

[JakeTulane]

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." ~Thomas Huxley

[JakeTulane]

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." ~Mortimer Adler

[JakeTulane]

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." ~Thomas Szasz

[jenny]

"You don't have to be a bundle of contradictions to be a woman, she said. But we all agreed it helps." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Semantics]

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

Rob Brezsny

[jenny]

"Makeovers are like crack to me." ~ Kurt, "Glee"

[Duchess]

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox(f)

[Fancy]

One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in the split-second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new.

~Edward B. Lindaman, Thinking in the Future Tense

[Jesse]

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~André Dubus

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~African Proverb

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

[jenny]

A song from Spring Awakening... really, more like a poem. Spectacularly beautiful.
------
Purple Summer

And all shall fade
the flowers of spring
the world and all the sorrows
at the heart of everything

but still it stays
the butterfly sings
and opens purple summer
with a flutter of its wings

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
of purple summer...

And yet, I wait
the swallow brings
a song to hard to follow
that no one else can sing

the fences sway
the porches swing
the clouds begins to thunder
crickets wander, murmuring

the earth will wave with corn
the grey-fly choir will mourn
and mares will neigh
with stallions that they mate
foals they've borne

and all shall know the wonder
I will sing the song of purple summer