Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kätzchen]

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Frühling

-Hermann Hesse


In dämmrigen Grüften
träumte ich lang
von dein Bäumen und blauen Lüften,
von deinem Duft und Vogelsang.

Nun liegst du erschlossen
in Gleiss und Zier
von Licht übergossen
wie ein Wunder vor mir.

Du kennst mich wieder,
du lockst mich zart,
es zittert durch all meine Glieder
deine selige Gegenwart!


(translation)

Spring

In dusky graveyards
I dreamed long
of your trees and blue skies,
of your scent and your birdsong.

Now you lie uncovered
glittering and ornamented
bathed in light
like a jewel before me.

You recognize me,
you entice me gently,
A shudder runs through my body
your blissful presence.


Link ~>> Hopkins Symphony Orchestra | 2010-2011 Season (http://www.jhu.edu/jhso/about/prgrmnotes/pn_20041204.html)

[Fancy]

” A new journey to be started.
A new promise to be fulfilled.
A new page to be written.
Go forth unto this waiting world with pen in hand, all you young scribes,
the open book awaits.
Be creative.
Be adventurous.
Be original.
And above all else, be young.
For youth is your greatest weapon, your greatest tool.
Use it wisely.”

–Wonder Woman # 62

[jenny]

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.” ~ Marianne Williamson

[always2late]

Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer. -Norwegian proverb

[Diva]

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

~Edward de Bono

[Spirit Dancer]

You know, we can't get out of life alive. We can either
die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well
come down on the field and go for it!

Les Brown

[Spirit Dancer]

A little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human
toil. . . is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if
there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Albert Schweitzer

[Spirit Dancer]

Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years.
Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice, which is rising
silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours,
every influence that impresses us, every book we read,
every conversation we hear, every act of our commonest days,
adds something to the invisible building.

James R. Miller

[JakeTulane]

“We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can’t open your heart and not have some hurt because you’re in a human experience. Even if it’s the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it’s a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.” - Mary Manin Morrissey

[JakeTulane]

“Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.” - Gael Greene

[JakeTulane]

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell

[Fancy]

"Yeah, you know it's me. I'm all about the porn."

:shocking:

-Me (work conversation taken out of context)

[Diva]

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

~Barbara de Angelis

[jenny]

"Sometimes the only thing to do is to start looking at everything again until you forget what you're supposed to see & actually see what's there." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Janstevie]

Love is fire, but whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.

[BestButchBoy]

“ Sergeant, from now on, I don't want anyone to come in and see me while I'm in my office. Is that clear?


Maj. Major Major Major.

[dixie]

Your journey has molded you for greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to here. And now is right on time.
~Asha Tysen

[dixie]

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon

[dixie]

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

[2myladyblue]

:glasses: There are hundreds of hidden assumptions, things we take for granted that may or may not be true. In the vast majority of these cases, historically, these things aren’t true. If history is any guide, much about what we take for granted about the world simply isn’t true. But we’re locked into these precepts without even knowing it oftentimes, that’s a paradigm.

:sunglass: Have you ever thought about what thoughts are made of?

:readfineprint: Modern materialism strips people of the need to be responsible and often enough so does religion.

:sunglass: Why do we keep creating the same reality?
Is it possible that we’re so conditioned to our daily lives, so conditioned to the way we create our lives, that we buy the idea that we have no control at all We’ve been conditioned to believe that the external world is more real than the internal world. Quantum physics says the opposite. It says what happens within us will create what is happening outside of us.

:glasses: All of us have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice. You have to banish that kind of thinking. Instead, recognise that the material world around us (chairs, tables, rooms, carpet – are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. I'm choosing moment to moment out of those movements to bring my actual experience into manifestation. Our tendency is to believe that the world is already out there, independent of our experience.

:sunglass: The deepest level of truth uncovered by science and by philosophy is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest sub-nuclear level of our reality, you and I are literally one.

[Diva]

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

~Howard Thurman

[chefhottie25]

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida

[Kätzchen]

"Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before,"

- E.A. Poe

[Janstevie]

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every phone would be used by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

[JakeTulane]

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” - e.e. cummings.

[JakeTulane]

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." - Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” - Emily Dickinson

[jenny]

"Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come, but that night, I think Ii knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. new days. days to come. The thing is, I didn't have to hate myself for getting older. I just had to forgive myself... for growing up." ~ Kevin Arnold, "The Wonder Years"

[Jesse]

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent that charming thing we call 'society.' Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare." - Stephen King, The Stand

[Jesse]

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

[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

[Fancy]

Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it I swear I will never do it again. Until the next time company comes.

-Marilyn Sokol

[2myladyblue]

I don’t want the world to see me, ‘cause I don’t think that they’d understand.
When everything’s made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.
~ Goo Goo Dolls

[BestButchBoy]

"Adding money and education doesn't take the rude edge out of people"

~Pete Campbell

[Janstevie]

I always finish what i sta

[JakeTulane]

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath

[JakeTulane]

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves" - Mohandas Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy." - Ursula LeGuin

[Diva]

Every parting is a form of death, as every Reunion is a type of heaven.

~Tryon Edwards

[chefhmboyrd]

if it looks like a duck
walks like a duck
and quacks like a duck.......

she's a whore

[Arwen]

The past, -- well, it's just like
our Great-Aunt Laura,
who cannot or will not perceive
that though she is welcome,
and though we adore her,
yet now it is time to leave.

-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

[Diva]

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

~Francis Bacon

[Diva]

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

~Muhammad Ali

[BestButchBoy]

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

-Tom Robbins

[Jesse]

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ~Mark Twain

[gotoseagrl]

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

[JustJo]

If you want to be happy, be where you are celebrated....not where you're tolerated.

(my boss actually said this today, but it makes sense to me in relationships too...not just work)

[JakeTulane]

"After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining 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 all your roads on today because tomorrow is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure,that you really are strong, and you really do have worth, and you learn and learn, with every goodbye you learn." ~Veronica Shoffstall~

[Nat]

THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,
It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful;
It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain—or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or India—talking other dialects;
And it seems to me if I could know those men, I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands;
O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
I know I should be happy with them.

- Walt Whitman

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” - Marie Curie

[JakeTulane]

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver

[Janstevie]

It's amazing how someone can break your heart so bad, yet you still love them with all the little pieces.

[always2late]

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh

[turasultana]

Some people are like slinkies:
not really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to
your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

(no clue where it's from!)

[Hack]

“Love is not consolation. It is light.” -- Nietzsche

[jenny]

"Whenever I go on a trip, I think about all the homes I've had & I remember how little has changed about what comforts me." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[BestButchBoy]

"Our similarities provide us with a common ground, but our differences allow us to be fascinated by one another. Differences give human encounters their snap and their fizz and their brew."

Tom Robbins :: Skinny Legs and All

[Kätzchen]

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http://www.mindmapinspiration.com/dreaming-mind-map-paul-foreman/

[Arwen]

“...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.” - Kim Harrison

[Diva]

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

~Gloria Swanson

[Diva]

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

~Alfred Hitchcock

:|

:eyebat:

[JakeTulane]

"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?" - Jane Austen

[JakeTulane]

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." - Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." - Emily Dickinson

[Fancy]

The simple things are the most extraordinary, but only a pure heart can recognize them.

-Paulo Coelho

[MysticOceansFL]

The simple things are the most extraordinary, but only a pure heart can recognize them.

-Paulo Coelho



I have always noticed the simple things!!!

[Stacy]

Good Morning always starts my day,
in the most delightful pleasant way.

I've got coffee in my cup,
I get kisses from my pup.

My hubs greets me with a hug & a smile.
I know he'll be cooking breakfast in awhile.

I don't know what today will bring.
I hope I get to laugh, and dance, and sing.

One thing I know for sure,
life is one hell of a grand adventure!

My life is good and I'm happy as can be,
because it really is good to be me.

~For Michael, I love you!!

[BullDog]

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

Olympia Dukakis

The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

Adrienne Rich

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[Fancy]

"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them." -Steve Martin

[Janstevie]

Someone is going to hurt you sooner or later, you just have to decide who's worth the pain.

[JakeTulane]

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. - Frank Howard Clark

[JakeTulane]

"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty." - John Cheever

[JakeTulane]

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

[Diva]

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

~William Hurt

[Jesse]

Speak up for yourself, or you’ll end up a rug. Mae West

[Fancy]

Elwood P. Dowd:I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with.

-Harvey (1950)

[Kätzchen]

Something in your eyes
Makes me want to lose myself
Makes me want to lose myself
In your arms
There's something in your voice
Makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
The rest of my life
If you only knew how lonely my life has been
And how long I've been so alone
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you've done.

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong.

A window breaks down a long dark street
And a siren wails in the night
But I'm alright 'cause I have you here with me
And I can almost see through the dark there is light.

If you knew how much this moment means to me
And how long I have waited for your touch
If you knew how happy you are making me
I never thought I'd love anyone so much.

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all he way back here I belong,
Where I belong.

:stillheart:

[JakeTulane]

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home." ~Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there." ~Loma Chandler

[JakeTulane]

"I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens." ~Jeb Dickerson

[Fancy]

“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”

~Stacy Charter

[Fancy]

Something in your eyes
Makes me want to lose myself
Makes me want to lose myself
In your arms
There's something in your voice
Makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
The rest of my life
If you only knew how lonely my life has been
And how long I've been so alone
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you've done.

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I belong.

A window breaks down a long dark street
And a siren wails in the night
But I'm alright 'cause I have you here with me
And I can almost see through the dark there is light.

If you knew how much this moment means to me
And how long I have waited for your touch
If you knew how happy you are making me
I never thought I'd love anyone so much.

It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all he way back here I belong,
Where I belong.

:stillheart:

This is an amazing song....I've loved her music for quite awhile. Thank you for sharing this one!

[jenny]

"I have heard some beautiful notes in my life, she said, but they were nothing without the rest of the music, too." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[jenny]

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” ~ Charles Bukowski (who would have been 90 today...)

[Arwen]

"Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation, to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude, the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation." -Carl G. Jung (1875-1961)

[Arwen]

But gods are like that. They fall apart as you begin to consider things logically, no matter what the religion. ~Anu Garg

[BestButchBoy]

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
— Jean de La Bruyère

[Jesse]

"Pregnancy is the only area they don't control, and they are pissed because there is no remote."

[jenny]

"I'm not so good at taking my own advice, she said, but that doesn't mean I don't know what's right." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[Fancy]

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY... Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

[Ebon]

How do I find the words when I can't even find the heart
How do I know what to say to someone that doesn't feel safe in love
when I too have lost faith....

Written by JFN

excerpt from one of her songs.

[Fancy]

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

~Helen Gurley Brown

[FeminineAllure]

“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”
Jean Cocteau

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
Abraham Lincoln

[jenny]

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James

[Kätzchen]

http://josephrossbachphoto.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wvdollysods100508014.jpg

But I forgot that your hands fed the roots,
watering the tangled roses,
till your fingertips bloomed
full, in a natural peace.

Like pets, your hoe and your sprinkling can
follow you around, biting and licking the earth.
That work is how you let this richness loose,
the carnations fiery freshness.

I wish the love and dignity of bees for your hands,
mixing and spreading their transparent brood
in the earth: They cultivate even my heart,

So that I am like a scorched rock
that suddenly sings when you are near, because it drinks
the water you carry from the forest, in your voice.

-Pablo Neruda

:stillheart:

[JakeTulane]

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.” – Michael Cibenko

[JakeTulane]

“We need in love to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily–we do not need to learn it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

[JakeTulane]

“The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God’s law.” – Mary Manin Morrissey

[moxie]

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” - A.A. Milne

[Jesse]

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler

The root of all health is in the brain.
The trunk of it is in emotion.
The branches and leaves are the body.
The flower of health blooms
when all parts work together.
- Kurdish folk wisdom

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your
want (desire), you are left with peace.
- Satya Sai Baba

[Hack]

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. -- Nietzsche

[Passionaria]

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YepnTrx-v5c/TAQKTmlWaBI/AAAAAAAAE90/4YP-5ujReUQ/take%20my%20advice.jpg

[Fancy]

Having sex is like buying a gun, most often there's a mandatory waiting period. And even then you may just end up shooting yourself.

- James Connolly

[femmedyke]

We are the hero of our own story. ~Mary McCarthy

[jenny]

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MrSunshine]

He who laughs last, laughs best

[BestButchBoy]

"Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?"
>Ian Richardson, Actor

[shadows papa]

"Child you can talk the horns off of a brass billy goat and wear the ass off of a brass monkey" My Father

[JakeTulane]

"Love isn't love until we share it, but the real fulfillment in life is finding love and sharing it with someone who can freely and without any conflict love us faithfully in return." - Joe D. Mango

[JakeTulane]

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Romana L. Anderson

[JakeTulane]

"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back." - Anonymous

[Jesse]

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
- Wayne Dyer

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[turasultana]

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."

— David Sedaris (Naked)

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[jenny]

"I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely one night & found it had wheels & moved easily in the slightest breeze, so now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[EnderD_503]

"Why did I ride when I had cancer? Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. You can go out there with the weight of the world on your shoulders, and after a six hour ride at a high pain threshold, you feel at peace. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain. At least for a while you have a kind of hall pass, and don't have to brood on your problems; you can shut everything else out, because the effort and subsequent fatigue are absolute." - Lance Armstrong

"Sticking with the 'unwritten plan' when the dark realization dawns that you've bitten off much more than you can chew, is the true test of one's resolve." - Rob Fusco

"To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it" - Dr George Skeehan

"The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature" - Arnold Bennett

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.....and you will tell them yes." - Nike ad

"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." –Thucydides

Just saw this posted on another forum and found it motivating.

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[Duchess]

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.(f)

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

[Duchess]

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.(f)

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

[always2late]

Let No Charitable Hope - Elinor Wylie

Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope
I am in nature none of these.
I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.
In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.

[jenny]

"Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart...it is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." ~Vaclev Havel

[jenny]

"A really hard laugh is like sex—one of the ultimate diversions of existence." ~ Jerry Seinfeld

[Fancy]

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”

-Angela Schwindt

[BestButchBoy]

"I'm not buying your lunch because this never happened."

--> John Hamm as Don Draper

[Enchantress]

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

~Anatole France

[nowandthen]

:tea:Breath makes room in my heart for the divine...:praying:

[Massive]

"Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same."
- Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:

This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.

When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.” - Stacey Charter

[JakeTulane]

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.” - Winnie the Pooh

[JakeTulane]

“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

[jenny]

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley

[Fancy]

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.

-Tyra Banks

[always2late]

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. - Helen Walton

[Jesse]

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C. S. Lewis

"I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow."
-Cher

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
- Mark Twain

[jenny]

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.” ~ Rosalia de Castro

[BestButchBoy]

"Hey Moe, hey Larry! Ummmhummhumm!"

~Curly

[NJFemmie]

Some footprints were not meant to be followed.

[2myladyblue]

:candle: Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
:candle: The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
:candle: The worst sorrows in life are not its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
:candle: Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
:candle: History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

[Duchess]

Joy Cometh in the Morning

by D. A. Boskovich
© 1998

The clouds may endure for a whileBringing forth their dismal rain;But then the rainbow appears--The beauty comes after the pain.The darkness may come in the eveningWith all the terrors of the night,But then cometh the morning,Bringing with it the light.Weeping may endure for the night,And sorrow may continue for long,But joy cometh in the morningAfer the sting is gone.Joy alone can come from sufferingAnd courage is born of fear,Though your path be strewn with evils,Remember--the light is near.(f)

[2myladyblue]

This day has been magical. I have been with three friends, one at a time, and I have learned that friends can transform you. The first held me up so I could see. My second friend made me gentle and earnest. The third friend turned me into a clown, a gesturer, a creator of quips. My friends don't know what they have done today. It's nothing to them, they do it so often. I expect I must also cause a change in them. And so we--each a separate we--exist only in each other's presence.
:moonstars:

[chefhottie25]

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Michel Foucault

[Jesse]

"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on."
- Dalai Lama

[Ms. Meander]

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

[JakeTulane]

“Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends” - Joseph Campbell

[JakeTulane]

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” - Henry Miller

[Laerkin]

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman

[jenny]

"I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather." — Margaret Cho

[BestButchBoy]

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek”

~Tom Robbins

[Jesse]

I've been working on my bike today, so my quotes tonight will follow suit...

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~H. G. Wells

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.
~Bill Strickland

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
~H.G. Wells

[JakeTulane]

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi

[JakeTulane]

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King

[JakeTulane]

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson

[Spirit Dancer]

If you make friends with people who are without character, your own character will tarnish as well.
Anon

Friendship inspires and enriches the lives
of those who come together.

Vimala Thakar

No people are happier on this earth than those who have friends with whom they can talk, with whom they can live, with whom they can have a friendly chat.
Hitopadesa

No friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Francois Mauriac

[BestButchBoy]

"Cool is taking chances that most other people won’t. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. It often works more than it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, you make no apologies for it. Cool is saying ‘I tried’. Win or lose, your mission always remains the same.

~Mark VV

[Mister Bent]

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

- unknown

[always2late]

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. - Greg Anderson

[Laerkin]

"Everybody has a purpose in life, even if it's just to serve as a really bad example."

~W. McM Chalmers.

[Fancy]

Earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jenny]

“There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.” ~ Joyce Jillson

[Jesse]

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.-Anon

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Anon

"...And you help each other realize that all the things you want to be...you already are."
---Gretchen Witter (Sasha Alexander), Dawson's Creek

[Mister Bent]

"Why does everyone need to talk about everything?"

- Don Draper

[simpleasdirt]

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

[moxie]

"It's easy to cry when you realize everyone you love will reject you or die." - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain." ~Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all." - Author Unknown

[jenny]

“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” - C.S. Lewis

[nowandthen]

Developing genuine compassion for our loved ones is the obvious and appropriate place to start in our spiritual practice. The impact our actions have on our close ones will generally be much greater than on others, and therefore our responsibilities toward them are greater. Yet we need to recognize that, ultimately, there are no grounds for discriminating in their favor: all beings equally deserve our compassion.

[jenny]

"Remember when the music came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire.
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, for we believed in things, and so we'd sing..." [harry chapin]

[Arwen]

Peter Marshall: True or false, in the recent world kissing contest in England, two contestants were disqualified when they got too passionate?

Paul Lynde: But they went on to win in three other categories.

[Duchess]

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!(f)

Og Mandino (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Og&Author_Last_Name=Mandino&Movie=)
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

[Duchess]

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.:)

Jim Dale (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Jim&Author_Last_Name=Dale&Movie=)
British, Musician Quotes

[jenny]

"I am certainly an ought and not a must." ~E.M. Forster

[BestButchBoy]

“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

~Errol Flynn

[jenny]

" It was a message from God: Rachel was a hot Jew and the good lord wanted me to get into her pants." ~ Puck, "Glee"
[less than one month until new episodes start!!]

[jenny]

"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

[Laerkin]

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

[Laerkin]

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

[nowandthen]

"Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever." Audre Lorde:praying:

[Kätzchen]

"Doing is never enough is you neglect Being,"

-Eckhart Tolle

[JakeTulane]

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

[JakeTulane]

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

[JakeTulane]

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

[jenny]

"When you've got an answer, it's time to find better questions." ~ Rabbi Irwin Kula's Mother

[jenny]

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." ~ Bob Marley

[Duchess]

There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and dont balk them if you can help it.
:)
Alex Comfort (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Alex&Author_Last_Name=Comfort&Movie=)
American, Author Quotes

[Fancy]

"Love is a verb. It should be active. It should be specific. It’s not weak.

Actually, it’s quite powerful. And it’s brave for you to have love on your chest, because some people will look at you and say, oh, love, you know, it’s just a sentimental notion.

It’s not practical. It’s not realistic.

For all those people who fight war after war after war and spend money, dollar after dollar after dollar, fighting these wars that never get us peace, I’m telling you, love is way more practical, way more realistic, way more economically sensible than any of these other principles that we bring to bear.

Love is the way we should do business."

US Rep Keith Ellison

[BestButchBoy]

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

~Tom Robbins

[jenny]

"Action expresses priorities." ~ Gandhi

[Mister Bent]

"...causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself."

The Dalai Lama

[Enchantress]

"Silence is sometimes the answer”


~ Estonian Proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

Once what you have learned finds its emotional place, it is never forgotten.
F. Tirenzi

[Spirit Dancer]

Enjoyment comes from being imaginative and different.
SD

[Diva]

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

~Jewel

[T D]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

~ Buddha ~

[miss entycing]

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

W. Somerset Maugham

[chefhottie25]

a few quotes from one of my favorites, and regular character in my thesis, the controversial lord byron.............

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

[JakeTulane]

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau

[JakeTulane]

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder

[Tommi]

Elizabeth David wrote


"There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are those who put it back."

[Enchantress]

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser"

~ John W. Gardner

[Janstevie]

Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

[jenny]

"Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces--forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop." ~Andre Agassi

[chefhottie25]

just some words i put together after the death of a friend....

my words couldn't postpone her exit.grief hits you right between the ribs.don't you hate when people ask if she knew you were there?the point is you knew.When her last breath waltzed from that space,my heart opened like a parachute.she didn't die...she simply found a silence she could call her own.

[Spirit Dancer]

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Seneca

[Spirit Dancer]

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets
you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept
oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most
interesting game in the world—making the most of one’s best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[jenny]

‎"You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know when it will be too late." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mister Bent]

"I gotta say that I'm enjoying adulthood. For a lot of reasons. And, I'll tell you reason number one: as an adult, if I want a cookie, I have a cookie."

Jerry Seinfeld

[princessbelle]

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength"
Ralph Sockman

http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/495/495740z14isjahge.gif (http://www.glitter-graphics.com)

[Jesse]

How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967

[Soft*Silver]

weedle weazel whistle
if nothing else thistle
teach ya

whooshandpunch
:seeingstars:

[princessbelle]

“Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.”

Proverb



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[BullRider_Dillon]

“Don’t be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don’t be afraid to be willing to pay the price.”
Tuff Hedeman (About-Lane Frost)


Some things are just worth it all...

[JakeTulane]

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." - P.T. Barnum

[nowandthen]

" Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to truth" Pema Chodron

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...I knew that this was the spirit of true awakening. It was all about letting go of everything." Pema Chodron

" It's a Kind of testing, The kind of testing that spiritual warriors need in order to awaken their Heart" PC

[Kätzchen]

http://www.lisisoft.com/imglisi/5/Screensavers/81338SnowFallss1.jpg

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~ Robert Frost

[Fancy]

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

"Berlin Diary" (1930) from Goodbye to Berlin (1939) Christopher Isherwood, gay author of Cabaret

[JakeTulane]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

[JakeTulane]

"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 light from within." -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

[jenny]

"I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek." ~ Gwen Stefani

[Duchess]

"Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountain,
but happiness and growth are mostly found in the climb." (f)
~ adapted from Andy Rooney

[Duchess]

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is this the good news?"(f)
~ William Somerset Maugham and/or Robert Anthony

[Spirit Dancer]

Since I’ve slowed down some, I see things I never saw before and find that quiet solitude is not lonely but nurturing, allowing my heart to open to the signs and lessons of nature that surround me.

Sallirae Henderson

[Spirit Dancer]

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

Hugh Prather

[Spirit Dancer]

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.
You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching.
You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Susanna Clark

[The_Lady_Snow]

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

[Fancy]

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:blink:

[Abigail Crabby]

“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

Anne Frank

[nowandthen]

It's critical to understand your history, and then be true to oneself in such a way that one's connection to the suffering of others is an integral part of understanding yourself.:glasses:

[BestButchBoy]

"There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane."

~Flight Attendant with a fantastic sense of humor.

[jenny]

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~Andy Warhol

[femmedyke]

A smile fell in the grass.
Irretrievable!

And how will your night dances
Lose themselves. In mathematics?

Such pure leaps and spirals ----
Surely they travel

The world forever, I shall not entirely
Sit emptied of beauties, the gift

Of your small breath, the drenched grass
Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies.

Their flesh bears no relation.
Cold folds of ego, the calla,

And the tiger, embellishing itself ----
Spots, and a spread of hot petals.

The comets
Have such a space to cross,

Such coldness, forgetfulness.
So your gestures flake off ----

Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling

Through the black amnesias of heaven.
Why am I given

These lamps, these planets
Falling like blessings, like flakes

Six sided, white
On my eyes, my lips, my hair

Touching and melting.
Nowhere.

Sylvia Plath:stillheart:

[JakeTulane]

"The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness." - Dalai Lama

[chefhottie25]

http://www.lisisoft.com/imglisi/5/Screensavers/81338SnowFallss1.jpg

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~ Robert Frost


the only time i paid attention in my high school english class was when we read robert frost...i love this poem

[chefhottie25]

the author of frankestein also wrote beautiful poetry...sharing one of my favorites.
Stanzas by Mary Shelley
Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
...I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

'Twas thus, as ancient fables tell,
...Love visited a Grecian maid,
Till she disturbed the sacred spell,
...And woke to find her hopes betrayed.

But gentle sleep shall veil my sight,
...And Psyche's lamp shall darkling be,
When, in the visions of the night,
...Thou dost renew thy vows to me.

Then come to me in dreams, my love,
...I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
...And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.

[Diva]

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

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

[Diva]

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

~Gretchen Rubin

[chefhottie25]

just a few quotes from my favorite book...frankenstein

"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food"
"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."

[2myladyblue]

"When I die
I'll grow wings
and fly.

Don't grin"
said the caterpillar
crawling by

:wateringgarden: :playingcat:

[2myladyblue]

I would be the greatest poet the world has ever known
if only I could make you see
here on the page
sunlight
a sparrow
three kernels of popcorn
spilled on the snow.

[2myladyblue]

I have discovered to my amazement
that I am unable to believe
in my own death.
I know that I will die, but I do not believe in it.
Then how is it there are times
When I am almost crazy with fear?

[JakeTulane]

"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest; as if it was the only one we had." - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

[JakeTulane]

"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." - Audre Lorde