Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Jet]

The more you own, the more it owns you. —My aunt Jeanne

[Tucker]

"Unbecoming! A perfect word describe my new life. I, who have always been unbecoming, am now becoming un."

[WolfyOne]

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind *** Anonymous

[WolfyOne]

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over the future *** Anonymous

[Janstevie]

As you grow older you'll find the only things you regret are the things you did'nt do.

[jenny]

"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something." ~ Shel Silverstein

[CrankyOldGuy]

Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan

[Rook]

Joe Black: I don't care Bill. I love her.
William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
Joe Black: Then what is it?
William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters.
Joe Black: Which is what?
William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.
Joe Black: So that's what love is according to William Parrish?
William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
Joe Black: Hey, those were my words.
William Parrish: They're mine now !!

=========

Joe Black: Should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be facing a finality beyond your comprehension, and you will not be counting days, or months, or years, but milleniums in a place with no doors.

[jenny]

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." ~ Henry Ford

[JakeTulane]

"Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying." ~ Bernie S. Siegel

[JakeTulane]

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

[jenny]

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Openheim

[Diva]

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

~Marcus Aurelius (AD 120-180)

[Tucker]

Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so, is he not the devil?

[MysticOceansFL]

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

[LipstickLola]

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? ` Lily Tomlin

[Rook]

Lovers are, in essence, a dime a dozen..
True Friendship however, is more precious than any jewel..
Violate a true friends Trust at your own peril.
Once it's gone, pfft...
Bury the rest.
- Anon.

[MysticOceansFL]

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.

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

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.


For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

Do you have trouble making up your mind? Well, yes or no?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark?

Join The Army, Visit exotic places, meet strange people, then kill them.

I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.(Friend or Money !)

Death is hereditary.

There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.

An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.

They say hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

[yimsharirb98]

I love. That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively and steadfastly. -quote from george sand in the movie 'impromptu"

[jenny]

"Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along lifes way and if you dont, youve been sort of cheated." ~ Gore Vidal

[EnderD_503]

"Nothing in this world can take the place
of persistence. Talent will not; nothing
is more common than unsuccessful people
with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has
solved and always will solve the problems
of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence
in spite of all obstacles, discouragement,
and impossibilities: It is this, that in
all things distinguishes the strong soul
from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle

[femmedyke]

“Quiet minds can’t be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.” Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." — Jessamyn West

[JakeTulane]

"We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself." — Sarah McLachlan

[JakeTulane]

"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another." — Desmond Tutu

[Janstevie]

Every path has it's puddle.

[jenny]

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.“ – Malcolm Forbes

[nicetgurl_30]

Search for God as a man whose head is on fire looks for water.

[Kätzchen]

"Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor,"
— Stephen Colbert (In, I am America)

[Mister Bent]

"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."

- Rollo May

[Tucker]

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?

[Jesse]

If you judge people, you're using up time that you can spend Loving Them.....Mother Theresa

[Pixie]

“Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.”

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

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.” Corazon Aquino

[Daddy Raven]

Please share with us what your favorites are.

Namaste,
Andrew
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe

First Published in 1845

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
” ‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,.
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore,
Nameless here forevermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
” ‘Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door,
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.
This it is, and nothing more.”

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
“Sir,” said I, “or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you.” Here I opened wide the door;—-
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,
Lenore?, This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word,
“Lenore!” Merely this, and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping, something louder than before,
“Surely,” said I, “surely, that is something at my window lattice.
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.
Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore.
” ‘Tis the wind, and nothing more.”

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore.”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door,
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as “Nevermore.”

But the raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered;
Till I scarcely more than muttered, “Other friends have flown before;
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.”
Then the bird said, “Nevermore.”

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore,—-
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of “Never—-nevermore.”

But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore --
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o’er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o’er
She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath
Sent thee respite—-respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore!”

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—
On this home by horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore:
Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me I implore!”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore—-
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—-nevermore!

[Tucker]

"Quiet boy, before I remove your testicles with my foot!"

[Mitmo01]

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.--Martin Niemoller

[Semantics]

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck,
and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is
that thing?

-Jack Handy

[gotoseagrl]

“We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves” May Lamberton Becker

[BestButchBoy]

"Now that I can finally understand you, I am less impressed with what you have to say."
~Don Draper, fictional character as portrayed by Jon Hamm

[jenny]

"Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves." - Karen Healey

[Tucker]

"People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. "

[Fancy]

‎"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama

[jenny]

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” ~Arthur C. Clarke

[Fancy]

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

~ Caroline Rhea

[Just_G]

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."

~Abraham Maslow~

[Just_G]

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

~James Gordon~

[jenny]

"There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted." ~ Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour

[Janstevie]

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

[nycfem]

"On a positive note designer papers are cheaper than designer shoes!"
amiyesiam (said to her partner, Corkey)

[Mister Bent]

If you cannot see your own shadow, you must go in search of of it. The shadow hides in shame in the dark alleys, secret passageways, and ghost-filled attics of your consciousness. To have a shadow is not to be flawed, but to be complete.

-Deepak Chopra, The Shadow Effect

[dixie]

"Hello, my name is Karma. I'll be the bitch taking a bite out of your ass this evening."

Said by my dear friend Willowsong today... :)

[JakeTulane]

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” - Barbara De Angelis

[JakeTulane]

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers

[JakeTulane]

"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” - Jane Austen

[jenny]

"If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen." ~ Loretta Gizartis

[MysticOceansFL]

To see the unexpected you have to open your eyes , heart and mind!

[Butterbean]

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

~William Feather

[Tucker]

"In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that its far more common for human beings to turn into rats."

[BestButchBoy]

"Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the man with the hex."
~Barney Fife

[Rook]

-- "Why was i spared??"...

-- "You're her mother.....Mother is God in the eyes of a Child..."

:glasses:

[Mister Bent]

"I'm like a lizard, I need something warm beneath me so I can digest my food."

- Santana, Glee

[jenny]

Shue -- "What's a duet?"
Brittany -- "A blanket."

I <3 Glee.

[jenny]

"How can you do a duet with yourself? That's like vocal masturbation." ~ Santanta, "Glee"

[Mister Bent]

"Yo mama so ugly that not even goldfish crackers smile back."

- Amazing 9 year old monster

[Charming Texan]

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

- Garrison Keillor

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." - ~Jacques Prévert

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." ~Robertson Davies

[Fancy]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
~Jung

[Tucker]

"Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait."

[Nat]

The Wild Swans at Coole

W B Yeats

THE trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty Swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?

[jenny]

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” - Alice M. Swaim

[Tucker]

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
— Augusten Burroughs

[jenny]

"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season." ~ Wu-Men

[Butterbean]

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

~e.e. cummings, 1955

[Charming Texan]

We submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us.

- Edmund Burke

[Butterbean]

*looks at all the wreakage of tampons, midol pills, chocolate and heating pads* *shakes head* War is hell*"

-Bad_Boi

[JakeTulane]

"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to form a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." - Abigail Adams

[JakeTulane]

"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights." - Inez Milholland, Suffragist 1909

[JakeTulane]

"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own." - Joyce Carol Oates

[Tucker]

"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones."
— Augusten Burroughs

[jenny]

"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else
in life." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[Fancy]

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

[Diva]

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

~George Sand

[Diva]

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

~Sissela Bok

[Diva]

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

~Cynthia Heimel

[jenny]

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

[JAGG]

Once I thought that life was beauty,
I woke and found that life was duty.

[JAGG]

" When life brings you lemons,
Find the guy who's life has brought him vodka."

[Spirit Dancer]

The journey through life has many valleys that we can't
just skip over, and also many mountains to climb that
we can't just jump over. It is also true that we need
the space and the freedom to make our own mistakes.
Trial and error seem to be the only way we
can learn and grow. Life is first and foremost a process.
And this process is a zig-zag process at that.

John Powell

[Spirit Dancer]

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can
select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy.
You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you.
And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're
not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are,
indeed, the greatest force for you.

Leo Buscaglia

[Butterbean]

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

~Dale E. Turner

[Fancy]

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

~Kim Cattrall

[jenny]

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." - George Jean Nathan

[Tucker]

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

[tazz]

*looks at all the wreakage of tampons, midol pills, chocolate and heating pads* *shakes head* War is hell*"

-Bad_Boi
@Butterbean for your quote on what Bad_Boi said the other night... Love it!!! LMFAO!

[Fancy]

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

[BestButchBoy]

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
~Leonardo da Vinci

[Kenna]

"Have you heard that silence can be deafening, but a soft voice can melt a heart of steel."

(I'll keep my source private ;) )

[JakeTulane]

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." - T.S. Eliot

[JakeTulane]

"Saints are sinners who kept on going." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[CrankyOldGuy]

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - M. Twain

[Diva]

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.

~Julius Caesar

[Diva]

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

~Confucius

[Diva]

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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

[Arwen]

When we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.~ The Dalai Lama

[Glenn]

"How cold and gloomy the weather is today! It is something like the atmosphere that envelopes a materialistic person at the time of death. They slip from this world into what seems a heavy mist. Nothing is clear to them; and for a time they feel lost and afraid. Then, in accordance with their karma, they either move on into the bright astral world to learn spiritual lessons, or they sink into a stupor until the right karmic moment arrives for them to be reborn on Earth. The consciousness of one who loves God, is not disturbed by the transition from this world to the next. They effortlessly enter a realm of light, love, and joy."- Paramahansa Yogananda

[Mister Bent]

"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace."

Milan Kundera


"I am convinced that there are times in everybody’s experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing."

Fanny Fern

[Spirit Dancer]

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
Lucian

[Spirit Dancer]

We need a reason for speaking; we need none for keeping silent.
Pierre Nicole

[Spirit Dancer]

Thinking brings us to the foot of the mountain; faith brings us to the top.
Lin-Chi

[Kätzchen]

http://www.skyhouse.co.nz/images/morning-sunrise-lg.jpg

You sing, and your voice peels the husk
of the day's grain, your song with the sun and sky,
the pine trees speak with their green tongue:
All the birds of the winter whistle.

The sea fills its cellar with footfalls,
with bells, chains, whimpers,
the tools and the metal's jangle,
wheels of the caravan creak.

But I hear only your voice, your voice
soars with the zing and precision of an arrow,
it drops with gravity of rain,

Your voice scatters the highest swords
and returns with its cargo of violets:
it accompanies me through the sky.

~ Pablo Neruda

[Diva]

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

~Roger Ascham

[Diva]

We are lost and wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to us only when we step on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

~Sai Baba

[always2late]

Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Enchantress]

"Do not let Sunday be taken from you. For if your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”

~ Albert Schweitzer

[rlin]

“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” Anais Nin

[Ms. Meander]

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
~ Chris Lowe

[Fancy]

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”

[Jesse]

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde

The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. ~Author Unknown

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~Montaigne

[jenny]

‎"...Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction."

~Adrienne Rich/"Storm Warnings"

[MountainStar]

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Unknown

[Spirit Dancer]

I hate ruts. Ruts are common, unimaginative, and oh, so boring.
I know because I've spent time in them. Actually, I even took up
emotional residence in a couple. To make them more comfortable,
I even decorated them. I adorned the walls with excuses:
"I can't," "I tried," and "I don't wanna." Those are just a few
of the plagues, I mean plaques, I hung in my ruts.

Patsy Clairmont

[Diva]

You're only given a little spark of madness....You mustn't lose it.

~Robin Williams

[Fancy]

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

[Mister Bent]

"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."

- Augusten Burroughs

[Tucker]

"As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."

[jenny]

‎"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." - John Stuart Mill

[Mister Bent]

"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back
and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."

- Norman Mailer

[JakeTulane]

"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead." — Paula White

[JakeTulane]

"Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it." — Polly B. Berends

[JakeTulane]

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you." — Lillian Hellman

[jenny]

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation." ~ Wayne Dyer

[Fancy]

~ You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. ~

Oprah

[Tucker]

"She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"

What?"

She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!"

Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose."

[jenny]

“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

[jenny]

"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting." ~ Arthur Brisbane

[Arwen]

"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

-Kahlil Gibran

[Enchantress]

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[Jet]

Days of Wine and Roses

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

Ernest Dowson

[jenny]

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~Lao Tzu

[BestButchBoy]

“(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.”
-Julia Child

[Semantics]

She goes out into the cold night
to search for the She
with the guts.
Death is firmest where it is fluid.
A bucket rises with my body in it.
She looks in it and says, Well, there you are,
chopped up in little pieces, and sure enough,
no guts either.

[EnderD_503]

Today I read a passage about a scene that supposedly took place during Voltaire's final days. While Voltaire was on his deathbed a priest came to try to get a final confession out of him and to see if, on his deathbed, he would renounce his atheism. So he asked Voltaire if he would finally "renounce the devil," to which Voltaire supposedly replied "Father, now is not the time to make new enemies." :D I knew there was a reason I always loved Voltaire...well...beyond, you know, just about everything he ever wrote :p

[FlowerFem]

" Age does not diminish the crushing disappointment that is felt when the scoop of ice cream falls off the cone. "

[Mister Bent]

“(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.”
-Julia Child


Oh yes, me too.

[CrankyOldGuy]

"Imagination is everything... It is the preview of life's coming attractions" - Julian Lennon

[Mister Bent]

"Plants are a lot nicer to be around." - Ezee Tiger

[JakeTulane]

'Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold." - Tryon Edwards

[JakeTulane]

"How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it." - James Russell Lowell

[JakeTulane]

"You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters." -St. Bernard

[always2late]

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile - it's free! - Jenny Finch

[Janstevie]

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

[Butterbean]

Life is the sum of all your choices.

~Albert Camus

[jenny]

"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it." ~ Shel Silverstein

[Spirit Dancer]

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board. As you pass through life, pay attention to the signs and stations; if you don't like the scenery, pull the emergency cord and get off the train. There is no other conductor in charge. There is no one who needs to give you permission to transfer. This is your life. Your journey. Your trip to conduct.

Bernie Siegel

[Spirit Dancer]

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt
and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked.
By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed.
The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Plutarch

[jenny]

"Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions." ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936


"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults." ~Gore Vidal

[BestButchBoy]

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
~Bob Newhart

[Mister Bent]

"I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood
and energy to theirs enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer."


"I am a boy no longer. I am a man now who works away from horses, who lives in a common blindness,
seeing with his eyes only. But a man with a remembered glimpse of sightedness. And it is horses that
I have to thank."

[jenny]

"It's 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." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[Semantics]

"It shocks to me realize how life and memory work. A word here, a flash there, and suddenly the layer of grass is peeled back, a mound of earth is removed, and you're staring into the grave at the skull of what you loved. The bones had always been there, you just hadn't known where to look. Or perhaps you hadn't been brave enough."

L. Rice

[Fancy]

"You're at the end of my string!"

-Bear

[ravfem]

Don't talk about it....

Be about it.

:hippie:

[JakeTulane]

"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange." - Dizzy Gillespie

[JakeTulane]

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something” - Proverb

[JakeTulane]

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” - Walt Whitman

[always2late]

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” –Theodore Roosevelt

[Toofrufru]

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
--Italian proverb

[jenny]

“Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” ~ Jackie Robinson

[Mister Bent]

"You two went together like peanut butter and taco meat."

- some fuckfaced analyst

[Spirit Dancer]

Joy is even greater when it comes unexpected.
Theophile de Viau

[Spirit Dancer]

The sheer rebelliousness in giving ourselves permission to fail frees a childlike awareness and clarity. . . . When we give ourselves permission to fail, we at the same time give ourselves permission to excel.

Eloise Ristad

[Spirit Dancer]

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first,
some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Fr. Alfred D'Souza

[Spirit Dancer]

Unfortunately, all is not beauty and peace. I don't believe I've ever met a person who hasn't been challenged or wounded by something. Difficulties present choices: we can either waste away from our wounds or use them to grow our souls. My husband, for example, is a survivor of the Second World War. As a child, he suffered through six years of bombings, near-escapes, and concentration camps. Part of his soul work has been the gradual transformation of this deep well of grief and pain. As he heals himself, he also participates in healing that terrible idea of war in others. I have always said that no one heals alone--we heal through and for one another.


Joan Borysenko

[Spirit Dancer]

People are never helped
in their suffering by what
they think for themselves,
but only by revelation
of a wisdom greater than
their own. It is this which
lifts them out
of their distress.

C.G. Jung

[Kenna]

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller

[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"

[BestButchBoy]

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
~David Bowie

[jenny]

"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." - George Bernard Shaw

[Diva]

The highest result of education is tolerance.

~Helen Keller

[JakeTulane]

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe." - Wayne Dyer

[JakeTulane]

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Coco Chanel

[JakeTulane]

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mohandas Gandhi

[jenny]

"She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it." ~ Jeanette Winterson

[MysticOceansFL]

On Commitment
Until one is committed there is always hesitancy,
the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness,
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
Raising to one’s favor all manner of unforeseen accidents and meetings
And material assistance which no person could have dreamed
Would come thier way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

By Goethe

[Fancy]

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
-Paulo Coelho

[jenny]

‎"Do you have the patience to wait til your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving til the right action arises by itself?" Lao-Tzu in the Tao Te Ching

[Tucker]

Amor mors mihi erit, sed vitalis mihi est.

[Enchantress]

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

~ Winnie the Pooh

[Spirit Dancer]

If we fight against the waves
that pass over us in life, we are
overpowered. If we move with
the waves in life as they roll
over us, the wave passes on.

Pesikta Zurtarti

[Spirit Dancer]

When you get into a tight place and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not
hang on a minute longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

[Spirit Dancer]

In times of adversity, I remember I am strong enough to meet the challenges
of my life. I am equal to every situation, a match for every difficulty. Sourced
in the power of the Universe, I allow that power to work through me. I meet
calamity with strength. I have stamina. Rather than draw on limited resources,
I draw on the infinite power within me that moves through me to accomplish
its good. I am fueled by all the love, all the strength there is. Loving strength
melts mountains. I am ever partnered and supplied by the universal flow.
Knowing this, I do not doubt my strength. I am strong and secure.
Julia Cameron

[jenny]

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

~ Winnie the Pooh

Agreed.

Another:

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

and...

“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

and...

"People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.”

and...

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."

But my favorite e.e. milne quote is one from Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh:

“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.”

[jenny]

"What really knocks me out is a book; when you're all done reading
it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend
of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you
felt like it." ~Holden, "The Catcher in the Rye"

[jenny]

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." ~ Allen Ginsberg

[Arwen]

We have learned, over and over again, that whatever we pay attention to becomes more important in our lives. When we pray, we are paying attention to our relationship with the Divine. With our attention on Spirit, we see the infinite possibilities, the presence of love and light, everywhere we go - because this wondrous spirit IS everywhere and everything! We feel that presence, and it comforts us, and enlightens us.

-Lissa Coffey

"When people pray they seem to think God is some kind of ATM machine. Real prayer is simply love in action."
- Sri Sri Sri Spankneesh

[Arwen]

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop

Join the Kindness Movement (http://www.coffeytalk.com/kindness-movement/index.php) with me.

[jenny]

"The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind." ~Katherine Mansfield

[Kätzchen]

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made,"

~ Immanuel Kant

[jenny]

“For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.” ~ Isabel Allende

[JAGG]

It's always darkest before the dawn,
so if you're going to steal your neighbors newspaper,
that's the time to do it.

[Jesse]

"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm—

I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

-Emily Dickinson

[JakeTulane]

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~Elwyn Brooks White

[JakeTulane]

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." ~Terri Guillemets

[JakeTulane]

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." ~Marion Howard

[dale2555]

"It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine DeSaint Exupery

[JAGG]

Before you critize someone walk a mile in their shoes first.
That way when they hear it , you'll be a mile ahead of them, plus it will be even harder to catch you since they are bare-foot.

[Mister Bent]

"I just don't want to die without a few scars."

- Chuck Palahniuk

[CrankyOldGuy]

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."- Frank Zappa

[Tucker]

Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur - We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving.

[Kätzchen]

"We all deserve to be unconditionally loved,"

~ My long-time dearest lady friend, Jacqueline

[Mister Bent]

"If he were any dumber, I'd have to water him."

[Tucker]

"They loved the comment you made, of course I took the credit for it!"

[turasultana]

"Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference." -Mason Cooley

[Jesse]

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

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


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

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

[JAGG]

Give a man a fish,and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

[BestButchBoy]

"People need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some."
~Brautigan

[jenny]

"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope." - Tom Head

[MountainStar]

“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.”

[Tucker]

Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis - Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

[Ms. Meander]

For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the prostitute and saint
I am the wife and virgin
I am the mother and daughter
I am the arms of my mother
I am barren and my children are many
I am the married woman and the spinster
I am the woman who gives birth and she
who never procreated
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my husband
And he is my rejected son

Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one


~ Hymn to Isis, 3rd or 4th century B.C.,
discovered in Nag Hammadi

[pajama]

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Missing my boo alot today.

[Mister Bent]

“My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.”

- Joaquin Phoenix

[LipstickLola]

"Life is a long lesson in humility" ~~~ James M. Barrie

[jenny]

"Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?" - Julia Child

[Diva]

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

~George Bernard Shaw

[Jesse]

Frog Story
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all of their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out.
When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
This story teaches two lessons:


There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill them. Be careful of what you say.

Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words....it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times.
Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
Be special to others.

[Jesse]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

[Enchantress]

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

John Keats ~

[Random]

“The guilty bystander is worse than the idle bystander because the guilty bystander does not turn their head and ignore atrocity; the guilty bystander watches it happen” –A society of guilty bystanders

[jenny]

"We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future." ~ Robin Sharma

[jenny]

‎"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds
himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of
people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard
way." - Kurt Vonnegut

[Janstevie]

From 40 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 15 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 40 feet away.

[Janstevie]

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

[Glenn]

One of the reasons for suffering is to prevent us from learning too much of others and not enough of ourselves. Pain eventually compels us to wonder: Is a cause-effect principal operating in my life? Are my troubles due to my wrong-doing?- Paramahansa Yogananda

[Jesse]

I Love Being Me

by Gemma Hayton

I can't run the fastest
I can't swim the sea
I can't type the quickest
but I love being me

I can't kick a ball
or even climb a tree
I can't roll in the grass
but I still love being me

You see, this is my life
as others would see
they don't know what it's like
to really be me

So next time I'm about
rolling down the street
don't think of me disabled
but someone cool to meet

I have lots I can teach you
I have loads I can share
you will never gain my wisdom
if you just point and stare

So maybe I can't run the fastest
maybe I can't kick a ball
but I wouldn't change being me
not for you, not at all

[jenny]

"Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys." ~ "Peter Pan," J.M. Barrie

[Enchantress]

"That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment”

~ Dorothy Parker

[BestButchBoy]

"And our credo: "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. Not just pretty words."
~Morticia Addams

[dixie]

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."
Rose Franken


I love being silly with my boo... :)

[Ms. Meander]

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

- Rita Mae Brown

[Jesse]

Abuse Poem

A Daughter shares her story of abuse at the hands of her Mother

I Have A Secret

© Ciara Coper



Mother is there when I get home from school,
I'm happy there, hyper and playing the fool.
But as I pull on the handle and turn the key,
I feel a sense of dread and fear fill me.
I have a secret, a dark one,
A secret I've never told anyone.
Everyday when I come home,
Mother waits till I'm alone,
Then she'll hit me with a spoon or shoe,
Till I bleed, till I'm black and blue.
Dad left us when I was three,
Since then all she's done is blame it on me.
I'm ugly, stupid, tarty, and fat,
It was my fault he left us, "You hear that you brat?!",
With a duck and a dive, I sometimes manage to swerve,
But I know in the end I'm going to, "Get what I deserve".
Hospital a few times, "I was playing with my brother",
It's one lame excuse after another.
One of these days, I'm going to break free,
One of these days, I'll be truly happy.

But until then I tell no one,
I have a secret,
I'm not telling anyone.




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