Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

"A life lived in love will never be dull." ~ Leo Buscaglia

[jenny]

"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade." ~ Bette Midler

[jenny]

"Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~ Alice, "Alice in Wonderland"

[Enchantress]

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

Winnie the Pooh to Piglet

~ A. A. Milne

[Janstevie]

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?

[Sam]

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
-Thomas Jefferson

[Jet]

I could cry salty tears ;
Where have I been all these years ?
Little wow, tell me now :
How long has this been going on ?

There were chills up my spine,
And some thrills I can't define.
Listen, sweet, I repeat :
how long has this been going on ?

Oh, I feel that I could melt ;
Into Heaven I'm hurled !
I know how Clombus felt,
Finding another world.

Kiss me once, then once more.
What a dunce I was before.
What a break ! For Heaven's sake !
How long has this been going on ?

Dear, when in your arms I creep,
That divine rendez-vous,
Don't wake me, if I'm asleep,
Let me dream that it's true !

Kiss me twice, then once more.
That makes thrice, let's make it four !
What a break ! For Heaven's sake !
How long has this been going on ?
How long has this... been going ... on ?... .

—How Long Has This Been Going On?, George Gershwin

[BestButchBoy]

"Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it..."
~Mission Impossible Intro

[Diva]

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

~Walter Anderson

[Diva]

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." - -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[JakeTulane]

"You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion." - -Dalai Lama

[JakeTulane]

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility." - -Rachel Carson

[LipstickLola]

"Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go".

(I don't know who said it, but I read it recently and loved it!!!)

[jenny]

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do the maintenance.” - Kurt Vonnegut

[Janstevie]

There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love

[tuffboi29]

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieve it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.



~Dylan Thomas

[jenny]

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

[Jesse]

Open-minded people must accept the possibility that being closed-minded is better. Close-minded people can take comfort in knowing that they are right. - Anon

[Jesse]

Having an open mind is a good thing, but one should never allow their mind to be so open that their brain falls out. - Anon

[Duchess]

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."(f)
Claude M. Bristol (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/3109)

[BestButchBoy]

"B A Bay, B E Bee, B I Bicky By, B O Bo, Bicky By Bo B U Bu, Bicky By Bo Bu."
~Moe, Larry and Curly

[Ms. Meander]

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

[jenny]

‎"Become something painted in layers, in colors that will compliment when they begin to chip and peel, timeworn and faded, preferably by salt-flecked winds and four vivid seasons, yearly, over decades of time. Age like paint, like old wood, like stones and dirt and sand. Without thought or regret, without fear or pain, without consideration for the next thing." ~Susan Moorhead

[Jet]

There's a saying old
Says that love is blind.
Still we're often told
"Seek and ye shall find."
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind.
Looking ev'rywhere,
Haven't found him yet;
He's the big affair I cannot forget -
Only man I ever think of with regret.
I'd like to add his initial to my monogram.
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?


There's a somebody I'm longing to see:
I hope that he
Turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me.
I'm a littLe lamb who's lost in the wood;
I know I could
Always be good
To one who'll watch over me.
Although he may not be the man some
Girls think of as handsome,
To my heart he carries the key
Don't you tell him, please, to put on some speed,
Follow my lead? Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me.

—Someone To Watch Over Me, George Gershwin

[Diva]

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.

~Humphrey Bogart

[Diva]

That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.

~Bill Veeck, 1976

[JakeTulane]

"Beauty is about living your life and being happy with yourself inside and out and not worrying about what people think of you." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Love cannot be measured by time, space or words. But rather, is the only thing that exists on earth with which we all can see evidence of supernatural origin." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine

[always2late]

Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW. - Mary C. Crowley

[Tucker]

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.”

[tuffboi29]

Aaaaaaaaaand I qoute...


"I'm queer in the queer sense of the queer word."



I love my odd little friend and the things she cracks me up with.

This one amazed-ed me. :|

[Gemme]

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.


Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.


Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.


Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.


Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

[Jesse]

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. -Voltaire

[BestButchBoy]

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
Socrates

[Janstevie]

A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.

[Fancy]

To love is to return to a home we never left.

[always2late]

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find."

[Tucker]

Sometimes when you win, you lose.

[jenny]

"Do epic shit." ~ Robert Wong, Google Creative Lab

[jenny]

"Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself." - William Sloane Coffin

[Sam]

"The score never interested me, only the game."

-- Mae West

[Spirit Dancer]

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

[Spirit Dancer]

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~Ouida

[Spirit Dancer]

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. ~Author unknown, attributed to Mark Twain

[Jesse]

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aristotle132211.html)

[Jesse]

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/aristotle408592.html)

[Jesse]

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!
- Merrill Markoe (http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/merrill_markoe_quotes.html)

[Jesse]

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mayaangelo392897.html)

[JakeTulane]

"I'm talking about fate here - when feelings are so powerful it's as if some force beyond your control is guiding you to someone who can make you happy beyond your wildest dreams." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." - Saint Augustine

[JakeTulane]

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

[BestButchBoy]

"Be afraid. Be very afraid."
~Wednesday Addams

[Tucker]

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

[Spirit Dancer]

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether
one has succeeded, failed, or just muddled along;
whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days
with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

[Spirit Dancer]

It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade
our appreciation for new ones; too much money can put us
out of touch with life; too much free time can dull the edge
of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so
that we can taste the marrow of life rather than its superfluities.

Joan Chittister

[BestButchBoy]

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
~Francis Bacon

[Diva]

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

~Robert Browning

[Diva]

One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.

~Italian Proverb

[BestButchBoy]

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
William Shakespeare
Witches in Macbeth.

[Janstevie]

If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and one day you will get over it.

[Janstevie]

Some say the glass is half full, some say the glass is half empty. I say “Are you gonna drink that?”

[Spirit Dancer]

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes
the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and
when you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James

[Spirit Dancer]

You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden,
but you will grow if you are sick, in pain, experience losses,
and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain
and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment,
but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

[Spirit Dancer]

The one law that does not change
is that everything changes, and the
hardship I was bearing today was
only a breath away from the pleasures
I would have tomorrow, and those
pleasures would be all the richer
because of the memories of this
I was enduring.

Louis L'Amour

[Spirit Dancer]

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of
hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of
character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents
a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the
right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

[Glenn]

As we think, act, and live, here today, we build the structures of our homes in the spirit realms after we leave earth, and we build karma for future lives thousands of years to come, on this earth or other planets. Life will assume new dignity, and labor new interests for us, when we come to the knowledge that death is but a continuation of life and labor, in higher planes- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[miss entycing]

Nobody really understood.... well, how could they?

~Jack Skellington- Nightmare Before Christmas

[Arwen]

Be a fountain. Not a drain. Rex Hudler

[Diva]

Common sense is not so common.

~Voltaire

[Diva]

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

~George Scialabra

[Spirit Dancer]

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
It thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well.
If it surfaced, it would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse-Tung

[Spirit Dancer]

It is the mind which creates the world around us,
and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow,
my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours,
my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

George Gissing

[Spirit Dancer]

The world is round and the place
which may seem like the end,
may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

[Spirit Dancer]

In this world there
is nothing softer
or thinner than
water. But to compel
the hard and unyielding,
it has no equal.
That the weak
overcomes the strong,
that the hard gives
way to the gentle –
This everyone
knows, yet no one
acts accordingly.

Lao-Tzu

[Spirit Dancer]

A moment’s insight is sometimes
worth a life’s experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Spirit Dancer]

Anyone can kneel before you and say their submissive;
Submissiveness comes from the heart
the core of who you are.

[Jesse]

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ~Doug Floyd

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. ~Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~Lydia Maria Child

Not all those who wander are lost. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~Voltaire

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. ~John Allston

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. ~Ani Difranco

[Arwen]

"Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes - these are secondary means of grace when [people] are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles." -John Hall

[Jesse]

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
Les Brown


"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."
Clark Moustakas


"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
Zig Ziglar


"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."
Peter Mcintyre

[justkim]

"It is peculiar wisdom that alerts us to that moment in time. That moment when we know it is time for us to leave."
~ Unknown ~

[JakeTulane]

"In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart." - Roberta Sage Hamilton

[JakeTulane]

"Sometimes humans beg for battles to be taken away from them, not realizing that only in struggling with shadows is the Light made manifest." - W. Michael Gear

[JakeTulane]

"By demanding results and accepting the responsibility for the failures and lacks in my own life, I gained knowingness. Today, I look back and find it hard to imagine the boy that I was. I still have mountains to climb, although I now see them as challenges. To live is to seek challenge - I would have it no other way" - Thomas D. Willhite

[Glenn]

The most sacred quote: "I AM GOD" uttered by human beings.

[Spirit Dancer]

The way to overcome the angry person is with gentleness,
the evil person with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
Indian Proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

[Spirit Dancer]

"Hope" is the thing with feathers--
That perches in the soul--
And sings the tunes without the words--
And never stops--at all.

Emily Dickinson

[Spirit Dancer]

Minutes are worth more than money.
Spend them wisely.

Thomas P. Murphy

[ravfem]

“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy” Walter Anderson

"You cannot feel the pain of rejection by someone else if you have already revealed yourself to you and accepted all of you. In other words, if you truly know yourself and can love, forgive and accept yourself, then you either won’t attract someone who rejects you when you open up or you will know that this person is not the one for you.
...You will simply move forward to open the door to someone who loves and accepts you as you are. And don’t wait for someone else to accept you so that you can accept you." Patrick Wanis

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness...” Neil Gaiman

:candle:

[rlin]

“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

bion... jennifer anniston said this... shes pretty smart as well as pretty sexy!

[MountainStar]

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.” Unknown

[DomnNC]

Anyone can kneel before you and say their submissive;
Submissiveness comes from the heart
the core of who you are.

Speak it! Amen!!

[jenny]

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." - Will Rogers

[jenny]

‎"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -The Dalai Lama

[Janstevie]

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

[TigerStripes]

Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?



William Shakespeare
I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old.


Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

:hamactor:

[Pixie]

“Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”

[Diva]

Music is an extension of my soul.

~Dick Dale

[Diva]

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

~Leopold Stokowski

[Diva]

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

[JakeTulane]

“If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart” - Italian Proverb

[JakeTulane]

“Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect." -
Swami Vivekananda

[Arwen]

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)

[JakeTulane]

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus

[Janstevie]

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

[always2late]

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. - Glenn Clark

[Nat]

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

-HDT

[MountainStar]

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! "
Maya Angelou (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mayaangelo105186.html)

[PinkieLee]

Hope is not pretending that troubles do not exist. It is the trust that troubles will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome.

[twinb4eva]

The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.

[BestButchBoy]

"Fat gives things flavor."
~Julia Child

[jenny]

"Do small things with great love." -Mother Theresa

[Diva]

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

[Diva]

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

~Dorothy Parker

[JakeTulane]

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” - Washington Irving

[JakeTulane]

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love." - Robert Tizon

[Spirit Dancer]

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say
today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

[Spirit Dancer]

We are like people on a moving sidewalk which is
going the wrong way. If we stand still, our goal
recedes. If we walk at an easy pace we barely keep
from slipping back. Only through extra effort
can we win real gains.

Harry K. Wolfe

[Spirit Dancer]

The way of the sage is to act
but not to compete.

Lao-Tzu

[MrSunshine]

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

- Louise Erdrich

[Janstevie]

" Always borrow money from a pessimist, they never expect to be paid back "

[Spirit Dancer]

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Charming Texan]

masturbating while the coffee brews is the new power nap

....I overheard this at work.

:blink:

[jenny]

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." ~Edgar J. Mohn

[JakeTulane]

"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." ~Leo Rosten

[JakeTulane]

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." ~Edward Everett Hale

[JakeTulane]

"This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." ~George Bernard Shaw

[Diva]

Flirtation: attention without intention.

~Max O'Rell

[Diva]

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since youíve become harmless.

~ Liz Smith

[jenny]

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." ~ Galileo Galilei

[Janstevie]

Success comes in cans, not can'ts.

[always2late]

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Earl Wilson

[Nat]

"If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding, when you look out- a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up - a golf-ball-sized wakefullness, and you'll have a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. *But when you expand it, more understanding, more awareness, more sense of self, self-awareness, bliss, wakefulness."

"Businesses run on fear. If I ran my set on fear, I wouldn't get even 1% of what I get. No one would go the extra mile. But it's like a macho thing to run your business on fear, and people are in fear all day long. When you fear a place, pretty soon you start to hate the place, and you hate to go to work, and that hate turns to anger and then you're angry at your work."

- David Lynch

[jenny]

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ~Audre Lorde

[Kätzchen]

"We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are gonna tell the truth; not most days but every day; leaders who don't forget what they don't want to remember."

~ Ann Richards (1988)
DNC Keynote Address

[BestButchBoy]

"integrity will cost you more than vanity. spoil yourself."
~justin r. saunders

[Spirit Dancer]

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and
thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses,
sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,
struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial.
It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or
the blending notes of music, which constitute the person.

John MacDuff

[Spirit Dancer]

I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman

[Hack]

"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
-- A.E. Housman

[justkim]

The key question to keep asking is, "Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have."
Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

[MountainStar]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde (http://quotes4all.net/oscar%20wilde.html)

[JAGG]

" She said she was going to be somebody someday. Perhaps she should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin

[tuffboi29]

I couldn't even begin to quote this fine woman. So I'll let her speak for herself.



YouTube - My First Period - Spoken Word of Staceyann Chin

[Jet]

While I have the maturity, the inclination and the experience, I haven't the time. —The Cowboys

[Jet]

We all go a little mad sometimes.—Norman Bates, Psycho

[Jesse]

I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ~Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1952

[Jesse]

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ~John Lancaster Spalding

[StillettoDoll]

"The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live of Democrats. -Will Rogers :huhlaugh:

[JakeTulane]

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." ---Mary Pickford

[JakeTulane]

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel." ---Morrie Schwartz

[JakeTulane]

"It's not where you're from; it's where you're going. It's not what you drive; it's what drives you. It's not what's on you; it's what's in you. It's not what you think; it's what you know." - Author Unknown

[Tucker]

Poeta nascitur, non fit.

[tuffboi29]

Once again...to attempt to quote this woman wouldn't do her justice...so I'll let her say it herself.


YouTube - Suheir Hamad Poetry: On the Brink of... for Rachel Corrie

[justkim]

“The greatest distance is not from here to the moon, it is from one human heart to another.
That’s the space we really need to cross.”
- Sita

[Tucker]

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

[Spirit Dancer]

Words are like knives
careful how you use them.
They might come back to cut you.

[Spirit Dancer]

Just because one lives a passive life,
it doesn't mean one allows
others to roll right over them.

[oblivia]

"One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever."
~Robert Holden

[Jesse]

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy Allison (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dorothyall398752.html)

[Jesse]

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony

[Janstevie]

What Bra sizes really mean:

(A} Almost Boobs...
{B} Barely there...
{C} Can't Complain!...
{D} Dang!...
{DD} Double dang!.....
{E} Enormous!....
{F} Fake...
{G} Get a Reduction...
{H} Help me, I've fallen
And I can't get up!...


They forgot the German bra.
Holtzemfromfloppen



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[Kätzchen]

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Where there is great love,

There are always Miracles.

~Rumi

[BestButchBoy]

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
-Goethe

[Diva]

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

~Benjamin Franklin

[Diva]

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

~Robert Anthony

[Diva]

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

~Cynthia Nelms

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”-Jack Kerouac

[jenny]

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~Albert Einstein

[Jet]

Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover's fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
—Puck, A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 3, scene 2, 110–115

[Janstevie]

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles thru tears.

[Spirit Dancer]

Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere
of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration,
little appreciations, little confidences,. . . . they are
all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.

Hugh Black

[Spirit Dancer]

In a world in which we are exposed to more information,
more options, more philosophies, more perspectives
than ever before, in which we must choose the values
by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow
some tradition for no better reason than that our own
parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own
judgment and trust our own intelligence—to look at the
world through our own eyes—to chart our course and think
through how to achieve the future we want, to commit
ourselves to continuous questioning and learning—to be,
in a word, self-responsible.

Nathaniel Branden

[Spirit Dancer]

Don’t expect perfection and things to go the way you want
them to when it comes to people, business, your prospects,
and your social life. When things don’t go according to your desires, when the weather of life is foul, be creative and
consider what may be the higher reasons why this is
happening and why you must adjust. Perhaps it’s to gain forbearance, patience, inner strength, flexibility, or the
ability to withhold criticism while serving as a loving model.

Michael Goddart

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."
— Pablo Neruda

[always2late]

"Never lie to someone that trusts you, and never trust someone that lies to you." - Dexter's nanny

[jenny]

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief” - Gerry Spence

[JakeTulane]

'We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over.” – Unknown

[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

[JakeTulane]

'Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go of pain.” – Brenda MacIntyre

[Arwen]

Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais Nin, author (1903-1977)

[Butterbean]

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.


~Italo Calvino, The Literature Machine

[Tucker]

Meglio un giorno da leone che cento da pecora

[Ravin]

Everything I'm Not, Makes Me The Person I Am..

[Janstevie]

"If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you"

[Spirit Dancer]

You learn from acting without certainty or expectations.

[Spirit Dancer]

Thinking like a winner means not always having to defeat
someone else. It means being able to grow from a situation
in which you fail to reach your goal. It involves not demanding perfection from yourself in every single thing you do, but,
instead, thinking of yourself as perfect and thus capable
of growing. It means reminding yourself that perfection
doesn’t mean staying the same; it means being able to
allow yourself to grow. Thinking as a winner means not
coming down on yourself; it means refusing to allow
self-repudiating thoughts into your head. It involves
pushing out the inclination to evaluate yourself in
comparison with others, and giving yourself permission
to be the unique person you are.

Wayne Dyer

[jenny]

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." – Herm Albright

[Spirit Dancer]

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

Don Miguel Ruiz

[always2late]

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." -Anna Freud

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything."
Marilyn Monroe

[Diva]

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

~Paul Valery

[JakeTulane]

"In this hustle-bustle world we live in, it takes creativity and resourcefulness to give a gift of the heart." - Sheryl Nicholson

[Jesse]

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative - self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck. Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within. Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences. Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security. Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. ~Jennifer James

[Jesse]

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. ~Malcolm X

[Jesse]

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same. ~Martin H. Fischer

[Jesse]

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~Edward Wallis Hoch

[Tcountry]

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.

I've learned that just because someone... doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

I've learned that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I've learned that it's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

I've learned that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you'd better know something.

I've learned that you shouldn't compare yourself to the best others can do but to the best you can do.

I've learned that it's not what happens to people that's important. It's what they do about it.

I've learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I've learned that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.

I've learned that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I've learned that it's a lot easier to react than it is to think.

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I've learned that you can keep going long after you think you can't.

I've learned that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I've learned that either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I've learned that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I've learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I've learned that learning to forgive takes practice.

I've learned that there are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.

I've learned that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

I've learned that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I've learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.

I've learned that sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

I've learned that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.

I've learned that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.

I've learned that your family won't always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren't related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families aren't biological.

I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I've learned that sometimes when my friends fight, I'm forced to choose sides even when I don't want to.
I've learned that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.

I've learned that sometimes you have to put the individual ahead of their actions.

I've learned that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.

I've learned that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

I've learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

I've learned that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.

I've learned that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.

I've learned that no matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.

I've learned that no matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.

I've learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.

I've learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

I've learned that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.

I've learned that the paradigm we live in is not all that is offered to us.

I've learned that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

I've learned that the people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.

I've learned that although the word "love" can have many different meaning, it loses value when overly used.

I've learned that it's hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people's feelings and standing up for what you believe.

[jenny]

“You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.” ~Joan Baez

[JakeTulane]

"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

[JakeTulane]

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - -- Raymond Lindquist

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[Arwen]

Does the world change when we understand who we are? No, but we see it more clearly. Do we change when we understand who we are? No, but because we can see ourselves more clearly, we may start to make different choices in our lives. So our lives may change dramatically. Once we start this growth process, we can't go back - like a flower reaches toward the sunlight we continue our journey within.

-Lissa Coffey

[Mister Bent]

"And all alone the moose he stood, laughing in a shot up wood."

- Lennart Hyland


This quote makes me absurdly happy.

[Spirit Dancer]

When one begins to practice simplicity, the ego is deprived
of the very strategy by which it sustains itself. Nothing
will deflate the ego more effectively than to be recognized
for what it is. It lives by pretension. It dies when the mask
is torn away and the stark reality is exposed to the gaze of
others. Simplicity also avails in braking the tyranny of
things. Ostentation, artificiality, ornamentation, pretentious
style, luxury—all require things. One requires few things
to be one’s self, one’s age, and one’s moral, intellectual,
or spiritual stature. What one is does not
depend upon what one has.

Albert E. Day

[Just_G]

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ~Oscar Wilde

[Ravin]

Suck It Up Princess.. It's Not The End Of The World!

[jenny]

‎"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore

[Tucker]

Interfice errorem, diligere errantem

[nycfem]

I am such a fan of Julia Butterfly Hill. Great quote!

I recommend her book: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods


"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

[jenny]

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”--Kerouac

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.

~Woody Allen

[Jet]

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
— John Lennon

"Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing--the push-pull and the rhythm of it."
— Joe Perry, Aerosmith

"All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."
— Bob Seger, Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets

"There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry."
— Stevie Wonder

"[My mama] said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but you're no Chuck Berry.'"
— Jerry Lee Lewis

"To me, Chuck Berry always was the epitome of rhythm and blues playing, rock and roll playing. It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection. He is rhythm supreme. He plays that lovely double-string stuff, which I got down a long time ago, but I'm still getting the hang of. Later I realized why he played that way--because of the sheer physical size of the guy. I mean, he makes one of those big Gibsons look like a ukulele!"
— Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones

"Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers."
— Cub Koda

"While Elvis was a country boy who sang "black" to some degree ... Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility."
— Clive Anderson

"Well, Chuck Berry is the first singer-songwriter I know of."
— Roy Orbison

"You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless."
— Smokey Robinson

Chuck Berry is "a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues.''
—Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers

"the epitome of what it is to be a rock 'n' roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."
— Joan Jett

[Tucker]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

[JakeTulane]

“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy” - Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

“True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.” - Edward O. Wilson

[JakeTulane]

"Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Mister Bent]

"Have you ever had brains? Tastes like beef, feels like applesauce."

- M. Tull

[Spirit Dancer]

All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials -
lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal,
bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Spirit Dancer]

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Spirit Dancer]

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright

[tuffboi29]

"We are in reality a group of misfits,
crazy people,
who have come together voluntarily to work this stuff out,
and do the best we can and try to be as fair as we possibly can with each other,
and just struggle though life."
:aslpeacelove: ~JerryGarcia~ :peacelove:

[Nat]

Exactly Right by Charles Bukowski

the strays keep arriving: now we have 5cats and they are smart, spontaneous, self-absorbed, naturally poised and awesomely
beautiful.

one of the finest things about cats is
that when you’re feeling down, very down,
if you just look at the cat at rest,
at the way they sit or lie and wait,
it’s a grand lesson in preserving
and if you watch 5 cats at once that’s 5
times better.

no matter the extra demands they make
no matter the heavy sacks of food
no matter the dozens of cans of tuna
from the supermarket: it’s all just fuel for their
amazing dignity and their
affirmation of a vital
live
we humans can
only envy and
admire from
afar.

[jenny]

"I love a broad margin to my life." ~ Henry David Thoreau

[little_ms_sunshyne]

I think I could fall madly in bed with you. ~Author Unknown

[Kätzchen]

‎"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being." ~Hafiz of Shiraz

[Jet]

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. —Al Capone

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable.
Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused. —Eliot Ness

[Guy]

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ~Henry Winkler

[Jet]

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. —Wyatt Earp

[Jet]

"They'll never take me alive!" — Alvin "Creepy" Karpis


All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy. —John Dillinger

I rob banks for a living, what do you do? —John Dillinger

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! —John Dillinger

No, small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone. —John Dillinger

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is! —John Dillinger

OK, boys, let's go make a withdrawal. —John Dillinger

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren.
This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last! —John Dillinger

They're not going to get me. —John Dillinger

[Jet]

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed.
The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing. —Jesse James

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln

[JakeTulane]

"Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives." - Frederick F. Flack

[MysticOceansFL]

The lights are off around me,
and I'm feeling the loneliness settle in
an eerie feeling of solitude engulfs the room.
I try to push the thoughts,
the wishy-washy feelings,
the insecurity
from my eager minded head.

I always come up empty handed,
living my life with my eyes closed
and always feeling like I've taken a solid
two steps backward from my destination
only to realize I'm where I want to be.

My childish dreams aren't so childish
and I avoid the constant chatter,
I hear the pitter patter of my heart beat
feeling the anxiety rise up through my throat
and those doubts from the chatter come back.

I'm losing the spark I thought I never had,
and instead light a match to guide my way.
It may be a temporary solution,
but I have confidence it will get me to my final goal.


A Spark, To Pierce The Dark by Britt

[BestButchBoy]

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
~Muhammad Ali

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“When you look into my eyes

And you see the crazy gypsy in my soul

It always comes as a surprise

When I feel my withered roots begin to grow

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own

That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home”

- Billy Joel

[JakeTulane]

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” - Ellen Burstyn

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already."

[jenny]

"She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going... but she was on her way." - Jodi Hill

[Liam]

Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
—Christopher Robin to Pooh

[Jesse]

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

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

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self

[Jet]

I had no recourse but to get on my knees. —Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War and as an avowed athiest.

[Jesse]

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~Author Unknown

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~Woody Allen

A dirty book is rarely dusty. ~Author Unknown

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

Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. ~George Burns

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex? ~From the television show The Golden Girls

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. ~Bob Hope

[Diva]

I will sing You to me.

~from "Australia"

[Janstevie]

Dont wait for people to be friendly, show them how.