Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Beau]

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
-- Andre Gide

[Diva]

The authentic self is the soul made visible.


~Sarah Ban Breathnach

[Diva]

Not knowing when the dawn will come,
I open every door.

~Emily Dickinson

[always2late]

"Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today." ~ Wilfred A. Peterson

[Duchess]

My karma ran over your dogma. ~Author Unknown

[Ms. Meander]

"However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup."
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

[little man]

Eternity

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.

--William Blake

[Arwen]

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.--Anna Quindlen

[Semantics]

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

Chuck Palahniuk

[weatherboi]

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Robbie Turner-Atonement

[Andrew, Jr.]

Turn our hearts toward the family of nations:
to understand the ways of others,
to offer friendship,
and to find safety only in the common good of all.


~Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers~

[apretty]

is it safe? -dr christian szell

[Queerasfck]

is it safe? -dr christian szell


Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.

[Arwen]

Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

Robbie Turner-Atonement

This movie utterly blew me away. I rented it and watched it by myself. Good thing. I needed nearly the WHOLE kleenex box! Oy!

[always2late]

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese proverb

[Ms. Meander]

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. "
~ Dorothy Allison

[daisygrrl]

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. "
~ Dorothy Allison

I adore her work! Another wonderful Dorothy Allison quote:

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

[Arwen]

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. -Louis de Berniere, novelist (b. 1954)

[jenny]

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
~ Neil Gaiman

[daisygrrl]

What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. It's *personal* to a lot of people. And what's so wrong with being personal, anyway?

--Kathleen Kelly, from You've Got Mail (one of my mom's fave movies)

[Pixie]

I believe that to truly Love, is the ultimate
expression of the will to live. A heart that
truly loves is forever young.

[purepisces]

"Because you're hoping you're wrong. And everytime she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And evertime she comes through and suprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you."

And...

"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you, and it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong, or how you could have misunderstood, and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new, and you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again, and little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."

~ both quotes from Iris (played by Kate Winslet)

[weatherboi]

In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.
Referring to Tom Builder - Pillars of the Earth -Ken Follett

[always2late]

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ~ Albert Schweitzer

[purepisces]

"Right now today, could you make an unconditional relationship with yourself? Just at the height you are, the weight you are, the amount of intelligence that you have, the burden of pain that you have?" ~ Pema Chodron

[tiggs]

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. / We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. / Love is in the giver, not the gift.

William Sloan Coffin

[always2late]

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world-not even our troubles." ~ Charlie Chaplin

[FeminineAllure]

My Love,
You have stirred deep inside of me
A place so oddly familar...
A place where the light in me shone so brightly
Through your boldness at times...
I can see with a clarity so clearly
Your pure intentions...
Like the moon sits upon the backdrop
of an Indigo sky so peacefully.

I comprehend the many volumes you speak in silences
and each meaning conveyed in your need to withdrawl...
From your musings thoughtfully abstacted the truth is always surrendered.

My love,
I stand right before you
though miles from your shore.
And yet my soul knows exactly where to look
and how to decipher
the many truths and secrets you have buried
upon the shoreline
deep within each grain of sand
on so many of your solitary walks
along the beach...
Feeling the breeze
wisping softly against your face.
Know you do not walk alone
For these are kisses from me.

I am strong enough to look into the depths of your soul
I see past just your eyes...
I remember the times i spent deciphering
your blank stares.
For what lies past that is the story of the truth today.

I cherish the memories so foreign to you now.
I long to compliment and complete you.
Like the colour of Manganese
One must risk it's toxicity
to truly be able to see and appreciate it's awe. Like the risk in loving what we can't see
We still share the same moon, sun, stars...
Look no further to also find me.

My love,
Try to remember the promise I made to you
for each time we had to depart from here
from oneanother
I vowed to always return to meet you
at our safe haven.

But only once we learned
How to recogonize
and where to look for and find the truth.
The key lies in being ready to hear the truth.

Hidden somewhere between the twilights gleem
and the early morning dawn
Sparkles so many flickers of light
All vying for your undivided attention.
But only one tiny flicker will endure
Choosing the right one
Finding it...
One must go through many tries first
Many trials. But none were in vain.

Yes, you are bright, bold, and a rareity.
Do you even remember where to look for me?
What to do once you find my slumbering soul?

No matter if you do or not
one thing is certain. No matter how far apart
we are in mere miles physically.
We share the same indigo sky...
Under the same full moon in June
Seek the beauty of it's simplicity in its complexity.

I hear a symphony speak to me in your silences.
Love...
Feel the purity in my burning passion for you
and with nothing more to test...
nothing more to question...
Simply feel my beauty as you trust the
feeling of the gentle breeze running through your
hair, body and being.
For under this Moon and Indigo sky
know that it is I that has kissed your face
Like the wind, like that breeze.
You can't see it...until its a tornado
But you can always feel its stirrings first.

[hippieflowergirl]

no matter how dark the hour, love and hope are always possible george chakiris

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” - Angela Monet

[NJFemmie]

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

[Semantics]

Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

Rob Brezsny

[Semantics]

Enjoy saying "no!" but don’t make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses...


Rob Brezsny

[Toofrufru]

“Be a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead of a discordant note.
The medicine this sick world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love,
and fear by faith that love will prevail."
~Peace Pilgrim

[daisygrrl]

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
– J.D. Salinger

[Pixie]

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

[Arwen]

"No matter what you wear...to me, you will always have diamonds on the soles of your shoes." Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward.

[Beau]

“It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.”
-- George Bernard Shaw

[Semantics]

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
-Richard Brautigan

[Arwen]

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."— Anne Frank

[always2late]

"When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." -Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam Veteran (1943-1988)

[SassyLeo]

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[Pixie]

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

Jim Morrison

[weatherboi]

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.
Optimus Prime Transformers 2

[always2late]

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." ~ Lewis Carroll

[JakeTulane]

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." ~Harold Wilson

[JakeTulane]

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

[Pixie]

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”

[JakeTulane]

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.” - Sonia Johnson

[JakeTulane]

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

[always2late]

"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears."
- James Allen

[daisygrrl]

…most of the time when we hear about “rights,” we understand them as pertaining to individuals, or when we argue for protection against discrimination, we argue as a group or a class. And in that language in that context, we have to present ourselves as bonded beings, distinct, recognizable, delineated, subjects before the law, a community defined by sameness. Indeed, we had better be able to use that language to secure legal protections and entitlements. But perhaps we make a mistake if we take the definitions of who we are, legally, to be adequate descriptions of what we are about.

--Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

[JakeTulane]

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” - John M. Richardson, Jr.

[JakeTulane]

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours" - Cesar Chavez

[always2late]

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. " ~ Henry Miller

[Pixie]

“Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.”

[always2late]

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius

[Diva]

Quieten your mind.
Reflect.
Watch.
Nothing binds you.
You are free.

You are strong.


~Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"Conscience is a man's compass." -Vincent Van Gogh

[JakeTulane]

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." -Brad Henry

[Diva]

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

~William Ernest Henley

[Arwen]

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ~ Oscar Wilde

[hpychick]

If I had a star for every time you made me smile, I would hold in my hand the entire night sky.

Old Norwegian Proverb

[Diva]

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

~Danny Kaye

[always2late]

"We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are." - Cardinal Mercia

[Pixie]

“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[always2late]

"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson

[Semantics]

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

[Just_G]

Sometimes our hearts get tangled and our souls a little off-kilter. Friends and family can set us right and help guide us back to the light.
~Sera Christann

[Arwen]

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than what he ought to expect from them. --Elizabeth De Meulan Guizot

[Pixie]

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”
Kahlil Gibran

[Diva]

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

~Jimmy Buffett

[Diva]

Gently remind Yourself that Life
is okay the way it is, right now.
In the absence of Your judgment,
everything would be fine.
As You begin to eliminate Your
need for perfection in all areas
of Your Life, You'll begin to discover
the perfection in Life Itself.

~Richard Carlson, from "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff"

[weatherboi]

Gently remind Yourself that Life
is okay the way it is, right now.
In the absence of Your judgment,
everything would be fine.
As You begin to eliminate Your
need for perfection in all areas
of Your Life, You'll begin to discover
the perfection in Life Itself.

~Richard Carlson, from "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff"
I'm telling you, you gotta help me! Don't leave me here! I'm in hillbilly hell! My IQ's dropping by the second! I'm becoming one of them!

Lightning McQueen
Cars

I am looking forward to moving!!

[Pixie]

I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.

Noah from The Notebook

[Arwen]

"Sometimes hanging in there is all it takes to succeed in life as well as in writing. Failure is part of the process, but it doesn't have to be the final destination." - Sabrina Jeffries

[always2late]

"Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them." ~ Laurence J. Peter

[weatherboi]

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Mercedes Ruehl

[Diva]

Inside of a ring or out,
ain't nothing wrong with going down.
It's staying down that's wrong.

~Muhammad Ali

[Semantics]

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

[Arwen]

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. --Goethe

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time. -- Darren L. Johnson

[always2late]

"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[violaine]

“be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

Victor Hugo

[Diva]

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

[weatherboi]

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa, A Gift for God (1975)

[IrishGrrl]

Raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken.

-my real estate agent

[Gemme]

One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller


Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc


We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw


If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950


Why be a man when you can be a success?
Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)


There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)


Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. Eisenhower

[I'mOneToo]

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.


--Stephen Vincent Benet

[always2late]

"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?" ~ Sidney J. Harris

[weatherboi]

The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed.

King Leonidas--300

[Diva]

Leave something good in every day.

~Dolly Parton

[violaine]

“A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.”

“Those who live are those who fight.”

“No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep”

--vh

[Spirit Dancer]

There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life and the lives
of the people you love. When you will learn to tap
this source, you will have truly defeated age.

Sophia Loren

[Spirit Dancer]

One ship drives east and another west,
With the self-same winds that blow;
'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales
That determines where they go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life;
'Tis the set of a soul that decides its goal--
And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[FeminineAllure]

For belle who lives this quote... "The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities." ~Author Unknown

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more." -Melody Beattie

[always2late]

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill

[Diva]

The high note is not the only thing.

~Placido Domingo

[weatherboi]

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Arwen]

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. - Shakti Gawain

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“False friends are worse than open enemies” Proverbs

[Diva]

Zest is the secret of all beauty.
There is no beauty that is
attractive without zest.

~Christian Dior

[FeminineAllure]

Look for things to feel good about, and watch how everything in your life will unfold to reflect that good-feeling vibration.:balloon:

Abraham-Hicks

[Soon]

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

William Blake

[Pixie]

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

[always2late]

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

[Jet]

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. —Emerson

[weatherboi]

WHEN WE TWO PARTED


WHEN we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow--
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me--
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:
Lond, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.

I secret we met--
I silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.

[Spirit Dancer]

Why not let people differ about their
answers to the great mysteries of the
Universe? Let each seek one's own
way to the highest, to one's own sense
of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life.
Let each philosophy, each world-view
bring forth its truth and beauty to a
larger perspective, that people may
grow in vision, stature and dedication.

Algernon Black



What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot

[Arwen]

[/URL]Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~~ Buddha

[URL="http://www.wisdomquotes.com/003377.html"] (http://www.wisdomquotes.com/004123.html)Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~~ Denis Waitley

[Duchess]

"People are like tea bags, sometimes what gets them in "hot water" can also bring out their true nature and make them stronger."(f)
- Unknown

[Duchess]

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.(f)

Barbara De Angelis (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Barbara+De&Author_Last_Name=Angelis&Movie=)
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

[purepisces]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jenny]

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." ~ Helen Keller

[HeartBreak Kid]

Say I chew desire and water is an explosion
of sugar wings in my mouth.


Say it tastes of you.


Say I could drown because you left
for the time it takes a blackbird to understand
a pine tree.


Say we enter the pine woods at dawn.


We never slept and the only opium we smoked
was what became of our mingled breath.


Say the stars have never learned
to say good-bye. (One is a jewel
of blue magic in your perfect ear.)


Say all of this is true and more


then there are blackbirds
in a heaven of blackbirds.

Joy Harjo, "Desire"

[purepisces]

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

~ Ani Difranco

[Diva]

The greatest discovery of my generation
is that a human being can alter his life
by altering his attitude.

~William James

[HeartBreak Kid]

when im sad or very very blue, i remeber the words i wrote many many many years ago.....



See my skin

Taste my tears

Feel my pain

Live my fears

How much more do I have to give?

Emotional dysfunction makes it hard to live

The more I give the more you take

The more I push the sooner I’ll break

The passion that once burned in my eyes

Replaced by doubt perpetrated by lies

Neuroticism only amplifies the pain

The fight for your affections is all in vain

The heart grows colder and empty each day

The tongue is sore biting back things to say

Love and cherish, don’t use and abuse

Take a gamble on love what do you got to lose

Your perfect ending leads to bliss

My perfect ending is anything but this

Your biggest dream finding normality

My biggest nightmare….my own reality


You don’t know me

You never tried

Assumed I was ok

You never tried

I begged for your help

You never tried

I asked for your love

You never tried

I told you I was bad off

You never tried

I told you I couldn’t stop

You never tried

Actions speak louder than words

You never tried

I was never your daughter

You never tried

I was never your sister

You never tried

An outcast an imposer

I never tried

A liar and a weirdo

I never tried

Always having issues

I never tried

Demanded to much

I never tried

Expected the world

But I never tried

Solve the problem

We never tried

Alone again....

Myself I rely

Peace and Love..

[HeartBreak Kid]

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:

For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.
Audre Lorde ~ A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL

[FeminineAllure]

Sweet is pleasure after pain.
JOHN DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast

[Spirit Dancer]

Take the breath of the new dawn and
make it part of you. It will give you strength.

from the Hopi

[hippieflowergirl]

within this small sphere we call "life", we can stare all we like into the past,
but it is only the future that will be coming our way

(unknown)

[Diva]

Because our gifts carry us out into the world
and make us participants in life,
the uncovering of them is one of the most
important tasks confronting any one of us.

~Elizabeth O'Connor

[always2late]

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills

[Pixie]

Live today, await tommorow, remember yesterday... everything happens for a reason. life's too short... dance naked!You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you

Laughter is timeless --
Imagination has no age --
And dreams are forever

-----Tinkerbell

[FeminineAllure]

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
xFenderx Morrie Schwartz quotes

[MrSunshine]

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

~Sir Winston Churchill

[Jet]

"Bother geology...tsk, tsk" —My creative writing professor

[HeartBreak Kid]

While picking up my son from school, a concerned parent called 911 insisting that A child had been Abducted.
Later I would find myself crying into my hardwood floors over and over "That's my Baby" ...It wasn't untill my Son's Paternal grandparents came to my "rescue" that I was allowed to show them my childs birth certificate and social security card along with Pictures from the hospital....I was told, just cause I made a little "half-breed" don't go gettin all upity....*SMH this is dedicated to the fine policemen I met today.....and their Daddies.....

yo daddy
a new version of the dozens
hattie gossett


1.


yo daddy
yo daddy’s daddy
his daddy
his great granddaddy’s great great grandaddy’s daddy
you daddy look like death ridin’ radar wings
yo daddy walk like a broke dick dog


yo daddy’s breath smell like chemical fallout and industrial waste and he always up in somebody’s face


yo daddy deals coke outta platinumplated minklined deluxe rolls royce van with 16track quad deck and 3d color tv yet he got all 13 of yall livin in a furnished room the size of a mosquitoes tweeter cookin hamhocks on a hotplate and you got to go downstairs to the greasyspoon to go to the bathroom


yo daddy dips snuff and wears a bowler hat and walks pintoed with a cane


you daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s daddy was the slave who stayed behind when everyone else escaped to freedom talkin’ bout i aint gonna leave ma massa cuz he been so good to me


2.


pierre cardin daddy
eleganza daddy
robert hall d
robe wearin dady
joggin suit runnin shoes daddy
surplus store daddy
skullcap earring daddy
greasy do rag daddy
pinhead beanhead footballhead beadyhead dad
earwax toejam daddy
frogeyed redeyed crosseyed daddy
bucktooth snaggletooth gaptooth notooth daddy
highbehind bigbelly daddy
knockkneed slewfooted pigeontoed daddy
liverlip talkinshit tonguetied daddy
sugardaddy with a chippies playground the size of central park


3.


the employer who wants to pinch my ass and pay me less money than he would a man? his daddy


the wife beaters daddy


the rapists daddy


the childmolesters daddy


the socialworkers and judges who say lesbians aint fit mothers? their daddies


the lowlifed protoplasm that steals old peoples welfare and social security checks outta they mailboxes and mugs they money outta they pockets? his daddy


the groceryman who raises the prices on them rotten greens and that rancid meat on check day? his daddy


the healthfood storeman who keeps his prices high all the time? his daddy


the slumlords daddy


the industrial polluters? their daddies


the committee in charge of cuttin back social services? their daddies


the setup nuclear power production committee? their daddies


all the bigtime capitalist daddies


all their smalltime neocolonial overseer daddies too


5.


if you white you alright if you black get back daddy


i don’t haul no coal daddy


all a blackbitch can do for me is drive me in my whiteonwhiteinwhite cadillac to see a white lady daddy


i don’t want nothing black but a cadillac daddy


talkin black sleepin white daddy


the woman’s position in the revolution is prone daddy


no foreplay daddy


all technique and no feelins daddy


yeah i want some head but naw i aint gonna eat no pussy daddy


no stayin power daddy


if i give you some money and some coke can i watch you and your girlfriend freak off daddy


do you want to tie


can i tie you up and beat you daddy


group sex at the singles club daddy


find em feel em fuck em and forget em daddy


seen at the gaybaths after talkin long and loud bout faggots this and faggots the other daddy


no warmth no sensitivity gentleness affection either daddy


60second daddy


did you come did you come did you come daddy


roll over and go to sleep daddy


5.


soldier sailor green beret daddy
executive suite daddy
maitenance man daddy
hotshot athlete daddy
porno star daddy
ebony bachelor daddy
reefer smokin guntotin asskickin gorilla revolutionary daddy
rushin off to africa where the real struggle is daddy
blissfully ignorant about whats goin on right here daddy
incense sellin daddy
loose joints king daddy
bigtime politico daddy
assembly line daddy
secretary nurse homecompanion daddy
cold beer fishnchips place daddy
rags and old iron daddy
highclass houseniggah daddy
noclass fieldniggah daddy
passin out poorly printed religious tracts in the bus station daddy
shoppingbagman
pimppusher daddy
hoodoo voodoo poet daddy
parttime prophet and guru daddy
parttime nonskilled unemployed daddy
wont get no job daddy
wont wash no dishes daddy
wont take care of no babies daddy
how come my dinner aint ready daddy
what you mean you tired daddy
seen at the notell motel with yo wifes best friend daddy
what you mean you goin out with the sisters daddy
seen at the notell motel with your best friends wife daddy
but baby i didnt mean to hurt yo feelins daddy
wont use no protection daddy
wont let yo woman use no birthcontrol daddy
beat yo woman cuz she had an abortion daddy
it aint none of my baby daddy
strip yo woman naked mutilate her kick her out in the snow daddy
chastity belt daddy
harlot branding daddy
drawing&quatering bonebreaking burning at the stake daddy
madonna in a crisscross on the cross daddy
polygamy daddy
cliterodectomy daddy
hysterectomy daddy
foot bin
child bride daddy
chador and veil daddy
we will not have our women wearing those decadent western bluejeans daddy


if a woman is not a profit to me she is a pain in my ass daddy


i dont want a woman with no hair shorter than mine daddy


a woman is like a pipe you gotta break em in daddy


a menstruating or lactating woman cannot touch food enter holy places sleep in the house or touch men daddy


women are childlike sickly helpless neurotic incapable of serious thought son they will throw lye and cocacola on you while you sleep and make a fool outta you barbeque yo clothes slash yo tires put things in yo food bleed every month blow yur mind and live longer than you daddy


shes cute when shes mad daddy


little girls should wear bouncy curls play passively with pink pasty-faced dolls and with all their hearts and souls hope to die sho nuff cross yo heart and open yo legs love their daddies daddy


yo daddy


my daddy


they all got little bitty peanut dicks

[JakeTulane]

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." - Anais Nin

[JakeTulane]

"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." - D.H. Lawrence

[Lady Jewel]

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

~Mother Theresa

[Arwen]

You know it's weird when you wake up that morning and realize your entire adult life was based on a decision made by a teenager. A stoned teenager? ~ Stew Passing' Strange *http://stewsongs.com/

[always2late]

"The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible." - Jeff Taylor

[Diva]

We all have big changes in our lives that are ~ more or less ~ a second chance.

~Harrison Ford

[weatherboi]

Like the church, like a cop, like a mother
You want me to be truthful
Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon though
And I need your approval...

Joni Mitchell

[Soon]

Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you.
Act for yourself.
Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

[always2late]

"We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright..." ~ Mary Caroline Richards

[JakeTulane]

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place” - C.S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” -Baltasar Gracian

[Diva]

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

~William James

[Pixie]

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri

[violaine]

“in human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
-- Henry David Thoreau

[purepisces]

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez

[HeartBreak Kid]

I love fleshy women whose buttocks rise
in my hands like freshly baked bread,
arms that surge outward from my embrace,
thighs that surround me like love itself.
I love flesh that is firm and tender, flesh
that is wild, I love flesh that is yours
these afternoons when rain falls gently as flesh itself,
when all that is moral dissolves like flesh,
and only the sounds of flesh can be heard
singing, We are still here, love, we are going on.
~Michael Blumenthal, "Flesh"

[Blade]

When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.....

ummm anybody know where I can get a flea collar in my size

[Arwen]

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
-Jane Smiley

Desire moves us to action. The bigger the desire, the swifter the action. When we really want something, we get creative, and pull out all the stops. We engage our intelligence, we find the means to fulfill our desire. We become empowered.
-Lissa Coffey

[HeartBreak Kid]

Ayn Rand-Anthem-
excerpts-things to ponder :deepthoughts:

~My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.~

~I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.~


~For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.~



~And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.

The sacred word:

EGO ~
:ohm:

[MrSunshine]

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

~Malcolm Gladwell

[Selenay]

A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL


For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:

For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive

- Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn

[Diva]

Every experience in life,
everything with which we have come in contact in life,
is a chisel which has been
cutting away at our life statue,
molding,
modifying,
shaping it.
We are part of all we have met.
Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought
has had its hand in molding us,
shaping us.

~Orison Swett Marden

[JakeTulane]

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.” - Unknown

[Diva]

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

[MrSunshine]

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

~Confucius

[always2late]

"The meaning of life is to give life meaning." ~ Ken Hudgins

[Selenay]

I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.

-Kim Addonizio

[purepisces]

Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication. ~ Algernon Black

[weatherboi]

"Some men see things as they are and say 'why'? Others dream things that never were and say, 'why not'?"

George Bernard Shaw

[JakeTulane]

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

"Every season I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends” - Kenneth Cole

[JakeTulane]

"I donated some bags and accessories. But a lot of people and supporters have really done a lot of the work…and eBay takes it to the entire world and not just the fashion elite.” - Kenneth Cole

[Jet]

"Some men see things as they are and say 'why'? Others dream things that never were and say, 'why not'?"

George Bernard Shaw


Most memorable by Robert Kennedy.

[Soon]

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

--Virginia Woolf

[HeartBreak Kid]

The less you need, the more they give.
Mm hmm *s
xo

:p

~a wonderful women, and good friend.....I hope I am half the woman she is when I grow up...~

[weatherboi]

Most memorable by Robert Kennedy.

Sheesh i am a dumbass...lokin at the wrong line! Thanks!!

[Jet]

Sheesh i am a dumbass...lokin at the wrong line! Thanks!!

it's a common mistake, that's all.

[JakeTulane]

"All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!" ~Thomas Carlyle

[JakeTulane]

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[JakeTulane]

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” - Walt Whitman

[Diva]

Happiness is a perfume You cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on Yourself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Selenay]

I am the woman of myth and bullshit.
(True. I authored some of it.)
I built my house of ill repute.
Brick by brick. Labored,
loved and masoned it.

I live like so.


-Sandra Cisneros

[Arwen]

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. ~~Gordon Lightfoot

I`m a little nuts. I`m a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it`s my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot

[FeminineAllure]

"It is not ideas that change the world but simple gestures of love given to the people around you, and often to those you feel most at odds with. In order to save the world you must serve the people in your life. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."
- Thomas Merton

[FeminineAllure]

D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.

Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931)
Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

[JakeTulane]

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” - James Nathan Miller

[JakeTulane]

"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood” - William Shakespeare

[always2late]

"We cannot hold a torch to light another persons path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland

[Arwen]

"I'm not ignoring the bad stuff, I just prefer to dance while I figure out the answers...." (No clue of the author. Couldn't Google one. Friend of mine on FB said this.)

[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 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

[JakeTulane]

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~Danny Kaye

[Diva]

A smile starts on the lips,
A grin spreads to the eyes,
A chuckle comes from the belly;
But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
Overflows, and bubbles all around.

~Carolyn Birmingham

[weatherboi]

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.
Lord Byron

[Beau]

“We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it”

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[always2late]

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right." ~ Martin Luther King

[Diva]

How can a woman be expected to be happy with someone who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

~Oscar Wilde

[Arwen]

In the long run, it's not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. You're not forgiving them for their sake. You're doing it for yourself. For your own health and well-being, forgiveness is simply the most energy-efficient option. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don't let these people live rent free in your head. If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind? It's not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them as a way of looking out for yourself. It's one thing you can be totally selfish about. ~~Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

[Diva]

Art in the blood takes on the strangest forms.

~Sherlock Holmes

[Diva]

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

~Oprah Winfrey

[JakeTulane]

"You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves." - Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

[JakeTulane]

"A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness." - Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

[JakeTulane]

"The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." - Denis Diderot

[T D]

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

~ MLK Jr ~

[Arwen]

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[purepisces]

A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~ Dr. Robert Schuller

[Selenay]

Make love to me in Spanish.
Not with that other tongue.
I want you juntito a mí,
tender like the language
crooned to babies.
I want to be that
lullabied, mi bien
querido, that loved.

I want you inside
the mouth of my heart,
inside the harp of my wrists,
the sweet meat of the mango,
in the gold that dangles
from my ears and neck.

Say my name. Say it.
The way it's supposed to be said.
I want to know that I knew you
even before I knew you.


--Sandra Cisneros

[always2late]

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. - English Proverb

[Lady Jewel]

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." ~Rumi

[Lady Jewel]

"If you can’t smell the fragrance
Don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way".~Rumi

[Lady Jewel]

My daughter is sick as a dog right now and I asked her if her body ached and if she needed some Tylenol for the aches and pains and her response was, "I feel so sick right now, my body aches so bad, that even my immune system hurts" LOL. (I think its one of those, "Ya had to be there" lines, but it cracked me up when she said it.) I think Im gonna use that quote from now on when Im sick.

[Lady Jewel]

"Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it"
~Tagore

[Lady Jewel]

"Sensuality often accelerates the growth of love so much that its roots remain weak and are easily pulled up."
Friedrich Nietzsche (http://chatna.com/author/nietzsche.htm)

[Diva]

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

~Oprah Winfrey

[Diva]

Never fear growing old; there are many who never had the privilege.

~Anon

[always2late]

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." ~ Mack R. Douglas

[JakeTulane]

"Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open." -Thomas Dewar

[JakeTulane]

"Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts." - Eleanor H. Porter

[JakeTulane]

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[purepisces]

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ~ Jeanette Winterson

[Arwen]

"Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep."
-Agnes Meyer

When trees have deep roots they don't fall over as easily. It works the same with people. Our roots help to support us, and to keep us strong when the wind blows hard. Our roots can nourish us. It's up to us to grow these roots for ourselves - with our friends, our family, our community and our memories.
-Lissa Coffey

Thanks for being part of my memories (good, bad and otherwise) to everyone here on the Planet. And, yes, I mean all y'all. :shocking:

[Just_G]

Wake up every morning as if it were on purpose.
Hitch

[Rook]

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

Anything you say will be held against you. ... "tits"

once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404

:computer2:

[Just_G]

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you.
~one of my drinkin' buddies on Facebook....lol :shocking:

[Arwen]

I couldn't earn the right to speak about the universe showering us with blessings until I made peace with the dark goddess and became better allies with my own shadow.~~ Rob Brezsny (http://www.freewillastrology.com)

[Diva]

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

~Will Rogers

[Lady Jewel]

"Ive had people that make me physically wet, no problem. What I would REALLY like to find is that person who makes me emotionally wet."

~Me. I said this LOL.

[Diva]

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

~Corrie TenBoom

[Andrew, Jr.]

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

[purepisces]

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~ Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life” - Ella Wheeler

[JakeTulane]

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” - Rabindranath Tagore

[JakeTulane]

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” - Mark Twain

[purepisces]

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

[violaine]

Besides the fact that birds are colorful, easy to see in the sky, they are an important indicator of how healthy our environment is.
- Milan Bull, CT Audubon Society, 2007

Birds have a way of putting things in perspective. They forge ahead and carry on no matter what happens. No dwelling on the past, no regrets, sheer 100% survival..and beauty.
- Susan Halpin, 2008

Birds are the most vivid expression of life
- epitaph Roger Tory Peterson chose for his tombstone.

[purepisces]

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up. ~ Deepak Chopra

[T D]

People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem.
They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is
simply a reflection of those feelings.

~ HENDRIE WEISINGER ~

[MrSunshine]

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~Jean Nidetch

[Diva]

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.


~Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Diva]

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

~Flora Whittemore

[JakeTulane]

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

[JakeTulane]

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

[JakeTulane]

"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

[purepisces]

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ~ Jim Morrison

[jenny]

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Mother Teresa

[purepisces]

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ~ Gilda Radner

[FeminineAllure]

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran

[HeartBreak Kid]

I may have posted this already.......
But damn...it's just that delicious.... :chocolate:

She was wildfire, that girl. She could move like lightning or flow easy as a dream. If she desired you, she only had to think about you and you'd be hers. She wore orange and red like painted passion.

Soft and hot at times, or hard as stone when she needed to be. She was an orphan, had the soul of an orphan, had to learn things the hard way. But once she made a decision, there was no turning back.
People say she had a heart of stone, but that's not true. She was sweet too, and generous. She'd offer her soul, which was as wide as the earth is wide.

Always giving of herself. Constantly giving everything, as if there were an endless river inwards. Creating worlds from her own substance. Can you imagine the pain she was able to endure? Burning like that at all times?

Can we? Be like her? I asked my friend, crying from inside, and she said,

Oh my tender love, so many girls have died trying.

~"Kim Jensen, from "Halfway Places"~

Peace and Love :praying:

[Diva]

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich person's abode.

~Henry David Thoreau

[HeartBreak Kid]

What if is my son's favorite game, I have found it is also a favorite of those "afraid" of LOVE :heartbeat:

So at 3:00am it just fits.........
What if you slept ?

And what if,
In your sleep
You dreamed ?

And what if,
In your dream,
You went to heaven
And there plucked
A strange and
Beautiful flower ?


And what if,
When you awoke,
You had the flower in your hand ?

....Ah, what then?

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

Peace and Love :praying:

[Diva]

One's level of integrity and character is revealed by the way one care's for their pet.

~A friend of mine at Animal Trustees of Austin

[daisygrrl]

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~Rita Mae Brown

[always2late]

"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures." - Charles Noble

[robbrt]

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

Hemingway--"A Farewell To Arms"

excellent read.

[jenny]

"Rescue work is like jazz. Improvisation based on fundamentals." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"

[purepisces]

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

[jenny]

"Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. The swamps grow spongy and pungent. Standing water goes warm and soupy, clotted with frog eggs and twitching with larvae. Along the ditches, heron-legged stalks of canary grass shoot six feet high and unfurl seed plumes. In the fields, the clover pops its blooms and corn trembles for the sky." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"

[HeartBreak Kid]

" i slept...an i drempt we were making love, slow sweet and damn....
oh so good....
we were connected mind body and soul, two bodies perfectly in sync....
i felt you tense as i tensed......
i tasted your pleasure on your lips...and skin....
i rode a wave of pure pleasure from your touch....
we peaked...and peaked....and peaked again......untill we lay still....
damp and chilled from our exertion.....
we spoon and our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces....
i breath in your scent......
and doze in you arms.....safe and content.....
we, i awake...i am alone....my body aches to feel urs.....
i lost you in a dream......."
~Me~

Peace and Love......:ohm:

[Diva]

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

~Charles L. Morgan

[FeminineAllure]

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

[Charming Texan]

Drunk as Drunk

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.

- Neruda