Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Diva]

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

~Michael Torke

[Diva]

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

~Ronald Reagan

[Kobi]

"I drank what?"

Socrates

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Ok. I, like being on my own. I think relationships are messy and people’s feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We’re young, we live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world; might as well have fun while we can and, save the serious stuff for later."

- 500 Days Of Summer

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember."

Elizabethtown

[Spirit Dancer]

I wake each morning with the thrill of expectation
and the joy of being alive.
And I'm thankful for this day.

Angela L. Wozniak

[Spirit Dancer]

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory; go forward with a joyful confidence in that result sooner or later, and the sooner or later depends mainly on yourself.

Anne Gilchrist

[Spirit Dancer]

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
-- Dale Carnegie

[Spirit Dancer]

Dreams are renewable.
No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us
and new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dr. Dale Turner





Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her:
but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
-- Voltaire

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"It gives me thrills to wind you up!" ;)

- Kate Nash

[Rook]

Mike Lowery: Okay, look, we're a partnership, but we're a partnership with boundaries. We got a new rule. From now on, you can't say the word "flaccid" to me. This is our little "boundary box." We're gonna take the word "flaccid" and put it in there with my mom's titties, and your erection problem, and we gonna close this box and we gonna throw this bitch in the ocean. And the only way that you can get to this box is you gotta be motherfuckin' Jacques Cousteau.
Heavy Black Woman: [Screaming at store manager] You got porno and homo shows up in here in front of my babies? What kind of freak-ass store is this?
Heavy Black Woman: [to Mike and Marcus as they walk by] Hmmpf, and you two muthafuckas need Jesus.
============
[Mike accidentally shot Marcus in the ass]
Detective Mateo Reyes: Yo Mike, why don't you just give it a little kiss? You know, make it feel better?
Detective Marco Vargas: Hey, just pretend we're not even here.
Marcus Burnett: Say, isn't Ricky Martin having a concert? Get the fuck on!
Detective Mateo Reyes: You always gotta go racial, man.
Detective Marco Vargas: It's sad, man.
=========

[Passionaria]

Life's messy, clean it up~~ Brawny

[Fancy]

I'm looking for something that can deliver a 50-pound payload of snow on a small feminine target. Can you suggest something? Hello...?

~Calvin & Hobbes

[Janstevie]

'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll create a life. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.'

[Janstevie]

http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm

This is so worth a watch, chinese Swanlake.

[Spirit Dancer]

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need. Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Spirit Dancer]

"Aligning our minds with the most compassionate
words and thoughts we can muster can bring
connection and a sense of peace. For some,
it means giving up almost an entire way of life,
but only this will allow glints of joy to shine through."

Laura Berman Fortgang

[Spirit Dancer]

It is not difficult to see how dependent simplicity is upon solitude.
Enslavement to the opinions of others is the source of a great deal
of duplicity in modern society. How often we discover our action
to be prompted, not by the divine Center, but by what others
may say or think. Sadly, we must confess that our experience
is all too frequently characterized by endless attempts
to justify what we do or fail to do.

Richard J. Foster

[jenny]

"Wine is bottled poetry." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them."

Elizabethtown

[Diva]

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

~Maya Angelou

[Diva]

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

~Lao Tzu

[StillettoDoll]

"If you want to be successful. its just that simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And Believe in what you are doing."
Will Rogers

[nycfem]

Susie Bright, sexpert:

"Take sexual inspiration from everyone and sexual instruction from no one."

and

"Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite."

and

"There are people who will judge your sexual expression. You won’t always understand what makes them tick— and believe me, they don’t either. Perhaps they are elitists or opportunists, zealots or bigots. Whatever their motives— when they decide to go after sex, they come at you with a stick."

[always2late]

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.- Henry Miller

[Arwen]

Passion
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
-Rebecca West (1985)

Something within us helps us to find our passions. It's not like a conscious choice, like looking through a catalog and picking a hobby or something. We are drawn to things that we feel passionate about. We can't help but move towards things that give us that drive, that energy, that life force that is so all-encompassing. We have the desires, and the passions that we have for a reason. And pursuing our passions is one of the most important things we can do while we're living our lives.

-Lissa Coffey

Lissa is in the running for a Good Morning America Guru. Won't you stop by her page (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/DearGMA/dear-gma-advice-guru-finalist-lissa-coffey/story?id=12249531) and "like", share, comment, tweet it out? I'd appreciate it. She's awesome.

[Spirit Dancer]

Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholomondeley

[Tucker]

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

[LipstickLola]

"And when the wind did not blow her away......and it surely has not......she adjusted her sails"

the late Elizabeth Edwards....Godspeed.

[Mister Bent]

"You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons."

- Elaine Benes

[JakeTulane]

"Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin? To say that you are weak, or others are weak." - Swami Vivekananda

[JakeTulane]

"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

[Ms. Meander]

Perhaps it was an error to think that I could carry such a large soul in my narrow character and mortal body. But if we do not attempt, we shall not enlarge our humanity even by the smallest whit.

Julia Alvarez - Saving The World

[Tucker]

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality. The touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh God, as a woman I want to be dominated...but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

[PinkieLee]

I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

-Elizabeth Edwards

[BestButchBoy]

“Words are what men live by, words they say and mean.” -John Wayne

[Just_G]

Clarity is obtained when you can separate your sleep dreams, your fears, your fantasies and your reality.
~P.J. Varsalona

[always2late]

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself." ~Ralph Ellison

[JakeTulane]

"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune." ~Boris Pasternak

[Arwen]

Teaching is not always about passing on what you know, it is about passing on who you are.

Julia Loggins

[justkim]

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
- Mother Teresa

[Spirit Dancer]

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time.
Some people bear three--all they have had,
all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

[Diva]

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

~Walt Disney

[StillettoDoll]

"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday"
Paris Hilton
:blueheels:
:birthdaycake:
:flyaway:
:danceparty:

[JakeTulane]

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up." — James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

[JakeTulane]

"The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs." — Richard Petty and John Cacioppo

[JakeTulane]

"Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad — not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life — to keep us moving ... to keep us growing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be static ... boring ... dull." — Dr. Dennis O'Grady

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Life is not the amount of breaths you make, it's the moments that take your breath away."

-Hitch

[Nat]

Sins of the Father
by W.D. Ehrhart

Today my child came home from school in tears.
A classmate taunted her about her clothes,
and the other kids joined in, enough of them
to make her feel as if the fault was hers,
as if she can't fit in no matter what.
A decent child, lovely, bright, considerate.
It breaks my heart. It makes me want someone
to pay. It makes me think—O Christ, it makes
me think of things I haven't thought about
in years. How we nicknamed Barbara Hoffman
"Barn," walked behind her through the halls and mooed
like cows. We kept this up for years, and not
for any reason I could tell you now
or even then except that it was fun.
Or seemed like fun. The nights that Barbara
must have cried herself to sleep, the days
she must have dreaded getting up for school.
Or Suzanne Heider. We called her "Spider."
And we were certain Gareth Schultz was queer
and let him know it. Now there's nothing I
can do but stand outside my daughter's door
listening to her cry herself to sleep.

"Sins of the Father" by W.D. Ehrhart, from The Bodies Beneath the Table. © Adastra Press

[justkim]

"A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same."
- Fanny Flagg

[JakeTulane]

"Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it." - D.H. Lawrence

[JakeTulane]

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence." - David Byrne

[JakeTulane]

"And think not you can
Direct the course of love,
For love,
If it finds you worthy,
Directs your course" - Khalil Gibran

[always2late]

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig

[Jesse]

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~Victor Hugo

[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

[JakeTulane]

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

[justkim]

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It was there all of this time."

- Anna Freud -

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown

[Tucker]

Two people can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other. Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

[Passionaria]

The one word solution to all the problems the world is facing is "COMPASSION" ~Amma

[Spirit Dancer]

Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going -- literally or symbolically -- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

Wilferd A. Peterson

[Spirit Dancer]

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts
of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding
and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions
and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
Adam Clarke

[Spirit Dancer]

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose
a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can.
But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

[shadows papa]

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

[justkim]

"You are bountiful. You are blissful. You are beautiful."
-unknown-

[Rook]

Pope Benedict XVI recently Condemned Homosexuality as an Abomination....This coming from a guy who goes to work every day lookin' like Lady Gaga ~ Denis Leary

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, uh uh, but rather it is a tapestry of acts that culminate in an exquisite, sublime plan"

"When love feels like magic, it’s called Destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, It’s called Serendipity"

- Serendipity

[StillettoDoll]

" Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned"
Buddha

[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

[JakeTulane]

"There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth." - Stephen Nachmanovitch

[JakeTulane]

"This is how change happens, though. It is a relay race, and we're very conscious of that, that our job really is to do our part of the race, and then we pass it on, and then someone picks it up, and it keeps going. And that is how it is. And we can do this, as a planet, with the consciousness that we may not get it, you know, today, but there's always a tomorrow."- Alice Walker

[Spirit Dancer]

We collect data, things, people, ideas, "profound experiences," never penetrating any of them. But there are other times. There are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

[Spirit Dancer]

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others.
And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.


Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[Janstevie]

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

[always2late]

"We choose with our focus. We face a universe of unlimited possibilities, and we choose which one becomes 'real' for us by focusing on that possibility" - Ellen Debenport

[HoneyedChrysanthemum]

a shadow edge is neveron the edge. the time to contemplate the ending is before the ending. act while you can.
pres :moonstars:

[HoneyedChrysanthemum]

upon completion comes fulfilment.
with fulfilment comes liberation.
liberation allows you to go on.
even death is not a true ending.
life is infinite continuation...
namaste,
pres :moonstars:

[Jet]

I love that shit she does with her hair. —Red, The Shawshank Redemption

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[Diva]

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

~Roy L. Smith

[Diva]

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~Charles Dickens

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own.”

[Jesse]

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
~Andy Rooney

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby

[Ms. Meander]

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

- Maria Mitchell

[Spirit Dancer]

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart;
to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never;
in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.

William Ellery Channing

[JakeTulane]

"You never forget who you really are... no matter how many nights you stay awake trying to" - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"I don't understand
And I look up and around me
As if my surroundings would tell me the answers
The wind whisper it in my ear
The stars twinkle it in morse code
I catch myself
Silly to think I could find any answers
Any reasons for what happens in this life
I don't understand " - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way." ~Author Unknown

[Diva]

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

~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

[Diva]

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

~Roald Dahl

[Janstevie]

I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it.

[Semantics]

Got a garden of songs where I grow all my thoughts
Wish I could harvest one or two for some small talk
I'm always starving for words whenever you're around
Nothing on my tongue so much in the ground.


Ani Difranco

[Diva]

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

[justkim]

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France

[jenny]

“Normally, when someone says, ‘I’m so disillusioned,’ we try to comfort them. We ought to congratulate them instead! To be ‘disillusioned’ means to lose an illusion—and that is a very good thing. Can we turn from grieving our lost illusions to see the reality that’s there, looking for what’s real and possible that might make for a better real world?” ~Parker Palmer

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl


Madonna- What it feels like for a Girl

[jenny]

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

-Albert Einstein

[always2late]

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. - Bette Davis

[Spirit Dancer]

We will recognize that each person needs to nourish and be nourished by many persons. . . . It is right, even necessary, to make yourselves available to one another in new loving, caring, and fulfilling ways -- without the spectres of old guilts.

Quaker newsletter

[justkim]

"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
- Isaac Bashevis -
Singer

[BestButchBoy]

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
-Mark Twain-

[Jet]

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.—Al Capone

[Tess]

(hope I'm posting correctly please let me know if I'm not.)

Bad dreams

One day you will look back and laugh at yourself.

You’ll say, “ I can’t believe I was so asleep!

How did I ever forget the truth?

How ridiculous to believe that sadness and sickness

Are anything other than bad dreams.”



- Rumi

[Tess]

The Intellectual Quest


The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral,

But it is not the same as the spiritual quest.

The spiritual quest is on another level altogether,

Spiritual wine has a subtler taste.

The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect.

The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.



- Rumi

[Blade]

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”Dr seuss

[Rook]

During one of my Countless Medical Examinations for GallBladder/Ulcers, I won't even get into Colonoscopy..The technician asks me which Flavor of Barium would I like..And she lists all the Flavors.. "There's Strawberry, Cherry, Pineapple and Banana"..
I was in the mood for Banana..
Don't get me wrong, I expected somewhat a strange flavor...
However..
I told the technician when I'm done, I wanna know what FUCKING plantation makes that kind of motherfucking Bananas, that fucking shit was NASTY, I've smelled tastier Farts.
And if it was a sip, I'd be fine, oh no no no..."Keep Drinking, Keep Drinking Dont Stop"
I swear to God I almost Barfed, WTF ??!?!?
=- Luis Raul-=
[PuertoRican Comic]
:candle::puertorico::candle:
:cracked:

[JakeTulane]

“Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!” - Og Mandino

[JakeTulane]

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” - Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. ” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[shadows papa]

"Even our physical structure seems more suited to feelings of love and compassion. We can see how a calm, affectionate, wholesome state of mind benefits our health and physical well-being. Conversely, feelings of frustration, fear, agitation, and anger can be destructive to our health. This is why we are impelled to seek happiness" The Dalai Lama

[JakeTulane]

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low." - Henry Ward Beecher

[JakeTulane]

"You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening." - Sara Paddison

[JakeTulane]

"Whoso loves, believes the impossible." - Elizabeth Barret Browning

[jenny]

"Being a lady is an attitude. ~Chuck Woolery, Love Connection

[Janstevie]

A rumour is about as hard to unspread as butter.

[Nat]

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[Tess]

If I were Earth by Henry Dumas

Each tear that fell from the crushed moons of your face

stabbed me broke and split into one thousand pains

but I held out my arms and not one, no not one pain did I miss

and if I don't let you soak into me and bring me up

and if I don't let you seep into me and let you teach me

then you can cry in the morning to the Sun

and tell him to burn me away..

[T D]

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been to long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose.

[jenny]

"As a spy, it doesn't matter if you're helping rebel forces fight off a dictator, or giving combat tips to a third-grader. There's nothing like helping the little guy kick some bully's ass." - Michael Weston

[JakeTulane]

"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love." — Jean Vanier

[JakeTulane]

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we dod not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." — Anne Bradstreet

[DomnNC]

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness." C S Lewis

[Spirit Dancer]

I have always been delighted
at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

J.B. Priestley

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

- Jack Kerouac

[justkim]

"Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul."
- Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." - Helen Keller

[JakeTulane]

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

[JakeTulane]

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be."

Kerouac

[Janstevie]

Notice outside a church.

As you pass this little church
be sure to plan a visit,
so when at last your carried in
God wont ask, Who is it?

[justkim]

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."
- Michael McGriffy, M.D.

[Ms. Meander]

A Conceit by Maya Angelou


Give me your hand

Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand.

[Duchess]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

~Gautam Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid Bergman

[JakeTulane]

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness." - Keats

[JakeTulane]

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[Diva]

Music's the medicine of the mind.

~John A. Logan

[Diva]

Music is an outburst of the soul.

~Frederick Delius

[Dude]

"how long are you gonna drag your dick in the dirt over this shit?"

my neighbor

[Miss Scarlett]

"Drink a full glass of water with each dose; take two tablets by mouth every 6 hours, not more than 8 tablets in 24 hours..."

[Spirit Dancer]

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response -- the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

Dan Millman

[Spirit Dancer]

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

German motto

[Rook]

Victor Creed: That's funny Wade, but I think you've mistaken me with someone who gives a shit.

[dixie]

"When nothing goes right, go left."

[Miss Scarlett]

"When nothing goes right, go left."

Love this! It reminds me of the sticker on the back of my car: "Don't get even. Get odd!"

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. "
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

[JakeTulane]

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee

[JakeTulane]

“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” - Albert Camus

[always2late]

"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

[dixie]

So often we are focused on what is important to ourselves that we can forget about those around us.

[dixie]

Those who are tolerant make us feel comfortable with who we are and special as individuals. All of us are different, and many of us have quirks and idiosyncrasies. After all, these differences make the world go round. Having the ability to accept people for who they are and not expect them to be who we want them to be is important in life, happiness and in the health of our relationships.

[dixie]

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.~ L.Tom Perry

[little_ms_sunshyne]

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

[JakeTulane]

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place." ~Emily Dickinson

[JakeTulane]

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened" ~T.S. Eliot

[I'mOneToo]

"Ultimately, humanity is one and this small planet is our only home, If we are to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism. It is only this feeling that can remove the self-centered motives that cause people to deceive and misuse one another.

If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self- worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others.

I believe that at every level of society - familial, tribal, national and international - the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities." -Dalai Lama

[Rook]

'S beannaicht' an duine sin nach gluais
An comhairle nan daoi
An slighe fhiar nam peacach baoth
Na sheasamh fos nach bi.

Blessed is the one who turns away
From where the wicked walk,
Who does not stand in sinners' paths
Or sit with those who mock.

- gaelic psalm

[StillettoDoll]

" The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents" - Charles de Lint

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is Soap-On-A Rope" Bill Cosby

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known." – Euripides

[JakeTulane]

"You are the master of your own destiny. Use your strengths well. They are the keys to your destiny and your success in life. Once you know yourself and take action to realize your dreams, you can unlock the doors to your own potential." - Neil Somerville

[Janstevie]

The curve that can set a lot of things straight is a smile.

[JakeTulane]

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others." - Nathaniel Branden

[JakeTulane]

"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world, making the most of one's best." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

[JakeTulane]

"Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe." - Jon Kabat Zinn

[justkim]

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
- George C. Scott

[afixer]

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- George C. Scott

[afixer]

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.
This is a kind of death.
-Anais Nin

[Soon]

"Beginning is easy, continuing is hard."- Japanese proverb

[moxie]

"What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too." - Chuck Palahniuk

[Spirit Dancer]

Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Donald E. Westlake

[little_ms_sunshyne]

When your name comes up in conversation, my eyes sparkle and my smile shines :)

[StillettoDoll]

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself . Aloud"- Coco Chanel

[Glenn]

"If us poor slobs can't stick together, then we aint even worth the bullets to blow our brains out."- (My General) Granny

[Spirit Dancer]

At Christmastime, children play an essential part in our celebrations. So much of what we do is intended to please them--and all the while our hearts keep hearkening back to the Christmas memories of our own childhoods. On Christmas Eve, sometimes we can't help but envy our children the stars in their eyes, especially when our own eyes are dull with exhaustion. Christmas is so much simpler for a child. Can we open our tired, adult eyes to that same simplicity?

Ellen Sanna

[alilhoneybee]

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
We'd all be Jewish.
~Benny Hill

[justkim]

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
- Melody Beattie -

[Spirit Dancer]

For me, the spirit of Christmas is about
letting the loving but messy little rituals become just as important as the solemn
and graceful ones. It's about making
room for everyone.

Ann Michael

[Jesse]

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love.
~Ada V. Hendricks

[Janstevie]

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

[Rook]

How very special are we
For just a moment to be
Part of life's eternal rhyme
How very special are we
To have on our family tree
Mother Earth and Father Time

He turns the seasons around
And so she changes her gown
But they always look in their prime
They go on dancing their dance
Of everlasting romance
Mother Earth and Father Time

The summer larks return to sing
Oh, what a gift they give
Then autumn days grow short and cold
Oh, what a joy to live

The autumn days grow short and cold
It's Christmas time again
Then snows of winter slowly melt
The days grows short
And then

He turns the seasons around
And so she changes her gown
Mother Earth and Father Time
How very special are we
For just a moment to be
Part of life's eternal rhyme


~ Charlotte's Web

[SouthernStud]

TO LIVE IS TO LOVE BUT TO LOVE IS TO TRULY LIVE---ME

[Arwen]

"Your greatest fear is a dragon guarding your deepest gift." Rilke

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

[Girl Friday]

Never put a cat on your head. It hurts real bad.
random greeting card

[Blaze]

Looking from behind the Mirror
As I walk past the mirror. I stop to take a long look at the image that is looking back at me.
I start to follow the lines of the face that once did not exist. The smile that once laughed years of vocal sounds, looks sadder.
The lips that use to have a multifaceted of expression . Seem to frown down wards.
The forehead that once was flawless, is filled with scars and wrinkles of long past.
The cheeks that once were proud as my ancestry seem hollow and limp.
I stare deeply into these eyes. The eye’s that once had a fierce fire, seems dim.
What has happened to the person in the mirror, that is looking back at me?
Shall I take down the mirror so that I can look from behind the mirror?
Perhaps I will find the once youthful and vibrant being that once lived in the old body.
Or will I see. As I do from the front of the mirror. And old dull coating of silver.
Mine.

[Diva]

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

[Diva]

Change always comes bearing gifts.

~Price Pritchett

[Fancy]

‎"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others - than what others say about him."
- Audrey Hepburn

[Butterbean]

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb

[Soon]

"There is really nothing more to say -- except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."

~~(Toni Morrison / The Bluest Eye)

[Duchess]

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. (f)
~Michael Rivero

[Duchess]

Live in Joy


Live in Joy, In love,
Even among those who hate.

Live in joy, In health,
Even among the afflicted.

Live in joy, In peace,
Even among the troubled.

Look within. Be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

~

There is no fire like greed,
No crime like hatred,
No sorrow like separation,
No sickness like hunger of heart,
And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Health, contentment and trust
Are your greatest possessions,
And freedom your greatest joy.

Look within. Be still.
Free from fear and attachment,
Know the sweet joy of living in the way.
(f)

from the Dhammapada, Words of the Buddha

[justkim]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle -

[Tcountry]

"What you risk reveals what you value"--Winterdon

[StillettoDoll]

"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity" Sammy Davis. Jr.

"The Designated Driver program, it's not a desirable job. But If you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house." Jeff Foxworthy:rofl:
:danceparty:

[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]

"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them." -- John Seely Brown

[JakeTulane]

“You can shed tears that she is gone,

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on.” - David Harkins

[Spirit Dancer]

Patience is power. With time and
patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

Chinese proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you will but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

James Allen

[Fancy]

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~Ray Bradbury

[justkim]

"I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough."
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night."

When Harry Met Sally

[Mister Bent]

I have seen women like you before, baby. You're double-tough and you are sharp as a razor, and you get what you want or else;
but you don't make it work forever. Sooner or later the lightning hits, and I'm not gonna be around when it hits you.

From The Grifters

[Enchantress]

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

~ Mother Theresa

[Ms. Meander]

It occurred to her that despite the failure of her marriage, the failure of her career, despite her hangover and chronic horniness, she suddenly was feeling rather light and giddy. She couldn't understand it. Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs And All

[Rook]

"If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."

"Hell is the drooling dream of the sadist, crudelly affixed to an all-merciful God, if even human governments are willing to curtail cruel and unusual punishments, why would punishment in the afterlife not be restricted to a limited term? Human belief or action should not merit Infinite punishment. If an afterlife of just deserts exists ,the longest and most severe punishment would be reserved for those who "slandered God by inventing Hell"

[Tucker]

Amore senza baruffa fa la muffa.

[Soon]

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

~bell hooks

[Nat]

"Any step in individuation is experienced as a crime against the collective because it challenges the individual's identification with some representative of the collective - whether it be a family, party, church or nation. At the same time, each step - since it is truly an inflated act - is not only accompanied by guilt but also runs the very real risk that one will get caught in an inflation that carries the consequences of a fall." - Edward F. Edinger

[jenny]

"There are still a few men who love desperately." ~ J.D. Salinger

[Soon]

"My idea of feminism is self-determination,
and it´s very open-ended:
every woman has the right to become herself,
and do whatever she needs to do."

-- Ani DiFranco

[Kätzchen]

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you,
a joy...

~Rumi

:stillheart:

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I the Woman"
Sandra Cisneros

I
am she
of your stories
the notorious
one
leg wrapped
around
the door
bare heart
sticking
like a burr
the fault
the back street
the weakness
that's me

I'm
the Thursday
night
the poor
excuse
I am she
I'm dark
in the veins
I'm
intoxicant
I'm hip
and good skin
brass
and sharp tooth
hard lip pushed
against
the air
I'm lightbeam
no stopping me

I am
your temporary
thing
your own
mad
dancing
I am
a live
wildness
left
behind
one earring
in the car
a finger-
print
on skin
the black smoke
in your
clothes
and in
your
mouth

[StillettoDoll]

" If you don't like how things are , Change it!
Your not a tree."
Jim Rohn quote
:vigil:

[StillettoDoll]

If You don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you ?Not much.
Jim Rohn

[JakeTulane]

"He felt that his whole life was some
kind of dream and he sometimes
wondered whose it was and
whether they were enjoying it." - Douglas Adams

[JakeTulane]

"He who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt
in awe; is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

"I wasn't going to be one of those
people who died wondering what if?
I would keep putting my dreams to
the test - even though it meant living
with uncertainty and fear of failure.
This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone
with a dream must learn to live there." - Alex Haley

[Mister Bent]

"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."

George Steiner

[Fancy]

“And opening my eyes I am afraid of course
to look--this inward look that society scorns--
Still I search in these woods and find nothing worse
than myself, caught between the grapes and the thorns.”

~Anne Sexton

[Fancy]

“Do not fight with anyone, nor retaliate, nor slander anyone.”

~Sri Sathya Sai Baba

:vigil:

[Janstevie]

"New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive."

[always2late]

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

[Duchess]

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

~Oprah Winfrey

[Spirit Dancer]

Begin and end each day with an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving. Every morning when you awake you have been given the gift of a sunrise and twenty-four hours to live. This is a precious gift. You have the wonderful opportunity to take this day and live joyously, with appreciation for everything that you encounter. Take a deep breath and be grateful for this exhilarating experience of breathing in life and love. Similarly, end your day with an expression of love, and a repetition of the word for peace, “Shalom.”

Wayne Dyer

[Diva]

Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!

~Author Unknown

[Miss Scarlett]

In an email this morning from an old and dear friend:

As we continue our journey of letting-go, let us also bring back to Mind of what has really given us peace and added to our happiness this past year. Let us embrace the "beauty" and "unique expressions" of all of humanity. As we do this let us embrace the Powerful Knowingness of "Our Oneness" with All now and forevermore.

[Spirit Dancer]

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow.

Emily Miller

[Spirit Dancer]

New Year's Eve is like every
other night; there is no pause
in the march of the universe,
no breathless moment of
silence among created things
that the passage of another
twelve months may be noted;
and yet no person has quite
the same thoughts this evening
as those that come with the
coming of darkness on other nights.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

[Spirit Dancer]

The riches that are not found in our soul do not belong to us.
Demetrius

[Mister Bent]

"Be brave and get started."

- Shawni Larrabee, SL Co. Animal Services

[afixer]

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
~ Plato

[JakeTulane]

"Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change" - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." ~Margaret Young

[Janstevie]

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

[Janstevie]

Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold."

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIENDS.

[Ms. Meander]

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

- Pema Chodron

[JakeTulane]

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins

[JakeTulane]

"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." - Albert Camus

[JakeTulane]

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days." - Lao Tzu