Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Soon]

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

--James A. Baldwin

[Chancie]

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was an ardent nationalist and prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

[alilhoneybee]

Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday.

[Mister Bent]

"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

- Mark Twain

[Spirit Dancer]

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.
It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we
transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we
truly know and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because
once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

M. Scott Peck

[Spirit Dancer]

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Brooks Atkinson

[Spirit Dancer]

Every person should be born again on the first day of January. Start with
a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let
down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every
person gird him or herself once more, with face to the front, and take
no interest in the things that were and are past.

Henry Ward Beecher

[justkim]

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.
- Louise Hay -

[Enchantress]

“A new year is unfolding
like a blossom with petals curled tightly
concealing the beauty within.”

[BestButchBoy]

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man."
~Benjamin Franklin

[alilhoneybee]

never forget where you come from but strive for a place you have never been

[girl_dee]

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~Wendell Johnson

[Mister Bent]

Pretty bold talk for a one eyed fat man.

[BestButchBoy]

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
~ George Bernard Shaw

[JakeTulane]

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page" - Mark Houlahan

[JakeTulane]

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have." - Zig Ziglar

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll

[alilhoneybee]

"Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on."

by Allan Cohen

[Mitmo01]

qui ascendit sine labore descendit sine honore
who goes up without working for it, comes down without honor--Horace


Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?--Juvenal



Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. - Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.--Ovid

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas. - Often a wild thorn produces tender roses--Ovid

[Mister Bent]

"I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie."

"If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down.
And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity."

- William Shatner

[Hack]

"I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie."

"If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down.
And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity."

- William Shatner

I think you are the Denny Crane to my Alan Shore.

"“I didn’t proposition her. I merely asked her to sleep with me.” -- Denny Crane

[always2late]

"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of mankind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." - Leo F. Buscaglia

[Hack]

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -- Adlai Stevenson

[Kätzchen]

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason.
The passionless cannot change history.

[Tucker]

I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80s movie preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason but no John Hughes did not direct my life."

[Diva]

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

~Alan Simpson

[Rook]

Jabberwocky ~ Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

[Enchantress]

"This moment contains all moments"

C.S. Lewis

[I'mOneToo]

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama

[StillettoDoll]

"A psychiatrist asks alot of expensive questions your wife ask for nothing."
Joey Adams

[StillettoDoll]

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

[Spirit Dancer]

It's amazing, isn't it, how some people see the basket half
empty and others see it half full. Some see life hopeless,
others hopeful. Even when things are less than perfect,
if you can think of the good, the beautiful, the hopeful,
you'll be more than sustained--you'll conquer.

unknown

[always2late]

“I wake up every day with the realization that this is it, that there's only one shot at this life and I can either enjoy the ride and live it to its fullest and to my highest potential or I can stay the way I am.”- Unknown

[Diva]

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.

~Frank Tyger

[afixer]

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I"m out of control, and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me a my worst, you damn sure don't deserve me at my best! "
- Marilyn Monroe

[Guy]

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

[Spirit Dancer]

As a doctor, I studied survivors--people who got sick but exceeded expectations. Many of those exceptional patients had been given little time to live, yet they were some of the happiest people I'd ever met. They knew, or they discovered through their illness, which became their teacher, that if you want to be happy, you must answer some key questions. What are you here for? And how do you want to spend your limited time? If your answer is that you are here to love, to serve others and not to be served, then you already have everything you need to be happy. If you wake up in the morning, that's enough; you are grateful for life and the opportunity to contribute in your way.

Bernie Siegel

[Janstevie]

A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.

[Hack]

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” -- Spencer Johnson

[Kätzchen]

"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide,"


&



"You build on failure.
You use it as a stepping stone.
Close the door on the past.
You don't try to forget the mistakes,
but you don't dwell on it either.
You don't let it have any of your energy,
or any of your time,
or any of your space."

[Tommi]

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter

[Spirit Dancer]

What we are talking about is learning to live in the present
moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own
negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in
moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this
moment. This moment-- now--truly is the only moment you have.
It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such
moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend
to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and
remain happy, you will find that your heart
is filled with positive feelings.

Sydney Banks

[Hack]

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.” -- Albert Camus

[BestButchBoy]

Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~ John Wooden

[StillettoDoll]

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
Mark Twain

[Duchess]

"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."
Mark Twain (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/24901)

[PinkieLee]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip
by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

[BestButchBoy]

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
~Anthony Trollope

[always2late]

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

[Jet]

Quoting Shawshank Redemption, "...now I'm gonna pinch a loaf..."
makes me cringe every time I hear it.

[Mister Bent]

"I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep."

- Joseph de Maistre

[Semantics]

There is that law of life, so cruel
and so just- that one must grow,
or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer, The Deer Park (1955)

[Starbuck]

Jimmy Dugan: Evelyn, could you come here for a second? Which team do you play for?
Evelyn Gardner: Well, I'm a Peach.
Jimmy Dugan:Well I was just wonderin' why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. That's the lump that's three feet above your ass.
[Evelyn starts to cry]
Jimmy Dugan:Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!
Doris Murphy:Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy...
Jimmy Dugan:Oh, you zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?
Evelyn Gardner:No, no, no.
Jimmy Dugan:Yeah! NO. And do you know why?
Evelyn Gardner:No...
Jimmy Dugan:Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!

[always2late]

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." ~ Unknown

[alilhoneybee]

I want you to feel
the unbearable lack of me.
I want your skin
to yearn for the soft lure of mine;
I want those hints of red
on your canvas
to deepen in passion for me:
carmine, burgundy.
I want you to keep
stubbing your toe
on the memory of me;
I want your head to be dizzy
and your stomach in a spin;
I want you to hear my voice
in your ear, to touch your face
imagining it is my hand.
I want your body to shiver and quiver
at the mere idea of mine.
I want you to feel as though
life after me is dull, and pointless,
and very, very aggravating;
that with me you were lifted
on a current you waited all your life to find,
as though you were wading
through a soggy swill of inanity and ugliness
every minute we are apart.
I want you to drive yourself crazy
with the fantasy of me,
and how we will meet again, against all odds,
and there will be tears and flowers,
and the vast relief of not I,
but us.
I am haunting your dreams,
conducting these fevers
from a distance,
a distance that leaves me weeping,
and storming,
and bereft.

[nycfem]

I love this! Who is the author?

I want you to feel
the unbearable lack of me.
I want your skin
to yearn for the soft lure of mine;
I want those hints of red
on your canvas
to deepen in passion for me:
carmine, burgundy.
I want you to keep
stubbing your toe
on the memory of me;
I want your head to be dizzy
and your stomach in a spin;
I want you to hear my voice
in your ear, to touch your face
imagining it is my hand.
I want your body to shiver and quiver
at the mere idea of mine.
I want you to feel as though
life after me is dull, and pointless,
and very, very aggravating;
that with me you were lifted
on a current you waited all your life to find,
as though you were wading
through a soggy swill of inanity and ugliness
every minute we are apart.
I want you to drive yourself crazy
with the fantasy of me,
and how we will meet again, against all odds,
and there will be tears and flowers,
and the vast relief of not I,
but us.
I am haunting your dreams,
conducting these fevers
from a distance,
a distance that leaves me weeping,
and storming,
and bereft.

[Diva]

I love this! Who is the author?



Yearn On by Katie Donovan

Stunning, isn't it?

[Glenn]

"I poured olive oil on my food and rubbed it into my skin. I drank a glass of port wine everyday, and ate about two pounds of chocolate a week." -Jeanne Calment (The longest living person in modern history).

[Mister Bent]

Entering the Mare by Katie Donovan

(The inauguration of an Irish chieftain, as observed by Gerald of Wales in the 12th century)

She stamps and shivers,
her white coat vainly shrugging,
as the would-be chieftain
plunges in, burying deep
his puny, acrid man’s seed,
between her fragrant haunches.

The Goddess lives
in her fine rearing head,
the pink stretch of her lips,
the wide, white-haired nostrils.
Her hoof
might have crippled him,
her tail
whipped out his arrogant eyes.
Instead she jerks clumsily,
trying to escape
the smell of his hand.

Later he swims
in the soup of her flesh,
sucking on her bones,
chewing the delicate morsels
of her hewn body.

He has entered the Goddess,
slain and swallowed her,
and now bathes in her waters –
a greedy, hairy, foetus.

Rising from her remains
in a surge of steam -
her stolen momentum –
he feels a singing
gallop through his veins:
a whinnying, mane-flung grace
rippling down his spine.

Riding off on the wings
of the divine Epona,
he lets loose his dogs
to growl over her skeletal remnants,
the bloody pickings
in the bottom of his ceremonial bath.

[Spirit Dancer]

If people walk in the woods for the love of them half of each day, they are in danger of being regarded as loafers; but if they spend their whole day as speculators, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, they are esteemed industrious and enterprising citizens. As if a town had no interest in forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

[Spirit Dancer]

What another would have
done as well as you, do not
do it. What another would
have said as well as you,
do not say it; what another
would have written as well,
do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and
thus make yourself
indispensable.

Andre Gide

[Andrew, Jr.]

If he/she hits you once, he/she will hit you again. - me

[Diva]

CONFLUENCE
Beneath the amber hood
of the street lamp,
beside the black gates
of the somnolent park,
we are eyed by fanlights,
flanked by motionless cars.

In this blind Georgian lane
you lean in
to claim a kiss.

I offer you my goodnight lips,
staying like a shut purse
in your embrace,
wary after years
of opening too fast
my burns still hurt and proud.

Yet the sweetness of your mouth,
and your tongue — a luscious,
sinuous sea-creature –
is a feast I cannot resist;

nor can I pull back
from the strength in your arms
as you draw me close,
loosening your coat
to fold me
in your cinnamon heat.

Here it is, timeless,
a scene on a street:

a man and a woman
tongued and grooved
into one.

[Kätzchen]

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

~ J.W. von Goethe

[StillettoDoll]

"The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store."
Kin Hubbard

"I'm a real suzy Homemaker!"
Suzy bogguss

[always2late]

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson." - Alan Cohen

[Hack]

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." -- Paul Wellstone

[Soon]

“We never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”

--Gail Caldwell

[Rook]

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."
~Rudyard Kipling

[Kätzchen]

I was reading a news article published in the newest edition of the Willamette Week newspaper about Ted Kulongoski and felt that his mindset, quoted in the lines below, struck a familiar chord with me...

From page 14:

"And he discussed a topic that shaped his approach to everything: his mother placing him in a St. Louis orphanage for much of his childhood.

"I spent a lot of time in my life denying certain things about how I was raised"..."And what I know now more than anything at the age of 70 is, bad things happen to all of us. And we're not judged by how many bad things happen but by how you overcome them and actually make something of yourself."
(Ted Kulongoski)

Jacquiss, N. & Zusman, M. (2010). "Goodbye, Gov: Ted Kulongoski's take on what's wrong with Unions, Higher Ed and Oregon Business." In, Willamette Week, pp. 13-17. City of Roses Newspaper Company.

[Janstevie]

Bigamy is having one husband too many, Monogamy is the same.

[Spirit Dancer]

Before telling others what to do, one must be an instructor to oneself.
Zen Koan

[Janstevie]

S O M E T I M E S - Scroll to bottom.


Sometimes...

when you cry...

no one sees your tears.



Sometimes...

when you are in pain.

no one sees your hurt.


Sometimes.

when you are worried..

no one sees your stress


Sometimes.

when you are happy..

no one sees your smile ..



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But FART !! ; just ONE time...



And every bugger knows!!

[Spirit Dancer]

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another
human being. We should all be thankful for those
people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

[Spirit Dancer]

The world is too big for us, too much is going on, too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It's a constant strain to keep pace. . . and still, you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast that you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderment. The political world is news seen rapidly, you're out of breath trying to keep pace with who's in and who's out. Everything is high pressure. Human nature can't endure much more.

Atlantic Journal
June 16, 1883

[Kätzchen]

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[little_ms_sunshyne]

"If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself. "

Diary of A Mad Black Woman

[asphaltcowboi]

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials , the most money...or the most awards. They simply are the ones who care the most.

[Enchantress]

“If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world"

C.S. Lewis

[bigbutchmistie]

My favorite wedding vows ever to hear... Madea's Family Reunion Vanessa And Frankie :

I never thought that I could meet someone like you.
You are my friend.
You are my smile.
You are my everything.

You are a breath-taking reflection
of God's heart for me....
Of how he pursued me...
And loved me even when I didn't love myself.

You held my hand in the darkness
and you pulled me out into the light.
I love you...
You are my light.

And it doesnt matter what happens
in this life as long as you're with me.
When I look at you, I know that there's a God
and that he loved me so much

that he took the time to create you...just for me.
I love you....past my mind....beyond my heart....
I love you for my soul.

And that's the space where only you and God dwell.

[WolfyOne]

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett

[Spirit Dancer]

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

Rachel Naomi Remen

[UofMfan]

"Déjame que te hable también con tu silencio claro como una lámpara, simple como un anillo"

[Diva]

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

~Henry Ward Beecher

[Diva]

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

~Twyla Tharp

[Fancy]

"I once thought lettuce was a vegetable, but now I know it's in the appetizer family."

-Bear (dinner table talk) :)

[justkim]

"Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself."
- Deepak Chopra -

[Duchess]

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled."

~Lao Tzu

[Mister Bent]

"She needs to rename her vagina Madison Square Garden, so many rock stars have played there."

- Brad Wollock , on Chelsea Lately

[bigbutchmistie]

I saw this today and thought I would share... I dont know who "said" it... I just loved it... this is in regards to romance


I want a person to come into my life by accident & stay on purpose.

[StillettoDoll]

" He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas."
Ben Franklin

[StillettoDoll]

"One good Husband is worth two good wives: for the scarcer things are. the more they're valued."
Ben Franklin

[MrSunshine]

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

~ Robert Orben

[Dakota]

When the sun came up this morning
And she smiled her smile for me
I felt it for the first time
Something deep inside of me
So you can take your midnight rambling' boys
And keep your winding roads

She's living inside my heart now
Livin' inside

Oh there's an easiness about her
There's a softness in her way
But she gets me through the hard times
We get closer every day
I know I'll never be alone now boys
Cause even if I'm far away

She's living inside my heart now
Livin inside

And I don't know what I did to derserve her
But I'll tell you my friend
I'm never gonna loose her
Never gonna loose her
Cause every night
She's livin' inside my heart now
Livin inside

[Duchess]

"I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good."(f)
Sandra Bullock (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/826262)

[Jesse]

“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.” Richard Bach (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/don-t-believe-what-your-eyes-are-telling-you-all/347508.html)

[Jesse]

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. - Anon

[Butterbean]

For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty,
And all my ways are dewy wet
With pleasant duty.

~John Townsend Trowbridge

[bigbutchmistie]

Look beyond my eyes and see my beauty~ Hear beyond my words and listen to my heart~ Feel beyond my body and touch my soul~

[Fancy]

A good thing about snow - it makes your lawn look as good as your neighbor's.

[Duchess]

A useless life is an early death.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[afixer]

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past." - Lily Tomlin

[justkim]

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
- William James -

[Duchess]

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."(f)
Mother Teresa (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/25943)

[Ms. Meander]

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and as the very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a mighty, intimidating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

James Baldwin

[Ms. Meander]

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

- Samuel Johnson

[Fancy]

The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rooted in the heart.
~ David Steindl-Rast, from Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

[StillettoDoll]

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'Rourke
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[girl_dee]

daily fortune:


A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

[Butterbean]

Freedom means choosing your burden.

~Hephzibah Menuhin

[Fancy]

“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.”

~Albert Einstein

[sylvie]

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

- winnie the pooh

[Mister Bent]

"The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning."

- Anon. cowboy saying

[Tommi]

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
- Eckhart Tolle

[JustJo]

If I am busy taking care of everyone else, and they're taking care of themselves...then who is taking care of me?

[Rook]

I can't quote the whole scene....
Long done and over with,
It still tickles
:blink:
8E4JQ8GlY-I

:cracked::rofl:

[StillettoDoll]

"You know , if I listened to Micheal Dukakis long enough , I would be convinced we're in a economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."
Ronald Reagan

Somethings never change

[StillettoDoll]

Economics depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronoucement. Economics wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body- the producers and the consumers themselves."

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover
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[Fancy]

Them men wanted a decent burial, they should have got themselves killed in summer.

-Rooster Cogburn
True Grit

[little_ms_sunshyne]

When I close my eyes...Im with you...

[Rook]

You know what it's like getting up every morning feeling hopeless, feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man? But, at the same time, hoping that she still finds happiness, even if it's never going to be with you?

============

Hitch: Does it ever occur to women that maybe a guy might like to have a plan, you know, because he's nervous? He's not sure that he could just walk up to you and you'd respond if he said "I like you." "I like you." "I like you!"
Sara: Why don't you go hit a titty bar with your buddy Vance?
Hitch: Wow....I don't believe this. That's your source?
Sara: You buried yourself, Alex.
Hitch: Then you weren't listening.
Sara: I heard every word. You're a scam artist. You trick women into getting...
Hitch: Into getting out of their own way, so great guys like Albert Brennaman have a fighting chance!
Hitch: Okay, no no no no. I want everybody to take a good look at this right now. Because this - this right here - this is exactly why falling in love is so goddamn hard!
Speed Dating Guy: Sir, let's go, now.
Hitch: And Vance Munson is a pig! And I refused to work with him. You need to get your facts right. It's because of jerks like him that I even have a job... *had* a job!

[afixer]

Bud: Now, you gotta learn something - there are just certain things a girl can't do.

Sissy: Name one.

Marshall: I can name serval, pissin' on the side of a wall, gett'n laid while your pants are still on.

Sissy: Why would you want to?

[BestButchBoy]

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” ~Voltaire

[Kätzchen]

"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people:
that each protects the solitude of the other."

~Maria Rainer Rilke

[Semantics]

I have been loved, Edward told the stars.
So? said the stars.

Kate DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

[Duchess]

Come in, come in! We won't bite you until we know you better.

~Anita, West Side Story

[HighMainFemme]

Love rules without rules
~ Italian Proverb

[dixie]

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor..If you love me, I'll always be in your heart..If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind. ~Shakespeare~

[Ms. Meander]

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

- Bernadette Devlin

[girl_dee]

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[justkim]

If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn't mean anything... All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now?
- Anthony Robbins -

[justkim]

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
- Ann Landers -

[sylvie]

“"I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too."
- Winnie the Pooh”

[Spirit Dancer]

Childish antics belong in the school yard.

[Spirit Dancer]

The unhappiness we experience is not so much a result of the difficulties encountered along our journey as it is of our misperception of how life instructs us. We may see a failed relationship as an indictment of our self-worth when it is really a lesson in using better judgment, in valuing ourselves more, in expressing greater appreciation for our partner--lessons to prepare us for a more loving and fulfilling union. If we are passed over for a much-anticipated promotion, it may be just the push we need to get more training or to venture out on our own as an entrepreneur. As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

Susan L. Taylor

[Duchess]

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.(f)

~Author: unknown

[Diva]

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

~Abraham Lincoln

[Diva]

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

~Zig Ziglar

[Diva]

One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

~Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

[always2late]

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Enchantress]

"The only journey
is the one within"

~ Rilke

[Fancy]

If you are what you eat, you're fast, cheap, and easy.

[JustJo]

In youth, it was a way I had
to do my best to please,
And change, with every passing lad,
to suit his theories.
But now I know the things I know,
and do the things I do;
And if you do not like me so,
to hell, my love, with you.

Indian Summer, by Dorothy Parker

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"The stars can’t line up any straighter
Let’s do it now and think about it later"

[nycfem]

Love this! Who is this quote by?

"The stars can’t line up any straighter
Let’s do it now and think about it later"

[StillettoDoll]

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake. zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis

[always2late]

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

[Diva]

Life should be giddy!

~SLL

[PinkieLee]

Words of wisdom from a friend's facebook status today...

If it isn't beautiful, joyful or useful...get it out of your life!

[Diva]

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

~Roy Disney

[Andrew, Jr.]

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep...for both are infinite."

~William Shakespeare

[Fancy]

I sit and listen while the sky beckons to me from the window, flirting, showing off its clear blue shirt in the sun.

[Enchantress]

"Life is waiting for you to happen"

~ Marianne Williamson

[Sparkle]

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Mark Twain

[scootebaby]

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer

[Fancy]

It doesn’t matter what they will make of you
or your days: they will be wrong,
they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man,
all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention.
Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad,
you slept, you awakened.
Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons.
--Jane Hirshfield

[Semantics]

...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

[Diva]

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

~Janeane Garofalo

[Janstevie]

Love is when the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

[justkim]

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald -

[StillettoDoll]

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

[Starbuck]

Seen on a bumper sticker: I believe in good men, flying dragons, and other fairytale creatures.

[Spirit Dancer]

Living life in terms of your vision and working toward your goals must be done in the context of today's activities. Do not focus too heavily on the results of your efforts. Do not live for the future attainment of your goal. Live your life through the lens of your vision and what can be done in the present moment. Living your vision is not about reaching your goals. It is about living and working toward them. It is not about producing results but about living your life in a more meaningful and personally rewarding way.

Ari Kiev

[Spirit Dancer]

I wish there were a book I could read each day to tell me exactly what to do to live consciously from my heart and soul. But part of the mystery and magic, part of the reason I'm here, is to try to stumble through and hear what the soul has to say about what it needs at each moment--whether it is to work through an emotional block, discover what the next lesson is, meet the next soul mate (my children are soul mates; my best friends are soul mates), or finish my business with the one I'm with now. Ultimately, for most of us, the journey comes down to the same issue: learning to love freely. First ourselves, then other people.

Melody Beattie

[Spirit Dancer]

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Diva]

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

[Diva]

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

~Andy Rooney

[Diva]

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

~William Shakespeare, Othello

[always2late]

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo

[MysticOceansFL]

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

[Kätzchen]

"Our lives teach us who we are,"
~Salman Rushdie

[PinkieLee]

what if this is it
right here
right now
your defining moment

what if every event, heartache, and mistake
was perfectly planned to lead you
into the situation you presently find yourself in

what if mystic voices whispered answers to
you while you sleep
and people are carefully thrown in your path
all for the evolution of your greatest good
whether you like them or not

what if it did not matter what you did
or said or felt in the past
what if it was not an accurate prediction of
what your future will look like

what if you were not the only one feeling
this way
tired and lost
joyful and free
all at the same time

what if others were also thirsty
for the same soul balm you were craving
what if you could meet them simply by
following your own truth

what if the reason you don’t fit it
feel outside the box
outside the norm
is because you were not built to fit
but to create your own molds and make
your own set of rules

what if they were wrong
the mean voices that live in your head
that say things like
“no you can’t”
and “that is not possible” and “what
a stupid idea”

what if those voices do not belong to
you but some hurt angry child you never met
that needs love and care

what if your faults
were also your assets
disguised as flaws

what if nothing was random
not even a spilled cup of coffee
or a broken heel on the way to work

what if there is no one left to
impress
what if there is nothing
wrong with you
and nothing wrong with them

what if it was all striped away
your comforts
distractions
addictions
and praise

so you could finally meet
the raw, naked version of
yourself
who is much stronger and bad ass than
you expected

what if this helps you see
what you are really made of
and you realize
that is it not only more than enough
but that you

yes

you

dear

soul

are nothing short of extraordinary

BY MCCABE RUSSELL

[Arwen]

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

[Arwen]

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much. Bessie A. Stanley

[justkim]

What is now proved was once only imagined.
- William Blake -

[Fancy]

“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
-Bette Davis

[Mister Bent]

With pithy public-service announcements about the transitory nature of existence, I remind myself regularly not to get too comfortable here. But it's the kind of advertising that's immediately forgotten as I settle into my comfortable home. In the morning, I take a shower - plenty of hot water - and slip into one of several familiar identities, a few of them the worse for wear but nothing a little accessorizing won't fix. They all answer to the name "Sy." They all recognize Sy's aging face in the mirror. They're all unable to accept that at any moment all of this will end.

- Sy Safransky

[femmedyke]

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. . .
~ Carolyn Kenmore

[justkim]

Self-worth comes from one thing -
- thinking that you are worthy.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer -

[Hack]

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau

[justkim]

Your Attitude + Your Choice = Your Life
- Unknown -

[girl_dee]

"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.

"At last it dawned on Me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment you have and remember: time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

~ Souza

[afixer]

a tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else.
so tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday to believe in us, too.




because when you say you miss someone, you mean you miss the way you were before you started missing someone.

[always2late]

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg

[justkim]

- A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle -
- Unknown -

[StillettoDoll]

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other .Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katherine Hepburn

[StillettoDoll]

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; Yet, strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahil Gibran

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[Fancy]

“Life is like Tango... sad, sensual, sexy, violent and quiet.”

[The_Lady_Snow]

"If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies."

[Andrew, Jr.]

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." Rose Kennedy

[musicman]

Dyke Hands
by SDiane Bogus

Because dyke hands are the sexual organs of lesbian love, they can be as shocking to view as the penis through an open fly, or as bold (delicious) to behold as the breast of a woman suddenly uncovered.

Those hands you see folding laundry at the local Laundromat, reaching, grasping, holding canned goods at the supermarket, may very well be the genitalia of some woman’s lover, exposed. They often belong to our lovers, and those very hands come to our beds outstretched to touch, to rub, to tickle, to smooth, to run ripples of pleasure over our bodies, and often we take those very hands, finger by precious finger, into our mouths, assuming their cleanliness, their sanctity, and perform fingerlingus. We suck with reverence the hands that bring us to knotted heat, the very hands that hours before were signing some asinine form or holding a steering wheel. How can we possibly go on day after day, year after year, letting our lovers show their stuff to the world? How can we in good moral consciousness let our lovers take their naked dyke hands into a bar, reach for a beer and clutch it in front of lusting lesbian eyes? We all know that we look at the hands. We look at their size; we look for strength; we look for experience; we look for dexterity; evidence of ability, technique. But maybe I’m assuming something. Maybe I am assuming that lesbians revere the hands of their lovers, choose lovers by their hands. Maybe they don’t. Never even thought of it. I mean, some go by the face, or legs, or ass. Me? I’m a hand woman. If she’s got dyke hands, she’s got my attention.

Recently, my lover and I went for a manicure, my first professional one. The beauty across the table grasped my lover's hand, placed it face-down on her upturned palm. She spread the fingers wide, and proceeded to lotion the hand, up to the arm. Massaging and drawing with a near-pornographic stroke, the manicurist pulled her own encircled hand down my lovers arm, smoothly, pressing with sensual surety every molecule of lotion into the pores of her arm and hand. She did this to both hands, and I sat there allowing her the privilege to have her way with my woman, wondering what she’d think if she knew she was performing a six-dollar jack-off for the lesbian community. I was tickled by my vulgarity. But when she repeated the process, I realized that she was getting into it, and I became jealous, hating her flirtatious rape of my woman. I sat seething, and giving my lover the eye. She knew. She knew, and she was tickled to death at being loved so well. A picture of ol’ Madge on the Palmolive commercial flashed before me, and it all became so clear why those straight women flock to Madge’s for soap-dish manicures. It was her dyke hand loving that they craved. Poor misguided Palmolive! At any rate, there was my lover’s ten virile fingers stretched out like a naked man before a geisha, and something in me was proud and pissed at the same time. How good these hands were to my flesh when their touch wrought magic fires in my feet, raised the hair on my arms, brought my clitoris to know and explosion! How dare this brazen money changer masturbate my beloved before me eyes! How dare she be so oblivious to the genitalia of lesbian love here naked before her. There she sat safe in her (I assumed) heterosexuality, unknowingly a whore to my woman’s pleasure. If only she knew!

When it was my time, as tight-jawed as I had become, I literally squealed with pleasure. This intimate fondling, paid for or not, was delightful, one of the few good pleasures in life that is not yet overinflated. I sat back, with the joke on me, and let the manicurist, who became a human being, a woman making love to me, without the slightest notion, and I enjoyed.

The hands that stroke my hair, caress my flesh, that grip my thighs, press my love button, that slide between the redness of my labia, ought not be seen by the daily populace. They belong in gloves, or mittens, and perhaps as a nation of women identified lesbians, white, black, or brown leather gloves can be made the symbol of our private sexuality, and between us at least the idea that we are lovers of women can be acknowledged by us all.

My holiest orgasms come from the probing phalanges of my lover’s dyke hands. I’d not like to have them generally touching every Tom, Dick, and Harriet, not my dyke’s hands.

[Fancy]

To meet reality is ruthless. To meet it without the mediation of the thought “I can control this,” is to face death. Really to face death, here and now.

This is Ramana’s awakening. Papaji said, “Stop.” If your life is about going, becoming, getting or escaping—stop.

The invitation is to let the life that is living this life, live it. When you let life live itself, you are actually surrendering to yourself. ~ Gangaji

[sylvie]

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

Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh

[Ms. Meander]

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.

- Wallace Stevens

[Blade]

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

[ravfem]

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.”

Unknown

:hippie:

[Kätzchen]

http://photos.dreamthisday.com/darkest-night-bridge.jpg

[little man]

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright

-- Percy Bysse Shelley

[Ms. Meander]

i like my body when it is with your body by E. E. Cummings


i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you quite so new

[always2late]

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G.K. Chesterton

[StillettoDoll]

It's better to be black than to be gay because when you're black you dont have to tell your mother.
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[Janstevie]

Memories may fade as the years go by but they won’t age a day.

[Janstevie]

It was when we first talked i seem to know
That this was a love from long ago.
You were easy to talk to, conversation would flow
Yes this was a love i seemed to know.

Maybe back in time you'd once been mine
But somehow i lost you and my heart did pine
Now years have passed and once again
You turn up in my life's picture frame.

When we embrace and hold one another
Will our heartbeats recognize each other.
Please be the one i've been searching for
I need you now more than ever before.

Will history repeat or will i hold on
To the love of my life i cherish bar none.
Will this be the lifetime i have you again
Or will i remain in this terrible pain.

[Spirit Dancer]

The surface of life is also in a state of constant flux, with good days and bad, victory and defeat. To maintain, as the ocean does, a deep inner calm, while the storms of misfortune, reverses, fears and worries lash at the surface of life, is to discover the secret of serenity.
Years ago, when Thomas Edison's factory burned down, he wasted no time bemoaning his fate. Immediately after the disaster the reporters found a calm, quiet man already at work on plans for a new building.
When Emerson's home was destroyed by fire and his precious books were being reduced to ashes, Louisa May Alcott came to console him. The great philosopher said, "Yes, yes, Louisa, they are all gone, but let us enjoy the blaze now. Isn't it beautiful!"
Some people are ocean personalities. In their inner depths they are not defeated by what happens to them.
The towering waves of circumstances cannot reach us when we go deep within to seek the peace that passes all understanding. While the surface of life is in turmoil we can find an inner calmness to see us through.

Wilferd A. Peterson

[Spirit Dancer]

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become
something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems
to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now
than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.

Frederick Buechner

[Spirit Dancer]

You can count the seeds in the apple,
but not the apples in the seed.

Ken Kersey

[Spirit Dancer]

And when we come to think of it, goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows It is deep, quiet, and very simple. It passes not with oratory, it is commonly foreign to riches, nor does it often sit in the places of the mighty: but may be felt in the touch of a friendly hand or the look of a kindly eye.

David Grayson

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place,
suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace,
suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste,
it all revolves around you. "

Moulin Rouge

[Tucker]

Darling, before you leave the house take one thing off. Then, you are ready.

[Fancy]

Radiate good vibes. Climb mountains. Ride your bike. Brush your teeth. Repeat

-Life is Good.

[Andrew, Jr.]

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, and his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."

Unknown
:dog:

[sweetfemme247]

The Other Girl - A Poem About Cheating

I finally just stopped asking There is no point, you see The times I push him for the truth He will just lie to me

Or he'll just be half honest He'll tell me where he goes But what he's doing with that girl Just he and God do know

He knows that I am jealous But how he makes excuse And when I tell him how I feel I only light a fuse

"I can't just stop seeing her You know she's a close friend Don't let this jealousy pain you Your little heart will mend"

I don't see why he protects That girl he cheats me for He knows it's nothing serious She's just his little whore

And oh, the way he says it As if he's blind and dumb To the fact that I've always known The shady shit he's done

Why do you stay?, you might ask Is he that much a catch? Is the love you have all that strong? Are you a perfect match?

And to your questions I say That no, he's not that great But I keep him 'cause every woman Wants him on her plate

And plus, the time that we've had Has been two years plus more He was nothing when we first met But then good looks he scored

Yet still I cannot help it I feel such pain each time I know he's sleeping in a bed That's not his and not mine

And though I'm always in pain I do feel slightly bad Because that girl just gets a taste Of what she'll never have

So both sides are depressing But if you couldn't see I'm not the girl I said I was--

The other girl is me

Source: Allpoetry.com

[Rook]

"It's not about saving the whales. It's about giving people the information they need to support whaling or not support whaling.That is the raw ingredient that is needed to make a just and civil society. And without that you're just sailing in the dark.
When you see abusive organizations suffer the consequences as a result of their abuse, and you see victims elevated... that's a very pleasurable activity to be involved in." ~WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

[always2late]

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see."

[Just_G]

Expect the best rather than the worst, see the good in others rather than the bad, spend your time building on the positive rather than tearing down what you oppose. You will begin to attract more positive people. Those who are negative may not be able to handle the shift, & may become hostile to try to get you back into the negative... camp, but will drift away if you persist in a positive light.
--Sherri Lane

[nycfem]

Expect the best rather than the worst, see the good in others rather than the bad, spend your time building on the positive rather than tearing down what you oppose. You will begin to attract more positive people. Those who are negative may not be able to handle the shift, & may become hostile to try to get you back into the negative... camp, but will drift away if you persist in a positive light.
--Sherri Lane

Who is Sherri Lane? Just wondering cuz I love this!

[Just_G]

Sheri Lane is an author that wrote the book: Setting God Free, Awakening to Miracles. I am really wanting to read this book; I have heard great things about it. It is basically about not judging others, but rather finding the good and positive in everyone.

www.sherrilane.com

[Pixie]

As said by my hilarious roomy:

If I can see it when I'm peeing, it's a bruise....

(....giggle...that little "if" makes all the difference....)

[StillettoDoll]

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

[Fancy]

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”

-Dylan Thomas

[tuffboi29]

Because I'm getting ready for a political conference I thought I would quote someone today who absolutely burns me up.

"Everyone of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish."
~President Richard Nixon 1971 White House Tapes

Really sir?

REALLY?

:thefinger:


My "I happen to be Hebrew" face :|

[Jesse]

Don't let you alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass! Dr. Phil

[StillettoDoll]

You know what disease you never hear about ? Cancer of the heart.
George Carlin

[Mister Bent]

Maybe something in the human psyche has always needed a wolf at the door: If it's not blizzards or floods, it's terrorists or Communists or Attila the Hun. It's the man next door who prays facing west, not east; who falls asleep laughing at Groucho Marx, not reading Karl Marx.

- Sy Safransky

[ravfem]

You can complain about the same problem three times.
Then you'd better be in the solution.

[StillettoDoll]

They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws and criminal will have guns. Well, shit, those are precisely the people who need them.

George Carlin

[Legendryder]

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

[always2late]

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." ~ George Bernard Shaw

[Janstevie]

The Canvas of My Life
by janstevie


On the canvas of my life
I have seen many paintings
Of the times gone by
All left my heart aching

As the canvas gets full
And the corners start fading
I search for a place
To draw my lifes ending

Will there be enough paint
To draw two people
Or will i run out of space
And forever be single.

[Arwen]

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

[Diva]

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

~Basho

[Kätzchen]

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation of things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength." ~ Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder.


"Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ~Rachel Carson in Silent Spring.

[Ms. Meander]

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
~ Katharine Hepburn

[StillettoDoll]

There is now a Starbucks in my pants!

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[The_Lady_Snow]

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

[Semantics]

Those icicles have been known to kill people.



A Christmas Story

[Leigh]

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[Ms. Meander]

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~Ruth Stout

[Fancy]

Giving a pep talk, "Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl."

~ Bill Peterson, Houston Oilers Head Coach

:|

[Diva]

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to fix it.

~Anonymous

[Oiler41]

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to fix it.

~Anonymous


Amen

Glynn

[Just_G]

Help set the world on a brighter path by countering the negatives with positives. It will help tip the balance in favor of light. If you dislike rude people, be extra kind yourself. If you dislike anger, be extra slow to anger. If you dislike judgment & condemnation, be extra compassionate. If you dislike hatefulness, give out extra ...doses of love. This is how we will change the world.

~Sherri Lane~

[Mister Bent]

"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”

- Joseph Joubert

[justkim]

Love liberates!
- Maya Angelou -

[Legendryder]

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

[Ms. Meander]

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso




The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

- Charles DuBois

[ravfem]

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

[Janstevie]

This is a poem i wrote for a beautiful woman i know called Rose, she has been my muse for quite a while now.

You MUST sing it to the tune " Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer"




Rose has a couple of puppies,
Hidden down her sweater top.
And if you ever saw them,
You would think their gonna pop.

One of the little puppies,
Has a cherry for a nose,
And I would love to see it,
Can I have a peek dear Rose.

Then one frosty Christmas night,
Rose fell on her ass.
And the puppies both fell out,
And rolled round in the grass.

Then as I watched her struggle,
To get them back inside her bra,
I smiled and I whispered to her,
I love them just the way they are.