Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[rlin]

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
how did i know this was one of your fav quotes???

[Bevidotcom]

"The best predictor of future behavior, is past behavior."
~~Someone

I like this, and have found it to be true in positive, as well as negative ways.

[WolfyOne]

I took this from a friend's FB wall
Thought it was worth sharing here

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic.
You can always cry later.
~Lucimar Santos de Lima~

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Figures won't lie but liars will figure (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/figures_won-t_lie_but_liars_will/197188.html)”

[Leigh]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/St4RRyN1TE/Quotes/myspace.jpg

[justkim]

~ Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ~
~ Bill Cosby ~

[daisygrrl]

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
--Mary Shelley

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

[afixer]

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

- Rumi

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[Fancy]

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

~Carol Burnett

[Diva]

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

~Marcus Aurelius

[Legendryder]

Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

Helen Keller

[~BluEydFemme~]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
---Eleanor Roosevelt---

[Fancy]

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

~Elie Wiesel

[femmedyke]

"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed." ~Mary Oliver

[Diva]

Don’t worry about your originality.
You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
It will stick to you and show up for better or worse—
in spite of all you, or anyone else, can do.

~Robert Henry

[justkim]

- You have the power to move forward no matter what setback or obstacles block your path. You have the power to live true to your highest vision of how your life can be. You have the power to follow and reach your dreams. You have all this power because you have the CHOICE. In each moment you can choose, independent of all other factors. What you think, what to say, and WHO YOU WANT TO BE!!!! -
- Unknown -

[Arwen]

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville, novelist and poet (1819-1891)

[rlin]

“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.”

Woodrow Wilson

[FeminineAllure]

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
-- Emmanuel Teney

[Diva]

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

~Jose Ortega y Gasset

[Diva]

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

~Epicurus

[Kätzchen]

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

~Epicurus








*Amen*


"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you,"
~ Mary Tyler Moore

[Butterbean]

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

[always2late]

Don't confuse having less with being less, having more with being more, or what you have with who you are.

[sylvie]

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey

[Diva]

He who angers you conquers you.

~Elizabeth Kenny

[Mister Bent]

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

- Karen Duffy

[oblivia]

“The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. That is because the situations, our relationships to them, and we ourselves have changed in the interim. This notion of constant change suggests that we do not have to be discouraged.”
~T.K.V. Desikachar

[girl_dee]

Everything happens for a reason, people change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can come together."
Marilyn Monroe

[Fancy]

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

~Mark Twain

[Andrew, Jr.]

It is not true that some human beings are by nature superior and others inferior. All human beings are equal in their natural dignity.

- Pope John XXIII

[rlin]

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou

[Mister Bent]

"Reading a recipe is a lot like reading science fiction for me, when I get to end I always think, 'Well that's not gonna happen.'"

- text from a friend

[Arwen]

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. -William Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)

[miss entycing]

broken angel

they all mock me
their white wings are perfect
and shimmer with sunlight
they can fly... high above the clouds
but i just sit, alone on the ground
my white wings look perfect too...
but everyone knows it's just an illusion
my wings are broken...
i can't fly at all
the blood that stains them, is washed away
i know myself to still be tainted
i watch as all the angels fly away
and i know that i will remain alone
nothing would care about a fallen angel
who's wings are broken and bloodied.

unknown.

[Mister Bent]

We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium. They would have walked, and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.

- Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell on the NFL's cancellation of a Philadelphia Eagles in advance of a forecast snow storm.

[The_Lady_Snow]

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

[moxie]

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin

[StillettoDoll]

Have you ever tried to throw away a waste basket? You can't do it. People keep bringing it back. "Here, Howie, I found your waste basket in the garbage". Apparently. you have to completely destroy a wastebasket in order to convince people you really don't want it anymore.

George Carlinhttp://images-partners-tbn.google.com/images?q=tbn:imWmTFvIMMNGIM::members.cox.net/jritland1/images/GeorgeCarlin/GeorgeCarlin-L4.jpg (http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&q=george+carlin&img=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.cox.net%2Fjritland1%2Fima ges%2FGeorgeCarlin%2FGeorgeCarlin-L4.jpg&v_t=keyword_rollover&host=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.cox.net%2Fjritland1%2FGe orgeCarlin%2FGeorgeCarlinPhoto4.html&width=101&height=127&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-partners-tbn.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AimWmTFvIMMNGIM %3A%3Amembers.cox.net%2Fjritland1%2Fimages%2FGeorg eCarlin%2FGeorgeCarlin-L4.jpg&b=image%3Fv_t%3Dkeyword_rollover%26q%3Dgeorge%2Bca rlin%26s_it%3Dtopsearchbox.imageDetails%26page%3D2 %26oreq%3D90a70970763f401daa5be37081c251cb%26count _override%3D20%26oreq%3D3ad7336c3a014c39a149f967d1 036cc8&imgHeight=438&imgWidth=350&imgTitle=George+Carlin+-+photo+4.&imgSize=29874&hostName=members.cox.net)

[rlin]

being a southerner i have often heard this but have no idea who to credit... well maybe one of my cousins...

im fukn this pig... you just hold its tail...

[The_Lady_Snow]

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

[Janstevie]

A smile is a language that even a baby understands.

[Miss Scarlett]

Something learned from an old friend:

"The Good I am seeking is seeking me too...and i say yes!"

[Gayla]

rlin - Your post has been reported as being offensive to women and for it's implication of nonconsensual sexual activity. No matter the intent, please think about how your words, even those said in jest, may be seen by those reading.

Gayla

being a southerner i have often heard this but have no idea who to credit... well maybe one of my cousins...

im fukn this pig... you just hold its tail...

[WolfyOne]

"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity."-Proverb

[Diva]

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

~Florence Scovel Shinn

[Semantics]

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

bell hooks

[ravfem]

Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living, just don't be mean.
~Kate Bornstein

[WolfyOne]

‎" Be grateful to your heart because no matter what it suffers, your heart always finds a way to help you overcome."-Maria Uman

[Kätzchen]

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love," ~ Rumi

[Janstevie]

Marriage is like a pack of cards ....

At the begining all you need are two hearts and a diamond,
by the end you wish you had a club and a spade.

[ravfem]

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
~ Oscar Wilde

[always2late]

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow." -Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

[Jesse]

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King Jr.

[CrankyOldGuy]

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
Jules Renard

[Janstevie]

Depression is anger without enthusiasm.

[cinderella]

Count Laszlo de Almásy to Katherine explaining he is trying to stop loving her.

"Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again."

[Mister Bent]

"Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap. "

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[Jesse]

"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." - Seventh Generation

[Semantics]

Groundless

Edmond Jabès



I

No-man's-land, obsessed page

A dwelling-place is a long insomnia
in the hooded trails of a mine.

My days are days of roots,
love's yoke extolled.

The sky is always to cross and
foreground to be bed with new nights.

I form, in my weeds,
a wedge in the wall's opaque brightness.

The earth is steeped in
empty dreams of travel.

VI

Land beyond night, which the sun wrenches from
meditation, from the thorns of doubt.

Flowers parade their artful candor. The stems
emulate grand adventures in space.

Honey flows between stones
which this cement will join.


VII


Around the branches, the world mimes its hunger.
So many cries for a tree, fragrant god to
plant, to bend by a magic round.

My secrets are orchards.
There is no trick to the mystery.

[CrankyOldGuy]

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to." -Alfred A. Montapert

[always2late]

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown

[Diva]

Art must take reality by surprise.

~Francoise Sagan

[Diva]

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

~Isaac Bashevis Singer

[Diva]

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

~Loretta Lynn

[Janstevie]

The origins of the saying..... RULE OF THUMB.


An old English law declared that a man could not beat his wife with a stick any larger than the diameter of his thumb

[Janstevie]

Where is the “good” in goodbye?

[Arwen]

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

[girl_dee]

Life is a sum of all of your choices.

Albert Camus

[Soon]

"When I dare to be powerful---
to use my strength in the service of my vision,
then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid."

~Audre Lorde

[Diva]

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

~Mark Victor Hansen~

[PinkieLee]

The 3 C's of life.... choices, chances & changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.

[ravfem]

"I don't cause commotions, I am one." ~ Elphaba

Elphaba: "Even though you pretend to be shallow and self absorbed-"
Fiyero: "Excuse me! There is not pretense there. I happen to be deeply shallow and genuinely self-absorbed."
Elphaba: "no you're not. Or you wouldn't be so unhappy."

:glasses:

[Kätzchen]

http://www.all-famous-quotes.com/images/uploads/Evening_sky_reflection_beach.jpg

Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea,
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning.


~Pablo Neruda
excerpted from, On the Blue Shore of Silence (2004)

[Tommi]

Daily OM for Today
February 16, 2011
The Friend We Want To Be
Evaluating Our Relationships

It is important to look at ourselves and notice what kind of friend we are to the people in our lives.

There comes a time in all our lives when we may need to evaluate our relationships, making sure that they are having a positive effect on us, rather than dragging us down. Without realizing it, we may be spending precious time and energy engaging in friendships that let us down, rather than cultivating ones that support and nourish us along our path. Life, with its many twists, turns, and challenges, is difficult enough without us entertaining people in our inner circle who drain our energy. We can do so much more in this world when we are surrounded by people who understand what we’re trying to do and who positively support our efforts to walk our path.

We can begin this evaluation process by simply noticing how we feel in the context of each one of our close relationships. We may begin to see that an old friend is still carrying negative attitudes or ideas that we ourselves need to let go of in order to move forward. Or we may find that we have a long-term relationship with someone who has a habit of letting us down, or not showing up for us when we need support. There are many ways to go about changing the status quo in situations like this, having a heart to heart with our friend showing through example. This process isn’t so much about abandoning old friends as it is about shifting our relationships so that they support us on our journey rather than holding us back.

An important part of this process is looking at ourselves and noticing what kind of friend we are to the people in our lives. We might find that as we adjust our own approach to a relationship, challenging ourselves to be more supportive and positive, our friends make adjustments as well and the whole world benefits.

[Arwen]

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

[Ms. Meander]

Fear Less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb

[Tucker]

Fashion is made to become unfashionable

[The_Lady_Snow]

" President's Day is just another Monday, I'm celebrating Sarah Palin NOT being President"

[oblivia]

‎"As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, As soon as I, in a love relationship do not lead the other person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love."
~Leo Buscaglia

[Diva]

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

~W. C. Fields

[Jesse]

“Trust, like the soul, never returns once it is gone.” Publibius

[Jesse]

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgment will be much in your favor. - Grantland Rice (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/grantlandr118346.html)

[Jesse]

“Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/procrastination-is-like-masturbation-in-the-end/348545.html)” - Anon

[Jesse]

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

[afixer]

" No more turning away from the weak and the weary.
No more turning away from the coldness inside.
Just a world that we all must share.
It's not enough just to stand and stare.
Is it only a dream that there will be no more turning away. "
- David Gilmore

[StillettoDoll]

Why don't networks TV shows have a warning that says " Caution: You are about to watch a real piece of crap." Actually, they could just leave it on the screen all the time.

George Carlin

[always2late]

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

[Diva]

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

~Benjamin Disraeli

[violaine]

In the gloomy north, on a bleak crag,
a lone, white cedar stands in the snow
and has fallen sweetly asleep in the frosty mist,
and the blizzard lulls its sleep.
..........
It dreams all the time of a young palm
which, in the East distant regions,
beneath a burning sky, on a scorched hill,
stands and blossoms, alone.

[Diva]

Bless them and release them............

~Cynthia Lipford

[Jesse]

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields

[Jesse]

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jesse]

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. ~Robert Brault

[Fancy]

‎"To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
~ Eckhart Tolle

[Massive]

"We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness." - Neil Gaimen (American Gods)

[Oiler41]

"We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness." - Neil Gaimen (American Gods)

Amen!

Thanks for posting,

Glynn

[nycfem]

"Do we all exist under an illusory veil of meaning until tragedy rips it away? How does one continue without that veil?"

-james kostelniuk, from his beautiful memoir "wolves among sheep" regarding the murder of his two children

[Oiler41]

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius

Glynn

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"For the first time...I feel...WICKED!"

~Elphaba, Wicked

[always2late]

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda

[Jesse]

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

[Jesse]

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey

[Ms. Meander]

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
- Maya Angelou

[Janstevie]

The noblest of dogs is the hotdog, it feeds the hand that bites it.

[Kobi]

When one's accomplishments are being attacked by
those using questionable means, it is more honorable
to walk away in peace, then to engage a web of deceit.

[Fancy]

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
- Bill Moyers

[nowandthen]

The markers of my womanhood

The first time I skinned my knee

Or the first time I scored a touch down

The first girl I kissed

The markers of my womanhood

The first uninvited touch

The fights about my cloths

The first shrink I had

The markers of my womanhood

The first skateboard I made in woodshop

My first motorcycle

How 501’s hang on my hips

The markers of my Womanhood

The first time security was called in the restroom

Realizing my womanhood threatened yours

The markers of my Womanhood

Learning that the illusion of my

Womanhood Lie’s between your

eyes and my body….

11'

[Mister Bent]

"I just don't think there's anything wrong with a little fucking and punching among consenting adults."

- Mia, Californication

[Janstevie]

My dog is worried about the economy because Pedigree chum is up to $2.00 a can, that's almost $21.00 in dog money.

[Just_G]

Sometimes the best way to contribute to a more peaceful world is simply to let love pour from your heart. Even the smallest of gestures can shine a light on someone in such a way that it can heal them, & sometimes you are doing nothing at all but letting love flow to that person, or just out into the world, forgetting for a moment all the things that seem wrong.
~Sherri Lane~

[Jesse]

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~Samuel Johnson

[Jesse]

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb

[Ms. Meander]

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
- Pema Chödrön

[femmedyke]

"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things." ~Tori Amos

[Fancy]

You don't have to move fast, just move forward.

[Arwen]

As seen on Twitter:

NFA: If u a person that's always fallin out with different people that should be a clear indication that it's something wrong with "YOU"

[StillettoDoll]

I think they ought to have really fast escalators that you have to jump on and off, and if you get hurt, too bad.
George Carlin.

[StillettoDoll]

When I'm writing, I always like to have the TV playing in the back-ground. I usually try to find a program that's interesting enough to leave on. but stupid enough to ignore.
George Carlin

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[Semantics]

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.


Jerry Garcia

[Diva]

Freedom is the distance between church and state.

~As seen on a t-shirt

[femmedyke]

"When I look down, I miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things..." ~ Ani DiFranco

[Fancy]

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Hemingway

[Sparkle]

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably”

Eleanor Roosevelt

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"You are taken in the net of my music, my love,
and my nets of music are wide as the sky.
My soul is born on the shore of your eyes of mourning.
In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begin. "

[hpychick]

solace finds no spur
leaning on fences of wire
whilst barbed in the heart

[Jesse]

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
Jessica Lange (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jessicalan364742.html)

[I'mOneToo]

"You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages"

BARNEY FRANK, speech, Jan. 3, 2007

[I'mOneToo]

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”

Dalai Lama

[Kätzchen]

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body,"

-Supreme Court Justice: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



(http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/963024/oliver-wendell-holmes-jr/take-a-music-bath-once-or-twice-a-week-for-a-few-seasons)

[tuffboi29]

"Your lies will find you out before the truth will."

~Unknown

[I'mOneToo]

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

- Nido Qubein

[Diva]

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

~Andy Warhol

[Diva]

We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see.

~Winnie the Pooh

[Fancy]

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

-Paulo Coelho

[UofMfan]

Poema 18.
20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada.
Pablo Neruda

Aquí te amo.
En los oscuros pinos se desenreda el viento.
Fosforece la luna sobre las aguas errantes.
Andan días iguales persiguiéndose.

Se desciñe la niebla en danzantes figuras.
Una gaviota de plata se descuelga del ocaso.
A veces una vela. Altas, altas estrellas.

O la cruz negra de un barco.
Solo.
A veces amanezco, y hasta mi alma está húmeda.
Suena, resuena el mar lejano.
Este es un puerto.
Aquí te amo.

Aquí te amo y en vano te oculta el horizonte.
Te estoy amando aún entre estas frías cosas.
A veces van mis besos en esos barcos graves,
que corren por el mar hacia donde no llegan.

Ya me veo olvidado como estas viejas anclas.
Son más tristes los muelles cuando atraca la tarde.
Se fatiga mi vida inútilmente hambrienta.
Amo lo que no tengo. Estás tú tan distante.

Mi hastío forcejea con los lentos crepúsculos.
Pero la noche llega y comienza a cantarme.
La luna hace girar su rodaje de sueño.

Me miran con tus ojos las estrellas más grandes.
Y como yo te amo, los pinos en el viento, quieren cantar tu nombre con sus hojas de alambre.

[Miss Scarlett]

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities;
an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities,
but anger can.

Anger is our real enemy.

The Dalai Lama

[Miss Scarlett]

Because we all share this planet earth,
we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature.
This is not just a dream, but a necessity.

The Dalai Lama

[Mister Bent]

People... they don't write anymore - they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this
and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with
a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the
King's English.

- Hank Moody, Californication

[rlin]

If women ran the world, there wouldn't be any wars, but there would be entire nations that wouldn't speak to each other. no clue who said it... but its an excellent idea!!

[weatherboi]

Wealth and Pleasure be Yours!
If my scribblings have brought you a measure of both, set me to advantage on your bookshelf. If I have bored you, accept my apologies and consign me to the flames.

-The Marquis de Sade

:mohawk:

[Jesse]

Don't let the past steal your present. ~Terri Guillemets

[Jesse]

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb

[Admin]

If women ran the world, there wouldn't be any wars, but there would be entire nations that wouldn't speak to each other. no clue who said it... but its an excellent idea!!


rlin-

Your post was reported for sexism. I know you have been warned about this once already so let me be very clear: This is a woman-positive website with the majority of participants here being women or having a female narrative of some sort, and we DO NOT want the people on this site having to wade through sexist ideaology in a space that is supposed to be supportive.

Since this is your second warning, you need to be extremely careful before posting another quote, as another sexist quote will result in a two-week time-out.

Thanks for your cooperation,
Admin

[WILDCAT]

If women ran the world, there wouldn't be any wars, but there would be entire nations that wouldn't speak to each other. no clue who said it... but its an excellent idea!!

Randy Bastid (who evidently nods wax) INDEED...

WOW, is right!

:thud:



(Helen of TROY would beg to differ...)

:artist:

[justkim]

- Your vision of where or what you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it's difficult to score. -
- Paul Arden -

[moxie]

“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose” - Thornton Wilder

[Ms. Meander]

Ownership of What Remains

Inside my protective matrix of lusty flesh
I am but a creature
Driven to base instincts
by the sharpness of this journey

Shrouded in the echo chamber
between my skin and my heart
I submit all
but for the inner sanctum
For that is mine
and mine alone

[Miss Scarlett]

"There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide.
No matter what people call you, you are just who you are.
Keep to this truth.
You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life.
We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone.
No one can help us, not even the Buddha.
So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life?"

The Dalai Lama

[The_Lady_Snow]

A feminist who lives the Bible produces, in the thinking of many, an oxymoron. Perhaps clever as rhetoric, the description offers no possibility for existential integrity. After all, if no man can serve two masters, no woman can serve two authorities, a master called Scripture and a mistress called feminism.

[2myladyblue]

Eve's mouth hurts from trying not to laugh
At some joke some scholar made about her being someone's half.
It was a joke, a lie, exageration, a fib
And now you all believe I came from his rib.

She screams at the top of her lungs
"I'm whole. I'm body. I'm heart. I'm mind. I'm soul."

-Alix Olson

I :stillheart: Alix Olson!
:blueheels:
LadyBlue

[Kätzchen]

"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny," ~ Alan Cohen

[StillettoDoll]

The invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.

[Diva]

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

~Catherine Pulsifer

[ravfem]

self–righ·teous adj \-ˈrī-chəs\:

convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others :

narrow-mindedly moralistic. ~ m-w.com (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-righteous?show=0&t=1298872481)

[I'mOneToo]

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

- William Reece Smith

[Jesse]

"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway." Elbert Hubbard

[Jesse]

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Author Unknown

[Passionaria]

When gossip grows old, it becomes a myth.
~Stanislaw Lee

[Sweet_Amor_Taino]

The four agreements
by Don Miguel Ruiz

Gossip
We create a lot of emotional poison just by making assumptions and passing it one to others, Remember Gossip is the way we communicate to others the poison that lives in our own hearts. Do not make assumptions.. Ask .. Give others the opportunity to show themselves.

[Diva]

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

~Andrew Carnegie

[always2late]

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. - Edward Abbey

[Diva]

There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving.

~Lesley Blanch

[I'mOneToo]

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle.

- Dalai Lama

[Venus007]

"I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool."
— Theodore I. Rubin

[weatherboi]

forsake a transcendent future for a beautiful now

:mohawk:

[Andrew, Jr.]

Jax Teller from the movie "Sons of Anarchy":

"A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right."

:fastdraq:

[hpychick]

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
- Audre Lorde

[Corkey]

This isn't directed at anyone, it popped into my head just as stuff does through out the day.

'Tis better to be thought the fool than to open ones mouth and be proven one."

I have no clue who this is from, case of CRS.

[justkim]

- There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. -
- Buddha -

[little_ms_sunshyne]

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
-- When Harry Met Sally

[FeminineAllure]

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."

George Washington Carver

[I'mOneToo]

“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.”

- Sara Paddison

[StillettoDoll]

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas384976.html)

[StillettoDoll]

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/drseuss102624.html)

[justkim]

- Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. -
- Dr. Seuss -

[Semantics]

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)

Waugh was an elitist prick but I can empathize with his feelings at the time he wrote this.

[Diva]

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book

[Passionaria]

Respect is love in plain clothes. ~ Frankie Byrne

[justkim]

- Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day -
- Author Unknown -

[I'mOneToo]

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

[afixer]

the fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Amelia Barr

[Arwen]

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. -Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960)

[Dude]

make sure you visualize what you really want,
not what someone else want's for you.

Jerry Gillies

[Janstevie]

If your parents dont have children, it's likely you wont either.

[FeminineAllure]

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks

[Diva]

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

~Albert Einstein

[hpychick]

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ~ Mark Twain

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Look, I guarantee that we'll have tough times. And I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us will want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine I'll regret it for the rest of my life. Because I know in my heart, you're the only one for me."

~ Runaway Bride

[Ms. Meander]

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

- Ingrid Bergman

[Fancy]

Friends are like family members you get too choose. I've chosen well, as have they.

[I'mOneToo]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[FeminineAllure]

"You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere." - Unknown

[adorable]

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

Paris is always a good idea.

~Audrey Hepburn

[miss entycing]

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab108/boricuachula_album/quotes/words-quotes-poems-sayings-Sexy-wom.jpg

[Janstevie]

I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

[Janstevie]

Nothing is worse than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

[Chazz]

For me, this poem captures the irresistible passion between femmes and butches. Irresistible, indeed.


Love Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda

I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

[Chazz]

The better way.

Soneto XVII

No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva
dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores,
y gracias a tu amor vive oscuro en mi cuerpo
el apretado aroma que ascendió de la tierra.

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,

sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres,
tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,
tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.

[UofMfan]

The better way.

Soneto XVII

No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva
dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores,
y gracias a tu amor vive oscuro en mi cuerpo
el apretado aroma que ascendió de la tierra.

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,

sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres,
tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,
tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.



Much better.

[Chazz]

Estoy de acuerdo, UofMfan.

[I'mOneToo]

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
And thats where I belong
And you belong with me"

[Tcountry]

"FOR..EVVV...ER"
Sandlot movie

[Ms. Meander]

New Woman Blues

Inside my white armor I am covered with hair and lice.
I haven’t bathed for so long I no longer stink
but give off the odor of perfumed catacombs.
When I open my mouth to say I love you
spiders run over my lower lip and down into my beard.
There is a mouse tail hanging out of the corner of my mouth.
I want our first moments alone to be messy.
I want you to feel all the terror of me you will ever feel, now.
If you take me as I am I will never disappoint you.
I wake at night and cut my dreams into paste-ups;
the snack snack snack of the scissors will test you.
I am violent and unpredictable.
I eat snake heads.
I have invited my beast to come live in my skin,
look out through my eyes.
I deny nothing.
I have no secrets.
I will give you more truth than you ever wanted.
I fuck like the last day on earth.
When your parents come to visit
I will lead them into the room which is always in darkness
and there under the black light
show them my collection of missionaries
from all over the world.

When I say I love you
great greased cogs begin to turn
down below the sewers.
With me you have always more than you wanted.
Your leprosy is nothing to me.
Your psychotic episodes,
your collection of Filipino war knives,
nothing; your vibrating bras
ringed with Italian Christmas lights,
nothing compared to the vise-grip I’ll put on your heart.
Your legs will shake so badly waiting for me to come home
you’ll scarcely notice they get worse when I’m there.
I drink a glass of blood every morning.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses will not knock on my door.
Now I’ve told you everything.
No surprises down the road, no disappointments.
I’m sorry I’ve done all the talking.
That’s the hardest thing of all you’ll have to bear.

– Doug Anderson

[FeminineAllure]

"When you're down to nothing, God is up to something.

The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible."



Unknown



Have the courage to follow your Divine Plan.
Have the courage to follow your heart.

[moxie]

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves and then we have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. - Snoopy

[Jeep]

I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle ~Author Unknown

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown

You start the game with a full pot o' luck and an empty pot o' experience... The object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck. ~Author Unknown

[Fancy]

"When the drumbeat changes, the dancers must adapt."

Burkina Faso Proverb

[Arwen]

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Aerosmith

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. Sigmund Freud

[Tcountry]

"What do you do when u realize all your dreams have come true?" --Coyote Ugly

[StillettoDoll]

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day, I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George Carlin

[Miss Scarlett]

From an old and very dear friend:

Who I Truly Am

Today I live my life as that which I truly am.
I do not put up any fronts for anybody or anything nor do I pretend to be anything other than what I truly am.
I know that I am the sum total of all Universal Goodness.
Every aspect that God is so am I.
I am an Infinite Expression expressing love, peace and harmony wherever I go.
What I see in the mirror is God looking back at me.
Today I take time and look in the mirror.
I realize how precious I truly am.
As one of God’s creations it can be no other way.
Today I remember this fully.
And so it is.

[Diva]

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

~Abraham Lincoln

[Janstevie]

Have you ever seen the headline: Psychic wins lottery.

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds."
~The Notebook

[Tcountry]

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to
your friends."

--Harry Potter

[Diva]

Music is the poetry of the air.

~Richter

[Diva]

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[I'mOneToo]

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.”

- George Harrison

[Diva]

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

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Diva]

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

~Confucius

[Fancy]

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

~Ben Harper

[Ms. Meander]

"One wrong move and you're the ass-licker. Words to live by."
- Marcy Runkle, Californication

[Arwen]

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

[girl_dee]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt124/chellybelly101_2009/Love-3.jpg
xo~~~

[Janstevie]

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

[Andrew, Jr.]

Susan, a clinical psychologist wrote: "...We are all apart of the human family, and we all need to treat each other right...let people be responsible for their own behavior. Don't blame yourself for the way other people act."


:vigil:

[Kätzchen]

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom," ~ Robert Frost

[wolfbittenpoet]

I am not young enough to know everything.
-Oscar Wilde

[wolfbittenpoet]

Women are made to be loved, not understood. ~Oscar Wilde

How true it is. I will never try to understand a woman. How can I when we speak different languages of the heart? But I shall love her for our souls speak the same.

[justkim]

- Our world is like a boomerang. If we throw anger, anger comes back; if we throw love, love comes back. If we throw negativity, negativity comes back; if we throw positivity, positivity comes back. -
- Unknown -

[justkim]

- Life is very short; those who go on postponing go on missing. -
- Unknown -

[girl_dee]

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind."
Phillip Adams.

[Janstevie]

Why do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds in our driveways and put our useless junk in the garage.

[Arwen]

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. -Eric Idle, comedian, actor, and author (b. 1943)

[Kätzchen]

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*sweet dreams*

:moonstars:

[Diva]

Fair weather friends are not worth much.

~Unknown

[Janstevie]

Flattery is like perfume, smell it but dont swallow it.

[Diva]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

~Socrates

[Diva]

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

~Bill Cosby

[Kätzchen]

"With the pen in one's hand, narrative is a difficult art; narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands, its course changed by every boulder it comes across and by every grass-clad gravelly spur that projects into its path; its surface broken, but its course not stayed by rocks and gravel on the bottom in the shoal places; a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes, and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe three quarters of a mile around, and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path it traversed an hour before; but always going, and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of the narrative, which has no law."

- Mark Twain

[always2late]

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes Jr

[Pixie]

Let me rule you and you can have everything, love me and do as I say and I will be your slave. -labryinth

[Diva]

In the Spring, at the end of the day, You should smell like dirt.

~Margaret Atwood

[Diva]

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's PARTY!".

~Robin Williams

[The_Lady_Snow]

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

[alilhoneybee]

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll