Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Janstevie]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions or cures, have choosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand, that is a friend who cares.

[Spirit Dancer]

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire,
but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to
change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have
not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely
determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it,
and then if we turn around to gaze at the remote past, we can
barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Marcel Proust

[Fancy]

If only green stuff would grow in the garden as easily as it does in the refrigerator.

[Ms. Meander]

The Rain
By Robert Creeley


All night the sound had
come back again,
and again falls
this quiet, persistent rain.

What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it

that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me

something other than this,
something not so insistent—
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness.

Love, if you love me,
lie next to me.
Be for me, like rain,
the getting out

of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
lust of intentional indifference.
Be wet
with a decent happiness.

[foxyshaman]

You will undoubtably find that the faster you run from fate, the quicker you will run into it.

[StillettoDoll]

"Friend's are God's way of apologizing to us for our families"
:praying:

[StillettoDoll]

"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget."

[StillettoDoll]

"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one"
-C.S. Lewis

[JAGG]

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. ~ Richard Bach

SO TRUE!!!

[always2late]

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~ Maori proverb

[Butterbean]

Make your optimism come true.


~Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?" - Khalil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." -
Khalil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers." - Khalil Gibran

[WolfyOne]

I read this on FB and don't know who said it, but I want to share it here

You never know how strong you are...until being strong is the only choice you have

[Elijah]

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

[StillettoDoll]

When the character of a man is not clear to you look at his friends.

Japanese proverb

[StillettoDoll]

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright

[Nurse Darlin]

From childhoods hour
I have not been
As others were
I have not seen
As others saw
I could not bring
My passions from
A common spring
From the same source
I have not taken
My sorrows
I could not awaken
My heart to joy
At the same tone
And all that I've loved
I've loved alone

...........Edgar Allen Poe
(If some words are not quite right, I appologize now. I typed from memory. Lol)

[Butterbean]

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ~Henry David Thoreau

[JakeTulane]

"It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it." ~Erika Harris

[JakeTulane]

"If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions." ~Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[justkim]

- Knowledge is learning something every day. -

- Wisdom is letting go of something every day. -

-- Zen Proverb --

[hpychick]

And now, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

[Mr.Nobody]

“ Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been everything else and it will have just as much meaning. ”

Mr Nobody

[Diva]

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

~Persis Khambatta

[UofMfan]

"Algún día en cualquier parte, en cualquier lugar indefectiblemente te encontrarás a ti mismo, y ésa, sólo ésa, puede ser la más feliz o la más amarga de tus horas." ~ Pablo Neruda

[JakeTulane]

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." -- Karen Casey

[JakeTulane]

"You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." James Matthew Barrie

[JakeTulane]

“The biggest problem for humanity, not only on a global level, but even for individuals, is misunderstanding. We misunderstand. Two people are saying the same thing, but they don’t think they are saying the same thing, and they begin to argue even though they are saying the same thing!" - Buddha

[justkim]

- Step by step and stair by stair,
be patient, believe, before long you'll be there. -

- Unknown -

[Rook]

The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, Osama bin Laden is dead, justice has been served, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night

[Ms. Meander]

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

[UofMfan]

"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us"
~ Pablo Neruda

[JakeTulane]

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot." — Sarah Dessen

[JakeTulane]

"At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope." -Stanislav Grof

[JakeTulane]

"None of us wants to admit that we hate someone...When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate." - Lewis B. Smedes

[Ms. Tabitha]

Life is too short to wake up with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy, they just said it would be worth it.
~ Catherine Yen

[Ms. Tabitha]

"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option."
~ Maya Angelou

[Ms. Tabitha]

"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me."

~ Maya Angelou

[Diva]

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.


It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.


I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.


I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.


It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.


I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.


I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”


It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.


It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.


It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.


I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

[girl_dee]

‎"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King Jr

[Janstevie]

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

[Janstevie]

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

[Janstevie]

Never regret anything, because at one point you wanted it.

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."

[justkim]

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
~ Mother Teresa ~

[Pixie]

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Dale Carnegie

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[justkim]

- Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -
- Buddha -

[Ms. Meander]

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- T. S. Eliot

[The_Lady_Snow]

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

*

[Ebon]

"The owners of this country know the truth: It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin

[Arwen]

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. (unknown)

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

[always2late]

Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

[Diva]

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

~Author Unknown

[Mr.Nobody]

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner

[Packin'Boi]

Same Tree,Different Forest..

[Indianaguy]

Black IS beautiful!!!!

[weatherboi]

“when you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”
Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”

[Janny]

We're born alone, we die alone, and while we're here, we're absolutely completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. It kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it.
-Kenny to George in "A Single Man"-

[wolfbittenpoet]

"One day I will find the right words and they will be simple." Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums

[wolfbittenpoet]

"One man praticing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls." Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums

[Jesse]

Dog Philosophy

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

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. --Ann Landers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. --Will Rogers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. --Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. --Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. --Andy Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. --M. Acklam

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

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. --Rita Rudner

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. --Robert Benchley

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. --Franklin P. Jones

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. --James Thurber

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. --Unknown

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. --Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! --Anne Tyler

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. --Robert A. Heinlein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!' -- Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. --Roger Caras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. --Phil Pastoret

[Duchess]

"Those who are constantly at war with others are seldom at peace with themselves."(f)
~ Unknown

[Maria]

It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce.

[Maria]

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Camus)

[Janstevie]

I hate to advocate smoking, drinking, staying out all night, lots of sex or insanity to anyone, but they always worked for me.

[Janstevie]

I always feel the whole world is about 3 drinks behind.

[Janny]

I envy people who drink...at least they know what to blame everything on. :)
-Oscar Levant-

[Kätzchen]

"The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification,"

~ Moritz Schlick

[JakeTulane]

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

[JakeTulane]

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

[JakeTulane]

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Mr.Nobody]

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller

[Just_G]

"When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. We think we're protecting ourselves, but we're not. We are simply shutting other people out of our lives. We become isolated, alone, warped and imprisoned by our own bitterness. Those walls aren't merely keeping people out; those walls are keeping you penned in. You must tear down the walls.You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of those wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison."

~Joel Osteen~

[Mr.Nobody]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

[The_Lady_Snow]

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobodys' business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

[StillettoDoll]

"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him".

[Mr.Nobody]

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~Albert Einstein

[MsTinkerbelly]

60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney (CBS)

As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:
A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, 'What are you thinking?' She doesn't care what you think. If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it's usually more interesting. Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's like to be unappreciated. Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, 'Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free, here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

[Mr.Nobody]

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou

[CrankyOldGuy]

"I want to go down on you & make you extremely happy. Then I want to come back up slowly & screw you real good & hard!" Yours truly, gas prices!!

[Janstevie]

If any of my friends ever felt driven to jump off a bridge, i would'nt jump with them, i would be at the bottom waiting to catch them.

[Duchess]

"And let's not make any mistake, or gloss over that fact: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. Not only are we the group most at risk of violence, we are most at risk of job discrimination, losing our families; homophobia retains its title as the last socially acceptable form of bigotry."(f)
Jeffrey Montgomery (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/859268)

[justkim]

-Do you want to see a miracle? Look in the mirror. -
- Kute Blackson -

[justkim]

- The magic recipe to living out your boldest dreams: A pinch of delusion, a dash of audacity and a shot of courage. -
- Kirsty Spraggon -

[Ms. Meander]

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
~Jane Wagner, The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe

[Ms. Meander]

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.
~Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone." - Marilyn Monroe

[JakeTulane]

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders." - Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light." - Helen Keller

[Mr.Nobody]

“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going”~Tennessee Williams

[Kätzchen]

"Newspapers will run a headline: 'Shark kills human.' You never see a headline from another perspective: 'Man swims in shark-infested waters, forgets he's shark food',"

~ Gary Larson

[Diva]

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

~Henry Ward Beecher

[Jesse]

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." — Friedrich Nietzsche (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche)

[justkim]

- Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. -
- Peace Pilgrim -

[violaine]

"She was not what you
would call refined. She was
not what you would call
unrefined. She was the sort
of person who kept a parrot"


(Mark Twain, 'Following the
Equator')

[justkim]

- Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. -
- Anthony J. D'Angelo -

[girl_dee]

Too many people try to fake their way through life. That's why the real ones shine so brightly.

[Kobi]

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.

If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes!"

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

[Nurse Darlin]

It seemed like time had stopped,
The moment I heard your lively heartbeat.
I imagined your sweet, innocent smile,
Your tiny hands and tiny feet.

My heart filled with so much love,
Dreams of a future so near.
When I could hold you in my arms,
And chase away any fears.

I could make out your sweet tiny toes,
As you kicked from inside my skin.
I felt every roll and every hick-up,
From my miracle baby, within.

I counted down the days and nights,
Until my little boy would be born.
When you would be nestled in my loving arms,
Where I would hold you and keep you warm.

I loved you before I knew you,
I will love you until the end of time.
You're my sparkling shooting star,
For you, the sun does shine.

I never expected you would be taken,
Your life ending before your first breath.
Your birth was meant to be joyful,
Not associated with your death.

You passed through my life so quickly,
Leaving me feeling such love for you, and such pain.
When I think of what should have been,
Mine eyes continue to pour like the rain.

I think about you every waking moment,
How much by now you would have grown.
How I'd wrap my arms around you,
Not be sitting here alone.

Know that Mommy loves you,
You are my rainbow in the skies.
I'll never forget the sweetness of your face,
Never knowing the color of your eyes.

For my son...

[Mr.Nobody]

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
-- as it surely will.
Then act with courage.

Chief White Eagle

[Camo Eagle]

"If that battle isn't between you and your destiny, it's not worth it. You don't have to fight every battle."
Joel Osteen

[Mr.Nobody]

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life...

"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.

"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"

The old chief simply replied,
"The one you feed."

[CrankyOldGuy]

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
-Mother Teresa

[Fancy]

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost

[Camo Eagle]

" Do not tell lies, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered."

Gospel of Thomas

[msW8ing]

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne

[JakeTulane]

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion." - Thich Nhat Hanh

[JakeTulane]

Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Ann Taylor


Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor

[JakeTulane]

"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." ~Washington Irving

[DamselFly]

"The real religion of this world comes from women much more than men-
from mothers most of all, who carry the keys of our souls in their bosoms."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

[DamselFly]

we all know the pain of hurt feelings and rejection. but heartbreak isn't only the end: it can be a beginning, too. a heart broken is already transforming.
(one spirit book of days, 2011)

[DamselFly]

"If you press me to say why I loved him,
I can say no more than because he was he,
and I was I."
(Michel De Montaigne)

[Janstevie]

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.

[JakeTulane]

"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." ---Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[JakeTulane]

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." ---Morrie Schwartz

[JakeTulane]

"Having a role model in life is a great thing to have; one who provides us with direction and inspiration. However, we will forever be restricted by that person's limitations if we live within their boundaries. Be influenced, but set your own standards and develop your own principals, if you are ever to live beyond someone else's dreams." ---Jason Shahan

[Ms. Meander]

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
- Virginia Woolf

[Tommi]

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley



I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. ~Author Unknown

[always2late]

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

[Diva]

They put on a front that appears accommodating, loyal, and yes, even sacrificial. Then, without warning, they raise their knife, and by the time you see the glint of the blade, it's almost always too late.

~ Les Parrott

[justkim]

- Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. -
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta -

[justkim]

“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].”
— Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[Tcountry]

"Baby there's no mistakin' you're the love I wanna be in"
--Jason Alden song

[cinderella]

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

~Emily Dickenson

[JakeTulane]

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.” - Alex Karras

[JakeTulane]

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” - August Wilson

[violaine]

If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.

Vanessa Hudgens

[SmoothButch]

‎"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."-Elvis Presley





..

[LipstickLola]

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude!!:hangloose:

[JAGG]

" Every action of yours, strikes a cord in eternity."

[nycfem]

“Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent. ... It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...” — Catherine Britton

[JakeTulane]

"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on." - Sharon Salzberg

[JakeTulane]

"Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them." - Marcus Aurelius

[JakeTulane]

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." - Marie Curie

[always2late]

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. - Harold J. Smith

[gotoseagrl]

“The simplest things are often the truest.” Richard Bach

[StillettoDoll]

Sober Song

by Barton Sutter (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/author.php?auth_id=2069)

Farewell to the starlight in whiskey,
So long to the sunshine in beer.
The booze made me cocky and frisky
But worried the man in the mirror.

Good night to the moonlight in brandy,
Adieu to the warmth of the wine.
I think I can finally stand me
Without a glass or a stein.

Bye-bye to the balm in the vodka,
Ta-ta to the menthol in gin.
I'm trying to do what I ought to,
Rejecting that snake medicine.

I won't miss the blackouts and vomit,
The accidents and regret.
If I can stay off the rotgut,
There might be a chance for me yet.

So so long to God in a bottle,
To the lies of rum and vermouth.
Let me slake my thirst with water
And the sweet, transparent truth.


"Sober Song" by Barton Sutter, from Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey.

[Fancy]

If you won't be part of the solution, get the fuck outa the way.

[Semantics]

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

[JakeTulane]

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

[JakeTulane]

"It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it." ~Erika Harris

[JakeTulane]

"It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts." ~K.T. Jong

[miss entycing]

“For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.”
Molly Haskell.

[Jar]

“For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.”
Molly Haskell.I like the quote but is it possible? :cheesy:

[miss entycing]

I like the quote but is it possible? :cheesy:

Absolutley possible... all it takes is One to pay attention.
easily understood.
:cheesy:

[Tommi]

http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy267/guason_babosin/Quotes%20and%20sayings/styledancebeat.jpg

[The_Lady_Snow]

“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/my-generation-s-apathy-i-m-disgusted-with-it-i-m/347246.html)”

[Jar]

Absolutley possible... all it takes is One to pay attention.
easily understood.
:cheesy:I'm a good payer attention to-er :glasses:

[violaine]

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work

--Mark Twain

[Duchess]

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.":hangloose:
(http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/718)
Anthony Robbins (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/718)

[Elijah]

Be near me now,
My tormenter, my love, be near me—
At this hour when night comes down,
When, having drunk from the gash of sunset, darkness comes
With the balm of musk in its hands, its diamond lancets,
When it comes with cries of lamentation,
with laughter with songs;
Its blue-gray anklets of pain clinking with every step.
At this hour when hearts, deep in their hiding places,
Have begun to hope once more, when they start their vigil
For hands still enfolded in sleeves;
When wine being poured makes the sound
of inconsolable children
who, though you try with all your heart,
cannot be soothed.
When whatever you want to do cannot be done,
When nothing is of any use;
—At this hour when night comes down,
When night comes, dragging its long face,
dressed in mourning,
Be with me,
My tormenter, my love, be near me.

~ Faiz Ahmed Faiz

[Janstevie]

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." ~Robertson Davies

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[Fancy]

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.

~ Albus Dumbledore

[Kätzchen]

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people
not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Doug Larson

[Tommi]

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain, and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do”
(Bentham 1789)

[Andrew, Jr.]

Hollister Rand

"Life is like skateboarding. You will fall alot before mastering the tricks."

"Live at the speed of life. Laugh at the speed of sound."

"Why" is a short question that takes an eternity to answer."

"Sometimes a butterfly is just a kiss from heaven."

"The building blocks of heaven are love, hope, and joy."

[hpychick]

Forgiveness is not possible until compassion is born in your heart -Thich Nhat Hanh

[wolfbittenpoet]

"Sometimes you wake up, sometimes the fall kills you, and sometimes when you fall you fly." Neil Gaiman

[wolfbittenpoet]

"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths no one else will speak." Neil Gaiman

[daisygrrl]

"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns."

"I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them."

"I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life.... Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted."

"The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal."

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form."

[Elijah]

Your Catfish Friend
by Richard Brautigan

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful
here by this pond. I wish
somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them."

[nycfem]

"Each of us has a special word that no one will ever understand. Even if we say the word, simply the word, people will be clueless. it will take a thousand more words to explain and even then it will only be a ghost of a meaning. So keep your word close and smile because it is your own."

-our very own wolfbittenpoet/ The Typewriter Boy

[Diva]

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

[Diva]

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

~Sakyong Mipham

[Diva]

Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

[UofMfan]

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” ~ Tom Robbins

[hpychick]

What a superbly accurate quote from one of our very own. To add to wolfbitten's idea - our words, although they are but symbols for our thoughts and feelings, shape who we are, and who we are not. They stand the test of time. They can pull us deeply toward love and to extreme levels of hatred. Even as I write these words, I wonder if they - like chocolate - will taste the same way to you, as they do to me.

"Each of us has a special word that no one will ever understand. Even if we say the word, simply the word, people will be clueless. it will take a thousand more words to explain and even then it will only be a ghost of a meaning. So keep your word close and smile because it is your own."

-our very own wolfbittenpoet/ The Typewriter Boy

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence." - Ronald Harmon

[JakeTulane]

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

[femmedyke]

When one must, one can. ~ Charlotte Whitton

[Blade]

If it isn't possible to happen, it will happen to you....MY MOM

[WolfyOne]

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~author unknown~

[Kätzchen]

"Dreams are illustrations - from the book your soul is writing about you,"

~ Marsha Norman

[DamselFly]

each day i wonder how many things that i'm dead wrong about.
(jim harrison)

[DamselFly]

the first cup kisses away my thirst
and my loneliness is quelled by the second
the third cup gives insight worthy
of ancient scrolls
and the fourth exiles my troubles
my body becomes lighter with the fifth
and the sixth sends word from the Immortals
but the seventh, o the seventh cup,
if i drink you,
a wind will hurry my wings toward
the Sacred Island
(Lu Tong, 798-835 CE)

[DamselFly]

an intelligent person is never bored
(my father)

[Ms. Tabitha]

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

:rrose:

[Ms. Tabitha]

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

:rrose:

[Ms. Tabitha]

"There is no going back in life.
There is no return.
No second chance."

~Daphne du Maurier

:rrose:

[JakeTulane]

"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence." - Thomas Merton

[JakeTulane]

"I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life -- about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them." - Parker J. Palmer

[JakeTulane]

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo C. Rosten

[Mister Bent]

"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved
badly, repent, make what amends you can,and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."

- Aldous Huxley

[Duchess]

"Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble."(f)
Hugh Prather (http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/quote/40916)

[Fancy]

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

[WolfyOne]

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anonymous ~

[Just_G]

'Tis better to be alone for the right reasons than with someone for the wrong ones.

No clue who said it, but it is so freakin' true!!

[violaine]

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

– Ayn Rand

[Ms. Meander]

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

[Ms. Meander]

I try his head occasionally as housewives try eggs,-- give it an intellectual shake and hold it up to the light, so to speak, to see if it has life in it, actual or potential, or only contains lifeless albumen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

[JakeTulane]

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life." - Miguel Angel Ruiz

[JakeTulane]

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul." - Thomas Merton

[JakeTulane]

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Elijah]

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."

~Khalil Gibran

[jenny]

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'" ~ Winnie the Pooh

[Janny]

I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that love was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature - as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out, the planet dies.
-Jeanette Winterson, "Lighthousekeeping"

[jenny]

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." ~ Stephen Covey

[Nat]

"You can be gloomy when you're young, when you've got the energy for it and you need to explore the emotional perimeters and so forth and so on. When you get old, the truest reaction to the world, the truest feeling is just pure astonishment at the world in which we live."

- Garrison Keillor

[Butterbean]

After 5000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

~Robert Brault

[Ms. Meander]

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

- Lorraine Hansberry

[UofMfan]

Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente -Refran Español

[JakeTulane]

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent." - Barbara Bush

[JakeTulane]

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment” - Carl Sandburg

[JakeTulane]

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.” - Jan Myrdal

[Fancy]

"Autism (with a capital “A”) to me, says that I accept my child wholly. I celebrate his differences and his quirky-ness. I advocate diversity. I try to empower him. I am proud of his successes, no matter how small they seem. I hope he holds onto the compassion he has in his heart into adulthood. I do not think he needs “fixing”. I am proud that he is my son, and sometimes I am humbled by that very same thought."

The Quirk Factor: Resistance is futile.... (http://mommydearest1514.blogspot.com/)

[Janstevie]

All the things i really like doing are either illegal, immoral or fattening...... cool eh.

[Semantics]

I will love you.
And you will have no say in the matter.
You will be sitting reading. I will step through the wall and take you by the ears.
Gold Latin will come out of your mouth.
Years will pass.
We will be old.
I will have loved you, against my nature,
no other being worthy,
thrown as I am on my own powers,
alone there.
And as we sit together reading you will say
“Did you really love me?”
And I will be terrified.


By Stan Rice

[Elijah]

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

~Stuart Chase

[Fancy]

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed. Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote "The Hokey Pokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.

[JakeTulane]

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." ~George Santayana

[JakeTulane]

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts." ~Samuel Johnson

[Maria]

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.
(Anton LaVey)

[dixie]

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
Virginia Satir

[StillettoDoll]

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
- General George S. Patton, Jr.

[StillettoDoll]

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”
– Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

[StillettoDoll]

And when he gets to Heaven
To St. Peter he will tell:

'One more Marine reporting, Sir — I've served my time in Hell.' Sgt. James A. Donahue

First Marine Division

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[Fancy]

"Whether you think your kids love you or hate you depends pretty much on your interpretation of blank looks."

Robert Brault

[JakeTulane]

"You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." ~Jan Glidewell

[JakeTulane]

"We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time." ~Art Buchwald

[JakeTulane]

"Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace." ~Author Unknown

[WolfyOne]

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. ~Victor Frankl~

[femmedyke]

"What I want to say is that the past is the past and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be" ~Mary Oliver

[hpychick]

There are three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth.

[always2late]

There's no point burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. -Sydney J. Harris

[JAGG]

I read this quote in a magazine. I thought it was pretty funny.
" There is a saying about those who forget history, I can't remember how it goes, but it's a good one. " HAHAHA

[D-Money]

You don't need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don't even listen, simply wait.
Don't even wait.
Be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you
to be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka

[wolfbittenpoet]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Freidrich Nietzsche

[Kätzchen]

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason,"

~ Jerry Seinfeld

[violaine]

a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

robert frost

[Elijah]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love."

~Washington Irving

[Mister Bent]

"After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason."

- Albert Camus

[StillettoDoll]

Whoever thought up the word "Mammogram"? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.
Jan King

[StillettoDoll]

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb and I'm also not blonde.
Dolly Parton

[StillettoDoll]

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This machine was made by man,
Of this I have no doubt!
I'd like to get his balls in there
And listen to him shout !!!
~~Author unknown~~

[StillettoDoll]

Just between us girls! http://www.c-boom.com/images/between_girls.jpg



For years and years they told me,
" Be careful of your breasts.
Don't ever squeeze or bruise them
And give them monthly tests."
So I heeded all their warnings
and protected them by law.
Guarded them very carefully
And always wore a bra.
After 40 years of careful care
The doctor found a lump.
He ordered up a mammogram
To look inside that clump.
"Stand up very close," she said,
as she got my breast in line.
" And tell me when it hurts," she said
" Ah, yes! There! That's just fine."
She stepped upon a pedal,
I could not believe my eyes!
A plastic plate was pressing down,
My boob was in a vise!
My skin was stretched and stretched
From way up by my chin.
My poor breast was being squashed
To Swedish Pancake thin!
Excruciating pain I felt,
within its viselike grip.
A prisoner in this vicious thing,
My poor defenseless tit."
Take a deep breath," she said to me.
Who does she think she's kidding?
My chest is smashed in her machine,
I can't breath and weary I am getting.
"There, that was good," I heard her say,
as the room was swaying.
" Now let's get the other one".
" Lord have mercy," I was praying.
I had no problem when I came in,
I surely have one now.
If there had been a cyst in there,
It would have popped by now.

[JakeTulane]

“I take all of my dreams, blow them into balloons, then float them out into the universe. And the only way I know they’ve gotten where they needed to go, is when they start coming true.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle or end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” - Unknown