Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[always2late]

"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common." - Dorothy Parker

[The_Lady_Snow]

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

~Lucille Ball

[Diva]

The [one] who views the world at fifty the same as [she] did at twenty has wasted thirty years of [her] life.

~Muhammad Ali

[Diva]

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Anderson

[Diva]

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."

~Maya Angelou

[jenny]

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." ~ Richard Wagner

[Diva]

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

~Ralph W. Sockman

[Ms. Meander]

"My feet energy is all mixed up with food energy", said my 5yr-old charge today, as part of an explanation of the different kinds of running he can do. Smart kid.

[femmedyke]

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

[Mr.Nobody]

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault

[PaPa]

The best antique is an old friend.

[gotoseagrl]

Who has words at the right moment?

Charlotte Bronte

[JakeTulane]

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn

[JakeTulane]

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” - Marcel Pagnol

[JakeTulane]

“Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” - Stacey Charter

[Janstevie]

There is one place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy,~ her heart.

[Arwen]

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel Prize in literature (1861-1941)

[tapu]

Buddha said on his deathbed:

Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in your books, nor [simply] because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher...Be lamps unto yourselves.


The part of this most useful to me is not accepting something just because it supports what I already believe. I notice that when I hear something in the news about a person, an issue, a crime, it is so easy both to believe and remember that particular piece of info as true, rather than anything that does not support my current position. So I try not to.

[The_Lady_Snow]

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

~Francis Maude

[tapu]

"There are no absolutes."
"So is that an absolute.?"


--some irritating logicians, I'd say

[JAGG]

I copied this from a book I just read. I thought it was pretty awesome.

" Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very Near.
Just around the corner.

All is well. "

[Fancy]

"Can't even shout, can't even cry, The Gentleman are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors, they need to take seven and they might take yours. Can't call mom, can't say the word, you're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."

~Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 4 Episode 10 "Hush")

[hpychick]

If you keep projecting your past onto your future, you will be living the same day over and over.

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"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

[Ms. Meander]

If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good!
- Dr. Seuss

[Arwen]

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

[Mr.Nobody]

" I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ" Ghandi

[hpychick]

Women are Angels. And when someone breaks our wings, we simply continue to fly - on a broomstick. We're flexible like that.

[Diva]

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

~Robert McCloskey

[Diva]

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

[Diva]

You do not have to find what is true, when the false is discarded truth is there. It always was. Just keep observing the fact and the change will come automatically and will be lasting.

~Barry Long

[tapu]

"Conventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion.
To attack the first is not to assail the last."

-Charlotte Bronte

[Fancy]

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

-- Andrew A. Rooney

[UofMfan]

"Rejection is the Universe's Protection" ~ A wise woman

[JakeTulane]

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” - Washington Irving

[JakeTulane]

“Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.” - Alice Hoffman

[JakeTulane]

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

[Duchess]

"Honesty is always the best policy. You always want to take accountability."(f)
Lisa Mininni (http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/621615)

[tapu]

Okay, who all thought for a second there that Liza Minelli said that?

[I'mOneToo]

"I'll guarantee that two seconds after you're dead, you no longer give a shit." -- my father

when i go, he's the first one i'm gonna look up in the "directory of those who live beyond the beyond" just hope my glasses won't melt and sear my eyes closed

[Fancy]

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce

[Diva]

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

~Anais Nin

[Diva]

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

~Washington Irving

[Diva]

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

~Anais Nin

[kannon]

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S Thompson
gonzo journalist.....

[jenny]

"Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't." ~ Leo Buscaglia

[Diva]

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

~Frank A. Clark

[Diva]

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

~Chinese Proverb

[wolfbittenpoet]

"In Western Civilization our elders are books." Gary Snyder

[Rook]

Who is to say What is a sin in G-ds eyes? ~ Pearl Prynne {The Scarlet Letter}

[JakeTulane]

“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

[JakeTulane]

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

[JakeTulane]

“But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that err less. Therefore, dear sir, love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. For those who are near you are far, you say, and that shows it is beginning to grow wide about you. And when what is near you is far, then your distance is already among the stars and very large; rejoice in your growth, in which you naturally can take no one with you, and be kind to those who remain behind, and be sure and calm before them and do not torment them with your doubts and do not frighten them with your confidence or joy, which they could not understand. Seek yourself some sort of simple and loyal community with them, which need not necessarily change as you yourself become different and again different; love in them life in an unfamiliar form and be considerate of aging people, who fear that being-alone in which you trust.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

[tapu]

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

[gotoseagrl]

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe

[gotoseagrl]

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

[Mr.Nobody]

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Dorothy Nevill

[JakeTulane]

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." --- Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"If you were once connected with someone, does it make sense that the connection is broken just because of a physical death? No, the connection stays. You may just have to listen differently. You may just have to talk differently. The truth is: the connection is never broken. It's quite impossible to break the most powerful connection in the universe. As long as you exist, the connection stays." - Chris Collins

[JakeTulane]

"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
- Merle Shan

[UofMfan]

"Los españoles nos lo quitaron Todo pero nos dejaron el Idioma" ~ Pablo Neruda

To commemorate Spanish Language Day.

[tapu]

Los calcetines son listos. ~tapu


trans: "Your socks are ready."

[kannon]

I haven´t felt this emotionally raw and exposed since Penthouse published those photos of me and Vanessa Williams.


Karen Walker

[Kobi]

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ”
- Pablo Picasso

[tapu]

"I am stuck on Band-aids
'cause Band-aid's stuck on me!"

-Johnson & Johnson

[Dominique]

The prettier the wrapping, the bitter the poison

my warning to a friend who is always looking for the next best thing, the next best thing.

[DamselFly]

patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. (Disraeli)

[DamselFly]

the more you read, the more things you will know. the more that you learn, the more places you'll go! (Dr. Seuss)

[DamselFly]

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral;
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

[JakeTulane]

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll make an effort to be in it. Don’t bother reserving a space in your heart for someone who doesn’t make an effort to stay.” — Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."- Joseph Campbell

[Janstevie]

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

[sylvie]

Be Yourself: Everyone else is already taken.

[gotoseagrl]

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

[Diva]

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

[Diva]

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

~Robert Brault

[Diva]

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

~George Colman

[Diva]

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive.

~Sir Walter Scott

[JakeTulane]

"Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone." ~Jerome K. Jerome

[JakeTulane]

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it." ~John Newton

[JakeTulane]

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." ~Mary Jean Iron

[jenny]

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." ~ Charles Darwin

(In honor of Cheryl B., who knew, without question, how to live life to the fullest.)

[tapu]

Nice, Jenny. :) T'anx!


It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.


~ Charles Darwin

[tapu]

“No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black”

No matter where you travel,
You still be Black,
You carry all your history
On your own damn back.

Your mama raised you proper,
Your daddy gave you pain,
You understand Beethoven,
But you still love 'Trane.

~ Houston A. Baker

[Fancy]

"Any desire by the privileged for self awareness must include asking this: Did I hit a home run, or was I born on 3rd base?"

-a friend's FB

[PinkieLee]

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don't change it, you'll never go anywhere.

[Latino.Hrt]

-Like a tree our growth depends upon our ability to soften, loosen, and shed boundaries and defenses we no longer need-

[nycfem]

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day..." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Massive]

The Door

Go and open the door.
Perhaps outside
there's a tree, or a wood,
or a garden,
or a magic town.

Go and open the door.
Perhaps outside
there's a dog scratching.
Perhaps there's a face outside,
or an eye
or the picture
of a picture.

Go and open the door.
If there's fog outside
it will go.

Go and open the door.
There could be outside only
singing darkness,
and there could be outside only
wind's hollow breath
and there could be
absolutely nothing
outside,
go and open the door.

At least
there would be
a draught.

Miroslav Holub

[Massive]

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
And yours

Leo Marks

[Massive]

& all those years nobody loved me
except her & i screamed at her & spanked her
& threw her on the bed & slammed the door when
i was angry & desperate for her father's love,
& I can't undo all those times i frightened her
& she loves me, she still loves me,
i can't undo needing &
being tortured by loneliness
until i cried out at her,
who loved me even in my needy loneliness. & how
do mothers, unloved, love their children?
the wonder is that we do, we
do not leave the little girl, we
do not destroy
we cry out in terror we love
our little girls
who must have a better life ...

Alta

For Mum, I love you xxx

[Fancy]

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

-Zora Neale Hurston

[JakeTulane]

"I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I’m here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it." - Dietrich Bondoeffer

[JakeTulane]

"Plant a thought, reap an act. Plant an act, reap a habit. Plant a habit, reap a character. Plant a character, reap a destiny." - Confucius

[JakeTulane]

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." - Viktor Frankl

[gotoseagrl]

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Sylvia Plath

[gotoseagrl]

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe

[Semantics]

Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Inferno

[Diva]

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

~Leif Garrett

[Diva]

Never let your head hang down.NEVER GIVE UP AND SIT DOWN AND GRIEVE.Find another way.

~Satchel Paige

[Arwen]

Bless that which you want. Huna Saying

[Ebon]

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!" Jonathan Winters

[UofMfan]

"Algunas cosas del pasado desaparecieron pero otras abren una brecha al futuro y son las que quiero rescatar." ~ Mario Benedetti

[JakeTulane]

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.” - Charles R. Swindoll

[JakeTulane]

“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.” - Win Borden

[JakeTulane]

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” - Flora Whittemore

[Mr.Nobody]

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark

[Arwen]

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[JakeTulane]

Why are the words goodbye, I’m sorry and I love you, so easily pronounced, but so hard to say? - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Goodbye is a word of sorrow and a word which can hurt you from the inside, however “see you” is word of happiness knowing that they will come back into your arms." - Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything." - Anonymous

[dixie]

"I can have intimate relationships in my life today. In the past I felt abandoned by those nearest to me and as a result, it is difficult for me to trust. I am strong enough now to weather the feelings that come up for me as I move close to another human being because I can feel my own feelings and give voice to them. I can simply see them without creating a problem by blaming them on someone else. They are my feelings and I am willing to own them. I can be close to someone."

[Kätzchen]

"Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy,"

--Thelonious Monk (Jazz great)

[tapu]

Tempus fugit.

[Diva]

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

~George Eliot~

[Mr.Nobody]

I've seen the paths that your eyes wander down...I wanna come too
Landon Pigg

[jenny]

"Realize that this very body, with its aches and its pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive." ~Pema Chodron

[jenny]

‎"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Guatama Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share." - Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter." ~Susan M. Watkins

[tapu]

[One is] taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the [one] who disagrees. [One is] taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the [one] who goes against the current. [One is] taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the [one] who stands alone.
– Ayn Rand


[edits mine]

[luv2luvgirls]

my heart is full
my step is light
my will is strong
and my head is right
Ri~

[Kätzchen]

"Only the egalitarian transformation of the family will unleash the power of this little platoon to promote positive, progressive moral, social and political change,"

-- eileen m. hunt (2002)



The Family as Cave, Platoon, and Prison:
The Three Stages of Wollenstonecraft's
Philosophy of the Family

in:

The Review of Politics - Winter 2002
Vol. 64, Issue 1
pp. 81-119

[tapu]

Summa these is too hard. -tapu

<kick dirt>

[Mr.Nobody]

Beware the fury of a patient man. ~John Dryden,

[Mr.Nobody]

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~Samuel Butler

[Diva]

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.

~ Alice Walker

[Diva]

If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough.

~ Oprah Winfrey

[always2late]

"The most important experiences are those that take you to the very limit. Most people have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to unleash the wild beast, or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Only those who know those frontiers know life." ~ Marquis De Sade

[tapu]

"The most important experiences are those that take you to the very limit. Most people have never dared to look into the depths of their soul, never attempted to unleash the wild beast, or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences. Only those who know those frontiers know life." ~ Marquis De Sade

Mm, mm, yes, yes, yes. Until I saw this, I was thinking about putting my lined leather cuffs in a yard sale.

[tapu]

Dolly Parton, upon meeting country newcomer Clint Black for the first time: "I took one look at that boy and thought, my god, I'm old enough to be his lover."

[UofMfan]

"If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life." ~ Rick - Casablanca

"Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells?" ~ Rick - Casablanca

[Andrew, Jr.]

Understanding is the reward of faith. - St. Augustine

[JakeTulane]

“Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation." - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” - Stendhal

[JakeTulane]

"A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable." — Bertrand Russell

[gotoseagrl]

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir

[Janstevie]

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

[Janstevie]

Every life has a story filled with love, hope, pain, disappointment, dreams, yes even yours, think about it.

[Kobi]

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? --William Lloyd Garrison

[JakeTulane]

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” - Horace

[JakeTulane]

“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” - Mary Oliver

[tapu]

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." – Oscar Wilde



I love this, even though it would seem to be at odds with being an editor. But the best editors are those who know when to let an author break convention.

[justkim]

- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. -

- Buddha -

[Sparkle]

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

Emily Dickinson

[JakeTulane]

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[JakeTulane]

"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise." - John Keats

[JakeTulane]

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared." - Charles de Montesquieu

[Diva]

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

~Mignon McLaughlin

[Diva]

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

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

~Ferdinand Foch

[Kobi]

Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. --Michael Iapoce

[UofMfan]

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity." ~ Francis Bacon, Sr.

[Andrew, Jr.]

"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here."

David Pelzer from his bestseller "A Man Named Dave"

[Arwen]

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. -Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)

[MrSunshine]

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis

[Kobi]

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. –-Paulo Freire

[Sparkle]

"Procrastination is like a credit card, it is a lot of fun until you get the bill"

Christopher Parker

[UofMfan]

"Existe un lenguaje que vamás allá de las palabras." ~ Paulo Coelho

[Gentle Tiger]

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

[Diva]

A wise traveller never despises his own country.

~Carlo Goldoni

[Diva]

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

~Diane Arbus

[Diva]

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

~St. Augustine

[Nat]

"The economic system claimed to work for our happiness, because we had to behave not only as producers but as consumers and if we don't consume as many goods as are produced by our factories, the whole system will collapse. So that means little by little, capitalism which was based on asceticism is now based on pleasure. This is a fundamental change." - Pascal Bruckner (Philosophy Bites Podcast)

[JAGG]

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is foolish. If the ignorant are lucky, reality will slap them awake, when the truth reveals what it has known all along.

[Arwen]

Some will hear, but not listen.

Some will listen, but not understand.

And some will understand, but not act. Mike Dooley

[JakeTulane]

"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

[JakeTulane]

"Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[JakeTulane]

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work." - Thich Nhat Hanh

[JakeTulane]

"But an accurate definition of the self is impossible. You are more than you realize, more than you can define. And the more time you spend trying to nail down the definition, the less time you spend living right now. ... Your past is not your identity... You, living now, is your identity." --George Lawrence-Ell

[JakeTulane]

"By your own soul, learn to live
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dream,
Hope your hope and pray your prayer." --Parkenham Beatty

[JakeTulane]

"Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime - let out all the length of all the reins." --Mary Cholomondeley

[JakeTulane]

"Don't listen to those who say, "It's not done that way." Maybe it's not, but maybe you will. Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a chance." Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most importantly, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says, "They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections…" I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect." --Neil Simon

[JakeTulane]

"Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure." --White Eagle

[JakeTulane]

"How are you going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued? Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are." --Anne Lamott

[Ms. Meander]

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw

[Arwen]

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know." Marilyn Monroe

[Fancy]

“Rather than abandoning the person who pushes your buttons, abandon the buttons they are pushing.”
—Guru Singh

[jenny]

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." ~ Flora Whittemore

[tapu]

Ernest Hemingway called this his best short story ever:


For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.


I think it is incredible.

[UofMfan]

"Más rápido cae un mentiroso que un cojo" ~ Spanish Proverb

[JakeTulane]

"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying." --Joan of Arc

[JakeTulane]

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming." --Jean Houston

[Softhearted]

"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny—and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)."

Gould, Stephen J. (1998). Capturing the Center. Natural History, 107:18.

[chefhottie25]

i love this quote by pablo neruda.......
"But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me."

[JakeTulane]

"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. And then it is gone. But to sacrifice what you are and live without belief, that's more terrible than dying." --Joan of Arc

[JakeTulane]

"Neither evil tongues,
Rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us." --William Wordsworth

[JakeTulane]

"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being occasionally, and learns about how far to attempt to spring." --Charles Dudley Warner

[Fancy]

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
- Charlotte Bronte

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

....there is a certain irony.

[UofMfan]

"Uno debe llegar vivo hasta el final, no morirse en vida." ~ Mario Vargas Llosa

[tapu]

"Uno debe llegar vivo hasta el final, no morirse en vida." ~ Mario Vargas Llosa



Yes, like when talking to teenagers who are "experimenting" with drugs and alcohol. I try to impress upon them, based on my own experience, just "Live to tell about it."

[JakeTulane]

"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing.... The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed." - Srully Blotnick

[JakeTulane]

"How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

[JakeTulane]

"It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living…To live is to find out for yourself what is true." --Jiddu Krishnamurti

[NJFemmie]

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
since Mare's at work,
I've got shopping, housework and cooking prep to do.

*grin*

[nycfem]

"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."

-Mary Oliver

[nycfem]

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

-Bertrand Russell

[nycfem]

"He kissed me and now I am somebody else."

-Poet Gabriela Mistral

[nycfem]

"If you lie on the ground in somebody's arms you'll probably swallow some of their history."

-Suzanne Vega, In Liverpool

[nycfem]

"Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever."

-Leonard Cohen (singer and poet)

[nycfem]

Song of Autumn

by Kristina Tunisia


I don't give a shit if I'm broken.
I like being broken.
I like being bitten fingernails
cuticles like soil in a drought
things a story of failure
stomach the history of womanhood
skin wrinkled and cut
scarred
scarred
scarred
my body is my
garden
and its brokenness
makes it ready for planting.

[Fancy]

"Why it is that whenever a man takes you to lunch around here, you're the dessert."

Peggy Olson, season 1 episode 3 MadMen

[Ms. Meander]

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
~ Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

"When you acknowledge the less than perfect parts of yourself, something magical begins to happen. Along with the negative, you'll also begin to notice the positive, the wonderful aspects of yourself that you may not have given yourself credit for, or perhaps even been aware of." --Richard Carlson

[JakeTulane]

"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein

[JakeTulane]

"What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future--a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within." --H. W. Dresser

[Janstevie]

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse

[Kätzchen]

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice,"

~ Friedrich von Schiller

[Mr.Nobody]

Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett

[Mr.Nobody]

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ~Frank Moore Colby

[JakeTulane]

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." --Marie Curie

[JakeTulane]

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." --Harvey Fierstein

[JakeTulane]

"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves." --Sydney J. Harris

[Fancy]

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

e. e. cummings

[Pixie]

I am but merely a flame in your bonfire of passion. But mine shall never cease, for you are the wood to keep me burning, the life to sustain my existence.

[UofMfan]

"La magia es un puente que te permite ir del mundo visible hacia el invisible. Y aprender las lecciones de ambos mundos." ~ Paulo Coelho

[Nat]

Hurt people hurt people.
Healed people heal people.

- Jacques Verduin quoting prisoners with whom he has worked - Audio Dharma podcast

[JakeTulane]

"You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence." --Zig Ziglar

[JakeTulane]

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?" --Jim Rohn

[Hack]

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,
without your going, that cuts noon light
like a blue flower, without your passing
later through fog and stones,
without the torch you lift in your hand
that others may not see as golden,
that perhaps no one believed blossomed
the glowing origin of the rose,
without, in the end, your being, your coming
suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,
blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:
and it follows that I am, because you are:
it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we:
and, because of love, you will, I will,
We will, come to be.

--Pablo Neruda

[JakeTulane]

"You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that ahs ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you." --Gordon MacKenzie

[weatherboi]

I don't break the rules, I just bend them - a lot.

Sideswipe-autobot

[JakeTulane]

"You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate." --Jim Rohn

[JakeTulane]

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung

[JakeTulane]

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche

[Oiler41]

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glynn

[Hack]

I remember you as you were in the last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the still heart.
In your eyes the flames of the twilight fought on.
And the leaves fell in the water of your soul.

Clasping my arms like a climbing plant
the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace.
Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning.
Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul.

I feel your eyes traveling, and the autumn is far off:
Grey beret, voice of a bird, heart like a house
Towards which my deep longings migrated
And my kisses fell, happy as embers.

Sky from a ship. Field from the hills:
Your memory is made of light, of smoke, of a still pond!
Beyond your eyes, farther on, the evenings were blazing.
Dry autumn leaves revolved in your soul.

-- Pablo Neruda

[tapu]

The great tragedy of filial love is that the parent always loves the child more than the child loves the parent.

I can't find who said that. I know it has to be that way or else the child would never depart for their own life. Still... my guy is 12 already! :(

[Janstevie]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life... It goes on.

[deb_U_taunt]

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving

[justkim]

- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world. -

- Harriet Tubman -

[Soon]

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

~Bertolt Brecht

[JakeTulane]

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore" - Marilyn Ferguson

[JakeTulane]

"The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But--transcending both these limited aims--what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?" --Evelyn Underhill

[JakeTulane]

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

[UofMfan]

UN AMOR

Por ti junto a los jardines recién florecidos me duelen
los perfumes de primavera.

He olvidado tu rostro, no recuerdo tus manos,
¿cómo besaban tus labios?

Por ti amo las blancas estatuas dormidas en los parques,
las blancas estatuas que no tienen voz ni mirada.

He olvidado tu voz, tu voz alegre.
He olvidado tus ojos.

Como una flor a su perfume, estoy atado a tu recuerdo impreciso.
Estoy cerca del dolor como una herida, si me tocas me dañarás irremediablemente.

Tus caricias me envuelven como las enredaderas a los muros sombríos.
He olvidado tu amor y sin embargo te adivino detrás de todas las ventanas.

Por ti me duelen los pesados perfumes del estío:
Por ti vuelvo a acechar los ginos que precipitan los deseos,
las estrellas en fuga, los objetos que caen.

~ Pablo Neruda

[Ms. Meander]

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

[Janstevie]

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

[JAGG]

"You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense, as when you give offense." -Ken Keyes Jr.

[tapu]

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster

[Fancy]

"Three Things" by Jan Taddeo.

It includes in part,

"Here’s an adage I’ve always liked:
Don’t just do something, stand there.
Stand in the surf, or sit on a rock, or lay your
body across the earthy loam...and be quiet.

Very quiet.

Do you hear it? That still small voice, the
echo of your soul, reverberating with the call
to your own true self to emerge."

[JakeTulane]

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

[JakeTulane]

"Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway." --J. Z. Knight

[JakeTulane]

"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein