Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Diva]

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

~John Maxwell

[Pixie]

~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.
~ Anthony Robbins

[Soon]

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

--Mercedes Lackey

[Mister Bent]

When she sees his eyes later -- red and swollen
and faraway, she remembers the symmetry of the stars
at night, and whispers freely,
I don't know what to do with the poetry.
I don't know what to do with my body.
He tells her she has done it already.

- Fanny Howe

[Soon]

To Have Without Holding


Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.

It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles that feel
as if they are made of wet plaster,
then of blunt knives, then
of sharp knives.

It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch; to love and let
go again and again. It pesters to remember
the lover who is not in the bed,
to hold back what is owed to the work
that gutters like a candle in a cave
without air, to love consciously,
conscientiously, concretely, constructively.

I can't do it, you say it's killing
me, but you thrive, you glow
on the street like a neon raspberry,
You float and sail, a helium balloon
bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing
on the cold and hot winds of our breath,
as we make and unmake in passionate
diastole and systole the rhythm
of our unbound bonding, to have
and not to hold, to love
with minimized malice, hunger
and anger moment by moment balanced.

--Sharon Olds

[Diva]

Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.

~Buddha

[Diva]

Happiness is not a station to arrive at,
but a manner of traveling.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

[Mister Bent]

I wasn’t exactly sure how to tap into this subterranean sea that I sensed (or, rather, hoped) lay beneath my crusty separate self like an aquifer beneath a desert. I had no divining rod except a raggedy sort of faith in the power of love - the pure stuff, not the compromised cupfuls we flavor and bottle and hand out in small portions and sometimes take back.

- Jan Shoemaker

[Semantics]

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Pixie]

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone” - Sam Levenson

[Diva]

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

~William Shakespeare

[Diva]

There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

[daisygrrl]

"I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship."
~ Louise May Alcott

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
~ Annie Dillard

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
~ William Durant

[jenny]

"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." ~ Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure"

[hippieflowergirl]

human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted

martin luther king, jr.

[Andrew, Jr.]

"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet. "

[MrSunshine]

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

~Doris Lessing

[Jet]

Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is love. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The Oversoul

[FeminineAllure]

“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
MWhitner Calvin & Hobbes quotes

[Diva]

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile
is very important in our day~to~day lives.
How one creates that smile largely
depends on one's own attitude.
It is illogical to expect smiles from others
if one does not smile oneself.
Therefore, one can see that many things
depend on one's own behavior.

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

[Diva]

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow Your candle out.:candle:

~Katherine Dunham

[MrSunshine]

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~Carl Jung

[always2late]

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
- Anthony Robbins

[Diva]

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

~Unknown to me....

[Ms. Meander]

"The sage said, The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget."

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

[WILDCAT]

OLD jokes are usually "gone with the whim"...

(Salada tea bag...)

[Mister Bent]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. - Quintus Curtius Rufus

[Mister Bent]

The Art Of Drowning Billy Collins

I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.

After falling off a steamship or being swept away
in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn't you hope
for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand
turning the pages of an album of photographs-
you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.

How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?
Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?
Wouldn't any form be better than this sudden flash?
Your whole existence going off in your face
in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-
nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.

Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,

a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all
as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,
leaving behind what you have already forgotten,
the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.

[always2late]

"Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will." ~ Dr. Robert Anthony

[Diva]

Have patience with everything unresolved in Your heart & try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given You now, because You would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, You will gradually, without even noticing it, live Your way into the answer.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Diva]

Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying~power of brawn and muscle.

~Mark Twain

[Arwen]

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie

[JakeTulane]

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." - Dorothy Thompson

[JakeTulane]

"I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?" - Ernest Becker

[JakeTulane]

"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world." - Hannah Senesh

[always2late]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~ Albert Einstein

[Diva]

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

Drink deeply.
Live in serenity and joy.

~Buddha

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." - Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness." - Jim Rohn

[purepisces]

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you and for those that are around you. And that’s all you need to do. ~ Deepak Chopra

[JakeTulane]

“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.” - Chuck Palahniuk

[JakeTulane]

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

[JakeTulane]

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." - Unknown

[Soft*Silver]

lay in sunshine when you are having a bad day


Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[purepisces]

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created. ~ Margaret Wheatley and Kellner Rogers

[Diva]

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

~Beverly Sills, opera Diva

[JakeTulane]

"Every wall is a door." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Soft*Silver]

If you lay still and remain in your stillness, the weirdness of the world will not affect you

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[MrSunshine]

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
~Henri B. Stendhal

[purepisces]

I pray that we may at all times keep our minds open to new ideas and shun dogma; that we may grow in our understanding of the nature of all living beings and our connectedness with the natural world. ~ Jane Goodall

[SassyLeo]

“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.”

Marianne Williamson

[SassyLeo]

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

[violaine]

Sometimes Thou may'st walk in Groves,
which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul.
- Thomas Vaughan, Anima Magica Abscondita

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and
melodious thoughts descend upon me?
- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road


I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way
they have to live than other things do.
- Willa Cather (1873-1947), O Pioneers 1913

And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance—
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.
- Kathleen Raine, Envoi

Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart
- Candy Polgar


:bringcoffee:

[Corkey]

Don't take life so seriously,
its temporary.

Bumper sticker

[MrSunshine]

What I dream of is an art of balance.

~Henri Matisse

[JakeTulane]

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” - Georgia O'Keeffe

[MrSunshine]

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

~Hermann Hesse

[Soft*Silver]

when you took off my nails and took off my balls, you gave me CLEAR RIGHTS to your lap.

Mr Smitty the One Eyed Rocking On Limping Kitty

[MrSunshine]

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

~Cherie Carter-Scott

[Diva]

(Sidebar: I was actually researching for a story I'm writing and stumbled across this. IT IS POWERFUL! )


DEFINITION OF A HATER BY MAYA ANGELOU
January 27, 2010
A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all
their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.
They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever
good enough! When you make your mark, you will always attract some
haters…That’s why you have to be careful with whom you share your
blessings and your dreams, because some folk can’t handle seeing you
blessed…

It’s dangerous to be like somebody else…

If God wanted you to be like somebody else, He would have given
you what He gave them! Right? You never know what people have gone through to get what they have.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but
they don’t know my story… If the grass looks greener on the other side
of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher there
too!

We’ve all got some haters among us! People envy you because you can:

Have a relationship with God
Light up a room when you walk in
Start your own business
Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn’t about the right thing)
Raise your children without both parents being in the home

Haters can’t stand to see you happy, Haters will never want to
see you succeed, Haters never want you to get the victory, most of our
haters are people who are supposed to be on our side. How do you handle
your undercover haters?

You can handle these haters by:

Knowing who you are & who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)
Having a purpose to your life? Purpose does not mean having a job. You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. A purpose is having a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not defined by what others think about you.
By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not human manipulation. Fulfill your dreams!
You only have one life to live…when it’s your time to leave this earth,
you ‘want’ to be able to say, ‘I’ve lived my life and fulfilled
‘my’ dreams,… Now I’m ready to go HOME! When God gives you favor, you can
tell your haters, Don’t look at me…Look at Who is in charge of me…’

[Deborah]

Oh dear, not that I disagree of course who would...but me being rather 'haterish' in my own haterish way...I MUST take offense. No quote no poetry just me, thank you, that is all.

[Diva]

Oh dear, not that I disagree of course who would...but me being rather 'haterish' in my own haterish way...I MUST take offense. No quote no poetry just me, thank you, that is all.


NO!!!!!!! <giggling> You, Puplove and I are SWEET haters..... I love to hate You. And THAT is all. :D

Here....let me play The Hater's Concerto for You....:grandpiano:

[JakeTulane]

"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint." - Georgia O'Keeffe

[JakeTulane]

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keeffe

[JakeTulane]

"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree." - Georgia O'Keeffe

[purepisces]

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ Erica Jong

[Lady Jewel]

As long as you have "yourself", you are never alone.~
Me.

[violaine]

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite

The mountains are calling and I must go.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.


A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

[he put himself out there with tree during storms, to experience what tree knew of storm].


John Muir

[Diva]

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

~Mark Twain

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Courage is what it takes to stand up & speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

Winston Churchill

[Semantics]

Save the drama for your mama.

-my fifth grade teacher



:)

[Beau]

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
-- Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.” - Arthur Christopher Benson

[JakeTulane]

"Over and over, these men cry out against the weight of so many losses-not just a lover dead, but friends and friends of friends, dozens of them, until it seems that AIDS is all there is and all there ever will be.” Jane Gross

[Diva]

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; or you can live as if everything is a miracle.

~Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.” - John Berger

[Soft*Silver]

dry food sucks

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make enough noise and someone will 1) understand you and or 2) give in

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty who just threw up on my rug

[always2late]

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." - Brian Tracy

[Diva]

There are 3 sides to every story: your side....my side....and what really happened.

~An ATL Police Lt.

[Diva]

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

~ Catherine Pulsifer

[weatherboi]

"You're just jealous because I'm a real freak, and you have to wear a mask!"
The Penguin
Batman Returns

[Corkey]

George Santayana: "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[JakeTulane]

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

[JakeTulane]

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning." ~Ivy Baker Priest

[JakeTulane]

"To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment." ~George Lansdowne

[Lady Jewel]

"We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours."~
Robert Baden-Powell

[Lady Jewel]

"We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too."

Maíread Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize winner and co-founder of the Community of Peace People in Northern Ireland.

[JakeTulane]

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh” - A.A. Mine

[JakeTulane]

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Just_G]

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up. If you give up, you're not worthy.
~from a friend's fb page today~

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Joy scatters a hundred griefs." A Chinese Proverb

"Giving up doesn't mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go." Unknown Author

[Diva]

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.

~ Anthony Robbins

[Diva]

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only You.

~John Powell

[Semantics]

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. - Jerry Seinfeld

I'm not sure I agree 100%, Jerry. Lip color matters.

I'm with you on the rest, though. :lol2:

[Spirit Dancer]

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find
ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between
work and play the gains will be greater.

Ellen Langer

[SassyLeo]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwv7r41oos1qzr04eo1_400.jpg

[Soft*Silver]

Cats rule.
Just ask the dog who has to poop outside.....


Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[JakeTulane]

"What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories." - George Eliot

[JakeTulane]

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger." - Buddha

[always2late]

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance." - Eskimo Proverb

[Diva]

If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.

~Thomas L. Odem, Jr.

[HeartBreak Kid]

:blues:
What can I say? I've even forgotten how
to busy my hands with scraps of needle-
work, dumb hands unwilling to commit to
what the heart won't. Instead, I sit idle
staring out windows. Nothing fits the contours
of the landscape I was born to—absence
of mountains, dense green, and salt air that smothers
like family, like the waters I breathed penned
in my mother's womb. Hard to say when I
chose this: nothing the hand does
can stitch time back to that place where mind and eye
might mend the world to wholeness. Always
two worlds. What pattern governs this surface
inscrutable as the ocean, my mother's face?

~Debra Kang Dean, "Stitches"~

[robbrt]

Through time-clouds I fly to days gone by.
Physical limited are all left behind.
The future and past, all in my grasp,
For Pegasus shows me the key's in my mind.
Horse of poetry, Light,
Inspirational height,
Your companion I'll be
New lands shall I see.

:ohm:

[Soft*Silver]

If you want to make a statement without saying a word, simply sit down and lick yourself...

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The Sweetest Songs of Peace" by Aldo Kraas

The sweetes songs of peace
Had been sung
By God's choir
Today in heaven.

[Diva]

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

~ Scott Hamilton

[JakeTulane]

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." ~Eartha Kitt

[JakeTulane]

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." ~Paul Eldridge

[JakeTulane]

"Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself." ~Vilfredo Pareto

[Diva]

Anyone can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

~Marcus Tullius Cicero

[purepisces]

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Christopher Robin to Pooh) ~ A.A. Milne

[Just_G]

"It's like your balls have static cling and you keep leaving me with nothing!"

~that was me last night when shooting pool~

[Leigh]

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis

[Soft*Silver]

he who is without claws is forced to bite

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[evolveme]

Just when you thought it more or less clear from all the times you've sent money to public radio and boycotted Wal-Mart that you were the incarnation of Albert Schweitzer, or Gandhi, or both, you find out you're really just a slightly bitchier version of Martha Stewart. Your well of compassion and patience, which was never very deep to begin with, is now just an empty cistern.

- Jan Shoemaker
From "Where The Water Is"

[always2late]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Nelson Mandela

[Lady Jewel]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”~

Neil Gaiman

[Lady Jewel]

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”


Neil Gaiman

[Lady Jewel]

"After a while you learn the subtle
difference between holding a hand and
chaining a soul, And you learn that
love doesnt mean leaving and company
doesnt mean security, And you begin to
learn that kisses arent contracts and
presents arent promises, And you
begin to accept your defeats with your
head up and your eyes open, with the
grace of an adult, not the grief of a
child And you learn to build all your
roads on today because tomorrows ground
is too uncertain for plans. After a while
you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much.
So plant your garden and decorate your
own soul, instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really are strong,
And you really do have worth" ~Anonymous
:sparklyheart:

[JakeTulane]

"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read." ~The Talmud

[JakeTulane]

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

[JakeTulane]

"In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own." ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)

[always2late]

"Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life." - Kobi Yamada

[Soft*Silver]

Pity the dog for he is not a cat

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Diva]

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

~William Makepeace Thackeray

[Blade]

Even a flea doesn't jump merely for joy.
LEC

[robbrt]

It was worth it just to learn from slight of hand.

Modest Mouse

[violaine]

to be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest --

the depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach --

[FeminineAllure]

The Most Beautiful Flower


The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read

Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.

Disillusioned by life, with good reason to frown,

For the world was intent on dragging me down.



And, if that weren't enough to ruin my day,

A young boy approached me, all tired from play.

He stood right before me with his head tilted down,

And said with excitement, "Look what I found!"



In his hand was a flower, and a pitiful sight,

With its petals all worn ... from too little rain or light.

Wanting him to take his dead flower and go play,

I faked a small smile and then shifted away.



But instead of retreating, he sat next to me,

Placed the flower to his nose and declared cheerfully,

"It sure smells pretty and it's beautiful, too.

That's why I picked it. Here, it's for you."



The weed before me was dying or dead,

Not vibrant of colors, orange, yellow or red.

But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave.

So, I reached for the flower and said, "Just what I need."



But, instead of him placing the flower in my hand,

He held it mid-air without reason or plan.

It was then that I noticed for the very first time,

That weed-toting boy could not see; he was blind.



I heard my voice quiver ... tears shown in the sun,

As I thanked him for picking the very best one.

"You're welcome," he smiled, and then ran off to play,

Unaware of the impact he'd had on my day.



I sat there and wondered how he managed to see

A self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree.

How did he know of my self-indulged plight?

Perhaps from his heart, he'd been blessed with true sight.



Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see.

The problem was not with the world ... it was me.

And, for all those times I myself had been blind,

I vowed to see beauty in life and appreciate each second that's mine.



Then, I held that wilted flower up to my nose,

And breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose.

And I smiled as I watched that young boy, another weed in his hand,

About to change the life of an unsuspecting old man.

(Author Unknown)

[purepisces]

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~ Walt Disney

[Duchess]

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.(f)

Kahlil Gibran (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Kahlil&Author_Last_Name=Gibran&Movie=)
Author Nationalities, Poet Quotes

[Ms. Meander]

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

[Diva]

Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.

~Takayuki Ikkaku

[Diva]

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[JakeTulane]

"All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history." - Andre Trocme

[JakeTulane]

Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.

- Carl Sandburg

[JakeTulane]

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence." - Dorothy Thompson

[Blade]

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.:thinking:

Chesterfield

[Ms. Meander]

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.
~ Anias Nin

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." Albert Schweitzer

"The greatest happiest you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness." William Saroyan

[purepisces]

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie

[Ms. Meander]

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[JakeTulane]

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” - Sergei Rachmaninov

[JakeTulane]

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo

[jenny]

"Here's what i think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do, by what we deny ourselves, by what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include." --Pere Henri, "Chocolat"

[Arwen]

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov

[purepisces]

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. ~ Albert Schweitzer

[Semantics]

"'Scuse me?
Are you looking at me?
Did you rub my lamp?
Did you wake me up?
Did you bring me here?
And all of a sudden you're walking out on me?
I don't think so.
Not right now.
You're getting your wishes so SIT DOWN!"

-Genie from Aladdin

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n114/Holly3257/aladdin.jpg

:D :D

[violaine]

electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true--
-- charles dickens

[Diva]

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

~Hebbel

[Diva]

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

~Angela Monet

[HeartBreak Kid]

The Teresian Contemplative

SHE moves in tumult; round her lies
The silence of the world of grace;
The twilight of our mysteries
Shines like high noonday on her face;
Our piteous guesses, dim with fears,
She touches, handles, sees, and hears.

In her all longings mix and meet;
Dumb souls through her are eloquent;
She feels the world beneath her feet
Thrill in a passionate intent;
Through her our tides of feeling roll
And find their God within her soul.
~Robert Hugh Benson~

[Dylan]

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

William Thomas

[Soon]

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

--Katherine Mansfield

[Diva]

I will not suffer the rules of ridiculous people;
That is all I will say.
I will turn my fact to the sun
and enter an endless sea of feeling.

~Aisha Al~Taimuriya

[Diva]

Let's fix that typo, shall we? I can't stand it! :)


I will not suffer the rules of ridiculous people;
That is all I will say.
I will turn my face to the sun
and enter an endless sea of feeling.

~Aisha Al~Taimuriya

[Soft*Silver]

Tuck your feet in when you snooze. You never know when a dog will walk by...


Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Your tests results are in. You're short, fat, and bald." Tom Wilson

"Whenever I feel like exercising, I lie down until the feeling passes." Robert Hutchins

"I've been on every diet in the wrld. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes." Gary Owens

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee." Ben Franklin

"Health food makes me sick." Calvin Trillin

"To improve your memory, lend people money." Anonymous

[JakeTulane]

"Challenges make life interesting, however, overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life." - Federico Fellini

[JakeTulane]

"We do not remember days; we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese

[evolveme]

We can be a danger to ourselves, yet others can harm us. Yet if we lash out with hatred or violence, if we make war on ourselves or each other, we generate more fear, reactivity and suffering. Freeing ourselves from this trance of fear and alienation becomes possible only as we respond to our vulnerability with a wise heart.

- Tara Brach

[Diva]

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

[purepisces]

"Life is too important to be taken seriously." ~ Oscar Wilde

[violaine]

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed--
--bernard edmonds

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go--
--natalie goldberg

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible--
--cherie carter-scott

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity--
--kahlil gibran

[Jet]

"Lord, me chastity. But not yet." —St. Augustine

[Beau]

"When religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies and rituals, the inevitable implication is that females are inferior... Religious groups should stand up for a simple ethical principle: any person's human rights should be sacred, and not depend on something as earthly as their genitals."
-- Nicholas D. Kristof

[Diva]

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

~David Tyson

[Jet]

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward.
Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work
until divinely called to something higher.
—St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
—St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church

Pain is never permanent.
—St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person
has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
—St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church

Nothing is sweeter than to think well of others.
—St. Teresa of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
—St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
—St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church

[Jet]

Lord give me chastity, but not yet. —St. Augustine

[JakeTulane]

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person" - William Somerset Maugham

[JakeTulane]

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life." - C.S. Lewis

[purepisces]

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

[Arwen]

If you can't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. ~ Marilyn Monroe

[Diva]

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

~Proverbs

[Diva]

Mean people suck.

~Bumper sticker

[Diva]

People ought not to consider so much what they are to do as what they are; let them but be good and their ways and deeds will shine brightly.

~Meister Eckhart

[purepisces]

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ~ Margaret Mead

[purepisces]

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. ~ Margaret Mead

[Blade]

God gave you 2 ears and one mouth. There's a reason for that. So you have to open both ears.

Judge Judy

Ya gotta love Judge Judy!

[LaDolceVita]

Her shyness fell away like a nightgown, as if realizing that she was finally beautiful - in her own way. City of Emeralds

[Diva]

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

~Wayne Gretzky

[Diva]

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

~Stephen Covey

[Diva]

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

~Billie Jean King

[jenny]

"You can tell me all your thoughts, about the stars that fill polluted skies
And show me where you run to, when no one's left to take your side
But don't tell me where the road ends, cause I just don't wanna know..."
"Angels on the Moon," by Thriving Ivory

[purepisces]

There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. ~ William Sharp

[always2late]

"What you see depends on what you're looking for." ~ Anonymous

[Jet]

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
—Invictus, Henley

[Semantics]

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

Richard Bach

[LaDolceVita]

"Much as I love you. Much as I need you. Much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable" -Anne Rice

[Diva]

~ Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

~ Where there's will, I want to be in it.

~ We have enough youth; what we NEED is a Fountain of SMART!

~ As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

And one of my FAVORITES:

~ A closed mouth gathers no feet.

[Soft*Silver]

the only time you need to speak is for food, sex and attention, in that order

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Diva]

One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike You as the most beautiful.

~Sigmund Freud

[Diva]

A pessimist see the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~Winston Churchill

[Diva]

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

~Bill Cosby

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Money won't make you happy, but everyone wants to find this out for themselves." Zig Ziglar

[JakeTulane]

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves." - Leonardo da Vinci

[JakeTulane]

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

[LaDolceVita]

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
— Dr. Seuss


"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss



"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
— Dr. Seuss

[Spirit Dancer]

The people we are in relationship with
are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs,
and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
So... relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth....
If we look honestly at our relationships,
we can see so much about how we have created them.

~ Shakti Gawain ~

[Ms. Meander]

I am a part of all that I have met.
~ Tennyson

[Jeep]

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing socks by their character makes no sense and choosing friends by their color is absolutely rediculous.

[Ms. Meander]

"We are just a bunch of scruffy angels."

~ The Trans-Woman/High Priestess/Goddess of the place where i currently reside

[Spirit Dancer]

A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

~ Diane Mariechild ~



Cut not the wings of your dreams,
for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

~ Flavia ~

[JakeTulane]

"Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need." ~Margaret Mead

[JakeTulane]

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ~Stephen Levine

[JakeTulane]

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart."
~Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade of Lost Objects," 1954

[Diva]

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

~Truman Capote

[Diva]

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around....

~Leo Buscaglia

[LaDolceVita]

"Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu" -
"The important thing isn't how long you live, but how well you live."

(Seneca)

[Semantics]

Just as little is seen in pure light as in pure darkness.

-Hegel

[purepisces]

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. ~ T.S. Eliot

[always2late]

"It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else." - Erma Bombeck

[Mister Bent]

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” - Anne Lamott

[Spirit Dancer]

I believe their voice will now be heard by all nations.
It is the time for freedom from mental slavery
and return to our birthright as good people
reclaim our kindred ship to each other,
the kingdoms and give due respect
and walk in balance and harmony
with the entire natural world.

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”- Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

"When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly” - Patrick Overton

[Soft*Silver]

if you cant say anything with a purr, its best to not say anything at all

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Soft*Silver]

have you no shame celebrating Valentines Day, oh you who took my balls???[/

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Mister Bent]

"As Ray Porter watched his Mirabelle walk away he feels a loss.

How is it possible, he thinks, to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her.

Only then did he realize how wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life."

- From Shopgirl, with Steve Martin & Claire Danes

[Semantics]

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.


Emile Durkheim

[violaine]

we must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive --

for me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me --

-- Andrei Sakharov

[Diva]

There are no stronger words than "I love You".
All the fucking one can stand is not stronger.
All the bedroom "gifts", no.
"I love You" should make You tremble.
"I love You" should cause You to weep for the beauty of it and laugh passionately to the heavens.
"I love You" should empower You.
"I love You" should give joy to every cell in Your body.
"I love You" should take You to Your knees and lift You up again.
There is nothing more powerful to hear....
Nothing more powerful to say....than "I love You".


~Janey Hall

[KayCee]

'It's only with the heart that one can see clearly. What's essential, is invisible to the eye.'
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -

[Odarlin]

"When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly” - Patrick Overton

Oh, Oh, How I lurvs this!!! :cheer:

[Ms. Meander]

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
~ Alice Walker

[Spirit Dancer]

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

~ Maya Angelou ~



My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry;
to get my work done
and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

~ Maya Angelou ~


If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street
and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

~ Maya Angelou ~

[Diva]

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

~Cicero

[JakeTulane]

"Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them." - Bill Russell

[Soon]

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

--Jeanette Winterson
:bouquet:

[Diva]

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

~Elvis Presley

[SassyLeo]

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

-Kin Hubbard

[LaDolceVita]

Est autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis -
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. (St. Augustine)

[purepisces]

:stillheart:In memory of my beloved cat Emily, who was 19 years old this year - until we meet again, my sweet girl. :stillheart:

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~ Anatole France

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened. ~ Dr. Seuss

There is no death. Only a change of worlds. ~ Chief Seattle

[Diva]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

[weatherboi]

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.”

Carl T. Rowan

[Duchess]

I'd rather work like a dog and own my independence, than live in the lap of luxury and be owned.(f)

~Duchess

[Diva]

Ah! There's nothing like staying home for real comfort.

~Jane Austen

[Diva]

Not everything that can be counted, counts.
And not everything that counts can be counted.

~Albert Einstein

[robbrt]

"That's going a little too far for me, I like it on bread with tomato."

--Rob

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The future is promised to no one."

"Only the insecurity strive for security."

"Your children will see what you're all about by how you live rather than what you say."

[Just_G]

"It ain't about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. That is how winning is done."
~Rocky Balboa~