Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[girl_dee]

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

Indian Proverb

[girl_dee]

"Some people seem to go through life
standing at the complaint counter."
Fred Propp Jr.

[JAGG]

Almost all of our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.

[tapu]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

~ Inigo Montoya


:superfunny:

[Arwen]

They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now. -Bob Monkhouse, comedian (1928-2003)

[Holly.88]

"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path."

-Andre Gide

[ruffryder]

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson


All glory comes from daring to begin. William Shakespeare

[ruffryder]

Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves - Gay Hendricks

[puddin']

"the dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. dancing is poetry with arms and legs." ~charles baudelaire

[Fancy]

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait.
-Paulo Coelho

[Nat]

"Practices and not principles are what enable us to live together in peace. Conversations across boundaries of identity, whether national, religious or something else, <<disallowed word>>begin with the sort of imaginative engagement You get when you read a novel, watch a movie or attend to a piece of at that speaks from some place other than your own."

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

[VintageFemme]

dogs and angels are not very far apart —charles bukowski

[always2late]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

[ruffryder]

"The essential things in life are not seen with the eyes, but with the heart.":heartbeat:

[ruffryder]

"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together."

[ruffryder]

Don’t try to make people change…pray for them and let God do the changing. – Joyce Meyer

[sara-bera]

"The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love." -Daniel Chidiac

[ruffryder]

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

[Duchess]

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25241.Bob_Marley)

[Diva]

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.


(I lifted this from a FB post...powerful!)

[Hack]

To bread I do not ask to teach me
but only not to lack during every day of life.

-- Neruda

[jenny]

"What I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.
It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh." ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh"

[VintageFemme]

everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell -nietzche

[jenny]

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

[So true. Just sayin'.]

[sara-bera]

"Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary." -Oscar Wilde

[ruffryder]

"No one ever climbed a hill just by looking at it."


You don't have to see the whole staircase, you just have to take the first step.Martin Luther King Jr.

[JAGG]

True love is endless forgiveness. To truely love , is to love for no reason.

[Duchess]

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinluth142097.html) (f)

[Fancy]

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

[Gentle Tiger]

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

[Gentle Tiger]

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[Semantics]

We are destroyed by expecting more than there is.

Charles Bukowski

[Sparkle]

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

[jenny]

"If you hold on to the handle, she said, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you." ~ Brian Andreas, "Story People"

[Ms. Meander]

"Just breathing isn't living!"


"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!"

- Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

[Ms. Meander]

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[ruffryder]

"If someone strong enough to bring you down, show them you are strong enough to get up."

[ruffryder]

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."

"The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart."

[ruffryder]

"Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." Ray Bradbury


The only Journey, is the journey within .♥..¨¯`..♥

[Fancy]

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”


~Kahlil Gibran

[Novelafemme]

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.

From Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider

[Arwen]

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. -William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (1811-1863)

[sara-bera]

"Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found." -from Neil Gaiman’s story, Instructions.

[Diva]

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

~Isaac Bashevis Singer

[sara-bera]

"It's impossible," said Pride.
"It's risky," said Experience.
"It's pointless," said Reason.
"Give it a try," whispered the Heart.

[Kätzchen]

"A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed,"

~ CoCo Chanel

[jelli]

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.-Betty Reese

[Reader]

I have adored this poem ever since I was 10-years old and it was read to me by a skilled orator. Plath's use of meter and rhyme are fantastic. She gently pounds the reader over the head with both. Enjoy.


Daddy
by Sylvia Plath


You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time---
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one grey toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of *you*,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You---

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I'm finally through.
The black telephone's off at the root,
The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two---
The vampire who said he was you
and drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat, black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always *knew* it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.


Awesome....read by the poet herself:
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[Fancy]

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

[Ms. Meander]

Patience is just procrastination without the anxiety.
- Harry Pearce, MI-5/Spooks

[sara-bera]

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

[Arwen]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880-1968)

[ruffryder]

"What the Heart has once known, it shall never forget."

[Daywalker]

"When choosing your weapon, choose wisely. Choose Love. Choose Peace."

~DW~

:peacelove:

:daywalker:

[sara-bera]

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." -Winnie the Pooh

[Hollylane]

Funny, I came here specifically to quote Winnie...and I find the last quote is Winnie too! Sweet!

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”


Winnie the Pooh quote

[Reader]

If He brings you to it, He'll bring you through it.

(on a sign at a hospital)

[VintageFemme]

All veils and misty
Streets of blue
Almond looks
That chill divine
Some silken moment
Goes on forever
And we're leaving
Broken hearts behind

-inxs, mystify

[loremar]

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

-Oscar Wilde

[Janstevie]

Do you know someone who is alive today simply because you can't afford a hitman?

[sara-bera]

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. -Carl Jung

[Hollylane]

I hope, I pray, I dream, and am gloriously free to live and love
When you find something so beautiful that it cannot be defined
Don’t try to pin down the cause or the sure or likely explanation
Be brave, jump, leap over the chasm of doubt to grab your forever.

[JAGG]

" Knowing a great deal, being well read, is not the same as being smart. Intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is collected and used." -Carl Sagan

[JAGG]

" Life is too short, to eat food you don't like."

[JAGG]

" What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend , it ceases to exist." - Salman Rushdie

[Bootsandheels]

"To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution." ~Joe Cordare

[sara-bera]

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins." -Bob Moawad

[Hollylane]

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[Diva]

Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."

~Robert Brault

[Fancy]

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas De Chamfort

[girl_dee]

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

[sara-bera]

"Always be a first-rate versin of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland

[girl_dee]

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true
Vanna Bonta

[Hollylane]

"Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!"

~Leo Buscaglia

[ruffryder]

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

[Kätzchen]

"When you learn how to die you learn how to live," ~ Morrie Schwartz

[Rook]

"you really have to find that 1 thing that pisses you off...and use it" -- Whip It

(I can think of at least 5 different things)

[sara-bera]

"To live is the rarest thing. Most people only exist." -Oscar Wilde

[sara-bera]

"If you want to be happy, be." -Leo Tolstoy

[Tcountry]

"There is nothing so strong as gentleness & nothing so gentle as real strength"

quoted on an episode of Criminal Minds

[Ms. Meander]

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- Maya Angelou

[weatherboi]

"I looked up when he said he supported gays in the military, stunned by the answer. He immediately followed that comment with the statement that we should then put them on the front lines, and pull back."

--Brian Blaise, an honors student who graduated in 2003 from Mount Dora High School in Lake County, Florida, describing one of the homophobic remarks he remembers made by Jerry Buell, a Lake County teacher who gained national attention for publicly posting comments comparing gay couples to "a cesspool" on Facebook, recently reinstated to his job after a short suspension.

[Kätzchen]

"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow," ~ Jack Black

[Diva]

A friend to all is a friend to none.

~Aristotle

[puddin']

"i think there are certain things that happen to us in life where we never do really "get over it", and maybe we shouldn't. i think resolution sometimes finally does come when we come to terms with it." ~theo

[Hollylane]

“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.”

~Dalai Lama

[JAGG]

" Sometimes what you don't say, echo's the loudest and hurts the most."

[always2late]

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Arthur Baldwin

[Janstevie]

Is a balanced diet a cake in each hand?

[Ms. Meander]

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.
- Mary Bly

[JAGG]

"I loved you forever in lifetimes before."

[Ms. Meander]

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
John Weiss

[always2late]

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it.

[Ms. Meander]

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin

[Ms. Meander]

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.
Lucy Larcom

[always2late]

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - William Makepeace Thackeray

[Glenn]

"The beauty of women conquers without arms.
There is nothing else for which man will so blindly sacrifice everything.
It seems all of Nature has prepared for her being."- Hazrat Khan

[-Red-Flag-]

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

[-Red-Flag-]

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

[tapu]

"I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."
— P.J. O'Rourke

[sara-bera]

"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are." -Markus Zusak

[Kätzchen]

"The only people who can see the whole picture" he murmured,
"are the ones who step out of the frame."

~ Salman Rushdie (1999): The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

[Janstevie]

A rumour is about as hard to unspread as butter.

[Ms. Meander]

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

[dixie]

"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."

[always2late]

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures. - Horace Greeley

[sara-bera]

You can't fail if you never give up.

[Hack]

Love, we're going home now,
Where the vines clamber over the trellis:
Even before you, the summer will arrive,
On its honeysuckle feet, in your bedroom.

Our nomadic kisses wandered over all the world:
Armenia, dollop of disinterred honey:
Ceylon, green dove: and the YangTse with its old
Old patience, dividing the day from the night.

And now, dearest, we return, across the crackling sea
Like two blind birds to their wall,
To their nest in a distant spring:

Because love cannot always fly without resting,
Our lives return to the wall, to the rocks of the sea:
Our kisses head back home where they belong.

-- Neruda

[The_Lady_Snow]

"You are more fun than peanut butter and jelly on a picnic!!!!"


I'd like to trademark, own, copyright cause that mother fucking FUN is ME

[Kobi]

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. "

~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982

[Janstevie]

Me? Behave? sorry but it was the role models i was brought up with .... Seriously... As a child I saw Tarzan strolling naked. Cinderella arrived home after midnight. Pinocchio telling lies. Aladdin was a thief. Batman driving over 200 miles an hour. Snow White lived in a house with 7 men. Popeye smoked a pipe and had many tattoos, and in later years, Pac-Man ran with digital music eating pills that enhanced his performance. The fault is not mine!

[Kätzchen]

"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 or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."

~Audrey Hepburn

[Arwen]

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

[Ms. Meander]

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

[Girl Friday]

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.

Jim Rohn

[sara-bera]

"Believe there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Believe that you might be that light for someone else."
-Kobi Yamada

[Ms. Meander]

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[sara-bera]

Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

[dixie]

For some reason this always runs through my head on rainy nights...


Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."

-- From, 'The Raven', by Edgar Allen Poe

[LaneyDoll]

"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

:sparklyheart:

[Bootsandheels]

I believe that humans will not merely endure: they will prevail. They are immortal, not because they alone among creatures have an inexhaustible voice, but because they have souls, spirits capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. - William Faulkner

[Diva]

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

[Diva]

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

~ Leo Buscaglia

[Diva]

The one who thinks she knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

~Harold Coffin

[Bootsandheels]

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

[Bootsandheels]

"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." :blink:
— Dr. Seuss

[Ms. Meander]

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Dorothy Parker

[LaneyDoll]

The moment someone tells you that you're not good enough is the same moment you should know that you're way better than they are!

:sparklyheart:

[Ms. Meander]

Survival is your strength not your shame.
T.S. Elliott

[Rook]

The Princess Bride

Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
[Inigo advances on Rugen, but stumbles into the table with sudden pain. Rugen attacks, but Inigo parries and rises to his feet again]
Inigo Montoya: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
[Rugen attacks again, Inigo parries more fiercely, gaining strength]
Inigo Montoya: Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!
Count Rugen: Stop saying that!
[Rugen attacks, twice. Inigo avoids and wounds Rugen in both shoulders, the same spots where he wounded Inigo. Inigo attacks, bellowing:]
Inigo Montoya: HELLO! MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA! YOU KILLED MY FATHER! PREPARE TO DIE!
[Inigo corners Count Rugen, knocks his sword aside, and slashes his cheek, giving him a scar just like Inigo's]
Inigo Montoya: Offer me money.
Count Rugen: Yes!
Inigo Montoya: Power, too, promise me that.
[He slashes his other cheek]
Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please...
Inigo Montoya: Offer me anything I ask for.
Count Rugen: Anything you want...
[Rugen knocks Inigo's sword aside and lunges. But Inigo traps his arm and aims his sword at Rugen's stomach]
Inigo Montoya: I want my father back, you son of a bitch!
[He runs Count Rugen through and shoves him back against the table. Rugen falls to the floor, dead]

[Mr.Nobody]

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

[Mr.Nobody]

People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. ~Author Unknown

[Diva]

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~Scott Adams

[Diva]

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

~Twyla Tharp

[Hollylane]

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. ~Christopher Paul Rubero

[greeneyedgrrl]

Our love must first be tempered by the depth of our self love so that our self-less love reflects our inner joy rather than our unmet needs and hunger for affection.
--Lex

[DamonK]

The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have. -- Anonymous

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. -- Voltaire

The scars of your love remind me of us, they keep me thinking that we almost had it all. -- Adele

[Ms. Meander]

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[jenny]

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view."
- Obi Wan Kenobi

[Reader]

no guns, no gun violence.

[Fancy]

Thousands died on September 11, 2001. As a result of the US response, hundreds of thousands have died. Who will stand up for them in the midst of all the patriotic posturing this weekend?

- Jason Barr

[sara-bera]

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

[Janstevie]

You know your on a diet when a postage stamp tastes good.

[T4Texas]

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

[Janstevie]

"inside me, There's a thin women trying to get out........But i can usually shut the cow up with chocolate."

[Arwen]

"Being sacredly pissed off can lead to liberation."


"Maturity is gauged by the ability to elegantly surrender to life's unpredictability." Malidoma Somé

[jenny]

"September 11 was one of those rare times. When the event happened, while it happened, we knew we were watching history unfold. We saw a line – a shadow – fall over the newsreel of our lives, one that would forever mark the days after as separate from the days before. We understood that we would remember, would someday tell our grandchildren, where we had been and what we had been doing when we heard the news." ~ Dan Rather

[Diva]

your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission
be on the watch
...there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere
it may not be much light, but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.

~From "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

[Diva]

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our Journey.

~Kenji Miyazawa

[Diva]

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

~C. C. Scott

[Daywalker]

"I lost my footing so I could find the common ground.
It was then I realized my path was not so common after all"

~ DW ~

:daywalker:

[puddin']

"the mind is so interesting. it's a seriously sexy beast." ~ angel t

[Arwen]

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[ruffryder]

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato

Peace has so much to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others. Dalai Lama

[Diva]

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

~John Lennon

[jenny]

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally." ~ Flannery O’Conner

[Nat]

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.

- Leonard Cohen

[mustangjeano]

In the depth of winter,I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

[Hollylane]

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Hollylane]

Come a little closer baby
I feel like strippin' it down
Back to the basics of you and me
And what makes the world go round
Every inch of you against my skin
I wanna be stronger than we've ever been
So come a little closer baby
I feel like strippin' it down

~Dierks Bentley (Come a Little Closer)

[Ms. Meander]

To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West

[Tommi]

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer

[Arwen]

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. -Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)

[jenny]

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Daywalker]

"There are times when one must lose themselves, to find themselves…
it all becomes necessary, but never immediately evident"

~ DW ~

[Kätzchen]

A Turn to the Right
A Little White Light

Let there be a season when no one rakes,
when all tha has ever fallen can drift
with ordinary wings. Mithras, I hear you
out in the open, humming our favorite tune,
through a leaf and a comb.

Lead us as if we were righteous
into the blue light of heaven
where no one will forgive anyone
just in case it's condescending,
and we wil love each other
to the withered toes.


Carolyn Reynolds Miller
(2001: Lynx House Press)

[always2late]

We must be our own before we can be another's. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Fancy]

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

[Maria]

This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[tapu]

Everybody's nice when you meet them.

~ my mom.com

[Fancy]

This made my day:

Waking up full of Awesome (http://blog.pigtailpals.com/2011/08/waking-up-full-of-awesome/)

Especially this part:

There was a time when you were five years old,
and you woke up full of awesome.

You knew you were awesome.

You loved yourself.

You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.

You loved your body, and the things it could do.

You thought you were strong.

You knew you were smart.

Do you still have it?
The awesome.

Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?

Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?

Look at her. She is full of awesome.

You were, once. Maybe you still are. Maybe you are in the process of getting it back.

All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.

[crashhere4eva]

Do what makes you happy and sets you free but be careful and know that everything that makes you happy may not set you free. However whatever sets you free, will most certainly make you happy. (f) ~Crash~

[Arwen]

"Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: if you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything. " Catherine The Great

[JoSchmooze]

Bumper Sticker Wisdom:

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n171/hiproc_grafix/bumper%20stickers/BEALERT2.jpg

Gotta have more "lerts"......LOL

[Glenn]

"There are no jokes."-Freud
"Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you."-Jung

[jenny]

"Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things." ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

[Diva]

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

[ruffryder]

Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley

[Janny]

Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. (delivered by Sean Connery in "The Rock")


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[Kätzchen]

Iris (Cameron Diaz):
"...then you go somewhere new, and surround yourself with people who make you feel worth while, and pieces of your soul begin to comeback..."

Amanda (Kate Winslet):
"You know Graham, I just broke up with someone and considering you just showed up and you're insanely good-looking and probably won't remember me anyway, I'm thinking we should have sex..."


Graham (Jude Law):
"Is that a trick question?"

Miles (Jack Black):
"The wind...It's what makes it so warm at this time of the year. Legend has it, when Santa Anas blow, all bets are off, anything can happen..."

[Fancy]

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

-Walt Whitman

[Jeep]

Ride a draft it makes your butt look smaller (bumper sticker)

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't the guts to bite people themselves. (?)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley. (?)

[JAGG]

Do not impose on others, what you yourself do not desire.

[JAGG]

"Meaning well is useless unless you do well." - Plautus

[sara-bera]

"It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training." -Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

[Diva]

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

~Marcel Proust

[Ms. Meander]

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

[sara-bera]

"Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all." -Emily Giffin

[Kätzchen]

“When you're dreaming with a broken heart
The waking up is the hardest part:
You roll outta bed and down on your knees
And for a moment you can hardly breathe...”

(John Mayer)

[Arwen]

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008)

[Jeep]

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

[sara-bera]

“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.” -Lewis Thomas

[Diva]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

~Sydney J. Harris

[Arwen]

“Learning to use anger is no easy task. Yet the alternative—letting anger use us—makes us prisoners of our own minds.” — Mark Epstein

[Arwen]

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. -Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (1909-2005)

[Novelafemme]

"Help me believe I have the right to remember and know what at times only my troubled heart tells me to be true." ~ Cherrie Moraga

[macele]

... i thought love got easier over the years
so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt,
or feel so good when it felt good.
i thought it smoothed out and old people
hardly noticed it. -- louise erdrich

[JAGG]

3 things cannot long be hidden. The sun the moon and the truth.- Confucious


To deny your hearts truth, is to imprison yourself. No happiness can ever be born of this.



The truth has within it self, the power to reveal itself. Try to squelch it, and it will deafen you. Deny it , and it will echo from every corner. Ignore it, and it will appear everywhere. Run from it , and it will show up in your dreams. That is how you will know.

[Diva]

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.

~ Winston Churchill

[Diva]

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

~Pablo Picasso

[kannon]

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

~Pablo Picasso





Love this.

[kannon]

Deep rivers move with silent majesty, shallow brooks are noisy

Danish proverb

[always2late]

"Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."~ Willis Whitney

[Kätzchen]

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go,
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.

~Langston Hughes

[MrSunshine]

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

~ Sir Winston Churchill

[macele]

... there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -- hamlet

[purepisces]

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino

[weatherboi]

"You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory -- and hire someone to protect against this -- because of the work the rest of us did.

"Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless -- keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

Elizabeth Warren

[macele]

"Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul.
They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend
years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes,
meals, and church services while people you
love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul."
... Bruce Bawer

[Fancy]

Earth teach me resignation
as leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.


- Ute Indians

[Kätzchen]

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."

~Victor Hugo

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Debajo de tu piel vive la luna."

From Oda a la Bella Desnuda
Pablo Neruda

Translation:
"The moon lives underneath your skin"

[mustangjeano]

This is so powerful and true. Thanks for posting it

[Ms. Meander]

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott

[Janstevie]

When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.

[Janstevie]

If you see a friend without a smile, give him one of yours.

[Kätzchen]

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."


Langston Hughes

[puddin']

"copernicus called. you are not the center of the universe." ~fraiser crane, "fraiser"

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."

~Sam Keen

[apretty]

As heard tonight on Storycorp:



O ME! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;

Of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities fill'd with the

foolish;

Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I,

and who more faithless?)

Of eyes that vainly crave the light--of the objects mean--of the

struggle ever renew'd;

Of the poor results of all--of the plodding and sordid crowds I see

around me;

Of the empty and useless years of the rest--with the rest me

intertwined;

The question, O me! so sad, recurring--What good amid these, O me, O

life?

Answer.

That you are here--that life exists, and identity;

That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

(Whitman)

[Ms. Meander]

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber

[Janstevie]

They say that if you love someone you should let them go,
but they never say what to do if they don’t come back.

[Janstevie]

Good morning,
This is God, i will be handling all of your problems today, i will not need your help, so have a wonderful day.

[Diva]

A daughter is a gift of love.

~Author Unknown

[Diva]

A mother's treasure is her daughter.

~Catherine Pulsifer

[Diva]

Death is a wicked bitch.

~Me

[Ms. Meander]

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale

[Fancy]

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.


Temple Grandin

[ruffryder]

Change YOUR thoughts, and YOU change YOUR world

[ruffryder]

Life is the train, not the train station. Paulo Coelho

"Never forget where you were. Never forget the journey to get where you are."

We spend a lot of time trying to control other people when we should just be controlling ourselves. Joyce Meyer

[purepisces]

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher

[purepisces]

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan

[Arwen]

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

[JAGG]

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image.

[BugsAndKisses]

This family is my special field,
In their soil my love is sealed,
So with gentle hands this earth I groom,
And where I step the flowers bloom.

For you Mom <3

[Kätzchen]

I'm half-way into the book (ch. 15) but the beginning of the book is too precious. Here's how this story begins in chapter 1:

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.
Just a few lines before the first chapter opens, Jacob prefaces his story about knowing the importance of keeping a confidence and says that in "seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul."

This story touches my heart...
I've read it like 3 other times already.

[Diva]

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

~Marquis de Sade

[Diva]

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

~Marquis de Sade

[mustangjeano]

" Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness- both the ones you have received and the ones you have given- you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter" Dawna Markova

[Fancy]

If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass!

-as seen on a friend's FB

[ruffryder]

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

"Until you learn from it, you will not be released of it."

[purepisces]

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens

[purepisces]

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau

[Janstevie]

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.

[Diva]

A seed lies surrounded and pushed down by the dark, heavy dirt around it. The seed still breaks through because that is it's sole intention.

~from Power of Positivity

[Arwen]

What matters is that we talk with each other, the rest is "details!" -Lissa Coffey

[always2late]

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress - Mark Twain

[JAGG]

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.-
Henry David Thoreau

[BugsAndKisses]

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

[UofMfan]

"¿Por qué se suicidan las hojas cuando se sienten amarillas?" ~ Pablo Neruda