Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[purepisces]

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ~ Alice Walker

[purepisces]

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy

[kannon]

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. ~ Alice Walker

I was just thinking about this. What makes us think we are superior than anyone or anything else or entitled to more rights or freedom? It seems like it's really all about control, power and dominance. We use all these games and tactics to maintain or aggrandize our power and control and call it entitlement.

[Fancy]

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

e. e. cummings

[BugsAndKisses]

The past is history, the future is a mystery but today is a gift, thats why its called the present. Kung Fu Panda

[Hack]

To One Unknown
BY HELEN DUDLEY

I have seen the proudest stars
That wander on through space,
Even the sun and moon,
But not your face.

I have heard the violin,
The winds and waves rejoice
in endless minstrelsy,
Yet not your voice.

I have touched the trillium,
Pale flower of the land,
Coral, anemone,
And not your hand.

I have kissed the shining feet
Of Twilight lover-wise,
Opened the gates of Dawn—
Oh not your eyes!

I have dreamed unwonted things,
Visions that witches brew,
Spoken with images,
Never with you.

[Diva]

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

[Diva]

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much / and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

~Lord Byron

[LaneyDoll]

“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you." ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

:sparklyheart:

[Ms. Meander]

Just go out there and do what you have to do.
Martina Navratilova

[BugsAndKisses]

"Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers!" -Grease

[Hollylane]

“...[E]ach of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.”

[sara-bera]

"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love."
 -Mother Teresa

[Mr.Nobody]

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead

[Mr.Nobody]

"Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence ... What are the fruits of silence? They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character."

~Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux~

[Diva]

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

~Hugh Blair

[Diva]

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

~Lord Chesterfield

[Diva]

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

~Meredith Monk

[Hollylane]

Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough...

~Author Unknown

[BugsAndKisses]

Frank's Red Hot,I put that shit on everything - Grandma

[Hollylane]

Each one of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

~Rev. Maclean, A River Runs Through It 1992

[Mr.Nobody]

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference. ~Charlotte Gray

[Fancy]

“so even an assassin can make the flowers grow"

David Ives - Variations on The Death of Trotsky

[LaneyDoll]

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them. In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night. You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

:sparklyheart:

[Diva]

"Our own life has to be our message."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

[Hollylane]

Love is everything it is cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

~Erica Jong

[Arwen]

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.
I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.
I am going to have kind thoughts towards others.
I am not going to get angry or think badly about others.
I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” – The Dalai Lama

Now that's a life I can live! (Arwen, lol)

[purepisces]

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~ e.e.cummings

[purepisces]

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver

[JAGG]

You know the proof is in the pudding. So do you keep ordering yogurt?

[Fancy]

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "

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[1QuirkyKiwi]

Fancy, I love it!

I miss read the title of this thread as Quote, Pimps and Sayings *Blushes* - I'm tired, need new eyes and have a very early start in the morning, so I'll shuffle off to bed...

Happiness:
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

[sara-bera]

“That which is beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.” -Ninon de L’Enclos

[BugsAndKisses]

nice is different then good- little red riding hood

[always2late]

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' - Grace Murray Hopper

[Fancy]

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

-Steve Jobs


rest in peace



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[JAGG]

"The great hand of Karma shall even the score,
The wronged vindicated,
The manipulative exposed, so all may know their evils acts,
No amount of regret, forgiveness or treading lighty can advert the forces which level.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly,
Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
At the moment of recogning no adage shall ring truer,
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

[purepisces]

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. ~ Steve Jobs

[greeneyedgrrl]

1. I'm a girl with power

(Power)

2. One girl CAN make a difference

... (Courage)

3. I try my best

(Effort)

4. And maybe someday somehow I will make a change.
(Hope)

written by my little one age 10

[greeneyedgrrl]

The time will come

When, after elation

You will greet yourself arriving

At your own door, in your own mirror,

And each will smile at the other's welcome,



And say, sit here, Eat.

You will love again the stranger that was yourself.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

To itself, to the stranger who has loved you



All your life, whom you ignored

For another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the letters from the bookshelf,



The photographs, the desperate notes,

Peel your image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

[greeneyedgrrl]

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a fulltime informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answer to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. This will often be forgotten, only to be remembered again.

[Kätzchen]

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
for you do not know what it will bring back:
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

~Anaïs Nin

[Daywalker]

"Lock up your mind, and unlock your senses first. To everything there
is an order and a flow, even in Chaos. What your mind cannot process,
your senses will figure out for you"

~ DW ~

:daywalker:

[Arwen]

We're here to put a dent in the universe. -Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and inventor (1955-2011)

[Arwen]

“We can reside in a place of desperation, panic and fear—or we can literally give ourselves some breathing space. Take in a few deep breaths. Exhale. And focus on what we need instead of what we've been striving to have.”
— Oprah

[Rook]

Boys on the Side

[Elaine is crying at Robin's bedside, the nurse thinks her sniffles are relative to a cold, and tells her she could aggravate her daughter's condition] It's not a goddamn cold! Don't be such a hoo-hoo.
Nurse: [apathetic] And what's a hoo-hoo?
Elaine: [kindly] It's a cunt, dear.
[nurse gasps]
Elaine: Now why don't you leave us alone?

[Ms. Meander]

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

[purepisces]

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws? ~ Bill Maher

[purepisces]

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. ~ Bill Maher

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. ~ Bill Maher

[Jerseyboi]

Listen to your heart. It's on your left side, but always right.

[cinderella]

Light travels faster then sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

[Mr.Nobody]

"Everyone you meet comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack."

[Arwen]

“Forgetting the true nature of the self is what makes human beings subject to timidity, weakness, fear and insecurity.”
— Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

[Arwen]

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance -- embracing all opposites. -Taisen Deshimaru, Zen teacher (1914-1982)

[Arwen]

When you bring others into your heart, you're able to see beyond your own ego-centered mind and learn not to take issues so personally. Then you're also able to be more caring and kind. Ed & Deb Shapiro

[purepisces]

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. ~ Wanda Sykes

[purepisces]

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ~ Amy Tan

[Mr.Nobody]

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside.~Stephen Covey

[Ms. Meander]

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser

[always2late]

"Cool, I love candles. That pie shell looks delish too. Hey, what's with the knife, dude? Wait, Stop. Oh dear god, Please Stop!" – Pumpkins

[girl_dee]

I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings

[Elijah]

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

~Neruda

[Soon]

To Have Without Holding

Marge Piercy


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.

[Fancy]

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Mason Cooley

[Diva]

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

~Malcolm Forbes

[Diva]

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

~Madonna

[Diva]

At the end of the day, I must be satisfied with how I lived my life, not how You would have lived my life for me.

~Me.

[Mr.Nobody]

THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH
"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people but grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the light and for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

Touch not the poisonous firewater. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

[macele]

Mr. Nobody's post of THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH, reminded me of this quote, ...


to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

for anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils.

and what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

-- Socrates - Quoted in Plato's Apology

[macele]

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i couldn't get the sound to work on the website for a knock at the door, duirwaigh.
so i went via youtube to make sure you could hear the music.
but please, go to the website.
so much to be inspired by. other short films there as well.

maybe this should be posted in my favorite poems, but o well lol.


http://www.duirwaigh.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=57

[cuddlyfemme]

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot

[Janstevie]

It's hard to find a friend thats, 96% Witty 98% Sexy & 100% Sweet, So dont lose me.

[Liam]

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears.
—Rudyard Kipling

[cinderella]

"Why do people say... 'grow some balls'? Balls are soft and sensitive. If you really want to be tough, say 'grow a vagina' - those things take a pounding!"

quote attributed to Betty White

[Mr.Nobody]

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi

[always2late]

A person can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. - Hal Lindsey

[Fancy]

in an email from a friend that stuck in my mind...

"One of Thich Nhat Hanh's stories I read this summer was about a beautiful white moth that came into the circle of children he was leading. While the group was admiring it, one boy went and stomped it into the ground. Thich Nhat Hahn's response was to offer a prayer that began, "Dear white moth, please forgive us for not recognizing your beauty, your gift to us, your sacrifice to our ignorance, our violence, and our unskillfulness..." It was the word "unskillfullness" that struck me. In considering our three lifelines, "Opening to life's gifts" seems on the surface the easist of practices, but I think as a parent, the most challenging skill of all. In the midst of the chaos and everyday stuff of family life, to be able to hold off any urge to crush, miss, or allow other forces to take an experience of beauty and grace- now that is a challenge we need each other for!"

[Diva]

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus

[Diva]

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

[Mr.Nobody]

Beautiful people do not just happen…
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have
known defeat,
known suffering,
known struggle,
known loss,
and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern…
Beautiful people do not just happen…~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

[sara-bera]

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -unknown

[JAGG]

"Contempt is a weapon of the weak."

[moxie]

“Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo." - Dr. Sara Murray Jordan

[kannon]

Everything except writing poems and making love ends up by finally boring me ~ Irving Layton

[Fancy]

"May the blessings of each day be the blessings we need the most."

- Paulo Coelho

[JAGG]

when I'm down to nothing, you can bet the universe is up to something.

[Novelafemme]

This was sent to me recently and I can't tell you how closely I am able to relate what's going on in my life right now with these written words. I printed it out and hung it on the fridge as a daily reminder. :)


She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of the fear. She let go of the judgments. She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the 'right' reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn't ask anyone for advice. She didn't read a book on how to let go... She didn't search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all of the memories that held her back. She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward. She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.

She didn't promise to let go. She didn't journal about it. She didn't write the projected date in her Day-Timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn't check the weather report or read her daily horoscope. She just let go.

She didn't analyze whether she should let go. She didn't call her friends to discuss the matter. She didn't do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment. She didn't call the prayer line. She didn't utter one word. She just let go.

No one was around when it happened. There was no applause or congratulations. No one thanked her or praised her. No one noticed a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.

There was no effort. There was no struggle. It wasn't good and it wasn't bad. It was what it was, and it is just that.

In the space of letting go, she let it all be. And a small smile came over her face.

[Janstevie]

"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? "Me neither".

[Arwen]

Consistent effort no matter how small, sparks magic, fills sails, butters bread, turns tides, instills faith, summons friends, improves health, burns calories, creates abundance, yields clarity, builds courage, spins planets, and rewrites destinies.

No matter how small,
The Universe

[Fancy]

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[Arwen]

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

[Daywalker]

Another mindless ramble that leaked out when
the term 'Only the Shadow knows' was brought up

:deepthoughts:

"Shadows are like your immediate history, as reviewed in your moments
of hindsight should your movements halt. The thing to remember is,
those moments are afforded only when you have reach a plateau.
Stay there too long, and your Shadow stagnates along with
your history. Your Shadow awaits you..."

~ DW ~

:vampirebat:

:daywalker:

[Trey339]

"Take it or leave it'

[Diva]

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the
... best quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just
... pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election".

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds)
took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple!
The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year
or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they're out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive
the message. Don't you think it's time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

~Warren Buffett

[Hollylane]

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]

"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."~ Geoffrey Gaberino

[Trey339]

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



had to look for this,,love it

[Trey339]

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

[Hollylane]

"P.O.O.P People Opting Out of Politeness" ~Co-Worker Nate C.

[sara-bera]

"People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be." -from Mad Men

[Diva]

Sometimes, folks try to rain on your parade.
I say that's ok.
They're called "floats" for a reason!

~Me

[Arwen]

A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

[Arwen]

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. -Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (1929-1945)

[Arwen]

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel laureate (1915-2005)

[Arwen]

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

[Arwen]

There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

[SoNotHer]

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

[Janstevie]

From a Dog's Diary


8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!


From a Cat's Diary

Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre
little dangling objects.

The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt
to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.

Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet.
I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly
demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made
condescending comments about what a 'good little hunter' I am.
Bastards.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my
tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try
this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches.
The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and
seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.

The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with
the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My
captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so
he is safe. For now... Will keep you posted.

[sara-bera]

"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there, how he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect… and then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had." -from Mad Men

[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

[Arwen]

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

[Arwen]

"Drop upon drop collected will make a river. Rivers upon rivers collected will make a sea." -Sa'Di (A.D. 1213? - 1292)

[Janstevie]

The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not
they are genuine. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[Fancy]

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

[Daywalker]

"Our paths in life are the Veins to our Character."

~ DW ~

:daywalker:

[Diva]

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

~Doug Larson

[Trey339]

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood

[sylvie]

Count blessings...Not problems.. ♥

[Hollylane]

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

[grenade]

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
John Keats

[girl_dee]

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

[girl_dee]

“It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

[girl_dee]

“You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

[sara-bera]

“Chances are, you’re not going to be alone forever.

Start spending more time with you. Laugh at your own jokes. Luxuriate in solitary silence. Walk. Read. Pamper yourself. Be as filthy and disgusting as you please. Learn the comfort of your own embrace. It’s a cliché but it’s true—you will love better once you’ve fallen in love with you. Sleep sprawled on the bed. Snore. When you wake up make eggs and bacon and eat them in bed on your own. Find things—big and small—that you love doing and do them everyday.

Focus on your job. Find a hobby. Do whatever the hell you want. Because when that day comes—the secret day you hold onto in the hidden recesses of your guts—you will have to compromise. You will have to think of someone else whenever you make a decision. You will have to share your bacon, and maybe they wont like it crispy besides, and you’ll have to adapt. You will have to sleep wedged between someone’s limbs. It wont be better and it wont be worse; it will be different, and you’ll have to learn to love it too.”

-Kat George

[UofMfan]

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[Janstevie]

I got a new stick deodorant today, the instructions said, remove cap and push up bottom. I can hardly walk, but whenever i fart the room smells lovely.

[Fancy]

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
-Mary Pickford

[Daywalker]

"I am forever humbled and amazed at what goes on across the world
while we complain the batteries are out on our remote controls."

~ DW ~

[Glenn]

I AM THAT I AM-GOD

[macele]

you have to start your own engine. -- pat summitt

[macele]

The 12 Lady Vols Principles

1. Respect yourself and others
2. Take full responsibility
3. Develop and demonstrate loyalty
4. Learn to be a great communicator
5. Discipline yourself so no one else has to
6. Make hard work your passion
7. Don't just work hard, work smart
8. Put the team before yourself
9. Make winning an attitude
10. Be a competitor
11. Change is a must
12. Handle success like you handle failure

[Miss July]

Healing is an inside job

[CockyDude]

Love is not a toy; something to be played with. You plant a seed, nurture it, protect it, feed it and watch it grow. If you've done a good job you'll reap what you sow in kind.

[macele]

the season begins in a couple weeks for womens college basketball.
i'm a diehard pat summitt fan, ... tennessee lady vols head coach.
i'm excited about the season starting and i'm quote crazy.
but i promise i will simma after this one lol.

i'm pretty sure she got this quote from john maxwell. she likes to repeat it quite often. so i took the liberty of giving it to her LOL. i can do that you know.

(she's referring to players.) "they don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." -- pat summitt

[Arwen]

“If he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.”
— Jed Rubenfeld

[sara-bera]

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

[Trey339]

we must all live with what we create,,,,~me

[SoNotHer]

“I want to live other lives. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances.”

—Anne Tyler

[mustangjeano]

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. Cesar Chavez

[Trey339]

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

[SoNotHer]

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." Dorothy Parker

Thank you for invoking, Dottie. I stop by the Algonquin and drink a toast to her when I'm in NYC. :-)

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

[tapu]

Dorothy Parker: What fresh hell is this?


I've answered my phone with that.

[Fancy]

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.


Mark Twain

[JAGG]

A mistake on your part, doesn't constitute an emergeny on mine.

[Arwen]

“The more we remember that life is a gift—that everything changes, we're not in control—the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.”
— Mark Matousek

[Trey339]

I also really like this lil witticism,,,,hahahhahahah



“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker

[macele]

Apologizing doesn't always mean you were wrong and the other person was right. It can mean you value the relationship more than your ego. -- Ruth Buzzi

(did you all know ruth buzzi is still making the world laugh!, and on twitter! and she's smart too. love to get my buzzi on. lol)

[purepisces]

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan

[ruffryder]

"People change and things go wrong, but always remember, life goes on."

[Fancy]

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

Rick Fox

[Trey339]

Remember who you are,,,wake from your slumber ~ a poet

[Fancy]

"I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for a man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts, is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette, is indeed a hero."

~The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving

[CockyDude]

I've learned so much from my mistakes.
I'm thinking of making a few more.

[Janstevie]

I love you more today
than i did yesterday.
Yesterday you really
pissed me off.

[Arwen]

We can't hear wonder with our ears, or see it with our eyes. It's something that goes on in our hearts. It's the process of translating something that might ordinarily seem mundane into something spectacular. It's recognizing the divine within everything and everyone. -Lissa Coffey

[Lady Pamela]

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h184/born2bdiffrient/mykindredfriend.jpg

[Fancy]

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

~Winnie the Pooh

[Janstevie]

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┊ ┊┊ ┊┊ Ѽ ☻ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
┊ ┊┊ ┊★ه^v^
┊ ┊┊٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ه
Ѽ ☻
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[sara-bera]

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” -Buddha

[sara-bera]

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

[Janstevie]

I'm so proud of my heart,
It's been used, hurt, cheated and broken,
But it still works.

[Fancy]

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Miss July]

You can either choose to be a victim or a survivor

[UofMfan]

"No existe amor en paz. Siempre viene acompañado de agonías, éxtasis, alegrías intensas y tristezas profundas."~ Paulo Coelho

[sara-bera]

“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

[Fancy]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Arwen]

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." -Helen Keller, 1902

We see what we choose to see. Helen Keller could not physically see with her eyes- and yet she could see with her heart, she could experience wonder. Her life, and the way she chose to live her life, is such an inspiration to us. There is wonder all around us, but do we choose to see it? -Lissa Coffey (http://www.coffeytalk.com)

“Why you? Because there’s no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn’t soon enough.” — Donna Brazile

[CockyDude]

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

[Arwen]

“People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whether it lasts forever or not.” — Colleen Seifert

[jenny]

"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people." ~ Harry Chapin

[sara-bera]

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -Audrey Hepburn

[Kätzchen]

"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee,"


~ King David
(Psalms 119:11)

[ruffryder]

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix


Paulo Coelho. Close some doors. Not because of pride, but because that no longer fits your life.

[always2late]

Sometimes you have to forget how you feel and remember what you deserve.

[always2late]

Some Like Indians Endure ~ Paula Gunn Allen

i have it in my mind that
dykes are like indians

they're a lot like indians
they used to live as a tribe
they owned tribal land
it was called the earth

they were massacred
lots of times
they always came back
like the grass
like the clouds
they got massacred again

they thought caringsharing
about the earth and each other
was a good thing
they rode horses
and sang to the moon

but i don't know
about what was so longago
and it's now that dykes
make me think i'm with indians

because they bear
witness bitterly
because they reach
and hold
because they live every day
with despair laughing
in cities and country places
because earth hides them
because they know
the moon
because they gather together
enclosing
and spit in the eye of death
indian is an idea
some people have
of themselves
dyke is an idea some women
have of themselves
the place where we live now
is idea
because whiteman took
all the rest
because father
took all the rest
but the idea which
once you have it
you can't be taken
for somebody else
and have nowhere to go
like indians you can be
stubborn

the idea might move you on,
ponydrag behind
taking all your loves and
children maybe downstream

maybe behind the cliffs
but it hangs there
and idea
like indians
endures

it might even take your
whole village with it
stone by stone
or leave the stones
to find more
to build another village
someplace else

like indians
dykes have fewer and fewer
someplaces else to go
so it gets important
to know
about ideas and
to remember or uncover
the past
and how the people
traveled
all the while remembering
the idea they had
about who they were
indians, like dykes
do it all the time

dykes know about dying
and that everything belongs
to the wind
like indians
they do terrible things
to each other
out of sheer cussedness
out of forgetting
out of despair
so dykes
are like indians
because everybody is related
to everybody
in pain
in terror
in guilt
in blood
in shame
in disappearance
that never quite manages
to be disappeared
we never go away
even if we're always
leaving

because the only home
is each other
they've occupied all
the rest
colonized it; an
idea about ourselves is all
we own

and dykes remind me of indians
like indians dykes
are supposed to die out
or forget
or drink
or shatter
or go away
to nowhere
to remember what will happen
if they don't

they don't anyway
even though the worst happens

they remember and they
stay
because the moon remembers
because so does the sun
because the stars
remember
and the persistent stubborn grass
of the earth

[Arwen]

Be there. Go there now and never leave. Imagine that your dreams have already come true. Live your life from that mindset. Predicate your behavior on that reality, not the illusions that now surround you. Filter every thought, question, and answer from there. Let your focus shift and be born again - because dwelling from, not upon, the space you want to inherit is the fastest way to change absolutely everything.

See the difference?
The Universe from www.tut.com <--highly recommended!

[Arwen]

"Wonder is a state of mind in which... nothing is taken for granted... Each thing is a surprise, being is unbelievable. We are amazed at seeing anything at all; amazed not only at particular values and things but at the unexpectedness of being as such, at the fact that there is being at all." -Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)

[mustangjeano]

"...if your heart is in your dreams,
no request is to extreme
when you wish upon a star
as dreamers do..."

Disney movie, Pinocchio

[Ms. Meander]

Who so loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[CockyDude]

A boy makes his girl jealous of other women.
A gentleman makes other women jealous of his girl.

[Trey339]

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
~Deepak Chopra

[Spirit Dancer]

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Trey339]

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
~Judy Garland

[Daywalker]

"I've never seen the Sun move so slow as the
day I saw it from on top of the Stars"

~ DW ~

:daywalker:

[Miss July]

Gas, Ass or Grass, nobody rides for free

[Liam]

Remember how important a sense of life is to love, and love to life.
Kay Redfield Jamison

[ruffryder]

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[ruffryder]

Life always offers you a second chance, it's called tomorrow.

Be a choice, a reason, a priority, but never an option.

There are things in life that hurt me, but didn't hinder me.

Love is a decision, not an emotion

[Fancy]

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Arwen]

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”
— Tao Te Ching

[Daywalker]

"In times of tragedy, inequality and inhumanity...we all have a voice.
If you've not the spirit to stand tall, then at least have the courage
to stand up. If just 100 people stand up, you would be
surprised at how tall that makes us all..."

~ DW ~

:daywalker:

[VintageFemme]

You are my weakness, you are my strength. Nothing I have in the world, makes better sense. -John Lennon

[Janstevie]

You’re the reason I draw those stupid hearts all over my notebooks.

[Arwen]

Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. -Elbert Hubbard, author, editor, printer

[Jess]

I didn't fly. Driving takes a lot longer and makes the arrival so much more sweet.



Topography

Sharon Olds


After we flew across the country we
got in bed, laid our bodies
delicately together, like maps laid
face to face, East to West, my
San Francisco against your New York, your
Fire Island against my Sonoma, my
New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho
bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas
burning against your Kansas your Kansas
burning against my Kansas, your Eastern
Standard Time pressing into my
Pacific Time, my Mountain Time
beating against your Central Time, your
sun rising swiftly from the right my
sun rising swiftly from the left your
moon rising slowly from the left my
moon rising slowly from the right until
all four bodies of the sky
burn above us, sealing us together,
all our cities twin cities,
all our states united, one
nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[ruffryder]

"What other people think of you, is none of your business."


"To be loved is to be fortunate, to be hated is to achieve distinction."

[ruffryder]

‎"The diamond will surely shine one day even if someone tries to hide its brightness."

[Hollylane]

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom.
By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

The Sutra of Hui Neng

[dixie]

"I"m tired of hearing 'There are plenty of fish in the sea'! Who wants a fish?? They're slimy and they smell!!"

LOL

[Arwen]

"Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings" William Bryant

[WolfyOne]

Why do we always IGNORE those that ADORE us, ADORE those that IGNORE us.
LOVE those that HURT us and HURT those that LOVE us??

Author Unknown

[WolfyOne]

"People of character do the right thing,
not because they think it will change the world,
but because they refuse to be changed by the world."

Anonymous

[SoNotHer]

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become.
And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”

― James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain

http://www.nhojj.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/James-Baldwin.jpg

[Trey339]

Real love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach

[Trey339]

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
~unknown

[Hollylane]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

~Dr. Seuss

[sara-bera]

“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor - if you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.” -Eminem

[Janstevie]

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

[WolfyOne]

My stepmom sent this to me in an email
I thought it was beautiful and the words well written, spot on.



Live A Life That Matters

Ready or not, someday it will all come to an end
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,
will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.
So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from,
or on what side of the tracks you lived, at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built;
not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others
to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

Author - Michael Josephson

[VintageFemme]

I will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time, except for the clocks that people have forgotten to wind and the calendars that people have forgotten to place in a highly visible area. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from skim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog.

-The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket ♥

[Janstevie]

Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

[always2late]

"Great acts are made up of small deeds." - Lao Tzu

[dixie]

"I think maybe at the beginning of life, tiny pieces of your soul are broken up and hidden in things - books, people, cities, hobbies - and maybe life is about trying to collect them all."

[dixie]

Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.


"Dear alcohol,

We had a deal that you would make me smarter, funnier, and a better dancer.

I saw the video.

We need to talk."

[Fancy]

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything.”
― Plato

[cinderella]

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

from 'The English Patient'

[Arwen]

“When you're trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you're even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.” — Alice Domar

[VintageFemme]

‘What’ and ‘if’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be, but put them together side by side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life.

-Letters To Juliet

[Trey339]

The darkness is but shards of light, waiting to be reborn ~

[Fancy]

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

[JAGG]

I have heard it said, you get what you give. So if I received some things I didn't give, is there a return line somewhere?

[JAGG]

"Isn't it interesting that the most deceitful and immoral, will scream the loudest, when a minor injustice happens upon them." - Jan Harding

[JAGG]

"The skewed perceptions, of an irrational mind, can justify anything." - (the Vera Wood files)

[Soon]

“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

--Paul Coelho

[Daywalker]

"...so is it that wages are too low, or living expenses are too high?"

Neither. It's because 1 out of 100 Americans refuse
to throw their pennies into the Fountain, but they're still drinking from it.

~ DW ~

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[sara-bera]

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will." -Oliver Cromwell

[sara-bera]

"I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war, where everyone hugs instead of tugs, where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, where everyone kisses and everyone grins and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins." -Shel Silverstein

[VintageFemme]

beating your wings and feathers you broke free from this cage, rising up to the sky you attained the world of the soul -rumi

[Arwen]

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. -Bill Hicks, comedian and social critic (1961-1994)

[JAGG]

"Some of the biggest mistakes in life are made because you were too afraid to say you changed your mind." - Erin Scott

[sara-bera]

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama

[Janstevie]

There are moments in life when you wish you could bring someone down from Heaven. Spend the day with them just one more time, give them one more hug, kiss them goodbye or hear their voice again. One more chance to say I LOVE YOU.
~Or better yet, remember to say I LOVE YOU now, while you still have the chance.

[SoNotHer]

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

[WomenMoveMe]

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning...without letting them feel the bolt!!

- Unknown -

[Soon]

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

--Aristotle

[sara-bera]

“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts-” -Edgar Allan Poe

[ruffryder]

"Pretty words are not always true, and true words are not always pretty."

[ruffryder]

"I could care less if at times I can't be your number 1 as long as I'm always your only one."

[JustLovelyJenn]

I have been avoiding this thread for a bit... time to come back...

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."
~Dean Acheson

[JustLovelyJenn]

"Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy."
~George William Russell

[SoNotHer]

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

― Anaïs Nin

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[UofMfan]

"Pena ajena" ~ My mom

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Never regret something that made you smile.
~ Unknown

[little_ms_sunshyne]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill

[Soon]

If I could follow you


If I could follow you far away
further off than all you knew
out to the uttermost regions
the world's solitude
where Wintergate* is rolling
its brash, dead trace
and you're looking for a foothold
in overwhelming space

I know - it can't happen.

But when you stagger shivering
blindly baptised
then right across the universe
I will hear your cry
and be your new warmth
and be your new arms
be near you in a different world
of things with unborn names

*The Milky Way

--Karin Boye

[femmedyke]

I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
When rage fills you and has no name: love me.
When each step from your door to our job tires you--
love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.
Love me when you're bored--
when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,
or more pathetic, love me as you always have:
not as admirer or judge, but with
the compassion you save for yourself
in your solitude.
Love me as you relish your loneliness,
the anticipation of your death,
mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.
Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--
and if there is none to recall--
imagine one, place me there with you.
Love me withered as you loved me new.
Love me as if I were forever--
and I, will make the impossible
a simple act,
by loving you, loving you as I do

-Ana Castillo (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27600.Ana_Castillo)

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[VintageFemme]

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[ruffryder]

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."

[Hollylane]

If you don't feel happy and healthy it is very difficult to love someone else.

~William Shatner