Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[tazz]

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann c.1920

[Fancy]

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Horace

[tazz]

http://www.goodmorningandgoodnight.com/images/imsorrythankyou.jpg

***i think sooo many ppl would love to say those words.

[Kätzchen]

This
present moment,
smooth
as a wooden slab,
this
immaculate hour,
this day
pure
as a new cup
from the past--
no spider web
exists--
with our fingers,
we caress
the present;


we cut it
according to our magnitude
we guide
the unfolding of its blossoms.
It is living,
alive--
it contains
nothing
from the unrepairable past,
from the lost past,
it is our
infant,
growing at
this very moment, adorned with
sand, eating from
our hands.
Grab it.
Don't let it slip away.
Don't lose it in dreams
or words.
Clutch it.
Tie it,
and order it
to obey you.
Make it a road,
a bell,
a machine,
a kiss, a book,
a caress.
Take a saw to its delicious
wooden
perfume.
And make a chair;
braid its
back;
test it.
Or then, build
a staircase!


Yes, a
staircase.
Climb
into
the present,
step
by step,
press your feet
onto the resinous wood
of this moment,
going up,
going up,
not very high,
just so
you repair
the leaky roof.
Don't go all the way to heaven.
Reach
for apples,
not the clouds.
Let them
fluff through the sky,
skimming passage,
into the past.


You
are
your present,
your own apple.
Pick it from
your tree.
Raise it
in your hand.
It's gleaming,
rich with stars.
Claim it.
Take a luxurious bite
out of the present,
and whistle along the road
of your destiny.

[sara-bera]

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

[dixie]

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[sara-bera]

"Be curious, not judgmental" -Walt Whitman

[sara-bera]

Believe in
Yourself

[Hollylane]

The Travail Of Passion
by William Butler Yeats


When the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;
When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream;
We will bend down and loosen our hair over you,
That it may drop faint perfume, and be heavy with dew,
Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream.

[CockyDude]

"Real empathy comes from feeling your partner's pain in a real way, and then doing something about it." John Gottman

[persiphone]

"don't let the door hit ya where the good lawd split ya"
~my gramma

she also liked to say....
"i could give two tugs on a dead dog's dick." (her way of saying she didn't care)

so poetic. :)

[Fancy]

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

--Pere Henri, "Chocolat"

[VintageFemme]

via katvond's twitter:

walking through time-dancing through space, the pearl grey moon is wearing your face...

[Liam]

Don't be timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sara-bera]

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." -Aristotle

[sara-bera]

"Today is the most important day of our lives." - Thich Nhat Hanh

[JAGG]

"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

[Diva]

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

~G.B. Stern

[Diva]

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

~George Colman

[Arwen]

Sincerity "The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955

Being sincere is being true to yourself. It is hard work being anything less. It takes a lot more mind games and that can be exhausting. What a terrible waste of energy! Being sincere is being genuine, authentic - and that is the more comfortable way to go. -Lissa Coffey (http://www.coffeytalk.com)

[sara-bera]

“I believe all joy is an extension of gratitude. If we can find something to be thankful for, no matter what’s going on, no matter how small, we can grasp the coattails of joy.” —Xian Horn

[Diva]

‎'Twas Thanksgiving Night and all through the house
Diva brought in decorations (Cuz she had no spouse!).

The creatures were hiding all under the bed
lest Mommy drop Santas right onto their heads!

And I in my garage and finding it all,
settled in for an evening of decking the Halls! ;-)

When what to my wandering eyes did appear?
A big red full box I thought I'd lost last year!

With goodies and glitter and all things that shone,
I brought them all into my sweet~scented home!

Now Angels! Now Spangles! Now garlands and feathers!
On stars and on snowflakes, let's make it much better!

With box wine in hand, I stood up and admired
a cute little Ricky climbing higher and higher!

He was chubby and plump, a right sneaky fat cat
And I laughed as I reached for the water ~ "You! SCAT!"

I gathered the totes, lighter now than before,
And squealed, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" as I slammed the back door!


~Diva

[Arwen]

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. -Bradley Miller, activist (b. 1956)

[sara-bera]

To myself I am only a child on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

[Hollylane]

Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn't have the power to say Yes.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[Scuba]

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...

Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth...

Jurrasic Park

[UofMfan]

No pretendas ser bravo cuando basta ser inteligente. ~ Paulo Coelho

[sara-bera]

“I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” -Rabindranath Tagore

[weatherboi]

“The best beer is where priests go to drink. For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King.”

William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale

[Fancy]

“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”

― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[Trey339]

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

[SoNotHer]

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

[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

[MissItalianDiva]

‎"Taking a breath, considering what outcome we truly desire and breaking the urge to respond from emotion is a habit worth forming." ~ Tamara Kerner

Love it! Been a hard and long lesson for me but I think I FINALLY have a grasp on this.

[macele]

Well honey, I say that if something is making you say 'yum' and it makes your tummy happy, then it ain't bad for you. Butter is just a little stick of smiles and happiness. -- Paula Deen

[MissItalianDiva]

Well honey, I say that if something is making you say 'yum' and it makes your tummy happy, then it ain't bad for you. Butter is just a little stick of smiles and happiness. -- Paula Deen

LMAO thank you for that. I absolutely LOVE Paula Deen. She is a doll!

[sara-bera]

"When the ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, beautiful." - from the little tag on my tea

[Janstevie]

TRUST? .. Years to earn, seconds to break.

[MissItalianDiva]

Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things that you are doing. Focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

Iyanla Vanzant

[-Red-Flag-]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

[VintageFemme]

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. -Haruki Murakami

[VintageFemme]

you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star -nietzsche

i like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. this is the night, what it does to you. i had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion -jack kerouac

[these are my favourite quotes ... ever]

[SoNotHer]

I love the Kerouac quote. Thank you...


you must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star -nietzsche

i like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. this is the night, what it does to you. i had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion -jack kerouac

[these are my favourite quotes ... ever]

[Diva]

Happy 176th Birthday, Mark Twain!

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.

~Mark Twain, from Notebook, 1898

[Fancy]

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Audrey Hepburn

[-Red-Flag-]

if i love You
(thickness means
worlds inhabited by roamingly
stern bright faeries

if you love
me) distance is mind carefully
luminous with innumerable gnomes
Of complete dream

if we love each (shyly)
other, what clouds do or Silently
Flowers resembles beauty
less than our breathing


ee cummings

[MissItalianDiva]

Beloveds, invest your time, energy and attention in working to bring about the things that you desire to experience. When you are confronted by something that challenges what you are working toward, do not be against it! Allow other things to exist. Simply choose to put your attention elsewhere.

Iyanla Vanzant

[UofMfan]

“To find yourself, think for yourself. " ~ Socrates

[MysticOceansFL]

That time of year's come 'round again,
So we wish you all the best.
The joy that comes from knowing you
Makes us feel that we've been blessed.



So we'll share with you our feelings
At this special time of year:
May your holidays be a delight,
Filled with happiness and cheer.



Happy Holidays!

[always2late]

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

[Fancy]

"whatever the obstacles, be true to yourself"
-Candy Darling

[Arwen]

[FONT=GEORGIA]My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) [/SIZE]

[MissItalianDiva]

If you are waiting for something to happen before you begin what you want to do, it will never happen. If you are waiting for the right time, the right person, the right circumstances, you could be waiting forever. How about this, what can you do right now? Whatever you can do, you better do it now. Now is all you have to work with.

Iyanla Vanzant

[kannon]

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road!

[Diva]

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

~Jacqueline Bisset

[Fancy]

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Billy Joel

[Diva]

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

~Irish Saying

[Sassy]

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

[VintageFemme]

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr. Seuss

[jac]

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes." -Vince Fontaine :koolaid:

[Fancy]

“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.”
-Brian Andreas

[Scuba]

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

Wayne Dyer

[ruffryder]

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings." Lao Tzu

[persiphone]

“He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.”
― Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein


and.....


“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[JackMcGrath]

"To dream anything that you want to dream - that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything you want to do - that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits - that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/music_takes_us_out_of_the_actual_and_whispers_to/224236.html)”

[ruffryder]

"The ultimate measures of a man is where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Nurse Darlin]

I think about you night and day
The tears continue to fall like rain
My heart feels like its been broken
My life will never be the same

I hurt when I think of your smiling face
That you've been taken feels unreal
I try hard to continue on with life
It's not easy when pain is all I feel

You were taken from us so quickly
I never got to say goodbye
It doesn't seem fair that you were called
Gods unforeseen plan only makes me cry

I should have said "I love you" more
Know, Big Brother, that I do so deep
I should rejoice that you are in Heaven
No hang my head and weep

Although I know that you're better off
It hurts now that we're apart
No matter where life takes me now
Michael, you'll always be in my heart

In memory of my big brother, Michael Allen
June 12, 1972-October 19, 2011

[HoustonHuny]

Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream.
That's how I get by.

But why is the rum gone?! - Captain Jack Sparrow

[JackMcGrath]

"Character is never erected on a neglected conscience." - Author Unknown

[MissItalianDiva]

It can be challenging to forgive someone. The hardest person to forgive may be you. At times, it is hard to believe that you can forgive yourself; that you deserve to be forgiven or, that you are worthy of forgiveness. When you forgive yourself for believing you deserve to be punished, growth occurs, learning takes place and healing is the result. When you forgive yourself you release fear, eliminating the possibility that fear will continue to control your behavior.

~~Iyanla Vanzant


What is prosperity? A mental state. A functional attitude that draws to you an abundance of every great thing. How do you get prosperity? Expect it. Always ask for the highest and best; never doubt that it will come.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[Diva]

Don't try to be better than someone else. Try to be better than who you were yesterday.

~Johni Pangalila

[MissItalianDiva]

When you see crazy coming....cross the street!

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[JackMcGrath]

I've found Today
I've shut the door on Yesterday,
Its sorrows and mistakes;
I've locked within its gloomy walls
Past Failures and heartaches.
And now I throw the key away
To see another room,
And furnish it with hope and smiles
And every springtime bloom.

No thought shall enter this abode
That has a hint of pain,
And worry, malice and distrust
Shall never therein reign.
I've shut the door on Yesterday
And thrown the key away ---
The Future holds no doubt for me,
Since I have found today.

---- Author Uknown

[purepisces]

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

[purepisces]

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? ~ Robert Brault

[purepisces]

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. ~ Robert Brault,

[ruffryder]

"Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it`s about starting over and creating something better."

[Janstevie]

I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.

[cinderella]

It's not how low you fall, but how fast you get back up.
~me

[cinderella]

I'm too lazy to check back...

"Poverty is the worse form of violence."
~Mahatma Ghandi

[cinderella]

...especially when they're taken by people who annoy me."

~Noel Coward

[JAGG]

Forgiveness doesn't stop the pain.
Forgiveness doesn't erase a memory.
Forgiveness doesn't fade a scar.
Forgiveness doesn't heal a wound.
Forgiveness doesn't unbreak a heart.
Forgiveness doesn't repair what was destoyed.
Forgiveness doesn't answer any nagging questions.
Forgiveness doesn't ease the grieving or loss.
Forgiveness can't return what was taken.
Forgiveness simply removes anger from the equation.

[Diva]

When she shall die
Take her and cut her out in little stars
And she will make the face of heav'n so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[JackMcGrath]

"Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Kätzchen]

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

~Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

[sara-bera]

"Failing to value the lives of others cheapens your own."

[UofMfan]

"Every person with whom we seemingly have a chance encounter while here upon this planet has the potential of exerting a purely angelic influence upon us if we will but allow it.” ~ Jerry Hicks

[MissItalianDiva]

Regardless what you may know, believe or have experienced in the name of love, loving you is an essential ingredient for experiencing and expressing love to others. Loving you means holding yourself with unconditional positive regard. It means giving yourself the time and space to make poor choices and bad decisions, knowing that you are learning and growing through it all. When you love on you, when you trust you, when you honor you, you set the standard for how others will love you. ~-Iyanla Vanzant



‎"When you love on you, when you trust you, when you honor you, you set the standard for how others will love you." -Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

"Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your money.
Don't waste your love , on mediocrity." -Keys to Happiness

[Diva]

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

~Dalai Lama

[Diva]

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

~Francois Muriac

[sara-bera]

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -R. Buckminster Fuller

[always2late]

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."~ Timothy Bentley

[SoNotHer]

Don't fight forces, use them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[JackMcGrath]

"A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive it without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich and mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. A smiles creates a happienss in a home, fosters goodwill in business and is the countersign in friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give." -Author Unknown

[Butterbean]

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."


~Author Unknown

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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).

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow, or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. (Unknown Author)

[MissItalianDiva]

Always expect the best. No matter what you have experienced before, expect the best where you are and from whom you are within the moment. Refuse to thread your future through your past! Live the moment in the moment without carrying a heap of baggage into the possibilities of the moment.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[Scuba]

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” Kahlil Gibran

Edited to add that a good friend of mine posted this on her Facebook and I thought is it was beautiful :)

[Scuba]

"When you have the choice whether to right or be kind...choose to be kind." Wayne Dyer

PS...thanks C- for posting this :)

[Scuba]

Last but not least...

"When we care too much about the opinions of others we willingly become their prisoners."

Unknown

[tazz]

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” Kahlil Gibran

Edited to add that a good friend of mine posted this on her Facebook and I thought is it was beautiful :)

***awww that is Very endearing... Thank you for sharing scubadyke! :)

[JackMcGrath]

"A bell is not a bell until you ring it;
A song is not a song until you sing it.
Love in your heart is not put their to stay;
Love is not love until you give it away." - Oscar Hammerstein II

[Arwen]

Young souls use pain to learn how things are.
Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be.
And old souls use pain to learn how else they might be.

The Universe

[Butterbean]

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

[1QuirkyKiwi]

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
(Maya Angelou)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
(Albert Einstein)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
(Anaïs Nin)

[persiphone]

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

[MysticOceansFL]

" HEART TO HEART"
Heart to heart we must live
With no stress nor strain
And with no limit but in infinity
As our hearts mingle and co-join

Heart to heart we shall dwell
And pay no rent to any landlord
We shall have peace of the soul
And no hindrance shall hinder

ByRalph Maduike

[kannon]

Why! all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain:
As, painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth, while truth the while
Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.

Shakespear - Love's Labor's Lost

[UofMfan]

“La Magia te permite ir del mundo visible hacia el invisible. Y aprender las lecciones de ambos mundos" ~ Paulo Coelho

[persiphone]

"Escóndeme en tus brazos
por esta noche sola,
mientras la lluvia rompe
contra el mar y la tierra
su boca innumerable."
~ Pablo Neruda

*love*

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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

[JackMcGrath]

"Courage isnt a brlliant dash;
A daring deed in a moment's flash;
It isn't an instantaneous thing
Born of despair with a sudden spring.
But it's something deep in the soul of man
That is working always to serve some plan."

- Edgar A. Guest

[The JD]

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

[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

[JackMcGrath]

"The trouble with letting people know where you stand is that you become a stationary target." - Marlys Huffman

"Don't just stand there - undo something!!!" - Author Unknown

[sara-bera]

"Yesterday is a tree with great spreading branches, and I [sit] low in its shade, remembering." -Pablo Neruda

[UofMfan]

"Cada loro en su estaca" ~ Colombian saying

[Hollylane]

Three for the Mona Lisa
by John Stone

1

It is not what she did
at 10 o'clock
last evening

accounts for the smile

It is
that she plans
to do it again

tonight.

2

Only the mouth
all those years
ever

letting on.

3

It's not the mouth
exactly

it's not the eyes
exactly either

it's not even
exactly a smile

But, whatever,
I second the motion.

[sara-bera]

“The highest price you can pay for a thing is to ask for it.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sara-bera]

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

[sara-bera]

“All good things are wild, and free.” -Henry David Thoreau

[Soon]

“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
― Amy Sedaris

:vigil:

[Diva]

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

~Charles M. Schulz

[Scuba]

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.


I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?


Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[JackMcGrath]

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." - George Herbert

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." - Victor Hugo <3

[jenny]

"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Duchess]

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand."

~Irish blessing

[persiphone]

"Tengo hambre de tu boca, de tu voz, de tu pelo
y por las calles voy sin nutrirme, callado,
no me sostiene el pan, el alba me desquicia,
busco el sonido líquido de tus pies en el día.

Estoy hambriento de tu risa resbalada,
de tus manos color de furioso granero,
tengo hambre de la pálida piedra de tus uñas,
quiero comer tu piel como una intacta almendra.

Quiero comer el rayo quemado en tu hermosura,
la nariz soberana del arrogante rostro,
quiero comer la sombra fugaz de tus pestañas

y hambriento vengo y voy olfateando el crepúsculo
buscándote, buscando tu corazón caliente
como un puma en la soledad de Quitratúe."


~Pablo Neruda


mmmmmmmmm......

[Fancy]

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

Gustave Flaubert

[Butterbean]

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

[JackMcGrath]

"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a lighter ray." - Oliver Goldsmith



"The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling." - Alfred Bunn

[UofMfan]

"La vida no está hecha de deseos y sí de los actos de cada uno." ~ Paulo Coelho

[sara-bera]

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live." -Robert A. Heinlein

[Diva]

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

~Graham Greene

[Diva]

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

~Wayne Dyer


Addendum........
...or bores.

~Moi

[Bootsandheels]

Not Here

There's courage involved if you want
to become truth. There is a broken-

open place in a lover. Where are
those qualities of bravery and sharp

compassion in this group? What's the
use of old and frozen thought? I want

a howling hurt. This is not a treasury
where gold is stored; this is for copper.

We alchemists look for talent that
can heat up and change. Lukewarm

won't do. Halfhearted holding back,
well-enough getting by? Not here.

From Soul of Rumi
by Coleman Barks

[Diva]

One good thing about music, when it hits You, You feel no pain.

~Bob Marley

[JAGG]

"It's fine to celebrate success, but it's more important to heed the lessons for failure.

[Kätzchen]

Sad Madrigal


i

What do you care if you are wise?
Be beautiful and Sad! For tears
Add an enchantment to the eyes
Just as a river mirrors the skies;
A storm revives the flowers.

I love you most when happiness
Deserts your countenance O’er cast;
When terrors do your heart oppress;
When, overheard, and ominous,
There spreads the dark cloud of the past.

I love you when your eyes let fall
A rain of tears as warm as blood;
When, though my hands caress and lull’;
Your pain is irresistible,
Like moaning at infinitude.

I love, divine felicity!
Anthem profound and exquisite!
Your sobs, your heartfelt misery,
And think your heart shines brilliantly
With pearls shed by your eyes so bright!

ii

I know that now your heart still seems
With old uprooted passions;
Still, like a forge, it flares and flames,
And in your heart burns still, it seems,
The faint pride of damnation.

But till your dreams, beloved one,
Have been reflections of Hell,
Till in a nightmare never done,
Thinking of poison, falchion,
In love with powder, shot and steel,

And opening to all with fear,
Seeking misfortune everywhere,
And stricken when the hour draws near,
You’ve been the helpless prisoner
Of irresistible despair:

You won’t be able helot queen
Who loves me only quivering,
In the long horrid night obscene
To tell me, overcome with pain:
‘I am your equal, o my King!’



The Spiritual Dawn

When the white and rosy dawn rakes appears
With the Ideal that ever gnaws away
By some strange and avenging agency
Within the sleeping brute an angel stirs.

The man afflicted who dreams on in pain
See the remote and spiritual skies
Open alluring, deep as the abyss.
So, lovely goddess, bright and heaven born,
Upon the smoky debris of excess
Your memory more charming, roseate, bright,
Hovers without end in my eager sight.

The sunlight does the candlelight surpass;
So, ever conquering, your benison,
Resplendent soul, is like the deathless sun!


The Cat

Come, Lovely cat, my heart is amorous;
Draw in your claws for me.
And let me gaze into your splendid eyes,
Flecked with Chalcedony.

When, gently, leisurely, my hands caress
Your head, your tensile back,
And grow intoxicated with the bliss,
The Aphrodisiac,

I see my mistress in my mind. Her glance,
Like yours, endearing beast,
Cold, searching, cuts and shivers like a lance,

Aromas sweet invest –
A subtle air, a perilous perfume –
Her body cinnamon.

[Butterbean]

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

~Anonymous

[Butterbean]

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.


~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur

[The_Lady_Snow]

“A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_friend_is_someone_who-upon_seeing_another/7136.html)”

[JackMcGrath]

"One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them." - Dean Rusk

"It takes courage to stand up and speak, as well as to sit down and listen." - Author Unknown

[stonebutchinpa]

- Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth. And remember, it’s not the people that stand by your side when you’re at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when you’re at your worst that are your true friends. -

[UofMfan]

Poema 13


He ido marcando con cruces de fuego
el atlas blanco de tu cuerpo.
Mi boca era una araña que cruzaba escondiéndose.
En ti, detrás de ti, temerosa, sedienta.

Historias que contarte a la orilla del crepúsculo,
muñeca triste y dulce, para que no estuvieras triste.
Un cisne, un árbol, algo lejano y alegre.
El tiempo de las uvas, el tiempo maduro y frutal.

Yo que viví en un puerto desde donde te amaba.
La soledad cruzada de sueño y de silencio.
Acorralado entre el mar y la tristeza.
Callado, delirante, entre dos gondoleros inmóviles.

Entre los labios y la voz, algo se va muriendo.
Algo con alas de pájaro, algo de angustia y de olvido.
Así como las redes no retienen el agua.
Muñeca mía, apenas quedan gotas temblando.
Sin embargo, algo canta entre estas palabras fugaces.
Algo canta, algo sube hasta mi ávida boca.
Oh poder celebrarte con todas las palabras de alegría.
Cantar, arder, huir, como un campanario en las manos de un loco.
Triste ternura mía, qué te haces de repente?
Cuando he llegado al vértice más atrevido y frío
mi corazón se cierra como una flor nocturna.

~ Pablo Neruda

[persiphone]

Tus Manos

Cuando tus manos salen,
amor, hacia las mías,
¿qué me traen volando?
¿Por qué se detuvieron
en mi boca, de pronto,
por qué las reconozco
como si entonces, antes,
las hubiera tocado,
como si antes de ser
hubieran recorrido
mi frente, mi cintura?
Su suavidad venía
volando sobre el tiempo,
sobre el mar, sobre el humo,
sobre la primavera,
y cuando tú pusiste
tus manos en mi pecho,
reconocí esas alas
de paloma dorada,
reconocí esa greda
y ese color de trigo.
Los años de mi vida
yo caminé buscándolas.
Subí las escaleras,
crucé los arrecifes,
me llevaron los trenes
las aguas me trajeron,
y en la piel de las uvas
me pareció tocarte.

La madera de pronto
me trajo tu contacto,
la almendra me anunciaba
tu suavidad secreta,
hasta que se cerraron
tus manos en mi pecho
y allí como dos alas
terminaron su viaje

~Pablo Neruda


and more *le sigh*

[Fancy]

Don't dream it, be it.

~Frank
RHPS

[WolfyOne]

I think we've all been here at one time or another.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison

[Kätzchen]

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5018/5413551665_ec761637c9_z.jpg

[Gentle Tiger]

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Keonig

[Butterbean]

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

~Vicki Baum

[Arwen]

“The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.” — Martha Beck

[always2late]

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Muriac

[sara-bera]

"Be humble for you are made of the earth, be noble for you made of the stars." -Serbian Proverb

[Ms. Meander]

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman

[Fancy]

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

Vanna White

[UofMfan]

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”~ Marilyn Monroe

[Butterbean]

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

~Bill Watterson

[Kätzchen]

"I both actively and passively participate in being [...] that my uniqueness is a given but it simultaneously exits only to the degree to which I actualize my uniqueness because I am actual and irreplaceable I must actualize my uniqueness," ~ M.M. Bakhtin

(reference)

Liapunov, V. & Holquist, M. (Eds.) (1993). Mikhail M. Bakhtin's Toward a philosophy of the act. Translated by: Vadim Liapunov. Austin, TX: Austin Texas University Press.

[JAGG]

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you will be successful."

[bbdoll]

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

[Diva]

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

~Lawrence Block

[Diva]

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

~Swedish Proverb

[1QuirkyKiwi]

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I do not regret one moment of my life. (Lillie Langtry)

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
(John Burroughs)

It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[Fancy]

Someday, we'll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe, and love all over again.

[JackMcGrath]

"Have courage for the great sorrows of live and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task; go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

[Butterbean]

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~Joseph Campbell

[Diva]

Ya know?
I've lost a child.
So anything ~ and I mean ANYTHING one can say about or do to me is pretty fucking insignificant, really.

~Me

[Diva]

We are all worms.
But I do believe that I am a glowworm.

~Winston Churchill

[Kätzchen]

Ya know?
I've lost a child.
So anything ~ and I mean ANYTHING one can say about or do to me is pretty fucking insignificant, really.

~Me

I share the same sentiment as you Diva!

my favorite by Mary Tyler Moore:
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

[Novelafemme]

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham

[puddin']

"live fully, love openly and make a difference." ~makia white

[Novelafemme]

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons

[JackMcGrath]

Ya know?
I've lost a child.
So anything ~ and I mean ANYTHING one can say about or do to me is pretty fucking insignificant, really.

~Me



Amen, Diva, amen.

[JackMcGrath]

Someday, we'll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time. After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our life which shows how well we ran the race. So smile, laugh, forgive, believe, and love all over again.

nods. Truth. Thank you fancy.

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
- Julia Roberts

[Janstevie]

One of the things that hurt the most is loving someone who use to love you.

[Janstevie]

Keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

[Diva]

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. 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

[Diva]

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

~Jacqueline Bisset

[Butterbean]

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882

[persiphone]

La nuit descend

La nuit descend
On y pressent
Un long destin de sang

~Guillaume Apollinaire

[persiphone]

"Olivia’s theory was that you could divide women into two types: those who were on the Girls’ Team, and Undercover Bitches. If a woman was on the Girls’ Team, she could be as beautiful, intelligent, rich, famous, sexy, successful and as popular as fuck, and you’d still like her. Women on the Girls’ Team had solidarity. They were conspiratorial and brought all their fuck-ups to the table for everyone to enjoy. Undercover Bitches were competitive: they showed off, tried to put others down to make themselves look good, lacked humour and a sense of their own ridiculousness, said things which sounded okay on the surface but were actually designed to make you feel really bad, couldn’t bear it when they weren’t getting enough attention, and they flicked their hair. Men didn’t get all this. They thought women took against each other because they were jealous. Quite tragic, really."

~ Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

*loves*

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

love is louder!

[Passionaria]

If you don't worship your body, neither will anybody else. ~Rachel Welch

With that I'm dragging my bootie to the gym. Have a great week all.....

[Just_G]

This is for you Snacky! :winky: I am always a phone call away, and always here if you need me!

"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." ~Douglas Pagels~

[JackMcGrath]

"Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment." - Grenville Kleider

[Nadeest]

Standing in
This dangnabbed line;
It does no good
To cry and whine.
We have to wait,
Its plain to see.
“Bloody hell!!”
I’ve got to pee!

03/24/2010 by Terry King

[Arwen]

“First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus

[Janstevie]

Never dull your shine for someone else.

[Kätzchen]

She was morning
And I was night time
I one day woke up
To find her lying
Beside my bed
I softly said
"Come take me"
For I've been lonely
In need of someone
As though I'd done
Someone wrong somewhere
I don't know where
Come lately

You are the sun
I am the moon
You are the words
I am the tune
Play me

~Neil Diamond (1972), Play Me

[Butterbean]

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

~Plato

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"if i can't dance i don't want to be a part of your revolution"

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"no one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure"
Emma Goldman

[jenny]

"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour." ~ John Boswell

[Butterbean]

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.

~Dennis Miller

[Diva]

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

~Benjamin Franklin

[Diva]

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.


~Calvin Coolidge

[puddin']

"yes, virginia, there is a santa claus. he exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist." ~ francis p. church, first published in the new york sun in 1897

[JackMcGrath]

"Don't let your pride become inflitated - you may have to swallow it someday." - Author Unknown

"Temper is what gets most of us in trouble, pride is what keeps us there." Author Unknown

[Duchess]

"Following your passion is the best way to lead a fruitful life. (http://www.great-quotes.com/quote/80498)(f)
Jeffrey Benjamin (http://www.great-quotes.com/quotes/author/Jeffrey/Benjamin)

[persiphone]

"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

~Mahatma Gandhi

[persiphone]

"I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."

~Bette Davis

[Butterbean]

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

[JustLovelyJenn]

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. ~Terri Guillemets

[JustLovelyJenn]

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee. ~Terri Guillemets

tims coffee? :D

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"home is where the heart is"

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller


i love this.....and this one...

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

[JustLovelyJenn]

tims coffee? :D

YES!!!!! I am addicted to Tims... and I blame you...

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

YES!!!!! I am addicted to Tims... and I blame you...

...as you wish *winks*

[JackMcGrath]

"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

[JackMcGrath]

Ah! why, because the dazzling sun
Restored our Earth to joy,
Have you departed, every one,
And left a desert sky?

All through the night, your glorious eyes
Were gazing down in mine,
And, with a full heart's thankful sighs,
I blessed that watch divine.

I was at peace, and drank your beams
As they were life to me;
And revelled in my changeful dreams,
Like petrel on the sea.

Thought followed thought, star followed star
Through boundless regions on;
While one sweet influence, near and far,
Thrilled through, and proved us one!

Why did the morning dawn to break
So great, so pure a spell;
And scorch with fire the tranquil cheek,
Where your cool radiance fell?

Blood-red, he rose, and arrow-straight,
His fierce beams struck my brow;
The soul of nature sprang, elate,
But mine sank sad and low.

My lids closed down, yet through their veil
I saw him, blazinig, still,
And steep in gold the misty dale,
And flash upon the hill.

I turned me to the pillow, then,
To call back night, and see
Your words of solemn light, again,
Throb with my heart, and me!

It would not do - the pillow glowed,
And glowed both roof and floor;
And birds sang loudly in the wood,
And fresh winds shook the door;

The curtains waved, the wakened flies
Were murmuring round my room,
Imprisoned there, till I should rise,
And give them leave to roam.

O stars, and dreams, and gentle night;
O night and stars, return!
And hide me from the hostile light
That does not warm, but burn;

That drains the blood of suffering men;
Drinks tears, instead of dew;
Let me sleep through his blinding reign,
And only wake with you!

[sara-bera]

"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I am always in your heart. If you hate me, I am always in your mind." -William Shakespeare

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"Maybe you don’t think that it’s possible for someone to love you without conditions, but I do.” - the l word

[sara-bera]

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu

[UofMfan]

"Feed my curiosity and you will have my attention
Feed my hunger and you will have my gratitude
Feed my brain and you will have me intrigued and captivated
Feed my soul and you will have my love
Feed all four and you will have me forever." ~ C.S.

[Janstevie]

How To Cook A Turkey:

First, buy the turkey and a bottle of vodka. Pour yourself a glass of vodka and put the turkey in the oven. Take another 2 drinks of vodka, and set the degree at 375 ovens. Have 3 more vodka of drink and turn the oven on. Take 4 of vodka drinky and turk the bastey. Stick a turkey in the thermometer, and glass yourself a pour of vodka. Bake the vodka for 4 hours, take the oven out of the turkey, and floor the turkey up off the pick. Pour yourself another glass of turkey. Now just tet the sable, and turk the carvey.

[JackMcGrath]

"There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of the events will make the decision." - Herbert V. Prochnow

[JackMcGrath]

"No one learns to make right decisions without being free to make wrong ones." - Author Unknown

[Butterbean]

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

~Oren Arnold

[persiphone]

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

~Clement Clarke Moore

[SoNotHer]

"For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you."

John Greenleaf Whittier

[UofMfan]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. ~ English Proverb.

[Arwen]

"It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not." by Denis Waitley

[Butterbean]

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

~Stanley Baldwin

[Kätzchen]

One kind word can warm three winter months
Japanese proverb

[Diva]

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

~Oprah Winfrey

[Diva]

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

~Brooks Atkinson

[mustangjeano]

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." Issac Newton

[jenny]

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." ~ John Lennon

[SoNotHer]

“The less conscious one is of being 'a writer,' the better the writing.”

—Pico Iyer

[Fancy]

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

[Butterbean]

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

~Carl Jung

[Janstevie]

I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.

[Truly Scrumptious]

"I stopped thinking about the big picture a long time ago. I only think about the individual drops of paint and how to maintain the integrity of each color before it hits the canvas."

Tawni O'Dell

[UofMfan]

"Lo más importante que aprendí a hacer después de los cuarenta años fue a decir no cuando es no." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

[kittygrrl]

"To Speak or NOT to Speak"
If it is not truthful and not helpful don't say it
If it is Truthful and not helpful don't say it.
If it is Not truthful and helpful don't say it
If it is both Truthful and Helpful ...Wait for the right time"

Buddhist Quote

[kittygrrl]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt

[Arwen]

“The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.”
— Tom Shadyac

[Truly Scrumptious]

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott

[Fancy]

‎"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." ~Michael Cibenko

[Trey339]

Be gentle with each other,,,