Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Trey339]

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

[Butterbean]

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

~Bill Vaughan

[Kätzchen]

"My character was formed by mountaineering. Enduring rainy slopes and cold bivouacs to spend an hour at the top of the world shaped by my ability to handle adversity,"

~ Candace Carpenter
(iVillage Entrepreneur)

[Janstevie]

I'm not single, i'm romantically challenged.

[Diva]

Sarcasm is the weed that spoils our garden.

~Jeff Bridges

[JackMcGrath]

"An unusual amount of common sense is something called wisdom" - Author Unknown

[JackMcGrath]

"Nothing ranks a man so quickly as his skill in selecting things that are really worthwhile. Every day brings the necessity of keen discrimmination. Not always is it a choice between good and bad, but between good and best." - A.P. Gouthey

[Trey339]

Treat each other with respect,
nurture one another
and play well together. The group

[Elijah]

Some days all it takes is a gentle breeze through the car window that carries the scent of lilacs and strokes the side of My face to remind Me what a gift life is.

~ERS

[MissItalianDiva]

Fighting to have your way does not increase your peace. Fighting others about their ways does not increase your peace. Refusing to acknowledge when you have made a mistake does not increase your peace. Going to extraordinary lengths to avoid making a mistake does not increase your peace.

Trusting that you are always doing the very best you can will and does increase your peace.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

You are here:
To gain character as you lose ego
To gain integrity as you lose dishonesty
To gain strength as you lose fear
To gain compassion as you lose disap-pointment
To gain discipline as you lose willfullness
To gain equality as you lose separation
To gain appreciation as you lose resentment
To gain enthusiasm as you lose hostility
To gain tenderness as you lose rigidity
To gain boldness as you lose bitterness
To gain generosity as you lose selfishness
To gain optimism as you lose inadequacy
To gain excitement as you lose embarrassment
To gain gratitude as you lose greed
To gain love as you lose ignorance


~~Iyanla Vanzant

[UofMfan]

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. "~ Marylin Monroe

[SoNotHer]

53

by E. E. Cummings

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
for even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile

[1QuirkyKiwi]

What lies behind us and what lies before us,
Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us! (Author Unknown)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Do not go where the path may lead,
Go instead, where there is no path,
And leave a trail!
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Remember life’s treasures are people and not things. (Author Unknown)

[Janstevie]

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

[Butterbean]

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
-Hartley Coleridge

[UofMfan]

Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el día en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a sí mismos una y otra vez. ~ Grabriel Garcia Marquez

[sara-bera]

"I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being." -Elizabeth Janeway

[puddin']

"you see the person for who he/she is. labels and stereotypes don't matter to you." ~mama t (can i jus' say i adore dis woman!)

[Butterbean]

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

[Truly Scrumptious]

"Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt, and Panic. He has a way of glombing onto your skin like smog, and then you feel unclean. He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years. He is sure a nuisance to get out of the house. He has no respect for locks or curtains or doors. It takes cunning to get rid of him, a combination of anger, humor, and self-respect. A bath helps too. He does not like to get wet. As a last resort, if you are not near a bathtub, wet your face with tears."

~ J. Ruth Gendler

[Ms. Meander]

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
Michael Musto

[Janstevie]

Whoever says money can't buy you happiness does'nt know where to shop.

[SoNotHer]

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~ Anais Nin

[VintageFemme]

Quoting text from today's blog entry at tinybuddha.com (http://tinybuddha.com/blog/create-solutions-not-resolutions/) ... Create Solutions, Not Resolutions: My “solution” for letting go comes in daily reminding myself of the process. I do that using this morning affirmation for self-love:

Today, I accept myself just the way I am.
Today, I accept my body the way it is.
Today, I accept my mind the way it is.
Today, I accept my heart the way it is.
Today, the love I have for myself is so strong that I embrace all that is me.
Self-love transforms my life from fear to joy and guides me to make healthy choices.
Today, I share time with others and easily forgive any injustice I feel in my mind.
Today, all of my relationships are based on respect, love, and joy.
Today, I allow the divine wisdom in me to direct all my thoughts, words, and deeds.
Today, I allow divine love to give me the peace and joy.
Today, I remember I am one with all life, and I give thanks for being me.

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[Butterbean]

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

~Mae West

[MissItalianDiva]

Being in love takes your breath away, while being loveless makes it difficult to breathe. Love can give us strength. It also makes us weak in the knees. In order to experience the full spectrum of love, we must be available to receive; willing to lose; committed to stay; and open to know the truth about ourselves and love. We must live authentically; develop slowly; change radically and, under all circumstances, we must be non-judgmental about the lessons and opportunities to heal and grow that love may offer.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[Arwen]

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. -Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

[Kätzchen]

Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.


~Terri Guillemets


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[Butterbean]

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.


~John Burroughs

[Truly Scrumptious]

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

~Teilhard de Chardin

[Soon]

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

--Alice Munro

[SoNotHer]

Following in the flow of Truly's beautiful quote and in honor of Mr. Tolkien's birthday today, I offer this.

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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

[Butterbean]

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Janstevie]

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when they fill out a job application form.

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

[Kätzchen]

Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the sole of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little then,
afraid to crush my kiss?

-Nichita Stănescu-

[Truly Scrumptious]

"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder."

~ Leonard Cohen

[Passionaria]

"You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?
You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

[Butterbean]

Time is like the wind
That comes in the morning
With a barely palpable caress of the cheek
Rising to a comfortable caress
In its measured passage of the day
Until it rises a sudden gale
Revealing the irrevocability of its power
Trembling our browning leaves
And blowing them to our finality.
~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me,

[Butterbean]

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

[Kent]

‎"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
- Arundhati Roy

[The_Lady_Snow]

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

[Arwen]

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.” — Anne Lamott

[Kent]

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Thoreau

[Kent]

William Parrish: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.

from the movie Meet Joe Black
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[1QuirkyKiwi]

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect…
It means you’ve decided to see beyond imperfections.
(Author Unknown)

[Trey339]

“We meet our soulmates when we’re on our soul path.”

[Butterbean]

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

~Arabian Proverb

[Trey339]

Quit the night,seek the day,,,

[Janstevie]

Some mistakes are just too much fun to only make once.

[spritzerJ]

I am not usually such a sap but I miss home....

"wear your ruby shoes when you are far away
so you will always stay home in your heart."

just so happens I have red patent leather shoes... hmmm...:gimmehug:

[Liam]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

—Albert Einstein

[Trey339]

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
― Hippocrates

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Sunday morning is like Monday morning except with better coffee and less bullshit."

[spritzerJ]

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself” Mahatma Gandhi

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa

“Joy is not in things; it is in us” Richard Wagner

“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.” Kahlil Gibran

“I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.” Ani Difranco

[Truly Scrumptious]

"At times Joy is elusive – she seems to disappear even as we approach her. I see her standing on a ridge covered with oak trees and suddenly the distance between us feels enormous. I am overwhelmed and wonder if the effort to reach her is worth it. Yet she waits for us. Her desire to walk with us is as great as our longing to accompany her."

J. Ruth Gendler

[Butterbean]

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

[Massive]

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles Peguy

I don't debate with liars.
Evo Morales

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

[Ms. Meander]

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid

[Butterbean]

Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...


~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven

[MysticOceansFL]

The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

[Kätzchen]

I found this quote early this morning while I was organizing folders of information I keep and while it's a bit early for an Irish blessing, I can't help but leave it today because it's so beautiful and should be shared any day or any ocassion:
"May you always have warm words on a cool evening,
a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way
to your door."

I don't know who to credit as the author
but someone proposed a toast to me with this beautiful Irish blessing.

[spritzerJ]

So let your light shine, deep into my home

I thought it was hole not home... projection... bad Jenn.

[JAGG]

" What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it." - Ezra Pound

[spritzerJ]

“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

[sara-bera]

"We must bring our own light to the darkness." -Charles Bukowski

[spritzerJ]

““All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.””

Carlos Castaneda

[spritzerJ]

“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.”

Martha Washington

[Butterbean]

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~Chinese Proverb

[Truly Scrumptious]

“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

[UofMfan]

"Escoba nueva barre bien". ~ Spanish proverb.

[spritzerJ]

I am certain a great number of strong women have found themselves in a puddle of their own tears cleansed.

[JAGG]

The value of life lies not in the length of the days,but in the use we make of them.

[JAGG]

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.- Dorothy Parker

[MysticOceansFL]

The Mind is like the Ocean, The mind is like the ocean.
constantly changing and moving.
It can be calm like the picture of the horizon, where the setting sun kisses the blue water.
It can also be as chaotic like the waves crashing in the middle of a violent storm.
The mind is like the ocean.
filled with ideas like many various species of fish. some together in school. others off by themselves.
Some people understand the mind.
Like a surfer who understand the waves. moving with the water.
Others stand back not knowing all one can accomplish.

Like the sunbathers who sit on the shore taking in the picture of the beach but not fully experiencing all the ocean has to offer.
The mind is like the ocean.
constantly changing and moving.
going on forever and ever with no stopping to where it will go.........

[JAGG]

Life is too important to take seriously.

[SoNotHer]

I just shared this Oscar Wilde quote with someone today. It's one of my favorites.

Life is too important to take seriously.

[Janstevie]

After you have heard two eye witness accounts of a car accident it makes you wonder about history.

[sara-bera]

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations." -Vladimir Nabokov

[JAGG]

When striving to achieve a goal, priorities and attention to details,are key factors. If you take care of all the little things, the big things tend to take care of themselves.

[JAGG]

I just shared this Oscar Wilde quote with someone today. It's one of my favorites.


Great minds think alike. ;)

[Butterbean]

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Life is too important to take seriously.

The Managing FD has this quote on his office wall, next to it he has this one: Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway." LOL!

[Massive]

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
- Marc Chagall

For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face
- George Eliot, English novelist

Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
....My mother.
- Ann Taylor

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
- Washington Irving

[Janstevie]

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

[spritzerJ]

bliss is breaking open not breaking down.

[Butterbean]

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

[macele]

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.”

- Aristotle

[Glenn]

"Caresses are only restless transports,
Fruitless attempts of poor love which
essay
The impossible union of Souls by the
bodies."

-Sully Prudhomme

[spritzerJ]

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

[spritzerJ]

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. –Mary Oliver

[ruffryder]

"Be with someone who knows exactly what they have when they have you. Not someone who will realize it when they've lost you."

[JAGG]

Before filling your wheelbarrow, point it in the direction you want to go. - BA Mellow

[JAGG]

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

It was also recently discovered that lab rats were actually born with cancer.

[Arwen]

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

[Butterbean]

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings

[Janstevie]

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this was'nt it.

[Hollylane]

"Until you've held my hand, and looked deeply into my eyes, there will be no vagina monologue."

~Anonymous Oh fuck it, I'm claiming it. That's right, I said it.
~Hollylane

[Passionaria]

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known lose, 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 Ros

[mustangjeano]

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings

Thanks for this. I have always loved e. e. cummings

[Hollylane]

"Talk to the hand, because that's who I'm going home with"

~Anonymous

[Trey339]

Never accept 'maybe' 'if' or 'eventually' as the answer to an important question,,,youre better than that.

[Butterbean]

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~Alex Karras

[spritzerJ]

“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.” -Charles de Lint

“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef”
Tom Robbins

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Eden Phillpotts

[sara-bera]

"Romance is not an idea... but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need." -Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

[Janstevie]

To be is to do - Socrates, To do is to be - Sartre, Do be do be do - Sinatra.

[Butterbean]

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

~W. Somerset Maugham

[sara-bera]

“Their prison is only in their own minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out” -CS Lewis

[sara-bera]

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” -Terry Pratchett

[sara-bera]

"People were created to be loved and things were created to be used.
The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used." -unknown

[MysticOceansFL]

A raindrop coming in contact with fire looses it's existence while that falling on a shell becomes a 'pearl'. Therefore, people desirous of knowledge should avoid the company of ignorant people who believe in the motto- ignorance is bliss

[UofMfan]

Existe un lenguaje que va más allá de las palabras. ~ Paulo Coelho

[JAGG]

You know you are truely happy when, you have to think really hard before wishing upon a star.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Waiho ma te tangata e mihi.
Let someone else acknowledge your virtues.
(Maori Proverb)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Whaia e koe ki te iti kahurangi; ki te tuohu koe, me maunga teitei.
Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain.
(Maori Proverb)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

He toa taumata rau. Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa.
Bravery has many resting places. Let us keep close together, not wide apart.
(Maori Proverb)

[JAGG]

I'm happy because I have no reason not to be.

[Nat]

We've spend a lot of time practicing wanting and having, so it's a wearing away, it's a slow, gradual letting go.

- Andrea Fella, Zencast

[VintageFemme]

if you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward -mlk

[Hollylane]

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Butterbean]

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.


-Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Truly Scrumptious]

"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."

MLK

[WolfyOne]

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

[JAGG]

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill

[Spirit Dancer]

Our attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If it's a cheerful, expectant attitude, it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with the world. You see, we tend to live up to our expectations. And others give to us, as far as their attitudes are concerned, what we expect. Our attitude is something we can control. We can establish our attitude each morning when we start our day--in fact, we do just that, whether or not we realize it. And the people in our family--all the people in our world--will reflect back to us the attitude we present to them. It is, then, our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. Cause and effect. Everything we say or do will cause a corresponding effect. If we're cheerful, glad to be experiencing this miracle of life, others will reflect that good cheer back to us. We are the kind of people others enjoy being around.

Earl Nightingale

[sara-bera]

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw

[jenny]

"Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home." ~ Edith Sitwell

[JAGG]

If you have to remind yourself that it's not so bad, it's because it's not so good either.

[Nat]

You give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, but you teach a man to fish and you've taught him to dream and have big ideas.

- Garrison Keillor

[JAGG]

You give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, but you teach a man to fish and you've taught him to dream and have big ideas.

- Garrison Keillor

I heard a different version of that. Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day, teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and get drunk all day. =)

[Hack]

"When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible." -- Jonathan Safran Foer

[Butterbean]

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
~John Milton, Paradise Lost

[spritzerJ]

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

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of
self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." --Sophia Loren

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

[Butterbean]

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually
and spiritually. ~ Rita Mae Brown

[sara-bera]

"Love never fails." -1 Corinthians 13:8

[Truly Scrumptious]

"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”


~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

[JAGG]

The person who takes no real chances, generally has to take what ever is left when others are through choosing. - Napoleon Hill

[VintageFemme]

The person who takes no real chances, generally has to take what ever is left when others are through choosing. - Napoleon Hill

I love that. Very much.

[Kätzchen]

Sara: What should we toast to?

Hitch: Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.


Hitch (2005).

[Kobi]

It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, if if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

[Spirit Dancer]

The unhappiness we experience is not so much a result of the difficulties encountered along our journey as it is of our misperception of how life instructs us. We may see a failed relationship as an indictment of our self-worth when it is really a lesson in using better judgment, in valuing ourselves more, in expressing greater appreciation for our partner--lessons to prepare us for a more loving and fulfilling union. If we are passed over for a much-anticipated promotion, it may be just the push we need to get more training or to venture out on our own as an entrepreneur. As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

Susan L. Taylor


We ought to do good to others as simply and as naturally as
a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes
season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

[JAGG]

I love that. Very much.

Thanks Vintage. When I read it , it really made me think. Then I thought how true that was about everything in life.

[Fancy]

Life is too short, grudges are a waste of perfect happiness, laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

[Kent]

‎"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

[ruffryder]

"Everything happens for a reason, it's up to you to find the meaning."

[Butterbean]

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
~Japanese Proverb

[macele]

“The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.”
~ Author unknown

[JAGG]

Real generosity is doing something for someone who will never find out.

[JAGG]

There is so substitute for persistence. Failure can not cope with persistence, and will make it's departure. -Andrew Carnegie

[Sassy]

"I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists."
--Stranger in a Strange Land

[Ms. Meander]

I can be inspirational..i can be depressing..i can be extremely selfish..i can be extremely selfless..i can be the happiest person you know..i can be the most down person you know..i could be your everything..but i could never be your nothing.
Jordan Peters

[Fancy]

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ~Ruth Bader Ginsberg

[Butterbean]

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

~Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee, 31 January 1958, also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. (Tom Krause)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. (Lewis Carroll)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. (Morrie Schwartz)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Find a woman who calls you beautiful instead of hot.
Who calls you back when you hang up on her.
Who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep...
Wait for the woman who kisses your forehead and who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats.
Who holds your hand in front of her friends and who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on.
That one woman who is constantly reminding you of how much she cares and how lucky she is to have you.... that one woman who turns to her friends and says: “That's her!”
(Author Unknown)

[Blade]

When you look outside yourself, you can change lives, even your own.

[JustLovelyJenn]

"He who has put forth his total strength in fit action, has the richest return of wisdom."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JustLovelyJenn]

"Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart of any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[ruffryder]

"Invite good things into your life... You'll begin to see more favor coming your way!"

[Janstevie]

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

"He who has put forth his total strength in fit action, has the richest return of wisdom."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

i LOVE this quote......*smiles* ....i can so hear your passion echo as u wrote this...

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness - Robert Brault

[sara-bera]

“The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.” -Sam Cawthorn

[Janstevie]

A smile is the second best thing you can do with your lips.

[Liam]

At any rate, I might pursue some path,
however solitary and narrow and crooked,
in which I could walk with love and reverence.

—Henry David Thoreau

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
(Buddha)

[adorable]

You are tired,
(I think)
Of the always puzzle of living and doing
And so am I.
Come with me, then,
And we’ll leave it far and far away—
(Only you and I, understand!)
You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and—
Just tired.
So am I.
But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight,
And I knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart—
Open to me!
For I will show you places Nobody knows,
And, if you like,
The perfect places of Sleep.
Ah, come with me!
I’ll blow you that wonderful bubble, the moon,
That floats forever and a day;
I’ll sing you the jacinth song
Of the probable stars;
I will attempt the unstartled steppes of dream,
Until I find the Only Flower,
Which shall keep (I think) your little heart
While the moon comes out of the sea.

~e.e. cummings

[Ms. Meander]

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

[pamela]

Sappho

Please
Come back to me, Gongyla, here tonight,
You, my rose, with your Lydian lyre.
There hovers forever around you delight:
A beauty desired.

Even your garment plunders my eyes.
I am enchanted: I who once
Complained to the Cyprus-born goddess,
Whom I now beseech

Never to let this lose me grace
But rather bring you back to me:
Amongst all mortal women the one
I most wish to see.

--Translated by Paul Roche

[Fancy]

"Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others." -Thomas Jefferson

[Butterbean]

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. ~Jim Morrison

[Hack]

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. -- Neruda

[Butterbean]

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. ~Author Unknown

[sara-bera]

"It was in love I was created and in love is how I hope to die." -Paolo Nutini

[Kobi]

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) British economist.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

There is only one success, and that’s to spend your life in your own way.
(Christopher Morley)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Those who have courage and faith will never perish in misery.
(Anne Frank)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I’m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me!
(Zig Ziglar)

*I’ve often been told this quote fits me, perfectly!* LOL!

[Arwen]

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. -Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, dramatist and novelist (1688-1763)

[Kätzchen]

Before enlightenment
I chopped wood and carried water

After enlightenment
I chopped wood and carried water

[adorable]

Long Distance II
by Tony Harrison


Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,
put hot water bottles her side of the bed
and still went to renew her transport pass.

You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone.
He'd put you off an hour to give him time
to clear away her things and look alone
as though his still raw love were such a crime.

He couldn't risk my blight of disbelief
though sure that very soon he'd hear her key
scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief.
He knew she'd just popped out to get the tea.

I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.

[JAGG]

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”- Ben Franklin

[pamela]

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
Drive thru your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue Blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeah

I see your hair is burnin'Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnite alleys roamCops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman...
So alone, so alone
So alone, so alone
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/doors/la+woman_20506553.html ]
Motel Money Murder Madness
Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Got to keep on risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin'
Gone risin', risin'
I'm gone risin', risin'
I gotta risin', risin'
Well, risin', risin'
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'
Woah, ohh yeah

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woah, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman, your my woman
Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman
L.A. L.A. Woman Woman
L.A. Woman c'mon

[JAGG]

“I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon — if I can. I seek opportunity — not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.”- Dean Alfange

[Sassy]

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

[Butterbean]

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ~Mahatma Gandhi

[adorable]

The Conjugation of the Paramecium
by Muriel Rukeyser

This has nothing
to do with
propagating

The species
is continued
as so many are
(among the smaller creatures)
by fission

(and this species
is very small
next in order to
the amoeba, the beginning one)

The paramecium
achieves, then,
immortality
by dividing

But when
the paramecium
desires renewal
strength another joy
this is what
the paramecium does:

The paramecium
lies down beside
another paramecium

Slowly inexplicably
the exchange
takes place
in which
some bits
of the nucleus of each
are exchanged

for some bits
of the nucleus
of the other

This is called
the conjugation of the paramecium.

[Hollylane]

"Y fue a esa edad... Llegó la poesía
a buscarme."

Pablo Neruda, Poesia

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived
in search of me."

Pablo Neruda, Poetry

[JAGG]

"Its great being a blonde. With low expectations , its very easy to surprise people. " - Pamela Anderson

[Janstevie]

Impossible has two letters too many.

[Sassy]

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[adorable]

"although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
noone can quite begin to guess"

[Butterbean]

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren

[Fancy]

I'd make a million trips to his lips if I were a bee because he's sweeter than sugar candy to me.

(said by my friend Jenna)

[Rook]

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

[adorable]

Elie Wiesel on the Freeing of the Nazi Death Camps

That day I encountered the first American soldiers
in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
I remember them well.
Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place,
hell on earth,
where our destiny had been played out.
They looked at us,
just liberated,
and did not know what to do or say.
Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death,
we were empty of all hope—
too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them.
Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness.
And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings
from a wounded and generous humanity.

[MysticOceansFL]

One night I had a wonderous dream, One set of foot prints there was seen, The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord,"What have we here?" Those prints are large and round and neat. But Lord, the are to big for feet. "My child," He said in somber tones, "For miles I carried you alone I challenged you to walk in faith, But you refused and made me wait." "You disobeyed, you would not grow, The walk of faith, you would not know, So I got tired, I got fed up, And there I dropped you on your butt." "Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When one must rise and take a stand, Or leave their butt prints in the sand."


Have a great week end Folks!

[Sachita]

‎"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself."
~ Josh Billings

[Butterbean]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman

[Rook]

“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."

[cinderella]

Heathcliff to Cathy responding to Cathy's comment that her husband loved her:

"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a lifetime, he couldn't love you half as much as I love you in a single day!"

'Wuthering Heights'

[Hack]

Whoever desired each other as we do? Let us look
For the ancient ashes of hearts that burned,
And let our kisses touch there, one by one,
Till the flower, disembodied, rises again.

Let us love that Desire that consumed its own fruit
And went down, aspect and power, into the earth:
We are its continuing light,
Its indestructible, fragile seed.

-- Neruda

[JAGG]

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
~Theodore Parker

[JAGG]

Elie Wiesel on the Freeing of the Nazi Death Camps

That day I encountered the first American soldiers
in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
I remember them well.
Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place,
hell on earth,
where our destiny had been played out.
They looked at us,
just liberated,
and did not know what to do or say.
Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death,
we were empty of all hope—
too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them.
Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness.
And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings
from a wounded and generous humanity.

This is moving and powerful, heartwrenching. I love this. Even though it leaves a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart.

[UofMfan]

A cierta edad, un poco por amor propio, otro poco por picardía, las cosas que más deseamos son las que fingimos no desear. ~ Marcel Proust

[*Anya*]

My profile quote no longer fits. It spoke to me for many years.

My shell has cracked and my icy heart has melted...must find new one that speaks to me of rebirth.

".. Take me...whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat" ~Dorothy Allison

[ruffryder]

"Don't try to understand everything because sometimes its not meant to be understood but to be accepted."

[Hack]

....you may also like Mario Benedetti, though I find not a lot of his stuff is translated. Here's one I read often as a reminder of many things.

FROM THE AFFECTIONS
How to let you know that there is always time?
That one has to look for it and give it to oneself...
That nobody lays down rules, apart from life...
That life without certain rules loses shape...
That shape is not lost when we open up...
That opening ourselves up is not to love indiscriminately...
That it is not forbidden to love...
That we can also hate...
That hate and love are two affections...
That the aggression just because, hurts a lot ...
That the wounds close...
That doors should not be closed...
That the biggest door is affection...
That affections define us...
That defining oneself is not rowing against the tide...
That not the stronger the stroke, the more you draw...
That to look for a balance doesn't mean to be warm...
That refusing words is to open distances...
That meeting is very beautiful...
That sex is part of the beauty of life ...
That life comes from sex...
That the children's asking why, has its reason why...
That wanting to know about someone, is not just curiosity...
That knowing everything about everybody is unhealthy curiosity...
That being thankful never hurts...
That self-determination is not doing things alone...
That nobody wants to be alone...
That so as not to be alone we only have to give...
That in order to give, we have to receive before...
That to be given, we also have to know how to ask...
That giving oneself as a present definitively is not to love oneself…
That to be loved we must show what we are...
That so that someone can be, they have to be helped...
That help is to encourage and support...
That adulation is not support...
That fawning is as pernicious as to turn the face...
That things face to face are honest...
That nobody is honest because they do not steal...
That when there is no pleasure in things you're not living...
That to feel life one must not forget that there is death...
That one can be a living death...
That we feel with the body and the mind...
That we listen with our ears...
That it is hard to be sensitive and not be hurt...
That being hurt is not to bleed to death...
That so as not to be hurt we build walls ...
That it would be better to build bridges...
That across them we go to the other side and no one returns...
That returning does not mean stepping back...
That stepping back may also be to go forward...
That despite going forward and forward, we do not wake up closer to the sun...
How to let you know that that nobody lays down rules, apart from life?

[Hollylane]

Beautiful poem...

I Love You
by Mario Benedetti

(English Translation)

Your hands are my caress
my daily reminders
I love you because your hands
work for justice

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

your eyes are my spell
against a cursed day
I love you for your gaze
that looks and plants the future

your mouth that is yours and mine
your mouth doesn’t lie
I love you because your mouth
knows how to shout rebellion

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

and for your open face
and your wanderer’s footstep
and your weeping for the world
because you are of the people I love you.

and because love is not a halo
nor morality tale
and because we are a couple
that knows it is not alone

I love you in my paradise
which is to say that in my ideal country
people live happily
without even having permission

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Te quiero
~Mario Benedetti

Tus manos son mi caricia
mis acordes cotidianos
te quiero porque tus manos
trabajan por la justicia

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

tus ojos son mi conjuro
contra la mala jornada
te quiero por tu mirada
que mira y siembra futuro

tu boca que es tuya y mía
tu boca no se equivoca
te quiero porque tu boca
sabe gritar rebeldía

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

y por tu rostro sincero
y tu paso vagabundo
y tu llanto por el mundo
porque sos pueblo te quiero

y porque amor no es aureola
ni cándida moraleja
y porque somos pareja
que sabe que no está sola

te quiero en mi paraíso
es decir que en mi país
la gente viva feliz
aunque no tenga permiso

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos.

[Butterbean]

To His Coy Mistress



Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.
Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each Breast.
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An Age at least to every part,
And the last Age should show your Heart.
For Lady you deserve this State;
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv'd Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to durst;
And into ashes all my Lust.
The Grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning glew,
And while thy willing Soul transpires
At every pore with instant Fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our Time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.


Andrew Marvell

[*Anya*]

My profile quote no longer fits. It spoke to me for many years.

My shell has cracked and my icy heart has melted...must find new one that speaks to me of rebirth.

".. Take me...whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat" ~Dorothy Allison

New quote:

"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~

[Butterbean]

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero

[JAGG]

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.
~Sultana Zoraya

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
~John Gay

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
~ G. K. Chesterton

[spritzerJ]

"I always told my girls the hardest thing in life you will have to do is be yourself. So get to it grrrrrrrrrrrrrl."
---Linea (a mom who held my closet door open)

[cinderella]

A furtive tear streams down my cheek, a clenching of teeth at the inhumanity, and indeed, a lump in my throat. Truly a moving and bitter-sweet and passage.


This is moving and powerful, heartwrenching. I love this. Even though it leaves a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart.

[JAGG]

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
~Alfred Adler

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
~ Unknown Author

[adorable]

"I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes." ~James Joyce, Ulysses

[Ms. Meander]

But not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek truth beyond tradition; beyond definition; beyond the image.
Mona Lisa Smile

[Butterbean]

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. ~Walt Disney

[Janstevie]

There's a good chance you dont like me, but an even better chance i dont care.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE...

A set of screwdrivers;
a cordless drill, and
A black lace bra.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE....
One friend who
always makes her Laugh....
And one
who lets her cry.....

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE....
A good piece of furniture
not previously owned by
anyone else in her family....

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE

Eight matching plates;
Wine glasses with stems;
And a recipe for a meal that will
Make her guests feel honoured.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE...
A feeling of control over
Her destiny....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
How to fall in love
without losing herself....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
HOW TO QUIT A JOB;
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
When to try harder....and
WHEN TO WALK AWAY.

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
That she can't change
the length of her calves;
the width of her hips; or
the nature of her parents....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
That her childhood
may not have been
Perfect….but;
it’s over....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
What she would and
Wouldn't
do for love or more....

EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
How to live alone....
even if
She doesn't like it.


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
Whom she can trust;
Whom she can’t,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally.


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW....
Where to go....
Be it to her best friend's kitchen table;
or a charming inn in the woods....
When her soul needs soothing....


EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
What she can and can't accomplish
In a day;
a month;
and a year....

(Author Unknown)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

May your dreams come true….
May you be blessed with all that your heart desires….
May you see that, indeed, some of the universes greatest gifts ARE unanswered prayers….
May hope always be yours….
Live well….
Laugh often….
Love much….
(Author Unknown)

[spritzerJ]

I am a family gy and want nothing more than to....

[Hack]

I LOVE YOU (Te quiero)
Your hands are my caress
my daily reminders
I love you because your hands
work for justice

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

your eyes are my spell
against a cursed day
I love you for your gaze
that looks and plants the future

your mouth that is yours and mine
your mouth doesn’t lie
I love you because your mouth
knows how to shout rebellion

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

and for your open face
and your wanderer’s footstep
and your weeping for the world
because you are of the people I love you.

and because love is not a halo
nor morality tale
and because we are a couple
that knows it is not alone

I love you in my paradise
which is to say that in my ideal country
people live happily
without even having permission

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

-- Mario Benedetti

[JAGG]

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
~Henry Ford


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[adorable]

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.” ~Joan Miró

[Fancy]

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

[JAGG]

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[PinkieLee]

Relax deeply, dream big and believe with all your heart

[JAGG]

Time is the ultimate teacher. Class is in session. Take notes there will be many tests. -
Unknown

[Butterbean]

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin

[purepisces]

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.' ~ Demetri Martin

[purepisces]

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ~ Ninon de L'Enclos

[Truly Scrumptious]

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal.
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

~ Leonard Cohen

[Maria]

KNOWING YOU COULD IS BETTER THAN KNOWING YOU WILL
by Mark Bibbins

I must see you; let’s meet at the fringes of respectability
at quarter past nine. We could straddle the oft-licked
curb (it’s the repetition we like). I promise not to say
anything louche when you buss the backs of my fingers.

What is that noise coming from the other side of the river—
maybe pavement being set perfectly straight or a woozy guitar.
In light like this we become automatic and can reach each other—
what a difficult noise to hold and clearly making love is all that.

Juiced, I’m sure we’re taller than before and don’t miss
what we’ve lost. Meanwhile the streetlights blush
in their globes as if they could tell how the party towed us
along like a chain of rollerblading kids latched onto a bus.

Later let’s go swimming down by the electrical plant
since as you know the water runs out warmest from its pipes.
Bring on the horse tranquilizers
for my listing heart is pecker-fretted, truculent and true.

[adorable]

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.” ~Robert Frost

[JAGG]

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
~Fred G. Gosman

[dixie]

"Know your limitations...and then defy them."

"Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try."

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."

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[adorable]

S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo. ~T.S. Eliot

[Butterbean]

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche

[Sassy]

"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
--Robert A. Heinlein

[JAGG]

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.
~Dan Heist

[Kobi]

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

~ Ayn Rand