Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[ruffryder]

Sometimes you have to leave your comfort zone to grow. Its not up to anyone else but yourself to do this.


"If you have the spirit of understanding everything and taking it in a positive way you will enjoy every second of life whether it is pleasure or pressure."



"Some people think
I say inappropriate
things......
I prefer
to think of it as,
radical honesty."

[spritzerJ]

“Home is not where you live, but where they understand you”
Christian Morganstern

“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
Charles Dickens

“Home, the spot of earth supremely blessed, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest”
Robert Montgomery

[Butterbean]

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.”
Albert Einstein

“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
Sophocles

[Kobi]

“Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”

― G.K. Chesterton

[Duchess]

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
― Bob Marley (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25241.Bob_Marley)(f)

[adorable]

TRUE LOVE
by Wisława Szymborska

True love. Is it normal,
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions, but convinced
it had to happen this way--in reward for what? For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not others?
Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn't it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn't they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends' sake!
Listen to them laughing--it's an insult.
The language they use--deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines--
it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back!

It's hard even to guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? what renounced?
Who'd want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

[feminality]

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
― Marilyn Monroe: :blueheels:

[JAGG]

The other line always moves faster.-Etorre's Observation

If you hit two keys at the same time on the keyboard, the one you don't want is the one that shows up on the screen.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.- Ogden's Law

[Massive]

The Lark Ascending

He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
All intervolv’d and spreading wide,
Like water-dimples down a tide
Where ripple ripple overcurls
And eddy into eddy whirls;
A press of hurried notes that run
So fleet they scarce are more than one,
Yet changingly the trills repeat
And linger ringing while they fleet,
Sweet to the quick o’ the ear, and dear
To her beyond the handmaid ear,
Who sits beside our inner springs,
Too often dry for this he brings,
Which seems the very jet of earth
At sight of sun, her music’s mirth,
As up he wings the spiral stair,
A song of light, and pierces air
With fountain ardor, fountain play,
To reach the shining tops of day,
And drink in everything discern’d
An ecstasy to music turn’d,
Impell’d by what his happy bill
Disperses; drinking, showering still,
Unthinking save that he may give
His voice the outlet, there to live
Renew’d in endless notes of glee,
So thirsty of his voice is he,
For all to hear and all to know
That he is joy, awake, aglow,
The tumult of the heart to hear
Through pureness filter’d crystal-clear,
And know the pleasure sprinkled bright
By simple singing of delight,
Shrill, irreflective, unrestrain’d,
Rapt, ringing, on the jet sustain’d
Without a break, without a fall,
Sweet-silvery, sheer lyrical,
Perennial, quavering up the chord
Like myriad dews of sunny sward
That trembling into fulness shine,
And sparkle dropping argentine;
Such wooing as the ear receives
From zephyr caught in choric leaves
Of aspens when their chattering net
Is flush’d to white with shivers wet;
And such the water-spirit’s chime
On mountain heights in morning’s prime,
Too freshly sweet to seem excess,
Too animate to need a stress;
But wider over many heads
The starry voice ascending spreads,
Awakening, as it waxes thin,
The best in us to him akin;
And every face to watch him rais’d,
Puts on the light of children prais’d,
So rich our human pleasure ripes
When sweetness on sincereness pipes,
Though nought be promis’d from the seas,
But only a soft-ruffling breeze
Sweep glittering on a still content,
Serenity in ravishment.

For singing till his heaven fills,
’T is love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes:
The woods and brooks, the sheep and kine
He is, the hills, the human line,
The meadows green, the fallows brown,
The dreams of labor in the town;
He sings the sap, the quicken’d veins;
The wedding song of sun and rains
He is, the dance of children, thanks
Of sowers, shout of primrose-banks,
And eye of violets while they breathe;
All these the circling song will wreathe,
And you shall hear the herb and tree,
The better heart of men shall see,
Shall feel celestially, as long
As you crave nothing save the song.
Was never voice of ours could say
Our inmost in the sweetest way,
Like yonder voice aloft, and link
All hearers in the song they drink:
Our wisdom speaks from failing blood,
Our passion is too full in flood,
We want the key of his wild note
Of truthful in a tuneful throat,
The song seraphically free
Of taint of personality,
So pure that it salutes the suns
The voice of one for millions,
In whom the millions rejoice
For giving their one spirit voice.

Yet men have we, whom we revere,
Now names, and men still housing here,
Whose lives, by many a battle-dint
Defaced, and grinding wheels on flint,
Yield substance, though they sing not, sweet
For song our highest heaven to greet:
Whom heavenly singing gives us new,
Enspheres them brilliant in our blue,
From firmest base to farthest leap,
Because their love of Earth is deep,
And they are warriors in accord
With life to serve and pass reward,
So touching purest and so heard
In the brain’s reflex of yon bird;
Wherefore their soul in me, or mine,
Through self-forgetfulness divine,
In them, that song aloft maintains,
To fill the sky and thrill the plains
With showerings drawn from human stores,
As he to silence nearer soars,
Extends the world at wings and dome,
More spacious making more our home,
Till lost on his aërial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.

George Meredith


The Life That I Have

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.


Leo Marks

[Kobi]

“Sometimes I sit for hours just thinking, wondering what the man upstairs is trying to tell me. Yesterday I reached the conclusion that he was saying, “Get me a slinky.”

Jarod Kintz

I love this guys humor. It is odd, weird, gross, and spot on, often at the same time.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet, so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
(Bits and Pieces)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Most of us would be upset If we were accussed of being "silly" comes from the old English word "seilig" and it's literal definition is"to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous."
(Zig Ziglar)

[Butterbean]

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

-Mark Twain

[1QuirkyKiwi]

"All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness."
(Anonymous)

[Liam]

Love makes life refreshing...
—PabloPicasso

[Liam]

Love makes life refreshing...
—PabloPicasso

I remembered this incorrectly. The correct quote is:

Love is life's greatest refreshment!
—Pablo Picasso

[Semantics]

‎Do not try to give either/or answers in a multiple-choice universe.

Robert Anton Wilson

[JAGG]

I remembered this incorrectly. The correct quote is:

Love is life's greatest refreshment!
—Pablo Picasso

well dang too late Liam I will misquote this for the rest of my life. I have already recorded it in my permanent memory bank. lol

[JAGG]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. - (purposely left blank to irk Hollylane) hahaha

[Hollylane]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle

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[mustangjeano]

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

[feminality]

“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 :blueheels:

[JAGG]

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4013/4466884762_fdc8ff8ee2_z.jpg

hahah Just can't slip anything by you can I ? haha Nice kitty.

[Athena Page]

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship; an ongoing romance.

[Billy]

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship; an ongoing romance.


Awesome Quote ! And so very true :)

[MysticOceansFL]

Logic is from A to B and Imagination is Everywhere!!!!:glasses:

[Arwen]

"Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love."
— Helen Fisher

[Rook]

Ever watched a Film with someone you're dating, and there's this 1 particular moment that can go either way, Awkward as hell...or "Bonus loving" ?....


Bicentennial Man

Rupert Burns: What do they say? (About sex)
Andrew Martin: That you can lose yourself. Everything. All boundaries. All time. That two bodies can become so mixed up, that you don't know who's who or what's what. And just when the sweet confusion is so intense you think you're gonna die... you kind of do. Leaving you alone in your separate body, but the one you love is still there. That's a miracle. You can go to heaven and come back alive. You can go back anytime you want with the one you love.
Rupert Burns: And you want to experience that?
Andrew Martin: Oh, yes, please.
Rupert Burns: -wistful sigh- So do I.

{{turned out bonus lovin', I got the 'snuggles' -w00t!-}}

[Butterbean]

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.


-Jim Morrison

[Kobi]

It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

Malcolm Gladwell

[MysticOceansFL]

Best friends stick together till the end,
They are like a straight line that will not bend.

They trust each other forever,
No matter if your apart you are together.

They can be your hero and save the day,
They will never leave your side they are here to stay.

They help you up when you fall,
Your true friends are best of all.

[Kätzchen]

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan-

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Butterbean]

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."

[Massive]

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

Mahatma Gandhi

http://www.happyheartandmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/peace_3.jpg

[adorable]

Excerpt from Midwinter Day
by Bernadette Mayer


Men and women are like tears
I would lose my memory,
I would sleep twelve hours, I would wake up
And get into my boat with my scribe,
I would study the twelve hours of the day
Spending an hour in each
I would have a secret name
I would rush upon the guilty without pity
Till the goddess of my eye in her vengeance
Overwhelmed my own rage
as you and I take turns
In love's anger like the royal children
Born every morning to die that night
I know you speak
And are as suddenly forgiven,
It's the consequence of love' having no cause
Then we wonder what we can say
I can say
I turn formally to love to spend the day,
To you to form the night as what I know,
An image of love allows what I can't say,
Sun's lost in the window and love is below
Love is the same and does not keep that name
I keep that name and I am not the same
A shadow of ice exchanges the color of light,
Love's figure to begin the absent night.

[Butterbean]

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

[Kobi]

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.

~ Saul Bellow

[Fancy]

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

John Milton

[Kelsfemme]

So, I teach in a preschool. I make a goddamn difference, now what about you? That’s one point I had to make before I read this poem. The second point is, I usually have hair that is much much shorter than this. That’s all you need to know.

“Are you a boy or a girl?” he asks, staring up at me in all three feet of his pudding face grandeur, and I say “Dylan, you’ve been in this class for three years and you still don’t know if I’m a boy or a girl?” And he says “Uh-uh.” And I say “Well, at this point, I don’t really think it matters, do you?” And he says “Uhhhm, no. Can I have a push on the swing?” And this happens every day. It’s a tidal wave of kindergarten curiosity rushing straight for the rocks of me, whatever I am.

And the class, when we discuss the Milky Way galaxy, the orbit of the Sun around the Earth… or whatever. Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and kids, do you know that some of the stars we see when we look up in the sky are so far away, they’ve already burned out? What do you think of that? Timmy? “Umm… my mom says that even though you got hairs that grow from your legs, and the hairs on your head grow short and poky, and that you smell really bad, like my dad, that you’re a girl.” “Thank you, Timmy.”

And so it goes. On the playground, she peers up at me from behind her pink power puff sunglasses and then asks, “Do you have a boyfriend?” And I say no, and she says “Oh, do you have a girlfriend?” And I say “No, but if by some miracle, twenty years from now, I ever finally do, then I’ll definitely bring her by to meet you. How’s that?” “Okay. Can I have a push on the swing?”

And that’s the thing. They don’t care. They don’t care. Us, on the other hand… My father sitting across the table at Christmas dinner, gritting his teeth over his still-full plate, his appetite ripped away by the intrusion of my haircut, “What were you thinking? You used to be such a pretty girl!” Frat boys, drunken, screaming, leaning out of the windows of their daddys’ SUVs, “Hey! Are you a faggot or a dyke?” And I wonder what would happen if I met up with them in the middle of the night.

Then of course there’s always the somehow not-quite-bright enough fluorescent light of the public restroom, “Sir! Sir, do you realize this is the ladies’ room?” “Yes, ma’am, I do, it’s just that I didn’t feel comfortable sticking this tampon up my penis in the men’s room.”

But the best, the best is always the mother at the market, sticking up her nose while pushing aside her daughter’s wide eyes, whispering “Don’t stare, it’s rude.” And I want to say, “Listen, lady, the only rude thing I see is your paranoid parental hand pushing aside the best education on self that little girl’s ever gonna get, living with your Maybelline lipstick after hips and pedi kiwi, vanilla-smelling beauty; so why don’t you take your pinks and blues, your boy-girl rules and shove them in that car with your fucking issue of Cosmo, because tomorrow, I start my day with twenty-eight minds who know a hell of a lot more than you. And if I show up in a pink frilly dress, those kids won’t love me any more, or less.”

“Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.

-Andrea Gibson.

[JAGG]

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
~Sarah Caldwell

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[dixie]

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind" - Marcel Proust

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it" - Jacques Prevert

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather then attempting to satisfy them" - John Stuart Mills

[mustangjeano]

Kind hearts are the gardens.Kind thoughts are the roots.Kind words are the blossoms.Kind deeds are the fruits. ---- Kirpal Singh

[MysticOceansFL]

" The Cake Of Friendship"

Preheat the oven of love
With plenty of secrets and hugs

Mix in giggles and laughs
That make your sides split in half

Bake with the love and care
And all the things you both should share

Decorate with the frosting of trust
This is really a must

Enjoy the cake do not eat it fast
Just like your new friendship make it last

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

[MysticOceansFL]

Two Souls, One Voice



although two souls are meeting
there is but one voice
capturing the moment
captivating and controlling
the thoughts, actions, words
leading the way for conscious
desire and decisive emotion

stories and daily goings- on
are frequently passed
between the one voice
and the intermixed beings
creating a warm happiness
a sense of belonging
an aura of completeness
a comfortable existence

time, a distant memory
fading in and fading out,
its power and autonomy fall
on blissfully ignorant,
yet distinctly aware,
ears - focused and true

with the quantity
of well spent hours
adding up and summarizing
the feelings and beliefs
shared and opposed,
comes an ability
to confide and uphold
moments, eternities
abundant with understanding.

[Butterbean]

A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb


You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives



Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss

[spritzerJ]

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
-Zora Neale Hurston

“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
-Werner von Braun

:tea:

[Trey339]

Always trust your intuition

[Rook]

The sun is love. The lover,
a speck circling the sun.
A spring wind moves to dance
any branch that isn't dead.

Something opens our wings. Something
makes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of us.

We taste only sacredness.

I stand up, and this one of me
turns into a hundred of me.

They say I circle around you.
Nonsense. I circle around me.

Dance, when you are broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
~ Rumi

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“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

[Kobi]

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

~ Einstein

[Janstevie]

Quarrels would not last if the fault was only on one side.

[Fancy]

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

-Naomi Campbell

[The_Lady_Snow]

“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”

[Butterbean]

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop


When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
(Leo F. Buscaglia)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
(Leo F. Buscaglia)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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

[sara-bera]

"They say you never know what you've got till it's gone. The truth is that you knew what you had... you just never thought you could lose it." -unknown

[sara-bera]

“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” -Mohandas Gandhi

[nickster]

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Pablo Neruda


Write, for example, 'The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

[spritzerJ]

“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
---Pablo Picasso

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Butterbean]

Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~Author Unknown



Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers

[Arwen]

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
— Eckhart Tolle

[Janstevie]

Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

[Kobi]

My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women.

~Albert Einstein

[adorable]

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.” ~Groucho Marx

[ruffryder]

I took the roads less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

"You can always take the easy way out and give up but real strength comes when you decide to keep pushing no matter what the circumstances are."

The greatest discovery in the world is to discover yourself!! :)

Don't fall mindlessly into complicated traps that are designed only to steal your joy. Joyce Meyer

[Butterbean]

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein


Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ~Albert Einstein

[Liam]

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
—Victor Hugo

[puddin']

"i think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. we align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates." ~angela carter

[Butterbean]

All great truths begin as blasphemies. ~George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska, 1919

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James


It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth. ~Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy

[always2late]

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you can see is the beauty of it. (stolen from a friend's Facebook wall)

[Janstevie]

It's never too late to give up your prejudices.

[jenny]

"it is our choices, harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." [albus dumbledore]

[Rook]

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[adorable]

"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
~Mark Twain

[girl_dee]

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.
But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." -- Julius Gordon

[JAGG]

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~Socrates

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

[adorable]

Don't Give Up
by Mario Benedetti

Don't give up, you still have time
to reach up and start anew,
Accept your shadows,
Bury your fears,
Free your burdens,
Fly again.

Don't give up, that's what life is
Continue the journey,
Follow your dreams,
Unstuck time,
Move the rubble,
And uncover the sky.

Don't give up, please don't give way,
Even if the cold burns,
Even if fear bites,
Even if the sun sets,
And the wind goes silent,
There is still fire in your soul
There is still life in your dreams.

Because life is yours and yours is the desire
Because you have loved it and because I love you
Because wine exists and love is true.
Because there are no wounds that time doesn't cure.

To open the doors,
Take away the locks,
Abandon the walls that have protected you,
To live life and accept the challenge
Get back laughter,
Practice a song,
Lower the guard and extend the hands
Open the wings
And try again,
Celebrate life and take back the skies.

Don't give up, please don't give way,
Even if the cold burns,
Even if fear bites,
Even if the sun sets,
And the wind goes silent,
There is still fire in your soul
There is still life in your dreams.

Because every day is a new beginning,
Because this is the hour and the best moment.
Because you are not alone, because I love you.

[Sassy]

"Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives." Greta W. Crosby

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." Muhammad Ali

[SugarFemme]

No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your belly.
No one knew you martyred
a hummingbird of love between those teeth.

A thousand Persian carousels slept
in the moon plaza of your forehead,
while four nights I lashed myself
to your waist, enemy of snow.

Among the plaster and jasmine, you saw
I was a pallid branch of seeds.
I sought through my breast
to give you letters of ivory saying always,

always, always: garden of my last breath,
your body escaped forever,
the blood of your veins in my mouth,
your mouth already without light for my death.



Nadie comprendía el purfume
de la oscura magnolia de tu vientre.
Nadie sabía que martirizabas
un colibrí de amor entre los dientes.

Mil caballitos persas se dormían
en la plaza con luna de tu frente,
mientras que yo enlazaba cuatro noches
tu cintura, enemiga de la nieve.

Entre yeso y jazmines, tu mirada
era un pálido ramo de simientes.
Yo busqué, para darte, por mi pecho
las letras de marfil que dicen siempre,

siempre, siempre: jardin de mi agonia,
tu cuerpo fugitivo para siempre,
la sangre de tus venas en mi boca,
tu boca ya sin luz para mi muerte.

[Janstevie]

Dont regret growing old, many are denied the privilege.

[Butterbean]

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates

[spritzerJ]

You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green.

[Athena Page]

Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome! Be accountable for your own life actions! Train hard, study hard, and work hard to better yourself daily and the universe will unfold as it may. ~ Waiest® Spirit Warrior

[Butterbean]

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

[adorable]

“How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[jenny]

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine." ~ Emily Dickinson

[Morgan]

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
Pia Zadora

[foxyshaman]

Bobbi - Mom I'm Bored
Mom - Go bang your head against a wall
Bobbi - mmooommmm
Mom - Only boring people are bored

[Truly Scrumptious]

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

~ Chuck Palahniuk

[Butterbean]

"I got the job!!!!" -Butterbean

[JAGG]

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

[spritzerJ]

"I got the job!!!!" -Butterbean

repeatedly hitting the thanks button did not yield the results of I was looking for! Damn, what great news! Congratulations!

[spritzerJ]

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I don't know Chuck but I am going to respectfully disagree... Scars can come from the journey to all the peace a heart can hold and give. I believe we can choose to see our scars as sweet reminder the trip is worth it, that our peace is worth it. But then again I believe peace can be gentle and wild. But that is just me!

Thank you Scrumptious for the quote.

[JAGG]

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
~Philip K Dick

[sara-bera]

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." -Buddha

[SugarFemme]

All energy, gathered
And spread through
The intensity of one look!

Eyes, obsession,
A soul’s beautiful expression,
Movement and stillness!

Colors that mix,
Shape drawn by heritage,
By history and ancestors.

Taste of salty tears,
Only they remain the same,
As innocent as they were
When you were only a child!

Sincerity I do hope to find,
But also the bizarre
That moves my heart!

Alive are your eyes,
All of their energy sent to me,
The intensity of one look!

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Fancy]

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.

- Medieval German saying

[Janstevie]

Happy Valentine everyone,
Tonight will be just like last year, Romantic meal for one, wine for 4.

[Kobi]

Together, we can create a community where [all are] treated with dignity, regardless of their sex or skin color or orientation, regardless of whether their family came here on a slave ship or the Mayflower four hundred years ago or through Ellis Island at the turn of the century or from Central America last year.

~Linda Chavez-Thompson

[Butterbean]

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde

We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

I've fallen in love many times... always with you. ~Author Unknown

[JAGG]

Vengeance is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits. EMK

[Liam]

The word which carries power is the one which has conviction back of it.
—Ernest Holmes

[always2late]

"The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." ~ Helen Hayes

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~ Saint-Exupery

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." ~ Shakespeare

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

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." ~ Franklin P. Jones

"Where there is love there is life." ~ Gandhi

[smouldering]

Single, taken, in a relationship; those are just terms. Your actions determine your status.

[adorable]

nothing false and possible is love... (XXXIV)
by e.e. cummings

nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined,therefore is limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give;
as yes is to if,love is to yes

must's a schoolroom in the month of may:
life's the deathboard where all now turns when
(love's a universe beyond obey
or command,reality or un-)

proudly depths above why's first because
(faith's last doubt and humbly heights below)
kneeling,we-true lovers-pray that us
will ourselves continue to outgrow

all whose mosts if you have known and i've
only we our least begin to guess

[Trey339]

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

- Konosuke Matsushita

[Rook]

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[sara-bera]

"Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -The Lorax

[Hollylane]

An excerpt from: The Fickle One by Pablo Neruda

"But to you, without my moving,
Without seeing you, distant you,
Go my blood and my kisses,
My dark one and my fair one,
My broad one and my slender one,
My ugly one, my beauty,
Made of all the gold
And of all the silver,
Made of all the wheat
And of all the earth,
Made of all the water
Of sea waves,
Made for my arms
Made for my kisses,
Made for my soul. "

[adorable]

"Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense." ~Robert Frost

[Butterbean]

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~Josh Billings

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896


If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb


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[ruffryder]

Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Elliot

"Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by the other person, it isn't worth having."

[Prudence]

"I have an intense desire to return to the womb___Anybody's!

Woody Allen...:waitinggirl:

[Trey339]

When the restless activity of your mind slows down, when your thoughts stop rushing like waves on a windy day, then you will start getting glimpses of the sweet taste of inner peace. – Remez Sasson

[Trey339]

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

[feminality]

:blueheels:


“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Ms. Tabitha]

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
~ Eric Hoffer

[1QuirkyKiwi]

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you or help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
(Plato)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
(Plato)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
(Plato)

[Butterbean]

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. ~David Sedaris

[~BluEydFemme~]

If Wishes Were Fishes, No-one Would Go Hungry....

[gotoseagrl]

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. Unknown

[Trey339]

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Trey339]

“Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
― Jenny Oconnell

[Trey339]

everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

[JAGG]

“Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”
― Jenny Oconnell

I love this !!!

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Some people won't be happy until they've pushed you to the ground. What you have to do is have the courage to stand your ground and not give them the time of day. Hold on to your power and never give it away.”

[Butterbean]

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop. ~Dodinsky

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

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

[PrivateeroftheDeep]

"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, inspirational - a south wind and not an east wind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JAGG]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice


To Forgive is the Highest most Beautiful form of Love. Forgive all who have offended you. Not for them. But for Yourself.

Indian magazine

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live out lives with authenticity

Barbara de Angelis

[UofMfan]

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." ~ Albert Einstein

[gotoseagrl]

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. Felix Adler

[Prudence]

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

Lilly Tomlin :byebye:

[deedarino]

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[Random]

“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.

Do not take away the rose,
the lance flower that you pluck,
the water that suddenly
bursts forth in joy,
the sudden wave
of silver born in you.

My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.

My love, in the darkest
hour your laughter
opens, and if suddenly
you see my blood staining
the stones of the street,
laugh, because your laughter
will be for my hands
like a fresh sword.

Next to the sea in the autumn,
your laughter must raise
its foamy cascade,
and in the spring, love,
I want your laughter like
the flower I was waiting for,
the blue flower, the rose
of my echoing country.

Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of the island,
laugh at this clumsy
fool who loves you,
but when I open
my eyes and close them,
when my steps go,
when my steps return,
deny me bread, air,
light, spring,
but never your laughter. ”
― Pablo Neruda

[mustangjeano]

Each friend represents a world in us,a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it's only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anias Nin

[Bootsandheels]

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

[WomenMoveMe]

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

[spritzerJ]

An Unsaid Word

She who has the power to call her man
From that estranged intensity
Where his mind forages alone,
Yet keeps her peace and leaves him free,
And when his thoughts to her return
Stands where he left her, still his own,
Knows this is the hardest thing to learn.
Adrienne Rich

[Janstevie]

Happiness often sneaks through a door you did'nt know you left open.

[spritzerJ]

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. ---Walt Whitman

[Trey339]

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."


~Albert Einstein~

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
(Carl Jung)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
(Carl Jung)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
(Carl Jung)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
(Natalie Goldberg)

[PrivateeroftheDeep]

My Task

To love someone more dearly every day,
To help a wandering child to find his way,
To ponder o'er a noble thought, and pray,
And smile when evening falls.
This my task.

To follow truth as blind men long for light,
To do my best from dawn of day till night,
TO keep my heart fit for His holy sight,
And answer when He calls.
This is my task.

- Maude Louise Ray

[Butterbean]

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ~Edgar Cayce

[ruffryder]

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. Tuli Kupferberg

[Random]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
(Carl Jung)


This resounds with me...

The things that I won't tollerate in others are the traites that I hate in myself.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

This resounds with me...

The things that I won't tollerate in others are the traites that I hate in myself.

I'm fairly laid-back, but, still a work in progress on traits....I just wish I'd hurry up and accept them! (Impatience with myself is one of those traits, lol!).

[Trey339]

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington

[UofMfan]

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” ~ Tom Robbins

[PrivateeroftheDeep]

"Formula for handling people:

1. Listen to the other person's story.
2. Listen to the other person's full story.
3. Listen to the other person's story first."

- George Marshall

[PrivateeroftheDeep]

"Looking for a solution without listening to the problem is like working in the dark." - Unknown

[PrivateeroftheDeep]

"There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined." - Dorothy Allison

[always2late]

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you." - Wayne Dyer

[Miss Scarlett]

"The next time you think you're perfect, try walking on water."

[JAGG]

The difference between a smart man and a wise one is this: A smart man can work his way out of a difficulty that the wise man will not get into in the first place. - unknown

[JAGG]

The hardest part of life is finding out that not everyone wishes you well. - Dan Rather

Nonconformists hate other nonconformists who won't conform to their way of nonconformity. - Unknown

[sara-bera]

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics” - Albert Einstein

[SugarFemme]

"Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire, dividing my delight and my desire."~ A.C Swinburne

[SugarFemme]

"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze."~Unknown

[SugarFemme]

"Cuando el amor no es locura, no es amor." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- When love is not madness, it is not love.

[feminality]

:blueheels:


“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Nat]

"We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us." - Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion"

[Butterbean]

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain


Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown


Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. ~Taki

[JAGG]

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.
~Susie Switze
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
~Al Neuharth
Time puts things in proper perspective.
~Cameron Crowe

[gotoseagrl]

Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines. Margaret Atwood

[sara-bera]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust

[Scuba]

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

One of my favorite movies...

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Butterbean]

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison


There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams

[Fancy]

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens

[Kobi]

I cannot say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.

~Abigail Adams

[WomenMoveMe]

“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong—sometimes it’s letting go.”

~unknown~

[MysticOceansFL]

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."


When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive

[Miss Scarlett]

In and Out of Time
Maya Angelou

The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance...
our long way home.
I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time.

When the first stone looked up at the blazing sun
and the first tree struggled up from the forest floor
I had always loved you more.
You freed your braids...
gave your hair to the breeze.
It hummed like a hive of honey bees.
I reached in the mass for the sweet honey comb there....
Mmmm...God how I love your hair.

You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....
Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...
The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance our long way home.

I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out
in and out
in and out
of time.

[JAGG]

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Stolen kisses are always sweetest -unknown

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.
~DomÈnico Cieri Estrada

[SugarFemme]

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

[SugarFemme]

“Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.”
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda

[Fancy]

There is no dream too extreme.

-Courtesy of my 9-year-old

[Spirit Dancer]

The best theories are poetic creations.
Stephen Hawking

[The_Lady_Snow]

neck bone connected to my
shoulder bone, clavicles under
velvet wraps poke out when
in passion or in sadness.

shoulder bone connected to my
chest bones under my damn good tits
wrap my big old heart that flutters
in love or anticipation.

chest bone connected to my
spine long and hard down to my
ah ah ass curved and soft
in repose or in leggings.

spine bone connected to my
hips bones thick and thrusting
across pavements and up stairs
in to you or onto you.

hip bones connected to my
calf bones muscled lean and taut
for kicking your ass or saving mine
in fight or flight mode.

calf bones connected to my
toe bones, perfect little steps
of broad pink nails painted
in whimsy or welcome

[nycfem]

"Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

-Samuel Johnson (1709-84), lexicographer, dramatist, novelist, critic, poet, and editor

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
(Buddha)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
(Henry Ward Beecher)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
(Ingrid Bergman)

[Morgan]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

[JAGG]

Know the rules well, so you can break them right. - Unknown

Stupidity is not knowing how dumb you are.- Unknown

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

[sylvie]

Love yourself & life loves you right back...

Loving yourself is healing the world.

[chai~]

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[Jesse]

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb

[Butterbean]

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~Rita Mae Brown



It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney


Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Pythagoras

[Spirit Dancer]

Along the Road
I walked a mile with Pleasure
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.


Robert Browning Hamilton

[SugarFemme]

Amor está como el viento,
usted no lo puede ver pero usted puede sentirse.

Love is like the wind,
you can't see it but you can feel it

[SugarFemme]

Si yo fuese el mar y tu una roca,
haria subir la marea,
para besar tu boca.

If I were the sea and you were a rock,
I would raise the tide to kiss you.

[JAGG]

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Mark Twain


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge a man by the reputation of his enemy's, and the character of his friends

[The_Lady_Snow]

I know by her voice
I know by her tone
I know by her writhing
I know by her scream
I know I have her now
Within my reach her ecstasy
Taking her over the edge
Flying high within my safety
Flying into another place in our time
Seeking that plane where she lets go
Time and time again over and over
Her deep pleasure my pure desire
Hearing her screams feeling her
Letting go flooding into my presence
Her beauty unleashed in a torrent now
Her eyes a deep mystery of intensity
Seeking nothing less than her total bliss
I have come tonight intently seeking this
I am taking what is mine and giving it back
While I send her screaming to the heavens
Scooping her up into my loving arms I see
Everything as it was truly meant to be
Making the moment last holding her close
Seeing desire satisfaction and pure pleasure
She is spent she is safe she is loved within my arms
I am loving my Angel tonight this sweet femme does
And everything comes down to that last kiss this night
Tender gentle sweet butterfly soft and loving for her
Ultimately loving her making love to her healing us both

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[WomenMoveMe]

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet (1803-1882)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
(Dalai Lama)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
(Jim Rohn)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A sense of humour... is needed armour. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
(Hugh Sidey)



Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
(Yakov Smirnoff)

[Fancy]

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

- Virginia Woolf

[adorable]

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." ~Bertrand Russell

[SugarFemme]

'Tengo Hambre De Tu Boca' by Pablo Neruda.

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.

[deedarino]

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

[The_Lady_Snow]

A Bad Girl
A Great Woman
Both stand before you
All in One am I
And so much more

Strength & Power
From a depth unknown before
If I show it to the world
Unkind descriptions will follow

So who cares
How others see me
If I am not true to myself
Who does that lead me to be

Strong enough to be tender
Strong enough to be kind
Strong enough to see beyond
Blinders from a world
That only sees the surface

Just skimming the top
Never daring to go below
That is not me
So I am a Bad Girl

A wild woman
Who dares to think
One who gets into the depths
Deeper than those before

Scared only of not living
Scared to not feel All of Life
Challenging
Intense & Fierce Am I

Are you strong enough
To survive
This Journey with Me
With You
With US in the Present
Past & Future

Seek & You Will Find
You have always known
That we would find
Each other
In this Lifetime

Yes, I am the Dream
The one who keeps You Up at Night
Soul & Spirit Touched Already
You have found me.....
Again

[SugarFemme]

"No one will ever love you more than you love yourself"~ Me.
Think about it.

[Morgan]

Un día, cuando esté listo
Vendré por ti ...
Voy a tomar tu mano en la mía
y llevar a la jardín especial
mientras yacía a su lado nuestras raíces
se profundiza en la tierra
y desde esas raíces
será un amor como ningún otro
el vástago será nuestra fuerza
las hojas de nuestra protección
las flores será nuestra individualidad
y esta planta no morirá
que vivirá para siempre
En el jardín especial de nuestro amor ...



Morgan

[Morgan]

One day when I am ready (translation to prior post)

One day when I am ready
I will come for you...
I will take your hand in mine
and lead you to the special garden
as I lay beside you our roots
will go deep into the earth
and from those roots
will be a love like no other
the stem will be our strength
the leaves our protection
the flowers shall be our individuality
and this plant shall not die
it will live forever
In the special garden of our love...

Morgan

(One day when I can love myself, then I will be ready, until that day comes I will think about you and hope that you can wait for me)

[Jesse]

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours
- Swedish Proverb

[WomenMoveMe]

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sam Levenson

[WomenMoveMe]

A man who desires revenge should dig two graves.

When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

~unknown~

[deedarino]

“I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
Og Mandino

[Trey339]

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

S. Johnson

[Trey339]

Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
~ by Percy Bysshe Shelly ~

[Prudence]

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it"........Mark Twain :flowers:

[SugarFemme]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi

[The_Lady_Snow]

NO ONE OWNS ME

Why would you dare
What were you thinking
You try to tell me what to do
How I should be

Where did the audacity come from
What lead you to believe
You could control me
That you should even try

Shocked by your implication
That somehow you know better
How can someone know what is better
For only I know what is best for me

Who I choose to spend time with
Where I choose to focus my energy
When I wish to do the things I want
Laughable it is that you insinuate yourself
My life it must be lived by me for me

Pulling at my strings
Now you are pulling at your own hair
Not able to meet me in the freedom we used to share
Because you thought you knew best

No one owns me
Never has, never will
Impede my progress and get run over
Watch as I head out the door

A new adventure awaits
Thought we sought these out together
But, sadly you were all about controlling me
Because you couldn't face yourself

[Butterbean]

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen


Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~William J. Bennett


I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. ~George Washington

[Fancy]

“The more sand that has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we see through it.”

Jean Paul Richter

[SugarFemme]

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meaness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

[Morgan]

I found this among my grandmothers possessions when she passed away. It seems very appropriate. Thanks Grammy for sharing your strength, it has made me a better person. (although some words may not seem appropriate today, the intent was in the expression of the words at that time)




Don't Quit


When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with it's twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worse,
That you must not quit.

...Edgar A. Guest

[WomenMoveMe]

“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain---thinking of moments you long for and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.”

― Shannon L. Alder

[SugarFemme]

“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”
Alphonse de Lamartine

[SugarFemme]

“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”

Joss Whedon

[Butterbean]

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~Terri Guillemets

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[WomenMoveMe]

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.”

― Peyton C. March

[The_Lady_Snow]

A BAD GIRL AGAIN

A Bad Girl
A Great Woman
Both stand before you
All in One am I
And so much more

Strength & Power
From a depth unknown before
If I show it to the world
Unkind descriptions will follow

So who cares
How others see me
If I am not true to myself
Who does that lead me to be

Strong enough to be tender
Strong enough to be kind
Strong enough to see beyond
Blinders from a world
That only sees the surface

Just skimming the top
Never daring to go below
That is not me
So I am a Bad Girl

A wild woman
Who dares to think
One who gets into the depths
Deeper than those before

Scared only of not living
Scared to not feel All of Life
Challenging
Intense & Fierce Am I

Are you strong enough
To survive
This Journey with Me
With You
With US in the Present
Past & Future

Seek & You Will Find
You have always known
That we would find
Each other
In this Lifetime

Yes, I am the Dream
The one who keeps You Up at Night
Soul & Spirit Touched Already
You have found me.....
Again

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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[~BluEydFemme~]

(f)Who Says The Sky Is The Limit When There Are Footprints On The Moon??(f)

[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

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[Breathless]

You may think the grass is greener on the other side. But if you take the time to water your own grass it would be just as green.

[Butterbean]

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

[WomenMoveMe]

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

[SugarFemme]

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

[Fancy]

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

Carrie Underwood

[Arwen]

"You have to ask yourself, 'Does this item or thought or response move me closer to my vision for my best life?' If it does, great. If it doesn't, what is it doing in your life?" — Peter Walsh