Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

“If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.” ~ Randy Pausch

[PaPa]

Some people will believe anything if it is whispered to them.
~Pierre De Marivaux

[1QuirkyKiwi]

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”
(E. E. Cummings)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves we find in the sea”
(E. E. Cummings)

[SugarFemme]

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[WomenMoveMe]

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

― Alfred Tennyson

[SugarFemme]

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[PaPa]

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[JAGG]

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008

[The_Lady_Snow]

“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

[girl_dee]

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

[feminality]

:blueheels:

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[MysticOceansFL]

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"



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



"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."



"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."



"This is my commandment, that ye love one another."

[Butterbean]

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Attributed to Howard Thurman


When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ~Abraham Lincoln


The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent

[deedarino]

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. ”
― Og Mandino

[Novelafemme]

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. ”
― Og Mandino

I absolutely love this!! I am going to adopt it as my motto! Thank you for sharing. :)

[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton

[jenny]

"Well, boys - it would be hard to call what we've been through fun, but I'm sure glad we went through it together." ~ Col. Harry Potter (from "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," the last epsiode of M*A*S*H, which aired 2/28/83)

[Maria]

Unwritten Law

Interesting how we fall in love:
In my case, absolutely. Absolutely, and, alas, often--
so it was in my youth.
And always with rather boyish men--
unformed, sullen, or shyly kicking the dead leaves:
in the manner of Balanchine.
Nor did I see them as versions of the same thing.
I, with my inflexible Platonism,
my fierce seeing of only one thing at a time:
I ruled against the indefinite article.
And yet, the mistakes of my youth
made me hopeless, because they repeated themselves,
as is commonly true.
But in you I felt something beyond the archetype--
a true expansiveness, a buoyance and love of the earth
utterly alien to my nature. To my credit,
I blessed my good fortune in you.
Blessed it absolutely, in the manner of those years.
And you in your wisdom and cruelty
gradually taught me the meaninglessness of that term.

Louise Glück, Vita Nova

[Kätzchen]

The Genius of the Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day

and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love
and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

those who preach god, need god
those who preach peace do not have peace
those who preach peace do not have love

beware the preachers
beware the knowers
beware those who are always reading books
beware those who either detest poverty
or are proud of it
beware those quick to praise
for they need praise in return
beware those who are quick to censor
they are afraid of what they do not know
beware those who seek constant crowds for
they are nothing alone
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average

but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world
not being able to love fully
they will believe your love incomplete
and then they will hate you
and their hatred will be perfect

like a shining diamond
like a knife
like a mountain
like a tiger
like hemlock

their finest art

-Charles Bukowski-

[Prudence]

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed, till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."...........Thomas Hardy :darthsmiley:

[SugarFemme]

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[Rook]

These Quotes are from a book called "Disorder in the American Courts" and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

:sunglass:


ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ.
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death…
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them... The live ones put up too much of a fight.
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral...
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.
____________________________________________
And last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

:huhlaugh: :superfunny:

Lawyers are the Devil's ministry - John Milton {The Devil's Advocate - Al Pacino}

[adorable]

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.” ~Yann Martel

[JAGG]

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

A friend is like a parachute: if they aren't there the first time, chances are you won't need them again. - Unknown

It's interesting how people use that expression, 'life and death'. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death... life, has no opposite.

[PaPa]

A friend of mine on facebook from this community reminded me of this quote today. I LOVE IT!!

‎"Don't ask what the world needs..ask what makes you come alive, then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive"
~Rev Howard Thurman

[feminality]

:blueheels:



“Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?”
― Marilyn Monroe

[SugarFemme]

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Isabel Allende

[PaPa]

The Invitation - Orion Mountain Dreamer..

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams,
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic,
or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when its not pretty every day,
and if you can source your life from God's presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,
and still stand on the edge of a lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn't interest me who you are,
how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the Fire with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

[Fancy]

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Jim Brown

[WomenMoveMe]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
― George Carlin

[MsTinkerbelly]

Quote Of The Day - George Clooney

"I think it’s funny, but the last thing you’ll ever see me do is jump up and down, saying, 'These are lies!' That would be unfair and unkind to my good friends in the gay community. I’m not going to let anyone make it seem like being gay is a bad thing. My private life is private, and I’m very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I’m gay? I’ll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don’t give a shit." -

[JAGG]

Success is not just a sometime thing; you will find it very hard to come across a person who has only been successful at just one particular point in their life. Unfortunately, mediocrity is also not just a sometime thing.

Aaron Betesta

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

Chief Tecumseh Shawnee Nation 1768-1813

The children the world almost break become the adults who save it.

Frank Warren

[PaPa]

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
~Stanislaw J. Lec

[feminality]

:blueheels:

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

marilyn monroe

[kannon]

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

Dr. Maya Angelou

[Licious]

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

Dr. Maya Angelou

I am still in awe of this quote. What a great post.

[Butterbean]

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693


Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin


Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. ~Spanish Proverb

[gotoseagrl]

You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time. VC Andrews

[gotoseagrl]

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy. VC Andrews

[Morgan]

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~Alden Nowlan

[SugarFemme]

“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”

- Nikki Giovanni

[Licious]

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

[SugarFemme]

Your hands easy
weight, teasing the bees
hived in my hair, your smile at the
slope of my cheek. On the
occasion, you press
above me, glowing, spouting
readiness, mystery rapes
my reason

When you have withdrawn
your self and the magic, when
only the smell of your
love lingers between
my breasts, then, only
then, can I greedily consume
your presence.


Dr. Maya Angelou

[kannon]

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[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

[JAGG]

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes

[Morgan]

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12080.Ralph_Waldo_Emerson)

[Trey339]

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
L.Mumford



Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
L. Chesterfield



Funny Quote of the Day
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abe Lincoln

[SugarFemme]

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

― Neil Gaiman

[SugarFemme]

“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”

― Neil Gaiman

[PaPa]

I am the Master of my Fate. I am the Captain of my Soul.

[PaPa]

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[SugarFemme]

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”

Toni Morrison quote

[Morgan]

I love this, just about sums it up.....

“This life is what you make it. No 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, some 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 babe, 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 because 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

[JAGG]

The faster you are, the slower life goes by.- Unknown

Always keep your ideals high enough that you have to keep stretching to reach them. -Unknown




You must decide for yourself how you should live in this world. Like a flower seeking light, we each go where we find our best sustenance. Yet in reaching out - free as we are - we have to be careful not to lose more than can ever be gained.

'Heaven's Edge' by Romesh Gunesekera

[Hollylane]

You Will Hear Thunder
by Anna Akhmatova

You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

That day in Moscow, it will all come true,
when, for the last time, I take my leave,
And hasten to the heights that I have longed for,
Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

[feminality]

:blueheels:


“Who said nights were for sleep?”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Trey339]

Consciousness shines in various external and internal forms.
There is no existence of objects apart from consciousness.
Therefore the world is simply a form of consciousness."
- Kalikakrama

[Fancy]

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

e.e. cummings

[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

For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! ~Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

[macele]

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us
and make us think we can survive alone,
alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races,
even alone in genders.
-Maya Angelou

[Kätzchen]

“Music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger break down and cry,”
~ Imogen Heap, Guy Sigsworth, Jon Hassell.


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*lyrics*


Well painted passion
You rightly suspect
Impersonation
The dumbing down of love
Jaded in anger
Love underwhelms you
No box of chocolates
Whichever way you fall

And if I tell you
Lover alone without love
What will happen
Lover alone without love
Will you miss him?
Lover alone without--without love

No, no I'll get this
I want to treat you
You're still not famous
And you haven't struck it rich
Underachieving
'Cause no one's receiving
This tunnel vision
It's turning out all wrong

And if I tell you
Lover alone without love
What will happen
Lover alone without love
Will you miss him?
Love alone without, without love

Music is worthless, unless it can
Make a complete stranger
Break down and cry

And if I tell you
Lover alone without love
And what will happen
Lover alone without love
And will you listen
Lover alone without, without love
Without love
Without love

[CrankyOldGuy]

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” Henry Ford

[girl_dee]

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.-- John Quincy Adams

[Butterbean]

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

[1QuirkyKiwi]

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays[/QUOTE]

This quote is one of a few I have as my private email signatures.....one of my favourite quotes. :)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Speak with your body, think with your heart and love with your soul. (Unknown Author)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
(Shirley MacLaine)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
(Benjamin Disraeli)

[Metro]

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LYRICS:

UNINVITED

Like anyone would be
I am flattered by your fascination with me
Like any hot blooded woman
I have simply wanted an object to crave
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Must be strangely exciting
To watch the stoic squirm
Must be somewhat heartening
To watch shepard meet shepard
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Like any uncharted territory
I must seem greatly intriguing
You speak of my love like
You have experienced love like mine before
But this is not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight




"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." ~Alanis Morissette

[JAGG]

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.- Lucy Grealy


Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.- Lucy Grealy


Mistakes are inevitable, what separates a person from others is the improvement made after a mistake is realized. -Luzuko Mbane

[Trey339]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- M. Williamson

[JAGG]

FjTB6EG3xGo


LYRICS:

UNINVITED

Like anyone would be
I am flattered by your fascination with me
Like any hot blooded woman
I have simply wanted an object to crave
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Must be strangely exciting
To watch the stoic squirm
Must be somewhat heartening
To watch shepard meet shepard
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Like any uncharted territory
I must seem greatly intriguing
You speak of my love like
You have experienced love like mine before
But this is not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight




"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." ~Alanis Morissette

one of my fav.

[Trey339]

Do not spend time or energy in anger and darkness. Theres always light if you will adjust your view.

[sylvie]

My pain, my hope, my struggle to survive links me to every other human being. We are all just trying to live and we are doing the best we can.

[Ms. Meander]

...nothing can be accomplished by just reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!
- Buddhist Master Shantideva

[Fancy]

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.


Kate Beckinsale

[MissItalianDiva]

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives. When discord and disharmony present themselves, we can stand firm. When we let go of the need to prove ourselves, nothing and no one can disturb the quiet and peace of our minds.

~Iyanla Vanzant


We cannot change a pain-filled past. What we can do is change how it affects us. The past has already been written, but we have the power to write the future based on self-support and respect. We can write a future full of strength, peace, wealth, and love. All we have to do is what is right now.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?" -Frida Kahlo

[UofMfan]

Las tristezas no se quedan para siempre cuando caminamos en dirección a lo que siempre deseamos. ~ Paulo Coelho

[Trey339]

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

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

[WomenMoveMe]

“As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.”
― Jessica Zafra

“You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. ”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
― Katherine Mansfield

[JAGG]

Our greatest obligation to our children is to prepare them to understand and to deal effectively with the world in which they will live and not with the world we have known or the world we would prefer to have. - Grayson Kirk

The worst thing about being lied to, is knowing that you're not worth the truth. -Unknown

The only man who should not be judged by the company he keeps is a prison warden.- Dr. Laurence J Peter

[MysticOceansFL]

Fear of Failure

Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood

I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill

[feminality]

:blueheels:


“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

[WomenMoveMe]

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

[Nat]

"Human Nature is to look at another person as a human until that human disagrees with you too many times in a row."

- Aaron Rand Freeman

[WomenMoveMe]

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

[jenny]

"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise." ~ Nancy Thayer

[JAGG]

Some wounds never heal, they just stop bleeding.- Jacqueline Delisle

By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman - to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.- Walter Bagehot

Who knoweth the mysteries of the will - for it can triumph even against the angels.- DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

[deedarino]

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day~Alex Nobel

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly~Richard Bach

(f)

[MysticOceansFL]

A TRUE FRIEND

A true friend never walks away
A true will always stay
A true friend looks out for you

A true friend will guard your secrets
Like a precious gift
A true friend is there for you
To give you a helpful lift

A true friend tries to make you smile
Tries to replace that frown
They may not always succeed
But they rarely let you down

These arms for you are open
This heart for you does care
And when I think you need me
I'll try to always be there

I'll listen to your fears
I promise not to laugh
Comfort your falling tears
I'll make this friendship last

I'll keep you near to my heart
I'll always hold you dear
Even when we're miles apart
Even when you're here

I hope I am to you
Everything you are to me
For the friendship we have
Is a special one indeed.

[Kätzchen]

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on walk on with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone

-Rogers & Hammerstein, II-

[Trey339]

"She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."

Lord Byron

[ruffryder]

Love is a passion that can't be exact. Its hard to know exactly what it is. We all love but once its burned away, it's gone. There's a difference between passionate liking and love. You have to determine by yourself. Lucas Roy.

‎"Crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how things made your heart broken."

[ruffryder]

"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open."

[feminality]

:blueheels:


“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[JAGG]

It is every easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.- Jessamyn West

A stout heart never went with a thin skin. Anyone who has the courage to act must find the courage to face his critics.- Burton Hills


To spend before earning is to rest before working, to teach before learning, to speak before thinking, and to build before planning.- Dr. William A Ward

[WomenMoveMe]

Love

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer
Remember your hands; how did your lips
Feel on mine?

Because of you, I love the white statues
Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that
Have neither voice nor sight.

I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;
I have forgotten your eyes.

Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to
My vague memory of you. I live with pain
That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
Make to me an irreparable harm.

Your caresses enfold me, like climbing
Vines on melancholy walls.

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to
Glimpse you in every window.

Because of you, the heady perfumes of
Summer pain me; because of you, I again
Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:
Shooting stars, falling objects.”
― Pablo Neruda

[WomenMoveMe]

“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are...chaff and grain together...certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell

[Fancy]

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.


Emily Bronte

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
-Kalidasa

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...
Henry David Thoreau

[jenny]

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." ~ Nora Roberts

[girl_dee]

“Everything that happens in my life perfectly prepares me to fulfill my purpose!’

[Arwen]

“Most dreams are also part reality (otherwise we wouldn't believe them), and reality happens to be a condition that gives you plenty of chances through your life to rise to—no, soar through—the occasion.”
— Leigh Newman

[Trey339]

The most difficult thing of all to see, is what is right in front of your eyes.”

Goethe.

[girl_dee]

"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."

[feminality]

:blueheels:

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Trey339]

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

[MysticOceansFL]

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

[Trey339]

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.

- Frederick E. Perl

[JAGG]

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.- T. H. Huxley

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.- William Blake

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me.. is another matter - Winston Churchill

[Butterbean]

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard


We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural

[Kobi]

"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'"

-H. L. Mencken

[always2late]

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

[Fancy]

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[Butterbean]

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown

[deedarino]

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo238/deedarino/Sharing/45669383690786970_HnbunPSo_c.jpg

[UofMfan]

"Dale valor a las cosas, no por lo que valen, sino por lo que significan." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

[Hollylane]

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

~Leo Buscaglia


I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

~Leo Buscaglia


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 Buscaglia

[puddin']

"i am sapiosexual. i think geeks and nerds are sexy. correct spelling and grammar, foreplay ~ i often want to rub my clit against their minds." -Kayar silkenvoice

[girl_dee]

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr

[WomenMoveMe]

“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.”
― Rumi

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn...Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Brontë

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― E.E. Cummings

[Kobi]

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives."

-Stephen R. Covey

[jenny]

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~ Ferris Bueller, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

[deedarino]

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

Perhaps the greatest of all illusions, is that life could somehow be better than it already is. ~Notes from the Universe

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

[WomenMoveMe]

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

[macele]

When we were kids, we were so poor, words were our only toys. -- Roger Miller

[JAGG]

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.- Charles M. Schulz

Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn’t say, did, or didn’t do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered, because you never know how long or short you are going to be here.- Emily Doberstein

You can have success now, or you can have it later. It's entirely up to you.-
Elements of Success

[-Red-Flag-]

probably my favorite of all time

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

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

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

e.e. cummings

[Fancy]

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos

[deedarino]

It's not from the known, but the unknown, that creativity and inventiveness are born.

Turn away from the predictable, cliché, and reliable. Brave the void where the darkness is greatest. Trust the quiet, find the stillness, feel the calm. Then steadily think, speak, and move as if you were led. Behave as if your vision were clear. Anticipate the emotional rush that will come with your triumph. And as if by magic, as you raise your pen to write, you'll find the words have already been summoned, flooded in light that was there all along, in a world that has just as anxiously anticipated your arrival.

~notes from the Universe

[ruffryder]

Greatness isn't supposed to be easy. But you can choose to have great effort every day. Jason Selk

Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything. Leonard Jacobson

"When you feel hurt and misunderstood, sometimes the only thing to do is find solace in nature."

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. Gloria Gaither

[Kobi]

"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle."

-Mahatma Gandhi

[jac]

"The beatings will continue until morale has improved"
I just love this quote... Gets me all warm and fuzzy inside. :mohawk:

[WomenMoveMe]

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

[1QuirkyKiwi]

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

[JAGG]

I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Attibuted to Volitaire


Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.- Creole Proverb

People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours. - Unknown

[deedarino]

I don't want to walk through this world with someone who steps on worms ~Me

[WomenMoveMe]

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
― Jess C. Scott

“Come sleep with me: We won't make love, love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

[Kobi]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

-Abraham Lincoln


"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Metro]

"The sun will come out tomorrow."

(from the musical "Annie", of course.)

[spritzerJ]

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. --Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give”--Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. --Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I'll stop now. I think ya' all get the point.

[spritzerJ]

“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

I guess I wasn't really done.

[1QuirkyKiwi]

I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.- Attibuted to Volitaire



Those that know me well, know that this is always said of me, lol!

[Trey339]

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

[Trey339]

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare



This is perfect and beautiful,,ty for posting it

[Trey339]

some perceptions of reality are so far from the honest truth, they are rendered ridiculous~

[jac]

"I can neither confirm nor deny!"

Is ^^^this^^^ not the best damn quote I've come up with... well... since my last one? hee hee

[ruffryder]

TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN. GEOFFREY CHAUCER

[ruffryder]

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you the first time around. Oprah

[Softhearted]

"We must look for mental commonalities between humans and other animals to understand the minds of either" - "The approach of anthropodenial — the a priori rejection of continuity between humans and other animals — has led people to systematically underestimate animals." - Frans B. M.de Waal, primatologist.

in Nature 460, p. 175 (9 July 2009)

[deedarino]

To touch, to move, to inspire - this is the true gift of dance. ~Aubrey Lynch

[Morgan]

"Life isn't about finding yourself, Life is about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

[Sassybutterfly]

You can find a once in a lifetime love, but when you find it twice with the same person, then it's truly meant to be! ~Unknown

[Butterbean]

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa


Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ~Francesco Petrarch

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless. ~Mr. Graham, 1914, Canadian House of Parliament member, commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi as "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

[Kobi]

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
~Sydney Madwed

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
~Isabel Allende

[deedarino]

"I write these words to name myself- to name each of us- worthy of going home, worthy of having our longing met, worthy of awakening in the arms of the Beloved. Finding & voicing our soul’s longing is not enough. Our ability to live in a way that is consistent with our longing- our ability to dance- is dependent upon what we believe we must do. If our intention is to change who we essentially are, we will fail. If our intention is to become who we essentially are, we cannot help but live true to the deepest longings of our soul." ~ Oriah from The Dance

[Trey339]

To create a meaningful life: Dream it; Pursue it;
Persevere courageously; Keep focus and ignore distractions.
- J. Huie

[deedarino]

Everyone has a built-in, Happiness-Now Button, that can instantly change how they feel.
Go on, push it real good.

~Mike Dooley

[BullDog]

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill

[justkim]

~ The most eloquent silence ~

~ that of two mouths meeting in a kiss ~

~ Unknown ~

[Prudence]

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill... This quote just had a profound affect on me... Its now posted on my bathroom mirror.. Thank You Bulldog

[Fancy]

My dog winks at me sometimes...
and I always wink back
in case it's some kind of code.

:)

[1QuirkyKiwi]

If a woman's work is never done; then why bother starting?
Unknown Author

Life has a big "IF" in the middle of it!
Unknown Author

[JAGG]

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.- Unknown


If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.- George Orwell


For they can conquer who believe they can.- Virgil

[JAGG]

As long as you hold onto the belief that anyone on earth can do anything to you, you will be outside the truth of who you are. People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be. The truth is that we all forget that we are divine, abundant, endlessly loving beings, and we act out of our human fears, beliefs and perceptions. When you forgive, you remind yourself of the truth of who you are – you access the unlimited power that lives in the soul of you.- Coco Fossland


Accept that whatever you are not willing to risk, is keeping you hinged in fear, attachment, and struggle. - Unknown


The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.-Albert Einstien

[kvedd]

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. ~~Tagore

[Kobi]

"If you make people think that they are thinking, they will love you;
but if you really make them think, they will hate you."

-Aristotle


"It's frightening that some people literally prefer ignorance because it's comforting and easier to comprehend."

-Paul LaClair


"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

-Eric Hoffer

[Fancy]

When the drumbeat changes, the dancers must adapt. ~ Burkina Faso proverb

[BullDog]

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
- Matt Groening

[girl_dee]

"If you have to keep telling people how real you are, its probably because you're fake."

Unknown

[girl_dee]

People lie and they tell you what you want to hear. That's how you end up falling in love with the person you thought they were.

Unknown

[girl_dee]

My life is my message.

Gandhi

[JAGG]

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.- Aristotle

It isn't how you speak the word; it's how you stand behind the word you speak.- unknown

I have always loved the time before dawn because there is no-one around to remind me who I am supposed to be, so it is easier to remember who I am.-
Unknown

[deedarino]

Oriah Mountain Dreamer: Lately. . . . frequently. . . . I just stop & reallize how happy I am feeling for no particular reason, just because. . . I am alive. It takes my breath away, & I am so filled with gratitude. The sweetness of tasting food, walking in the sun, being with friends, or being alone & fully with myself in solitude. We are surrounded by truth & beauty that feeds the soul.


~I like to add coffee to this list, and BFP, and pillows, and text messages, and my kitties, and...~

[Trey339]

"The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."

William Shakespeare


"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[jac]

"I told you once you son of a b....., I'm the best there's ever been!" :cigar2:

~ Charlie Danniels
Devil Went Down to Georgia

[WomenMoveMe]

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope...into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens

“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

[justkim]

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[Butterbean]

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. ~Robert Brault

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

[Kobi]

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign ... until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-Abraham Lincoln

[JAGG]

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison



A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.-Unknown

Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.- Dale Carnegie

[girl_dee]

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[WomenMoveMe]

“Remember the moment, not the day. Remember why you were there, not why you left. But most importantly, remember why you loved that person, not why you stopped.”
― Samuel Ballesteros

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.”
― Aldous Huxley

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

[WomenMoveMe]

There are those who shine so brightly, their flame is extinguished all too soon.

...and all in a moment's passing, gone was the women for whom I would have died, gone was the woman whom lived for me...

Three little words, "you need me", were the words that tumbled from my lips, my person, and my heart. When she finally spoke, she offered only an "I do, huh?". I nodded, telling her if only she would dance with me, I would tell her all the reasons why. She did, I did...and it was done.

[Kobi]

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

~ Albert Schweitzer

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
Unknown

We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
Unknown

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Unknown

Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
Unknown

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
Unknown

Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
Unknown

[deedarino]

"Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you." ~ Oscar Wilde

[deedarino]

Such a delicate thing- caring for ourselves & offering assistance & support to others where we are able. The impulse to assist is genuine & heart-felt. Sometimes we only know in hindsight that we have dangerously depleted our inner or outer resources, neglected to take care of our own lives/health so we can continue to give from a place of joy & generosity. This discernment- knowing what we can offer in a sustainable way- rests on deep self-knowledge & acceptance of our resources we have in this moment, (which are always changing) & motives (which are sometimes tangled in old beliefs about needing to "earn" our right to be.) And still, it is our in nature to reach out & offer what we can- we are inter-dependent beings. May we draw a wide circle of compassion & make sure to put ourselves on the inside along with all other sentient beings. ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

[Fancy]

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.


Jane Austen

[aishah]

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.” ― David Foster Wallace
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

[deedarino]

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran

[Janstevie]

Most people dont act stupid, it's the real thing.

[WomenMoveMe]

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”
― Jarod Kintz

“All I want is to reach out and touch another human being, not just with my hands, but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi

[Kobi]

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”

[Trey339]

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

[LaneyDoll]

"Do you love?" I hear her voice saything this.

In my dreams.

"Do you love?"

"Yes" I answer. "Yes and true love will never die."

:sparklyheart:

[ruffryder]

"Some things are unchangeable no matter what you do, you've just got to learn to accept things the way they are and continue living..."

[ruffryder]

"If your ship sails from
sight..it does not mean
your journeys end..it simply
means
the river
bends.."

[ruffryder]

Making miracles is hard work. Most people give up before they happen. Sheryl Crow

[Fancy]

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she's laid an asteroid."
- Mark Twain

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

[1QuirkyKiwi]

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

[JAGG]

Some people listen to themselves rather then listen to what others say. These people don't come along very often, but when they do, they remind us that once you set off on a path, even though critics may doubt you, it's ok to believe that there is no CAN'T, WON'T or IMPOSSIBLE. They remind us that it's ok to believe that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. -Unknown

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.-
Thomas Simmons



There are those who enter and leave this world without leaving a fingerprint and then there are those who can make the sun fall when they leave. Those are the ones who never did something because they could, but because they knew they had to. They are the ones who refuse to follow the path of mediocrity and excel beyond their own expectations. To them, there are no limits because they refuse to believe that there is such a thing. They are the ones who never brag because they expect better from themselves. They continually challenge the world around them because they refuse to compromise their ethics. These are the ones who never envy someone else, but rather congratulate them. Most importantly, they are the ones who inspired others to begin focusing on the path that lies ahead rather than the sickening thought of failure.- Morgan Tang

[Kobi]

Dare to Be

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.

When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.

When times are tough, dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you, dare to love again.

When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.

When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.

When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.

Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[deedarino]

Ostara Blessing

May Ostara bring joy and easiness into your lives, may her fertility be passed over to you and may your dreams, ideas, wishes, plans ripen and bear new fruits.

May the loveliness of spring open your hearts and may you understand the beauty of being and take it in.

Full of strength and new energy you shall walk into the brightness of the awakening spring and you shall leave the darkness of the past time behind.

Let go all former burdens and get rid of the ballast still hindering you.

Free and with new strength your feet shall carry you towards dawn.

May Ostara bless you all!


~The Pagan Musings

[Trey339]

We must work within the parameters of others' limitations ~

[justkim]

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[UofMfan]

"No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió."~ Gabriel García Márquez

[SoNotHer]

The envious will die, but envy never.

MOLIÈRE, Tartuffe

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

MOLIÈRE, The Misanthrope

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[Kobi]

“Get Off The Scale!

You are beautiful.
Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.
Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.

Get off the scale!
I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are.
I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it.
I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile.
I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.

It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity.
That’s it.
It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love.
Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned.
Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[1QuirkyKiwi]

"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.

3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.

6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.

7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.

10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.

11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
- Unknown

[Fancy]

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

~Walt Whitman

[1QuirkyKiwi]

At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is having friends.
At age 16 success is having a drivers license.
At age 20 success is having sex.
At age 35 success is having money.
At age 50 success is having money.
At age 60 success is having sex.
At age 70 success is having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is having friends.
At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants.
- Unknown

[jenny]

"Listen, here's what I think. I think that we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we *embrace*, what we create... and who we include." ~ Père Henri, "Chocolat"

[justkim]

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I have no idea who said it.. but...

I love it

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it !!!

[justkim]

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[justkim]

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[Novelafemme]

“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.” ~ Pico Iyer

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Decicated to those of us who are still waiting on that special woman to come into our lives...

Heart To Heart

Tonight thoughts of you are vividly strong
To love you this much, how can it be wrong
Though distance is fact, and a major part
I knew of this obstacle, right from the start

Love knows no boundaries, distance, nor time
And my only thought was for to make me your
Love travels the miles on angels' wings
And if returned, it means everything

To kiss your lips, feel your embrace
Your gentle hands caressing my face
These things I long for while we're apart
Yet still I know, we touch with our hearts

Daydreams take me to a place in time
To a heavenly realm that is so sublime
No barriers, no buffers, nor distance to close
Just two hearts entwining, the merging of souls

And there we will reign, two hearts as one
Until dealing with distance is finally done
When hearts are the focus, no price is too high
Whatever the cost, I'll gladly comply

And so tonight, as I look to the stars
Two hearts are embracing, 'tho from afar
I've closed that distance, don't be alarmed
My spirit is with you, I'm there in your arms

Unknown

[Trey339]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
buddha

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
mark twain

this one made me laugh hard ha

[Kobi]

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

― H. Jackson Brown Jr.


Sobering thought eh?

[Fancy]

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.


Jean-Paul Sartre

[JAGG]

The friend who declines to sacrifice himself for his friend's faults is still a good friend, it's the friend that puts him in that position who's not a great friend.- BW Compton

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.- Zig Ziglar

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.- Henry Ford

[Kobi]

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

[spritzerJ]

“Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.” -Pema Chodron

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”- Dalai Lama

“In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”- Buddha

“The dew of compassion is a tear.” -Lord Byron

“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'” -Conor Oberst

[Trey339]

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde~


A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~

[Kobi]

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[JAGG]

To be swayed neither by your opponent nor his sword is the essence of victory.-Samurai philosophy


If you're nobody untill somebody loves you, love yourself, it guarantees your ability to be somebody. -Unknown


Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.- Mahatma Ghandi

[Kobi]

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[Nat]

“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”

― André Gide

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

― Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

― Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”

― Gilda Radner

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[stargazingboi]

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

~Maya Angelou

[stargazingboi]

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

~Maya Angelou

[Trey339]

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

He conquers who endures. ~Persius

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault

[deedarino]

“You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself,
no matter what anyone else thinks.”
~Deepak Chopra~

[spritzerJ]

“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”
― Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About

“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
― Charles de Gaulle

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." Audre Lorde

“Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.”
― Dahlia Lithwick

“Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

[JAGG]

The world needs men and women... who cannot be bought; whose word is their bond; who put character above wealth; who possess opinions and a strong will; who are larger than their vocations; who do not hesitate to take risks; who will not lose their individuality in a crowd; who will be as honest in small affairs as in greater; who will make no compromise with wrong; whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires; who will not say they do it "because everybody else does it;" who are true to their friends through good and bad, in adversity as well as in prosperity; who do not believe that shrewdness, cunning, and hardheadedness are the best qualities for winning success; who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular; who can say "no" with emphasis, although all the rest of the world says "yes".- Anonymous


Life is only as good as the memories we make.-Unknown

Sometimes the strongest emotions and feelings we experience, and want to tell the ones we love, are so overwhelming we do not know how to say them. So speak with your heart. If the feelings are true, you will find how to express it. And they will understand you.- Philip Oprean II

[grenade]

I Knew A Woman by Theodore Roethke


I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.)

How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)

Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved.)

Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)