Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[WomenMoveMe]

“If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows, and love simply expands to contain it.”
― William P. Young

“The first kiss is never just a kiss, but a beautiful place you get to go only once.”
― Colin Tegerdine

[Soon]

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

[Sparkle]

"If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes"

Mark Twain

[Kobi]

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[Fancy]

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Annette Bening

[deedarino]

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~Henry Drummond


One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ~Helen Keller


There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.~ Albert Einstein

[deedarino]

“We clasp the hands of those that go before us, And the hands of those who come after us. We enter the little circle of each other's arms And the larger circle of lovers, Whose hands are joined in a dance, And the larger circle of all creatures, Passing in and out of life, Who move also in a dance, To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it Except in fragments” ~Wendell Berr

[1QuirkyKiwi]

To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
Warren G. Bennis

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you....
Sheng-yen

[1QuirkyKiwi]

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

[JAGG]

Never, never, never, never give up.- Winston Churchil

Champions are not measured or remembered by how much they succeded, but rather on how much they tried.- Carli Baca

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.- Martin Luther King Jr.

[sara-bera]

"In life, you always get what you ask for and it rarely comes in the package you think it’s supposed to come in." -Kurek Ashley

[SugarFemme]

“Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

[PaPa]

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

[Kobi]

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[SoNotHer]

"Clouds are the best story tellers.
They spill makeshift metaphors in the wind.
We call them raindrops."

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[deedarino]

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[JAGG]

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.- Ann Landers

Truth can only be known through silence.- Ryan Martinie


I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter as long as they're sincere?- The Diary of Anne Frank

[UofMfan]

POEMA 18

Aquí te amo.
En los oscuros pinos se desenreda el viento.
Fosforece la luna sobre las aguas errantes.
Andan días iguales persiguiéndose.

Se desciñe la niebla en danzantes figuras.
Una gaviota de plata se descuelga del ocaso.
A veces una vela. Altas, altas estrellas.

O la cruz negra de un barco.
Solo.
A veces amanezco, y hasta mi alma está húmeda.
Suena, resuena el mar lejano.
Este es un puerto.
Aquí te amo.

Aquí te amo y en vano te oculta el horizonte.
Te estoy amando aún entre estas frías cosas.
A veces van mis besos en esos barcos graves,
que corren por el mar hacia donde no llegan.

Ya me veo olvidado como estas viejas anclas.
Son más tristes los muelles cuando atraca la tarde.
Se fatiga mi vida inútilmente hambrienta.
Amo lo que no tengo. Estás tú tan distante.

Mi hastío forcejea con los lentos crepúsculos.
Pero la noche llega y comienza a cantarme.
La luna hace girar su rodaje de sueño.

Me miran con tus ojos las estrellas más grandes.
Y como yo te amo, los pinos en el viento, quieren cantar tu nombre con sus hojas de alambre. ~

http://www.poesi.as/firma0pn.gif Pablo Neruda, 1924

[MrSunshine]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~Norman Cousins

[Trey339]

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare~

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West~

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain~

[SugarFemme]

THIS is why Pablo Neruda continues to be my favorite poet. It was because of him I learned Spanish 30 years ago. I wanted to be able to read his incredible words in HIS language. Not mine.




POEMA 18

Aquí te amo.
En los oscuros pinos se desenreda el viento.
Fosforece la luna sobre las aguas errantes.
Andan días iguales persiguiéndose.

Se desciñe la niebla en danzantes figuras.
Una gaviota de plata se descuelga del ocaso.
A veces una vela. Altas, altas estrellas.

O la cruz negra de un barco.
Solo.
A veces amanezco, y hasta mi alma está húmeda.
Suena, resuena el mar lejano.
Este es un puerto.
Aquí te amo.

Aquí te amo y en vano te oculta el horizonte.
Te estoy amando aún entre estas frías cosas.
A veces van mis besos en esos barcos graves,
que corren por el mar hacia donde no llegan.

Ya me veo olvidado como estas viejas anclas.
Son más tristes los muelles cuando atraca la tarde.
Se fatiga mi vida inútilmente hambrienta.
Amo lo que no tengo. Estás tú tan distante.

Mi hastío forcejea con los lentos crepúsculos.
Pero la noche llega y comienza a cantarme.
La luna hace girar su rodaje de sueño.

Me miran con tus ojos las estrellas más grandes.
Y como yo te amo, los pinos en el viento, quieren cantar tu nombre con sus hojas de alambre. ~

http://www.poesi.as/firma0pn.gif Pablo Neruda, 1924

[feminality]

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“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[SugarFemme]

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[MissItalianDiva]

"We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key." - Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. -Iyanla Vanzant

[chai~]

I don't recall who said this, but I remind myself of this quote when I'm starting to get on my own nerves!

"She found her excuses were beginning to wear thin."

[wetfromashower]

A good relationship should have 3 things:
1- eyes that won't cry
2- lips that won't lie
3- love that won't die

[Kobi]

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[deedarino]

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-hardheartedness and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better ~Dalai Lama

[deedarino]

“The dark does not destroy
the light; it defines it.
It's our fear of the dark
that casts our joy into the shadows. ”

~Brene Brown~

[MrSunshine]

I don't recall who said this, but I remind myself of this quote when I'm starting to get on my own nerves!

"She found her excuses were beginning to wear thin."


That was my mother.

[JAGG]

Maturity is not measured by age but by the way you handle yourself in adverse situations.- Drew Szabo

The people you care about the most have the potential to hurt you the worse.- Unknown

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. - Unknown

[jac]

One of my biggest inspirational icons when it comes to my writing...
Oh and he only lives about a mile from my apartment :)

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
--Stephen King

[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

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[SugarFemme]

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[wetfromashower]

It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them... Their present and their past... But you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides... Never judge... Learn to respect and acknowledge the feelings of another...

[Fancy]

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

Anais Nin

[Soon]

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.


~Adrienne Rich

[Tommi]

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.


~Adrienne Rich
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In this Nov. 15, 2006 file photo, poet Adrienne Rich addresses dinner guests after receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2006 National Book Awards sponsored by The National Book Foundation in New York. Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82. Rich, who had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s, died Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at her home. Her son, Pablo Conrad, says she died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Adrienne Rich, a fiercely gifted, award-winning poet whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82.

Rich died Tuesday at her Santa Cruz home from complications from rheumatoid arthritis, said her son, Pablo Conrad. She had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s.

Through her writing, Rich explored topics such as women's rights, racism, sexuality, economic justice and love between women.

Rich published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and five collections of nonfiction. She won a National Book Award for her collection of poems "Diving into the Wreck" in 1974, when she read a statement written by herself and fellow nominees Alice Walker and Audre Lorde, "refusing the terms of patriarchal competition and declaring that we will share this prize among us, to be used as best we can for women."

In 2004, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection "The School Among the Ruins." According to her publisher, W.W. Norton, her books have sold between 750,000 and 800,000 copies, a high amount for a poet.

She gained national prominence with her third poetry collection, "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law," in 1963. Citing the title poem, University of Maryland professor Rudd Fleming wrote in The Washington Post that Rich "proves poetically how hard it is to be a woman — a member of the second sex."

She was, like so many, profoundly changed by the 1960s. Rich married Harvard University economist Alfred Conrad in 1953 and they had three sons. But she left him in 1970 and eventually lived with her partner, writer and editor Michelle Cliff. She used her experiences as a mother to write "Of Woman Born," her groundbreaking feminist critique of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, published in 1976.

"Rich is one of the few poets who can deal with political issues in her poems without letting them degenerate into social realism," Erica Jong once wrote.

Unlike most American writers, Rich believed art and politics not only could co-exist, but must co-exist. She considered herself a socialist because "socialism represents moral value — the dignity and human rights of all citizens," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005. "That is, the resources of a society should be shared and the wealth redistributed as widely as possible."

"She was very courageous and very outspoken and very clear," said her longtime friend W.S. Merwin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. "She was a real original, and whatever she said came straight out of herself."

As Merwin noted, Rich was a hard poet to define because she went through so many phases. Or, as Rich wrote in "Delta," ''If you think you can grasp me, think again."

Her political poems included "The Burning of Paper Instead of Children," an indictment of the Vietnam War and the damage done and a cry for language itself: "The typewriter is overheated, my mouth is burning. I cannot touch you and this is the oppressor's language."

One of her best-known poems, "Living in Sin," tells of a woman's disappointment between what she imagined love would be — "no dust upon the furniture of love" — and the dull reality, the man "with a yawn/sounded a dozen notes upon the keyboard/declared it out of tune, shrugged at the mirror/rubbed at his beard, went out for cigarettes."

Rich taught at many colleges and universities, including Brandeis, Rutgers, Cornell, San Jose State and Stanford.

She won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships and many top literary awards including the Bollingen Prize, Brandeis Creative Arts Medal, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Wallace Stevens Award.

But when then-President Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1997, Rich refused to accept it, citing the administration's "cynical politics."

"The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate," she wrote to the administration. "A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored."

In 2003, Rich and other poets refused to attend a White House symposium on poetry to protest to U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Born in Baltimore in 1929, Rich was the elder of two daughters of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother — a mixed heritage that she recalled in her autobiographical poem "Sources." Her father, a doctor and medical professor at Johns Hopkins University, encouraged her to write poetry at an early age.

Rich graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 and was chosen for the Yale Younger Poets Prize for her first book of poetry, "A Change of World."

Living in Cambridge, Mass., she befriended Merwin, Donald Hall and other poets. In 1966, her family moved to New York City when her husband accepted a teaching position at City College. Soon after she left Conrad, he committed suicide.

Rich taught remedial English to poor students entering college before teaching writing at Swarthmore College, Columbia University School of the Art and City University of New York.

[deedarino]

To find perfection in the imperfectness of life;
to give our best in the worst situations;
to learn to let fear be our protector, not our jailer;
to exercise patience with ourselves and others:
These are challenges we all face. And how we deal with them plays a role in our fate.
So may we face them with our best intentions. Our greatest determination.
And may we find our joy. ~ Sandra Kring

[Kobi]

"Thou shalt not be a victim.
Thou shalt not be a perpetrator.
Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

-- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

[Trey339]

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart. - Charles Dickens

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage - Lao-Tzu

[JAGG]

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.- Unknown

Someone once told me that life is all about taking risks. I now realize that life is really about deciding which risks are worth taking. - Eric Perusek


There is always something to do. Boredom is just a word lazy people use to describe their lack of interest in life.- Amy Kleer

[Soon]

“So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior.”
― Pema Chödrön

[MrSunshine]

Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi

[Kobi]

"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

-Jeff Daly

[MrSunshine]

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you". ~Rumi

[sara-bera]

“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.” -Leo Rosten

[sara-bera]

"Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of it's constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts." - Edgar Allan Poe

[wetfromashower]

Sometimes you have to put your heart on the line for a chance at something great...

[JAGG]

Everything's okay in the end. If its not okay, it's not the end.- Carolyn Myers


They say it's a sign of greatness if you laugh at yourself- Unknown


The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and nobody ever minds if you return it!- Unknown

[jac]

"Faith in action is love, and love in action is service" ~St. Mother Teresa

When I win the $640 million from my mega bucks ticket this weekend, I will have several homeless shelters strategically placed where service is needed. Yes indeed! :)

[Trey339]

you are never alone

[Trey339]

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

[Kobi]

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Ralph Nichols

[wetfromashower]

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

[WomenMoveMe]

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May

[MrSunshine]

I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean into your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more".
~Rumi

[JustJo]

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."
~ Goethe ~

[Kobi]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

[SugarFemme]

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

[JAGG]

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?- Dr. Robert Schuller

If you doubt your power you give power to your doubt.- Unknown


It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.- Philip Adams

[jac]

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

"Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just Be."

"May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers."

"Use your time wisely. Every moment produce beautiful thoughts, loving, kindness, forgiveness. Say beautiful things, inspire, forgive, act physically to protect and help."

"You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone."

~Thich Nhat Hanh :praying:

[WomenMoveMe]

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― Kahil Gibran

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”
― Thomas Moore

“I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are...”
― Betty Berzon

[wetfromashower]

Don't stumble over something behind you...

[Kobi]

“Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”

― Joseph Campbell

[JAGG]

I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death.-Unknown

This we know: The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. We did not weave the web of life-we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.- Chief Seattle

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honor, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Britain

[Fancy]

If you can love your enemy, you already have victory.

-Preacher Green (The Help)

[justkim]

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[Kobi]

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

Jacqueline Bisset

[wetfromashower]

"Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes.
Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow."

[Novelafemme]

"Don't fight the trail. Take what it gives you ... Think easy, light, smooth and fast. You start with easy because if that's all you get, that's not so bad. Then work on light. Make it effortless, like you don't give a sh*t how high the hill is or how far you've got to go. When you've practiced that so long that you forget your'e practicing, you work on making it smooooooth. You won't have to worry about the last one -- you get those three, and you'll be fast." --Micah True (aka Caballo Blanco)

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[jenny]

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
~ Jon Katz

[JAGG]

Never underestimate the effect you can have on others regardless of your position in the world.-unknown


Of all things aquired through life, the one possession we hope to never attain is regret. For that is a possession which cannot be sold or traded for anything at any cost.- Aaron Waldie

The only thing in this world that is indestructable is the past. It can never be redone or changed, so when making it, be sure you'll be proud when you look at your invincible creation.- Unknown

[Kobi]

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~Pythagoras

Life is the sum of all your choices.
~Albert Camus

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."
~Dodinsky

[jac]

"Life is uncertain, eat dessert first"- unknown :eating:

[jenny]

"It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you." ~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

[deedarino]

"Stay at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. It has no choice in the matter. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet." ~Franz Kafka

[JAGG]

Continue searching harder, deeper, faster, stronger, and louder and knowing that one day, you'll be called upon to use all that you've amassed in the process.- Jodie Foster

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Watch your destiny, it becomes your eternity.-Unknown

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were made for. - Unknown

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Don’t judge a book by its cover, until you’ve read the inside!
(My Maori Grandmother’s version).

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Leo F. Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo F. Buscaglia

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
Leo F. Buscaglia

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo F. Buscaglia

[Kobi]

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[jenny]

“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

[Trey339]

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola

[JAGG]

You haven't met yourself yet, but the advantage of meeting others in the meantime is that one of them may present you to yourself.- Waking Life


To be great is to be misunderstood.- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Insanity in individuals is rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.- Friedrich Nietzsche

[macele]

"i'd hate to have your nerve in my tooth." -- unknown

"ain't we a-pickin' our peaches 'fore they're fuzzed up good?" -- andy griffith

[Kobi]

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ~Author Unknown

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown

[WomenMoveMe]

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
~Eric Hoffer

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~G.C. Lichtenberg

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Eric Berne

[Kobi]

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

~ Peace Pilgrim

[Fancy]

‎"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against. No better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."

- Kate Millett

[Kobi]

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.

– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[JAGG]

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.- GH Hardy


Always tell the truth. That way you won't have to remember what it was you said.- Mark Twain


You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.- Unknown

[VintageFemme]

"This is the first time in history that publicly acknowledging that you follow two or more distinct spiritual traditions would not have you burned at the stake, stoned to death, or facing a firing squad. We tend to forget what an extraordinary time this is, that for the first time in history we have the entirety of the world's spiritual and religious traditions available to us, and we can practice them . . . without fear." -Roger Walsh, "IONS Review"

[sara-bera]

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” -Sarah Dessen

[JAGG]

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. - Unknown


Never mistake age for maturity. - Unknown



If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown

[Fancy]

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

-Audrey Hepburn

[Kobi]

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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

[JAGG]

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. -Unknown


If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you're missing all the rest. -Unknown


Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. -André Dubus

[Kent]

WHEN YOU get what you
want in your struggle for
self;
And the world makes you
king for a day;
Then go to the mirror and
look at yourself
And see what that guy has
to say.

FOR IT isn't your father or
mother or wife,
Whose judgment upon you
must pass;
The fellow whose verdict
counts most in your life,
Is the guy staring back from
the glass.

HE'S THE man you must
please, never mind all the
rest,
For he's with you clear up
to the end.
And you've passed your
most difficult, dangerous
test
If the man in the glass is
your friend.

YOU MAY be like little Jack
Horner and "chisel" a
plum,
And think you're a wonder-
ful guy;
But the man in the glass
says your only a bum,
If you can't look him
straight in the eye.

YOU CAN fool the whole
world down the pathway of
years,
And get pats on the back as
you pass:
But your final reward will be
heartaches and tears,
If you cheated the Guy in
the Glass.

Dale Wimbrow

[Kobi]

"When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth."

- Eckhart Tolle

[deedarino]

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou


"The art of life is mastered within the academy of your heart. You create your masterpieces through your tears and smiles. You must persist to believe that your own constellation of stars is the wisdom that you have learned from your failures." - Dodinsky


I hesitate ...
Not out of caution
And not from fear
But to give the time and space
These next steps deserve.
Life-changing steps
Monumental and pivotal steps
I hesitate ... I breathe ... I wait
For it will come ~ with certainty
The answer will come.
— with Ivanka Gimunova

[sara-bera]

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

[Janstevie]

You cant buy love, it can only be given.

[JAGG]

It's the choices we make everyday that make us who we are. -Unknown


Jealousy is the finest tribute mediocrity can pay to genius. -Unknown

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sylvie]

Please don't be imprisoned by your suffering.

(page 4, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching)..
Thich Nhat Hanh

this was an eye opening moment for me, last week..

[Fancy]

‎"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C.S. Lewis

[ruffryder]

"Let your past make you better, not bitter."


A humble person will always be a maker of peace. Joyce Meyer


‎Listen to your heart. Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure. Paulo Coelho

[Talon]

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

--Henry D. Thoreau

[Kobi]

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

~Susan Taylor

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

~Pythagoras

[JAGG]

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill


One who does less than he can is a thief .-Ghandi



He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.-George Bernard Shaw

[1QuirkyKiwi]

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.-George Bernard Shaw

...And he who cannot do either, criticises.

[Kobi]

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~Anatole France

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~Henri Bergson

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
~W.H. Auden

[UofMfan]

La risa es el lenguaje del alma.~ Pablo Neruda

[Ms. Meander]

I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she must learn to forgive him or herself.
~ Jeanette Winterson, "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?"

[Talon]

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

~Hesiod

[macele]

talon, that's a great line. i like that. wish i had written it.

[macele]

"People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself." -- Meryl Streep

"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too." -- Meryl Streep

[Talon]

talon, that's a great line. i like that. wish i had written it.

Aw, thanks, macele...you can have it, k? :dogwalking:

[macele]

talon, you are welcome. but you can't give it to me LOL. hesiod wouldn't approve of that lol. thank you for the nice thought. love it!

[Soon]

"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
-Janeane Garofalo

[SugarFemme]

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[JAGG]

Be patient and strong; for someday this pain will be useful to you. -Ovid


Success comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to timid. -Jawaharalal Nehru


Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings -Reader's Digest's Quotable Quotes

[Kobi]

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author Unknown

[JAGG]

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.-Bodie Thoene

[Talon]

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

~Lao Tzu

[gotoseagrl]

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. Emily Bronte

[gotoseagrl]

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa

[UofMfan]

"La memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y gracias a ese artificio, logramos sobrellevar el pasado."~ Gabriel García Márquez

[Trey339]

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagor

[TWolf]

Good decisions come from knowledge....
Knowledge comes from experience....
Experience comes from bad decisions....
~ anon

[MissItalianDiva]

Gratitude, praise and thanksgiving activate the divine laws of abundance. When the universe can see we are conscious of and grateful for what we have, it is activated to shower us with more.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

Beloveds, when we give our bodies to another being, we are giving them a piece of our souls. We might want to take the time to find out if they deserve it

~Iyanla Vanzant

All spiritual lessons are taught through experiences. In every situation, positive or negative, we must discover: Am I learning a lesson? Am I teaching a lesson? Am I functioning as the object through which a lesson is being taught? Once we understand our role in any given situation, we can accept our lesson and move on.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

When in doubt, don't. - Unknown


To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. -Unknown


If you pull yourself away from opportunities just because of a few bad experiences, you'll never have any good ones. - Unknown

[JAGG]

Beloveds, when we give our bodies to another being, we are giving them a piece of our souls. We might want to take the time to find out if they deserve it

~Iyanla Vanzant

All spiritual lessons are taught through experiences. In every situation, positive or negative, we must discover: Am I learning a lesson? Am I teaching a lesson? Am I functioning as the object through which a lesson is being taught? Once we understand our role in any given situation, we can accept our lesson and move on.

~Iyanla Vanzant

I love your first quote!! Boy isn't that the truth. No doubt!!!!!!!!!

[Liam]

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.—Rumi

[sara-bera]

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” -Siddhartha Gautama

[sara-bera]

"Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide." -unknown

[Kobi]

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Janstevie]

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

[deedarino]

What if today was your day? The most amazing day of your life, so far? A day that would change everything for the better? What's already good would become great. What's already great would become amazing. And what's already amazing would become the stuff of legends.

And all you had to do to take advantage of the good and wonderful things about to happen for you, was treat folks with a true and eager kindness, think mostly of those things that please you, and go out in the world, just a bit, where you could meet, and mingle, and fall in love?

How much would you be clucking right now? Thumbs under your armpits, getting funky? Bobbing your head?

Start clucking baby! Beam, gush, preen! You got it...

The Universe

PS: Today's your day, yet if by its end nothing seems to have happened, it may just mean that tomorrow, for sure, will be the most amazing day of your life.

(www.tut.com)

[JAGG]

Fear of failure is what drives me to all my success -Unknown



Taking risks is the biggest part of life. If we are not risking something, we are not living - Unknown


Genius is the power to see 10 things where the ordinary man sees one. -Ezra Pound

[Trey339]

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail". Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Janstevie]

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals

[Arwen]

If you think it's so necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there. Wiz Khalifia

[Talon]

People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
The reason the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved,
and people are being used.

[sara-bera]

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess." -Lemony Snicket

[Metro]

cross-posting because this really speaks to me...

"Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide."

@thecoolhunter on Twitter

[JAGG]

The most successful people are those who stand up to their equals, behave properly to their superiors, and treat their inferiors fairly. -Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue (416 BCE)


I am always ready to learn; but I do not always like being taught. -Winston Churchill


The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.-Unknown

[MissItalianDiva]

What you give out will be returned to you. That is the law of compensation. Get rid of your bad thoughts, inferior attitudes and limited behaviors and good will be attracted to you. It's not easy. It's not magic. But it works, miraculously.

Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

"Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed into the future. "

Iyanla Vanzant

[jac]

"You gotta expect it to be hard work. If it were easy everyone would be doing it." ~anonymous

[Fancy]

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
― Mary Oliver

[1QuirkyKiwi]

There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:

This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.
~Stacey Charter

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~Mark Overby

[Talon]

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

~Karen age 7...........:moonstars:

[1QuirkyKiwi]

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

~Karen age 7...........:moonstars:

That is so cute! :heartbeat:

[JAGG]

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."

~Karen age 7...........:moonstars:

Haha this made me laugh . Very cute!

[Talon]

That is so cute! :heartbeat:

Aw thanks doll, glad you enjoyed it...:bouquet:

[Talon]

Haha this made me laugh . Very cute!


Glad I could give you a chuckle, Jagg...out of the mouth of babes...:innocent:

[Liam]

To oppose something, is to maintain it.—Ursula K. LeGuin

[Kobi]

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have—for their usefulness.

Thomas Merton

[1QuirkyKiwi]

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have—for their usefulness.

Thomas Merton



So true! We're human beings, not human doings!

[Soon]

I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn.

--Florence and the Machine

[JAGG]

When the mind is weak, the whole body suffers. Unknown


Its beautiful when two strangers become best friends, but sad when two best friends become strangers. -Unknown


The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. -Dante

[Prudence]

Never grow a wishbone daughter, where your backbone ought to be.....Clementine Pappleford

[Kobi]

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Evelyn Dunbar

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. ~Felix Adler

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice

[wetfromashower]

I’ve learned that things change... people change... and it doesn’t mean you forget the past or try to cover it up... It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories... Letting go doesn’t mean giving up… it means accepting that some things weren’t meant to be...

[deedarino]

The reason most don't recognize the miracles that are performed on their behalf, is because there's just so many of them ~Mike Dooley


I will always find a way...and a way will always find me.


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...~Blackfoot

[jac]

"We're always in temporary mode, but that doesn't mean we can't dream and prepare for our future so that when we arrive at that temporary moment it's that much easier."
~Stoney :hamactor:

[Talon]

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.
And at night, the ice weasels come.

~Matt Groening

[JAGG]

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath.
And at night, the ice weasels come.

~Matt Groening

And yet, another good reason not to go anywhere cold on purpose. Haha

[Truly Scrumptious]

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.”

~ Haruki Murakami

[Talon]

And yet, another good reason not to go anywhere cold on purpose. Haha


Yes, darling..we all know how you feel about the cold, don't we?....:runforhills:....*chuckle*

[ruffryder]

“Your actions and words are always having an impact on another person, especially children.” Barry Manilow

[Novelafemme]

Three minutes after you have gone. No, I can't restrain it.
I tell you what you already know - I love you.
It is this I destroyed over and over again. At Dijon I wrote you long passionate letters - if you had remained in Switzerland I would have sent them - but how could I send them to Louveciennes? Anais, I can't say much now - I am in a fever. I could scarcely talk to you because I was continually on the point of getting up and throwing my arms around you.

(A love letter from author Henry Miller to poet Anais Nin on March 4, 1932)

[thedivahrrrself]

“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”
~John Milton


“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 Kubler-Ross


My advice to my absolutely radiant friend:

“If you look deep within, you will find a brilliant light. To many, far too many, squint and turn away from the shine. Let your eyes adjust, and bathe in the radiance.”
~Unknown

[girl_dee]

"Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you'll have to eat."
- Anonymous

[girl_dee]

"In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."

[JAGG]

There is no doubt that a single creative thought has the power to change the world. -Unknown


You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. -Steve Prefontaine


Winners are winners because they do what losers don't want to do. -Unknown

[girl_dee]

There's a difference between optimism and naïveté..
~Janessa

[Fancy]

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen

[girl_dee]

“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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –Life’s Little Instruction Book

[girl_dee]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

[girl_dee]

Suppose someone, to annoy, provokes you to do some evil act, why allow anger to arise and thus do exactly as he wants you to do?
Visuddhi Magga

[Sparkle]

BE DARING, BE DIFFERENT, BE IMPRACTICAL,
BE ANYTHING THAT WILL ASSERT INTEGRITY OF PURPOSE AND IMAGINATIVE VISION
AGAINST THE PLAY-IT-SAFERS, THE CREATURES OF THE COMMONPLACE, THE SLAVES OF THE ORDINARY.

-CECIL BEATON

[Hollylane]

BE DARING, BE DIFFERENT, BE IMPRACTICAL,
BE ANYTHING THAT WILL ASSERT INTEGRITY OF PURPOSE AND IMAGINATIVE VISION
AGAINST THE PLAY-IT-SAFERS, THE CREATURES OF THE COMMONPLACE, THE SLAVES OF THE ORDINARY.

-CECIL BEATON

This is so AWESOME!

[wetfromashower]

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes... Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow...

[Talon]

What is allowed us is disagreeable.
What is denied causes us intense desire.

~Ovid

[macele]

"When you chose to be a competitor, you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are. Competition trains you to accept risks and endure setbacks. By embracing it, you can enhance your life. But it will also pull you through those painful, frightening every-day battles that we all have to face at one time or another. Ask yourself, "Are you a competitor?"

-- Pat Summitt

[Kobi]

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes;
a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs;
an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

~Leonard Louis Levinson

[Kobi]

..... a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

[JAGG]

The power to change our destinies lie within ourselves.-Unknown

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill


The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. -Albert Einstein

[Kobi]

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

~Frederick Douglass

[jac]

Saw this on a picture message on a friend's facebook...

"DO NOT CROSS THIS PASTURE: Unless you can do it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10!" :pointing:

[macele]

“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[Janstevie]

You are only truely in control of your life when you accept that you are not.

[jac]

This was on a magnet...
"To fear is human. To arr is pirate" :pirate-steer:

[JAGG]

Far better is it to dare mighty things and win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt


Often people fall short, not because they have tried and failed, but because the fear of failure kept them from trying at all . - Unknown


Knowledge often masters those who cannot master it.-The Clever librarian

[sara-bera]

“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

[sara-bera]

"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places." -unknown

[girl_dee]

If I wait to be
perfect
before I love myself
I will always be
unsatisfied
and ungrateful

if I wait until
all the flaws, chips,
and cracks disappear
I will be the cup
that stands on the shelf
and is never used.

Aynsley Bubbico

[sara-bera]

“Never cut what can be untied.” -Proverb

[Wolfz7]

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.


-Lucille Ball

[Wolfz7]

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.

[Trey339]

The greatest pleasure of life is love
Euripides

[Softhearted]

Why are quantum physicists so bad at sex?

Because when they can find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they can find the momentum, they can't find the position.

Bazinga!

source: unknown, it was told to me by a friend and I spat out my drink in laughter!

[Prudence]

A child believes that only the action of someone who is unfriendly can cause pain.
Chased-By-Bears (from the book "A Cherokee Feast of Days"):indiangirl:

[weatherboi]

"There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so!" - William Shakespeare

[Soon]

Whenever you accept what is, something deeper emerges than what is. So, you can be trapped in the most painful dilemma, external or internal, the most painful feelings or situation, and the moment you accept what is, you go beyond it, you transcend it.
~Eckhart Tolle

[Kobi]

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Talon]

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep..not screaming like the passengers in his car.

[JAGG]

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep..not screaming like the passengers in his car.

Hahaha, too freakin funny!!

[Talon]

Hahaha, too freakin funny!!

You must have the funny at least once a day...:nyahnyah:

[LaneyDoll]

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery





Antoine de Saint-Exupery is one of my fave sources for quotes...


“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince


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


“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince


:sparklyheart:

[JAGG]

You must have the funny at least once a day...:nyahnyah:

I wish you would have posted this a little eariler. I had this very conversation with a friend of mine about 3 hours ago, I would have loved to toss that in there and lighten the moment a lttle.

[dixie]

"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path." ~Andre Gide

[Trey339]

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

[JAGG]

You can't be proud around your family, they know the good dirt. -Unknown


Even the wrong words can rhyme, don't be a fool, raise your standards. -Joys Way

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them. - Unknown

[Janstevie]

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

[Kobi]

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

~Andre Kostelanetz

[jenny]

"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway." ~ Erma Bombeck

[homoe]

When I was way to young to even understand what it meant, my mom always used to have this saying about new relationships:A New Broom Always Sweeps Clean Now that I'm older, I totally get it

[macele]

momma loves to say, (not so much anymore. she has a bit of dementia, so she's not exactly the momma i grew up with.) ...

"what's worse than doing wrong? to know it's wrong and still do it." -- mac's momma

[JAGG]

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.


He who conceals his disease cannot be cured.-Ethopian Proverb


Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. -Benjamin Franklin

[gaea]

My dad always said--

"you can do whatever you want to do as long as you put your mind to it, its not illegal and you cause no harm to anyone"

i said the same thing to mine.

[Kobi]

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

~Jean Arp

[gaea]

Courage- The willingness to risk who you are for who you want to be and what you have for what you want.

Willingness-possessing the ability to act or respond by the power of choice,without reluctance.

I love this thread I am glad it.

[Talon]

"I don't drink these days, I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs."

~Robert Downey Jr.

[homoe]

This isn't really a quote but in a new movie called Perfect Family starring Katheleen Turner her daughter (who is a lesbian) asks her a question about what she thinks and her reply is.. "I'm a catholic I don't have to think"!

[Kobi]

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

[gaea]

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
Zig Ziglar

[gaea]

" There are those people today who live the same life, day-in day-out - predictable, risk-free, dreamless. They are the harshest critics of those who choose to break free from this mundane existence. In this world, too many people are afraid to pursue the life they truly desire, too afraid of being criticized by others, too afraid of failing, too afraid of not knowing the way. However, there are also those who choose to follow their dreams, those who choose to rebel, those who strive to be free - those who live. Stay true to yourself. Break free from the chains of society - and live. May you too have the strength and courage to pursue your dreams."-Roger Chao

[JAGG]

Courage- The willingness to risk who you are for who you want to be and what you have for what you want.

Willingness-possessing the ability to act or respond by the power of choice,without reluctance.

I love this thread I am glad it.

You love this thread you're so glad it..... WHAT? Didn't get eaten by wild dingos. Doesn't cost anything to post here? Isn't high in calories? Boy I sure hope flutter doesn't see this and start coughing up blood. Lmao. Ya know it kind of reminds me of a post I read in the "it hurts me" thread.... oh nothing. Hahaha

[thedivahrrrself]

You love this thread you're so glad it..... WHAT? Didn't get eaten by wild dingo's. Doesn't cost anything to post here? Isn't high in calories? Boy I sure hope flutter doesn't see this and start coughing up blood. Lmao. Ya know it kind of reminds me of a post I read in the "it hurts me" thread.... oh nothing. Hahaha

I am definitely glad this thread is not high in calories. :) But now I am terrified the wild dingos are going to eat it.

Oh, and BTW, your use of an apostrophe for a plural noun just made me cough up a little blood. :tease:

[JAGG]

I am definitely glad this thread is not high in calories. :) But now I am terrified the wild dingos are going to eat it.

Oh, and BTW, your use of an apostrophe for a plural noun just made me cough up a little blood. :tease:


What ??? :blink: How did you do that ?

[jenny]

"As a math atheist, I should be excused from this." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

[crunching numbers, and not enjoying it]

[Talon]

When you are out with a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

~Albert Einstein

[gaea]

You love this thread you're so glad it..... WHAT? Didn't get eaten by wild dingos. Doesn't cost anything to post here? Isn't high in calories? Boy I sure hope flutter doesn't see this and start coughing up blood. Lmao. Ya know it kind of reminds me of a post I read in the "it hurts me" thread.... oh nothing. Hahaha

omfg! lmfao ok ok so i missed a word...it happens sometimes when I'm posting from my phone oy just like misspelled words happen...this has me cracking up though.

I'm so glad i FOUND it still cracking the hell up!

[gaea]

You love this thread you're so glad it..... WHAT? Didn't get eaten by wild dingos. Doesn't cost anything to post here? Isn't high in calories? Boy I sure hope flutter doesn't see this and start coughing up blood. Lmao. Ya know it kind of reminds me of a post I read in the "it hurts me" thread.... oh nothing. Hahaha

I am definitely glad this thread is not high in calories. :) But now I am terrified the wild dingos are going to eat it.

Oh, and BTW, your use of an apostrophe for a plural noun just made me cough up a little blood. :tease:

What ??? :blink: How did you do that ?

All very good for a great laugh :)

[JAGG]

omfg! lmfao ok ok so i missed a word...it happens sometimes when I'm posting from my phone oy just like misspelled words happen...this has me cracking up though.

I'm so glad i FOUND it still cracking the hell up!

Smart ass pranksters can only hold out for so long. (Sigh) I noticed teacher's pet theBrownNoserHerself came to your rescue. Roflmao @ The BrownNoserHerself nickname.

[gaea]

Smart ass pranksters can only hold out for so long. (Sigh)

you know i have an album in my photobucket dedicated just for you
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/hstigen/Smart%20Ass/SMART-ASS-2.gif

My apologies for the derail.

[thedivahrrrself]

you know i have an album in my photobucket dedicated just for you
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/hstigen/Smart%20Ass/SMART-ASS-2.gif

My apologies for the derail.

As to not derail, I will post my reply in quotes:

"There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth."
- Anthony Burgess

This one reminds me of HAGG:

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."
- Carl Sandburg

[Talon]

Witty...witty...witty..my pretty's. :eyebat:

[JAGG]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.- Allison Wheatly 2nd grade (oh the level I've been forced to stoop to)

He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. - chinese proverd

She who lives in North Tulsa shouldn't wear chucks with a brown nose. - Dr. Phil. Or maybe not

[ruffryder]

Be content! Being upset won't change a thing, but it will ruin your day. Joyce Meyer

[thedivahrrrself]

She who lives in North Tulsa shouldn't wear chucks with a brown nose. - Dr. Phil. Or maybe not

No, I think it was more like "She who lives in north tulsa shouldn't be forced to wear ankle weights while wearing brown nosed chucks" That seems like something Dr. Phil told me once when I was on his show to get rid of my addiction to sniffing nail files ROFLMAO

Oh, but I have one more quote for ya:

"Kettle, you're black." ~Pot

[JAGG]

No, I think it was more like "She who lives in north tulsa shouldn't be forced to wear ankle weights while wearing brown nosed chucks" That seems like something Dr. Phil told me once when I was on his show to get rid of my addiction to sniffing nail files ROFLMAO

Oh, but I have one more quote for ya:

"Kettle, you're black." ~Pot

I just call it like I see it, if I don't see it I'll make it up. - Unknown but maybe it was something I said once
Don't count your chicks before they are hatched. Who Cares
He who laughs last laughs best. Unknown

[JAGG]

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain


The lack of money is the root of all evil. -Mark Twain



The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. -Henry Thoreau

[willow]

You love this thread you're so glad it..... WHAT? Didn't get eaten by wild dingos. Doesn't cost anything to post here? Isn't high in calories? Boy I sure hope flutter doesn't see this and start coughing up blood. Lmao. Ya know it kind of reminds me of a post I read in the "it hurts me" thread.... oh nothing. Hahaha


I will not cough up blood, I keep up to date with vaccinations. Also, thank you for pointing out that such a thing might have made me cough up blood because now someone somewhere will be sitting wiggling their bum like a lioness ready to pounce on my inevitable mistakes! :cat::giggle: