Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Talon]

Smile. It scares people. :freak:

[Semantics]

“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one saw them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic- their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)-and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.”


Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

[JAGG]

Be smart, don't act smart. -Unknown


Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. -Immanuel Kant


The truly powerful do not proclaim themsleves, they are proclaimed by others. -Unknown

[Trey339]

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

[Liam]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.—Marianne Williamson

[Janstevie]

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved !!!

[girl_dee]

Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful for the little things in life.

[Kobi]

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

~ Gloria Naylor

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Smile. It scares people. :freak:

Aha! With me smiling a lot, this explains why I get funny looks off people!

*Whimpers I not that scary, am I?*

[sara-bera]

“Do what you can with what you have, where you are" -Theodore Roosevelt

[Kobi]

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[Fancy]

“Her memory will be a flower tucked into literature’s turban.
In her loneliness, every sister cries for her.”

~Amail
written after Zarmina’s suicide, called “The Poet Who Died Young”

[Talon]

Aha! With me smiling a lot, this explains why I get funny looks off people!

*Whimpers I not that scary, am I?*


:whoop:.....this is the look I get sometimes...which actually makes me chuckle...people can be strange.

Aw...sweet Kiwi, you're a doll....and that's waaaay better. :winky:

[Talon]

“Her memory will be a flower tucked into literature’s turban.
In her loneliness, every sister cries for her.”

~Amail
written after Zarmina’s suicide, called “The Poet Who Died Young”


Fancy, this is beautiful.

[gaea]

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman

[Arwen]

You know everything you need to know. Just try to remember it." Harsh Cry of the Heron, Tales of the Otori, Book 4. Lian Hearn

[JAGG]

Love is when you seek to find the potential in someone and desire more than anything else in the world to help them bring it out. -Unknown


It is better to suffer the consequences of the truth, than the consequences of a lie. -Unknown


The study of history is realizing that the source of every current existence lies in the past. -Brea Ettel

[Charming Texan]

Don't shake a whore tree expecting an angel to fall out - my co-worker, today.

It's an HR free zone apparently. ha.

[Arwen]

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -Anne Frank (1929-1945)

We could place blame, point fingers, wallow in pain from all the things that "should" have been "if only" blah blah blah... But there comes a time when we must stand on our own two feet and recognize that we create our own future. We create our own present. We have choices to make every day. Look within. Find that strength and move on. -Lissa Coffey

Self-responsibility is the key for me. If you don't have it, I don't want to spend time with you. Arwen

[1QuirkyKiwi]

:whoop:.....this is the look I get sometimes...which actually makes me chuckle...people can be strange.

Aw...sweet Kiwi, you're a doll....and that's waaaay better. :winky:

Thank you! :)

I smile more, I can't help it, lol! I wonder why people are so unnerved by those of us who smile a lot? Maybe it's because they think we know something they don't, or they're miserable souls who look like they've suck on Lemons all day... LOL!

[1QuirkyKiwi]

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
Winnie the Pooh

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Winnie the Pooh

You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes.
Winnie the Pooh

[jenny]

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” ~ Mark Twain

[Kobi]

No day is wasted in which I touch another person's life in any positive, meaningful way. And so it is that I enrich my days by giving something of myself whether through a warm smile, a kind word, a sympathetic ear, a gentle embrace, or a helping hand.
-- David L. Weatherford

[Talon]

As I awaken each morning,
my dreams of you fade...as thoughts of you flood my mind with sensual assault.

[MrSunshine]

Your face is just fine, you'll have to put a bag over that personality.

[girl_dee]

I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.

Marwa Ayad

[girl_dee]

Your face is just fine, you'll have to put a bag over that personality.

BEST one yet.

[Janstevie]

Most relationships tend to fail, not because of the absence of love, love is always present, it's just that one was being loved too much and the other was'nt being loved enough.

[jenny]

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

[Fancy]

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire-
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.


Edgar Lee Masters

[Kobi]

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.

~Author Unknown

[Novelafemme]

“Walk patiently through this troubled world,
and you will find great treasure.
Even though your house may be small,
look within it!”
~Rumi —

[macele]

“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Because it's all relative. You're pinned down in some filthy hellhole of a paddy, getting your ass delivered to kingdom come, but then for a few seconds everything goes quiet and you look up and see the sun and a few puffy white clouds, and the immense serenity flashes against your eyeballs - the whole world gets rearranged - and even though you're pinned down by a war you've never felt more at peace.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

[Talon]

The noblest dog is the hotdog, it feeds the hand that bites it. :groucho:

[Kobi]

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[Janstevie]

HATE has 4 letters, but so does LOVE,

ENEMIES has 7 letters, but so does FRIENDS,

LYING has 5 letters, but so does TRUTH,

HURT has 4 letters, but so does HEAL.

Transform negetive energy into Positive energy!!!
It's your perception that makes the difference
to the way YOU FEEL....

[Talon]

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

~DH Lawrence

[Kobi]

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ~Ivern Ball

[Talon]

Footfalls echo in the memory,
Down the passages we did not take,
Towards the door that we never opened, and into the rose garden....(w)


~T.S Eliot

[Kent]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

[Fancy]

Dogs are my favorite people.

[Kobi]

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

~John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

[Arwen]

"It's not the broken dreams that break us. It's the ones we didn't dare to dream." Glee

[deedarino]

Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude,
Looking forward, I am filled with vision,
Looking upwards I am filled with strength,
Looking within, I discover peace
~ Quero Apache Prayer

[Fancy]

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."

Carl Jung

[Kobi]

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.

~ Author Unknown

[Kobi]

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

[Janstevie]

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holyshit ... What a ride."

[Talon]

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than it loves itself.

[Nat]

"That is not dead, which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons, even death will die!"

H. B. Lovecraft

[macele]

i have seen enough to know i have seen too much. -- a league of their own

(there are times when we see/feel greatness and we just sit back and be in awe, grateful for the chance to experience. that's how i read it.)

[NJFemmie]

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[Nat]

"that's one kind of renunciation: the ability to say no to something that is going to lead to suffering."

"effort creates energy"

Joseph Goldstein, Zencast

[Kobi]

If I could give you one gift, I would give you the ability to see yourself as I see you, so you could see how truly special you are.

-- Author Unknown

[deedarino]

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
~James Lane Allen

[Talon]

Unlocking your heart is not something that happens once and is done with.
It is a moment-to-moment process...that will not stop until you die.

[Reader]

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[Girl Friday]

"The manner in which one endures that which must be endured is more important than the thing to be endured."

Abraham Lincoln

[Liam]

...the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous—large souled. —Sam Keen

[Janstevie]

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it wont go anywhere.

[Kobi]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Talon]

If you donate money to charities because you want to be known as a generous person...or to think of yourself as generous...
Your intention is to gain..not to give.

[sara-bera]

"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect - you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there." -Bob Marley

[Kobi]

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.


George Washington Carver

[Talon]

We were born to touch each other. What does your touch feel like to others?
Do you reach out in anger, disdain, or with resentments?
Do you need to please, or need to push away?
Can you do what is appropriate, act with an open heart...and trust the Universe?


:candle:

[Kobi]

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Golda Meir

[Girl Friday]

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e.e. cummings

[1QuirkyKiwi]

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane

To love beauty, is to see light.
Victor Hugo

The best things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

[Kobi]

Your children are not your children.
They are the 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.

Kahlil Gibran

[Talon]

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Your children are not your children.
They are the 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.

Kahlil Gibran


~*This*~....I really love.
Thank you, Kobi.
:present:

[deedarino]

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh

[Semantics]

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs

[JAGG]

I would rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies. -Bertrand Russel


I never learned anything from anybody who agreed with me. - Unknown


People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

[deedarino]

...Let me tell you, I am a Superwoman
Yes I am (yes she is) oh yeah
See, even when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
(Yes I am) Said I'm a Superwoman (yes you are)

~Alicia Keys

[sara-bera]

"Do unto others twenty percent better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." -Linus Pauling

[shiagirl]

Confusion Speaks

Dark night; her blood beckons the demons,
what reasoning is left in this place.

Left alone pale and lifeless as her soul searches for answers but there is none.

The only sound she hears is the last breath as her heart stops and like hungry thieves they use their long tongues licking up every drop of blood as they rendered it from her soul.

Confusion speaks, but nobody listens.

written by ME.

[MrSunshine]

"The unending paradox is that we do learn from pain". Madeleine L Engle

[Kobi]

Some things can only be understood when you're in a tree house. With a pile of warm chocolate chip cookies. And a book.

~Dr. SunWolf

[deedarino]

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do." ~Robert Brault

[Talon]

Being generous in some way by giving emotionally, sexually, or energetically feels threatening because it is a selfless act which requires a loosening or letting go of one's self or psychological bounderies.

~Dr. Richard Nicastro

[MrSunshine]

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

[Lofl]

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

[Girl Friday]

"Why invest in a commitment when a girl will let you be a squatter in her life free of charge?"

(Me, when asked by the therapist why I thought my ex was unable/unwilling to commit to our relationship on an emotional level)

[aishah]

Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working.

All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Kindness eases Change.

- from earthseed: the books of the living, in parable of the sower & parable of the talents by octavia butler.

[Kobi]

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

~Elwyn Brooks White

[deedarino]

Not to spoil the ending for you, but everything is going to be OK :-)
~unknown

[Talon]

Every emotional reaction is telling us something about ourselves.

[Trey339]

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

[MrSunshine]

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily. Paulo Coelho

[MissItalianDiva]

If you live long enough, life will humble you. Life will level your defenses, expose your bad habits, and reveal self-inflicted nonsense and self-imposed unworthiness. When you are paying attention, you will get the point.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[deedarino]

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
- David Viscott

[JAGG]

Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand. -Chinese proverb

Once you start worrying about what other people think of you, you stop being yourself. - Unknown

Fear the man that has nothing to lose. - Unknown

[Kobi]

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

~Erma Bombeck

[Fancy]

Never expect.
Never assume.
Never ask.
And never demand.
Just let it be.
Because if it's meant to be, it will happen the way you want things to be.


(idealistic, not always practical!)

[deedarino]

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo238/deedarino/191332684139151580_giw9Vezv_b.jpg

[Talon]

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

:candle:


~Rumi

[JAGG]

Wars aren't fought in the trenches rather in the mind, body, and soul. For life is the battle field, society and emotions are the adversaries, and victory is determined by our reactions to those very forces. -Curtis Reeves


My choice is what I choose to do, and if I'm causing no harm, it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if you're causing no harm, it shouldn't bother me.-Ben Harper


Luck is a Skill. -Adel Ebraheem

[Kobi]

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

[deedarino]

Below the level of awareness, our brain often tries to protect us from the very thing we wish to attract. As we get close, anxiety sets in and the thoughts follow. Don't be afraid of the anxiety. Don't be afraid of the thoughts. Simply realize your primitive, reactive automatic brain is trying to protect you from something of which you need no protection. Don't believe, trust, or take direction from the impulses to hold you back. Keep moving forward and they will become less. And you will see more clearly, with your mind, what was in front of you the whole time.
Coach MD

[Talon]

And yet, just last night, being at a masquerade, I saw the prettiest creature, fresh from Milan...which gave me some sensations like a villian.


~Lord Byron

[Soon]

“this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love”

–David Whyte

[Metro]

“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
― Serbian proverb

[Kobi]

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.

~Steven Wright

[Fancy]

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

~Adam Sandler

[Talon]

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

~Adam Sandler


*chuckle*.....That's great, Fancy.

[Fancy]

*chuckle*.....That's great, Fancy.

Yeah, it made me giggle... gotta love the silliness!

[gaea]

She said it didn't matter
All hy had to do was flatter

she said she didnt care
what hy chose to wear

When they arrived,
she said
Hys shoes don't match his socks, slacks or tie!
Oh me oh my
What's a girl to do?

I suggested
A shopping trip for two

gaea051812

[Girl Friday]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

[Kobi]

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

~Henry Miller

[Kätzchen]

“A poet's work is . . .
to name the unnamable,
to point at frauds,
to take sides,
start arguments,
shape the world
and
stop it from going to sleep,”

― Salman Rushdie

[Girl Friday]

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Tennyson

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

The mind is a labyrinth, ladies and gentlemen.
A puzzle.
And while the paths of the brain are clearly visible, its ways deceptively patterned, its destinations are unknown,
its secrets still secrets.


Hell Raiser II

[JAGG]

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. -Bruce Lee



Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom withdraw to their full extent. - Unknown

[Girl Friday]

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

Unknown

[Ms. Meander]

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
Pema Chodron

[weatherboi]

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

[Talon]

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, subdues pride, and bridles the tongue.

[Janstevie]

Crying is how your body speaks when words cant explain the hurt you are feeling.

[Girl Friday]

“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.”

Françoise Sagan

[Kobi]

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football. ~Author Unknown

[JAGG]

Women are like teabags. Put them in hot water, and they only get stronger. -Eleanor Roosevelt

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. -Calista Flockhart


When an old person dies, a whole library disappears. -African Proverb

[Talon]

A gossip is one who can give you all of the details, without knowing any of the facts.

[Kobi]

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

~Author Unknown

[Girl Friday]

“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

Helen Keller

[deedarino]

Everything you can imagine is real.~ Pablo Picasso

[Talon]

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

~Author Unknown



Ah..yes...Isn't this what it's all about?


The creation of authentic power requires that you distinguish between your artificial needs and your authentic needs.

~Gary Zukav

[deedarino]

Never be afraid to do what is right,
especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake.
Society's punishments are small compared
to the wounds we inflict on our soul
when we look the other way
~Martin Luther King Jr.

[Talon]

Never be afraid to do what is right,
especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake.
Society's punishments are small compared
to the wounds we inflict on our soul
when we look the other way
~Martin Luther King Jr.

I love this quote, (one of the humans I truly admire)
I find this to be oh so true.

[Fancy]

‎"The world is full of people who want you to be less than they know you are so that they can be more than they fear they are."

[Kobi]

"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters. ~Author Unknown

[aishah]

"what i want to write about is how we dont have the right to create these little secure worlds. so that we feel protected from all the evil and violence in out there in the universe. we dont have the right to hide behind the masters violence, just glad that we arent the target (this time)." - mai'a, from guerrilla mama medicine (http://guerrillamamamedicine.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/the-myth-of-overpopulation-we-are-not-the-ones-destroying-the-earth/).

[JAGG]

May you have the foresight to know where you're going, the hindsight to know where you've been, and the insight to know when you've gone too far. -
Irish Toast


Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them, and sometimes, it's those memories that give us the strength to go on. - Unknown

I've learned that deciding who you marry is the most important decision you'll ever make. -Unknown

[sara-bera]

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

[yotlyolqualli]

Father Sky watches over Me
Mother Earth calls to Me with an ancient rhythm
that beats a new dance in My soul.

And as I stand on the precipice of the daily renewal of My journey
I step out off the edge with faith
That I am stepping out onto God's loving and upholding hand.

[Girl Friday]

"We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love."
Sigmund Freud

[Metro]

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
—Aristotle

[Kobi]

See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

~Jane Wagner

[deedarino]

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them,
but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
-- Leo Burnett --

[Prudence]

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

EXCELLENT!

[Talon]

Love goes beyond warm feelings and connected moments. It is looking for what is needed and providing it. It is living directly from the heart without reservation.

~G. Zukav

[jenny]

"Doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life." ~ Catherine Goldhammer, "Still Life With Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea"

[Hollylane]

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

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

I don't obey very well!

Lost Girl opening lines

[JAGG]

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Buz Luhrmann


Think about how hard it is to change yourself and then you'll realize what little chance you have of changing others. -Unknown


A rich man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least. -Unknown

[Girl Friday]

Your "word" and your "intent" mean fuck-all if you can't, don't or won't back them up with some action.

My mom



I give everyone a chance and a shovel. They can either prove themselves or bury themselves. Their choice.

My brother




The Chinese have a wise saying: fall down seven times, get up eight. The Irish have an equally wise saying: fall down once and stay down. You can drink just as well from there.

My father

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face. Carl Jung

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. E. W. Howe

[Fancy]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JustJo]

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

~ Albert Einstein ~

[Kobi]

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

~Author Unknown

[Talon]

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

~Author Unknown



I like this very much, Kobi. :cheer:


Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.


~Fran Lebowitz

[deedarino]

:stillheart:

Singing is an act of vibration. It takes music from the realm of the unformed-- whether that is in your mind or from that magical space of inspiration--and moves it from within to without. From the first breath singing moves the energy in a circular way inside your body. As the breath fills your lungs, it brushes against the second and third chakras—the centers of creation and honoring self and others. Instead of merely exhaling, pushing the air past the fourth and fifth chakras where heart charka and the center of will and intention reside, singing engages both the heart and mind. Sound vibrations from vocal chords resonate in the sinus cavities, filling the head with motion and sound while the brain lights up with the processing of the mathematics of music. This marriage of activities brings the third eye into play and opens the door for inspiration from the crown chakra before sending the sound out into the world.

Once the vibration begins, it is sustained with each note, moving throughout your body and the space around you. This can help you to harmonize your frequency with the world and with the divine. The use of the voice can bring about catharsis, a cleansing from the expression of emotion, which is why we feel better after singing certain types of songs. All of this occurs even if we are not conscious of what we are singing, but when we really connect with an intention, the power of the voice and music together are powerful tools in creation.

Even if you are not a singer by nature or talent, you are not left out. If you have a voice, it is your birthright to celebrate life with song. It doesn’t matter if you don’t feel you have a nice voice. Chanting or humming, singing solo or with others, your voice is yours to enjoy. Whether you sing along to the radio or use vocalization as part of your meditation time, singing and harmonizing are healing activities that bring your body’s vibrations into alignment with the universe.

DailyOm.com

[JAGG]

Your "word" and your "intent" mean fuck-all if you can't, don't or won't back them up with some action.

My mom



I give everyone a chance and a shovel. They can either prove themselves or bury themselves. Their choice.

My brother




The Chinese have a wise saying: fall down seven times, get up eight. The Irish have an equally wise saying: fall down once and stay down. You can drink just as well from there.

My father

I love your brothers quote, I do the very same thing!

[JAGG]

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan


You know procrastination is the same thing as masturbation. Sure, it feels great in the beginning, but in the end, you're really just fucking yourself.- (I thought this was hilarous)



Some people say that nobody's perfect. Well I think that everybody's perfect, just in different ways. - Guess who. :)

[deedarino]

What you acquire, hoard, and flash on the outside may make you valuable in the minds of some, but it’s only what you own on the inside and give away freely that will make you valuable in the hearts of all. ~ Sandra Kring


The greatness of a man is not how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and ability to effect those around him positively~Bob Marley

[Kobi]

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

~Author Unknown

[BrownEyedAngel]

A Cherokee Legend

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside us all," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "But Grandfather, which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

[Girl Friday]

Letting go doesn't always mean you're not in love anymore. Sometimes letting go just means you've realized that you won't ever stop the bleeding if you keep handing someone else a knife.

me

[BrownEyedAngel]

“Wizards First Rule
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

Zedd to Richard & Kahlan ~ "Wizard's First Rule" ― Terry Goodkind

[deedarino]

Don't only practice your Art,
but force you way into it's Secrets,
for it and Knowledge can raise men
To the Divine...
~Ludwig von Beethoven

[pajama]

TO HIM who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 5
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images 10
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;—
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around— 15
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air—
Comes a still voice—Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, 20
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go 25
To mix forever with the elements;
To be a brother to the insensible rock,
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 30
Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world,—with kings,
The powerful of the earth,—the wise, the good, 35
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods—rivers that move 40
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man! The golden sun, 45
The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.—Take the wings 50
Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness,
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound,
Save his own dashings,—yet the dead are there:
And millions in those solitudes, since first 55
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.
So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe 60
Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come 65
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glide away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man— 70
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side
By those, who in their turn shall follow them.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take 75
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 80
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

[The_Lady_Snow]

“My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off."

[BrownEyedAngel]

"The fastest way to motivate me to accomplish something is to challenge my ability to do it. Never tell me I can't, because I will, just to prove you wrong." ~

Me

[Kobi]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

~Jack Kerouac

[Girl Friday]

I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy.

Masha



"Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it."

Trigorin


both from The Seagull
by Anton Chekov

[Kobi]

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

~Bob Moawad

[Girl Friday]

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

Muhammad Ali

[sara-bera]

"Follow your heart but take your brain with you." -unknown

[sara-bera]

"I believe that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." -Margaret Atwood

[JAGG]

Our situation is critical and highly unpleasant; however we shall endeavor to make the best of it; what cannot be cured must be endured. -Simon Fraser, Fur Trader, 1808


I don't think, I know. I don't try, I succeed. - Unknown


Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons. -Unknown

[Fancy]

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.

~Kak Sri

:)

[deedarino]

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. ~Meister Eckhart~

[Electrocell]

Love is like a card game, You either win or you lose .You have to know when to hold em, when to fold them or just walk away.

[Kobi]

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

[Talon]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

~Jack Kerouac


Beautiful, Kobi...


"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

~Joe E. Lewis

[Girl Friday]

"Just because you have the right to your feelings doesn't mean that your feelings make you right."

Unknown

"Feelings are not facts."

Carl Jung

[BrownEyedAngel]

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
Shirley Chisholm

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

[WomenMoveMe]

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb464/ladams402/brave.jpg

[deedarino]

One of the most stringent conditions all angels must meet, other than double-advanced harp playing and skydiving abilities (not necessarily at the same time), is that they must not allow themselves to feel hurt or rejected by the choices made by others, no matter how much they've done for them nor how great their love.~"Notes from the Universe"


Another person’s choice is nothing more than another alternative for you to consider.~Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s


I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” Oprah Winfrey

[JAGG]

Many things will catch your eye, but few with catch your heart. Pursue these. - Unknown


Why do we often say ‘truth hurts’, ‘the hard truth’, ‘you can’t handle the truth’, etc? Truth in and of itself need not be hard to bear or painful. It is only after becoming accustomed to living in lies that it becomes such. In my humble experience I’ve found the more one accepts the truth it generally becomes enjoyable, soothing, even blissful. -Elliot Arnold


Never underestamate the power of stupid people in large groups.-Jessica Parcells

[Kobi]

"Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and filled with just as much potential as any man.

As your father, my instinct is to protect you. Other people will want to protect you as well. But, remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself."

Brad Meltzer from the introduction of Hereos For My Daughter

[Metro]

Nothing is permanent but change.
— Heraclitus

[Metro]

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.
— Old proverb

[Hollylane]

You transform and are transformed by that which you love. Love wildly, widely and wisely.

~Lex Is-Word (FB)

[BrownEyedAngel]

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

[Talon]

To give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.


~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Fancy]

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn

[Talon]

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn


Amen to that, sister! :hk4:

[gaea]

It’s in the morning sun
The skies of blue
It’s in the rain too
It’s in the clouds that cover you
It’s in the grass beneath your feet
It’s the treetops out of reach
It’s the birds that paint the sky
It’s the flowers you walk right on by
It in the oceans, the lakes, the rivers too
It’s in the desert sands, mountain peaks and even you
It’s in the fish, the wildlife, the domestic animal crews
It’s in everything you touch, everything you do
It in the setting of the sun, the rising of the moon
Making way once again for all things new
It’s Name: Love

Gaea 053012

[JAGG]

The truth always hurts when it comes from the one you love most, especially when the truth is "I don't love you." -Sierra Mallett


If you cannot be inspired, become the inspiration. -Unknown


Many so-called open minds should be closed for repairs.-sign in front of 'Hunter's Dairy Freeze' in Danville, PA

[JAGG]

To give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.


~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love this !

[Girl Friday]

"People never say, 'I don't want to hurt your feelings' because they don't want to hurt your feelings. They say it because they don't want to feel uncomfortable when they tell you the truth.


Girl On Self Destruct
by Kyle Novak

[Kobi]

"You have enemies? Good! That means you 've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

Winston Churchill

[CA_BabyCakes]

If you were ABSENT during my struggle, dont expect to be PRESENT during my success.
~Will Smith

[Talon]

If you hate those who hate, you become like them.

[JAGG]

People can accomplish whatever they desire, it is just that most people lack the will to accomplish it. -J.J. Adams


The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. -Vince Lombardi


You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same. - Unknown

[Just_G]

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
~Pierre Corneille~

With every step of my journey the last 2 years, I have slowly loved myself a little bit more every day.

[Jesse]

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown

[Fancy]

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

[yotlyolqualli]

"A piece of canvas is only the beginning for
It takes on character with every loving stroke
This thing of beauty is the passion of an Artist's heart
By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope"

DC Talk : Colored People

[Kobi]

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

[Metro]

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
—Unknown

[deedarino]

"It’s easy to lose sight of the divine in the partner who takes out the garbage, & easier still if he or she doesn’t. It’s hard to remember to look for & see the beloved in the parking attendant or the check-out clerk we encounter. We need shared gestures, small ceremonies that help us pay attention, that let us see & honour the mystery of the other every day. This is the commitment my soul longs to make to the world."~ Oriah from The Invitation May we see with our hearts today, seeing & honouring the sacred essence in each person we encounter - and in the one we see in the mirror. :-)

[gaea]

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

[Janstevie]

"When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.'"

[Talon]

You cannot grow spiritually and remain the same.
Understanding *that* is knowledge.
Seeing *that* is wisdom.

[gaea]

"if you cant afford to be honest, stay single" -Author unknown to me

[Maria]

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

[JAGG]

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.-Unknown



Live life to the fullest because everyday is another day someone else did not get to live.-Unknown


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

[Kobi]

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

[deedarino]

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.~Maya Angelou

[deedarino]

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible;
to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
~Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

[deedarino]

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."~Albert Einstein

"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."~Lord Milner

“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."~Lise Hand

[Ms. Meander]

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

[Girl Friday]

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/425206_297736673626848_210006089066574_869162_4651 02775_n.jpg

[mustangjeano]

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

[Jesse]

If you were a flower I wouldn't pick you at all! Not because I don't like you but because I'll let you grow in the garden & cultivate you with love and care so I can keep you as a friend in the rest of my life.

[Jesse]

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings

[Canela]

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

[T4Texas]

The times you know, we had some times
with gentle women and vintage wines
but that was when we didnt know our youth was passing by
now all we have to think about are times gone by.

-Rod McKuen_

[Kobi]

http://i.brainyquote.com/photos/m/martinbuber125850.jpg

[deedarino]

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ~Eleanora Duse, Le Gaulois, 1922

[Fancy]

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.

- e.e. cummings -

[deedarino]

"You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Novelafemme]

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

Good God do I love that woman!!

[sara-bera]

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

[JAGG]

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting beside you, knowing you can't have them. -Unknown


How you gonna win when you ain't right within? -Lauryn Hill


Choices are the hinges of destiny. -Unknown

[Fancy]

"Love isn't a function of communication. Love is a function of connection. Poor communication doesn't disconnect souls, it's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate."

[Girl Friday]

"Love isn't a function of communication. Love is a function of connection. Poor communication doesn't disconnect souls, it's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate."

<<SNIP>> The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting beside you, knowing you can't have them. -Unknown



:yeahthat: x 2

[JAGG]

Shallow love makes excuses, real love finds a way.- Me

[deedarino]

From FB~Wild and Wise Women....

Oh yes, fireworks are pretty ...
And rollercoasters are great fun
Both can take your breath away.
For me, they can not be my 'every day' ~
Although some teachings disagree.
Whether romance, occupation, friendship,
Purpose, Calling, or how and with who I spend my time;
I choose to 'breathe' as my everyday ...
The rocking hammock with the cool breeze
And arms around me of one who seriously and calmly ...
Loves me.
And every so often ... with laughter and a kiss
I shall welcome the breathlessness that the fireworks and
Rollercoasters bring. And for me, not only is that enough ...
It is everything.

[gaea]

there is no present like the gift of today
yesterday is gone
tomorrow awaits
all we have is the moment we are in
if you see someone without a smile, give them yours..
time is valuable, spend it wisely

i like all these i do not know who wrote them all...

[Girl Friday]

Breaking up is like blowing glass. Better to let it fail honestly and leave it broken than to hurt yourself in the process of trying to save it or put it back together again.

Dale Chihuly

Breaking up is like losing weight. Everyone says it was the right thing to do and how proud they are of you for doing it but that always leaves you wondering what they thought about you before it happened.

Inga Muscio

[Novelafemme]

"ay, love is a journey through waters and stars, through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain: love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. kiss by kiss i cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages..."

{pablo neruda: carnal apple, woman filled, burning moon,}

oh pablo, you just gave me all kinds of life.

[Talon]

One thing only I know,
and that is that I know nothing.


~Socrates

[Novelafemme]

"The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal."

{Pema Chodron}

[JAGG]

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. -Unknown

Leaders are like eagles. They don't flock, you find one at a time. - Unknown

"Never mistake motion for action.” -Ernest Hemingway

[miss entycing]

Never be afraid to love.
But know who you give that love to, and make sure they're worthy of your devotion

~ A very wise soul, just now.
(f)

[JAGG]

One day your life is going to flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. - Unknown


Conflict is simple. You have to face the music, or stop dancing. -Unknown


Background circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. -Unknown

[gaea]

" In Life, as much as it is easier to Talk the Walk than to Walk the Talk, the most important word in the Word 'Communication' is Action. Strive to live in accordance with your Teachings and you'll be the Best Teacher ever."-Gideon Solomon

[jac]

My mantra, my words...

"I am wholly me, the person I am meant to be." ~Stoney

[Just_G]

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Jesse]

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. ~Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

[wetfromashower]

Life is a journey not a destination... Enjoy the trip...

[Kobi]

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

~Robert Brault

[spritzerJ]

"Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do, and nobody calls her disabled." ~Aimee Mullins

[Jesse]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Gustav Jung (http://www.quotesea.com/quotes/by/carl-gustav-jung)

[JAGG]

Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to. -Unknown


The future. (some assembly required) -Unknown


Never wear muddy shoes in the house of love. -Unknown

[gaea]

!!..ʍǝıʌ ɟo ʇuıod ʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɟıן ʇɐ ʞooן oʇ pǝǝu n sǝɯıʇǝɯoS

[JAGG]

!!..ʍǝıʌ ɟo ʇuıod ʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp ɐ ɯoɹɟ ǝɟıן ʇɐ ʞooן oʇ pǝǝu n sǝɯıʇǝɯoS

And sometimes you really don't. lol

[Fancy]

“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression.”

― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell