Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Trey339]

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words
P Brooks

[JAGG]

The road to success has many tempting parking places. -Steve Potter




More people die from falling airplane parts each year than from shark attacks.-
John Ruscio, Skeptical Inquirer


Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top. -Unknown

[Kobi]

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy
For the future! How sure the future is within me;
I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed....

~D.H. Lawrence, "Wedlock"

[Talon]

"I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do-if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary, you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be."



"When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave."


~Kelly Cutrone

[JAGG]

Rather to fail with honor than to succeed with fraud. -Sophocles

It is not what you give your children that spoils them; it's what you give them to avoid confrontation. -Unknown

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.-Eden Philpotts

[Kobi]

What better way to be important in the eyes of a child than to live your power so that they might observe and learn to live theirs?

[Ms. Meander]

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein

[Jesse]

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian

[Kobi]

Talking a lot about something that bothers you is a pretty good sign that you've got something huge and profoundly liberating to learn.

Mike Dooley

[UofMfan]

"Besa lentamente, ama locamente, olvida rapidamente" ~ Tweeted by Paulo Coelho

[Janstevie]

Mississippi mud pie is genius, it's chocolate covered in chocolate, i mean, come on, that person should be president.

[JAGG]

Don't mistake comfort for happiness.-Unknown

Intelligence isn't about what you know, it's about what you do. -Unknown

Shame on you who would cheat a friend, shame on you who boldly lie to a trusting soul, shame on you who mislead with arrogance, shame on you because you have no shame.-Unknown

[T4Texas]

If I had not known your eyes
perhaps the day would be
easier to understand
gentler to me

If I hadnt memorized
the sound you make
while standing close to me
I might have filled my memory up
with august skies or july seas

but as it is my memory world
has little room for skies
all the space is taken up
remembering your eyes.

-Rod McKuen-

[Janstevie]

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled

[Talon]

I wish I could be your tear drops,
for what more could anyone ask for then to be conceived in your heart,
born in your eyes,
live on your cheeks,
and die upon your lips.

[ruffryder]

If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. Michael Jackson.

[ruffryder]

"Pretty words are not always true and true words are not always pretty."

[JAGG]

Don't take yourself too seriously. You'll miss out on the most enjoyable person you'll ever meet. -Dale Schmitz


If you think you love 2 people at once then you don't love either enough.-
Micaela Logan



Never ruin an apology with an excuse. -B. Dahyalal

[sara-bera]

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it." -Swedish Proverb

[Fancy]

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

― Michael J. Fox

[Talon]

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

― Michael J. Fox


Wonderful quote, Fancy. :rrose:



Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly upon your shoulder.

[rockstar lover]

Ok mine are silly and just for fun.....

Life gem #1: Your body is like a car...it needs fuel.
Life gem #2: When in doubt..dump it out.
Life gem #3: Your best defence is a good offence.

**Please note # 2 & 3 are more sports-related advice...however, they can apply to everyday life as well.**


Carry on....

[Fancy]

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[Kent]

Two percent
of the people think,

Three percent
of the people
Think they think,

And ninety-five percent
of the people would
rather die than
Think

- George Bernard Shaw

[JAGG]

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. _Andy Warhol


If you give what you do not need, it isn't giving. -Mother Teresa



Even if you're on the right track... you'll still get hit if you don't move .-Will Rogers

[JAGG]

Well, if you've got a-one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; 'cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away... -Unknown



Be very, very careful what you put into that brain, because you will never, ever get it out again. -Paul Jackson



I never let my schooling get in the way of my education -Mark Twain

[Jesse]

Bob Marley on Loving a Woman:



"You may not be her first, her last, or her only.
She loved before and 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 then she can give.
Smile when she makes you happy,
let her know when she makes you mad,
and miss her when shes not there."

[Kobi]

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

~Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859

[Talon]

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable, that I find moving beyond words.

Gloria Steinem

[JAGG]

The glue that holds all relationships together, including the relationship between the leader and the led, is trust, and trust is based on integrity. -Brian Tracy


Ability without dependability has no value. - Unknown



Every piece of paper has two good sides... Unless you use magic marker then you're fucked. - Unknown (this made me laugh out loud, I don't know why it's so funny to me)

[Jesse]

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
~Author Unknown

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -Thomas Jefferson

[Kobi]

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

~K.T. Jong

[Talon]

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.


N. Astor

[Kobi]

The Voyage

Your dreams are gifts
that set you in motion
on the tides of time
where life is an ocean.

And, your sails are filled
with the winds of desire
to surge thru the waves
of mirk and mire.

But, when you awaken
with your goal at hand,
you will see your true destination
was the voyage not the land.

~ from Choose Them Wisely

[Jesse]

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

[ruffryder]

Finish each day & be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it; tomorrow is a new day. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jesse]

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”
- Jarod Kintz
(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4157885.Jarod_Kintz)

[Kobi]

Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

~Robert Brault

[wetfromashower]

Sometimes old things need to go away... That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives...

[JAGG]

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push. -Unknown


A true friend stabs you in the front .-Oscar Wilde



Judge someone not by their mistakes but rather how they react to them. -Bradly Wilkins

[Kent]

"We drink too much, smoke
too much, spend too
recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry,
stay up too late, get up too
tired, read too little, watch TV
too much. We have multiplied
our possessions but reduced
our values. We talk too much,
love too seldom, and hate too
often. We've learned how to
make a living but not a life.
We've added years to life, not
life to years."

- George Carlin 1937-2008

[Janstevie]

Avoid fruit and nuts, you are what you eat.

[JAGG]

Avoid fruit and nuts, you are what you eat.

You always crack me up freind. Thank you !

[JAGG]

You never know when you're making a memory.-Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul


Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them." -Chaim Weizmann



Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. - Unknown

[sara-bera]

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” -C. S. Lewis

[Jesse]

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches. ~Robert Brault

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~Wayne W. Dyer

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

[Janstevie]

Kids are like farts. You don’t mind your own, but other peoples are unbearable.

[Spirit Dancer]

There is no evil in the universe which is not the result of ignorance,
and which would not, if we were ready and willing to learn its lesson,
lead us to a higher wisdom, and then vanish away.

James Allen

[MissItalianDiva]

We cannot realize true happiness when we entertain nonsense in our hearts and minds. If we truly wanted to be happy, we would not be so eager to sacrifice happiness for nonsense - jealousy, possessiveness, anger, fear or any other function of the ego.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[sara-bera]

"Some people are so poor, all they have is money." -unknown

[JAGG]

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. -Chris Jones


One never fully understands a situation until they are in it. -Aratee


Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out. -Art Linkletter

[Ms. Meander]

Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you do, everything you want to be, starts now.
Deepak Chopra

[Spirit Dancer]

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life;
to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

Howard Cosell

[Spirit Dancer]

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you
as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens
to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

John Homer Miller

[Fancy]

‎"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret. It has come to believe that all compassion, in which ethics must take root, can only attain it's full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." - Albert Schweitzer

[Janstevie]

Whenever i feel like exercise i lie down until the feeling passes.

[Talon]

I believe that all of the things you do for other people, you're actually doing for yourself. Life is like a bank account. Randon acts of kindness, telling the truth, being loving, showing up for yourself and others--these are all deposits. Getting fucked up, fucking other people over, letting your ego lead your choices--these are withdrawals. If we give more than we take, we progress. If we take more than we give, we regress.


~K. Cutrone

[Jesse]

A smile is like tight underwear - it makes your cheeks go up. ~Author Unknown

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
— Paul McCartney (wow! Paul turned 70 yesterday...I'm getting old! lol)

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
Charles Darwin

[Kätzchen]

— CRADLE MY HEART —

Last night,
I was lying on the rooftop,
thinking of you.
I saw a special Star,
and summoned her to take you a message.
I prostrated myself to the Star
and asked her to take my prostration
to that Sun of Tabriz.
So that with his light, he can turn
my dark stones into gold.
I opened my chest and showed her my scars,
I told her to bring me news
of my bloodthirsty Lover.
As I waited,
I paced back and forth,
until the child of my heart became quiet.
The child slept, as if I were rocking his cradle.
Oh Beloved, give milk to the infant of the heart,
and don't hold us from our turning.
You have cared for hundreds,
don't let it stop with me now.
At the end, the town of unity is the place for the heart.
Why do you keep this bewildered heart
in the town of dissolution?
I have gone speechless,
but to rid myself of this dry mood,
oh Saaqhi, pass the narcissus of the wine.

From:
Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
(Translated by Shahram Shiva)

[Kobi]

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Would you be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

~Madame Swetchine

[Talon]

A true friend never gets in your way...Unless you happen to be going down.


~Arnold Glasow

[Tommi]

http://halogentv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11-HAM-0762_Halogen-BlogQuotes_swindoll.jpg

[Fancy]

Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood.

~Donald Justice

[Jesse]

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

[Kent]

Your Journey Has Molded
You For Your Greater Good,
AND It was Exactly What
It Needed to Be.
DON'T THINK THAT YOU'VE LOST TIME
IT TOOK EACH AND EVERY
SITUATION You Have Encountered
To Bring You to the Now.
And NOW IS RIGHT ON TIME.
- Asha Tyson 1970-

[Glenn]

"I did'nt see many people who had died with a naturally peaceful smile already frozen on their face...only a few. I guess the facial expressions isn't all that important-but more or less the manner in which how the person lived and died that screamed volumns." -a retired Mortician

[Janstevie]

Just booked a table for Valentine's Day for me and the wife. Bound to end in tears though - she's crap at snooker.

[Spirit Dancer]

It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions
keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have
a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much
of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through
blood and tears--has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one
who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.

Helen Keller

[Spirit Dancer]

Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or
toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question,
"How do you choose to learn love?", "How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment--through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?"

Gary Zukav

[Kobi]

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute."

~Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913

[Ms. Meander]

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anais Nin

[Talon]

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.


~Eleanor Roosevelt

[willow]

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

Stephen R. Covey

[Jesse]

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

“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.”

[JistMe]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that
I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength
of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me,
because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

Chuang-tse

[Spirit Dancer]

Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands
to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.

Santosh Kalwar

[Talon]

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small confined space.



--Gloria Steinem

[JistMe]

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~W.B. Yeats

[JistMe]

"The secret of health for both body and mind is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment both wisely and earnestly."

~Buddha

[Kobi]

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

~Kristian Kan

[JistMe]

"The prettiest dresses... are worn to be taken off."

~Jean Cocteau

[Kobi]

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

~Shirley Chisholm

[JAGG]

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. -Albert Einstein


It is not forgive and forget. It is forgive and learn. Never forget the past.
Aratee


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russel -

[JAGG]

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

~Kristian Kan



I love this Kobi!!!!

[Ms. Meander]

Sometimes the “Universe” whispers possibilities as it brushes past. Other times, it takes my face in both hands, looks me in the eyes, and says, “Pay attention.”
- S.M.

[Kobi]

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a person who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

~Anaïs Nin

[Janstevie]

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.


It is if you think about it.

[UofMfan]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/translator08/Coelho-Admiradores.jpg

[Metro]

Robert Harms Paints the Surface
of Little Fresh Pond

by Mark Doty

Surface the action of the day,

a means of tracing the dynamic,
so that a jitter of blue's
sparked by little coals,

sun a glimmer
of the day's intent. He knows
to trace an alphabet written on water

is to surface the action of the day,

a way of proceeding,
entering into the never-
to-be repeated,

a way of reading
a nearly infinite variety of gestures
legible only to one versed

in surface, the action of the day.

When my eye nearly failed
—the frail foil-back torn,
wild profusion of smoke-curls,

what I saw was just this:
what he sees on and in water,
by his hand

the action of surface notated,

the rhythm of things
discerned and ridden.

[JAGG]

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.-Bertrand Russell



I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more I seem to have of it.-Thomas Jefferson



Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth."
"Or by misleading the innocent. -Spock and McCoy"And The Children Shall Lead"stardate

[Kobi]

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

~Lucretia Mott

[MissItalianDiva]

Every person, situation, circumstances, and experience in your life is a reflection of some aspect of who you believe yourself to be.

Iyanla Vanzant

[Fancy]

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Ms. Meander]

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller

[Spirit Dancer]

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard
you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do
for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world.
Expect victory and you make victory.

Preston Bradley

[Kobi]

"Some individuals know that 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"

[Fancy]

"When folks get wrapped up in themselves they make very small packages."

[Kobi]

"What I'm saying is, don't delude yourself that the powerful cultural values that wrecked the lives of so many of my classmates have vanished from the earth. Don't let The New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you — there's still a glass ceiling.

Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

~from her address to the graduating class of Wellsley, 1996

[JAGG]

Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous. -Mrs. Radcliff


Life is about change, whether good or bad, and being able to adjust accordingly.- Okechukwu Keke



Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -Unknown

[gaea]

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small confined space.



--Gloria Steinem

someone once tried putting me on a pedestal however my arse was too big i ended up falling off

[gaea]

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.


~Eleanor Roosevelt

the quote i think should have read " I have spent my life as a "woman" followed with the rest...as a women were are born in opposition yes?

[Spirit Dancer]

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted--
if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

John Oliver Hobbes

[Spirit Dancer]

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

William Allen White

[Talon]

someone once tried putting me on a pedestal however my arse was too big i ended up falling off

...*chuckle*

[Talon]

the quote i think should have read " I have spent my life as a "woman" followed with the rest...as a women were are born in opposition yes?

*s*

This is an exellent point, Gaea...



>All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[MissItalianDiva]

Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will always be driven to look for more.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[Jesse]

It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine. – Byron Katie.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? – Caroline Myss.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen.

[UofMfan]

"Feche algunas portas. Não no por olgulho ou arrogância, mas por que já não levam a lugar nenhum." ~ Paolo Coelho

[Jesse]

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho

[sara-bera]

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” -Rumi

[Janstevie]

A REAL man is a woman's best friend, he will never let her down.
He will comfort her after a bad day at work. He will inspire her to
do things she never thought she could do. He will enable her to
express her deepest emotion's. He will enable her to be confident,
sexy, seductive, invincible, err....no wait, Sorry, i am thinking of
WINE..it's wine that does all that stuff.
Sorry Never mind.....

[ruffryder]

Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin

[Talon]

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

[VintageFemme]

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

― Lemony Snicket (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36746.Lemony_Snicket)

[MissItalianDiva]

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[sara-bera]

"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

[RockOn]

MissItalianDiva's quote is so true!

[Jesse]

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

[Kobi]

Performing miracles, isn't a matter of doing the impossible, it's a matter of redefining the possible.

~Mike Dooley

[sara-bera]

“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.” -Arabic proverb

[Jesse]

“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” Brene' Brown

[Hollylane]

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

- The Dalai Lama

[sara-bera]

There are plenty of fish in the sea... but none quite like you. -unknown

[Jesse]

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~ Elie Wiesel

[JAGG]

On the back of an Old Spice bottle> " If your grandfather didn't use this, you wouldn't be here .".haha

[Nomad]

Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin



damn freakin right

:clap:

[Jesse]

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days? — Matt Cutts

[Pixie]

"I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger... Girls who get stared at in the ladies' room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren't supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives... It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them."

-Tristan Taormino

[JAGG]

"I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger... Girls who get stared at in the ladies' room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren't supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives... It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them."

-Tristan Taormino

Wow I love this!

[gaea]

"I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger... Girls who get stared at in the ladies' room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren't supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives... It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them."

-Tristan Taormino

i think my heart just skipped a beat reading this ....

[Nomad]

when water gets caught in habitual whirlpools,
dig a way out through the bottom
to the ocean. there is a secret medicine
given only to those who hurt so hard
they can’t hope

Rumi

[Kenna]

Life

Maybe God wants us to meet a
few wrong people before meeting
the right one so that when we finally
meet the right person, we will know
how to be grateful for that gift.

When the door of happiness closes,
another opens, but often times we look so
long at the closed door that we don’t see
the one which had been opened for us.

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

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

Giving someone all your love is never an
assurance that they’ll love you back!
Don’t expect love in return; just wait
for it to grow in their heart,
but if it doesn’t, be content it grew in yours.

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

Don’t go for looks; they can deceive.
Don’t go for wealth; even that fades away.
Go for someone who makes you smile because it
takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.
Find someone that makes your heart smile.

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

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow
to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others’ shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably hurts the other person, too.

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

Happiness lies for those who cry,
those who hurt, those who have searched,
and those who have tried, for only they can
appreciate the importance of people who have
touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss
and ends with a tear.

The brightest future will always be based
on a forgotten past,
you can’t go on well in life until you let go
of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and
everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die,
you’re the one smiling and
everyone around you is crying.

[Licious]

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

[Nomad]

you are never truly burdened beyond your capacity. all you need do is face in the right direction, then breathe and walk. breathing and walking are not hard. everything will happen from that point with no other effort required from you.

[thedivahrrrself]

“Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.”

― John Greenleaf Whittier

[Novelafemme]

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” - Bill Cosby, who turns 75 today.

[Talon]

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.


~Nietzsche

[Fancy]

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

[Fancy]

"I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so short your fingertips can barely grip it. Girls with shirts that button the other way. Girls that swagger... Girls who get stared at in the ladies' room, girls who shop in the boys department, girls who live every moment looking like they weren't supposed to. Girls with hands that touch me like they have been exploring my body their entire lives... It is the girls that get called sir every day who make me catch my breath, the girls with strong jaws who buckle my knees, the girls who are a different gender who make me want to lay down for them."

-Tristan Taormino

THIS IS AWESOME! (sorry for shouting, but wow.)
:)

[Talon]

The Self is the witness of the mind. :candle:

[JAGG]

Know your enemy, and in one hundred battles you will never be defeated .-Sun Tsu, Art of War


"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

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

[thedivahrrrself]

http://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/if-you-are-neutral-on-situations-of-injustice-you-have-chosen-the-side-of-the-oppressor-desmond-tutu.jpg?w=630

[JAGG]

I'm not cynical. Just experienced. - Unknown


A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -William James


Half of the people in the world are below average. - Unknown

[thedivahrrrself]

"Virtue itself hath need of limits" ~Montesquieu

[thedivahrrrself]

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 4:18

[StillettoDoll]

If we stop eating (killing) animals we might learn to stop killing humans.
And no, plants do not scream in pain when you eat them.....

--- Carl Hultberg

[JAGG]

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. -Voltaire

If all people were righteous no one would need to be brave. -Angesilaus II


Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -Sam Brown

[Metro]

“There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”
― Dave Barry

[nycfem]

"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."

-Emile M. Cioran

[nycfem]

"If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world doesn't fall apart."
-Oprah Winfrey

[nycfem]

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen

[Spirit Dancer]

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something
new but cannot let go of the old—old ideas, beliefs, habits,
even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius.
Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t.
In both cases we have to do something.

Inga Teekens

[Spirit Dancer]

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Diana Nyad

[JAGG]

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Diana Nyad

I love this, it's how I live my life.

[thedivahrrrself]

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
Norma Shearer

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide


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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.
William Least Heat-Moon

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Doug Coupland


:supermanbooth:

[Talon]

Do you know that you have asked for the costliest thing ever made by the hand above?
A woman's heart, and a women's life....and a woman's love.

~Lena Lathrop

[Fancy]

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

~George Carlin

[Hollylane]

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

[Hollylane]

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

Georgia O'Keeffe

[Hollylane]

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

Maya Angelou

[Nomad]

"there is nothing more unforgettable than losing love because of our mistakes. there is nothing more unforgivable than losing love because of our inaction."


melody beattie

[Janstevie]

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

[gotoseagrl]

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

[Hollylane]

"There are few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

Anais Nin (1903-1977)

[Hollylane]

"I am in a beautiful prison from which I can only escape by writing."

Anais Nin (1903-1977)

[Spirit Dancer]

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is
mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem
is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life,
and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

Marianne Williamson
Everyday Grace

[Spirit Dancer]

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

[Spirit Dancer]

Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or
toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question,
"How do you choose to learn love?", "How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment--through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?"

Gary Zukav

[Talon]

Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or
toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question,
"How do you choose to learn love?", "How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment--through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?"

Gary Zukav



Yes...Yes...Yes!

[Talon]

Discretion is putting two and two together, and keeping your mouth shut.

[Hollylane]

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."

Buddha

[Janstevie]

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue~green meat, that’s bad for you!

[thedivahrrrself]

It's much easier to be an extremist. Defending the middle ground is a formidable ambition.

[grenade]

Petals by Amy Lowell


Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

[mustangjeano]

The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi

[Jesse]

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jeandelafo151300.html)

[gotoseagrl]

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre. D.H. Lawrence

[ruffryder]

"Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it."

[ruffryder]

Be faithful in small things because it is in them where your faith lies. Mother Teresa

[ruffryder]

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence. To be always calm, to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. Cyril Connolly

[Jesse]

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

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, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H (http://www.quotegarden.com/mash.html), Colonel Potter

[Hollylane]

"At some point, too low cut of a top, that shows too much cleavage, just starts to look like butt cheeks to me..."

Hollylane 7/22/12

[Spirit Dancer]

Letting go doesn't mean we don't care. Letting go doesn't mean we shut down.
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave.
It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment.
It means we stop trying to do the impossible--controlling that which
we cannot--and instead, focus on what is possible--which usually means
taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness,
and love, as much as possible.

Melody Beattie

[Spirit Dancer]

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what
I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them
after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go.
Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Mary Manin Morrissey

[JAGG]

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue~green meat, that’s bad for you!

ROFLOL hahahahah Janstevie you crack me up, where do you find these!!! I love it!

[JAGG]

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. -Daniel Dennett

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -Eric Hoffer



Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -Friedrich Nietzsche

[Nomad]

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?" Henry David Thoreau

[Fancy]

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

~Abram L. Urban

[JAGG]

If you believe everything you read, better not read. -Japanese proverb

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men. - Unknown

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. -Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

[feminality]

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ― Marilyn Monroe

:blueheels:

[Janstevie]

There is nothing wrong at all with being a large more curvaceous woman.
It's just natures way of saying OMG, your so bloody gorgeous i made more of you.

[Spirit Dancer]

The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not a professional philanthropist, and I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

Paul Newman

[Spirit Dancer]

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kind of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security; we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

[Glenn]

"The government will have to pry my guns from my cold dead hands. That's exactly why the 2nd amendment exists....to keep government in their place."

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."
-Thomas Jefferson.

[Spirit Dancer]

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something
new but cannot let go of the old—old ideas, beliefs, habits,
even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius.
Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t.
In both cases we have to do something.

Inga Teekens

[JAGG]

You don't really want me to see things through your eyes, the risk is too great that I will realize you're even more foolish than I originally assumed. - Unknown

[Nomad]

these days there aint no such thing as a free lunch. if you want lunch free today you gotta steal it. which means you'll be having lunch in jail tomorrow. that's not free either cuz you gonna pay for that lunch you eat in jail tomorrow when you hafta tell your mom you stole lunch today rather than eat that crappy baloney sandwich she made for you. i look at my mom and i think, 'i'ma eat the friggin baloney. that woman is mean!'

my friend Chuy

[girl_dee]

Conduct is more convincing than language.

John Woolman

[girl_dee]

“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― Rick Riordan

[feminality]

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
:blueheels:

[Jesse]

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau (http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/what-henry-david-thoreau-taught-me-about-travel/)

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz (http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/Thomas_Szasz)

“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_Ann_Landers) :)

[Nomad]

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

the brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. unknown

we must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E.M. Forester

some think holding on makes then strong; but sometimes it is letting go that really does it. Heman Hesse

you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. you are able to say to yourself 'i have lived through this horror. i can take the next thing that comes along.' you must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

[gaea]

Love yourself a little more every day, and your life will only get
better. There will be more of everything. Negatives will dissolve,
relationships will improve. What you believe about yourself and the life that you so desire will come true if you love yourself. Affirm who you are, and what you want from this life. Move forward and be profoundly liberated.
~Gigi Galluzzo

[gaea]

love love love this !

Your heart is your most precious gift; your heart is your truth, your compassion, your strength, and your beauty but most importantly your heart is love. Use these tools that are embedded within your heart to create the most beautiful life for yourself. When you dream make sure that you dream big and when you think make sure that you think big. You can see a box when you look at it with your eyes but you can look within and outside of a box when you see it with your heart. Life is about growth and change and you must accept and adapt to everything in life once you decide to grow and move forward. Do not ever feel sorry for yourself, do not make up excuses for yourself, and never take life for granted ~♥~ Lee Held

[feminality]

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

:blueheels:

[Nomad]

'you have to trust the person you love or else learn to love someone you can trust' - unknown


'dont eat that. i dropped it on the ground a few minutes ago and i'm gonna eat it later when no one remembers.' - the 4 year old next door


'how can you be so unforgiving of yourself? you are a child of the Universe which made no mistakes when It made you, fully aware of all that you would and would not do in this lifetime. with that knowledge, you were given a life anyway. this is the strongest indicator that you are doing exactly what you were meant to do in order to learn what you needed to learn. do you not see that you were a choice? G*d made you by choice knowing all there is to know about you from the beginning until the end of time. if that Power which made you is not at all surprised at your flaws and imperfections, even at your worst, how can you not forgive yourself also? deny the wisdom of G*d all you like but It will never deny the wisdom of creating you.' Mullá Husayn

[Talon]

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.


~Robert McCloskey

[gotoseagrl]

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis

[girl_dee]

If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher

[Hollylane]

" Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. "

Sakyong Mipham

" Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption. "

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

[Hollylane]

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

Robert Fulghum

"I do not believe the meaning of life is a puzzle to be solved.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

And I believe I may invest my life with meaning.

The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise.

If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease."

Robert Fulghum

[Hollylane]

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass where ever you may be."

Robert Fulghum

[girl_dee]

i've heard that the grass is always greener on the other side because it is filled with manure

[Hollylane]

i've heard that the grass is always greener on the other side because it is filled with manure

Nice one! :)

[lusciouskiwi]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/c48.0.403.403/p403x403/406358_10150932820221396_926900316_n.jpg

[Kobi]

• They used to give us a day--it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

• Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

• I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

• The inside operation of Congress -- the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building -- is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

[gaea]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/hstigen/484077_329896667100525_10157004_n.jpg

[lusciouskiwi]

You've been a fighter from the start...Don't give up now. You're probably much closer than you think.

~Doe Zantamata

[Jesse]

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. - anon

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
-Chinese Proverb

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton, British journalist, novelist and poet.

[Kenna]

"Adopt the pace of nature: her pace is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JAGG]

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. -Mark Twain


Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. -Unknown


Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. -Ben Franklin

[gaea]

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[Nomad]

'you are not as important as you might believe. somewhere there is at least one other person... no. that's it. there is at least one other person. one is enough to prove my point.'


winston churchill

[MissItalianDiva]

Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. A pause in life's journey does not mean that nothing is happening. In reality, it is a divine opportunity to be present and catch up with all that is going on.

~Iyanla Vanzant

You don't always have to have something to do. Don't rush. Conserve some of your resources for yourself.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. A pause in life's journey does not mean that nothing is happening. In reality, it is a divine opportunity to be present and catch up with all that is going on.

~Iyanla Vanzant

You don't always have to have something to do. Don't rush. Conserve some of your resources for yourself.

~Iyanla Vanzant

Unless you're a shark of course. If you stop , you die.

[JAGG]

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe
:blueheels:

Really? ANYTHING? HHHMMM

[MissItalianDiva]

Unless you're a shark of course. If you stop , you die.


Umm wow is all I can say to that response...smh lol

[SyrBlackwolff]

"You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what other people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself"

~Evil Knivel

[Parker]

Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. A pause in life's journey does not mean that nothing is happening. In reality, it is a divine opportunity to be present and catch up with all that is going on.

~Iyanla Vanzant

You don't always have to have something to do. Don't rush. Conserve some of your resources for yourself.

~Iyanla Vanzant

Love her. :)

She also said:

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

and

"When you see crazy coming, cross the street!"

[JAGG]

Pity is reserved for those who have no fight left in them. -Unknown

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf


Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. -English Proverb

[girl_dee]

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Melissa Etheridge

[MissItalianDiva]

Love her. :)

She also said:

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them."

and

"When you see crazy coming, cross the street!"


Those are two of my absolute favorites from her. She is delightful!

[MissItalianDiva]

Pity is reserved for those who have no fight left in them. -Unknown




Unless you are a cherry...then you will DIE! lol

[feminality]

Sorry is what you say when you step on someones toes ... Not when you step on someones Heart ...

Me

:blueheels:

[Kenna]

as my very little son used to say:
"Look at the moon, Momma....no matter where we are in the world, remember we are looking at the same moon. That way we won't be so lonely for each other."

[Kätzchen]

Loving strangers, loving strangers,
loving strangers, oh...

I've got a hole in my pocket
where all the money has gone
and I've got a whole lot of work
to do with your heart
cause it's so busy, mine's not

Loving strangers, loving strangers,
loving strangers, oh...

It's just the start of the winter
and I'm all alone
and I've got my eye right on you
give me a coin and I'll take you to the moon
give me a beer and I'll kiss you so foolishly,
like you do when you lie, when you're not in my thoughts,
like you do when you lie and I know it's not my imagination

Loving strangers, loving strangers,
loving strangers, oh...

(Loving Strangers, Russian Red)

[Kenna]

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton

[Jesse]

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick

[Kobi]

• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

• Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

[Fancy]

And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee.

~Ambrose Philips

[Spirit Dancer]

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again, that I am a nobody."

Henri Nouwen

[Spirit Dancer]

Courage begins when we can admit that there is no life without some pain, some frustration; that there is no tragic accident to which we are immune; and that beyond the normal exercise of prudence we can do nothing about it. But courage goes on to see that the triumph of life is not in pains avoided, but in joys lived completely in the moment of their happening. Courage lies in never taking so much as a good meal or a day of health and fair weather for granted. It lies in learning to be aware of our moments of happiness as sharply as our moments of pain. We need not be afraid to weep when we have cause to weep, so long as we can really rejoice at every cause for rejoicing.

Victoria Lincoln

[Semantics]

If things seem like they're under control, maybe you're not moving fast enough.

Rob Brezsny

[JAGG]

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. -Wilson Mizner

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -Bertrand Russell

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.-Winston Churchill

[gaea]

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[Spirit Dancer]

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.
You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching.
You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Susanna Clark

[Spirit Dancer]

I wish there were a book I could read each day to tell me exactly what to do to live consciously from my heart and soul. But part of the mystery and magic, part of the reason I'm here, is to try to stumble through and hear what the soul has to say about what it needs at each moment--whether it is to work through an emotional block, discover what the next lesson is, meet the next soul mate (my children are soul mates; my best friends are soul mates), or finish my business with the one I'm with now. Ultimately, for most of us, the journey comes down to the same issue: learning to love freely. First ourselves, then other people.

Melody Beattie

[Kobi]

• As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

• One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....

[Talon]

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

~Oscar Wilde