Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Just_G]

All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
~friend's facebook page~

[Just_G]

When you meet the other 1/2 of your soul you will know why it didnt work out until now & be grateful to those who let you go.
~unknown to me~

[Lady Jewel]

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

[Lady Jewel]

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return" ~ Maya Angelou

[LaDolceVita]

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return" ~ Maya Angelou



Thank you Lady Jewel for some Maya...
Here is my absolute favourite by her


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

[Lusciousblondefemme]

You asked me whose life was more important- yours or mine and I answered "mine" ; you walked away angry not knowing that YOU are my life

[Lady Jewel]

The Rock Cries Out to Us
-Read at the 1993 Inaugeration of Ex-President Clinton


A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spelling words
Armed for slaughter.
The rock cries out today, you may stand on me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A river sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet, today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more.
Come, clad in peace and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I
And the tree and stone were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your brow
And when you yet knew you still knew nothing.
The river sings and sings on.
There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing river and the wise rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew,
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek,
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the tree.
Today, the first and last of every tree
Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the river.
Plant yourself beside me, here beside the river.
Each of you, descendant of some passed on
Traveler, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name,
You Pawnee, Apache and Seneca,
You Cherokee Nation, who rested with me,
Then forced on bloody feet,
Left me to the employment of other seekers--
Desperate for gain, starving for gold.
You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot...
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru,
Bought, sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am the tree planted by the river,
Which will not be moved.
I, the rock, I the river, I the tree
I am yours--your passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage,
Need not be lived again.
Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts.
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me,
The rock, the river, the tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning

[miss entycing]

My cloak only has to fall in order that thou mayest discover a succession of mysteries...
-Gustave Flaubert

[violaine]

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.”
Robert Frost

“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.”
Octavio Paz

[Beau]

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
-- Gertrude Stein

[Jet]

My soup tastes like soap. —Jet

[Jet]

Great epitaphs

"My Jesus, mercy"
Al Capone

"The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra

"This is the last of Earth! I am content!"
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great

"Well this was fun, let's dit again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)

"Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King. He Died As He Lived. William H. Bonney 'Billy the Kid'"
Billy the Kid (unknown)

"That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epithaph is the trademark line of cartoon character Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)

"Don't Try"
Charles Bukowski

"Here lies a man who knew how tenlist the service of better men than himself."
Andrew Carnegie

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill

"She did it the hard way"
Bette Davis

"Nothing's So Sacred As Honor And Nothing's So Loyal As Love"
Wyatt Earp

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost

"Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
W. B. Yeats

"Call Me Trimtab" (A trimtab is the smallest part of a rudder for a ship or airplane, and controlls the direction of the craft. He was probably alluding how much power one individual can have in the world.)
R. Buckminster Fuller

"Hey Ram" (Translated "Oh, God")
Mahatma Gandhi

"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx

"Truth to your own spirit"
Jim Morrison

"Norton I Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico"
Joshua A. Norton

"Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho

"Curiosity did not kill this cat."
Studs Terkel

"I told you so, you damned fools."
H. G. Wells

"Against you I will fling myself unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
Virginia Woolf

"Back to silents"
—Clark Gable

"I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
—W.C. Fields

[Mister Bent]

"There is no such thing as a weird human being, it's just that some people require more understanding than others."

- Tom Robbins

[Ms. Meander]

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost

[purepisces]

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

[purepisces]

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ~ Bertrand Russell

[Spirit Dancer]

You should respect each other
and refrain from disputes; you should
not, like water and oil, repel each
other, but should, like milk and
water, mingle together.

The Buddha

[Spirit Dancer]

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet
daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind
with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Alice Potter

[Spirit Dancer]

To ask for forgivness and admit error is admirable
To be forgiven for error priceless


Spirit Dancer

[Mister Bent]

"You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not." - Neil Gaiman

[Diva]

Be ready to be surprised.

~Loesje

[FeminineAllure]

“Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honouring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.”

[violaine]

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
--Pam Brown

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
--Alice Duer Miller

[purepisces]

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~ Ward Elliot Hour

[purepisces]

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. ~ Henry Beston

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Nothing is permanent."

"Neither fire, nor wind, nor birth, nor death can erase our good deeds."

The Buddha

[Jet]

Go jerk yourself a soda. —Annette Benning, Bugsy

[Lady Jewel]

Its a love that was never meant to be.
They were from two worlds.
So different, yet the same.
She called to me in this disembodied voice.
So strange and yet familiar.
She reached out to me as if it were nothing.
But we both knew the truth.
Not free to love me.
Yet, she wanted to own me.
She felt like home to me.
But I was still homeless.
I told her that loving her would be like a small death to me.
And yet, that was the only thing that would free us both.
Everytime she spoke, it was like her words were fire.
Heat. Passion. That only she could extinguish.
She stirred something in me that I never knew existed.
I begged her not to laugh at my proclamations of love and desire for her.
She said she hadnt. She said we shared the same thoughts.
"Wait, be patient", she said. I told her I would wait for her forever.
I'm still waiting.

~Me
:bdsmslave:

[violaine]

now let us play hide and seek. should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. but should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you-

every seed is longing-

strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain-

trees are poems that the earh writes upon the sky. we fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness-

kg

[Diva]

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

~Andy Warhol

[Mister Bent]

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary? - John Grogan

[always2late]

"It's so easy, to think about Love, to talk about Love, to wish for Love, but it's not always easy, to recognize Love, even when we hold it.... In our hands." -Jaka

[Laidbackgrly]

Singing sublimininal agnostic hymns for the deaf and blind paranoid schziophreincs!

[Jet]

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our alliance.

And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
And the dangled conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our alliance.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our alliance.


—Paul Simon, The Dangling Conversation

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Earth laughs in flowers." :rrose::clover::bouquet::wateringgarden::rose:

R.W. Emerson

[weatherboi]

"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel."
Jimi Hendrix

[I'mOneToo]

“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.” - Wendell Phillips

“And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?” - Oleg Kiselev

“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.” - John Stuart Mill

[Mister Bent]

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
— Milan Kundera

[always2late]

"We aren't what we ought to be. We aren't what we were going to be. We aren't what we want to be. But, thank God, we aren't what we were."

[evolveme]

"No one likes a girl who won't sober up."

- Kathleen Edwards

[evolveme]

What interests me are the post-Newtonian, extrabiologic implications of a human species able to think and act using clusters of electrons: light, in other words. If the opening act of the evolutionary drama involved a descent from light into matter and language, then it only makes sense that in the closing act, so to speak, we reunite with our photonic progenitor. The role that language - the word - will play in our light-driven metamorphosis is the furry little question that cranks my squirrel cage.

- Tom Robbins

[evolveme]

The narrow, no-nonsense skeptic is every bit as naive as the breezy-brained New Age believer.

- Tom Robbins (again, because, shoot, y'all)

[evolveme]

We, with our propensity for murder, torture, slavery, rape, cannibalism, pillage, advertising jingles, shag carpets, and golf, how could we seriously be considered as the perfection of a four-billion-year-old grandiose experiment?

- Tom, Again.

[evolveme]

Well, there's always the nature boat,the art boat, the sex boat, the intoxication boat. They're bobbing at the end of nearly every pier, just waiting to ferry us across our personal doldrums, societal whirlpools, and institutional sewage lagoons. Why, the best of them can even cut the tides of mediocrity.

- Who Do Ya Think?

[evolveme]

Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still; lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from the continuum; preventing, while it lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society; lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

- Ya Mama

[purepisces]

“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke, American Poet, Author

[purepisces]

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right? ~ Wayne W. Dyer

[evolveme]

Embrace

You know the parlor trick.
wrap your arms around your own body
and from the back it looks like
someone is embracing you
her hands grasping your shirt
her fingernails teasing your neck
from the front it is another story
you never looked so alone
your crossed elbows and screwy grin
you could be waiting for a tailor
to fit you with a straight jacket
one that would hold you really tight.

- Billy Collins

[always2late]

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." - Earl Nightingale

[JakeTulane]

"Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect."
~ Chief Seattle, 1854 ~

[JakeTulane]

"For me, the different religions
are beautiful flowers from the same garden,
or they are branches of the same majestic tree.
Therefore, they are equally true,
though being received and interpreted
through human instruments equally imperfect."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"to touch is to heal,
to hurt is to steal,
if you wanna kiss the sky
better learn how to kneel,
...on your knees boy!"

~ from "Mysterious Ways" by U2 ~

[JakeTulane]

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

[always2late]

"There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, and to love them almost despite themselves." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

[Semantics]

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

Rob Brezsny



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

Rob Brezsny


Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.


Rob Brezsny

[Mister Bent]

Drinking While Driving
It's August and I have not
Read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat from Moscow
by Caulaincourt
Nevertheless, I am happy
Riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow.
We do not have any place in mind to go,
we are just driving.
If I closed my eyes for a minute
I would be lost, yet
I could gladly lie down and sleep forever
beside this road
My brother nudges me.
Any minute now, something will happen.


An Afternoon
As he writes, without looking at the sea,
he feels the tip of his pen begin to tremble.
The tide is going out across the shingle.
But it isn't that. No,
it's because at that moment she chooses
to walk into the room without any clothes on.
Drowsy, not even sure where she is
for a moment. She waves the hair from her forehead.
Sits on the toilet with her eyes closed,
head down. Legs sprawled. He sees her
through the doorway. Maybe
she's remembering what happened that morning.
For after a time, she opens one eye and looks at him.
And sweetly smiles.

[Jet]

Color As Beginning
Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow hair

__________________

December 30
At 1:30 in the morning a fart
smells like a marriage between
an avocado and a fish head.

I have to get out of bed
to write this down without
my glasses on.

__________________

Deer Tracks
Beautiful, sobbing
high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer tracks in the
freshly-fallen snow beside
the one you love.
That's all.

__________________

Haiku Ambulance
A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?

__________________

Love Poem
It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.

__________________

The Xerox Candy Bar
You're just like all
the other candy bars
I've eaten.

__________________

The Pill vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster
When you take your pill,
I think of all the people
lost inside of you.

__________________

My Nose Is Growing Old
Yup.
A long lazy September look
in the mirror
say it's true.

I'm 31
and my nose is growing
old.

It starts about 1/2
an inch
below the bridge
and strolls geriatrically
down
for another inch or so:
stopping.

Fortunately, the rest
of the nose is comparatively
young.

I wonder if girls
will want me with an
old nose.

I can hear them now
the heartless bitches!

"He's cute
but his nose
is old.

__________________

Private Eye Lettuce
Three crates of Private Eye Lettuce,
the name and drawing of a detective
with magnifying glass on the sides
of the crates of lettuce,
form a great cross in man’s imagination
and his desire to name
the objects of this world.
I think I’ll call this place Golgotha
and have some salad for dinner.

Some of the poems of the late Richard Brautigan

[JakeTulane]

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens

[JakeTulane]

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

[JakeTulane]

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." ~Ruth Stout

[Andrew, Jr.]

St. Francis of Assisi

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Nothing so gentle as real strength."

I used this in my late sister's CaringBridge site to describe her. It was also used for her prayer cards at the viewing.





Maya Angelou

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

[Soft*Silver]

the reason cats are so silent is that there is very little in the world that needs further comment

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[always2late]

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." - Merry Browne

[violaine]

there is no phrase without a double meaning--
--african proverb

:farmcow:

shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow--
--swedish proverb

age, like distance, lends a double charm--
--oliver wendell holmes

double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble--
--william shakespeare

[Diva]

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Diva]

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Spirit Dancer]

No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go
there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then
one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything
comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

E. Stanley Jones

[purepisces]

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~ Walter Anderson

[purepisces]

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~ H. Jackson Browne

[purepisces]

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~ A.A. Milne

[Duchess]

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.(f)

Rowan Williams (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Rowan&Author_Last_Name=Williams&Movie=)
English, Theologian Quotes

[evolveme]

Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.

- Tom Robbins

[AtLast]

God only loans us our children (stated to me by my Mother many times).

I often wonder if she found any solice in this belief while having to accept it's reality....

[Mister Bent]

If it weren't for the fact that everyone is doing it love would be classified as a mental illness.

- My older sister

[Mister Bent]

What Fassbinder film is it? The one-armed Man walks into a flower shop and says: What flower expresses Days go by And they just keep going by endlessly Pulling you Into the future. Days go by Endlessly Endlessly pulling you Into the future. And the florist says: White Lily.

- Laurie Anderson

[SassyLeo]

God only loans us our children (stated to me by my Mother many times).

I often wonder if she found any solice in this belief while having to accept it's reality....

Was she a fan of: The Prophet: On Children :)

"And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."
And he said:
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.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."

-Khalil Gibran

[always2late]

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." -Walter Elliot

[JakeTulane]

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[JakeTulane]

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends." - Unknown

[purepisces]

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~ Robert Frost

[purepisces]

God has no religion. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[purepisces]

Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way. ~ Langya

[robbrt]

"The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. "

High Fidelity

[Diva]

It takes a long time to grow young.

~Pablo Picasso

[Diva]

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

~Abraham Lincoln

[Diva]

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

~Robert Frost

(An aside..... I don't mind if anyone remembers mine: I'm 57! And 57 doesn't suck! :) )

[Just_G]

57 is gorgeous! :winky:
~G~

[Diva]

The more love You give, the more You will receive.
As You put more emphasis on being a loving person,
which is something You CAN control ~
and less emphasis on receiving love, which is something You CAN'T control ~
You'll find that You have plenty of love in Your life.
Soon You'll discover one of the greatest secrets in the world:

Love is its own reward.

~Richard Carlson (from "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff")

[Diva]

If You're treating her as You should,
it won't matter what anyone else says to her.

~Janey Hall

[always2late]

"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." - William Rostler

[miss entycing]

When you've reached the place where a girl loves to be touched... don't let modesty prevent you from touching her.
-Ovid

[jenny]

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." -- Carl Reiner

[purepisces]

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~ Hart Crane

[purepisces]

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~ Anaïs Nin

[miss entycing]

When the red flower shows it's beauty
and exhales it's heady perfume,
while she stays with you in the night
and you play... and take your pleasure with her,
pointing at the pictures, you follow their sequence.
~ Chang Heng Ch'i-pieu

[evolveme]

It occurred to her that despite the failure of her marriage, the failure of her career, despite her hangover and chronic horniness, she suddenly was feeling rather light and giddy. She couldn't understand it. Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

- Tom Robbins
from Skinny Legs and All

[TROOPER]

My all Time favorite!



How Do I Love Thee?
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace,
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

[Diva]

There is satiety in all things....

...in sleep, and lovemaking, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

~Homer, "The Iliad"

[Diva]

I do not cut my life up into days
but my days into lives, each day,
each hour, an entire life.

~Juan Ramon Jimenez

[Diva]

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.

~Sara Teasdale

[Ms. Meander]

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest

[purepisces]

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

[purepisces]

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~ Erich Fromm

[JakeTulane]

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them" -Charles de Montesquieu

[JakeTulane]

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”-Mahatma Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” -Rabindranath Tagore quotes

[always2late]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~ Albert Einstein

[miss entycing]

A beautiful woman is like a wild rose...
lovely and calm, but willing to draw blood in her defense.
~unknown

[violaine]

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld


http://www.quotegarden.com/love.html

[theoddz]

"Wow, I've done some bizarre shit, but I've never done THAT!!" -- Tabitha

~Theo~ :bouquet:.....still laughin!!! :pointing:

[Lady Jewel]

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we_come_to_love_not_by_finding_a_perfect_person/198409.html)” ~Sam Keen

[Lady Jewel]

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”~Unknown

[Soft*Silver]

cougars rock my world!

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[alex k]

Invictus-William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul

[Lady Jewel]

“And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.” ~Kahlil Gibran

[Beau]

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

:rrose:

[Hack]

Don't let your baggage define your travels. -- Shane Koyczan

[miss entycing]

"You call me a Bitch like it's a BAD thing!"
~ as seen on my tank top
:raspberry:

[I'mOneToo]

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. -- James Stephens

[JakeTulane]

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” - Marcel Pagnol

[JakeTulane]

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” - Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” - Storm Jameson

[FeminineAllure]

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert

[Blade]

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains

As long as we have hope, tomorrow waits

As long as we have friendship, today is beautiful

[Liquefaction]

Stop at the cross roads and look.
Ask for the ancient paths.
Ask where the good way is and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your soul.

[purepisces]

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. ~ Thales

[miss entycing]

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu

[Semantics]

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions
is most likely to be correct.

Occam's Razor

[Ms. Meander]

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

~ Bernadette Delvin

[violaine]

i like to see you move with the rhythm; i Like to see when you're dancing' from within-

we should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be -

oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard -

--bob marley

[Jet]

The Beatitudes
Sermon on The Mount according to the Gospel of St. Matthew

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Verse 3)
Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. (Verse 4)
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted. (Verse 5)
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill. (Verse 6)
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (Verse 7)
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. (Verse 8)
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Verse 9)
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Verse 10)

[Mister Bent]

"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
- Milan Kundera

[JakeTulane]

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." ~W. Edwards Deming

[JakeTulane]

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." ~Shunryu Suzuki

[JakeTulane]

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing." ~Saint Augustine

[Blade]

You'll never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.

Dang I can't rep myself can I?

[JakeTulane]

"Listen to the trees; they whisper truth. Gaze at the moon; it sees truth." - T.W. Roleston

[Spirit Dancer]

There are two ways of spreading light ...
To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton ~

[Spirit Dancer]

A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

~ Diane Mariechild ~

[Spirit Dancer]

Cut not the wings of your dreams,
for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

~ Flavia ~

[jenny]

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley

[cinderella]

The Scopes Monkey Trial 1925

In 1925, a small mid-western town populated by like small-minded people, a high school teacher was being tried for instructing his students on Darwin's theory of evolution. The towns people wanted to jail him because they felt he was breaking the law, and corrupting the morals of young people by teaching these principles.

The defense hires renowned lawyer, agnostic Drummund from Chicago. During Drummund's interrogatiom of bible-totin', scripture spewing, hell-bent evangelist Brady regarding Darwin's theory of evolution, Drummond comments:

"The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens and holy holy hosannas. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral, and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters .... The Bible is a good book, but it is not the only book .... How do you know God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?"

In 1960 a film was made based on this trail. It was called 'Inherit the Wind'.
Here's a clip of this scene in this powerful, and thought-provoking film:
YouTube- Inherit the Wind scene, creationism vs. evolution

[Duchess]

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.(f)

Alan Bates (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Alan&Author_Last_Name=Bates&Movie=)
British, Actor Quotes

[Duchess]

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.(f)

Leo Buscaglia (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Leo&Author_Last_Name=Buscaglia&Movie=)
American, Author Quotes

[hpychick]

It is not the will to succeed - but the will to prepare to succeed - that makes the difference.

Chinese Fortune Cookie

[Andrew, Jr.]

"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf." Thomas Fuller

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself." Ralph W. Emerson

"Peace begins with a smile." Mother Teresa

"Peace and justice are 2 sides of the same coin." President Eisenhower

[JakeTulane]

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." ~Benjamin Franklin

[JakeTulane]

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~James Openheim

[JakeTulane]

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." ~H. Jackson Browne

[Ms. Meander]

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Ella Williams

[Blade]

'Before they call, I will answer.' (Isaiah 65:24)

[Pixie]

Was watching Will and Grace and this just hit the spot...

Karen: I brought juice boxes.
Grace: For the last time wine is not juice, and your whip is not a jump rope.
Karen: Well it sure makes you jump.

[purepisces]

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. ~ Martha Graham

[purepisces]

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~ Keshavan Nair

[JakeTulane]

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” - Edmund Hillary

[JakeTulane]

"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein

[JakeTulane]

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” - Unknown

[always2late]

"All the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say No, and said Yes." -Moss Hart

[Jet]

The Scopes Monkey Trial 1925

In 1925, a small mid-western town populated by like small-minded people, a high school teacher was being tried for instructing his students on Darwin's theory of evolution. The towns people wanted to jail him because they felt he was breaking the law, and corrupting the morals of young people by teaching these principles.

The defense hires renowned lawyer, agnostic Drummund from Chicago. During Drummund's interrogatiom of bible-totin', scripture spewing, hell-bent evangelist Brady regarding Darwin's theory of evolution, Drummond comments:

"The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens and holy holy hosannas. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral, and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters .... The Bible is a good book, but it is not the only book .... How do you know God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?"


Because he didn't, that's why....lol

[Soft*Silver]

dont interrupt me when I am laying on your lap and softly closing my eyes.
I am praying for you

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Soft*Silver]

Believe that and i will tell you when I have an accident in the house I am merely baptising the fleas in order to save their souls before my flea collar kills them


Old Story, the ancient demented Newfoundland who lives with Mr Smitty

[Spirit Dancer]

Are you balanced? Do you share your time, your energy,
your life, as much with yourself as you do with those
around you?. . . . Know your limits. You are one of the
most important people you need to look after and love.
Balance your time, your energy, your life with those
around you. You'll be able to give more freely and joyfully
as a result, and you'll be more open to the gifts of
the universe. It's not wrong to give to others.
But it's okay to say yes to ourselves, too.

Melody Beattie

[JakeTulane]

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” - Richard Bach

[JakeTulane]

"Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.” - Unknown

[always2late]

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
* "The Paradoxical Commandments" by Kent M. Keith

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The road to Easy Street is through the sewer." John Madden :heavyweight:

"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors." Frank Gifford :vigil:

"There's no substitute for guts." Paul "Bear" Bryant :football:

:footballpass:

[Soft*Silver]

there isnt anything better in life than stolen moments eating taffy and petting the cat

Me

[Soft*Silver]

psst...mom..."and walking the dog"

Story the newf who wont be forgotten

[miss entycing]

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
~Javan

[purepisces]

Live out of your imagination, not your history. ~ Stephen Covey

[purepisces]

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ~ Wayne Dyer

[Hack]

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. -- Orson Welles

[Soon]

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

Jeanette Winterson

[Duchess]

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.(f)

David Seabury (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=David&Author_Last_Name=Seabury&Movie=)
Author Nationalities, Author Quotes

[violaine]

and the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
--anais Nin

:rrose::rrose::rrose:

all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
--arthur Schopenhauer

[miss entycing]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~ Dr. Seuss

[Jet]

I'm amazingly organized for the mess I'm in. —Jet

[always2late]

"Faith is the bird that feels the light And sings when the dawn is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore

[JakeTulane]

"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

[JakeTulane]

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." ~Richard Bach

[JakeTulane]

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ~Emily Dickinson

[Spirit Dancer]

As we rise to meet the challenges
that are a natural part of living,
we awaken to our many
undiscovered gifts, to our inner
power and our purpose.

Susan L. Taylor

[Spirit Dancer]

The wise stand out, because they see themselves as part of the Whole.
They shine, because they don't want to impress.
They achieve great things, because they don't look for recognition.
Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions.
They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Lao Tzu

[miss entycing]

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

[PinkieLee]

"I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains, Hope that doesn’t ever end, Even when the sky is falling. And I’ve seen miracles just happen, Silent prayers get answered, Broken hearts become brand new... That’s what faith can do."

Kutless - Thats What Faith Can Do

[Cyclopea]

Bad taste or good taste is always better than no taste!
-Stefano Tonchi

[layla]

"One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine... and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

Khalil Gibran

[hpychick]

There are no ordinary moments.

Chinese Fortune Cookie

[Enchantress]

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiousity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. Cummings

[Soft*Silver]

dear hairless humans...you only mind us shedding because you are mutants in the animals world. You and the pig skin dogs.

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Diva]

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

~Glade Byron Addams

[Diva]

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

~Attributed to Howard Thurman

[always2late]

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." ~ Groucho Marx

[Andrew, Jr.]

"It's a day by day decision that I want to live joyfully. I want to be Good News to other people...And so I try to smile. I try to laugh. I try to find the sources of strength and joy."
Sister Thea Bowman

:grandpiano:

[Duchess]

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.(f)

Sherilyn Fenn (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Sherilyn&Author_Last_Name=Fenn&Movie=)
American, Actress Quotes

[purepisces]

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. ~ John Burroughs

[purepisces]

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. ~ Lord Chesterfield

[Diva]

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

~Helen Keller

[Diva]

Think of all the beauty still left around You and be happy.

~Anne Frank

[Just_G]

You know the feeling you get when it all comes together? When evrything seems to be falling in place and you have no complaints. When you look up and tilt your head slightly and smile because you know its only the beginning of great things. Yeah...I've got that feeling.

~Just G~

[JakeTulane]

“Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.” - Beverly Mitchell

[JakeTulane]

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” - Alex Tan

[JakeTulane]

“The hardest part about growing up is letting go with what you have been accustomed to and moving on with something that you haven't experienced yet.” - Unknown

[Beau]

“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.”
-- Coretta Scott King

[Duchess]

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasow (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Arnold+H.&Author_Last_Name=Glasow&Movie=)
Author Nationalities, Actor Quotes

[Duchess]

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.:)

Ed Cunningham (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Ed&Author_Last_Name=Cunningham&Movie=)

[FeminineAllure]

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Allen


What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven
and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[afixer]

Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never..., in extremity, It asked a crumb of me
~Emily Dickinson

[Soon]

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

[Spirit Dancer]

A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it with fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft, deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.

And into my garden stole,
When the night had veiled the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

William Blake

[Spirit Dancer]

Forgiveness is at the heart of a healthy and happy life. Forgiveness protects relationships. It also protects the person who does the forgiving. Remember the story that psychiatrist and author Robert Coles tells
about Ruby, the little girl who integrated a Southern elementary school. Every day the federal marshals had to escort Ruby through a mob
of adults who spat at her and called her hateful names. Remarkably,
the five-year-old girl did not seem to be emotionally damaged by the ordeal, a fact that puzzled Cole until he discovered that Ruby prayed
every day asking God to forgive her persecutors . . . . Forgiveness is a method for giving love. It is a way of saying, "I am going to let go
of the wrong you did; I am not going to be bitter and I am going
to go on loving you anyway."

Bernie Siegel

[Soon]

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

[moxie]

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” - Judy Garland

[Diva]

If You can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment...

~Chris Evert

[Diva]

From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.

~Arthur Ashe

[Just_G]

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.

- Bill Cosby

[Spirit Dancer]

There is in this world no such force as the force
of a person determined to rise.
The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W.E.B. Du Bois

[Spirit Dancer]

As the sculptor devotes him or herself to wood and stone,
I would devote myself to my soul.

Toyohiko Kagawa

[Spirit Dancer]

It does not matter how slowly you go,
so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything.

[Forgetmenotfemme]

LOVE is the reason why I still lived in this crazy world!!!!

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Somewhere theres someone who dreams of your smile
and finds in your presense that life is worthwhile
So when you are lonely remember its true
somebody somewhere is thinking of you

[miss entycing]

If love is blind, then what's the purpose of lingerie?
~unknown

[miss entycing]

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”

[Forgetmenotfemme]

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
Richard Bach :smelling-flower:

"Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response."
Mildred Barthel :skateboard:

Andrew :snowysmiley:

[always2late]

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth Browning

[Duchess]

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.(f)

Rhonda Britten (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Rhonda&Author_Last_Name=Britten&Movie=)
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

[Diva]

I am sure there is Magic in everything.

~Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Diva]

Do You want me to tell You something really subversive?

Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for,
risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
if You don't risk everything, You risk even more.

~Erica Jong

[Ms. Meander]

You must go out on a limb, to get the fruit of the tree.

[Random]

free
falling
floating
ripples
another world begins...


me...

[Mister Bent]

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion

[purepisces]

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. ~ Vicki Harrison

[purepisces]

Death ends a life, not a relationship. ~ Jack Lemmon

[purepisces]

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~ James Herriot

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"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

[Soft*Silver]

the only reason cats honor the presence of humans is simply because they can control the brain sucking howling animal with the hard shell! We cats know not to disregard their powers!

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[adorable]

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry

[purepisces]

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundries. ~ Corita Kent

[Hack]

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -- Robin Williams

[Enchantress]

The infinite is in the finite of every instant ...

[Gemme]

Easier Grows the Way

Looking ahead, the hills seem steep
and the road rises up to the sky,
But as we near them and start to climb,
they never seem half as high.
And thinking of work and trouble,
we worry and hesitate,
But just as soon as we tackle the job,
the burden becomes less great.
So never a hill, a task, or load,
a minute, an hour, a day
But as we grow near it and start to climb,
easier grows the way.

Helen Steiner Rice

[moxie]

They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. - Antonie de Saint-Exupery

[Mister Bent]

Summer: They used to call me anal girl.

Summer: I was very neat and organized.

- From 500 Days of Summer

[Queerasfck]

"Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym."

Alvy Singer