Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[DMW]

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

1. The Road Not Taken


TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

[Kent]

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduces stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.
- Dalai Lama

[grenade]

Tonight I Can Write... Pablo Neruda


Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write for example, "The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance."


The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.


Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her,
and sometimes she loved me too.


Through nights like this one, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.


She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.


Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her.
To feel that I have lost her.


To hear the immense night,
still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.


What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered
and she is not with me.


This is all.
In the distance someone is singing.
In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.


My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her,
and she is not with me.


The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.


I no longer love her, that's certain,
but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.


Another's. She will be another's.
Like my kisses before.
Her bright body.
Her infinite eyes.


I no longer love her, that's certain,
but maybe I love her. Love is so short,
forgetting is so long.


Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.


Thought this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

[grenade]

I crave your mouth... Pablo Neruda


I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.


I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.


I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,


and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

[Nomad]

building trust takes years of thought, effort, patience, tears, humility, and honesty; all oft repeated. unbuilding trust can take a single second, a hasty assumption, a thoughtless act; especially when oft repeated.

Abraham Lincoln


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

also Abraham Lincoln


self respect is about saying 'stop' when someone hurts you, saying 'no' to the person you love most, saying 'unacceptable' when you're being fed a line of shit and saying 'step off' when even G*d treds on your toes

Dad


i refuse to give someone power if they refuse to respect the fact that i did it. that's like putting your balls in someone elses vice and forgetting to pocket the key

also Dad

[weatherboi]

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

[Talon]

If there ever comes a day where we can't be together,
keep me in your heart..I'll stay there forever.

~Winnie the Pooh

[grenade]

Song by Allen Ginsberg


The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

Who can deny?
In dreams
it touches
the body,
in thought
constructs
a miracle,
in imagination
anguishes
till born
in human--
looks out of the heart
burning with purity--
for the burden of life
is love,

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love--
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines,
the final wish
is love
--cannot be bitter,
cannot deny,
cannot withhold
if denied:

the weight is too heavy

--must give
for no return
as thought
is given
in solitude
in all the excellence
of its excess.

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye--

yes, yes,
that's what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.

San Jose, 1954

[grenade]

John Keats

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving - I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you. My sweet Fanny, will your heart never change? My love, will it? I have no limit now to my love - You note came in just here - I cannot be happier away from you - 'T is richer than an Argosy of Pearles. Do not threat me even in jest. I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you.

[JAGG]

“Never judge someone by their relatives.” - Charles Martin


“You want the fairy tale, I want a chance at it.” ― Rachel Gibson


“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.” ― Henry Miller

[Talon]

The weakness of man is the thing to be feared, not his strength.

[JAGG]

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” ― Shana Abé

“You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”― J.R. Ward


" What a luxury it was, for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted." - Ceclia Athern

[Talon]

Jacob served seven years for Rachel,
and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.


~Genesis 29:20

[Kelt]

Here's an old army phrase I just saw;

"Always spend good money on your shoes and your bed, because if you're not in one you're in the other."

*Demonstrating my deeply philosophical side*

[Angeltoes]

Quietly

By Kenneth Rexroth

Lying here quietly beside you,
My cheek against your firm, quiet thighs,
The calm music of Boccherini
Washing over us in the quiet,
As the sun leaves the housetops and goes
Out over the Pacific, quiet—
So quiet the sun moves beyond us,
So quiet as the sun always goes,
So quiet, our bodies, worn with the
Times and penances of love, our
Brains curled, quiet in their shells, dormant,
Our hearts slow, quiet, reliable
In their interlocked rhythms, the pulse
In your thigh caressing my cheek. Quiet.

[Angeltoes]

The thing is

by Ellen Bass

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

[Angeltoes]

Certain People

by Richard Jones

My father lives by the ocean
and drinks his morning coffee
in the full sun on his deck,
talking to anyone
who walks by on the beach.
And in the afternoons he works
part-time at the golf course–
sailing the fairways like sea captain
in a white golf cart.
My father must talk
to a hundred people a day,
yet we haven't spoken in weeks.
As I get older, we hardly speak at all.
It's as if he were a stranger
and we had never met.
I wonder, if I
were a tourist on the beach
or a golfer lost in woods
and met him now for the very first time,
what we'd say to each other,
how his hand would feel in mine
as we introduced ourselves,
and if, as is the case
with certain people, I'd feel,
when I looked him in the eye,
I'd known him all my life.

[Angeltoes]

"Whatever one loves most is beautiful." --Sappho

[Angeltoes]

Falling Leaves and Early Snow
by Kenneth Rexroth

In the years to come they will say,
"They fell like the leaves
In the autumn of nineteen thirty-nine."
November has come to the forest,
To the meadows where we picked the cyclamen.
The year fades with the white frost
On the brown sedge in the hazy meadows,
Where the deer tracks were black in the morning.
Ice forms in the shadows;
Disheveled maples hang over the water;
Deep gold sunlight glistens on the shrunken stream.
Somnolent trout move through pillars of brown and gold.
The yellow maple leaves eddy above them,
The glittering leaves of the cottonwood,
The olive, velvety alder leaves,
The scarlet dogwood leaves,
Most poignant of all.

In the afternoon thin blades of cloud
Move over the mountains;
The storm clouds follow them;
Fine rain falls without wind.
The forest is filled with wet resonant silence.
When the rain pauses the clouds
Cling to the cliffs and the waterfalls.
In the evening the wind changes;
Snow falls in the sunset.
We stand in the snowy twilight
And watch the moon rise in a breach of cloud.
Between the black pines lie narrow bands of moonlight,
Glimmering with floating snow.
An owl cries in the sifting darkness.
The moon has a sheen like a glacier.

[Duchess]

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.(f)

~Dalai Lama (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/dalailama132914.html)

[MissItalianDiva]

Each time you fall into the past or jump into the future you miss what is going on right now. Right now you have the opportunity to create a fresh new start. Release the past! Receive your good now. Trust that when you reach tomorrow, there will be nothing but good waiting for you.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.” ― P Cicero




“The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.”― Simone Elkeles


“Everything that happens to you matters to me.” ― Unkown

[Angeltoes]

"I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it." --Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[Angeltoes]

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

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.

--mevlana jelaluddin rumi

[Kätzchen]

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle,”

~ Ernest Hemingway

[Angeltoes]

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea."
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[Angeltoes]

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." ― James Joyce, Ulysses

[Angeltoes]

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
― James Joyce, The Dead

"Love loves to love love."
― James Joyce, Ulysses

"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Angeltoes]

"If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it."
― Toba Beta,

[ruffryder]

If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet. Annot L Sheppard


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

[ruffryder]

"Most people who judge a book by it's cover have difficulty reading."


You may have to endure some people speaking against you, but if you can stay on the high road, you will prove their criticism invalid. Joel Osteen

Try to be like the turtle-at ease in your own shell. Bill Copeland

[JAGG]

“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Ian McEwan

[Electrocell]

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Laozi



It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. Mahatma Gandhi



This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps

[prettyboyreg]

I myself am entirely made of flaws, stitched together with good intentions~ Author unknown

[stargazingboi]

First Love ~John Clare

I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale.
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.
I could not see a single thing,
Words from my eyes did start --
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.

Are flowers the winter's choice?
Is love's bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
Not love's appeals to know.
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more

[JAGG]

“Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.” ― Toni Coleman

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli

A relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”
― Jerry Spinelli

[Fancy]

‎"Neither a promotion, losing weight, finding a soul mate, writing a book, nor becoming a billionaire will ensure happiness.

Nothing ensures happiness. No destination is great enough. No dream come true will do.

Because happiness, dear one, that's not present at the start of a journey will not be present at its end."

[Talon]

I loved him as a woman loves-reckless of sorrows, sin, or scorn.

~Letitia Landon

[Duchess]

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. (f)

~Jane Austen

[JAGG]

“The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.”― Steve Maraboli

“Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?” ― Nick Hornby


“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” ― Steve Maraboli

[Tcountry]

True Love

Of all the things I’ve had to say
I never thought it would be this way.
Friends for years
Through all of the tears
Love was a simple game.
And now I wish to take your name.
Time flies when you’re having fun
Or when two hearts become one.
It is a simple vow to take
But one you should never break.
Not many people take the time
To let their hearts spend that extra dime.
Too bad, because it is well worth the wait
When a friend becomes your perfect mate.
So many secrets, you can’t hide anymore
If you chose to love and adore.
But it is definitely worth it in the end
When you find that one “true love” who is also a friend.

[FeminineAllure]

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

[Talon]

I'm one of those people that when I go over a bridge, I want to jump.
It's like this intense tickle in the pit of my stomach.
It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge.
And I'm not going to get that release until I jump.

[FeminineAllure]

~My Love~

My Love,
You have stirred deep inside of me
A place so oddly familiar...
A place where the light in me shone so brightly
Through your boldness at times...
I can see with a clarity so clearly
Your pure intentions...
Like the moon sits upon the backdrop
Of an Indigo sky so peacefully.

I comprehend the many volumes you speak in silences
And each meaning conveyed in your need to withdrawal...
From your musings thoughtfully abstracted the truth is always surrendered.

My love,
I stand right before you
Though miles from your shore.
And yet my soul knows exactly where to look
and how to decipher
the many truths and secrets you have buried
upon the shoreline
deep within each grain of sand
on so many of your solitary walks
Along the beach...
Feeling the breeze
Wisping softly against your face.
Know you do not walk alone
For these are kisses from me.

I am strong enough to look into the depths of your soul
I see past just your eyes...
I remember the times I spent deciphering
Your blank stares.
For what lies past that is the story of the truth today.

I cherish the memories so foreign to you now.
I long to compliment and complete you.
Like the color of Manganese
One must risk it's toxicity
To truly be able to see and appreciate it's awe. Like the risk in loving what we can't see
We still share the same moon, sun, stars...
Look no further to also find me.

My love,
Try to remember the promise I made to you
for each time we had to depart from here
from one another
I vowed to always return to meet you
At our safe haven.

But only once we learned
How to recognize
And where to look for and find the truth.
The key lies in being ready to hear the truth.

Hidden somewhere between the twilight's gleam
and the early morning dawn
Sparkles so many flickers of light
All vying for your undivided attention.
But only one tiny flicker will endure
Choosing the right one
Finding it...
One must go through many tries first
Many trials. But none were in vain.

Yes, you are bright, bold, and a rarity.
Do you even remember where to look for me?
What to do once you find my slumbering soul?

No matter if you do or not
One thing is certain. No matter how far apart
We are in mere miles physically.
We share the same indigo sky...
Under the same full moon in June
Seek the beauty of it's simplicity in its complexity.

I hear a symphony speak to me in your silences.
Love...
Feel the purity in my burning passion for you
And with nothing more to test...
Nothing more to question...
Simply feel my beauty as you trust the
feeling of the gentle breeze running through your
Hair, body and being.
For under this Moon and Indigo sky
know that it is I that has kissed your face
Like the wind, like that breeze.
You can't see it...until its a tornado
But you can always feel its stirrings.
__________________

[JAGG]

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
― Lisa Kleypas

“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”― Laurell K. Hamilton

[Duchess]

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.(f)

~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

[Electrocell]

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami

“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

[Talon]

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami

“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Great quotes, Electrocell!
I especially love the one by the fabulous Kelly Cutrone...She's pro-women..strong..successful..and wise. She's such a great role model for women. She's a hot habanero w/ a vanilla yogurt heart.

~`T

[Talon]

The wind blows cold
And the wind comes down to the dawn
And we ride silently
And we kiss as we ride down
In the dusty heat
Licking the tears from your eyes

The day I first saw you, my eyes observed you
My heart approved you
I fled from my father with you
Far from my home with you

I never repented it
You darkened a parlour for me, painted rooms for me
Slaughtered beasts for me
I slept upon duck's feathers
Until mid-day milking time
Or more if it pleased me

Your heart's blood was still flowing,
I did not stay to wipe it..
but filled my hands and drank it...my warm-hearted rider..

My thousand sorrows.

[thedivahrrrself]

"We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire."
- Marge Piercy

"Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you — to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch..."
- Zelda Fitzgerald

"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."
- Anais Nin

"I cannot exist without you. I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again. My life seems to stop there, I see no further. You have absorbed me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion... I have shuddered at it... I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion: Love is my religion. I could die for that. I could die for you. My creed is love, and you are its only tenet. You have ravished me away by a power I cannot resist."
- John Keats

[JAGG]

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ― Ayn Rand

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.” ― Nicholas Sparks

[MegBluEyz]

"Love without judgment
Forgive without fear
Stand your ground with integrity
Leave behind what does not matter
Reach for who you truly are ..."

[macele]

"I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's lives. I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness."

-- Seimone Augustus

[AnnRkey]

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,
we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents.
Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.
We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property.
We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being
was not determined by his wealth.
We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians,
therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.
We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know
how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things
that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.

John (Fire) Lame Deer
Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976

[Duchess]

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. (f)

~Jewish Proverb

[Talon]

Power to those who care not what mere humans think of them,
but follow true their own unique visions and identities with great courage, fire, depth of soul, and unrelinquishable passion.

[Kätzchen]

Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectaton of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

I live for my sons, I would be lost without them.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang onto that love.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life-
a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running to wherever they are.

Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

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[prettyboyreg]

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”
― Leslie Feinberg

[Bleu]

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~Tom Robbins

[Duchess]

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.(f)

~Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), Theatre Arts, December 1955

[Nomad]

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”

[cinnamongrrl]

Thou ancient oak! whose myriad leaves are loud
With sounds of unintelligible speech,
Sounds as of surges on a shingly beach,
Or multitudinous murmurs of a crowd;
With some mysterious gift of tongues endowed,
Thou speakest a different dialect to each;
To me a language that no man can teach,
Of a lost race, long vanished like a cloud.
For underneath thy shade, in days remote,
Seated like Abraham at eventide
Beneath the oaks of Mamre, the unknown
Apostle of the Indians, Eliot, wrote
His Bible in a language that hath died
And is forgotten, save by thee alone.

[Electrocell]

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa

[Duchess]

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. (f)

~Elton John

[Stud_puppy1991]

This is actually an excerpt from one of my favorite stories in How Beautiful The Ordinary, coming from David Levithan's story, A Word From The Nearly Distant Past:

You will miss the taste of Fruit Loops
You will the sound of traffic
You will miss your back against his
You will even miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things.

[Duchess]

The House By the Side of the Road
by Sam Walter Foss

Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by -
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears -
Both parts of an infinite plan;
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead
And mountains of wearisome height;
And the road passes on through the long afternoon
And stretches away to the night.
But still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice,
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the road
Like a man who dwells alone.
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by -
They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish - so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.(f)

[MissItalianDiva]

We all have people in our lives who anger or annoy us, who rub us the wrong way. We can usually see the faults of others very clearly. Everyone comes into our lives to mirror back to us some part of ourselves we cannot or will not see.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[macele]

"Never think you've seen the last of anything."

-- Eudora Welty

[JAGG]

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. So be careful who your surround yourself with.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.” ― Ann Landers

“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.” ― Ellen Glasgow

" Same merry-go-round different horse." - Unknown

[Stud_puppy1991]

"I'd rather face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."- Ani DiFranco
"In the end, everything is a gag."- Charlie Chaplin
"Love is like war, easy to begin, but very hard to stop."- H.L. Meckner

[Duchess]

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.(f)

~William McGill

[Duchess]

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.(f)

~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

[Angeltoes]

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"― Rainer Maria Rilke

[gaea]

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
- Anthony Robbins

[JAGG]

“There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Do you know how there are moments when the world seems to stop and you can feel your heart soaring, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”― Jodi Picoult

[Soon]

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur



“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[Scuba]

Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. But life being what it is...a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control...

Benjamin Button

[Metro]

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

– Margaret Thatcher

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Read this and loved it...

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk,thinking that if people were rain,I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” -John Green

[Duchess]

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.(f)

~Louise L. Hay (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/louiselha178047.html)
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes_of_the_day.html#)

[Talon]

We do not see things as they are,
we see things as we are.

~The Talmud

[JAGG]

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.” ― Cassandra Clare


“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”― E.L. Konigsburg,

[Nomad]

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[Scuba]

"I've eaten burritos bigger than you"

Arizona Cardinal Football Player

:rofl:

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green

[Scuba]

"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that." – Woody Allen

[Duchess]

If a person is single, it doesn't really mean that he/she knows nothing about love. In fact, going solo is a lot wiser than being in a wrong relationship. (http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/If_a_person_is_single%2C_it_doesn%27t_really_mean_ that_he_she_knows_nothing_about_love._In_fact%2C_g oing_s/382513/)

~Unknown

[Angeltoes]

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. --Pearl S. Buck

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi

[Talon]

All right, sulk. But as you sit so...knees high,
the wild, spiral feathers accentuating the meeting of your thighs,
like dark grass grown in too rich a soil..

you are beautifully eloquent.


~W. Benton

[Gráinne]

A bend in the road is not the end of the road-Joan Lunden

[JAGG]

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ” ― Nicholas Sparks

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
― Françoise Sagan

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”
― Kieran Scott

[Duchess]

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Kahlil Gibran(f)

[Tcountry]

I want to tell you that I love you, but I really don’t know how
I want to show you what’s in my heart and on my mind but I’m afraid to now.
If I’d met you years ago I would have told you how I feel.
So much has happened in my life that I don’t know what is real.
My heart wants to fall in love with you, but my mind says not yet
A lot has happened in the past few months, so much I need time to forget.
Forget the love I hold inside for one who doesn’t love me back
And find the love I gave away, to extend my commitment without slack.
I feel if I told you now, I would only be saying the words
And cheating you somehow of what you deserve.
You need to be loved more than life itself, and I only hope you’ll wait.
For me to get over the past and my heart to open the gate.
I want to tell you that I love you, but I really cannot now.
I hope you find the understanding to see why and how.

[Jesse]

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

[Electrocell]

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- (Robert Frost) The Road Not Taken

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

- Sir Winston Churchill

[Talon]

God is love and He loves all people.
It is His desire to reach out to those
who are poor, oppressed, widowed or orphaned,
and to heal the brokenhearted. :candle:

~Psalm 68:5,6
~1 John 4:16

[Duchess]

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.(f)

~Khalil Gibran (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/khalil_gibran.html)

[JAGG]

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.(f)

~Khalil Gibran (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/khalil_gibran.html)


Does that mean there are no leaves to rake? Because I'm thinking I might want a few of those for my yard. :)

[JAGG]

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”― Nicholas Sparks

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

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”― Nicholas Sparks

[Kenna]

Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
~George Carlin

This fits for me so close...as soon as we show any kind of critical thinking skills, we get silenced, ignored and shut down.

[JAGG]

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera


Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

[Duchess]

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/khalilgibr389457.html)

Khalil Gibran (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/khalilgibr389457.html)(f)

[JAGG]

What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.”― Steve Maraboli

[Ms. Meander]

With this writing, whatever its faults, I express my gratitude to all devas, angels, and bodhisattvas who accompany, watch over, and protect explorers, pioneers, and artists.

- The Acknowledgements in Alice Walker's book, Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart

[Angeltoes]

"It takes great courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people" ~Dr. Robert Firestone

[Duchess]

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. (f)

~Jane Austen

[JAGG]

"What value do I put on myself that I would subject myself to such rejection?
― Shannon Alder

“Because I was right. For me , home isn't a place. It's a person.
And I was finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins

“Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”― Richelle Mead

[Duchess]

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. (f)

~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

[Angeltoes]

"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward." ― Steve Maraboli

"Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger" ― Sara Evans

[Angeltoes]

"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[SleepyButch]

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

- Albert Einstein

[Martina]

"When you are grown up, you will find that food is not a subject suitable for humor." -- Hercule Poirot

[ruffryder]

People in hell want ice water, but they're not gonna get it. - Judge Joe Brown.

[Tommi]

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[little_ms_sunshyne]

"If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?"

[Duchess]

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine. (f)

~Author Unknown

[Fatale]

Initial kisses leave
monograms of lust on mouths,
fingers intertwined beneath
covers and street lights,

Laughter tangled in sheets
skimming over crescent mooned skin,
desire and nails dug in for
the long haul,

Paused at the precipice
of no return,
pointedly delaying the
imagined inevitable,

Pushing in and through
long, tight months of aching,
telephonic breath no longer
at the mercy of dropped signals,

Palm struck flesh
chilled by cool hands mapping you,
lips knowing no borders,
longing the only currency.

~Fatale

[Angeltoes]

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. – Maya Angelou.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen. - Sarah Ban Breathnach.

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present. - Marianne Williamson.

***that's very good, fatale. you show a lot of talent, as usual **** :)

[JAGG]

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”― Sarah Dessen


“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”― A.A. Milne

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” ― John Green

[JAGG]

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”― Sara Dessen


I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.” ― John Green




“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” ― Nicholas Sparks

[Katniss]

EVENING

Slowly now the evening changes his garments
held for him by a rim of ancient trees;
you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you,
one sinking and one rising toward the sky.
And you are left, to none belonging wholly,
not so dark as a silent house, nor quite
so surely pledged unto eternity
as that which grows to star and climbs the night.
To you is left (unspeakably confused)
your life, gigantic, ripening, full of fears,
so that it, now hemmed in, now grasping all,
is changed in you by turns to stone and stars.
Rainer Maria Rilke


Katniss~~ (I am going to post this same poem with a different translator's take on Rilke. I find it interesting how things are interpreted although the original words were constant)

[Katniss]

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.



Katniss~~ (I like this translation best)

[Katniss]

September has come and I wake And I think with joy how whatever, now or in future, the system
Nothing whatever can take The people away, there will always be people For friends or for lovers though perhaps The conditions of love will be changed and its vices diminished
And affection not lapse To narrow possessiveness, jealousy founded on vanity. September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fire-place; So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy; Who has left a scent on my life and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow, Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.



Katniss~~

[Duchess]

In the wake of strong winds, fallen trees and downed power lines, I'm reminded of what's most important to me. Love of God, Self and the people in my life.(f)

~Me

[Samurai Wanderer]

“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things:
either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King


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


“An unconventional idea or technique that seems outrageous today could lay the foundation for traditions of tomorrow.”
― Jeraldine Saunders

[Trey339]

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's Own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
~Buddha

[Trey339]

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

Having an opinion does not make it Fact. Everyone is allowed their own perceptions,,,

[Trey339]

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~Johannes Brahms

[JAGG]

The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect she might be, she was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to her, so would she always be mine.” ― Stephenie Meyer


“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”― Nicholas Sparks

“Happiness is a state of activity.” ― Aristotle

[Trey339]

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[Samurai Wanderer]

“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

“Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron

[Stud_puppy1991]

"Pies, like the internet, need content. Otherwise it's just....a crust?"- Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen, Season 2 episode 1: Meat Pies

"Experimenting with food is like experimenting with your sexuality. How do you know you're not a big homo?"-Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen, Chocolate Shuffle

"The Internet is about watching people do things you wish you were doing."-Grace Helbig

"If your glasses are more than a quarter-inch thick, I assume you know everything about music."- Grace Helbig

"Stop, drop, and use your words."- Grace Helbig

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light" -Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter

[Trey339]

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

[Duchess]

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.

~Author Unknown

[Talon]

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.


~Tagore

[JAGG]

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.


~Tagore

I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thedivahrrrself]

she comes, and with her, her essence
she brightens the place, as if it's made alive by her presence
scents from her linger in each room
the sweet smells which surround her vanish too soon
when she goes
leaving only empty air to await her return

[Duchess]

"I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own."

~Bhagwan Rajneesh


(f)

[JAGG]

she comes, and with her, her essence
she brightens the place, as if it's made alive by her presence
scents from her linger in each room
the sweet smells which surround her vanish too soon
when she goes
leaving only empty air to await her return

I love this!!!!!!!

[JAGG]

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”― Sarah Dessen


“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks


“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”― Melissa de la Cruz

[Katniss]

Sometimes while wandering,
when I cannot find which road
leads back the way I came,
the road goes anywhere,
and anywhere at all is home.

~~Muso Soseki


Katniss~~

[Angeltoes]

"The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out from the heart"

~Charles Bukowski.

[Kätzchen]

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

― Mary Oliver

http://earthriderdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/geese-canadian-geese-and-morning-fog.jpg

[Angeltoes]

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."

― L.M. Montgomery

[Rook]

Porthos:[French Accent] Stop praying and revel with me, Aramis! I need my spirits lifted. I'm old, I'm weak, my strength is gone.

Aramis: [U.K Accent] Porthos! I'm praying.

Porthos: I just said you're praying. Are you deaf, too? I know you're blind, because if you'd seen the tits that just walked out of here, you'd have tears in your eyes. [Porthos sniffs]

Aramis: Sometimes there are more important things in life than a good pair of tits.

Porthos: Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral.

Aramis: Forgiveness...

Porthos: Forgiveness...?

[Porthos farts]

Porthos: There... i am i forgiven? Come on [smacks Aramis on the shoulder] Am i forgiven?

[Aramis pauses, collects himself and slaps the shit out of Porthos]

Porthos: I have come to zee conclusion your Forgiveness is not as sweet....nor sublime!! [rubs cheek]

[Childish fight erupts between the two, Athos enters while Aramis pins Porthos down]

Athos:[American Accent...Possibly Wisconsin] Am I interrupting something?...

[Aramis & Porthos rush to Greet and explain while pushing each other]

[Talon]

From pacifist to terrorist,
each person condemns violence and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

~Gloria Steinem

[JAGG]

" Happiness isn't something you wait around for, or something that is going to happen someday. It is happening all the time , you just have to choose it. Make it happen . It is all up to you , the when and how much, depends on your choices." -Unknown

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” -― Steve Maraboli

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

[Soon]

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Trey339]

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

[Electrocell]

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles



“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It


“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

[JAGG]

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it, you will meet someone and be happy. I used to say it too. But I know it's not true. Every time I fall in love it is because something in that person reminds me of him. And sadly none really measure up”
― Betty Smith



“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.” ― J.R. Ward


“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.” ― Sarah Addison Allen

[puddin']

“don’t grieve. anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~rumi

[lyric]

"The Journey"
by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.

[Duchess]

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? (f)

~Stephen Levine

[Talon]

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.


~Voltaire

[Duchess]

"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires." (f)

~Marcia Wieder

[Duchess]

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."(f)

~ Napoleon Hill

[JAGG]

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ” ― Haruki Murakami

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.” ― J.M. Barrie

[Duchess]

The House by the Side of the Road

New England poet Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) evokes the age old image of
a humble house where the weary traveler finds a welcome - a house such as
Baucis and Philemon's - to remind us that we are here to help one another
along life's journey. Friends are "help-mates" to each other.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars, that swell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran;
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears
Both parts of an infinite plan;
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad, they are weak,
They are strong,
Wise, foolish - so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban? -
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss(f)

[Trey339]

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

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

Soulmates can be a hard lesson,,,we cannot assume that we are supposed to Be with a particular soulmate in every incarnation,even if love is deeply felt, there would be no lessons involved if it was that easy every time,,,,Trey

[Spirit Dancer]

Approach the light that you carry within you, and you will need no shelter.
Buddha

[Massive]

I wonder how many people would really say "Sweet Fanny Adams" if they really knew what it meant ...

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/curtis-museum/alton-history/fanny-adams.htm

[Duchess]

An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

[JAGG]

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.” ― Lauren Conrad


“Today, many will choose to live free of conditions and rules governing their own happiness. Why not you? Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Today's a new day!” ― Steve Maraboli

[Angeltoes]

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

~Erma Bombeck

[Kelt]

“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

—David Foster Wallace

[Daywalker]

"We are educated by those we are exposed to ~ surround yourself accordingly"

~ DW ~

:koolaid:

:daywalker:

[JAGG]

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

“You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.” ― Colleen Houck

“Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.”― Nicholas Sparks

[Soon]

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling

[The_Lady_Snow]

"He will make you laugh; he will make you cry; he will try your patience; he will outwit you when he can. And he will love you with an intensity that will surprise and amaze you. He will be your canine soul mate."


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[Katniss]

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom



Katniss~~

[Angeltoes]

"Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep...feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love."

~Zooey Deschanel

[MissItalianDiva]

There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[Kätzchen]

"Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh'ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don't let someone steal your tenderness. Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it's a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep...feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love."

~Zooey Deschanel

Heh. I am always getting shhhh'ed! *lol* (or NOT). ;)

You're quote reminded me of the Bee Gee's song:

Be Tender With My Love.

:stillheart:



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[Angeltoes]

"If you wait to do everything until you are sure it’s right, you'll probably not do much of anything."

~Win Borden

"Realize you can be happy this moment for no reason. Otherwise, you eternally depend on conditions for happiness. Unconscious of this moment, you remain a victim of circumstances."

~Arthur D. Saftlass


"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong."

~Sarah Dessen

[JAGG]

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck

Write the truest sentence that you know.” ― Ernest Hemingway


“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.” ― Lemony Snicket

[Duchess]

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." (f)

~Saint Augustine

[cinnamongrrl]

"The Highwayman" Alfred Noyes.....


THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

[StrongButch]

Any woman can love a thousand women but-only a rare woman can love one woman a thousand ways

[JAGG]

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.” -Salvador Plascencia

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”― Deb Caletti

“Only love of a good woman will make a one question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that hys lady will find him cruel. Only love makes hym both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. ― Laurell K. Hamilton

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.”

[Talon]

Just because someone doesn't love you in the way that you want them to,
doesn't mean that they don't love you will all that they've got.

~Anonymous

[StrongButch]

Nothing is so strong as gentleness;nothing so gentle as real strength- It is not good enough to cry for peace we must act peace,live peace and live in peace.

[JAGG]

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“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 anything, you risk even more.” ― Erica Jong


There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. Tell me, love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?”
― Lisa Kleypas

[Duchess]

"Some memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."

~P. Wodehouse

[Duchess]

"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating."

~Irish Blessings

[Trey339]

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

[Electrocell]

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Electrocell]

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

[MissItalianDiva]

We are the only ones responsible for what goes on in our lives. We can make excuses and blame others, but we are responsible to and for ourselves. Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. We must muster the courage and strength to stop it.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[Talon]

I love you with a million hearts...adore you with a thousand eyes...and desire you with a trillion fires.

[JAGG]

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”― C.S. Lewis

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.” -Sara Gruen


“You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.”― Steve Maraboli

[Daywalker]

‎"From Stoner to Hero in 1.3 hits..."
~ DW ~
:superman:

This is from a conversation I was having with the Amazonatious
One where I was telling her stuff like Octopus's have sex
through their eyeballs and Smokey the Bear endorses
the use of H2o Bongs for safety reasons, cuz if
there's a fire you can put it out with
the water in yer bong.

:weedsmoke:

:daywalker:

[Angeltoes]

The Quiet World
BY JEFFREY MCDANIEL

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn't respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

[Talon]

....what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle..and what is wild is kind.
In the end, a strangely sweet result...I came back to a wild home.

~Jay Griffiths

[Trev]

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

[Massive]

"What may be done at any time will be done at no time." ~Scottish Proverb

[Trev]

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

~Stephen R. Covey

[JAGG]

“The best things in life make you sweaty.”- unknown


“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.” ― Adriana Trigiani



“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris

[Trev]

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

~Don Williams, Jr

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."

~Hugh Sidney

[grenade]

Remember, Body ...
by C. P. Cavafy
translated by Aliki Barnstone


Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds where you lay,
but also those desires for you,
shining clearly in eyes
and trembling in a voice—and some chance
obstacle thwarted them.
Now when everything is the past,
it almost looks as if you gave yourself
to those desires as well—how they shone—
remember—in the eyes that looked at you,
how they trembled for you in the voice—remember, body.

[Sun]

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

[Ms. Meander]

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou

[Trev]

"Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart."

~Unknown

"Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."

~Stacey Charter

[StrongButch]

To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites. Kind words can be short and easy to speak,but their echoes are truly endless.

[JAGG]

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, without her.― Becca Fitzpatrick

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.” ― Jodi Picoult


“Love me like you'll never see me again.” ― Unknown

[Spirit Dancer]

Once what you have learned finds its emotional place, it is never forgotten.
F. Tirenzi

[Soon]

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel

[puddin']

"i think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." ~eleanor roosevelt

[Duchess]

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so." (f)

~Marcia Wieder

[Jesse]

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation. ~E.T. Brown (Thanks, Walden Woods Project, walden.org)


No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~Terry Josephson


One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky


I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com (http://www.robertbrault.com/)

[Trev]

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

~Henry Van Dyke

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

~William James

"Curiosity is nothing more than freewheeling intelligence."

~Unknown

[Sun]

In surrender you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become,
very simply, very real. - Eckhart Tolle

[JAGG]

“Being honest in a relationship is at times exceedingly difficult and painful. Yet the moment a person evades the truth, central fibers of the self pull away and the person initiates a process of deception - a way of manipulating the other person by preventing the person from discovering real thoughts and real feelings, and thus dooming the relationship” ― Clark Mustakas


“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”― Steve Maraboli

[grenade]

“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”
― Elizabeth Scott

Very true. :)

[Samurai Wanderer]

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” ― Jean Baptiste Massieu

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

“Laughter is the language of angels.” ― Steve Rother

[Talon]

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young.
In your relationships with others, always be grown-up.

~Tom Brokaw

[Daywalker]

A Tribute to our Veterans by Daywalker:


Remains

Just a single leaf
Catapulted my imagination
More than just a playground
of precious metals and memories
Just a single leaf
Falling before my very eyes
Bore a strange resemblance to
The descent of this worlds peace
Just a single leaf
Blankets the remainder of
The last spot uncovered upon
My tombstone where I now stand
Just a single leaf
Led me back to the scene
A mission of search and destroy
Failed dangerously upon the attack
Just a single leaf
Will be the last great detail
Of all things living that I once knew
I gave it all up for the love of my country
Just a single leaf
Remains

http://sirdaywalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/A-single-leaf1.jpg

:daywalker:

[Glenn]

"If you think your gonna die, don't."-105 year old Veteran Fred Hale

[cinnamongrrl]

Not to Keep

They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying... And she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was no hidden ill
Under the formal writing, he was in her sight,
Living. They gave him back to her alive
How else? They are not known to send the dead
And not disfigured visibly. His face?
His hands? She had to look, and ask,
"What was it, dear?" And she had given all
And still she had all they had they the lucky!
Wasn’t she glad now? Everything seemed won,
And all the rest for them permissible ease.
She had to ask, "What was it, dear?"

"Enough,"
Yet not enough. A bullet through and through,
High in the breast. Nothing but what good care
And medicine and rest, and you a week,
Can cure me of to go again." The same
Grim giving to do over for them both.
She dared no more than ask him with her eyes
How was it with him for a second trial.
And with his eyes he asked her not to ask.
They had given him back to her, but not to keep.
Robert Frost

[StrongButch]

1)The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,and not twist them to fit our own image.Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton 2) It should be a priviledge to say I Love You to someone.It shouldnt be something you say because you feel like it.A priviledge that is earned.They say you have to earn the right to be loved. No Love is unconditional,if you Love someone,they dont have to earn it.But the right to tell someone you Love them?That has to be earned.You have to earn the right to be believed. C JoyBell

[ruffryder]

“Love me like you'll never see me again.” ― Unknown

great song by a great artist!

Alicia Keys - Like You'll Never See Me Again

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was I everything that you were looking for?

If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I've been looking for

I don't want to forget the present is a gift
And I don't want to take for granted
The time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day here's not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again

Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

How many really know what love is?
Millions never will
Do you know until you lose it?
That it's everything that we are looking for

When I wake up in the morning
And you're beside me
I'm so thankful that I found
Everything that I've been looking for

I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted
The time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day here's not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again

[JAGG]

“I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”
― Dee Henderson

“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”― Becca Fitzpatrick


“His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough that their fingers touched-so lightly that she would have probably hardly been aware of it had she been touching anyone; as it was, the nerve endings in her fingertips pricked softly, as if she were holding them over a low flame. She felt him tense beside her and then relax. He had shut his eyes, and his lashes cast fine shadows against the curve of his cheekbones. His mouth curled into a smile as if he sensed her watching him, and she wondered how he would look in the morning, with his hair messed and sleep circles under his eyes. Despite everything, the thought gave her a jolt of happiness.
She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”
― Cassandra Clare

[Angeltoes]

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

~Jane Austen

[Talon]

The greatest weakness of humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.


~O.A. Battista

[Sun]

From the Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz



3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

[lusciouskiwi]

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[Ms. Meander]

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way
Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love so
wrought,
May be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Sun]

Nothing binds you except your thoughts,
Nothing limits you except your fear;
and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

- Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation

[JAGG]

“None of us can choose where we shall love...” - Susan Kay

“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. ” ― Victoria Moran


“Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.- Anthony Bridgerton”

[Duchess]

"Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." (f)

~Souza

[Elijah]

"It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation."

Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet

[Sun]

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have

- Eckhart Tolle

[Duchess]

"To create more positive results in your life, replace 'if only' with 'next time'."

~Author Unknown

[Sun]

"I am grateful to small-minded bigots who constantly make me re-evaluate my faith in the inherent worth and dignity of every person, for untested beliefs are not worth having." -- The Reverend Dr. Michael Tino, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Westchester, NY

[JAGG]

“Have you ever been lost in a kiss? I mean pure inebriation. When you became aware that the greatness of this being, was breathing into you. The essence of your passionate being opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the memory to last the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. Timeless, eternal, spiritual.― Saul Williams

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without .― James Baldwin

“I love you, he thought, looking at her. I love every part of you, every thought and word...the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.”― Lisa Kleypas

[Trev]

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
~Herm Albright

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
~Unknown

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”
― Pablo Neruda

[MegBluEyz]

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

[prettyboyreg]

“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
― Leslie Feinberg

[Electrocell]

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

[lusciouskiwi]

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is. Forrest Gump

[Talon]

We need to let go as easily as we grasp, and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

~Leo Buscaglia

[Ms. Meander]

You have to go to considerable trouble to live differently from the way the world wants you to live. That’s what I’ve discovered about writing. The world doesn’t want you to do a damn thing. If you wait till you got time to write a novel or time to write a story or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read--if you wait for the time, you’ll never do it. Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.
Harry Crews, 1935-2012

[Duchess]

"The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way."

~Author Unknown

[StrongButch]

1)To love yourself right now,just as you are,is to give yourself heaven.Dont wait until you die.If you wait you die now.If you love you live now.2)There is no mistaking love.You feel it in your heart.It is the common fiber of life,the flame that heats our soul,energizes our spirit,and applies passion to our lives.

[Bèsame*]

I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

[JAGG]

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”― Thomas A. Edison

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky


“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”― George Eliot

[Sun]

"The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way."

~Author Unknown

I have to give this a big AMEN!