Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valentines and cupids and all of that crap. I WANT IT ALL"
— Barbra Streisand

[SleepyButch]

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda


I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

[Talon]

It's easy. Just marry your conscience. Marry the one who makes you want to be a better person.


~Jay Leno

[Sun]

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

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If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains.

-Sophie B Hawkins

[Rook]

Boricua en la Luna

Desde las ondas del mar
que son besos a su orilla,
una mujer de Aguadilla
vino a New York a cantar
pero no sólo a llorar
un largo llanto y morir.
De ese llanto yo nací
como en la lluvia una fiera.
Y vivo en la larga espera
de cobrar lo que perdí.

Por un cielo que se hacia
más feo que mas más volaba
a Nueva York se acercaba
un peón de Las Marías.
Con la esperanza, decía,
de un largo día volver.
Pero antes me hizo nacer
y de tanto trabajar
se quedó sin regresar:
reventó en un taller.

De una lágrima soy hijo
y soy hijo del sudor
y fue mi abuelo el amor
único en mi regocijo
del recuerdo siempre fijo
en aquel cristal de llanto
como quimera en el canto
de un Puerto Rico de ensueño
y yo soy puertorriqueño,
sin ná, pero sin quebranto.

Y el echón que me desmienta
que se ande muy derecho
no sea en lo más estrecho
de un zaguán pagua la afrenta.
Pues según alguien me cuenta:
dicen que la luna as una
sea del mar o sea montuna.
Y así le grito al villano:
yo sería boricano
aunque naciera en la luna.

Pa'lante Siempre !!!

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[SleepyButch]

Love's Language


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye--
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak?
By the uneven heart-throbs, and the freak
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache,
While new emotions, like strange barges, make
Along vein-channels their disturbing course;
Still as the dawn, and with the dawn's swift force--
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak?
In the avoidance of that which we seek--
The sudden silence and reserve when near--
The eye that glistens with an unshed tear--
The joy that seems the counterpart of fear,
As the alarmèd heart leaps in the breast,
And knows, and names, and greets its godlike guest--
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak?
In the proud spirit suddenly grown meek--
The haughty heart grown humble; in the tender
And unnamed light that floods the world with splendor;
In the resemblance which the fond eyes trace
In all fair things to one belovèd face;
In the shy touch of hands that thrill and tremble;
In looks and lips that can no more dissemble--
Thus doth Love speak.

How does Love speak?
In the wild words that uttered seem so weak
They shrink ashamed in silence; in the fire
Glance strikes with glance, swift flashing high and higher,
Like lightnings that precede the mighty storm;
In the deep, soulful stillness; in the warm,
Impassioned tide that sweeps through throbbing veins,
Between the shores of keen delights and pains;
In the embrace where madness melts in bliss,
And in the convulsive rapture of a kiss--
Thus doth Love speak.

[Soon]

“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
― Jeanette Winterson

[Janstevie]

As i have grown older, i've learned that pleasing everyone is impossible, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.

[Sun]

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us.
Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it.
When you truly find love, you find yourself.
~Deepak Chopra

[Ms. Meander]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Maryanne Williamson

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In the end these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?


- Siddhārtha Gautama

[Kätzchen]

"We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear,"


Diving Into the Wreck
~ Adrienne Rich







"We move together like underwater plants
Over and over, starting to wake
I dive back to discover you
still whispering, touch me, we go on
streaming through the slow
citylight forest ocean
stirring our body hair
But this is the saying of a dream
on waking
I wish there were somewhere
actual we could stand
handing the power-glasses back and forth
looking at the earth, the wildwood
where the split began,"

Walking In The Dark
~ Adrienne Rich

[JAGG]

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt


“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand


“Try a little harder to be a little better.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley

[Sun]

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.” ― Ayn Rand



I love this. Thanks for posting it JAGG.

[little_ms_sunshyne]

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

[SleepyButch]

I Am Not Yours

by Sara Teasdale


I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love—put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Oh the hopeless romantic in me thinks..One day...

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life."
— Bob Marley

[Electrocell]

“‎There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all life is too short to be anything but happy.”

― Karl Marx (composer)

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

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

[Blade]

It is often easier to hide something than to hide the fact that you are hiding something.............G. C. Lichtenberg

[Sun]

Oh the hopeless romantic in me thinks..One day...

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life."
— Bob Marley

Had to come back and read this again, it is so awesome.

Thanks for sharing this. I love it.

[Electrocell]

I'd rather be single than waste my time on somebody who's not gonna take me seriously. I'd rather watch other couples be happy than be in a relationship where I'm gonna be miserable. I'd rather feel lonely than feel alone even when I'm with somebody. I'd rather wait until someone comes along & genuinely wants to be with me, than rush into something with someone who just wanna play games with me. Fuck all that nonsense. Too many people just wanna 'have fun' nowadays, which is fine cause at our age, I don't blame you, it's normal. But don't do it at my expense & hurt me while you're at it.
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It's time for me to let you go, I held on for so long but for what? You cheated, lied, played games, broke promises, and most of all you destroyed me. You tried to come back when things were going bad between you two, but not this time. You know, you were my love, my life, my everything, I guess that wasn't enough. Now you realize what you once had, as well know you'll never get it back. I tried to be friends with you after everything we been through, but that wasn't enough either. I put myself through pain and misery just to have you apart of my life, in return I got nothing. You'll always have a place in my heart but just know you can't ever have all of it. You lost something good and I'll gain someone better. I was once here for you but now I'm done. Now its time for me to say goodbye and I wish the best for you and pray things get better in the future.
Mahmoud El Hallab quotes

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Maybe our relationship isn't as it crazy as it seems, maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano.

-Eminem

[Sun]

Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,

without your going, that cuts noon light

like a blue flower, without your passing

later through fog and stones,

without the torch you lift in your hand

that others may not see as golden,

that perhaps no one believed blossomed

the glowing origin of the rose,

without, in the end, your being, your coming

suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,

blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:

and it follows that I am, because you are:

it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we:

and, because of love, you will, I will,

We will, come to be.

~ Pablo Neruda

[JustLovelyJenn]

Don't let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen.

--Doe Zantamata

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"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"I can resist anything, except temptation."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

Mr Oscar Wilde


I think the man was on to something, and I really like it.

[Soon]

"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."
— Jeanette Winterson (Written on the Body)

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“As if you were on fire from within
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius

[Janstevie]

THEY say money does'nt bring you happiness... I say neither does being broke..

[Soon]

“When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.”
― Peter Høeg

[Electrocell]

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein


I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln



Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain

[Electrocell]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan



A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison


Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

[JAGG]

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” ― Francis Chan

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” ― Winston Churchill

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Soon]

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

[StrongButch]

1) Blood makes you related.Loyalty makes you family.2)Its not about whos real to your face,its about who stays real behind your back.3)A true friend will never judge you.They will stand by you no matter what you believe or what you do.They may not agree with you,but they respect your right to make your own decisions,have your own opinions,and walk the path you choose.

[Stud_puppy1991]

"I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know these people exist."- Charlie, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."- Charlie, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

[VintageFemme]

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau

[Sun]

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
~ Joseph Campbell

[MegBluEyz]

"What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope.' If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it." -Linda Ellerbee

[JAGG]

“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”Anne Tyler


“It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.” -Unknown


“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”
― Sophie Kinsella

[Ms. Meander]

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

- Allen Ginsberg

[Glenn]

"In shallow men the fish of shallow thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle."-Hindu Scripture

"To help suffering humanity regain it's forgotten state of Perfection, Sri Ramana teaches that one should constantly ask oneself: "Who am I?"

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I'm beautifully broken, perfectly imperfect, beautiful in my flaws. All together I am a beautiful disaster."

[StrongButch]

Love:It is a missing puzzle piece waiting to be found.When you do find it you can finally figure out the picture,life has to show you.

[Kobi]

“I get so breathless, when you call my name,
I've often wondered, do you feel the same?
There's a chemistry, energy, a synchronicity
When we're all alone.”

Corinne Bailey Rae

[Talon]

"I don't find outwardly sexual people that sexy.
I like when somebody seems reserved but then you learn they're
actually really sexual. Like that point when you realize, "Oh, your
sexuality is a secret to others, but you're a wild animal."


~Jake Johnson

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac

[Sun]

In life, everything is possible, and we are the potential that makes the choice to make it happen.- don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

[JAGG]

“What you do speaks so loudly, that I can not hear what you say.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.” ― Alison Goodman


“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect and nourish it.” ― Richelle Mead

[Angeltoes]

"I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Unready to Wear

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
— Maya Angelou

[little_ms_sunshyne]

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

[StrongButch]

1) Love is like playing the piano,first you must learn to play by the rules.Then,you forget the rules and play from the heart.2)Anyone can catch your eye,but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

[Talon]

"There I was...getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden, I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"


~Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

[SleepyButch]

Reluctance



Out through the fields and the woods

And over the walls I have wended;

I have climbed the hills of view

And looked at the world, and descended;

I have come by the highway home,

And lo, it is ended.



The leaves are all dead on the ground,

Save those that the oak is keeping

To ravel them one by one

And let them go scraping and creeping

Out over the crusted snow,

When others are sleeping.



And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,

No longer blown hither and thither;

The last lone aster is gone;

The flowers of the witch hazel wither;

The heart is still aching to seek,

But the feet question "Whither?"



Ah, when to the heart of man

Was it ever less than a treason

To go with the drift of things,

To yield with a grace to reason,

And bow and accept the end

Of a love or a season?



Robert Frost

[Janstevie]

Dont look back, you're not going that way.

[Sun]

“If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”

-- Dalai Lama

[JAGG]

Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. ― Colleen Houck

“Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.” ― Janet Evanovich

“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”― Alexandra Potter

[Sun]

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care
for to be what they chose for themselves without any insistence
that they satisfy you ~ Wayne Dyer

[Sun]

I said: what about my eyes?
God said: Keep them on the road.
I said: what about my passion?
God said: Keep it burning.
I said: what about my heart?
God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: pain and sorrow?
He said: ..stay with it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~ Rumi

[Sun]

The angels can see the positive results of your prayers, and they want you to have patience and stay optimistic while the final details are being worked out in Heaven. This is an urgent call from the angels to “keep the faith”!

- Doreen Virtue

[JustLovelyJenn]

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
--Henry David Thoreau

[falloutmk]

Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often. -Mark Twain

[JAGG]

“I don't care where I come, or what has happened in the past. We make each other happy. We could have a happily ever after.”― Amanda Hocking

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for two reasons. Either they are crazy, or trying to forget.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear” ― Bon Jovi

[Semantics]

Implacable self-possession can be attained by all, not by pretending to look absorbed in what's clearly a blank spiral notebook;
not by trying to convince yourself you're an undiscovered rock star, movie star, top model, tycoon, Bond, Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth,
Elizabeth Bennett or Eliza Doolittle at the Ambassador's Ball;
not by imagining you're a long lost member of the Vanderbilt family, nor by tilting up your chin fifteen to forty-five degrees and pretending to be Grace Kelly in her prime.
These methods work in theory, but in practice they slip away, so one is left hideously naked with nothing but the stained sheet of self-confidence around one's feet.

Instead, stately dignity can be possessed by all, in two ways:

1. Diverting the mind with a book or play.
2. Reciting Keats.

[Talon]

"I wore this hot bralet with lots of straps in the back for my girlfriend's birthday, thinking she'd be pumped. But she couldn't figure out how to get it off, and instead, she got all flustered and asked, "What is this, like a chastity bra?"

~Brittany

[JustLovelyJenn]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
--Henry David Thoreau

[Butterbean]

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

[Metro]

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Angeltoes]

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~Mother Teresa


The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~Mother Teresa

[JAGG]

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”― Napoleon Hill


“Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. And learn from them, so you don't make the same one twice. ” ― Steve Maraboli

" Get even with people...but not those who have hurt you, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped you.”
― Steve Maraboli

[Ms. Meander]

Love itself describes its own perfection.
Be speechless and listen.

Rumi

[Talon]

Stop holding onto the past. Release your regrets about whatever you may have done or failed to do that turned out poorly. Forgive others for whatever they may have done or failed to do that caused you harm. Declare today a new beginning. Let go of the past and move on with creating a joyful new future for yourself.


~Jonathan L. Huie

[ahk]

Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. -- Michael Pollan

[Fatale]

The sort of bite only
hot water jaws give,
Stinging just the way
I like it,

Head thrown back
throat exposed,
wide mouth receives
searing sacrament

My skin’s sins
drained,

Ablution
absolution.


~Fatale

[deb0670]

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

[Soon]

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
— T.S. Eliot

[deb0670]

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[JAGG]

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ― Benjamin Disraeli


“Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.”― Doug Coupland

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.I do have a knack for finding great women.” ― Craig Ferguson

[Sun]

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. ~ Marianne Williamson

[Electrocell]

“When you learn to appreciate everything around you, that is when you have found the true meaning of life. But when you have learned to love another with all your heart, that is when you have finally understood and start to actually fulfill the purpose of your existence.”
― Jamine Isabel E. Uy

“And may be that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”
― Christine Feehan, Water Bound

“Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

[LadyRieinAL]

Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. ~ Marianne Williamson

This is exactly what I say when someone says, why do you STILL live in Alabma.

[Talon]

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.

~Bill Wilson

[Ms. Meander]

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
- Arundhati Roy

[Sun]

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in divine motion. ~ Rumi

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life."
— Andy Warhol

[little_ms_sunshyne]

This poem makes me sigh every time I read it...


I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)


— E.E. Cummings

[JAGG]

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

“... too much brooding, not enough doing.”― Timothy Findley


“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ― Maya Angelou

[WolfyOne]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Attributed to Carl Bard

[Semantics]

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

The Bhagavad Gita

[MegBluEyz]

"We don't love others when we find them beautiful,
we find others beautiful when we love them."
Josei Toda

[lusciouskiwi]

Start anything with yourself. Don’t wait for others and don’t wait for examples. You do it, because you know it’s right. It’s ok to be wrong, because it just means one day you will be right. ~ Tsem Rinpoche

https://www.facebook.com/thepromisepromo

[Sun]

‎

"We should laugh, really live, and love. We should want what we have, do what we can, and be who we are." Reverend Forrest Church

[Soon]

“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

[Ms. Meander]

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

[WolfyOne]

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes


A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. ~Robert Brault

[Talon]

A man is not where he lives,
but where he loves.

~Latin proverb

[JAGG]

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

[ruffryder]

I don't care what you say anymore; this is my life. Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone. Billy Joel

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Kätzchen]

Lost in the Forest

-Pablo Neruda-

Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:
Maybe it was the voice of the rain crying,
A cracked bell, or a torn heart.
Something from far off it seemed
Deep and secret to me, hidden by the earth,
A shout muffled by huge autumns,
By the moist half-open darkness of the leaves.
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel sprig
Sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance
Climbed up through my conscious mind
As if suddenly the roots I had left behind
Cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood ---
And I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

[JustLovelyJenn]

I exist as I am, that is enough.
--Walt Whitman

[Kätzchen]

One smile, can start a friendship.
One word, can end a fight.
One look, can save a relationship.
One person, can change your life.

(unknown)


http://www.livelifehappy.com/live-life-quotes/

[Talon]

We must be our own,
before we can be another's.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Sun]

a 14 year old girl in my congregations youth group came up with this statement:

>The phrase I believe that sums up the decision to be made by my generation.

"Or shall I hear the name of Plato and never read his book?" - Reading, Thoreau.<

Which lead me to this quote: "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you wind up being governed by your inferiors" ~ Plato

[Katniss]

http://i.picresize.com/images/2012/11/27/KwqEf.jpg

Katniss~~

[JustLovelyJenn]

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
--Charlie Chaplin

[chefhmboyrd]

as the gnuspas span across the sky
the wonderdorf starts to catch my eye
the fibblezire is not heard but seen
as his harsh breath is pale blue-green
and all have wanted to try and fly
but the gnuspas span across the sky

@

[macele]

“You can fool some of the people some of the time — and that’s enough.”

--Roger Price

[Sun]

This being human is a guest-house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
Who may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

[WolfyOne]

When two people are meant for each other, no time is too long, no distance is too far, and no one can ever tear them apart."
Source Unknown

[JAGG]

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” ― Santosh Kalwar

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change. Those who seek the truth, are never harmed by it. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
― Kami Garcia

[Sun]

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home

~ Rumi

(possibly my favorite quote of all)

[Talon]

I believe that all of the things you do for other people, you're actually doing for yourself. Life is like a bank account.
Random acts of kindness, telling the truth, being loving, showing up for yourself and others...these are deposits.
Getting fucked up, fucking other people over, letting your ego lead your choices...the things we think are fun after midnight, don't seem so entertaining at eleven in the morning--these are withdrawals.
If we give more than we take, we progress.
If we take more than we give, we regress.

~K. Cutrone

[Sun]

Happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actions

~ Dalai Lama

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone, he has enough problems. ~ Elie Wiesel

The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become, the stronger you become and the happier you become. ~ Gisele Bundchen

[JustLovelyJenn]

Nothing will work unless you do.
--Maya Angelou

[JustLovelyJenn]

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
--Booker T. Washington

[JustLovelyJenn]

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
--Henry Ford

[MegBluEyz]

“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Anais Nin

[WolfyOne]

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

[Electrocell]

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
Clark Gable

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

[puddin']

"i quite enjoy your boyish good looks" j. green (resident extraordinaire)

[Bootsandheels]

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

- Albert Einstein

[ruffryder]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/319667_506286012735478_817201730_n.jpg

[ruffryder]

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

[ruffryder]

"It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing."

[JAGG]

" Dreaming of how awesome someday will be ,but doing nothing different than what you are doing today. Will cause depression , unhappiness and major dis ease in your life. Do it now , whatever it takes , you can't afford to wait. Don't use the future to escape the present." Unknown


“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.


He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[ruffryder]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66070_505450356152377_1151294120_n.jpg

[ahk]

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. --Natalie Portman

[Katniss]

http://i.picresize.com/images/2012/11/29/voQjZ.jpg

Katniss~~

[JAGG]

This is true love — you think this happens every day?”― William Goldman


“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her he had never minded being alone....” -Unknown



“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”― Sarah Addison

[JAGG]

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” ― Steve Maraboli

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.” ― Steve Maraboli


“You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” ― Steve Maraboli

[Girl_On_Fire]

My all-time favorite quote:

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin

And my second all-time favorite quote:

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

First time I read the second one, it brought tears to my eyes. SO much horror in this society could be prevented if only so many children were not horribly abused and neglected...:candle:

Speaking of quotes that make me tear up:

"Only when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money."

Cree Indian Proverb

:candle:

[clay]

"The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the Cedar tree, if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer, but it does not die.
It will pour all its vitality into the next branch, so that it will grow and fill that empty place"...GIBRAN



Sadly, I didn't discover my passion for Gibran until college, but I love his works. I no longer have my books of his works...but I can google them.
The above passage is from a dear friend's book, written about her journey through life. She sent me a .pdf file with the book and I am reading it now. I discovered this passage at beginning of one of her chapters..and was reminded of this....as I had read this at my wife's memorial service.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
--Mahatma Gandhi

[JustLovelyJenn]

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
--Benjamin Disraeli

[JustLovelyJenn]

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
--Leslie Caron

[Trey339]

as the Buddha taught:

"My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience...
My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship.
My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river.
Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation."

[ahk]

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. --Josh Billings

[ruffryder]

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

[JAGG]

“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them. Yet others, a thousand miles and scores of months can't really seperate them.” ― B.M. Bower

“In the long histor of relations all the way back to the begining of time, I can't think of one in which immaturity or anger ever won over anyone.” -Marie Arana


“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.” ― Anthony D. Ravenscroft

[Angeltoes]

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, TOM ROBBINS

[cinderella]

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

[BullDog]

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

[ahk]

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. --Lyndon B. Johnson

[Blade]

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks selfcontrol.
Proverbs 25:28

[Angeltoes]

"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

[mustangjeano]

"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

So true. Thanks for posting this

[Trev]

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
~Marcus Aurelius

[cinnamongrrl]

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver


When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver

[JustLovelyJenn]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis

[JustLovelyJenn]

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
--Henry David Thoreau

[JustLovelyJenn]

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
--Confucius

[Angeltoes]

“I think at this point in our world, we’ve got a really confused idea of the way gender and sexuality works. I think we’ve created this really superfluous sort of like binary in the way we think about gender. And I guess I identify as queer because I don’t identify with that. I think that makes us less whole as people. I don’t need to be assigned to what it is I can do or who I can love. And it seems like we keep drawing these battle lines which are completely unnecessary. So that’s what I basically mean. When I say I’m queer, I’m saying that I think human beings are amazing. And love is an honor and an opportunity. And a fragile thing. A fragile process in which there’s no room for doubt, or shame, or hatred.” ~ Ezra Miller

[Angeltoes]

"Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial."

~Greta Christina (http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2011/09/02/fashion-is-a-feminist-issue/)

[Angeltoes]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

[Stud_puppy1991]

“Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

[Katniss]

http://i.picresize.com/images/2012/12/02/EKuL7.jpg

[JAGG]

“She craved his presence beside her. The way his fingertips light at the nape of her neck and his voice in the dark. Who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”
― Laini Taylor

“The more you are motivated by Love,
The more fearless & free your action will be.” ― Dalai Lama XIV


You only need one to love you. But they have to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one, THE one, delivers all of this.”
― C. JoyBell C.

[Trev]

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."
~Marcus Aurelius

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
~Bertrand Russell

[sara-bera]

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” -Arthur C. Clarke

[Sun]

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. - Audrey Hepburn

[SFvince64]

"San Francisco, my favorite city, where the women are strong and the men are pretty." -- Unknown

[Nomad]

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.


If you want a happy ending, change where you end your story.


Orson Welles

[Sun]

Aspire not to have more but to be more ~ Oscar Romero


http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.5187954.4509/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

[Sun]

What if...What if religion was
each other,
if practice was our life, if prayer our words?
What if the temple was the Earth, if forests were
our church,
if holy waters ~ rivers, lakes, oceans.
What if meditation was our relationships,
if the teacher was life, if wisdom was self knowledge,
if love was the center of our being?
~ Ganga White

[Duchess]

"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself." — Johnny Carson

[Talon]

I screamed silently, Make it stop!! End this teaching! I'm exhausted already!
She picked me up, stared straight at me, and put her third eye to mine, almost laughing.
I knew then that I was no longer living in the world that had brought me here....that I'd been given a new one.
Of course, this is what all the best, most profound teachings do. They kill you. I knew that I'd never look at human beings quite the same way again, nor would I return to my former ignorance. I was suddenly full of a new urgency to help myself and others become stronger, better, more profound.


~K. Cutrone

[JustLovelyJenn]

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

[JustLovelyJenn]

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
--Colin Powell

[JustLovelyJenn]

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau

[Electrocell]

Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations.
Martin Terman

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.
P.D. East

[Talon]

She is not only one of the most talented people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing, but also one of the most beautiful inside and out...I had the honor of loving her.

~Chris Zylka

[Kätzchen]

I'd like for you to be still
It is as though you are absent
And you hear me from far away
And my voice does not touch you
It seems as though your eyes had flown away
And it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth
As are all things filled with my soul
You emerge from the things
Filled with my soul
You are like my soul
A butterfly of dream
And you are like the word: Melancholy.

I like for you to be still
And you seem far away
It sounds as though you are lamenting
A butterfly cooing like a dove
And you hear me from far away
And my voice does not reach you
Let me come to be still in your silence
That is bright as a lamp
Simple, as a ring
You are like the night
With its stillness and constellations
Your silence is that of a star
As remote and candid.

I'd like for you to be still
It is though you are absent
Distant and full of sorrow
So you would've died
One word then, one smile is enough
And I am happy;
Happy that it's not true.

~ Pablo Neruda

[sara-bera]

"She lives the poetry she cannot write." -Oscar Wilde

[MegBluEyz]

"You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free."
~Thich Naht Hanh

[Katniss]

He lets me listen, when he moves me,
Words are not like other words
He takes me, from under my arms
He plants me, in a distant cloud
And the black rain in my eyes
Falls in torrents, torrents
He carries me with him, he carries me
To an evening of perfumed balconies


And I am like a child in his hands
Like a feather carried by the wind
He carries for me seven moons in his hands
and a bundle of songs
He gives me sun, he gives me summer
and flocks of swallows
He tells me that I am his treasure
And that I am equal to thousands of stars
And that I am treasure, and that I am
more beautiful than he has seen of paintings
He tells me things that make me dizzy
that make me forget the dance and the steps


Words…which overturn my history
which make me a woman…in seconds
He builds castles of fantasies
which I live in…for seconds…
And I return…I return to my table
Nothing with me…
Nothing with me…except words


Katniss~~

[VintageFemme]

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

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

[JAGG]

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

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

HAHAHA This made me laugh out loud. Thank you Vintage.

[ruffryder]

Be true to who you are and know...not everyone's gonna like you. Then again, there are some folks who don't even like cupcakes. Karen Salmansohn

[ruffryder]

Remember this, the choices you make in life make you - John Wooden

[Nomad]

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love and be merciful, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete any work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

Rabbi Tarfon

[JustLovelyJenn]

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
--Henry David Thoreau

[JustLovelyJenn]

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
--Buddha

[clay]

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.”

― Kahlil Gibran - Broken Wings

[PaPa]

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
~ Randy Paunch, The Last Lecture

[Katniss]

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Katniss~~

[Talon]

"Marines don't cry, their eyeballs just sweat sometimes." :bigcry:


~J

[ruffryder]

-Recognize that there are risks involved, but they're risks that must be taken to complete the resolution of the conflict.

-When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.

-I always say that being a stay-at-home mom is like the equivalent of having two full-time jobs.

[JustLovelyJenn]

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice.

~ The Dalai Lama

[Sun]

Be still and the earth will speak to you ~ Navajo Proverb

[Angeltoes]

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling."—Aldous Huxley

[Angeltoes]

“Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.”

~Austin O'Malley

[Sun]

Darkness can not drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate can not drive out hate, only love can do that. ~ Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ HH Dalai Lama



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[Jesse]

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.D. H. Lawrence (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/D._H._Lawrence/)
English novelist (1885 - 1930)

[JustLovelyJenn]

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[Jesse]

Never trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you. - John Adams

[Trev]

"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind."
~Buddha

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
~Harold Kushner

"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
~Brittany Renee

[PaPa]

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl

[JustLovelyJenn]

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard

[JustLovelyJenn]

The years teach much which the days never know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JustLovelyJenn]

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ahk]

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' --Giada De Laurentiis

[WolfyOne]

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[cinnamongrrl]

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.


George Bernard Shaw

[VintageFemme]

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
Some lose both and become accepted.

-Charles Bukowski

[JustLovelyJenn]

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[JustLovelyJenn]

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[Nomad]

we don't see things as they are. we see them as we are.

[Fatale]

I saw that.

~Karma

[cinnamongrrl]

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.


Socrates

[Semantics]

What am I missing? Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark.

-Tom Robbins

[falloutmk]

:rubberducky: "Take these sunken eyes and learn to see; you were always waiting for the moment to be free." - Blackbird, The Beatles

[Nat]

"You need some grandeur, some magnificence in your life - you can only eat so much of the bread of humility. You need passion and music and grace."

- Garrison Keillor

[Nomad]

no body wants to admit the truth about love. the truth is that love is hell and when you're doing it right you're gonna experience some pain. we tolerate all sorts of crappy moods and bad decisions and we hand over the keys to our shame and our dirty secrets knowing that they're gonna get used eventually, at least by accident or in a moment of weakness because human beings are frail, you know? really fucking frail.

the other thing no one wants to admit is that sometimes love isn't enough to keep things together and anyone who says different is a liar or hasnt been in love yet. all relationships end. whether someone walks away or somebody dies, it's gonna be over one day. when you're face down in the dirt because you left someone or they left you and you're blaming God for not inventing some kind of temporary death so you can check out for a few months and avoid all that crazy pain and cursing your stupidity for losing everything you paid for in blood...well...that's when we realize we're...you know...just the most desperate we can be to believe that the love was real. right? because if you cant believe then you spend the rest of your life terrified that everything else is gonna be a lie too. if you cant believe it was all real, right there when you're pathetic and naked and in the gutter, you sure as hell dont wanna step up for another fist in the mouth. and that's what love is; it's a fist in the mouth and people spend their lives waiting for the chance at a knuckle sandwich.

listen, at the end of the day, every human being has to understand that the love they feel is real even when they're at the end of their rope and cant hang on anymore. i mean, come on! that's how love works man! you hang on and hang on because it is real and not some fucking anemic copy of love that disintegrated the first time you got angry at each other or hurt one another! see? because that's what human beings do - we hurt one another and we do a fucking good job of it. that doesnt mean it isnt love. as a matter of fact, it's probably the best indicator that it is. it really is. it really, really is.

Steven Tyler

[Katniss]

Take joy!


There is nothing I can give you, which you have not; But there is much, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy! There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too: be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts. And so, at this time, I greet you. With the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.
--Fra Giovanni 1513


Katniss~~ (ran across this while looking at Tasha Tudor illustrations and wanted to share)

[Talon]

You must not only aim right>>:heartbeat:
but draw the bow with all of your might.


~Henry David Thoreau

[UofMfan]

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[little_ms_sunshyne]

"I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”
― Sara Gruen

[Jesse]

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? ~Rumi

[cinnamongrrl]

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[thedivahrrrself]

“There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.”
(unknown)

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.”
~ Barbara De Angelis

"I used to think that if I was who I am, if I showed weakness or sadness people would turn away, and not want me in their lives anymore. Now I realize that it is the very act of sharing, truly, from the heart and soul, that brings more love into your life, that binds people together ... More and more I see, the more open and loving you are, the more comes your way to love."
(unknown)

“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 (American writer and feminist, 1942)

[puddin']

"i dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." ~n. simpson


"this is my social face, do not confuse it for the animal beneath" ~unknown

[Nomad]

unanswered questions torture the soul more than any other injury human beings can inflict on it. if, during the course of your life, you can leave as few questions as possible unanswered in the minds and hearts of those who knew you then you will have truly understood what it is to be compassionate.

henry david thoreau

[Prudence]

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back".........Babe Ruth

[Talon]

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.


*Albert Einstein

[MegBluEyz]

"Entre lo que existe y lo que no existe, el espacio es el amor.

"(Between that which exists and that which does not is the space called Love.)"
- Anonymous

[Duchess]

"Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."

— Rainer Maria Rilke


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[The_Lady_Snow]

“Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.”

[Talon]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.


-Martin Luther King Jr.

[JAGG]

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“I layed still, in the darkness, in the pain. My mind searching for answers. How could she take something so beautiful and destroy it ? How could she be okay with this? How could she do this to someone who loved her so deeply? When the body is struck by pain that is overwhelming, it is always numb at first. Numb in the silence, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, sharp sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. Fear and doom stung me raw , as if I had been skinned alive”
― The Vera Wood Files

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of treading water.”
― Amanda Grace

[Katniss]

Years ago, Fred Rogers — you know him as Mr. Rogers — identified those people as the ones to watch when bad things unfolded on television.

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,'" he once said. "To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world."


Katniss~~

[Jesse]

"Do not mess with the forces of Nature , for thou art small and biodegradable!" - Anon

:sunglass:

[VintageFemme]

This is the kind of Friend
You are -
Without making me realize
My soul's anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off
All my suffering and sordid past
In Your beautiful
Hands.

-Hafiz

[JustLovelyJenn]

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
--Frederick Douglass

[JustLovelyJenn]

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
--Pablo Picasso

[JustLovelyJenn]

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
--Plato

[VintageFemme]

For I have learned that every heart will get
What it prays for
Most.

-Hafiz

[cinnamongrrl]

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

[macele]

some feel the rain. others just get wet. --unknown

[gotoseagrl]

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. ~ Unknown

[gotoseagrl]

Time is long but life is short. ~ Stevie Wonder

[Teddybear]

its not that life ishort but that your dead so long~~~~~unknown

[Hollylane]

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."

~Albert Einstein

[Hollylane]

Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.

~ Rumi

[Trev]

"At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense."
~Herman Hesse

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
~Dale Carnegie

"It has been said that we need just three things in life: something to do, something to look forward to and someone to love."
~Unknown