Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JAGG]

Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” ― Henry Ford

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” ― Bobbe Sommer

[kittygrrl]

"Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find the center." - Buck Ghosthorse (Lakota Medicine Man)

[Angeltoes]

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
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.

[Nomad]

every man thinks dung has no odor when it is on his own shoes *

Lao Tsu



*(interpretation: all our sins are small when compared to those of someone else)

[SassySparkle]

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[VintageFemme]

I will be the moonlight
and touch her
when all else is dark

[Duchess]

"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."

— Jane Austen

[JAGG]

“I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick

“Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it. ― J.D. Robb

"Listen to me. You can't change the truth. You can act as though you're deaf and blind, you can walk away from me forever, but the truth will still be there, and you can't make it go away. I love you." "I love you, " she repeated. "Don't lie to either of us by pretending you're leaving for my good. All you'll do is deny us both a chance at happiness. We will long for each other every day and night, but at least my conscience will be clear. I haven't held anything back from you, out of fear or pride or stubbornness or hurt.
For once have the strength not to walk away. Stay with me. Let me love you . "
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

[Angeltoes]

Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It is your destiny.

~Unknown

[Angeltoes]

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly ----

A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky

Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.

~Sylvia Plath

[Prudence]

-----“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open… No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” ----------------------------Martha Graham

[Talon]

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. (w)

~Tom Wolfe

[ahk]

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week. --Michael Symon

[cinnamongrrl]

"Let the minds clash, but keep the fists down."

Martin Luther

[ArtistLady]

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness". - Dag Hammarskjold

[Semantics]

One evening I sat beauty on my knees
and I found her bitter
and I reviled her.

Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

[JAGG]

“Because being with you makes perfect sense” ― Tim McGraw


“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.” -Robert Dawkins


“If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” ― Steve Maraboli

[prettyboyreg]

“everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!”
― Leslie Feinberg,

[Bèsame*]

Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it----you feel it, you know it, you believe it. Kevin Alan Milne

[Bèsame*]

Someday....someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.

[Electrocell]

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland


We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

[Talon]

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest,
remembers it most obsessively,
wrenches it from itself,
shapes it,
renders it,
loves it so radically that he remakes it into his own image.


>*Joan Didion

[Nomad]

'there is no truer gift than the trust of a woman when you have earned it through patience, compassion and the choice to stand resolute while her fear and doubt cries out her terror into the space between you '

Pablo Neruda

[gotoseagrl]

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ~ Thomas Jefferson

[gotoseagrl]

Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams & goals. ~ Unknown

[JAGG]

" Real love stories never have endings. " -Brian Bauch

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”- Unknown

"Mediocrity, low esteem, self loathing, all have one thing in common... laziness." - Unknown

[Talon]

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny,
but chaos in the midst of order is.

~Steve Martin

[kittygrrl]

" Real love stories never have endings. " -Brian Bauch



I agree, true abiding love is not shaken with the challenges of everyday living..you can't imagine your life without it, like the sunrise in the morning..anything else, so called, is just vanity

[MegBluEyz]

“Life is short, Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you smile.”

― Mark Twain

[JAGG]

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

“Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.” -Fannery O'Connor

[Soon]

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

[Talon]

I still close my eyes and go home...I can always draw from that.

~Dolly Parton

[JAGG]

“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.” ― William Wilberforce


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


“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."― Benjamin Franklin

[Talon]

Common sense to an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[JAGG]

“Good men are often more practical than pretty , you just happen to be both.” ― Ruta Sepetys

“Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.”― Julie Klassen


“My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.” ― Penelope Williamson

[puddin']

"some say fate is beyond our command, but i know better. our destiny is within us. you just have to be brave enough to see it." ~merida, "brave"

[ruffryder]

Some people push you away because they don't want to get hurt. Some people push you away because they got hurt. Anna Moosun

[ruffryder]

Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Michael Burke

[ruffryder]

Relax. Let every moment be what it's going to be. What's meant to be will come your way, what's not will fall away. Mandy Hale

[ruffryder]

"Be the light that helps others see."

[Butterbean]

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

[MegBluEyz]

" 'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said."

Coco Chanel

[ahk]

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.--Luther Burbank

[Jesse]

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe

"Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. " ~Terri Guillemets

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell

[JAGG]

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes you happy, truth liberates.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”― Bill Ayers

[JustLovelyJenn]

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
--Dr. Seuss

[JustLovelyJenn]

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
--Dale Evans

[JustLovelyJenn]

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
--Mary Ellen Chase

[Nomad]

"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.

[Nomad]

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[JAGG]

“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.” ― George Alexiou

"Happiness lies in the seeds of independence." Unknown

“Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before. ” ― Urania Sarri

[Jesse]

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
~Eric Sevareid

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou

[Bèsame*]

"Maybe Christmas", he thought , "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps....means a little bit more!"

The Grinch

[ahk]

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.--Joshua Reynolds

[Trev]

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."
~Bess Streeter Aldrich

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
~Oren Arnold

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
~Unknown

[Semantics]

We die only once, and for such a long time.


-Molière

[ahk]

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. --Bernard Manning

[Jesse]

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[ahk]

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. --Calvin Coolidge

[JAGG]

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ― Rumi

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, over look things. Not in this case. In this case you must ask yourself , are you the exception or the rule? Is it just a relationship of convenience to him ? I realize it's hard to face the truth,even harder to act upon it. He's just not that into you” ― Greg Behrendt

[VintageFemme]

a cloud of questions
somehow transforming into
rainfall of answers

[Soon]

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin

[Kätzchen]

“...time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison




“The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success




“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
― Stephen Hawking

[Talon]

"The core question is always, "Am I ok? Is it OK to be gay, to be an English major, to want to have a baby without a husband?
I tell them, "You have to trust who you are and live that out, even if it's difficult". It sounds simple, but it's not".


~Cheryl Strayed

[JAGG]

“You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.” ― Steve Maraboli

“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?” ― Steve Maraboli

[Jesse]

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown

"The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master." - Ben Hur Lampman

[Trev]

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
~R.I.Fitzhenry

"You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide."
~Ingrid Bergman

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
~Sydney J. Harris

[Ms. Meander]

I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.
- Ralph Ellison

[Talon]

The idea that fame transforms all problems is true financially and in many other ways, but no glass slipper can quiet the ghosts that haunt the psyche.


~Jewel Kilcher

[ahk]

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown

"The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master." - Ben Hur Lampman

What happened to Bear?

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. --Steven Wright

[ahk]

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.--Henry Morton Stanley

[Trev]

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
~Charlie Chaplin

"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."
~Charles H. Perkhurst

[MegBluEyz]

"We have to Appreciate with Gratitude, the Precious Moments that Life Bestows us With, Each Day, Moment by Moment." - Vashi Ram Chandi

[JAGG]

“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”-Christopher Morley

“Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.”
― Steve Maraboli

“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.” ― Steve Maraboli

[gotoseagrl]

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. ~ Charlotte Bronte, Villette

[always2late]

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. - Fritz Perls

[Talon]

Our bodies are our gardens...our wills our gardeners.


~Shakespeare

[ahk]

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --Confucius

[JAGG]

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole you.” ― Maya Angelou

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?” ― Rumi

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw

[ahk]

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.--Galileo Galilei

[Trev]

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
~Thomas S. Szasz

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."
~Unknown

[Katniss]

While hopping around in You Tube listening to music I came across a post by a random user;

"Sometimes I feel if the right music was played in some key places around the globe, then the world would have to change, just by having the "energies" created. Humans must be forced to FEEL the world."


Nice concept....

Katniss~~

[JAGG]

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.” ― Philippa Gregory

“She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.” ― C. JoyBell C.

“If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.” ― John O'Donohue

[ahk]

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.--Elizabeth Bowen

[Jesse]

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. ~Julia Sorel (Rosalyn Drexler), See How She Runs, 1978

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy

The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved, be like that to me. ~Rumi

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. ~Rumi

[MissItalianDiva]

Life continues after death as long as you remember the warmth of another's smile, the gentleness of their touch, the meaning the brought to your life. In your remembrance of another, death cannot overtake life.

~~~Iyanla Vanzant

[little_ms_sunshyne]

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

[Soon]

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

[Talon]

THE JEWELER


If a naive and desperate man
Brings a precious stone
To the only jeweler in town,
Wanting to sell it,
The jeweler's eyes
Will begin to play a game,
Like most eyes in the world when they look at you.

The jeweler's face will stay calm.
He will not want to reveal the stone's true value,
But to hold the man captive to fear and greed
While he calculates
The value of the transaction.

But one moment with me, my dear,
Will show you that there is nothing, nothing that I want from you.
When you sit before a Master like me,
Even if you are a drooling mess,
My eyes sing with Excitement
They see your Divine Worth. :candle:


~Hafiz

[JustLovelyJenn]

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
--Confucius

[JustLovelyJenn]

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

[JustLovelyJenn]

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
--Alexandre Dumas

[WolfyOne]

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

[ahk]

Language is wine upon the lips. --Virginia Woolf

[VintageFemme]

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

― Charles Bukowski

[always2late]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love." - Washington Irving

[MegBluEyz]

"You pray in your distress and in your need;
would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy
and in your days of abundance."
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

[VintageFemme]

come
sit with me under a sea of stars
and skip wishes across the midnight sky

via Jars of Stars

[ahk]

Our first intuitions are the true ones.--Emile M. Cioran

[JAGG]

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

"Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.” ― Rick Riordan

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
― Oprah Winfrey

[Talon]

"That which is injurious loses it's capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate".

~Dr. Hawkins

[ahk]

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Kobi]

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

~Ayn Rand

[Katniss]

http://i.picresize.com/images/2013/01/01/yB3H.jpg

[Ms. Meander]

Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly, and forgive quickly.

- Paul Coelho

[Talon]

We are all a little weird, and life's a little weird.
And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness, and call it love.

[JAGG]

http://i.picresize.com/images/2013/01/01/yB3H.jpg

I totally believe this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheMerryFairy]

"When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time."
Sammy Davis, Jr.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Electrocell]

Don't try and get in a chair you are already sitting in. " Unknown"

[Jesse]

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~Steve Jobs

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. ~Jim Morrison

[gotoseagrl]

Do it now. Sometimes ‘later’ becomes ‘never.

[JAGG]

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.” ― Dorothy Day

“Live your vision and demand your success. If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point." ― Steve Maraboli

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

[Semantics]

Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so goddamned difficult. The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life and it is bursting with meaning. She insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. You, the girl who reads, make me want to be everything that I am not. But I am weak and I will fail you, because you have dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than I am. You will not accept the life of which I spoke at the beginning of this piece. You will accept nothing less than passion, and perfection, and a life worthy of being told. So out with you, girl who reads. Take the next southbound train and take your Hemingway with you. Or, perhaps, stay and save my life.

Taken from You Should Date An Illiterate Girl by Charles Warnke

[Soon]

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

[Kobi]

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker

[ahk]

Follow your own star! --Dante Alighieri

[Ms. Meander]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich

[Electrocell]

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. " Mark Twain"

[Electrocell]

If your ship doesn't come in, take a lesson from Noah ,build it yourself. "From cartoon Ziggy"

4 calling birds
3 French hens
2 turtle doves
1 partridge
Yum

Season Greeting from my cat.

" unknown"

[JAGG]

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.” ― June Ahern

"The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly, or the strength to make the changes required.” ― Pema Chödrön

“You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have your actions reflect your goals.” ― Steve Maraboli

[Trev]

"Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection."
~Pindar

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

[Soon]

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

[Jesse]

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” - C. S. Lewis

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Apple Inc.

[Jesse]

“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

(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25241.Bob_Marley)

[Soon]

“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

(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25241.Bob_Marley)


I love everything about this...except the first five words...

[JustLovelyJenn]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
--Socrates

[JustLovelyJenn]

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

[JustLovelyJenn]

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
--Henry David Thoreau

[TheDreadPirateRoberts]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
--Socrates

i always loved this one ......

[Bèsame*]

Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone~~every single thing you could possibly want!!!

~~Jamie Curtis

[Kobi]

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise

---------

A perfect quote for today. I'm watching the snowfall, wondering how many adult responsibilities I can rearrange so I can go play in it.

[Talon]

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics
will not teach us what the soul is.

~Voltaire

[MegBluEyz]

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
George Sands


..There are a few others too..just saying.

[WolfyOne]

You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke

[TheMerryFairy]

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

[KCBUTCH]

:rubberducky:

[KCBUTCH]

Intelligence is by far the sexiest piece of Art

[BoDy*ShOt]

"As much as you want to plan your life, it has a way of surprising you with unexpected things that will make you happier than you originally planned."

[JAGG]

“Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you forgot my birthday, and didn't care to see my face."- Leo Crosby

“Everything changes except true love.” ― Santosh Kalwar

“If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses the right combination of qualities for you.You can turn your stare upon me all you like, but you can't petrify me. You can knock me about to your heart's content without worrying about doing any damage. You can perpetrate any sort of outrage your wicked mind conceives I will survive it. You're a rebel. I'm a born leader. We are survivors . Nothing less than a survivor would ever suit you." Vere Mallory -

[puddin']

"misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge." ~alexandre dumas, "the count of monte cristo"

[Kobi]

Sometimes one can learn much more about life, love, and happiness, when they're single than when they're in a relationship, when they're looking for work than when they're working, when they're confused than when they're clear, and so on...

And if they allow themselves to learn what there is to learn, rather than resist, their life will be transformed, and that which was, will be no longer.

~Mike Dooley

[ahk]

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. --Josh Billings

[Electrocell]

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Thomas H. Raddal


Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne Rich

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
Sir Philip Sidney

[Talon]

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

~St. Francis

[macele]

Don't waste time trying to convince a person to use basic logic and see things your way if they refuse. You're not the Jackass Whisperer.

Ruth Buzzi

[JAGG]

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”― Paulo Coelho

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ― Margaret Mitchell

[TheMerryFairy]

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― Virginia Woolf

[TheMerryFairy]

“What I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.”
― Tegan Quin

[TheMerryFairy]

I am going to start writing again so this quote seems to fit perfectly.

"Never design your character like a garden Where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone desires to reach"

[MarquisdeShey]

Child1(Kinder): Nut check!
Adult Male: Respect my body!
Child 2 (2 grader) to Child 1: Balls check!

Child 1: ...wobbles to a chair... He hit my nuts!
Adult Female: If it hurts bad we can chop it off.
Child 1: No! I won't be able to walk!
Adult Female: What does it have to do with your legs??
Child 1: My nuts are attached to my legs!

Adult Female - walks away in search of ice pack.

Quote of the day: Stay off other peoples nuts and keep your nuts to yourself.

[SassySparkle]

Never let anyone dull your sparkle!!
You were born to SHINE!!!

[Sun]

‎"Seeing beyond our filters—our accumulated knowl­edge and beliefs—does not always come naturally. We have spent years growing attached to them in various degrees, and they feel safe. Whatever we become attached to can begin to shape our future experiences and limit our perception of what exists outside our vocabulary. Like blinders on a horse, our attached beliefs limit our vision, and this in turn limits our perceived direction in life. The stronger our level of attachment, the less we can see." -don Miguel Ruiz Jr,

The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

[ahk]

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.--Charles Lindbergh

[Semantics]

Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to
the verbs to get or to take. He was always getting something off the ground, his act together,
his hands dirty, the show on the road, someone’s goat, the message, out more, on with things, lost, laid,
away with murder. He was also always taking charge, the bull by the horns, back the night, something
in stride, someone to the cleaners, a rain check, an ax to something, Manhattan. And when it came to
looking at things, Dad was something of a Compound Microscope, one who viewed life through an
adjustable eyepiece lens and thus expected all things to be in focus. He had no tolerance for The
Murky, The Blurry, The Hazy or The Soiled.

–Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

[KCBUTCH]

"One often meets hys Destiny on the Road Hy takes to avoid it" (Master Oogla-Kung Fu Panda)

[KCBUTCH]

Dad was a man who, due to his underprivileged background perhaps, never hesitated when it came to
the verbs to get or to take. He was always getting something off the ground, his act together,
his hands dirty, the show on the road, someone’s goat, the message, out more, on with things, lost, laid,
away with murder. He was also always taking charge, the bull by the horns, back the night, something
in stride, someone to the cleaners, a rain check, an ax to something, Manhattan. And when it came to
looking at things, Dad was something of a Compound Microscope, one who viewed life through an
adjustable eyepiece lens and thus expected all things to be in focus. He had no tolerance for The
Murky, The Blurry, The Hazy or The Soiled.

–Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

So very Clever, thank you for sharing this. I love it

[TheMerryFairy]

"One voice may get lost in the wind, but many raised at once can drown out a hurricane."

[TheMerryFairy]

"Every time you want something and achieve vibrational harmony with it and allow it to come to you, you not only gain the satisfaction of having accomplished your desire, you also gain a whole new perspective from which to desire."
~Abraham

[TheMerryFairy]

"We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present."

[KCBUTCH]

"In the picture of my life, there are pieces found and lost, under the bed, stuck in the box, stuck to my shoe, under you. The picture is not lost, it is there; My vision is clear, the details sketchy from age yet the picture remains to view, to enjoy, to form, to shape, create, distract, retract, make anew..."-ME (just now):glasses::rubberducky::tea:

[KCBUTCH]

"We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present."

Yes this now moment- this time, Here, awake, Alive and BEing

[TheMerryFairy]

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. " Harvey Fierstein

[KCBUTCH]

":praying:When nothing is sure-Everything is possible"-unknown

[Kobi]

Avoidance makes us feel less
vulnerable in the short run but it will
never make us less afraid.

~Harriet Lerner

[Talon]

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.


~George MacDonald

[ahk]

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.--Rita Rudner

[The_Lady_Snow]

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

[Butterbean]

Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson

[Spirit Dancer]

I close my eyes, the better to see.
Paul Gauguin

[Electrocell]

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher


The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

[Electrocell]

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown


Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare

[JAGG]

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. And that isn't true.” ― Amy Tan

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to me somehow. ”
― Nicholas Sparks

[Talon]

There is a voice that you can hear when you're still
It tells you everything you need to know
It's a seed, it's a whisper, it lights a darkened room
It says..

More than the rivers
More than the sea
More than the mountains
And all of the valleys

This is your home

It breathes life into your lungs
A single breath connecting like a silver thread
Love to sorrow...Joy to dread

More than the rivers
More than the sea
More than the mountains
And all of the valleys

This is your home
This is your home...
free.




~J. Kilcher

[Kobi]

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

~Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

[Kobi]

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

~Whitney Griswold

[TheMerryFairy]

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Talon]

Love is a smoke made
with the fume of sighs,
being purged,
A fire~ sparkling in lover's eyes ~**~
being vexed,
a sea nourished with lover's tears.
What is it else?
A madness most discreet,
A choking gall...
and a preserving sweet. (w)



~Shakespeare

[Spirit Dancer]

Nothing to Save
by D. H. Lawrence


There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.

[JAGG]

“But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.” ― P.C. Cast

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.” ― Chester Nimitz

“Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

[MarquisdeShey]

There are a lot of words meaning thanks.
Some you can only whisper.
Others you can only sing.
The pewee whistles instead.
The snake turns in circles,
the beaver slaps his tail
on the surface of the pond.
The deer in the pinewood stamps his hoof.
Goldfinches shine as they float through the air.
A person, sometimes, will hum a little Mahler.
Or put arms around old oak tree.
Or take out lovely pencil and notebook to find a few
touching, kissing words.

[MarquisdeShey]

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,

“Yes.”


It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

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.

[Bèsame*]

.....there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away....

[Kobi]

Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

~Robert Brault

[Boots13]

*

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change
so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you
appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you'll
eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and some times
good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

[Talon]

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand....*
and melting like a snowflake.
Let us use it before it is too late.




~Marie Beynon Ray

[Bèsame*]

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.....

[ahk]

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. --Thomas Huxley

[JAGG]

“The most depressed people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand. Without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”― Nicholas Sparks


"Sometimes you don't need a goal , you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!”― Sophie Kinsella

" Life is too short to live it badly." Unknown

[MarquisdeShey]

Rous r red
vilets r blue
Ms. Shey is nic
and I lik blue, two.

Made my day :)

[JAGG]

Rous r red
vilets r blue
Ms. Shey is nic
and I lik blue, two.

Made my day :)

That sounds like a sweet poem from the pure heart of a child.

[StrongButch]

1) Kind words are the music of the world. 2) The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. 3) Happiness depends upon ourselves.

[Katniss]

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Katniss~~(still January but ready for Spring)

[Talon]

For the most part..real love, whether between friends, lovers, family members, or spouses..wants to keep on loving. It can't help itself.
When we're in a state of pure love...one that exists on a higher plane than our own petty human emotions...we are in a *Divine* state.


~K. Cutrone

[JAGG]

For the most part..real love, whether between friends, lovers, family members, or spouses..wants to keep on loving. It can't help itself.
When we're in a state of pure love...one that exists on a higher plane than our own petty human emotions...we are in a *Divine* state.


~K. Cutrone

This is so true. And a rare beautiful thing.

[Talon]

This is so true. And a rare beautiful thing.


Yes....it is.

[Parker]

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
~ Thomas Merton

[MissItalianDiva]

We attract into our lives that which we focus upon with the strongest intent. Unfortunately, most of us do not monitor our thoughts, and therefore have no idea of what we are thinking.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

It is very easy to get so wrapped up in doing what you feel needs to be done that you forget to be grateful for the ability to do. To walk. To breathe. To think. These are gifts. To see. To hear. To feel. These are invaluable gifts.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[VintageFemme]

Of all the love poems you wrote for me

my favorite is the imprint of your foot
upon my ass

-Jonathan Penton, Last Chap

[JAGG]

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin

“Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..”
― Jude Deveraux

“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of bad judgement. Do you hear me? It should be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. Wait for 100 percent.”
― Deb Caletti

[Katniss]

Love Compared

I do not resemble your other lovers, my lady
should another give you a cloud
I give you rain
Should he give you a lantern, I
will give you the moon
Should he give you a branch
I will give you the trees
And if another gives you a ship
I shall give you the journey.


Nizar Qabbani


Katniss~~

[ahk]

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.--Bertolt Brecht

[StrongButch]

Here are some funny quotes. 1) Your legs must be tired because you have been running through my mind all night. 2) If you cant see the bright side of life polish the dull side. 3) A good speech should be like a womans skirt: long enough to cover the subject but short enough to create interest.

[macele]

"It's very difficult to live an ethically intelligent life," Weinstein said. "Keeping your word, keeping things private, telling the truth, avoiding hurting people, being fair and compassionate, all this takes work."

--Bruce Weinstein

[Talon]

If you bring forth what is inside of you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you don't bring forth what is inside you,
What you don't bring forth will destroy you.


~Jesus Christ

[Novelafemme]

"To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your Heart."

~ Rumi

[~ocean]

quote thats old but says it all ~~ Don't do on to others as you would't want done on to yourself. ~

[Electrocell]

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of
God's greatest gifts.

It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of
one's self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
- Thomas Hughes

Where there are friends, there is wealth.
- Titus Maccius Plautus

Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we
utterly trust.
- George MacDonald

[Electrocell]

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4746206003857318&pid=15.1

[StrongButch]

Real confidence comes from knowing yourself-your strengths and limitations in contrast to depending on affermation from others.

[Spirit Dancer]

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb


What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. ~Chinese Proverb

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911


The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown

[JAGG]

I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”― Sophie Kinsella

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” ― Robert Goolrick

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. ” ― Yevgeny Zamyatin,

[Jesse]

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." —Maya Angelou


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha


“You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?” ― Bob Moawad (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/192972.Bob_Moawad)

[StrongButch]

1) I am proud to be Native. 2) Respect all things that were placed upon this earth- whether it be people or a plant. 3) Honor other peoples thoughts, wishes and words. 4) Search for yourself, by yourself. Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

[KCBUTCH]

ABUNDANCE IS MY INHERITANCE

Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom. Am I not as important as they? “Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not neither do they spin, yet . . . Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.”

I look at the lavish wastefulness of Nature and know that god intended me to be as abundantly supplied, with everything that makes for beauty, well-being, progressive living and happiness. I, myself, am to blame when these "fruits of the Spirit" fail to appear.

Since I know the Truth of my being, I will no longer hinder or retard my good from coming to me. I will expect and accept all that I need to make life happy and worth while; for I am a child of the Spirit, and every attribute of It--every attribute of Good--is my inheritance.

Nothing but lack of faith can keep my good from me, for I am one with the Universal Essence of Life, or Spirit, and Its Substance will manifest in my experience as I believe. No longer will I go for my good, carrying only a dipper to be filled. This day, as I turn to the Mother/Father within, I bring "all the empty vessels" knowing they will be filled, and my abundance will become manifest.

Abundance is My Inheritance.

Holmes, Ernest (2007-12-27). Prayer: How to Pray Effectively from the Science of Mind

[JAGG]

“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Dance and sing to your music. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli



“Never compromise your values.” ― Steve Maraboli

“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

[VintageFemme]

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

[Kobi]

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

~Robert Brault

[jac]

"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."
– Edward Henry Harriman

[Lucian]

I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”― Sophie Kinsella

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” ― Robert Goolrick

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. ” ― Yevgeny Zamyatin,

Good ones.

[StrongButch]

Funny Quotes 1) You grow up the day you have your first real laugh-at yourself. 2) I am ready to meet the Creator. Whether the Creator is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. 3) By persistantly remaining single a woman converts herself into a permanate public temptation. (lol)

[KCBUTCH]

Haunted by what remains...this city, these places the walls scream her name
6.5 years of a life built for two disappears in a breathe of love forgotten through distance between us.
Intimacy gone - I guess that happens when you're thousands of miles away from each other
You had to work I get it, but what was left behind was the story of US
knowing it is for the best and meant to be - avails me nothing when my heart cries out for you-is it you? Or the idea of you?
Picking up the pieces, moving on, stumbling...
Days go by silent with progress, then in the quiet the memory sneaks in and rips out my breath. The tears then flow with a deep ache from my gut, I CRY OUT "MAKE IT GO AWAY, someone, please..."
I crawl up onto the floor with my dog-I long the warmth of contact I long to be held to be heard, comforted.
50 days gone by 50 days with ME.

[Trev]

"I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened."
Vanna Bonta~

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
Alan Alda~

[TheMerryFairy]

Haunted by what remains...this city, these places the walls scream her name
6.5 years of a life built for two disappears in a breathe of love forgotten through distance between us.
Intimacy gone - I guess that happens when you're thousands of miles away from each other
You had to work I get it, but what was left behind was the story of US
knowing it is for the best and meant to be - avails me nothing when my heart cries out for you-is it you? Or the idea of you?
Picking up the pieces, moving on, stumbling...
Days go by silent with progress, then in the quiet the memory sneaks in and rips out my breath. The tears then flow with a deep ache from my gut, I CRY OUT "MAKE IT GO AWAY, someone, please..."
I crawl up onto the floor with my dog-I long the warmth of contact I long to be held to be heard, comforted.
50 days gone by 50 days with ME.


Hang in there! It's a rough road sometimes but remember to let the little whispers fill your heart up when things get dark. You choose the path and I know you will find that comfort and intimacy again. We all stumble but we will heal as we replace the pieces that have fallen with something deeper of ourselves.

[Semantics]

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on...

-Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

[Kobi]

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

~D.H. Lawrence, "Wedlock"

[ahk]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Sun]

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle, and the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

[TheMerryFairy]

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." Martin Luther King Jr.

[MarquisdeShey]

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't things I wanted.

~Frederick Douglass

[Sun]

"A nation that year after year continues to spend more on military defense than on its programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. " Dr Martin Luther King

[JAGG]

“You can’t fool people into loving you.” ― Chuck Palahniuk




“Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, my heart is heavy.”
― Sarah Ockler


“You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.” ― Steve Maraboli

[MarquisdeShey]

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well ~Virginia Woolf

There are some days when I think I am going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~ Salvador Dali

[KCBUTCH]

"Don't raise you voice, improve your argument"-unknown :cigar2:

"The life you have lived doesn't need to be the only one you have." — Anna Quindlen

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you"
—James Allen

[JAGG]

“You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. ― Steve Maraboli

“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.” ― Gyula Krúdy

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”― Steve Maraboli

[Angeltoes]

In keeping with the 'love' theme....

I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats and as a range loves braes. I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. I will love you as a battlefield loves young men and as peppermints love your allergies, and I will love you as the banana peel loves the shoe of a man who was just struck by a shingle falling off a house. I will love you as a volunteer fire department loves rushing into burning buildings and as burning buildings love to chase them back out, and as a parachute loves to leave a blimp and as a blimp operator loves to chase after it.

I will love you as a dagger loves a certain person’s back, and as a certain person loves to wear dagger proof tunics, and as a dagger proof tunic loves to go to a certain dry cleaning facility, and how a certain employee of a dry cleaning facility loves to stay up late with a pair of binoculars, watching a dagger factory for hours in the hopes of catching a burglar, and as a burglar loves sneaking up behind people with binoculars, suddenly realizing that she has left her dagger at home. I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled.

~Lemony Snicket

[KCBUTCH]

Hatred paralyzes life; Love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; Love harmonizes it
Hatred darkens life; Love illuminates it- Martin Luther King Jr

Happy birthday sir although it was officially on the 14th.
I celebrate you every day. you are by far my favorite.

[Kobi]

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

~John Ciardi

[StrongButch]

1) Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. 2) I have found if you love life, life will love you back. 3) Dont ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go out and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

[Bèsame*]

Its only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano

[Spirit Dancer]

One who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake

[Talon]

Distrust those who exalt unrighteous peace as better than righteous war.

[JustLovelyJenn]

He that can have patience can have what he will.
--Benjamin Franklin

[JustLovelyJenn]

Abused patience turns to fury.
--Thomas Fuller

[JustLovelyJenn]

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
--Saint Augustine

[KCBUTCH]

"I've had a lot of worries in my life- most of which never happened"-Mark Twain

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling"-unknown

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another"-William James

:rubberducky:

[KCBUTCH]

"Instead of thinking outside the box-GET RID OF THE BOX"-Deepak Chopra:hangloose:

[TheMerryFairy]

"Instead of thinking outside the box-GET RID OF THE BOX"-Deepak Chopra:hangloose:


*Tosses the figurative box out the window* I'm not going to let myself be confined :)

[KCBUTCH]

*Tosses the figurative box out the window* I'm not going to let myself be confined :)

with and abundant, infinite universe to work with, no one ought to be limited, we only limit ourselves-glad you are setting yourself free :)

[JAGG]

. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.” ― Stephen Kendrick

“In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.” ― Steve Maraboli

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”― John Ruskin