Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[VintageFemme]

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

― Charles Bukowski (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13275.Charles_Bukowski)

[StrongButch]

1)Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels. 2) Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.3) Only do what your heart tells you. 4) When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out.

[justanolecowboy]

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage --- Lao Tzo

[ahk]

The more one judges, the less one loves. --Honore de Balzac

[DamonK]

Everything you do seduces me. All you need to do is breathe and I would do anything for you.” ― Ashley March

[Fatale]

''Wit has truth in it ... wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.''

~Dorothy Parker

[Katniss]

"True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd/ What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd." A. Pope

[Kobi]

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

~Albert Schweitzer

[nowandthen]

I welcome the challenge to push beyond my comfort, to dig down in that place solid in my willingness. Though I posses the stubbornness, let me seek my humility as the light towards awakening. May my passion for understanding be met by the gift of unlearning those ideas that burn my soul and chain my heart. I ask that breath return between my bones so that I might stand upright in my healing, always seeking that which is my salvation, my own humanity...May I know that false pride lies in the ego dance and that I am neither my praise or my blame, may the dance between the two always grow smaller... I wish blessing to you and the knowledge that you matter ♥ (Sé 13')
:praying:

[Kätzchen]

Last night I sailed past page 499, reading Haruki Marukami's IQ84 (2011) and for some reason, the opening passage to chapter 16 felt incredibly healing to me:

Chp. 16

TENGO
(Like a Ghost Ship)

What kind of world will there be tomorrow?
"No one knows the answer to that," Fuki-Eri said (p. 499).

[Soon]

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

[JAGG]

“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”
― Anthony de Mello

“You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
― Oliver James

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

[KCBUTCH]

Last night I sailed past page 499, reading Haruki Marukami's IQ84 (2011) and for some reason, the opening passage to chapter 16 felt incredibly healing to me:

Chp. 16

TENGO
(Like a Ghost Ship)

What kind of world will there be tomorrow?
"No one knows the answer to that," Fuki-Eri said (p. 499).


GREAT BOOK- how are you liking it 1Q84?

[KCBUTCH]

The lies a treasure in her waiting to awaken, a breath longing to release
can you find your way on the map to celebrate her deepest desires?
Are you worthy? Are you kind? Will she surrender her will to you at least and beg to be taken?
Can you protect her now, in your fragile state? Are you full enough to give to her all she is worth?
Can you wait to touch, to tame , to heal...
She make you want? She calls you name?
Be diligent and endure until the time comes for you to feed the fire she has within.
IF you are not ready- stand fast captain - the ship will sail when you are ready to steer it!-ME

[StrongButch]

1) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams 2) A loving heart is the truest wisdom. 3) Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing we wait for, it is a thing to be acheived. 4) A wise woman learns by the mistakes of others , a fool by her own 5) At first they only dislike what you say , but the more correct you are the more they dislike you.

[Kobi]

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

~Henri Nouwen

[justanolecowboy]

___REAL men never stop trying to show the woman they love how much she means to him ... (even) after he's got her.... (just sayin') ....

[ahk]

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

[dixie]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mvx0mKx51y0/So1QBxwoW6I/AAAAAAAALqs/HkB8TU7g9MM/s400/LifeisFunny_Design+Crush.jpg

[Spirit Dancer]

Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.
-
Jean Shinoda Bolen

[Ms. Meander]

Your eyes make me feel like a hunter who is being hunted by a beautiful gazelle.
Mi amor

[JAGG]

“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.” ― José Saramago


“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.” ― Christopher Earle


“Even now, he is every blue shirt getting into a truck cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.” ― Melissa Bank

[Electrocell]

Author Popularity 6/10 Yakov Smirnoff was born on January 24, 1951
(Russian born American comedian. b.1951)
"Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list."

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman,

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

[Trev]

"As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back."
~Unknown

[StrongButch]

1) Love doesnt make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. 2) There is no remedy for love but to love more 3) Love is, above all, the gift to oneself 4) You dont have to go looking for love when its where you come from

[Talon]

Nothing you do for me goes unnoticed.
No small gesture is forgotten...
No touch...no kiss..no embrace..
No words..no gift..
No look between the two of us..
No tears...no smile..
And no expression from your heart...
escapes my attention.

[ahk]

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.--Jean-Bertrand Aristide

[MarquisdeShey]

What do you know about being black? She asked the yellow colored girl.
Hey girl!
I see you walking.
Looking and moving – you look just like me.
Your hips are moving and tongue clicking.
I see you speaking of my plight.
Chocolate skin…

Hold on girl!
Caramel, almond, cafe con leche, caju, mel, and then chocolate.
My hips don’t move, they sway
My tongue dances formulating words foreign to this harsh idiom.
Our cause is/not one of the same.
Seeking to be seen, recognized, validated, and legalized.
Our history are beats of a drum – African/ Caribbean/Indigenous/ Latina
I am like you – not.
You see me walking.
I am just like you - not
Then I speak.
I am lost.
Hey girl!
Now, you don’t recognize me.

~SPS

[Soon]

“I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering something my Guru once said -- that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.”

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”


“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”

“and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.”

[KCBUTCH]

They call to me
full breasted, wet and restless
they scream my name sweet tenderness,
the wild tamed.
Her, She, woman, femme
her delicate tastes, supple skin, submissive ways.
they look different, they are warm, kind, generous.
She melts in my mouth
She buckles under my sex
she, who is not here but wanted
her; the one that lingers
femme, the half to my whole
so familiar and never getting old.
Though I've discovered a challenge to my want,
the memory of you remains, she who calls to me is left behind because you are still there. teasing me with a love forgotten.
Taunting me with the story of us turned to the breaking of me...
My heart is not healed yet-
it is then I realize I am not reaching for anyone but running away from you.
I am not seeking to be with "her" I am trying to forget you
I am lost, I am wandering. I am not yet free from the place you made in my heart. And my heart aches.
So I step forward and fall back
I reach and recoil
I rise and dissolve.

She who steals from my breathe- woman, who arouses my senses
femme, she who feeds the flames of my desire
My missing piece lies lost under the sofa
The picture is there but it will take a thorough spring cleaning for it to be whole.
So I wait, I distract and I cry... I run, I walk and I hide.-ME

[KCBUTCH]

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on you road doesn't mean they've gotten lost"
-Dali Lama

"When I let go of what I am. I become what I might be"- Lao Tzu

"I am not what happened to me. O am what I choose to become"- Carl Jung

[StrongButch]

1) Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart. 2) Among the things you can give and still keep your word, a smile and a grateful heart. 3) The heart of a fool is in her mouth, but the mouth of a wise woman is in her heart. 4) A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. 5) Smile,its the key that fits the lock to everybodys heart.

[justanolecowboy]

Love, something we all live with, dream of, or hope for

Tis a gift that is not to be taken lightly

A gift from one heart to another given in faith

From one soul wanting to give to another soul longing to receive

Coming together from darkness and sorrow, from loss and despair

Into the glow of a rainbow after the rains have fallen

Sunshine lights the path, though it be dark in the early morn

A new dawn is to awaken the sleeping heart of the lost soul

A new era approaches the lives of two who have wandered

Within the shadows of their life, the attic of their minds


Where dust had gathered a breeze now gently blows all away

To reveal the beauty of what may come and shine forth

A beauty that can only be shared by two with faith in themselves

and trust in their hearts

A desire for consummate love bubbles within and gives a reason to live

To live and let every moment together count, waste not one day nor even one moment

This is beauty that can overcome the darkness, a love that can grow

When given the chance to risk, to grab hold of the clouds and soar

Open the door, let it all in, cherish it, live it, and do not let go

Refrain not when love knocks gently on your heart's door


One has so much to give, the other has so much need

to be loved and cared for, someone to walk with, to be there

Which is the one who needs to give, or the one who needs to be

Held and loved, nourished and soothed, it changes from day to day


Arms that ache to be holding the one, the love that blooms

A fire that burns and must be quenched before it consumes


Love cannot grow if not given a chance,

A risk not taken is to not feel the dance

Of moments together to create memories

Swaying together with a garden breeze

Gently caressing the lovers that embrace

Behind curtains of white gossamer lace


From shaking hands and heart, about to risk, a Sacred Love begins to grow, born of purity and faith, trust and spiritual knowing

There are times when someone also needs the courage to just live

Reach out, take the hand offered, take the heart that loves you

Treat it with great care, and give back the love

And the rose, when turned, becomes Eros, the god of Love

[UofMfan]

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

-- first sentence from "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) by
Gabriel García Márquez

[JAGG]

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” Friedrich Nietzsche


“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”― Carlos Castaneda


“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
― André Gide

[KCBUTCH]

"Appearances of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are already in ourselves"
-Kahlil Gibran
:moonstars:

"I am not interested in your limiting beliefs;
I am interested in what makes you limitless.

I'm not interested in your weakness, but your strength;
not in your vices but your virtues;
not your insecurities but your greatness.

Stop spinning in your past or on all the reasons you feel you are not good enough.
It's time to step into a higher state of being above the fray and fear.

It is not what makes you small or limited that you should focus on.
It is what makes you magnificent, remarkable, loving, blessed...ready!!"
-Brendon Burchard (Author of the Charge)

[dixie]

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

~Frida Kahlo

[ruffryder]

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch

Being at the right place at the right time is just a matter of making the most of every moment. Dr. Richard McCoy

[ruffryder]

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan

[jcisbutch]

insanity is repeating the same action over and over and ecpecting different results...Einstein

[ruffryder]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill

[ruffryder]

"Courage is looking fear in the eye and saying: Get the hell out of my way I got things to do!"

[Talon]

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.


~Goethe

[Spirit Dancer]

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
–Charles Swindoll

[Spirit Dancer]

The type of hugging I recommend is the bear hug. Use both arms, face your partner and perform a full embrace.
– David Bresler

[Kobi]

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”

― Tom Robbins

[StrongButch]

1) Things dont change only the way you look at them. 2) Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. 3) Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still 4) As long as you have a certain desire about how it should be you cant see how it is 5) The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new 6) The more we give love, the greater our compacity to do so 7) We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

[MarquisdeShey]

“Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its wildest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life, if we are to live as nature meant us to; that is, unless we are content to be less than men”. ~ William Morris

[Trev]

"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing."
~Jim Dodge

"A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't."
~Don Williams, Jr.

[dixie]

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

~Soren Kierkegaard

[Talon]

Young love is a flame~...very pretty,
often very hot and fierce,
but still only light and flickering.
The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals,
deep-burning..unquenchable.


~Henry Ward Beecher

[justanolecowboy]

Now that I know what I know, I know I'll always love you
Now that I see what I see I see it will always be
Now that I got what I got I know I had it all along

And I'll be your ground if you'll be my muse I can tie on to
You follow me and I'll follow you

[justanolecowboy]

Don't look for love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

[KCBUTCH]

A fearful man searches with eyes of doubt, looking for what he perceives to be lacking,
For a life he believes is unreachable, for a moment incomprehensible.
he tells himself, I cannot, I wont, I dont.

A wise man finds himself- there were only barriers of which he had not yet awakened to with in him.
The friendship he was seeking-he found by giving
the Love he wanted was discovered by loving
The life he longed for came about by living it.
He then knew he always could, He always would and he does...
-ME (1/27/13 4:28pm)

[JAGG]

“ When I am lonely, not just everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
― Unknown

“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”
― Norman Vincent Peale


“Hope attracts chances.”
― Toba Beta

[justanolecowboy]

A relationship between two people should be among many other things like the relationship between the hand and the eye...if the hand gets hurt - the eye cries - and if the eye cries - the hand wipes its tear.... (just a thought)

[KCBUTCH]

5 simple rules to happiness
1. Free you heart from hatred
2. free you mind from worries
3. live simply
4. give more
5. Expect less

[Trev]

"If you want the last word, apologize."
~Unknown

"Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself."
~Unknown

[KCBUTCH]

"If you want the last word, apologize."
~Unknown

"Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself."
~Unknown

agreed-perception is everything :)

[KCBUTCH]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/530648_10151210230382466_1589643570_n.jpg

I call it surrender to "I DONT KNOW"

[StrongButch]

1) To enjoy life take big bites 2) It is not the length of life,but depth of life 3) Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming 4) Believe you can and youre half way there 5) The best way to predict the future is to create it 6) The purpose of our lives is to be happy

[justanolecowboy]

Always...kindness prevails. No matter how things appear, nor how humbling a task, nor how unkind they've been.

[justanolecowboy]

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

[Talon]

You are not this body,
You are not this mind,
you are the Spirit....this is the greatest truth. :candle:


~Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

[Electrocell]

http://welovestyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/funny_quotes_life_3.jpg

[MarquisdeShey]

Promise me you will always remember: You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~A.A. Milne

[Electrocell]

A useless life is but an early death.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE


The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.


You will have the rest of your life to remember. But what you have to remember depends on what you do today.

[Kobi]

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

― J.K. Rowling

[dixie]

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/75871_612550367817_799408910_n.jpg

[Jesse]

"The more you look at fear from an objective standpoint, as if you were not in your body-bring it out, hold it to the light, examine why it's making you crazy-the more power you have to eradicate the fear of it you are harboring." - Jackie Lapin

[EmpressM]

in time of daffodils

in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me

~ee cummings

[KCBUTCH]

You are not this body,
You are not this mind,
you are the Spirit....this is the greatest truth. :candle:


~Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

YES and YES- in agreement

[KCBUTCH]

"stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course"-Tao Ta Ching

"If you want to change, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable"-unknown

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live"-Robert K. Kennedy

"RESPECT YOURSELF ENOUGH TO WALK AWAY FROM ANYTHING THAT NO LONGER SERVES YOU, GROWS YOU OR MAKES YOU HAPPY"-UNKNOWN

[JAGG]

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ― Albert Schweitzer

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” ― Richard Bach


“Not being heard is no reason for silence.” ― Victor Hugo

[MarquisdeShey]

My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself at times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. You get displaced, and then taking self portraits becomes a way of hanging onto yourself. ~ Nan Goldin

[Trev]

"A beginning is only the start of a journey to another beginning."
~Unknown

"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."
~Unknown

"One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope."
~Steven Deitz

[Soon]

“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

[Duchess]

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

~Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[dixie]

Run your fingers through my soul.
For once, just once,
feel exactly what I feel,
believe what I believe,
perceive as I perceive,
look, experience, examine,
and for once,
just once,
Understand...

unknown

[VintageFemme]

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

― Anaïs Nin

[Kobi]

“Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.”

― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

[~ocean]

so true ~ Kobi

[Spirit Dancer]

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Spirit Dancer]

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
-
Alan Cohen

[Talon]

The true friend is the one that's coming in the door while everyone else is going out.



~P. McGraw

[KCBUTCH]

"DOUBT KILLS MORE DREAMS THAN FAILURE EVER WILL"- UNKNOWN

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but the ability to start over"-unknown

[Spirit Dancer]

The true friend is the one that's coming in the door while everyone else is going out.



~P. McGraw

Love Love Love this Thank you :)

[KCBUTCH]

"I AM, not Was, not yet but NOW,
YOU ARE, not when, not where, but here,
WE ARE, not then, no there but at this moment,
One with light, strength, abundance and joy.
Together as our journey collides WE thrive.
If you cannot reach-climb upon my shoulders brother, sister.
If you cannot walk, Grab hold and I will assist
When you doubt, share your woes and I will show you only grace
There is no mountain that cannot be won when we tether our ropes together!"
-ME (1/29/13-958am)

[Talon]

Love Love Love this Thank you :)

I'm glad, Spirit...It's so nice to see you around and about, again...I hope that you are doing well, my kind friend. (f)

[Boots13]

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while your cares will drop away like the leaves of Autumn."

John Muir

[StrongButch]

1) Teacher: Are you cheating? Me: No we are sharing. Teacher: Sharing is cheating! Me: No sharing in caring! 2) Life is not like a box of chocolates, its more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. 3) People who have their feet planted firmly on the ground have trouble putting pants on. 4) When will my dog get the hint my leg "just wants to be friends" 5) I hate when your playing Guitar Hero and as soon as your getting great you have an itch. 6) Two elderly men sitting on a bench outside a retirement home One says Ted I am 83 yrs old and now im full of aches and pains. I know your about my age how do you feel? Ted says like a newborn baby! Really like a newborn baby? Ted say yep no hair,no teeth and I just think I wet my pants! (lol)

[ahk]

Honesty is the best policy. --Benjamin Franklin

[Duchess]

"The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them."(f)

— Josiah Gilbert

[JAGG]

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.” ― Henry James

“A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life,...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

[MarquisdeShey]

Sometimes all you can do for someone who is not being kind is to remind them of how kindness feels. ~SPS

[Kobi]

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."


— Leo Buscaglia

[MarquisdeShey]

No one ever asks how they may impact your life. No one ever asks how deeply they may love or hurt you. No one ever asks how they should take your breath away or breath life back into you. No one ever asks...they just do.

~SPS

[ahk]

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.--Voltaire

[JAGG]

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
― E. Lockhart

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Somebody knows.”
― Ally Carter

[MarquisdeShey]

It was not the physical pain or the emotional pain that broke my heart. It was hearing you say you never loved me at all.

~ SPS

[Duchess]

"Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost."

— Albert Einstein

[KCBUTCH]

"the only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday"-unknown

"strength doesn't come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't" -Rikki Rogers

"It is better to be alone than with someone who makes you feel alone"-unknown

"HAPPINESS IS NOT A STATE TO ARRIVE AT BUT A MANNER OF TRAVELING"-UNKNOWN

[justanolecowboy]

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."

— Leo Buscaglia


I love Leo - I have all his books - most of them dog -earred and tattered about as they have gone from place to place with me...and from saddle bag - to brief case - to desk...I cherish the collection - what a marvelous out of the box thinker he was.

[PaPa]

Don't look at the past with anger, nor the future with fear, only around in awareness. Let peaceful thoughts flow into your mind like streams flows into the ocean.

[KCBUTCH]

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."


— Leo Buscaglia


true story-when I was about 15 and in a immense amount of emotional turmoil and found myself somewhere in Kentucky watching tv in a hotel by myself
That is when I was introduced to Leo- the man changed my life that day
He told his story of how He used to be a professor at UCLA and had tenure
every semester he'd asked his students to come by his office to get to know them a bit

One day a young woman came in highly intoxicated and he told her he could not see her that way for there was no way he could know her if she were not herself- weeks went by and he saw her less and less until one day she just was not there
no one even the class remembered her existence
He then went to the Dean of Women and found the young girl had gone to The Pacific Palasades (cliffs) and jumped
it was then he thought to himself- "we teach children how to read, write and arithmetic but not how to live"

He then gave up his tenure to become a motivational speaker to help people learn to live. he is a great man- I admire and hope to be more like every day :) thank you for sharing this

[sara-bera]

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

[Talon]

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly...but flooding the river.


~Madagascan Proverb

[Kobi]

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

― William Shakespeare

[JAGG]

“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen


“The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

[KCBUTCH]

In Your time, Spirit ,may I grow in my understanding of self.

My spiritual journey involves a discovery of self. For years, I pretended to be what I was not, what I imagined myself to be, or what others wanted me to be. Today I am beginning to know myself. I understand my needs and my strengths. I accept my weaknesses and live with my confusion. From the time I put down the glass, things have progressively gotten better, but there is still a great deal I do not understand.The daily violence and suffering, and my own personal defenses, impatience, and judgment-where do they come from? I do not know, and that is okay. I still search. My suspicion is that the answer lies within my own insecurities, as they do crop up time to time, ever reminding me of my humanness.

[VintageFemme]

If you don't feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

― Paul F. Davis

[Duchess]

"When I feel a little confused . . . the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again Into the subjects closest to heart."

— Raoul Dufy

[Kobi]

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

[MarquisdeShey]

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." ~Audre Lorde

[Talon]

And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea..
What is all this sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me?




~Percy Bysshe Shelley

[KCBUTCH]

"Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul."-Micheal Bernard Beckwith

[JAGG]

“Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy” ― Robert Holden

“Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.” ― Steve Maraboli

“I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.” ― Marty Rubin

[Duchess]

"Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is."

— Jack Lemon

[Katniss]

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.


~ Doug Larson

[KCBUTCH]

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion"
-Buddha

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts"
-Buddha

"No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted"-Aesop

"The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible"-unknown

[Kobi]

“This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure.”

― James Lecesne

[MarquisdeShey]

Each day brings a new opportunity to wake and make today your best yet.
~SPS

[MarquisdeShey]

When a person is good, kind, loving, and at peace with themselves one can almost taste their essense. ~ SPS

[Trev]

"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more."
~Jules Renard

"If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose."
~Terry Brennan

[Janstevie]

I've always wanted to go into an elevator full of strangers and say " I bet you're wondering why i've gathered you all here today"

[justanolecowboy]

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself."

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” - Kahlil Gibran

[JAGG]

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”― Steven Weinberg

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C. Scott


“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz

[Trev]

"Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury."
~James Cone

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."
~Vernon Howard

"The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth."
~Sharon Lee

[Duchess]

"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

— Chamfort Chamfort


"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

— Edgar Allan Poe

[bright_arrow]

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

[clay]

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet

[Kobi]

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

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

[Trev]

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Bèsame*]

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never be hurt
Sing like nobody's listening
And live like it's heaven on earth

William W Purkey

[Bèsame*]

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr Seuss

[StrongButch]

1) If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button. 2) As a child my familys menu consisted of 2 choices : Take it or leave it. 3) Everyone has a photographic memory some just dont have film. 4) Smile and the world will smile with you. Laugh and they will think your on drugs. 5) If Barbie was so popular. Why do you buy her friends? 6) What do you call a cow during an earthquake? Milkshake.

[MarquisdeShey]

Every room has an entrance and an exit. Only the heart has only an entrance to find its exit the heart must be broken.

~SPS

[Trev]

"I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love."
~Robert Tizon

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
~Marilyn Vos Savant

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
~William Shakespeare

[JAGG]

“The power is in the authenticity.” ― JP Rattie

“The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important."- Tom Stoppard

“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

[VintageFemme]

Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

— Lemony Snicket

[Kobi]

“Not one
that I have found
in all my searching
equaled
the one
that found me
when I
finally stopped.”

― Tyler Knott Gregson

[Talon]

Literally put, guts are your bowels, entrails, intestines.
Not so pretty.
But I have to say guts are good, and I don't mean when served on a plate with salt and pepper.
You often hear tough guys in the movies talk about relying on such gut instincts as courage and fortitude, and I take a lesson from them.
I always regret not relying on mine,
and as I get older,
I trust those messy innards more and more.
Trusting my gut has helped me to push myself and take chances.
And trusting your gut may be the best inner beauty tip I can offer.



~Tabatha Coffey

[ahk]

No one respects a talent that is concealed.--Desiderius Erasmus

[Duchess]

"Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
~ William Shakespeare(f)

[KCBUTCH]

"One small crack does not mean you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart"-Linda Poindexter

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are at"- unknown

"You don't have to figure it all out to move forward"-unknown

"Sometimes you face difficulties not because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right!"-Joel Osteen

[Trev]

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

[MarquisdeShey]

I used to cry. Then it was a long time till I could cry again. One day while walking through this beautiful world I saw something small and beautiful and I cried, but this time I was filled with joy. ~ SPS

[KCBUTCH]

"A deep breath and quiet sigh, I begin again"-KC

[Duchess]

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Bèsame*]

if you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

[Kobi]

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

― Albert Camus

[Katniss]

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard


Katniss~~(thinking a new ending is calling me)

[KCBUTCH]

" I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes flow from every part turn to laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile." (exert from A tear and a Smile)- Kahlil Gibran

[ahk]

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.--Madame de Stael

[Katniss]

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.--Madame de Stael

Not to jump in and be an arse....but I really disagree with this quote.
The major barrier to a loving relationship with another person is an unloved part of yourself. Most of us have aspects of ourselves that we have never loved and accepted, and this failure to love ourselves keeps us from forming and keeping genuine love in close relationships.

"The success of love is in the loving...it is not the results of the loving." -Mother Theresa


Katniss~(clearly reading waaay too much into the 'quote' thread this evening...)

[Trev]

"That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you."
~Charles De Lint

[ahk]

Not to jump in and be an arse....but I really disagree with this quote.
The major barrier to a loving relationship with another person is an unloved part of yourself. Most of us have aspects of ourselves that we have never loved and accepted, and this failure to love ourselves keeps us from forming and keeping genuine love in close relationships.

"The success of love is in the loving...it is not the results of the loving." -Mother Theresa


Katniss~(clearly reading waaay too much into the 'quote' thread this evening...)

It's all good, no arse'ness taken.

Have a good night-- and thanks for your detailed reply.

[Kobi]

“Never forget,
Each day that we have together is a precious gift.
In the web of daily living, we are creating character.
Let's take the time to create memories, listen and observe.
Time flees, and it does not return.
If we lose today, it is gone forever.
Let's live for the present, and be prepared for the future.
Let's grow strong, let's grow bigger, let's grow TOGETHER!”

― Lina Cuartas, Come Into My World

[DamonK]

I found this quite fitting.....

Find someone who isn't afraid to admit they miss you. Someone who knows you aren't perfect but treats you as if you are. Someone who's bigger fear is losing you. One who gives their heart completely. Someone who says I love you and means it. Last but not least find someone who wakes up every day and falls for you all over again. --Unknown

Every second of every day.

[ruffryder]

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

[Talon]

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.~:pursebee:



~Victor Hugo

[ahk]

The ear is the avenue to the heart.--Voltaire

[Electrocell]

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
-
Eleanor Roosevelt

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
-
Francis Bacon

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-
James Thurber

[dixie]

Quieten your Mind
Reflect
Watch
Nothing binds you-
You are free!

-The Dhammapada

[Trev]

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
~George Carlin

"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."
~Samuel Johnson

[justanolecowboy]

“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[DamonK]

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words make and stay become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free. -- Tom Robbins

[Bèsame*]

Courage is being scared to death~~~~ but saddling up anyways.

:cowboihorse:

[Talon]

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.




~Henry David Thoreau

[Kobi]

“The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.”

― David Richo, Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

[Spirit Dancer]

“Silence...
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space between breaths.
It's ripe with pause between birdsong
and crash of surf.
It's golden they say.
But no one tells us it's addictive.”
― Angela Long

[Spirit Dancer]

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

[ahk]

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.--Paul Dirac

[Duchess]

"He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection."
~ Khalil Gibran

[JAGG]

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.--Madame de Stael

I feel opposite of this quote actually. When noone loves you that's when you really have to love yourself. And that is why you have to, as well. Sort of like when you are pedaling uphill and it is getting really hard to pedal, that is when you have to pedal twice as hard. Just my spin on it.

[JAGG]

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The better I, for all I learned.” ― Dorothy Parker

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
― Jim Henson

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” ― Ayn Rand

[Kobi]

“If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”

― Kathleen Tessaro

[Spirit Dancer]

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.
Zen proverb

[Katniss]

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

[Janstevie]

Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree.

[EmpressM]

I do believe in love at first sight. I believe in a lot of thing. I truly believe everything happens for a reason, even if some things are terrible or it didnt want to happen. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who dont, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life let it.

[ahk]

Love is a great beautifier.--Louisa May Alcott

[ruffryder]

"To get ahead in life, you have to learn to saddle your own horse."

[cinnamongrrl]

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

~Edmund Burke~

[SleepyButch]

I Crave Your Mouth - Pablo Neruda




I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent, starving I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me,
I search the liquid sound of your steps all day.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
For your hands the color of the wild grain,
I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

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

And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight
Looking for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barren wilderness.

[cinnamongrrl]

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

[Angeltoes]

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~Stephen R. Covey

[Kent]

ENDURANCE
"Can thy heart endure?
Ezek. 22:14

At times when you are not secure...
Determine that you will endure...
When Hate and Persecution make...
Your lot seem worse than you can take...
Don't panic or curse back or quit...
Be patient, calm, and stick with it...
Right will prevail, have Faith and Hope...
And with God's help endure and cope...
With bitter and false accusation...
And overcome Hate's condemnation.
Julien C. Hyer

[MegBluEyz]

“Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death, but doing the right thing anyway. -Unknown”

[cinnamongrrl]

First Snow, (Excerpted from American Primitive), Mary Oliver

The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever! flowing
past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles, nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creek bed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain — not a single
answer has been found –
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one.

[Semantics]

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Rob Brezsny

[Angeltoes]

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. ~Anonymous

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ~ Lillian Hellman

[Angeltoes]

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

[ahk]

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. --Antisthenes

[Spirit Dancer]

What is the worth of anything but for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge

[Kobi]

“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.”


― Yohji Yamamoto

[JAGG]

"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown


“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant


“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my father would have done. If I can't be with him, the least I can do is act like him sometimes.” - Unknown

[justanolecowboy]

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

[justanolecowboy]

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

[Kobi]

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

― Mark Twain

[Jesse]

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[justanolecowboy]

COMPARISON is the thief of joy -Theodor Roosevelt

[Trev]

"Take it and return it: the kiss of love."
~Unknown

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
~Immanuel Kant

[little_ms_sunshyne]

One of my favorites...

“With a chaste heart
With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
Holding the leash of blood
So that it might leap out and trace your outline
Where you lie down in my Ode
As in a land of forests or in surf
In aromatic loam, or in sea music

Beautiful nude
Equally beautiful your feet
Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
Your ears, small shells
Of the splendid American sea
Your breasts of level plentitude
Fulfilled by living light
Your flying eyelids of wheat
Revealing or enclosing
The two deep countries of your eyes

The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
Burnished gold
Fine alabaster
To sink into the two grapes of your feet
Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
Flowering fire
Open chandelier
A swelling fruit
Over the pact of sea and earth

From what materials
Agate?
Quartz?
Wheat?
Did your body come together?
Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
The cleavage of one petal
Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
Until alone remained
Astonished
The fine and firm feminine form

It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
Yet suffocate itself
So much is clarity
Taking its leave of you
As if you were on fire within

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”


― Pablo Neruda

[Janstevie]

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders & says... 'Oh shit...she's awake!!

[Semantics]

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious
daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty

[Hollylane]

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[TheMerryFairy]

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I just love this post! :) I suppose it is something to keep in mind.

[Katniss]

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

[Angeltoes]

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

[TimilDeeps]

feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied, not pushed away, but gone entirely
for that moment you can't help feeling good in, a moment of sudden, irrational joy
over nothing of consequence, really, which makes it all somehow seem even worse.
Shouldn't happiness be the result of some grand event, something adequate to counter
that aching, gaping chasm that opened when . . . But, no: it's merely this: there goes
our little neighbor, running barefoot, no pants, fox stole wrapped around her shoulders.

Kim Addonizio

[TimilDeeps]

We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I say.
You touch my knees with your blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the floor
and burns a hole through it.
Don't tell me, I say. I don't want to hear.
Did you ever, you start,
wear a certain kind of dress
and just by accident,
so inconsequential you barely notice it,
your fingers graze that dress
and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,
you see it too
and you realize how that image
is simply the extension of another image,
that your own life
is a chain of words
that one day will snap.
Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,
and beginning to rise heavenward
in their confirmation dresses,
like white helium balloons,
the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,
and above all that,
that's where I'm floating,
and that's what it's like
only ten times clearer,
ten times more horrible.
Could anyone alive survive it?



Ai Ogawa

[Bèsame*]

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak

[JAGG]

“ The simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.” ― Ally Carter

"Trying to stay afloat in life can be difficult. But don't mistake every rope for a lifeline. Some ropes have anchors tied to the other end." - Unknown

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill

[Kobi]

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved,
now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits.

Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never.

Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?

Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

Beethoven

[Mr.Nobody]

Oh, Great Spirit......

Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.


(translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)

[Janstevie]

Now Seniors have their own texting codes:

* ATD- At the Doctor's

* BFF - Best Friends Funeral

* BTW- Bring the Wheelchair

* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth

* CBM- Covered by Medicare

* CUATSC- See You at the Senior Citizens

* DWI- Driving While Incontinent

* FWIW - Forgot Where I Was

* GGPBL- Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

* GHA - Got Heartburn Again

* LMDO- Laughing My Dentures Out

* LOL- Living on Lipitor

* * TOT- Texting on Toilet

*


Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)

[ruffryder]

Great reminders for love in the air this month!




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

― Mark Twain


"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown

[Talon]

I do not know what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself in,
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.



~Isaac Newton

[ahk]

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.--Grandma Moses

[JAGG]

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that?" - Unknown

“Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.” ― Rob Bell

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

[Spirit Dancer]

HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and
sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson~

[KCBUTCH]

"Take a Deep Breath! It will dissolve anxiety and calm your mind and heart." -Garnet Hill

"This Universe is not outside you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."-Rumi

[dixie]

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

~Henry David Thoreau

[DamonK]

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

[Talon]

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.


~Heraclitus

[justanolecowboy]

I uttered her name (and) knew then that beauty existed - (ldw)

[Kobi]

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Trev]

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
~Unknown

[JAGG]

“May you live every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ― Michael Levine

[Duchess]

"We are the perfect couple, we're just not in the perfect situation."
~Anonymous(f)

[JAGG]

"We are the perfect couple, we're just not in the perfect situation."
~Anonymous(f)

I love this!!!!!!

[Kobi]

“Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.”

― Steve Maraboli

[Fancy]

“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

~George Washington Carver (1864-1943); botanist, agricultural chemist, inventor, and educator

[Talon]

For this is love's truth:
she joins two in one being..
makes sour sweet..
strangers neighbors..
and the lowly noble.


~Hadewijch of Brabant

[Katniss]

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

Mae West


Katniss~~

[Enchantress]

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[StrongButch]

1)You have a song in your heart to be sung,and you have a dance to be danced,but the dance is invisible,and the song even you have not heard it yet. It is deeply hidden in the intermost core of your being;it has to be brought to the surface,it has to be expressed! 2) Flowers dont force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun. Do not be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step and be very sure.

[Duchess]

"If the only place where I could see you was in my dreams, I'd sleep forever."
~Anonymous

[MegBluEyz]

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa.

[TheMerryFairy]

"Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events & this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution."
Deepak Chopra

[ahk]

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

[JAGG]

“Lack of confidence, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.” ― James Surowiecki


“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”― John D. Rockefeller


“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.” Unknown

[Fancy]

“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”

~Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), American women's rights activist

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[justanolecowboy]

___WERE she to wander into a field of the rarest flowers - unparalleled in beauty - I do believe they would turn from her in jealousy. Were she perchance to smile - thought - she would win back their adoration - for they would think her to be the sun...

[Electrocell]

Don’t say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do something crazy like believe it.
~Crush

The worst thing is holding on to someone who doesn’t want to be held on to.
~Lost Love

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
~ Shakespeare on Love

[Kobi]

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

Gloria Naylor

[JAGG]

“Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.”
Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.”
“No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.”
― Jill Shalvis

“I generally find subtlety a waste of time.” ― Cindy Gerard


“Doesn't it scare you sometimes how time flies and nothing changes?”― Ika Natassa

[Enchantress]

"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Trev]

"'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.[...] 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?''It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to the people who don't understand.'."
~Margery Williams