Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Fancy]

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

[DamonK]

"Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to, I will." -- The Beatles

"Time will prove my love to you and cement my place in your heart forever. For time will give me the credibility and the believability that I need to convince you to want to spend the rest of your life with me. That I am worthy of such a commitment from you."
-- Unknown

"If your are meant to be together forever, you will survive any obstacle or trouble that comes to you." -- Unknown

"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer." -- Woody Allen (this one made me laugh)

[Kobi]

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”


Marcus Aurelius

[Talon]

There is no disguise which can hide love for long...where it exists.



~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

[PaPa]

"May you live every day of your life."
~Jonathan Swift

[justanolecowboy]

_____JUST watching you breathe will keep me fully engaged - (line from movie: - Flannel Pajama's)

[Duchess]

"Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mustangjeano]

" I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. " Pablo Neruda

[Bard]

“Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when they are sad, Being together in good times, And being together in bad times.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH.

Love is . . . Being honest with yourself at all times, Being honest with the other person at all times, Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY.

Love is . . . An understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, Accepting the other person just the way they are, And not trying to change them to be something else.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY.

Love is . . . The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS.

Love is . . . The excitement of planning things together, The excitement of doing things together.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE.
Love is . . . The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION.

Love is . . . Giving and taking in a daily situation, Being patient with each other's needs and desires.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SHARING.

Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SECURITY.
LOVE IS . . . THE SOURCE OF LIFE!”
― Susan Polis Schutz

[DamonK]

Fear cannot touch me…
It can only taunt me,
It cannot take me
Just tell me where to go…
I can either follow,
Or stay in my bed…
I can hold on to the things that I know…
The dead stay dead, they cannot walk.
The shadows are darkness.
And darkness cannot talk.

-- Christopher Rice, "A Density of Souls"


I should have kissed you
I should have pushed you up against the wall
I should have kissed you
Just like I wasn’t scared at all

-- Gloriana, "Goodnight"

[Duchess]

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away."
— William Shakespeare

[justanolecowboy]

Having a hangdog, woe-is-me look and whining whimper only works for puppy dogs – not for humans. No one wants to be around that type of person. So change your attitude, get your swagger back, take action, add value, live by example, and attract other good people into your life.

[Kobi]

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

[justanolecowboy]

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

[Angeltoes]

xXaRT8CXmGE

[dixie]

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

[justanolecowboy]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

[JAGG]

“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."― Bell Hooks


“Dream of me," he said.
Dream of you? I'm doing that while I'm awake.”― Erin McCahan


“If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.”
― Jamie McGuire

[Bard]

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

[Bard]

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”

[Trev]

"Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain."
~Diane De Pointiers

[Duchess]

"Dwell in possibility."
— Emily Dickinson

[Duchess]

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
— John Johnson

[TheMerryFairy]

"There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world." Tori Amos

[Kent]

"Making Contact"

I believe the greatest gift I conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

~Virginia Satir

[Kobi]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

[Talon]

Hereafter...in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.


~Shakespeare

[WolfyOne]

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.
~Thomas Chandler~

[Trev]

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."
~Leo F. Buscaglia

[Bèsame*]

Its better to look back on life and say: "I can't believe I did that." Than to look back and say :"I wish I did that."

Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go ;)

[Jean_TX]

Do not live on the reflections of yourself in the eyes of others. Dare to be yourself.

(Inspired by a quote from Anaïs Nin)

[MissItalianDiva]

You have the power to reshape and redefine any experience, no matter how devastating it seems. Look at your experience, and ask "How can I use this for my own growth?"

~Iyanla Vanzant


Pausing is a good thing. Everything has to stop at some time in order to keep going. To stop, to rest, or to pause means to do nothing. It means no thinking! No moving! No decisions! What a blessing it is to have the ability to stop and gain strength before moving forward.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[KCBUTCH]

"If you're looking for a happy ending and can't find one...find a new beginning instead."- Unknown

"what screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be". -unknown

"the most common way people give up their power is by believing they dont have any"- Alice Walker

[justanolecowboy]

"...See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves.



After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust turning in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and wonder where it might be going, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.



That’s what I believe.



[robert mccammon - boy's life]

[StrongButch]

1) If it rains on your parade,dance in it. 2) Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a signing bird will come. 3) Those who wish to sing always find a song 4) Where ever you go no matter the weather,always bring your own sunshine. 5) Life is like a camera. Just focus on whats important,capture the good times,develop from the negative and if things dont turn out just take another shot!

[JAGG]

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”
― L.J. Smith


“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
― Maimonides

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
― Osho

[MegBluEyz]

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." Abraham Maslow

[Duchess]

“Do you believe in fate?"
"I guess, but . . . its more about creatng the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?”
~ Susane Colasanti, When It Happens(f)


“If nature had intended for our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.”
~ Elmer Rice(f)

[macele]

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.
-- Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret

[VintageFemme]

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

[VintageFemme]

I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and no matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.

― Lemony Snicket

[Kent]

When things start to go wrong
Lord don't let it last too long
And when I think I'll go astray
Please don't let me drift from my faith.

If someone doesn't seem to understand
Lord help me so that I won't demand
Open my eyes and help me to see
Just maybe the reason is me.

Lord if someone says that we're losing touch
If it's someone I love so very much
With a gentle whisper give me a lift
Lord, please help me if I start to drift.

Esther Lorenz

[Kent]

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why doesn't God help me?"
I wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."
I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."
I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all the keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."
I woke up early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

[Jesse]

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Thurman,
Author and Philosopher

[MarquisdeShey]

All of the things I have loved dearly and lost, where things I loved dearly and lost. All of the things I have cherished and kept, those remain in a map of my memories.

~SPS

[justanolecowboy]

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[VintageFemme]

Why are you knocking at every door?

Go, knock at the door of your own heart.


- Rumi

[Kobi]

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you.

~Dodinsky

[Talon]

There is comfort in the strength of love,
Twill make a thing endurable,
which else would overset the brain,
or break the heart.



~William Wordsworth

[UofMfan]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j269/translator08/Amorsinmedida.jpg

[Fancy]

“The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.”

~Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American social activist

[ahk]

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. --Lyndon B. Johnson

[JAGG]

“Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.” ― Mary Doria Russell


“Life keeps changing without giving a damn about your personal feelings.”
― Kate Papas


“You can't resent the other person for not giving you what you didn't ask for.” ― T. Scott McLeod

[MissItalianDiva]

“Life keeps changing without giving a damn about your personal feelings.”
― Kate Papas


“You can't resent the other person for not giving you what you didn't ask for.” ― T. Scott McLeod


Thank you for these two....perfect timing!

[MissItalianDiva]

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her."

~Bob Marley

"What you put up with, you end up with."

~Unknown

"Don’t tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you’ll see that it’s better."
~Unknown

[Duchess]

"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes."
— Marquis De Sade

[justanolecowboy]

The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.
- Richard Bach (the bridge across forever)

[JAGG]

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives without fading away from your own true color. Keep the hue in you.

~Dodinsky


I love this !!!!

[justanolecowboy]

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”
― E.E. Cummings

[Kobi]

“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”

― C. JoyBell C.

[Fancy]

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic

[thedivahrrrself]

"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."

~George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans)


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"Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more you try and explain yourself, the more mixed up things become."

~Cherie Burbach

[MegBluEyz]

Our soul tells us why we are feeling. We don’t always listen to it…hear it…let it be.

When we are uneasy our feelings are saying something. It will come.

Have you found your center? Closed your eyes and stayed in the moment and breath?

Look at the simplicity. The Universe is guiding you…let it.

2-2013 MegBluEyz

[TheMerryFairy]

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away"
Ben Hecht

[ahk]

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.--Albert Einstein

[Trev]

"Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest."
~Unknown

[MarquisdeShey]

“The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being." -Anaïs Nin

[JAGG]

" If pain is love, then I have loved fiercely."- Unknown


"What value do you put on your soul, that you would subject yourself to such rejection?” - Unknown


“I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.”
― Sara Gruen

[KCBUTCH]

"How is it that my heart still beats for her, yet is broken by her.
What is it that makes my body begs to fill the spaces she once filled?
How does one walk, when choking on the ghostly fumes of love lost?
Why do you remain? I lie motionless beneath my pain, reaching for her to return, while screaming out to keep her away?
How is it that the story of growing old together left behind only me to walk, to weep, to run?
I miss you, I don't know how to stop loving you. I know how to go on blankly, but that is not living...There is this hole you see, the hole that steals my thoughts, a thief of joy, a killer of love. An empty shell of suffocation. Where I stagger to my feet, where my footing isn't sure, steady only in confusion. Where I stand tall, begin to step and collapse in on myself.
How is it that this thing I clearly see faults in still seems like worthy treasure?
I long for the day when you are no longer there to tease and taunt my soul...
When my words are not stories of us, When my eyes are clear not wet with tears. When I can take a deep breathe to clear my mind not catch up to myself.
A time when I lay my head down there will be peace, there will be letting go, there will be ME, not you, not us..."- (ME 2/19/13)

[TheMerryFairy]

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them." – Unknown

"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me." – Dr. Seuss

[DamonK]

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline


And this randomly popped into my head....
"With this hand I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never be empty, for I will be your wine. With this candle, I will light your way into darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine." - Victor, The Corpse Bride

I know. I'm odd. *bows*

[Kobi]

Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

(Waiter Rant)

[~ocean]

Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

(Waiter Rant)


finaly someone gets me ~ ty kobi ~

[Talon]

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion too,
This is why a great and clear mind loves ardently
and sees distinctly...
What it loves.



~Blaise Pascal

[MegBluEyz]

"Dreamer. Never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are our realities in waiting. In dreams, we plant the seeds of our future." Unknown

[ahk]

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[justanolecowboy]

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”
― E.E. Cummings

[Duchess]

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins(f)

[justanolecowboy]

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose -ee cummings

[Tommi]

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

~Jean Houston

[JAGG]

“I don't buy idea of second chance. With hope we make a lot of chances.” ― Toba Beta


“To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.” - Jerome Groopman


“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.” ― Louis de Bernières

[Katniss]

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Katniss~~(three cheers for hope in all it's many guises)

[Kobi]

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

[justanolecowboy]

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron

[justanolecowboy]

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

[Fancy]

“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow”

― Hashin, Japanese Haiku

[justanolecowboy]

“Soul meets soul on lovers lips.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

[Talon]

If you are willing to love...
you will find a thousand ways.



~Italian proverb

[Tommi]

http://emmyck.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/life271.gif

[JAGG]

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne


“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid


“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” ― C. JoyBell C.

[MegBluEyz]

“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
― Tom Hiddleston

[Duchess]

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
— Victor Hugo

[MarquisdeShey]

... You are brilliant and subtle if you come Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always well taken care of if you come from Iowa. ~ Gertrude Stein

[Kobi]

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

[~ocean]

Don't dish out what u can't take ~ I don't know who said this , but it's lasts a lifetime of discipline ~

[justanolecowboy]

“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

[justanolecowboy]

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

[StrongButch]

1) Love sees roses without thorns 2)Kind words are the music of the world 3)Dont follow your dreams chase them 4)A smile is a curve that sets everything straight 5) Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness 6) Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been!

[Bèsame*]

If she is amazing , she won't be easy. If she is easy, she won't be amazing. If she is worth it you won't give up. If you give up, your not worthy.....Truth is, everybody is gong to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley

[Fancy]

"Conservatives should start to lead again & push their states to join the nine others that allow all their citizens to marry...There is nothing conservative about denying other Americans the ability to forge that same relationship with the person they love."

- Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, on why he supports marriage equality

[Kelt]

"When all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippman

[MegBluEyz]

"By being yourself.
You put something wonderful in the world
that was not there before."
-Edwin Elliot.

[Semantics]

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

[Kent]

TRUST ME ENOUGH to spend ample time with Me, pushing back the demands of the day. Refuse to feel guilty about something that is so pleasing to Me, the King of the universe. Because I am omnipotent, I am able to bend time and events in your favor. You will find that you can accomplish more in less time, after you have given yourself to Me in rich communion. Also, as you align yourself with My perspective, you can sort out what is important and what is not.

Don't fall into the trap of being constantly on the go. Many, many things people do in My Name have no value in My kingdom. To avoid doing meaningless works, stay in continual communication with Me. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Luke 10:41; Psalm 32:8 ( NASB )

[ruffryder]

"A knight in shining armor is a man who has never had his metal truly tested."

[ruffryder]

When you had a bad day
always remember someone
else's day is worse.
Be thankful for what you have ..

[JAGG]

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.” ― Cher


“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”― Jane Austen


“I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.” ― Steve Maraboli

[thedivahrrrself]

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

[thedivahrrrself]

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

[Kobi]

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

Sir Hugh Walpoe

[Bèsame*]

So often we become focused on the finished line that we that we fail to enjoy the journey.

[Blade]

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24

[MegBluEyz]

"The only way to know where you are is to begin making yourself at home" George Macdonald

[JAGG]

“Hope attracts chances.”― Toba Beta

“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!” ― Ron Sanders

“For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.”
― Richelle Mead

[LeftWriteFemme]

JON STEWART: "I’ll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion. And talk about a lifestyle choice — that is absolutely a choice. Gay people don’t choose to be gay. At what age did you choose to not be gay?

[Trev]

"The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time."
~Unknown

[Trev]

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
~Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

[ahk]

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.--Washington Irving

[Angeltoes]

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~Mark Twain

[Kobi]

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

~ Joyce Brothers

[MegBluEyz]

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
Johann Von Goethe

[Bèsame*]

Love someone not because they give you what you need, but because they give you feelings you never thought you needed.

[justanolecowboy]

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

[Blade]

There is power in the blood, and when God is working on us we are getting a transfusion.
Pastor Randy

[LeftWriteFemme]

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Donald A. Adams

[justanolecowboy]

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
― Jess C. Scott, The Intern

[Bèsame*]

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

Oscar Wilde

[Hollylane]

"Forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn, but you seem to me, to be a woman holding her breath, and I cannot tell if that's because you're waiting for something to end...or for something to begin."

-Stephen Campbell-Moore, as James Delafield, on BBC's Lark Rise to Candleford
(Season 1, Episode 8)

[JAGG]

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.” ― Nicholas Sparks



“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”― Rebecca Stead



“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.” ― Marilyn Monroe

[puddin']

“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”― Rebecca Stead

[justanolecowboy]

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

[Angeltoes]

The Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Below the Mirabeau bridge there flows the Seine
So too our love
Must I recall how then
After each sorrow, joy would come again

Let night come toll hours away
Days go by me here I stay

Let us stay hand in hand face to face
While down below
The bridge of our embrace
Roll the waves weary of our endless gaze

Let night come toll hours away
Days go by me here I stay

Love goes away the way the waters flow
Love goes away
How life is long and slow
How hope of life can deal so strong a blow

Let night come toll hours away
Days go by me here I stay

The days the weeks are passing from our ken
Neither time passed
Nor love can come again
Below the Mirabeau bridge there flows the Seine

Let night come toll hours away
Days go by me here I stay

The Original:

Le Pont Mirabeau

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

[Aryon]

If French is the language of love, then German is the language of f*cking. ~ Not known

[JAGG]

“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”― Rebecca Stead


I may have heard that somewhere else. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Gee puddin are you reading my mind?

[TimilDeeps]

Consorting with Angels

I was tired of being a woman,
tired of the spoons and the post,
tired of my mouth and my breasts,
tired of the cosmetics and the silks.
There were still men who sat at my table,
circled around the bowl I offered up.
The bowl was filled with purple grapes
and the flies hovered in for the scent
and even my father came with his white bone.
But I was tired of the gender things.

Last night I had a dream
and I said to it...
'You are the answer.
You will outlive my husband and my father.'
In that dream there was a city made of chains
where Joan was put to death in man's clothes
and the nature of the angels went unexplained,
no two made in the same species,
one with a nose, one with an ear in its hand,
one chewing a star and recording its orbit,
each one like a poem obeying itself,
performing God's functions,
a people apart.

'You are the answer, '
I said, and entered,
lying down on the gates of the city.
Then the chains were fastened around me
and I lost my common gender and my final aspect.
Adam was on the left of me
and Eve was on the right of me,
both thoroughly inconsistent with the world of reason.
We wove our arms together
and rode under the sun.
I was not a woman anymore,
not one thing or the other.

O daughters of Jerusalem,
the king has brought me into his chamber.
I am black and I am beautiful.
I've been opened and undressed.
I have no arms or legs.
I'm all one skin like a fish.
I'm no more a woman
than Christ was a man.


Anne Sexton

[ahk]

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.--Stewart Udall

[Duchess]

"You'll see it when you believe it."
~Wayne Dyer(f)


"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
~ Judy Garland(f)

[Talon]

There is no excellent beauty,
that hath not some strangeness in proportion.



~Sir Francis Bacon

[Kobi]

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, its about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

~ Vanna Bonta

[Enchantress]

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

[justanolecowboy]

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

[Spirit Dancer]

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and, when it is all over, not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
—Ruth St. Denis


I accept the gift of humility. I am not afraid anymore to look reality in the eye – and what I see is as right as the sun and the sea.

~ I.M.

[justanolecowboy]

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

[Fancy]

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.”

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[Talon]

In taking revenge,
a man is but even with his enemy,
but in passing it over,
he is superior.


~Sir Francis Bacon

[Aryon]

We do not cry because we are weak, we cry because we have been strong for too long. ~ Unknown

[Aryon]

Hope is a wonderful thing, something to be cherished and nurtured, and something that will refresh us in return. And it can be found in each of us, and it can bring light into the darkest of places. (Anonymous)

(Regarding my fight against cancer):
It isn't anything like bravery. It is more like doing what I need to do to win.
Bravery isn't selfish. Me keeping the faith, staying positive through the fear and wanting to survive, is. ~ Aryon

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

[justanolecowboy]

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it."

[thedivahrrrself]

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

― Aristotle

[Bèsame*]

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard

Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.

Where does the white go when it melts? Hugh Kieffer

[ahk]

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.--Mother Teresa

[JAGG]

"Being mysterious is nothing more than withholding the truth. Therefore I don't find mysterious men intriguing or sexy. Just dishonest." - The Vera Wood Files

[Duchess]

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
~Baltasar Gracián

[MegBluEyz]

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
--G.K. Chesterton

[Duchess]

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 cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~John Muir

[Sun]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi



“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

[JAGG]

“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”
― Milton Erickson


“IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.” ― Nadia Sahari


"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."-Paul D”

[Sun]

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. ~ Marianne Williamson

[justanolecowboy]

“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley


“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

[Duchess]

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~John Muir

[justanolecowboy]

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln


To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

[Kobi]

The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain.

~Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto

[Talon]

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.



~Fran Lebowitz

[ahk]

Love is energy of life.--Robert Browning

[UofMfan]

"The fishermen of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word "sentipensante," or 'feeling-thinking,' to define language that speaks the truth." - Eduardo Galeano, "The Book of Embraces"

[JAGG]

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” -― Albert Einstein


“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -― Francis Bacon


“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”― Brian Tracy

[MegBluEyz]

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves." Gandhi

[Kobi]

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

~ Honor de Balzac

[Jesse]

I have taught myself to sew, cook, fix plumbing, build furniture, … I can even pat myself on the back when necessary. All so I don’t have to ask anyone for anything. There’s nothing I need from anyone except for love and respect. And anyone who can’t give me those two things has no place in my life.
— Harvey Fierstein (Arnold), Torch Song Trilogy

[dixie]

Hope is a waking dream. ~Aristotle

yet............

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. ~Black Elk

[dixie]

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ~Plato

[justanolecowboy]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/NIGHTrambler/23396_10151453313044424_1927556903_n_zps30e22fae.j pg

[Talon]

All, everything that I understand,
I understand only because I love.



~Tolstoy

[ahk]

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus

[DMW]

Close your eyes and you will see clearly
Cease to listen and you will hear truth
Be silent and your heart will sing
Seek no contact and you will find union
Be still and you will move forward on the tide of the Spirit
Be gentle and you will need no strength
Be patient and you will achieve all things
Be humble and you will remain entire
- Swami Rama

[The_Lady_Snow]

"No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."

[JAGG]

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”― Stephen Fry


“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.” ― Thomas S. Monson

[Trev]

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

[Kobi]

Long after moments of closeness have passed, a part of you remains with me and warms the places your hands have touched and hastens my heart for your return.

~ROBERT SEXTON

[Talon]

Cultivate an awareness that some things are really important, others are not.
And make sure you do not get them confused.

[Bèsame*]

Chivalry is not just a fancy word with a neat meaning; It's a way of life. .. Vaughn Ripley

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it's a sunken statue~~in a river of lava. .. Jared Kintz

Handsome is as handsome does. .. J R R Tolkien

[MegBluEyz]

"One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can." - Frederick Buechner

[Fancy]

"Optimist: Someone who figures out that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha."

-Robert Brault

[Degotoga]

I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you

- Roy Croft

[ahk]

I am still learning.--Michelangelo

[meridiantoo]

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands


e. e. cummings

[JAGG]

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain


“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ― Patrick Ness


"I do not know everything; still many things I understand.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

[Kobi]

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

~Joss Whedon

[Tommi]

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[Tommi]

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

~Joss Whedon


Loved this, repeating...echo echo. :hangloose:

[justanolecowboy]

“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, The Alchemist

[Fancy]

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

Barbara Ehrenreich

[Talon]

The highest proof of virtue is to posess boundless power without abusing it.



~Lord Macauley

[ahk]

You must do the things you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt

[justanolecowboy]

007: You look exquisite in that dress
Girl: Thank you - your scruffiness doesn't clean up so bad yourself
007: It's amazing what an extra pair of hands can accomplish!

(skyfall)

___________Watching Skyfall and 007 last night - of course... I smiled at this little interchange...proof positive - that behind every well dressed man - is indeed an (exquisite) woman helping him! :) lol! (or at least 99% true)!

[justanolecowboy]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/NIGHTrambler/11673_431282086948128_1992836115_n_zpsad7bb08c.jpg


When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing.
Relax, breathe, let go, and just live.

[justanolecowboy]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/NIGHTrambler/529734_431284503614553_808273265_n_zpse425dd6c.jpg

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - To breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ♥

~ Marcus Aurelius

[justanolecowboy]

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If we encounter a man of rare intellecut we should ask what books he reads – Ralph waldo emerson

[justanolecowboy]

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/NIGHTrambler/559863_430975850312085_383264916_n_zps610a06fd.jpg

[MegBluEyz]

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
Maya Angelou

[JAGG]

“Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise”― Debra Anastasia



“Carry the fire.” ― Cormac McCarthy


“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.”― Sharon Kay Penman

[Degotoga]

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. - Leo Buscaglia

[Duchess]

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
~Thomas A. Edison

The focus I choose today will lead me towards abundance.
~Anonymous

[Hollylane]

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/THEODOR-GEISEL-DR-SEUSS-1904-91-PHOTO-w-SIGNATURE-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjM2/$(KGrHqF,!pEE-64fE!v2BP1klNzZ,w~~60_35.JPG

~Theodor Seuss Geisel

[Trev]

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
~Unknown

[Aryon]

I'm Aryon and I'd like to take a few moments of your time to tell you why I relay.

This time last year I was giving thanks for second chances. I had been a survivor and a caregiver. Later on in the relay season, July 4th to be precise, another reason was added.
I was told I faced the battle again, the journey from laughter and light into darkness and tears and hopefully back out again.

This year I am relaying as a caregiver and two time survivor and I am not only relaying for those who face the rocky path through the darkness, but for those who care for them. Be they friends, work-mates or family. I am relaying for each person that said prayers and held me in their thoughts as I traveled my path.

Relay For Life, because of life, because you love.

[The_Lady_Snow]

"When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice."

[JAGG]

I got this poem in a book I was reading I really loved it.



All Is Well - Henry Scott Holland

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I, and you are you,
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still,
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the same easy way which you always did,
Put no difference into your tone;
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the shadow of a ghost on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity,
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am just waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

[Degotoga]

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. - Sonya Friedman

[Kobi]

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

~Emil Ludwig

[KCBUTCH]

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us"-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cant think your way into right living, you have to live your way into right thinking"-unknown

"Education is not about learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think"-
Albert Einstein

[Elijah]

"Understanding and tenderness would arise among us no matter how bad things got, and we found redemption in the very places we hurt most."

~Lin Jenson, Bad Dog!

[JAGG]

“A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.” ― Nicholas Sparks


“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”― Madeleine Albright



“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” ― Euripides

[ruffryder]

You can not shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou

[FeminineAllure]

Everyone comes with some baggage.
Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

[Lucian]

This is a new favorite of mine....

"How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." Triss Paulus

[Bèsame*]

above all else
guard your
:heartbeat:heart :heartbeat:
for everything you
do flows from it

Proverbs 4.23

[Degotoga]

A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. - Felix Adler

[Talon]

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.


~Confucius

[JAGG]

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” ― Irina Dunn



“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ” ― Christian Dior


“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” ― Brian Tracy

[Degotoga]

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones

[macele]

[after Coffey shares his cornbread with Del]

I thank you. Mr. Jingles thank you, my momma would thank you too. but she dead.

Eduard Delacroix

[MegBluEyz]

"To be kind is sometimes more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens." Unknown

[MarquisdeShey]

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire.
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great, and would suffice.

[little_ms_sunshyne]

"To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
— E.E. Cummings

[Degotoga]

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. - Marilyn vos Savant

[justanolecowboy]

I love that woman more than anything - i mean like more than sharks love blood (kevin spacey in Netflix series House of Cards).

[Bèsame*]

Each new day greets us with no rules except for the rules we place on it. Greet this day with open arms and endless possibility.


Happy Monday, and everyday:)

[Bèsame*]

The morning always has a way of creeping up on me and peeking in my bedroom windows. The sunrise is such a pervert.

[Talon]

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.


~Nietzsche

[MegBluEyz]

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

[~ocean]

The morning always has a way of creeping up on me and peeking in my bedroom windows. The sunrise is such a pervert.




lol unique stop flashing out ur window grl ~~

[Katniss]

‘In the wave-strike over unquiet stones’-- Pablo Neruda


In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the soul, relentless tenderness.


Katniss~~

[Fancy]

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

~Oprah

[Kobi]

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

~Benjamin Disraeli

[JAGG]

“We are what we believe we are!”― C.S. Lewis


“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.”― Jim Rohn


“Action is the universal language of success.” ― Steve Maraboli

[Duchess]

"I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin'."
— Bob Marley (f)


"Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
— Abraham Lincoln (f)

[Trev]

"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
~Annie Dillard

[dixie]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.......

[Tommi]

http://www.encognitive.com/files/images/life%20is%20an%20echo,%20what%20goes%20around%20co mes%20around.jpg

[Degotoga]

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou

[Kobi]

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

~Donald Miller

[Fancy]

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

[Sun]

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

LMAO..I have never heard you use profanity.

Wtf?

;)

[ahk]

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.--Edgar Cayce

[Talon]

Your words are born, not spoken.
Dimensional, soft-vowelled words, palpable to the eye or to the fingertip:
exquisitely curved, as the young that flowers conceive.



~W. Benton

[MegBluEyz]

"Some days, it’s not about passion and courage. It’s not about heroism and drama. It’s not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing simple things, simply." - Jack Ricchiuto

[JAGG]

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.” ― Ronald Reagan


“Life is too short to waste time on wondering what other people think about me. If they had any amount of success in their lives, they wouldn't have time to sit around and talk about me. What's important is my opinion of myself.” Unknown


“It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.”― Jason Mraz

[justanolecowboy]

_________THE beauty of a woman - is seen within her eyes; - because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides..... (f)