Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

"Any kind of love is fine. It's your hate you have to watch." ~ Margaret Cho

[Talon]

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.


~Mahatma Gandhi

[MissItalianDiva]

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[Degotoga]

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 the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

[Kobi]

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[JAGG]

"There is a big difference between making a mistake and making a choice."- Unknown





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



“Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”― Xiaolu Guo

[Duchess]

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

[Novelafemme]

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[Talon]

A family of Irish birth will argue and fight,
But let a shout come from the outside..and watch them all unite.

[Kobi]

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MegBluEyz]

“If you believe the doubts in your mind you won’t achieve the dreams in your heart” -Marinela Reka

[Degotoga]

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

[JAGG]

“Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”― T.F. Hodge



“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself” ― Kate Morton



“The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it? ” ― Lev Grossman

[VintageFemme]

“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.”

― Harvey Milk, The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words

[Duchess]

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
— Henry David Thoreau

[Bèsame*]

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[Fancy]

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:)

[MegBluEyz]

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou

[ahk]

Nature is our chapel.--Bjork

[Semantics]

“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one saw them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic- their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)-and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.”


Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

[Janstevie]

There are two words in a person's life that will open lots of doors for them - Push and Pull

[Talon]

We attract what we love and what we fear.

[gaea]

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I love the healthy relationships I have developed while being single.

[JAGG]

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I love the healthy relationships I have developed while being single.

I love this, so true !!!

[Bèsame*]

Thanks for making me think about this, it's so true :)We attract what we love and what we fear.

[Talon]

Thanks for making me think about this, it's so true :)



>>Glad that you enjoyed it, doll...(f)

[Enchantress]

"I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..."
"You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself."

Shel Silverstein
(The Missing Piece Meets The Big O)

[Ascot]

"...to be feared is much safer than to be loved." Machiavelli~The Prince

Here's to going without a net.

[Degotoga]

The way to happiness – keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much. - Carol Borges

[Trev]

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.”
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

[JAGG]

"Everything happens for a reason. Have hope you say , believe , faith can move mountians. Good things come to those who wait. Well good things come to those who don't wait too! And I am tired of waiting, I'm tired of hoping. When is it my turn? When ? " -Vera Wood Files




“[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic."― Beth Hoffman


“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”― Dante Alighieri

[gaea]

"Everything happens for a reason. Have hope you say , believe , faith can move mountians. Good things come to those who wait. Well good things come to those who don't wait too! And I am tired of waiting, I'm tired of hoping. When is it my turn? When ? " -Vera Wood Files




“[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic."― Beth Hoffman


“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”― Dante Alighieri

these all of them
beautiufully spoken

love them !

[always2late]

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?" - Gabrielle Roth

[Duchess]

"In terms of dating, not too many of [my past boyfriends] could deal with the fact that I can't answer my phone all the time because I'm at work and I have other things to do. They're on the priority list, but they're not at the top - I noticed that in a lot of my relationships it didn't work out because I had a lot of other things to do."
— Marissa Coleman

[Trev]

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
~Carl Gustav Jung

"If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental."
~Angelina Jolie

[Miss Scarlett]

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying."

"The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. This takes more than prayer or wishing. It requires deep analysis into the cause of harsh feelings like hatred and a conscious effort to shift one's perspective."

[MissItalianDiva]

Instead of running from what you "don't want" walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been. The difference between the two is energy.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[Duchess]

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
— Rebecca West

[Degotoga]

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Katniss]

(Poem is in Response to Dante's Inferno, if you haven't read it or don't know the reference the 7th circle, 3rd ring includes homosexuals)

To the Men and Women in the 3rd Ring of the 7th Circle of Hell
By Jennie Smith

Fire so hot it's blue falls in teardrops
from a cavern above your heads.
Can I say I understand
why you walk naked beneath
dripping flames for this—
for the one whose hand holds yours
despite screaming nerves, flaking skin.
A single drop falls on your reddened cheek
and a tear hidden there hisses.

Don't look at me with your sallow eyes
lest I see myself in your face.
See your naked thighs and belly
black and red, bone and sinew
my flesh turned to mirrors.

Will I burn like you for holding my lover's hand
and kissing the nape of her neck?
Maybe my God loves me more than yours did,
but when I sleep and let Fear near my bed
he strokes my hair with a clawed hand
and cries blue fire on my breasts.


Katniss~~

[gaea]

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[Katniss]

Stolen Moments

What happened, happened once. So now it's best
in memory—an orange he sliced: the skin
unbroken, then the knife, the chilled wedge
lifted to my mouth, his mouth, the thin
membrane between us, the exquisite orange,
tongue, orange, my nakedness and his,
the way he pushed me up against the fridge--
Now I get to feel his hands again, the kiss
that didn't last, but sent some neural twin
flashing wildly through the cortex. Love's
merciless, the way it travels in
and keeps emitting light. Beside the stove
we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers
on the table. And we still had hours.

Kim Addonizio


Katniss~~(I'm rather gluttonous for her work at the moment. I can almost recall that sharp tang of citrus from days past)

[JAGG]

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what
their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day
toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” ― Brian Tracy


“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” ― Marilyn Vos Savant


“Well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult

[Enchantress]

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next.

Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll

[Trev]

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything."
~Alex Karev

[Katniss]

"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything."
~Alex Karev


Yes.This. Quite lovely.

Katniss~~

[Trev]

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"
~Amelia Earhart

"Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy."
~G. K. Chesterton

[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

[Talon]

"I find it absolutely hysterical, the excuses that people come up with,
to justify their bad behavior!"




~Valentina

[gaea]

"I find it absolutely hysterical, the excuses that people come up with,
to justify their bad behavior!"




~Valentina

this gets a standing ovation. :)

[gaea]

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[gaea]

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[Duchess]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — Mark Twain

[Sweet Bliss]

I laughed so hard, tears ran down my leg.....:pointing::cracked::rofl:

[Enchantress]

“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”

Margaret Mitchell

[Degotoga]

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

[JAGG]

But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.” ― José N. Harris


“Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that I could save the world.” ― Carrie Vaughn


" Because you think life should be fair . Or that it will be some day. It's not and it won't. You to spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself or for others.. It's not fair you are correct. Do you realize that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.”― Unknown

[Elijah]

Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye

[Janstevie]

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy .... her heart.

[Kobi]

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

Liz Dolan

[JAGG]

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

Liz Dolan

I love that , so true!

[thedivahrrrself]

“Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that I could save the world.” ― Carrie Vaughn



Oh, so true! And now my vocabulary has an awesome new word - Dickheadism! LOL



One thing I found out for sure in life is, don't hang out with assholes. Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
~Kid Rock

There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks... I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting, and it's not true.
~Alice Englert

[MysticOceansFL]

.................................................. ...............................
A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.


by Sheelagh L

[Bèsame*]

Every person knows how to smile,but it takes happiness to appreciate it.
~~Louise Philippe Dulay

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[Duchess]

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
— Ann Landers

[Oiler41]

There are three things that cannot be long hidden: The Sun, The Moon and The Truth. ~ Buddha

Very true words.

Glynn

[JAGG]

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.” ― Margaret Atwood


“I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy.” ― C. JoyBell C.





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

[jenny]

“When I was your age, television was called books.” ~ William Goldman, The Princess Bride

[Trev]

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
~ Neil Gaiman

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
~ Ken Kesey

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
~ David Richo

[Enchantress]

“I can't really remember the days. The light of the sun blurred and annihilated all color. But the nights, I remember them. The blue was more distant than the sky, beyond all depths, covering the bounds of the world. The sky, for me, was the stretch of pure brilliance crossing the blue, that cold coalescence beyond all color. Sometimes, it was in Vinh Long, when my mother was sad she'd order the gig and we'd drive out into the country to see the night as it was in the dry season. I had that good fortune- those nights, that mother. The light fell from the sky in cataracts of pure transparency, in torrents of silence and immobility. The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light. The night lit up everything, all the country on either bank of the river as far as the eye could reach. Every night was different, each one had a name as long as it lasted. Their sound was that of the dogs, the country dogs baying at mystery. They answered on another from village to village, until the time and space of the night were utterly consumed.”

Marguerite Duras, The Lover

[Cid]

Whatever follows "I am" will come looking for you."

Pastor Joel Osteen.

This is so powerful. As long as something positive is at the end of I am, good things will come to you. Gotta love that.

[s0litude]

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[Kobi]

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection,

and not a fountain,

to show them that we love them,

not when we feel like it,

but when they do

~Nan Fairbrother

[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

[Enchantress]

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

John Keats

[JAGG]

Whatever follows "I am" will come looking for you."

Pastor Joel Osteen.

This is so powerful. As long as something positive is at the end of I am, good things will come to you. Gotta love that.

Ok Cid if it doesn't work I will hunt you down. Lol

I am a multi-billionaire.
I am married to the love of my life my dream femme.

(What is the ETA on this I am thinking this Friday sounds good.)

[MissItalianDiva]

The only walls in your life are the ones that you have built yourself. Clear your mind of clutter, congestion and conflict. Free your mind of unproductive, nonessential thoughts about yourself and your life.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

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

I can only show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it.
- The Matrix ' Morpheous

[Cid]

Ok Cid if it doesn't work I will hunt you down. Lol

I am a multi-billionaire.
I am married to the love of my life my dream femme.

(What is the ETA on this I am thinking this Friday sounds good.)

All I can say is...be careful what you wish for, my friend.

And you can hunt me down AFTER you become the multi-billionaire. I'm guessing you'll find a whole lot of "love of your life dream femmes" at that point.

The verdict on the ETA is still out, but I'm thinking you'll need to be real patient..lol.

[Latino.Hrt]

...when the unexpected happens-you always have your inner core strength which cannot be taken from you____

[JAGG]

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson


I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to fix it .”
― Eric Roth



“Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.”
― Niall Horan

[JAGG]

All I can say is...be careful what you wish for, my friend.

And you can hunt me down AFTER you become the multi-billionaire. I'm guessing you'll find a whole lot of "love of your life dream femmes" at that point.

The verdict on the ETA is still out, but I'm thinking you'll need to be real patient..lol.

Patient? Isn't 48 yrs long enough? Geez

[Trev]

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
~Steve Maraboli

“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”
~ Jarod Kintz

[ahk]

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.--Charles Lamb

[Kobi]

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[justanolecowboy]

“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.” David Gemmell - Fall of Kings

[Cid]

Patient? Isn't 48 yrs long enough? Geez

48 years? So, does that make you around 63 or 64 years old? I'm guessing you weren't looking for the love of your life when you were an infant right? hee hee...I know I'm gonna get it for that one :p

[Talon]

It is the hour to rend thy chains,
the blossom time of souls. :rose:


~Katherine Lee Bates

[JAGG]

48 years? So, does that make you around 63 or 64 years old? I'm guessing you weren't looking for the love of your life when you were an infant right? hee hee...I know I'm gonna get it for that one :p

I am 28 ish. :)

[Katniss]

All I can say is...be careful what you wish for, my friend.

And you can hunt me down AFTER you become the multi-billionaire. I'm guessing you'll find a whole lot of "love of your life dream femmes" at that point.

The verdict on the ETA is still out, but I'm thinking you'll need to be real patient..lol.

Uh....either of you read "The Monkey's Paw?" That's what I thought of when I read the above. Be careful indeed.....


Katniss~~(although I suppose it possible to push past the standard interpretation of the ending as the couple never saw the son, or who was knocking....maybe it wasn't as bad as they feared and it was only the fear of changing fate that led to a supposed dire ending to the tale.....)

[Katniss]

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[Degotoga]

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

[JAGG]

Whatever follows "I am" will come looking for you."

Pastor Joel Osteen.

This is so powerful. As long as something positive is at the end of I am, good things will come to you. Gotta love that.

How about if you reversed it and said am I... would it then have the reverse effect? Am I tired and poof you are filled with energy. Just wondered.

[Jerseyboi]

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." ~Jesse Jackson

[Trev]

“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
~Lauren Kate

“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”
~Geraldine Solon

[jenny]

"That's the problem with the world. Too many people grow up." ~ Walt Disney

[JAGG]

" It's not a tight rope , it's a slackline . Embrace the shaking and teetering. Don't be afraid of the rope . It's not the rope, it's you. " - Unknown


“There is a certain strength in being alone."― Heather Duffy Stone



" Fear is nothing more than an opportunity for bravery." - Unknown

[Glenn]

The Perfect is the enemy of The Good

[ahk]

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.--Louisa May Alcott

[cinnamongrrl]

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

[SnackTime]

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected. - Caroline Kennedy


The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. - Eli Khamarov

[Cid]

How about if you reversed it and said am I... would it then have the reverse effect? Am I tired and poof you are filled with energy. Just wondered.

I think it would have an adverse effect. If you're asking, then you're allowing someone/thing else to decide for you.
Man, you make something so simple, so complicated! Isn't that for us femmes to do? :sunglass:

[jenny]

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.” ~ Margaret Cho

[Semantics]

We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up
better questions.

questions such as:


Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love
that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?

[JAGG]

[COLOR="I .ink it would have an adverse effect. If you're asking, then you're allowing someone/thing else to decide for you.
Man, you make something so simple, so complicated! Isn't that for us femmes to do? :sunglass:[/COLOR]

I just asking. I needed more clarity . I need to know the rules so I can break them.

[JAGG]

"There is one thing in common with all revolutions(in fact they are like wars in that respect) nobody ever gets what they're fighting about. " - Will Rogers 1935

[Katniss]

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.” ~ Margaret Cho

This bears repeating!!! It's the ripple in the pond effect....

[Degotoga]

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

[justanolecowboy]

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt.

[Degotoga]

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

[JAGG]

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” ― Thomas Paine


“If you have a great heart, you will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”― Alison Croggon






“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.” ― Brian Rathbone

[Duchess]

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
~anonymous

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com/550x/dd/6e/1a/dd6e1a3e1d3cf0fb4d5a2d29229974ad.jpg

[Degotoga]

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. - Joan Didion

[ahk]

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

[JAGG]

“Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.” ― Steve Maraboli


“The secret of happiness is something to do” ― John Burroughs



“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; which one will you agree to live behind ?" -Unknown

[girl_dee]

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
Kathy Valentine

[Trev]

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
~Garth Henrichs

[Bèsame*]

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out the way they're suppose to, with out trying to control the outcome,then we can enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.



I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I am *trying* to understand it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where your going, but you know that as long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

[Enchantress]

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

~ Zig Ziglar

[Ascot]

There are two possibilities. Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are terrifying. ~Arthur C. Clarke

[Degotoga]

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

[Miss Scarlett]

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[jenny]

“Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” ~ Roger Ebert

[justanolecowboy]

“When I reach out, you take my hand.
When I smile, you mirror the expression.
When I triumph, you glory as if it were your own.
When I fail, you point to the light at the end.
When I need, you tenderly provide.
When I cry, you kiss away my tears.
When I suffer, you bleed.
And you wonder why I love you?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

______________(yes). for her....

[JAGG]

“When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly living, you happen to life… and you lead.”― Steve Maraboli


“There are always answers. You just have to be smart enough."― John Green


“ And as hard and long as you might try you could not break my spirit.” ― Nirrimi Joy Hakanson

[SleepyButch]

“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

[ruffryder]

Words have consequences. (Proverbs 18:21)
"The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences."

[DamonK]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mchy2buTn51rpaq36o1_500.jpg

Unknown

[Trev]

"Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart."
~Myla Kabat-Zinn

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/550x/a0/0f/cc/a00fcc64b1c37a766698a6f76b88449f.jpg

[Hollylane]

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage


- Lao Tzu

[Angeltoes]

Can we just take a minute to think about how, if I were to put up an identifiable nude picture of myself, on my own blog, taken in my own bathroom, it could come back around an ruin my life?
let’s just think about how, no matter what I do with my life - become a teacher, a lawyer, a scientist, a professor - a photograph of my naked body could render largely null and void the value that others would be willing to give to me.
It would not matter if I were a virgin - it would not matter if I meant them for a lover’s eyes only - it would not matter whether or not I did it for money - my own naked body could actually ruin my life and my work.
Can we just think about that? That is powerful, and not in a good way.

~some blogger/unknown

[Degotoga]

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. – Florence Scovel Shinn

[Angeltoes]

“In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.”

Michael Parenti

[Angeltoes]

Compassion hurts.
When you feel connected to everything,
you also feel responsible for everything.
And you cannot turn away.
Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others.
You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it.
You must grow strong enough to love the world,
yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
— Andrew Boyd

[puddin']

"this is life and our part is to be kind. it is not our part to see that the other person makes the right use of our kindness. if we think about that we tend to forget our part." ~unknown

[ruffryder]

“Don’t be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don’t be afraid to be willing to pay the price.”- Lane Frost

[JAGG]

“Some people make you feel love in your heart. If you're lucky once in a lifetime you feel it all way into our soul. Those are the ones who you can't forget.” ― Judith McNaught




“I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.” ― Somaly Mam


“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
more than the time
you fell asleep in my arms
in a trust so gentle
I let the darkening room
drink up the evening, till
rest, or the new rain
lightly roused you awake.
I asked if you heard the rain in your dream
and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”
― Edwin Morgan,

[Katniss]

"He made the world to be a grassy road before her wandering feet."

W. B. Yeats

[StevieBoi]

Portion of a Modern Psalm

I do not have to prove to you
that God loves even me
It will be proof enough
to sit with you at the table

But if that blood
won't cover me
You'll hear me shout God's praises
to the very gates of Hell

Stevie Hoven

[Trev]

"Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'."
~Unknown

[The_Lady_Snow]

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”

[VintageFemme]

In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.-Pablo Neruda

[Hollylane]

“Any wrongdoing you do to anybody, come out plain – ‘Madam, I have wronged you. Forgive me.’ That will make me feel happy. Without a cent, I will accept it. But when you have wronged me, you roam around, I see you, I know what you have done to me, it pains me. But when you voice it, reconciliation will go and I will be very peaceful. This is what we need here.”

—Isata Ndoleh, Mommy Queen, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone

[Ms. Meander]

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Hafiz

[DJ Bear]

"When I was a child
I had my sword.
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it.
Such pride.
Such reverence.
I was punished.
So I sheath my sword.

When I was a teenager
I had my sword.
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it.
Such pride.
Such manliness.
I was punished.
So I sheath my sword.

When I was a warrior.
I had my sword.
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it.
I was willing to fight.
To be the man I knew I was.
Such dignity.
Such honor.
Such a dashing warrior.
I was punished.
So I sheath my sword.

When I fell in love,
I had my sword.
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it.
Such humility.
Such trepidation.
Such dignity.
I thought the time right,
the woman right.
I was punished.
So I sheath my sword.
Could no longer take the pain,
the guilt.
My pride is gone filled by shame,
my reverence disappears,
my manliness no longer exists,
should not exist,
has no right to exist.
It never really existed.
I feel I shall never be called upon
to fight the good fight for a woman,
to bravely protect a woman,
to stand tall for a woman,
to have a woman lean on me.
I bury my sword deeply,
wipe its memory from my mind.
I no longer want it.
I bow my head in sorrow, defeated,
no tears shed.
Only sorrow, shame, guilt.
I was not,
could not,
will not,
ever be who I thought I was.
I am not a man.
I am not a woman.
I am nothing.
I only exist as a joke.
I only breath.
I wait.
I wait for death.
I invite death.
I beg death.
There is nothing,
a vacuum,
no life,
nothing left to be.

When I was older and single,
I remembered
I had my sword.
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it to myself.
I stroked my sword,
it came alive in my hand.
There was no punishment.
No fear.
No regret.
There was life.
I breathe the air with gusto.
I stand tall in my boots.
I stand straighter.
I live my life with curiosity,
with hope.
Such pride.
Such reverence.
Such dignity.
Such a dashing warrior.
Such manliness.
I did not sheath my sword.

When I was older
a beautiful woman came to me.
I knew I had my sword,
I took it out once and
proudly displayed it to her.
She smiled up at me.
She gently reached her hands out
and held my sword,
my soul,
my fears,
my ego,
my pride,
my manliness,
all of me.
She held my sword with such
pleasure in her eyes.
She held my sword with
happiness,
gentleness,
firmness,
She held my sword with
love.

I live.
I love.
I thank her."

~DJ

[Kobi]

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[JAGG]

“It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.” ― Criss Jami

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.” ― Gene Wolfe


"The road to peace is not passive. The passive rarely know peace. For they fear the fight, and the path and the journey. It is the warrior who knows true peace . If the passive are to taste peace at all , it is because the warrior has sacrificed." - Unknown

[Miss Scarlett]

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[Hollylane]

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

Buddha

[DamonK]

"So as marriage is the covenant, vows are the entrance into that commitment. The first step down the road that they will travel together, for the remainder of their lives." ~ Anonymous

[jenny]

"Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, 'I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster.' Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling." ~ Ellen DeGeneres

[ahk]

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

[JAGG]

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.” ― Tana French


“I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.” ― Edward Abbey


“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ― Cormac McCarthy

[Ascot]

There are no ordinary people... ~C.S. Lewis

[Talon]

You have enemies?
Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

~Winston Churchill

[Katniss]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mavvahsaKR1qgtr3go1_500.jpg

[Duchess]

"To find true happiness,true peace,you must look at the most important component:Yourself."

Zach Fountain

[Trev]

"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."
~Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/550x/5d/c3/67/5dc3675a630dc8d96b17193c2dbccc4b.jpg

[jenny]

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby

[Talon]

You may not have gone where you intended to go,
but you will end up wheree you need to be.

[ahk]

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[JAGG]

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


“You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.” ― Steve Maraboli


“If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!” ― Sasha Azevedo

[Enchantress]

“they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.”

Amy Blume, Come to Me

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-is0.pinimg.com/550x/1c/b3/85/1cb385f6c210b52272df28d831cc34cb.jpg

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec4.pinterest.com/550x/a2/e1/c8/a2e1c8e553909878063ee53679fc3c54.jpg


And we don't say.....“She’s brilliant and she’s dedicated, she’s tough…she also happens to be, by far, the best-looking attorney general…it’s true! C’mon".....right Barack?

[ahk]

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

[girl_dee]

Follow your heart and listen to your instincts because we all have them for a reason.

Ryan Swain

[Duchess]

Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. ~From the television show Ally McBeal

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.
~Bill Lemley

[JAGG]

“Anything is possible. Anything can be."― Shel Silverstein


“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
― Walter Bagehot


“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”― Nelson Mandela

[Katniss]

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[Semantics]

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”


J.D. Salinger

[Talon]

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of life into a golden haze.


~Amanda Cross

[StrongButch]

1)Once you have learned how to love, you will have learned to live. 2) Happiness held is the seed.Happiness shared is the flower. 3) The purpose of life is to live it,to taste experience to the upmost,to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.

[ahk]

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[Enchantress]

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

~ Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County

[JAGG]

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. " -Stephen Hawking



"Whenever it appears there is only one possible way , it's probably not the correct or best answer, and you barely understand the problem you intended to solve.” ― Karl R. Popper




“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”― Amor Towles

[Cailin]

badly needing a revision, 2004:



Have I told you how much I loved you? I'm sure I have. It's just every time I breathe I think about you and how lucky I am to have you in my life. Have I told you how beautiful you are to me? I think I have. Beauty like yours never goes unoticed, especially when my heart skips a beat everytime I look at you. If I have not told you any of these things today, it's because I figure you should know. Remember that no day passes by where i dont wake up wanting you by my side and in my life. How could I have existed without you all this time? Each and every time I am around you I feel the whole world has stopped for us, so we can spend forever together. Have I held your hand and and touched your face? I must have. I can still feel your hand in mine and the warmth of your soft face still lingering in my other hand. Have I taken you aside and kissed you? I know I have. I can still feel the heat and the passion from your last kiss still teasing me and leaving me wanting more. If I have not done any of these things today, it's because i'm still in my dream where it's always happening. I want to be with you always, so I write to you, this Lettre a mon amour

[Kobi]

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[Kobi]

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of "thus saith the Lord."


-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

[JAGG]

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brain of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of "thus saith the Lord."


-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
So very true. The bible is mans way to control man. Nothing more. A nice collection of mythology.

[Katniss]

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[JAGG]

"Since when do we have to agree with someone to defend them from injustice." -Lillan Hellman

[dixie]

This actually speaks to me a great deal....

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[JAGG]

“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



“When you know my love, my love will warm you.”― Ruby Dee


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

[Enchantress]

Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

~ Sutta Nipata

[Kobi]

The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire.... Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.


-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Introduction, The Women's Bible 1895

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4591625954067379&pid=15.1

[girl_dee]

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

[Glenn]

According to the Gospel of Thomas (The Forbidden Gospel, Saying 22)

When Peter expressed his disapproval of the presence of Mary Magdalene, (Jesus's first woman disciple) in their entourage Jesus said," "When you make male and female, the two into one spirit, and when you make the inner spirit as the outer, into a single spirit as one, undivided, so that the male shall not be male, and the female not female, yet together, as One, you will enter my kingdom."

(Saying:616)-And Salome said to Jesus,"Who are you man?" Jesus replied, "I am he who exists from the undivided."

According to the Gospel of Philip-7 Nag Hammadi, Egypt,1947
Then Jesus said, " When the Spirit of Eve female, was in Adam, and they were as one, there was no death in the world. but when her female Spirit became separated from his male Spirit, spiritual death came into being."

[JAGG]

“Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken.”
― Robert Tew


“I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough to pay for it, and reap my benefits later.” - Unknown



“Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.”
― Sal Martinez

[Kobi]

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[Kobi]

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[JAGG]

“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.”― Emil Dorian


“A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart” ― Donna Alward


"People who rush into relationships , are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day.”― Ashly Lorenzana

[Enchantress]

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”

Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

[Kätzchen]

What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?

-- Robert P. Crease in The Greatest Equations Ever (PhysicsWeb, 2004)
on Leonhard Euler's Equation.






(one of many books I want to read this summer)

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[StrongButch]

1)The difference between love that fails and endless love is the foundation. 2) Love is like a diamond,it is rare,beautiful and lasts forever. 3)You know its love when forever is not long enough. 4)You may hold my hand for awhile,but you hold my heart forever.

[Kobi]

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[Duchess]

Someone we deserve will have us feeling alive inside, will be somebody that we are really attracted to, not only physically, but mentally, and spiritually. Don't settle for what may seem ok, settle for being in love and being with someone who only wants to see you happy!

~Anonymous

[MegBluEyz]

"I’m human. I make mistakes. I fall. I cry. Sometimes, I talk without thinking first. Sometimes, I judge others. Sometimes, I do things I regret.
I’m human. I laugh. I love. I live. I learn. I’m so very grateful.”
Unknown.

[Enchantress]

"When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."

Fred Rogers

[JAGG]

“Notice the difference between being in control and needing control.”
― Marilyn Suttle



“Just pick a goal and stick to it - no big complicated secret.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich


“Happy people produce. Bored people consume.”
― Stephen Richards

[Trev]

"Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear."
~Joan Rivers

[Soon]

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”
― Golda Meir

[Katniss]

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

- Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


Katniss~~(life just seems so unbearably short to hold all that I want to do, feel all I want to feel and help all those I want to help....)

[Katniss]

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Katniss~~

[Bèsame*]

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[Trey339]

“It amazes me that people think their soul mate is going to show up in their life at this predestined time and be this flawless person. A true soul mate is a mirror of yourself, 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. Sure, they have a common upbringing, similar interests but they have the one thing you don’t have which is the introspection to help you become great. What use is a soul mate if they can’t help free you from yourself so you can live your life mission?”
― Shannon L. Alder

A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.
~Edgar Cayce

[Trey339]

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford

[Kobi]

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another”
~William James



In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
~ Lee Iacocca



A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
~Seneca

[SnackTime]

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Bananna

[MegBluEyz]

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"We are people who need to love, because
Love is the soul's life,
Love is simply creation's greatest joy."
Hafiz

[Talon]

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

~William Blake

[Semantics]

If I had a shining head
and people turned to stare at me
in the streetcars;
and I could stretch my body
through the bright water
and keep abreast of fish and water snakes;
if I could ruin my feathers
in flight before the sun;
do you think that I would remain in this room,
reciting poems to you,
and making outrageous dreams
with the smallest movements of your mouth?

[JAGG]

" I am a forgiver not a collector of hurts." -Unknown

“You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.” ― Julia Spencer-Fleming


“I don't enter into a relationship, hoping to change someone. I want my partner to be consistent. That they won't make impromptu impossible demands or baffle me with sudden-onset hysterical behavior.”
― Valerie Frankel

[gotoseagrl]

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

[Enchantress]

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”

Anne Brontë

[prettyboyreg]

Acceptance is the key to everything...

[JAGG]

Acceptance is the key to everything...

It is? .............

[girl_dee]

True love doesn’t have a happy ending because true love never ends.

[Trey339]

What you seek Is seeking you
Rumi~

[Bèsame*]

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[Kätzchen]

Diving Into The Wreck
-- Adrienne Rich (1972)


First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am having to do this
not like Costeau with his
assiduous team
aboard the sun-flooded schooner
but here alone.

There is a ladder,
The ladder is always there
hanging innocently
close to the side of the schooner.
We know what it is for,
we who have used it.
Otherwise,
it is a piece of maritime floss
some sundry equipment.

I go down,
Rung after rung and still
the oxygen immerses me
the blue light
the clear atoms
of our human air.
I go down,
My flippers cripple me,
I crawl like an insect down the ladder
and there is no one
to tell me where the ocean
will begin.

First the air is blue and then
it is bluer and then green and then
black I am blacking out and yet
my mask is powerful
it pumps my blood with power
the sea is another story
the sea is not the question of power
I have to learn alone
to trust my body without force
in the deep element.

And now: it is easy to forget
what I came for
among so many who have always
lived here
swaying their crenellated fans
between the reefs
and besides
you breathe differently down here.

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed.

The thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned faced staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.

This is the place.
And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently
about the wreck
we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he
whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes
whose breasts still bear the stress
whose silver, copper, vermei cargo lies
obscurely inside the barrels
half-wedged and let to rot
we are the half-destroyed instruments
that once held to a course
the water-beaten log
the fouled compass

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

[Kobi]

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[StrongButch]

1) Take risks;if you win youll be happy,if you lose youll be wise. 2)One day your life will flash before your eyes.Make sure its worth watching. 3)You change your life by changing your heart. 4)The key to change is letting go of fear.

[MegBluEyz]

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"Fear...is life's only true opponent. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always....disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt....So you must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

[Trey339]

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[Enchantress]

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”

Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

[JAGG]

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



Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
― Ally Condie


“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho

[Trev]

"Chance is the fool's name for Fate."
~Fred Astaire

"Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen."
~Marcia Weider

[Latino.Hrt]

___love and respect...the base of all things___

[Soon]

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
― Jay McInerney

[Kobi]

http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4963183528184390&pid=15.1

[Talon]

You don't have to advance yourself at the expense of others.

[JAGG]

You don't have to advance yourself at the expense of others.

Yes but if they want to pay me for it I'll let them.

[Talon]

Yes but if they want to pay me for it I'll let them.



*laughing*.....You paper whore. :jester:

[JAGG]

*laughing*.....You paper whore. :jester:

That would be STUD not whore. Just sayin

[Talon]

That would be STUD not whore. Just sayin



*chuckle*.......so sorry, Stallion......what I meant to say was...


BIG BUTCH PAPER STUD OF THE UNIVERSE :flashy:

[ahk]

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jessica Savitch

[JAGG]

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes you want for more. It plants a fire in your heart, and brings peace to your mind. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever” ― Nicholas Sparks


" The only limits you have are the ones you have accepted for yourself."- Unknown

" She is the only woman I have ever been with that calmed my restless spirit. I didn't feel that deep painful longing and loneliness. The second we were alone for the very first time it disappeared. That's how I know. " - Unknown

[KCBUTCH]

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought."- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"If you want to know the secrets of the universe think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."- Nikola Telsa

"Never regret anything because at one time is was exactly what you wanted."-unknown

[Bèsame*]

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness sometimes sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.

[KCBUTCH]

"A deep sigh, the crisp spring air of night whispers to me as I laze about. My thoughts turn to my youth, running in the shadows at dusk. Home as the sun went down. A simpler time. A wondrous adventure around every corner, hills to roll down, fields to walk in, lakes to swim, and battles to win. My wooden sword at the ready, a noble stead at my beckon call, Storm the towering trees to rescue said fair maiden...Strolling, greeting, dreaming."-ME (4/18/2013 1007)

[Kobi]

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

Bruce Lee

[MegBluEyz]

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"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out."
Hafiz

[Enchantress]

“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

[Talon]

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
It it's accomplishment, for all who have reached a reasonably human degree of development, the communion of bodies becomes the communication of souls. The outward and visible sign has been the consummation of an inward and spiritual grace.



~Havelock Ellis

[Soon]

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

[JAGG]

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” ― Ralph H. Blum


“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” ― George Iles

" I hold out for the loves yet to come. I have faith that tomorrow holds happy surprises for me. "- Unknown