Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass

[JakeTulane]

"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

[JakeTulane]

"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine." - Dwight L. Moody

[Spirit Dancer]

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

[Spirit Dancer]

To know when to go away and when to come closer
is the key to any lasting relationship.

Doménico Cieri Estrada

[Spirit Dancer]

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies,
but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen
the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara De Angelis

[Spirit Dancer]

You must first have a good relationship with yourself before you can have a
good relationship with others. You have to feel worthwhile and acceptable in
your own eyes. The more independent you are, the better you'll be able
to connect and relate with others.

Gary Emery

[weatherboi]

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Duchess]

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.(f)

Mortimer Adler (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Mortimer&Author_Last_Name=Adler&Movie=)
American, Philosopher Quotes

[Duchess]

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.(f)

Charles Eastman (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Charles&Author_Last_Name=Eastman&Movie=)
Sioux, Author Quotes

[Ms. Meander]

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





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

~ Rumi

[UofMfan]

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres ~ Mom's favorite

[Duchess]

"The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame."(f)
– Bill Crawford

[Diva]

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

~W. C. Fields

[Diva]

I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

~Daphne du Maurier

[JakeTulane]

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” - Aaron Copland

[JakeTulane]

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” - Maxwell Maltz

[JakeTulane]

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” - Albert Einstein

[Spirit Dancer]

We need to find the "middle way" in our own lives. It is the art of
finding balance. Reflecting upon our lives, we soon discover what
serves us well--nurturing calmness, ease, and simplicity. We also
discover what it is that leads to entanglement, confusion, distress, and
anxiety. Wisdom is being able to discern the difference, then knowing
what we need to nurture and what we need to learn to let go.

Christina Feldman

[Spirit Dancer]

Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only
weak or only strong. But some of us overlook our weaknesses, and even
deny that we have them. That can be dangerous, because denying there is
a weakness is in itself a weakness. Likewise, accepting that we have
weaknesses becomes a strength. And by the same token, overestimating
strength is a weakness. You should not be blinded by your strengths.
The feeling of strength is not the same as having strength. Neither should
you ignore your weaknesses. Know them well, too.

Joseph M. Marshall III

[Spirit Dancer]

During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off
in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone
you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little
specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Harriet Doerr

[Spirit Dancer]

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and your are the mirror.

Khalil Gibran

[Arwen]

"Intelligence is not something possessed once for all. It is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn and courage in re-adjustment."

-John Dewey (1895-1952)

[Arwen]

I have never gone to sleep with a grievance against anyone. And, as far as I could, I have never let anyone go to sleep with a grievance against me. -Abba Agathon, monk (4th/5th century)

[Diva]

You're braver than You believe,
and stronger than You seem,
and smarter than You think.

~A. A. Milne

[robbrt]

"I need you to take the base, I can handle the tip."

--G

[Diva]

Your mental state should always remainn calm.
Even if some anxiety occurs, as it is bound to in life,
You should always remain calm.
Like a wave, which rises from the water & dissolves back into the water,
these disturbances are very short,
so they should not affect Your basic mental attitude.

~The Dalai Lama

[Diva]

He that can have patience can have what he will.

~Ben Franklin

[Hack]

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -- Tolstoy

[always2late]

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold H. Glasow

[Diva]

Fairness is what justice really is.

~Potter Stewart

[miss entycing]

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~Blaise Pascal

[Diva]

Writing is the supreme solace.

~William Somerset Maugham

[Diva]

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

~Jack Handy

[JakeTulane]

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." ~Jacques Prévert

[JakeTulane]

"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruce Barton

[JakeTulane]

"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[Forgetmenotfemme]

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

[always2late]

"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." --Ivan Panin

[Duchess]

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.:)

Greg Evans (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Greg&Author_Last_Name=Evans&Movie=)
American Writer 1978-

[Enchantress]

"Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.”

~ Robert Fulghum

[JakeTulane]

“We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.” - Dave Matthews Band - "Ants Marching"

[JakeTulane]

"This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?” - Unknown

[Leigh]

Looking through one of My cross-stitch books this morning, I found all kinds of little sayings and quotes that resonated with Me alot today and wanted to share some of them with all of you:

~ It is not how much we have but how much we ENJOY that makes happiness

~ A mother holds her children's hands for awhile, but their hearts forever

~ Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless

~ My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance

~ Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never the same

~ Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven

~ The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude

~ We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

~ We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails

~ The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it*

~ The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra

~ Contentment isn't getting what we want, but being satisfied with what we have*

~ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, your right*

~ If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense in making them

~ Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

~ The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed**

[always2late]

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, "I'll try again tomorrow." -Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

[miss entycing]

I'm not just a bitch... I am THE bitch
~on a keychain


If I follow you home... will you keep me?
~a bumpersticker

[Diva]

Surround yourself with people who are explicitly rooting for you, and stop trying to win over those who aren’t.

~Candace Walsh

[Blade]

I'm just an ole chunk of coal,
but I'm gonna be a diamond some day

[always2late]

"Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." ~ Harriet Tubman

[purepisces]

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

[purepisces]

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~J ohn Lennon

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

[Jet]

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.


The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot

[Spirit Dancer]

Life needs mystery or else everything else flattens into a routine
so familiar you wonder if you will ever get out of the rut. We need
the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Dave Kindred

[Spirit Dancer]

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget
to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the
people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful
feeling; don't overlook it.
unattributed

[Forgetmenotfemme]

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

[Forgetmenotfemme]

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."

[purepisces]

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson

[purepisces]

We are always getting ready to live but never living. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” - Alex Noble

[JakeTulane]

“You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.” - Richard Bach

[JakeTulane]

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.” - Lawrence Durrell

[Soft*Silver]

yes I know my tail is phallic. Leave it alone already!

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

Pssst...look at the kitty's tail in my avatar...WOOT!

[Diva]

I'm sorry....I just please need you to shut up for one minute.

~Refrigerator magnet

[Rook]

Mable 'Madea' Simmons: [Madea hits Nikki with a belt] Why wasn't you at school today?
Nikki: I went to the park.
Mable 'Madea' Simmons: Why'd you go to the park? You need to be going to schoolhouse.
Nikki: I'm not smart.
Mable 'Madea' Simmons: Who told you that?
Nikki: My last foster mother, she said that the only thing I'd ever be smart enough to do is lay on my back.
Joe: Is her name Jennifer? I know Jennifer, that's what she does all the time.
Mable 'Madea' Simmons: Shut up Joe,
[to Nikki]
Mable 'Madea' Simmons: the best revenge you can get on a person who tells you something like that, is to prove them wrong.
Joe: Best way to get revenge on someone like that is to kick their butt.

[Beau]

"Love truth, and pardon error."
-- Voltaire

[Spirit Dancer]

My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance
and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal.
I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body--the subtle changes
in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood--the way a sailor
rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.

Kat Duff

[Spirit Dancer]

I do not ask to walk smooth paths
Nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude
To climb the rock-strewn road.

Give me such courage I can scale
The hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block
Into a steppingstone.

Gail Brook Burket

[Hack]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

"I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity." ~Hazel Lee

[JakeTulane]

"We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." ~Shirley Abbott

[JakeTulane]

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” - Paulo Coelho

[violaine]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
[great quote on afixer's profile] :)

[Hack]

Attention is a tacit and continual compliment. -- Anne Sophie Swetchine

[evolveme]

cutting greens

curling them around
i hold their bodies in obscene embrace
thinking of everything but kinship.
collards and kale
strain against each strange other
away from my kissmaking hand and
the iron bedpot.
the pot is black.
the cutting board is black,
my hand,
and just for a minute
the greens roll black under the knife,
and the kitchen twists dark on its spine
and i taste in my natural appetite
the bond of live things everywhere.


- Lucille Clifton

[Forgetmenotfemme]

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you.

[Enchantress]

"I am a part of all that I have met ..."

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Mister Bent]

"Makes me want to find more beautiful things in life besides porno... "
- YouTube user chillincello on Brandi Carlile's "Fall Apart Again"

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Deep pleasure, joy, and knowing secure my mind and delight my heart as daily revelations tell me who I really am. I am willing to let go of my little treasures for the spiritual gold that lies within. I release what I do know for what I will know.

[Diva]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/sexisam03/Funny/church.jpg

[Forgetmenotfemme]

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

[Diva]

Do not look back in anger,
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.

~James Thurber

[Diva]

When I learn something new ~ and it happens every day ~ I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

~Bill Moyers

[Diva]

When You acknowledge the less than perfect parts of Yourself, something magical begins to happen.
Along with the negative, You'll also begin to notice the positive,
the wonderful aspects of Yourself
that You may not have given Yourself credit for, or perhaps even been aware of.

~Richard Carlson, "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff"

[JakeTulane]

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." ~Albert Einstein
.

[JakeTulane]

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around." ~E.L. Konigsburg

[Hudson]

“Your heart is my piñata.” -Chuck Palahniuk

[Jerseyboi]

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done." ~Author Unknown

[Butterbean]

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

-Aaron Rose

[Gemme]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p254/sexisam03/Funny/church.jpg

Whoooopise. :innocent:

[bigbutchmistie]

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
--Robert A. Heinlein

[Soft*Silver]

I had a past life regression. In another life I was known as the cheshire...

hey..if you believe you use to be Joan of Arc, why cant I be the cheshire?

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[Diva]

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

~Nelson Mandela

[Diva]

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

~Victor Hugo

[Diva]

And love says I will, I will take care of you...to everything that is near.

~Hafiz

[MrSunshine]

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.

-Clark Moustakas

[MrSunshine]

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

-Melanie MacSmiley

[JakeTulane]

“It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” - Neil Gaiman

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.” - Uknown

[Mister Bent]

I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.

After falling off a steamship or being swept away
in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn't you hope
for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand
turning the pages of an album of photographs-
you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.

How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?
Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?
Wouldn't any form be better than this sudden flash?
Your whole existence going off in your face
in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography-
nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.

Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,

a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all
as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,
leaving behind what you have already forgotten,
the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.

Billy Collins

[purepisces]

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~ Charles L. Morgan

[MrSunshine]

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

~William Jennings Bryan

[always2late]

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

[violaine]

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-

Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean-


John Muir = <3

[Tommi]

:candle: The more you depend on forces outside yourself,
the more you are dominated by them. :candle:


Anonymous

[adorable]

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away."

[JakeTulane]

"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." - Tennessee Williams

[JakeTulane]

"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!" ~John Muir

[JakeTulane]

"If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love." - Rollo Armstrong

[Duchess]

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
(f)
Arthur Rubinstein (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Arthur&Author_Last_Name=Rubinstein&Movie=)
American, Musician Quotes

[Enchantress]

Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way...

Zen proverb

[The_Lady_Snow]

“The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.”

[Queerasfck]

There is not one human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.


- Gore Vidal

[SuperFemme]

“Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.” ~anonymous~!

[always2late]

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." ~ anonymous

[Jerseyboi]

A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella

[purepisces]

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ~ Amy Tan

[purepisces]

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan

[JakeTulane]

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself." - William Blake, 1799, The Letters

[JakeTulane]

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." - Willa Cather (1873-1947), O Pioneers 1913

[JakeTulane]

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

[PinkieLee]

Lyrics from Natasha Bedingfield...

"Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten"

[Semantics]

It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

Tom Robbins

[Diva]

It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

Tom Robbins


Brava, Semantics...........thanks for posting this!

[adorable]

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)

[MrSunshine]

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

[Spirit Dancer]

Life needs mystery or else everything else flattens into a routine
so familiar you wonder if you will ever get out of the rut. We need
the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Dave Kindred

[Soon]

“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”

--Joni Mitchell
_______________

[always2late]

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." ~ Madeline L'Engle

[Enchantress]

St. Patrick's Day!


May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

[Diva]

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

~Francis Bacon, Sr.

[Diva]

If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.

~Irish Saying

[Diva]

It is easy to be pleasant
when life flows by like a song,
but the one worthwhile is the one who will smile
when everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
and it always comes with years,
and the smile that is worth the praises of earth
is the smile that shines through the tears.

~Irish Saying

[JakeTulane]

"All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river." - Simone Schwarz-Bart

[JakeTulane]

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." - Deepak Chopra

[JakeTulane]

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." -Samuel Smiles

[JakeTulane]

What does Erin go Bragh mean?

The popular phrases "Erin go Bragh" or "Erin go Braugh" mean Ireland forever. It's the anglicised version of the Gaelic phrase which would be known to some Irish Americans (although its English spelling is quite meaningless). The correct spelling is "Éirinn go Brách".

[purepisces]

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. ~ Hermann Hesse, Wandering

[purepisces]

What I know in my bones is that I forgot to take time to remember what I know. The world is holy. We are holy.
All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

[purepisces]

There is religion in everything around us, a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things in Nature. It is a meek and blessed influence, stealing in as it were unaware upon the heart. It comes quickly, and without excitement; it has no terror, no gloom. It does not rouse up the passions. It is untrammeled by creeds. It is written on the arched sky. It looks out from every star. It is on the sailing cloud and in the invisible wind. It is among the hills and valleys of the earth where the shrubless mountain-top pierces the thin atmosphere of eternal winter, or where the mighty forest fluctuates before the strong wind, with its dark waves of green foliage. It is spread out like a legible language upon the broad face of an unsleeping ocean. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us and which opens to our imagination of world of spiritual beauty and holiness. ~ John Ruskin

[Lusciousblondefemme]

This is what I want said as my vows at my wedding ... if i ever get married :) I need to find the right person first i guess :)

I never thought that I could meet someone like you.
You are my friend.
You are my smile.
You are my everything.
You are a breath-taking reflection
of God's heart for me....
of how he pursued me...
and loved me even when I didn't love myself.
You held my hand in the darkness
and you pulled me out into the light.
I love you...

You are my light.
And it doesn't matter what happens
in this life as long as you're with me.
When I look at you, I know that there's a God
and that he loved me so much
that he took the time to create you...just for me.
I love you....past my mind....beyond my heart....
I love you from my soul.
And that's the space where only you and God dwell.

[Leigh]

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back ~ Charlie Brown

[layla]

"Cualquier destino,por largo y complicado que sea,consta en realidad de un solo momento:el momento en que el hombre sabe para siempre quién es." Borges
(Every life destiny as complex as it could be, is made up of one single moment,the moment in which a person finds out, once and for all, who they are.)

[Butterbean]

"The existence of nature, is proof of God." - Aristotle

[Leigh]

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle Me at My worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve Me at My best ~ Marilyn Monroe

[Semantics]

Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile! :)


The Grateful Dead "He's Gone"

[Dean Thoreau]

................ The piano has been drinking............not me....

Tom Wait



thank you loreen for introducing him to me.....

[Hudson]

Pay no attention to those who talk behind your back;
you're ahead of them for a reason.

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” - Fulton J. Sheen

“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” - François de la Rochefoucauld

“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self” - Joan Didion

[Hack]

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- Gandhi

[Duchess]

"That the birds of worry and anxiety fly over our heads,
this you cannot change,
but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."(f)

– Chinese Proverb

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune." ~Boris Pasternak

[JakeTulane]

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." ~Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

[Diva]

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

~Voltaire

[Diva]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

~ Winston Churchill

[afixer]

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[always2late]

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - John W. Gardner

[layla]

"If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear."
Ivo Andric

[Butterbean]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty.
The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and
they who attempt to tread this dangerous ground may be
sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

[Spirit Dancer]

Integrity is telling myself the truth.
And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson

[Spirit Dancer]

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of
as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes
another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.

Lesley Conger

[Duchess]

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is this the good news?"(f)

– William Somerset Maugham and/or Robert Anthony

[Ms. Meander]

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

[Leigh]

"Laugh your heart out. Dance in the rain. Cherish the moment. Ignore the pain. Live, Laugh, Love. Forgive and Forget. Life's too short to be living with regrets."

[Duchess]

"Bitterness does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored . . .
than the vessel on which it is poured."(f)

– Unknown

[Ms. Meander]

Come into me
that way again.

Like a fresh idea
in an artist's mind.

~ Rumi

[Leigh]

"I'm the one that has to die when its time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to" ~ Jimi Hendrix

[Hack]

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. -- Edward R. Murrow

[Leigh]

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste 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

[purepisces]

May your walls know joy; may every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

[moxie]

I just don't want to die without a few scars. - Chuck Palahniuk

[always2late]

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

[violaine]

Pain removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul -

--C.S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.” - Bennett Cerf

[JakeTulane]

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''” - C.S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.” - Charles Kingsley

[JakeTulane]

“The night is my companion...solitude my guide....and I would be the one to hold you down, kiss you so hard, I'll take your breath away...my body aches to breathe your breath, your words keep me alive.” - Sarah McLachlan

[afixer]

"The credit goes to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
~Theodore Roosevelt~

[Butterbean]

"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

-Abraham Lincoln

[MrSunshine]

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

~John Sheffield

[Hack]

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -- Alice Walker

[Leigh]

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Don't try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring for you, coming to see you, or staying attached to you. When people can walk away, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who left.

[Enchantress]

"The earth laughs in flowers"

e. e. cummings

[JakeTulane]

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” - Mother Teresa

[JakeTulane]

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” - Mother Teresa

[JakeTulane]

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself." ~John Muir

[JakeTulane]

"Every season I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.” - Kenneth Cole

[JakeTulane]

"I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever." - Beatrix Potter

[UofMfan]

"No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.

Te amo como la planta que no florece y lleva
dentro de sí, escondida, la luz de aquellas flores,
y gracias a tu amor vive oscuro en mi cuerpo
el apretado aroma que ascendió de la tierra.

Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,

sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres,
tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,
tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño."

Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII

[Spirit Dancer]

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

[Spirit Dancer]

Too often, people make the mistake of believing that if they only had
more money or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking body,
they would feel the sense of "wholeness" they have always craved.
Virtually without exception, this is not the case. What is actually lacking
is the dimension of giving and kindness as a means of nourishing the soul.
To add this dimension to your life is to nourish your soul.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

[Enchantress]

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night...

Rilke

[Butterbean]

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

- Chinese Proverb

[Diva]

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~ Tennessee Williams

[moxie]

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs

[Diva]

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

~ Raymond Hull

[Leigh]

Learn from yesterday.
Live for today.
Hope for tomorrow.

[JakeTulane]

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.- Keanu Reeves

[JakeTulane]

"Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend." - Jason Ritter

[Duchess]

"Most of the time we don't communicate, we just take turns talking."(f)

– Robert Anthony

[Semantics]

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

Rob Brezsny


In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need.

Rob Brezsny

Enjoy saying "no!" but don’t make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses...

Rob Brezsny

[JakeTulane]

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson

[JakeTulane]

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." ~Richard Bach

[JakeTulane]

"Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant." ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

[JakeTulane]

“What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder” - William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist)

[Diva]

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~Dalai Lama

[Diva]

The dew of compassion is a tear.

~ Lord Byron

[Spirit Dancer]

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm
cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people
which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach
this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.

James Allen

[JustLovelyJenn]

"Life is not tired it is merely survived, If your standing outside the fire." -- Garth Brooks

[JustLovelyJenn]

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. --Chinese Proverb

[JustLovelyJenn]

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. --Emily Dickinson

[moxie]

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. - Henry Miller

[Jerseyboi]

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ~Benjamin Franklin

[Lusciousblondefemme]

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true

The worst way to miss someone, is to have them sitting right next to you & you know you can never have them.

In order to be someone, you must first be yourself.

The best proof of love is trust.

[JakeTulane]

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.” - Simone de Beauvoir

[JakeTulane]

“The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.” - Simone Weil

[afixer]

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
- Brian Tracy

[Diva]

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

~ Fredrick Koeing

[Diva]

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

~Eckhart Tolle

[Ms. Meander]

To fly, we have to have resistance.
~ Maya Lin

[purepisces]

...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

[purepisces]

They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 1

[PinkieLee]

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale

[PinkieLee]

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. Deepak Chopra

[PinkieLee]

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Walk in the rain, collect rainbows, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sand castles, watch the moon and stars come out, say hello to everyone, make up new rules, go on adventures, act silly, take bubble baths, hold hands and hug and kiss, dance, laugh and cry for the health of it, feel happy, say the magic words, and trust the universe. Bruce Williamson

[Butterbean]

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
- Leo Buscaglia

[evolveme]

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

- Anais Nin

[Leigh]

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction"


"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together justifying what could've, would've happened .... Or, you can just leave the pieces on the floor, and move the fuck on" ~ Tupac

[Diva]

What makes stupidity really insufferable is that it is forever in action - idiocy knows no rest.

~Unknown

[Leigh]

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is your the pilot" ~ Michael Althsuler


:flying:

[SassyLeo]

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[SassyLeo]

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[Diva]

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~Tennessee Williams

[Diva]

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

~Tom Krause

[Diva]

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

~Mark Victor Hansen

[always2late]

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other" ~ Marquis de Sade

[JakeTulane]

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” - Mother Teresa

[JakeTulane]

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” - Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more” - Anthony Robbins

[PinkieLee]

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James

[PinkieLee]

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on your well-being than any other single factor. Paul Hawken

[PinkieLee]

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different. Stacey Charter

[always2late]

"Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all." - G.K. Chesterton