Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

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[BestButchBoy]

"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them."

[JAGG]

“She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him to protect her, which made him laugh , knowing he truely needed to protect himself from her, she was the only dangerous thing around here . " - Unknown

“He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, it was her, and he knew it. But he was sure she had no idea, and he could never tell her that." -Unkown

“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.”
― The Prolific Penman

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[Fancy]

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Alfred Korzybski

[Rolo]

She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.

- steve maraboli

[BestButchBoy]

"1. Don't waste energy feeling bad for yourself.
2. Surround yourself with people you want to be with.
3. Keep moving forward.
4. Never miss a party if you can help it."



Sam Berns passed away last Friday at age 17 from complications from progeria.

[JAGG]

" I love her smile. She is totally unaware of this, but it's a bad secret keeper. " - Unknown


“He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go."― Veronica Rossi


“... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

[MarquisdeShey]

“She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order?” ~Jarod Kintz

[MarquisdeShey]

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
The Beauty of Life (1880). ~William Morris

[~baby~doll~]

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[Candelion]

The value of thought is measured by its distance from the continuity of the familiar. ~ Adorno

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[JAGG]

"Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours.
She pretended to think on it.”
― Tessa Dare


“You could make me say it again," he whispered. Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. ”
― Courtney Milan



“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.”
― Mary Shelley

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[JAGG]

“I can’t be happy going out if it’s not . . . going anywhere.”
― Daria Snadowsky

“It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.”
― Don Roff

“He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend : “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.”
― Kimberly Novosel

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[silkepus]

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see that you are unarmed.


Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.


There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.


You, minion, are too saucy.


Thou art as loadsome as a toad.



A true literary genius<3

[JAGG]

“If you expect me to read your mind you're going to have to think more clearly.” ― Spuds Crawford


“All I can tell you is to have the relationship that's good for you.” ― Cath Crowley


“Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.” ― Gary Chapman

[LaneyDoll]

“It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.”
― Don Roff

I agree with this 100%

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[Bèsame*]

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire


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[BestButchBoy]

"If you see crazy walking toward you, cross the street."

[Smiling]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."


"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."


"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."


"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."


"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."


"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

[Soon]

"A leader isn't a seeker of consensus, but a molder of consensus."

~ Martin Luther King

[silkepus]

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.



— Maya Angelou

[silkepus]

Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.

Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.

Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.

Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.

Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.

Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.

Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.

Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.

Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in sound.

Billet-doux - a love letter.

Redamancy - act of loving in return.

[JAGG]

" A true leader isn't the one with the most followers, but the one who creates the most leaders." - Unknown


“All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.”
― Matt Dunn


“It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you care about someone.”
― Dennis Lehane

[Rolo]

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

- Jodi Picoult

[kittygrrl]

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

[1TruFemme]

Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over she became a butterfly.

[Smiling]

"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

"The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
- Poppy Z. Brite

"From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.”
- Jaeda DeWalt

"Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.”
- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

"Sleep is the best meditation."
- Dalai Lama

[BestButchBoy]

"We enter relationships looking for love, expecting someone to love us or accept us lovingly. This makes perfectly good sense if you consider that we are each born to express and receive love. In some unfortunate situations, we can want love or acceptance so badly that we will do almost anything to get it. We break love's rules.

What we fail to understand is that we are the love we seek."

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[Genesis]

Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them... - Rumi

[Talon]

Love is the one commodity that multiplies when you give it away......not only is it the sweet mystery of life,
it is the most powerful motivation known to humankind.


~Unknown

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[kittygrrl]

"We lose ourselves in the things we love, we find ourselves there too" martz

[JAGG]

“I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.
You are worth fighting for. The thought of you makes my days brighter and my nights filled with dreams. Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you.” ― Truth Devour, Unrequited


“Never deviate from your path unless you are going to make love in the bushes .....” - Unknown


“Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.”
― Alessandra Torre

[Kobi]

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.”

— bell hooks

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I like this word.

lol, I am memorizing it so next time it happens to me I know what the heck to call it. silkepus, if I had a nickel for every time I've experienced this in my life and been forced to simply suffer in silence because I didn't have vocabulary to express what the heck was happening, I wouldn't need to work anymore!

mamihlapinatapai. Okay, if I can manage to work this into conversation 6 more times today, it will officially be a part of my vocabulary. :giggle:

[Kobi]

I like this word.

lol, I am memorizing it so next time it happens to me I know what the heck to call it. silkepus, if I had a nickel for every time I've experienced this in my life and been forced to simply suffer in silence because I didn't have vocabulary to express what the heck was happening, I wouldn't need to work anymore!

mamihlapinatapai. Okay, if I can manage to work this into conversation 6 more times today, it will officially be a part of my vocabulary. :giggle:



May I suggest the Kobi grad school short cut to memorizing things? Mamihlapinatpai = mapai. Ok I make up my own words.

[Smiling]

May I suggest the Kobi grad school short cut to memorizing things? Mamihlapinatpai = mapai. Ok I make up my own words.



This is how I do it. Break it down into parts....

Mamih = mommy
lap = lap, of course. That could go with mommy. Cranky children?
pinata = piñata
pai = pie. You might have a piece of pie at a birthday party where there may also be a piñata, mommies, cranky children, and laps?

lol, okay, I have issues; but it works. You will remember this word now.
All thanks to me. :)
You're welcome.

[Kobi]

This is how I do it. Break it down into parts....

Mamih = mommy
lap = lap, of course. That could go with mommy. Cranky children?
pinata = piñata
pai = pie. You might have a piece of pie at a birthday party where there may also be a piñata, mommies, cranky children, and laps?

lol, okay, I have issues; but it works. You will remember this word now.
All thanks to me. :)
You're welcome.


I will remember MLPP - mommys lap is a piñata pie.I used acronyms too. We had to memorize a lot of stuff LOL.

[BestButchBoy]

"It is our concern over what others say, do and think about us that imprisons our mind, body and spirit. What other people think about me is not my concern."

[1TruFemme]

Love me or hate me.
I promise it won't make me or break me.

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[C0LLETTE]

My Fave new quote... heard on CNBC the biz channel:

"Headwinds at our back as we move forward":brainsucker:

[Genesis]

My uniqueness is my gift, you cannot contain me, I will stand out and be true to myself no matter the risk, you cannot rob me of my spirit, my dreams or my beliefs, I am a temple of old school values, honor, truthfulness, love, respect, the kind of qualities I will take with me even in death, my inner strength and conviction allow me to open doors that no normal person sees, it allows me to challenge myself, to soar higher than I ever dreamed, I was created to be different, I love that I don’t fit in, I love that I don’t have one category to define me, I am an eclectic mixture of this entire universe, no matter the scenery I can adapt with out compromising the truth of my inner spirit, I keep my words sincere, my love open, the drive I have for service to others is none like any you have been exposed to, I awaken, I am raw words unspoken, the mirror we fear to gaze upon, aiding in the journey for us all to see our true selves; there is no other like me in this world, and I am more than ok with that. ~Will "Story" Rivera

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[JAGG]

“I'll give you everything I've got, and if you need more, I'll find it and give it to you.” ― Nora Roberts


“People get lost when they succeed at talking themselves out of the truth and then, in the desperate attempt to create a new truth, try to talk themselves into a lie.” ― Christian Pilosi


“Life goes on with or without you!”
― Joe Bob Newman

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[Butterbean]

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
- Dr. Seuss

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss

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[Novelafemme]

“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.” ~ Maya Angelou

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[JAGG]

" Sometimes I just want to feel it again. What it feels like to be loved." -Unknown

“As much as I enjoy romance, it’s commitment that I need the most. I need to know a love I can depend on, a love that says, “I will be with you through it all. I love you. And I will love you even when you may not be all that lovable, for sometimes I'm not very lovable either. You can count on me - always. That's what I want.”― Steve Goodier


“If you were mine, I’d make love to you every chance I got, so whenever we were apart, you’d still feel me .” ― Shelly Bell

[Ms. Meander]

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth

That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,

Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.

- Hafiz

[Butterbean]

When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart

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[JAGG]

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”
― Charles Alexander Eastman

“Happy people produce. The unhappy consume.”
― Stephen Richards


“Relationships: If you put up with it, you’re going to end up with it. Set the standard you want and don’t settle for less.”
― Steve Maraboli

[Butterbean]

“She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove”
― T.M. Williams, Bohemian Grove

“...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

[JAGG]

“We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.” ― Gayle Forman


“Love is when you like someone so much you have to call it something else.”
― Marina Fiorato

“There should always be another kiss,and another after that. Fairy tales are even better when they're real .” ― Kim Holden

[Enchantress]

In the end, everyone is aware of this:
Nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.
The best thing was learning not to have too much
either of sorrow or of joy,
to hope for the chance of a last drop,
to ask more from honey and from twilight.

Neruda

[Butterbean]

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

[~baby~doll~]

I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.”
― Anne Lister

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[~baby~doll~]

Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.”
― Anne Lister

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[~baby~doll~]

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein
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[~baby~doll~]

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

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[~baby~doll~]

I do not own those I love. They decide to serve Me.

Helen

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[JAGG]

“You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.” ― Harriet Evans


“Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”― Jonathan Safran Foer


“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.” ― Morrie Schwartz

[Rolo]

"Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us."
Julio Cortázar

[weatherboi]

“It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.”

Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

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[weatherboi]

“…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.”

Kate Bornstein

[Smiling]

A great Japanese warrior named Nobunaga decided to attack the enemy although he had only one-tenth the number of men the opposition commanded. He knew that he would win, but his soldiers were in doubt.

On the way he stopped at a Shinto shrine and told his men: "After I visit the shrine I will toss a coin. If heads comes, we will win; if tails, we will lose. Destiny holds us in her hand."

Nobunaga entered the shrine and offered a silent prayer. He came forth and tossed a coin. Heads appeared. His soldiers were so eager to fight that they won their battle easily.

"No one can change the hand of destiny," his attendant told him after the battle.

"Indeed not," said Nobunaga, showing a coin which had been doubled, with heads facing either way.


Source: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/62inthehandsofdestiny.html

[Butterbean]

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

“How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Kobi]

“Too often, “forgive and forget” means “pretend it didn’t happen.”
— Susan Forward, Toxic Parents

“Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can put her body. They define precisely the dimensions of her physical freedom. And of course the relationship between physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.”
— Andrea Dworkin’s Woman Hating

[Degotoga]

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison

[JAGG]

" Holding you fixes everything! " - Holly Gainer


“Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.”― T.R. Wallace



"Reality and your dreams are not the same thing. Unless you can find the line that divides them and erase it. " - Unknown

[MegBluEyz]

“Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is simply to do your work…sacredly, secretly, and silently…and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, will respond.”
–Arcturian

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Rolo]

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle Roper

[Genesis]

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[ahk]

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?--Khalil Gibran

[Kobi]

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[ahk]

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

[~baby~doll~]

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[Butterbean]

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda


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

“I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”
― Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied

“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

[Degotoga]

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

[JAGG]

“Time is like magic, it's there but it's not there.” ― Jerril Thomas


“When you love to the point where you don't even have utter the words "I love you". When it is felt with the eyes, heard in through their smile and seen whenever their touch graces your body. That is real love.” ― Darion Bentley


“Reason is not what decides love.”
― Molière

[silkepus]

help me, i am trapped

in a haiku factory

save me, before they

[Butterbean]

“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

[ahk]

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JAGG]

“People say you can tell you're in love with someone when you find it impossible to get that person out of your mind.” ― Satosumi Takaguchi


" Opposites attract, that may be true, but I highly doubt they live happily ever after. I don't think they could live happily for even 6 weeks. "- Unknown


" Don't judge a person by their family." - Unknown

[Rolo]

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis

[Kobi]

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[Hey You]

Don't close your eyes 'cause your future's ready to shine
It's just a matter of time, before we learn how to fly

(Owl City, When can I see you again)

[Butterbean]

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

[Degotoga]

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."
- C. JoyBell C.

[JAGG]

“I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.”― Ashley Beale


“ I barely know you, but I can't see anything remotely unworthy about you. Any woman would be lucky to have your love, not to mention that body, I mean BRAIN !!! Of course I meant brain ." ― Karen Peirce


"You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.”
― Simona Panova

[Butterbean]

“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.”
― Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

[Rolo]

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
- Audrey Hepburn

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
- Barbara de Angelis

[Degotoga]

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JAGG]

" If you can't find any hope in your despair, don't worry hope will find you ! Just remember this, when you are down to nothing, that means the universe is up to something.” - Unknown

“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the love I longed for , yet hoping for it just the same.” ― Elizabeth Berg


" Be brave, and great forces will come to your aid. " - Unknown

[Rolo]

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
- Sarah Ockler

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?
- Billy Connolly

[Butterbean]

“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

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

[ahk]

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.--Lillian Hellman

[Degotoga]

"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me."
- Steve Maraboli

[C0LLETTE]

"Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Alloy and Abramson] that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased."

Wikipedia

i.e. In theory, Depressives may be the only ones amongst us that are not in denial.

[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[JAGG]

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

" How far would you go to keep love alive? Ask me that question and I will show you." -Unknown


" I bet you would be very happy in my arms." -Unknown

[Genesis]

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." - Alice Walker

[Janstevie]

I'm planning on having my favourite drink this weekend, it's called, a lot.

[Butterbean]

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall


Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway


Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare


There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin


Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. ~Zig Ziglar

[JAGG]

“I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, integrity, love.”
― Unknown


" A strong will is all the strength you will ever need." -Unknown


“Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.”
― K.L. Toth

[Genesis]

Maybe my beliefs aren't your beliefs ~
Maybe my way of seeing the world isn't your way ~
Maybe my dreams seem to high ~
Maybe my hopes and faith seem silly ~
Maybe what I see as pretty you don't ~
Maybe my idea of love seems unrealistic ~
Maybe my aspirations seem to far out there ~
That's okay ~ They are after all mine ~
So I will believe in what I feel is true ~ I will see the world for what it can be ~ I will dream as high as my dreams can reach ~ I will hope and have faith until my last breath ~ I will see beauty in nature and seek it in others and I will keep my beliefs and aspirations alive ~ for love gives my life it's breath and fuels my passion. - C.Nordyke

[C0LLETTE]

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - A Midsummer Nights Dream

[DMW]

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Butterbean]

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
― Andrew Davidson

[JAGG]

" Many of you spend your time searching for happiness, or waiting for it to find you, as if it were some place else." - Unknown


“The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.”
― Stephen Richards


“Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. ”
― Maery Rubin

[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Butterbean]

“What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
― Maya Angelou

[Degotoga]

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[JAGG]

" I'm blessed if I do, and blessed if I don't." - Debbie Campbell

“Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES' today.” ― M. Howson

“As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.”
― Winston Churchill

[Rolo]

She talks about you like you put the stars in the sky.
- Unknown

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[lamuymuyfem]

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

[ahk]

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

[Butterbean]

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[JAGG]

“ Love isn't just a word. And it angers me how much people toss it around, until it has little or no meaning. If people are going to say, "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. And also if you are going to tell someone you love them, make sure they have earned it. ”
― C. JoyBell C.


“Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.”
― C. JoyBell C.


“People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.”
― Ruti Yudovich

[MegBluEyz]

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing. ”
― Brian Andreas

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Butterbean]

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

[ahk]

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

[Genesis]

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[JAGG]

" New love gives rise to the possibility of anything. " - Stephan Rhodes


" You know I am worth the effort, so what is your problem?" - Mark Graves


“Happiness is a decision . Love is a decision. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love.”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

[Degotoga]

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Selenay]

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her...”
― J.K. Rowling

One day I just said, "Hey, what if this is it? What if this is just what I look like, and nothing I do changes that? So how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second every time I look in the mirror to call myself a big fat fuck? How much time would I save? How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders? How much time would I save?"

And it turns out I save about 97 minutes a week.
I can take a pottery class.

-Margaret Cho

[Butterbean]

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
― Langston Hughes

[Janstevie]

One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.

[BestButchBoy]

"Have that snowflake assassinated" -Putin

[ahk]

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.--Mark Twain

[Butterbean]

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”

-Gertrude Stein

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”

-Gertrude Stein


“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

-Gertrude Stein

[Jet]

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”

-Gertrude Stein

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”

-Gertrude Stein


“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

-Gertrude Stein

You forgot one:
"America is my country and Paris is my hometown." —Gertrude Stein

[Jet]

"Fight fear like the plague." —Jesus (a private message to Two Listeners, God Calling, 1936)

[Jet]

“Vos ancêtres ont brûlé Jeanne d’Arc!” (‘Your ancestors burned Joan of Arc.’ ”) —An intoxicated French ambassador.
"Well, someone had to do it." —Helena Rubenstein, cosmetics entrepreneur and millionairess.

[Jet]

Our Lord Jesus Christ made twelve promises to those who honor His Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French nun, whom he called “the Beloved Disciple of the Sacred Heart” and the Heiress “of all Its treasures”, in the 1670’s.

In the apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Jesus gave these twelve promises for those who are devoted to His Sacred Heart.

And I quote:

• I will give them all the graces necessary for their state of life.
• I will establish peace in their families.
• I will console them in all their troubles.
• They shall find in My Heart an assured refuge during life and especially at the hour of their death.
• I will pour abundant blessings on all their undertakings.
• Sinners shall find in My Heart the source of an infinite ocean of mercy.
• Tepid souls shall become fervent.
• Fervent souls shall speedily rise to great perfection.
• I will bless the homes where an image of My Heart shall be exposed and honored.
• I will give to priests the power of touching the most hardened hearts.
• Those who propagate this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be effaced.
• The all-powerful love of My Heart will grant to all those who shall receive Communion on the First Friday of nine consecutive months the grace of final repentance; they shall not die under my displeasure, nor without receiving their Sacraments; My heart shall be their assured refuge at that last hour.

"Look at this Heart which has loved men so much, and yet men do not want to love Me in return. Through you My divine Heart wishes to spread its love everywhere on earth."—Jesus

[kittygrrl]

"Life is simple, it's just not easy" anon

[C0LLETTE]

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto

[Soon]

"There is no doubt we wanted to make it very clear that we do not abide by discrimination in anything, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. One of the wonderful things about the Olympics is that you are judged by your merit, how good you are regardless of where you come from, what you look like, who you love and that I think is consistent with the spirit of the Olympics," - President Obama, speaking to NBC last night.

[C0LLETTE]

That Putin rap you posted is great, Soon.

[kittygrrl]

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

[JAGG]

" Make your decisions based on how much you desire to live with the consequences." - Unknown

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”
― Bohdi Sanders


“ Do you want happiness and success, beyond your wildest dreams? How about, a peaceful life full of harmony as well? Then never see yourself as a victim ." - Unknown

[Kobi]

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[Butterbean]

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

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[Katniss]

Love Compared By Nizar Qabbani


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

[JAGG]

" If you want to hit a homerun, you have to step up to the plate ."- Unknown

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[~baby~doll~]

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"I look at the starlight,
I am shattered by the night
Always run where I can and
I hide where I wanna hide
But it feels so right,
I want it tonight
It feels so right"
Camila Gray

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[Butterbean]

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison

“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

“All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

[puddin']

"he was loving, right up until the second he wasn't." ~abigail hobbs, "hannibal"

[Talon]

Only passions...GREAT passions...can elevate the soul to GREAT things.



~Diderot

[JAGG]

“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Unknown


“The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire." -Casi Mclean

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
― Malala Yousafzai

[ahk]

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.--Anais Nin

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[Talon]

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear....not the absence of fear.



--Mark Twain

[Butterbean]

Crying relieves pressure on soul.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Grace under pressure.”
― Ernest Hemingway

[ahk]

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.--Phyllis Diller

[JAGG]

“ You can't give someone self-esteem. They have to build it themselves .”
― Randy Pausch


“No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.”
― Paul Hoffmann



“Judging is the cause that creates the effect of choosing.”
― Joey Lawsin

[Electrocell]

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

King Lear


I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Shakira




The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Stephen King

[Blade]

“Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.”
― Michelle Richardson

[Blade]

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”

[Blade]

“I will always find a way and a way will always find me.”

[BestButchBoy]

"Your unique gift to the world simply cannot be given if you’re worried about the nature of the gift. You are here to shake things up and create something that nobody else can. Stop holding yourself back. Let your fingerprints glimmer under the black light of everything you love. Seize your life by seizing the day by seizing the moment. Fall in love with yourself all over again. Be fierce. Be brilliant. Be extraordinary. But first, let yourself be worthy."

[Electrocell]

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. ~William Dean Howells

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass

[Butterbean]

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.”
― Bonnie Hunt

[JAGG]

“Persistance is the quality of winners.”
― Lynda Field

“I do not regret one moment of my life.”
― Lillie Langtry


“Love is something you must give, in order to have.”
― Nakia R. Laushaul

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