Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Butterbean]

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

-Buddha

[Duchess]

"Character isn't simply inherited. We build it daily by the way we think and act, thought by thought, action by action. If we let fear, anger, or resentment take possession of our mind, these thoughts and actions become self-forged chains. . . chains of habit that are often too light to be felt until they feel too heavy to be broken."(f)

– Adapted from Helen Douglas and Warren Buffet

[Duchess]

Variety is the condition of harmony.(f)

Thomas Carlyle (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Thomas&Author_Last_Name=Carlyle&Movie=)
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

[MrSunshine]

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

[Enchantress]

"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”

~ Kahlil Gibran

[purepisces]

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. ~ Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[purepisces]

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. ~ James Taylor

[purepisces]

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ~ William Styron

[Leigh]

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets

[moxie]

I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

-Fritz Perls

[Jet]

Take the ribbon from my hair
Shake it loose and let it fall
Layin' soft against your skin
Like the shadow on the wall

Come and lay down by ma side
Till the early mornin' light
All I'm takin' is your time
Help me make it through the night

I don't care what's right or wrong
'n' I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
Lord, tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night

And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night

I don't want to be alone
Help me make it through the night

Help Me Make It Through the Night —Kris Kristofferson

[moxie]

In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm

[Hack]

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached. -- Buddha

[Soft*Silver]

just to teach you patience and tolerance oh furless one, I will lay on your lap and ignore you because you laughed at me for falling off the back of the couch while I was asleep....matching my compassion with your rudeness...

Mr Smitty the smug one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[JakeTulane]

"Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." ~Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods." ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957

[JakeTulane]

"Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain -
and most importantly, seeds."
~Grey Livingston

[Diva]

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

~ Albert Schweitzer

[Diva]

Good character is the best tombstone.
Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

~ Charles Spurgeon

[Arwen]

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish. -Evelyn Waugh, novelist (1903-1966)

[Arwen]

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
-Marion Wright Edelman

[Butterbean]

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."

- Theodore Parker

[Arwen]

"Live truth instead of professing it."
-Elbert Hubbard

[Duchess]

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.(f)

Louisa May Alcott (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Louisa+May&Author_Last_Name=Alcott&Movie=)
1832-1888, American Author

[always2late]

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

[Ms. Meander]

I may be a hot mess, but that is only because I am on FIRE.
~ me

:tease:

[Butterbean]

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

-Mahatma Gandhi

[always2late]

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." - Elizabeth Foley

[Diva]

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.:bouquet:

~William A. Ward

[Diva]

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~John F. Kennedy

[JakeTulane]

"Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand." - Lakhdar Brahimi

[JakeTulane]

"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all."
~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933

[JakeTulane]

"For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow."
~Rosemonde Gerard

[adorable]

"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. "
~Barbara Kingsolver

[Charming Texan]

Control your destiny or somebody else will. - Jack Welch

[Jerseyboi]

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

[JakeTulane]

"If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other." ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

[Leigh]

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire

[JustLovelyJenn]

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.” -- Author Unknown

[moxie]

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung

[JustLovelyJenn]

“Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it.” --Author Unknown

[afixer]

"I wouldn't want to live in that world, but it was fun to walk around on moon for a day." Elliott Smith

[afixer]

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
- HST

[Diva]

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

~Pope John XXIII

[Butterbean]

"I write the type of books I want to read."

-Toni Morrison

[MrSunshine]

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

[purepisces]

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. ~ Andrew M. Greeley

[purepisces]

I am here again, in a familiar place feeling something I've felt before, wondering why it's still here, why I didn't deal with it more fully before. But I'm glad I have a second chance at it ... and I know that if I need a third chance, I'll get it. I also know that if it comes up again, I'll recognize it sooner and deal with it more readily. This is growth. And, I am happy to be alive. ~ Jan Denise

[always2late]

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

[Jet]

On a quiet street in the city a little old man walks along.
Shuffling through the Autumn afternoon.
And the Autumn leaves reminded him another summer's come and gone.
He had a long, lonely night ahead waitin' for June.

Then among the leaves near an orphan's home a piece of paper caught his eye,
And he stooped to pick it up with trembling hands.
And as he read the childish writing, the old man began to cry,
'Cause the words burned inside him like a flame.

"Whoever finds this, I love you!"
"Whoever finds this, I need you!"
"I ain't even got no one to talk to!"
"So, Whoever finds this, I love you!"

The old man's eyes searched the orphan's home,
And cam to rest upon a child with her nose pressed
up against the window pane.

And the old man knew he'd found a friend, at last,
So he waved at her and smiled.
And they both knew they'd spend the winter laughing at the rain.

And they did spend the summer laughing at the rain,
talking through the fence, exchanging little gifts they'd made for each other.
The old man would carve toys for the little girl,
and she would draw pictures for him of beautiful ladies surrounded
by green trees and sunshine, and they laughed alot.

But then on the first day of June, the little girl ran to the fence to show the man a picture
she had drawn, BUT HE WASN'T THERE!
And somehow, the little girl knew he wasn't coming back.
So she went back to her little room,
took out a crayola and a piece of paper, and wrote:

"Whoever finds this, I love you!"
"Whoever finds this, I need you!"
"I don't even have no one to talk to."
"So, whoever finds this, I love you!


Whoever Finds This I Love You —Mac Davis

[Blade]

Never does a man stand so tall, as when he stoops to help a child.

[Jet]

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

Hello In There —John Prine (best known by Bette Midler)

[moxie]

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. - Virginia Satir

[Jet]

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.
Up vistaed hopes I sped;
And shot, precipitated,
Adown Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears,
From those strong Feet that followed, followed after.
But with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
They beat -- and a voice beat
More instant than the Feet --
"All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."
I pleaded, outlaw-wise,
By many a hearted casement, curtained red,
Trellised with intertwining charities;
(For, though I knew His love Who followèd,
Yet was I sore adread
Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside.)
But, if one little casement parted wide,
The gust of his approach would clash it to :
Fear wist not to evade, as Love wist to pursue.
Across the margent of the world I fled,
And troubled the gold gateways of the stars,
Smiting for shelter on their clangèd bars ;
Fretted to dulcet jars
And silvern chatter the pale ports o' the moon.
I said to Dawn : Be sudden -- to Eve : Be soon ;
With thy young skiey blossoms heap me over
From this tremendous Lover--
Float thy vague veil about me, lest He see !
I tempted all His servitors, but to find
My own betrayal in their constancy,
In faith to Him their fickleness to me,
Their traitorous trueness, and their loyal deceit.
To all swift things for swiftness did I sue ;
Clung to the whistling mane of every wind.
But whether they swept, smoothly fleet,
The long savannahs of the blue ;
Or whether, Thunder-driven,
They clanged his chariot 'thwart a heaven,
Plashy with flying lightnings round the spurn o' their feet :--
Fear wist not to evade as Love wist to pursue.
Still with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
Came on the following Feet,
And a Voice above their beat--
"Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me."
I sought no more that after which I strayed,
In face of man or maid ;
But still within the little children's eyes
Seems something, something that replies,
They at least are for me, surely for me !
I turned me to them very wistfully ;
But just as their young eyes grew sudden fair
With dawning answers there,
Their angel plucked them from me by the hair.
"Come then, ye other children, Nature's -- share
With me" (said I) "your delicate fellowship ;
Let me greet you lip to lip,
Let me twine with you caresses,
Wantoning
With our Lady-Mother's vagrant tresses,
Banqueting
With her in her wind-walled palace,
Underneath her azured daïs,
Quaffing, as your taintless way is,
From a chalice
Lucent-weeping out of the dayspring."
So it was done :
I in their delicate fellowship was one --
Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies.
I knew all the swift importings
On the wilful face of skies ;
I knew how the clouds arise
Spumèd of the wild sea-snortings ;
All that's born or dies
Rose and drooped with ; made them shapers
Of mine own moods, or wailful or divine ;
With them joyed and was bereaven.
I was heavy with the even,
When she lit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities.
I laughed in the morning's eyes.
I triumphed and I saddened with all weather,
Heaven and I wept together,
And its sweet tears were salt with mortal mine ;
Against the red throb of its sunset-heart
I laid my own to beat,
And share commingling heat ;
But not by that, by that, was eased my human smart.
In vain my tears were wet on Heaven's grey cheek.
For ah ! we know not what each other says,
These things and I ; in sound I speak--
Their sound is but their stir, they speak by silences.
Nature, poor stepdame, cannot slake my drouth ;
Let her, if she would owe me,
Drop yon blue bosom-veil of sky, and show me
The breasts o' her tenderness ;
Never did any milk of hers once bless
My thirsting mouth.
Nigh and nigh draws the chase,
With unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy ;
And past those noisèd Feet
A Voice comes yet more fleet --
"Lo ! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me."
Naked I wait thy Love's uplifted stroke !
My harness piece by piece Thou hast hewn from me,
And smitten me to my knee ;
I am defenceless utterly.
I slept, methinks, and woke,
And, slowly gazing, find me stripped in sleep.
In the rash lustihead of my young powers,
I shook the pillaring hours
And pulled my life upon me ; grimed with smears,
I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years --
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.
Yea, faileth now even dream
The dreamer, and the lute the lutanist ;
Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy twist
I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist,
Are yielding ; cords of all too weak account
For earth with heavy griefs so overplussed.
Ah ! is Thy love indeed
A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed,
Suffering no flowers except its own to mount ?
Ah ! must --
Designer infinite !--
Ah ! must Thou char the wood ere Thou canst limn with it ?
My freshness spent its wavering shower i' the dust ;
And now my heart is as a broken fount,
Wherein tear-drippings stagnate, spilt down ever
From the dank thoughts that shiver
Upon the sighful branches of my mind.
Such is ; what is to be ?
The pulp so bitter, how shall taste the rind ?
I dimly guess what Time in mists confounds ;
Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
From the hid battlements of Eternity ;
Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then
Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again.
But not ere him who summoneth
I first have seen, enwound
With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned ;
His name I know, and what his trumpet saith.
Whether man's heart or life it be which yields
Thee harvest, must Thy harvest-fields
Be dunged with rotten death ?
Now of that long pursuit
Comes on at hand the bruit ;
That Voice is round me like a bursting sea :
"And is thy earth so marred,
Shattered in shard on shard ?
Lo, all things fly thee, for thou fliest me !
"Strange, piteous, futile thing !
Wherefore should any set thee love apart ?
Seeing none but I makes much of naught" (He said),
"And human love needs human meriting :
How hast thou merited --
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot ?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art !
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee,
Save Me, save only Me ?
All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms,
But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.
All which thy child's mistake
Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home :
Rise, clasp My hand, and come !"
Halts by me that footfall :
Is my gloom, after all,
Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly ?
"Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest,
I am He Whom thou seekest !
Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me."

The Hound from Heaven —Francis Thomas

__________________________________________________ _______________
'The name is strange. It startles one at first. It is so bold, so new, so fearless. It does not attract, rather the reverse. But when one reads the poem this strangeness disappears. The meaning is understood. As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with unhurrying and imperturbed pace, so does God follow the fleeing soul by His Divine grace. And though in sin or in human love, away from God it seeks to hide itself, Divine grace follows after, unwearyingly follows ever after, till the soul feels its pressure forcing it to turn to Him alone in that never ending pursuit.
—The Neumann Press Book of Verse, 1988

[afixer]

I’ve had my share, I drank my fill and even though I’m satisfied, I’m hungry still.
To see what’s down another road, beyond a hill and do it all again.
So here’s to life and every joy it brings.
Here’s to life, to dreamers and their dreams.
May all your storms be weathered and all that’s good get better.
Here’s to life.
Here’s to love.
Here’s to you.
~ Shirley Horn

[Hack]

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. -- Stephen Wright

[JakeTulane]

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." -Mother Teresa

[JakeTulane]

"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.' - Mohandas Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." - Helen Keller

[Mister Bent]

Sunday morning in Central Park, chilly September:
I stood, hungry, packed shoulder to shoulder with strangers,
feeling like one of the huddled, shivering Antarctic penguins
I'd observed, over Burmese takeout, on a nature show.
Their life seemed futile, like mine: eat, shit, molt, mate.

From The Human Realm, by Lisa Bellamy

[Butterbean]

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

- Baruch Spinoza

[JakeTulane]

"Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.” - Bill Russell

[JakeTulane]

"Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head” - Ann Landers

[MrSunshine]

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

~Hugh White


Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

~James A. Froude


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

[Butterbean]

We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky. - Shawnee Proverb

[Ms. Meander]

I need to remember to overcome.
~ Isabel Allende
(oh yeah - silly me! i forgot to overcome yesterday!)



You are the storyteller of your own life and you can create your own legend or not.
~ Isabel Allende

[moxie]

“It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous” - Friedrich Nietzsche

[Spirit Dancer]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

[Spirit Dancer]

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
Author: William Harvey

[Fancy]

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jet]

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Children make your life important.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes,
sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest,"
you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my
husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion.
It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

God created man, but I could do better.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

___________________

All quotes by Erma Bombeck

[Fancy]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." ~ Plato

[Charming Texan]

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. - Emily Bronte

[Butterbean]

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." ~James Thurber

[JakeTulane]

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck

[JakeTulane]

"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it." - Yukio Mishima

[JakeTulane]

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." - Buddha

[Diva]

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.

~Buddha

[Diva]

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

~T. S. Elliott

[Spirit Dancer]

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

[Spirit Dancer]

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs

[Spirit Dancer]

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes

[PinkieLee]

I'll sing to you of silver swans, of kingdoms and carillons. I'll sing of bodies intertwined underneath an innocent sky

[PinkieLee]

"Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of 'last looks'. You know the way people look at you when they believe it's for the last time? I've started collecting these looks."

[violaine]

the clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness -


trees 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


we thought, i want to do what John Muir did -
-- Peter Thomas

[Glenn]

A woman's heart will not change with time or season; even if it dies eternally, it will never perish. A woman's heart is like a field turned into a battleground; after all the trees are uprooted and the grass is burned and the rocks are reddened with blood and the earth is planted with bones and skulls, it is calm and silent as if nothing has happened; for the spring and autumn come at their intervals and resume their work.- Kahlil Gibran

[Diva]

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. :girlonatv:

~Eustache Deschamps

[JakeTulane]

“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

[JakeTulane]

“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist” - Marquis De Sade

[Diva]

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

~ Thomas Haliburton, 19th Century Canadian writer

[Jerseyboi]

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ~Billy Wilder

[SassyLeo]

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

--Alice Walker

[afixer]

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."

EA Opheliac
WS Hamlet, "Letter to Ophelia"

[Mister Bent]

The Weight
by Linda Gregg

Two horses were put together in the same paddock.
Night and day. In the night and in the day
wet from heat and the chill of the wind
on it. Muzzle to water, snorting, head swinging
and the taste of bay in the shadowed air.
The dignity of being. They slept that way,
knowing each other always.
Withers quivering for a moment,
fetlock and the proud rise at the base of the tail,
width of back. The volume of them, and each other's weight.
Fences were nothing compared to that.
People were nothing. They slept standing,
their throats curved against the other's rump.
They breathed against each other,
whinnied and stomped.
There are things they did that I do not know.
The privacy of them had a river in it.
Had our universe in it. And the way
its border looks back at us with its light.
This was finally their freedom.
The freedom an oak tree knows.
That is built at night by stars.

[Duchess]

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."(f)

– Winston Churchill

[moxie]

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” - Edgar Allan Poe

[JakeTulane]

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle

[JakeTulane]

“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life” - Aphra Behn

[JakeTulane]

“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

[Spirit Dancer]

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver

[Spirit Dancer]

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect.
We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U. Thant

[Duchess]

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.(f)

Arnold Toynbee (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Arnold&Author_Last_Name=Toynbee&Movie=)
1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer

[Butterbean]

The journey is the reward
.
-Chinese Proverb

[always2late]

"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible." - Rita Dove

[Hack]

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers

[JakeTulane]

"Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride." - William Gass

[SassyLeo]

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

--Lily Tomlin

[Diva]

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'

~C. S. Lewis

[adorable]

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker; and a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker." ~Anonymous

[Hack]

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. --Virginia Woolf

[HeartBreak Kid]

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

[HeartBreak Kid]

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes

[sylvie]

A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare

[violaine]

to have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self -

Hamilton Wright Mabie --


this severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy -

Charles Gounod --

[violaine]

life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces -

the moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself -
Henry Miller -

[Soon]

Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you.
Act for yourself.
Face the truth.


Katherine Mansfield

[JakeTulane]

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"

[JakeTulane]

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." ~Saul Bellow

[JakeTulane]

"It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?" ~Lord Byron

[JakeTulane]

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened."
~T.S. Eliot

[Fancy]

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."
~Ralph Nichols


(April is National Autism Awareness Month ~ there couldn't be a better time to reach out and understand.)

[Hack]

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein

[sylvie]

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

[always2late]

"The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road." - Isak Dinesen

[always2late]

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." ~ Unknown

[Ms. Meander]

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

~ Toni Morrison

[purepisces]

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu

[EthanGaBoy]

"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. "
— Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat)

[HeartBreak Kid]

Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and suck forever.
~unknown~
:2nddaywalker:


Roses are red,
the sun is gold.
Get on your knees,
and do as you're told.
~unknown~
:spank:


At one time or another I have insulted everybody, and I am proud of that. Folks, let me sum it up for you: I think religion is bad, and drugs are good. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun and young people should be discouraged from voting. I think stereotypes are true, abstinence is a pervsion, Bushs lies are worse than Clintons and there is nothing sexy about being old or pregnant. I think 9-11 changed nothing, and if I had known the onset of war would add a hundred points on to Bushs IQ, I would have started one. I think pornography stops rape, I think AIDS ribbons are stupid, and flag burning makes me feel patriotic. I think death is not the worst thing that can happen. I think people have too much self-esteem, and being drunk is funny. I think children are not innocent, God doesnt write books, and Jesus wasnt a republican. I am for mad cow disease, and against suing tobacco companies. I think girls hate each other, no doesnt always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, womens sports are boring, and the Olympics are gay.
:overreaction:
~Bill Maher~

[Butterbean]

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown

[EthanGaBoy]

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ~ Thomas Carlyle :cowboihorse:

"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. "
— Jerome K. Jerome

ETHAN

[always2late]

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

[JakeTulane]

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn



always.. I could not just "thank you" for this post. These words ring so true.. but now you, indeed.. nor I.... thank you for posting this at just the right time.

[JakeTulane]

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” - Alexander Graham Bell

[JakeTulane]

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment” - Carl Sandburg

[JakeTulane]

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.” - Jan Myrdal

[Hack]

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

[adorable]

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Diva]

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

~Thomas Merton

[Hack]

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 who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
-- Jack Kerouac

[moxie]

“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.” - Chuck Palahniuk

[JakeTulane]

"You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel." - Author Unknown

[Diva]

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

~Brigham Young

[Diva]

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

~Voltaire

[Butterbean]

" If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
- Buddha

[JakeTulane]

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."- Ansel Adams

[JakeTulane]

“Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” - Hans Christian Andersen

[JakeTulane]

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." ~William Shakespeare

[always2late]

"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

[Diva]

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our tears, our highest aspiration?

~Jane Swan (b. 1943)





Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

[moxie]

“They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.” - Henry Rollins

[violaine]

i'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. the songs within the album discuss that very condition --

-- Robert Plant

[moxie]

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

[Diva]

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Diva]

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

~Paul Broca

[Diva]

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

~Henry Winkler

[bigbutchmistie]

“They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.” - Henry Rollins

I know exactly how that feels :)

[JakeTulane]

“Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.” - Lao Tzu

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.” - Adrienne Rich

[Diva]

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion.

~G. W. F. Hegel

[Butterbean]

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire

[adorable]

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

~Arnold Bennett

[Butterbean]

Adorable, the quote you posted reminded me of my all time favorite quote:

"To know and not to do, is not yet to know."

-Buddha






“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”

~Arnold Bennett

[Spirit Dancer]

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves.
It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like
the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

John B. Sheerin

[Spirit Dancer]

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them,
or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

John Ruskin





We don't stop playing because we turn old,
but turn old because we stop playing.

Satchel Paige

[Andrew, Jr.]

Beauty is short-lived tyranny.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for the content is the wealth of nature.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.


:wateringgarden: :artist:

[moxie]

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” - Henry Rollins

[Forgetmenotfemme]

All justice and truth shall prevail

[SassyLeo]

“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”

-Anne Lamott

[Duchess]

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.(f)

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

[Duchess]

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.(f)

George Bernard Shaw (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=George+Bernard&Author_Last_Name=Shaw&Movie=)
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

[Duchess]

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.(f)

Jewish Proverbs (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=&Author_Last_Name=Jewish+Proverbs&Movie=)
Sayings of Jewish Origin

[Jet]

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. —Charles Dickens

[Diva]

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

~Thomas Paine

[Spirit Dancer]

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated,
means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

Nell Newman

[Spirit Dancer]

Mindfulness makes our eyes, our heart, our non-toothache, the moon, and the trees
deep and beautiful. And when we touch our suffering with mindfulness, we begin
to transform it. Mindfulness is like a mother holding her baby in her arms and caring
for her baby’s pain. When our pain is held by mindfulness it loses some of its strength. . . .
Mindfulness recognizes what is there, and concentration allows you to be deeply
present with whatever it is. Concentration is the ground of happiness.
If you live twenty-four hours a day in mindfulness and concentration, one day is a lot.
Thich Nhat Hanh

[Tommi]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

[JakeTulane]

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.” - Rumi

[JakeTulane]

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." - Louisa May Alcott

[JakeTulane]

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott

[Ldyluck88]

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon

[Butterbean]

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

- William Shakespeare

[always2late]

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." - John Churton Collins

[moxie]

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” - Henry Rollins

[firie]

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
~Bruce Lee

[afixer]

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-William Shakespeare

[JakeTulane]

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln

[JakeTulane]

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." - Alan Cohen

[Spirit Dancer]

The beauty is forever there before us,
forever piping to us, and we
are forever failing to dance. We
could not help but dance if we
could see things as they really are.
Then we should kiss both hands
to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts,
minds, and souls into life with
a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush
the hem of the real beauty and joy
and wonder that are always there.

Margaret Prescott Montague

[JakeTulane]

"One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding." - Alice Walker

[Fancy]

"You know, I made this card for my mom because I love her. I have been loving her for 8 years now. Thats a long time."

~My son told his Sunday school teacher yesterday

:)

[HeartBreak Kid]

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and the preceptor of his time.

~Bethune, Norman~

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way.

~Grau, Shirley Ann ~

[Diva]

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

[Butterbean]

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

-American Indian Proverb, Maricopa

[Random]

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -Rumi

[afixer]

Bluebird - Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.


...more (http://plagiarist.com/poetry/137/)


read by Bukowski (http://vodpod.com/watch/537075-charles-bukowski-bluebird-)

[Butterbean]

Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews. 10
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast, 15
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate. 20
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust: 30
The grave 's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires 35
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power. 40
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun 45
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

[Hack]

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. -- Pablo Picasso

[always2late]

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo

[Mister Bent]

"It is a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." - Margaret L'Engle

[Corkey]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". ...Einstein

[Corkey]

Just because you ask a question, it doesn't mean you are entitled to an answer. Me

[moxie]

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title” - Virginia Woolf

[Diva]

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package.

~Unknown

[Duchess]

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.(f)

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

[Duchess]

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.(f)

Ken Keyes Jr. (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Ken&Author_Last_Name=Keyes+Jr.&Movie=)
1921-1995, American Author

[HeartBreak Kid]

Life Truism #1: Being last on the list sucks all around.Even for the list makers. But if there's a list, someone has to be last!........AND really it's the list's fault when you think about it......:chaplin:

[Enchantress]

“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”

~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

[Forgetmenotfemme]

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

[Forgetmenotfemme]

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney

[Forgetmenotfemme]

What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

[always2late]

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." ~ Helen Keller

[NJFemmie]

Holding on to negative connotations as a means of empowerment is another way of saying you fear personal evolution and growth.

[Duchess]

Never drive faster than your gaurdian angel can fly.(f)

unknown unknown (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=unknown&Author_Last_Name=unknown&Movie=)

[JakeTulane]

"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right." ~John Donne

[JakeTulane]

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

[Diva]

The word "romance," according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

~Billy Graham

[Diva]

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

~ Joseph Campbell

[JakeTulane]

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." - Arthur Miller

[PinkieLee]

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

~Claudia Ghandi

[PinkieLee]

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

[Duchess]

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.(f)

Francois De La Rochefoucauld (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Francois+De&Author_Last_Name=La+Rochefoucauld&Movie=)
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

[Butterbean]

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. "

-Abraham Lincoln

[Spirit Dancer]

there's no fool like an old fool
unknown

[MrSunshine]

stupid is as stupid does

~Gump

[Spirit Dancer]

Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.

Albert Einstein

[Spirit Dancer]

It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself.

Duc de la Rochefoucauld

[adorable]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Plato

[BestButchBoy]

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

[JakeTulane]

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." - Robert Southey

[JakeTulane]

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Muriac

[Mister Bent]

This is not the sound of a new man or crispy realization
It's the sound of the unlocking and the lift away.

- Justin Vernon

[moxie]

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.” - Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson

[JakeTulane]

“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind” - Theophile Gautier

[JakeTulane]

"Every man's memory is his private literature." ~Aldous Huxley

[JakeTulane]

"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"

[always2late]

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem

[Butterbean]

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

[Andrew, Jr.]

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

I value the friend who finds time for me on his/her calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not need to consult his calendar.
Robert Brault


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[Diva]

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

~Unknown

[NJFemmie]

The best way to handle loads of paperwork is with a match.

*poof*

[adorable]

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr

[Mister Bent]

I come through the window
I'm crippled and slow
For the agony I'd rather know

'Cause blinded
I am blindsided

- Justin Vernon

[Sybelle]

"Are you living or are you existing?"
Alice Evans quoted her best friend, Charlotte Cartwright - Tyler Perry's, The Family that Preys

[cinderella]

"If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit."

~ Anonymous

[Hudson]

You can pay for school but you can't buy class. - Jay-Z