Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[deathbypoem]

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
― Hemingway

[deathbypoem]

“First we feel. Then we fall.”
― James Joyce

[BestButchBoy]

"She was the kind of girl who could make you think your life was not complete unless she was in it."

[Femmadian]

"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean
by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."

-Khalil Gibran

[Orema]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Florynce-Kennedy-interesting-law-humor-men-church-Meetville-Quotes-170530.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"Every man's life ends
the same way. It is only the
details of how he lived and
how he died that distinguish
one man from another."




ERNEST HEMINGWAY

[deathbypoem]

"and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda

[deathbypoem]

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Khalil Gibran

[deathbypoem]

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

[deathbypoem]

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton

[deathbypoem]

“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
― W.S. Merwin

[deathbypoem]

Something continues and I don't know what to call it
though the language is full of suggestions
in the way of language
but they are all anonymous
and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones
-W.S. Merwin

[Fancy]

Adventure is worthwhile.

~Aesop

[Femmadian]

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[CherryWine]

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. - Winston Churchill

[Blade]

The 2 quickest ways to disaster are to take nobody's advice and to take everybody's advice.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater man to accept it graciously.
JC Maculay

[Trev]

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[Trev]

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[Trev]

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[Candelion]

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[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

http://www.quotesonimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Life-Quotes-Inspirational-Famous-Saying-Quotes-102.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"Life is too deep
for words,
so don't try to
describe it,
just live it."

-C.S. Lewis

[Femmadian]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/20/21/a7/2021a7ec3453bc4d5240997b8d4ead61.jpg

[~baby~doll~]

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

[~baby~doll~]

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan

[Bèsame*]

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http://www.lifelovequotesandsayings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Be-vulnerable..jpg

[CherryWine]

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[Orema]

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[Candelion]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[MegBluEyz]

“Like most sensitive souls, you already know you’re sensitive. You soak up others’ moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches on a palette. The ethereal beauty of a dandelion, the shift of a season, the climax of a song, or a certain stirring scent can awaken such wonder they’ll become your very breath itself – moving through you as fuel does to fire and wind does to waves. “
~ Victoria Erickson

[BestButchBoy]

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.
-C.S. Lewis

[Kobi]

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[MrSunshine]

"I want to end global hunger by feeding half the world's starving people to the other half."


Jarod Kintz

[MasterfulButch]

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[SleepyButch]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends."

[Kobi]

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[CherryWine]

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[Fancy]

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[deathbypoem]

"Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin


“So this is what I am

Pondering his eyes that could not
Conceive that I was a creature to run from

I who have always believed too much in words”
― W.S. Merwin

[ProfPacker]

Scott Walker Responds to Letter Regarding Menorah: ‘Thank You and Molotov’
instead of Mazel Tov


think he wants a cocktail, Molotov with two olives and a splash....lol

[Trev]

http://crushlovequotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mind-and-heart.fw_.png

[Trev]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Vincent-A-Gallagher-heart-great-mind-suffering-courage-injustice-world-humanity-Meetville-Quotes-44930.jpg

[ProfPacker]

If homosexuality is a disease
Let's all call in sick to work today
Hello, can't work today, still queer

[SleepyButch]

http://www.quotesvalley.com/images/17/the-truth-will-set-you-free-but-first-it-will-piss-you-off-42.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"I touched her thigh and death smiled."
▼
Jim Morrison

[cinnamongrrl]

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[cinnamongrrl]

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[cinnamongrrl]

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My mental mantra put into words...love this man...

[cinnamongrrl]

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[cinnamongrrl]

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[Degotoga]

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

[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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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a drunken apology.
I will tell her ‘make a home out of your body, live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify yourself.
If you are a disaster it is not forever, if you are a disaster you are the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen.
Do not deconstruct from the inside out, you belong here, you belong here, not because you are lovely, but because you are more than that.’
- Azra.T

“Your hands are threads, your body is a canvas.”

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Words are so very important to our life. The written and spoken word determines what we do in life and how we do it. And, since words ultimately guide our actions, it is important for us to speak words of truth, love, and every good thing we desire into existence."

[Fancy]

If you can't be kind, you must be quiet.

:praying:

[Bèsame*]

http://cdn.mdjunction.com/components/com_joomlaboard/uploaded/images/Life_Adventures_Inspirational_Quote-9298ae8e457c651f364144d6f00fd86e.jpg

[Talon]

Never tire of loyalty and kindness. Hold these virtues tightly.
Write them deep within your heart.

~Proverbs

[CherryWine]

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

[BestButchBoy]

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda

[Fancy]

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[Talon]

To love for the sake of being loved is human,
but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.


--->Alphonse de Lamartine

[Orema]

"How many women had to hit that glass before the first crack appeared? How many cuts did they get, how many bruises? How hard did they have to hit the ceiling? How many women had to hit that glass to ripple it, to send out a thousand hairline fractures? How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice?

So that when it was my turn to run, it didn’t even look like a ceiling anymore. I mean, the wind was already whistling through — I could always feel it on my face. And there were all these holes giving me a perfect view to other side. I didn’t even notice the gravity, I think it had worn itself away. So I didn’t have to fight as hard, I had time to study the cracks. I had time to decide where the air felt the rarest, where the wind was the coolest, where the view was the most soaring. I picked my spot in the glass and called it my target. And I ran. And when I hit finally that ceiling, it just exploded into dust."

--Shonda Rhimes

Full speech can be found here (http://goodblacknews.org/2014/12/12/shonda-rhimes-receives-sherry-lansing-leadership-award-at-hollywood-reporters-women-in-entertainment-breakfast/).

[deathbypoem]

fortunately someone who understood
what was on the panes bought everything in the studio
almost no letters were there but on the glass
they turned up face after face
of the light before anyone had beheld it
there were its cobbled lanes leading far into themselves
apple trees flowering in another century
lilies open in sunlight against former house walls
worn flights of stone stairs before the war
in days not seen except by the bent figure
invisible under the hood
who had just disappeared

--W.S. Merwin

[deathbypoem]

“I needed my mistakes
in their order
to get me here”
― W.S. Merwin

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/d8/a7/6dd8a7ef2e885f273cbf17f40d15051d.jpg

[deathbypoem]

“And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale,
so blinding in its effect
that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun,
that my innards possess magnetic qualities
able to call vast fortunes together.
And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.”
― D.B.C. Pierre

[deathbypoem]

http://community.fpsnation.com/images/quotes/charles_bukowski/find_what_you_love.jpg

[ahk]

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.--William Makepeace Thackeray

[ahk]

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.--Galileo Galilei

[CherryWine]

http://36.media.tumblr.com/28689e0d04c3a616efaf1f03c6783986/tumblr_ngrn52HVJj1tsybqfo1_500.jpg

[kittygrrl]

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’ —Mark Twain

[kittygrrl]

http://www.trans4mind.com/quotes/walkthepath.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"Whatever it is you like to do, that’s the sexiest part of you."
▼
Nick Offerman

[BestButchBoy]

"She's whiskey in a teacup"

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[MegBluEyz]

“And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

-Paul Coelho

[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

http://www.quotesdump.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Life-hack-quote-worry-loss.jpg

[ahk]

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.--Andy Rooney

[gotoseagrl]

Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

[BestButchBoy]

"Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them."
Joe Cocker

[MrSunshine]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde

[BestButchBoy]

"I want to taste
your lips
before coffee
and
your skin
before sunshine."

[ahk]

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.--Moliere

[MrSunshine]

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
~ Anonymous

[Kenna]

https://jayemckitrick.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/fake7.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
George Carlin

[MrSunshine]

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett

[Fancy]

SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA'S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!

~Elf

[ahk]

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.--Erma Bombeck

[Kobi]

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[kittygrrl]

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[Genesis]

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[kittygrrl]

"GOODNESS IS
BETTER THAN
beauty"

(a Vietnamese proverb)

[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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[Genesis]

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[kittygrrl]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Just for today, be a little child. Know the world is safe. Know that you are loved. Just for today, be free. Be peace-filled. Be loving to yourself and all others. Just for today, give praise and thanksgiving for everything to let the universe know you are ready to receive more."

[BestButchBoy]

"With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’."

[MrSunshine]

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
- Francoise Sagan

[cinnamongrrl]

Most people are on the world, not in it -- have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them -- undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
- John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938

[deathbypoem]

"The best kind of humans
are the ones who stay"

-r.m. drake

[deathbypoem]

"We are here to laugh at the odds
and live our lives so well that
Death will tremble to take us."

-Bukowski

[deathbypoem]

“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
― Dylan Thomas

[deathbypoem]

“...the air so still it aches
like the place where the tooth was
on the morning after you’ve been
to the dentist or aches like your heart
in the bosom when you stand
on the street corner waiting
for the light to change and
happen to recollect how things once were
and how they might have been
yet if what happened had not happened.”

― Robert Penn Warren

[Talon]

I was thought to be "stuck up". I wasn't. I was just sure of myself.
This is and always has been an unforgivable quality of the unsure.




>>Bette Davis

[Blade]

Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more human world.

Martin Lowenthal

[feminality]

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[Smiling]

To meditate is to transcend time. Time is the distance that thought travels in its achievements. The travelling is always along the old path covered over with a new coating, new sights, but always the same road, leading nowhere except to pain and sorrow.

It is only when the mind transcends time that truth ceases to be an abstraction. Then bliss is not an idea derived from pleasure but an actuality that is not verbal.

The emptying of the mind of time is the silence of truth, and the seeing of this is the doing; so there is no division between the seeing and the doing. In the interval between seeing and doing is born conflict, misery and confusion. That which has no time is the everlasting.

On every table there were daffodils, young, fresh, just out of the garden, with the bloom of spring on them still. On a side table there were lilies, creamy-white with sharp yellow centres. To see this creamy-white and the brilliant yellow of those many daffodils was to see the blue sky, ever expanding, limitless, silent.

Almost all the tables were taken by people talking very loudly and laughing. At a table nearby a woman was surreptitiously feeding her dog with the meat she could not eat. They all seemed to have huge helpings, and it was not a pleasant sight to see people eating; perhaps it may be barbarous to eat publicly. A man across the room had filled himself with wine and meat and was just lighting a big cigar, and a look of beatitude came over his fat face. His equally fat wife lit a cigarette. Both of them appeared to be lost to the world.

And there they were, the yellow daffodils, and nobody seemed to care. They were there for decorative purposes that had no meaning at all; and as you watched them their yellow brilliance filled the noisy room. Colour has this strange effect upon the eye. It wasn't so much that the eye absorbed the colour, as that the colour seemed to fill your being. You were that colour; you didn't become that colour - you were of it, without identification or name: the anonymity which is innocence. Where there is no anonymity there is violence, in all its different forms.

But you forgot the world, the smoke-filled room, the cruelty of man, and the red, ugly meat; those shapely daffodils seemed to take you beyond all time.

Love is like that. In it there is no time, space or identity. It is the identity that breeds pleasure and pain; it is the identity that brings hate and war and builds a wall around people, around each one, each family and community. Man reaches over the wall to the other man - but he too is enclosed; morality is a word that bridges the two, and so it becomes ugly and vain.

Love isn't like that; it is like that wood across the way, always renewing itself because it is always dying. There is no permanency in it, which thought seeks; it is a movement which thought can never understand, touch or feel. The feeling of thought and the feeling of love are two different things; the one leads to bondage and the other to the flowering of goodness. The flowering is not within the area of any society, of any culture or of any religion, whereas the bondage belongs to all societies, religious beliefs and faith in otherness. Love is anonymous, therefore not violent. Pleasure is violent, for desire and will are moving factors in it. Love cannot be begotten by thought, or by good works. The denial of the total process of thought becomes the beauty of action, which is love. Without this there is no bliss of truth.

And over there, on that table, were the daffodils.


-J. Krishnamurti

[BestButchBoy]

“For true love is inexhaustible;
the more you give,
the more you have.
And
if you go to draw at the true fountainhead,
the more water you draw,
the more abundant is its flow.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[deathbypoem]

“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.”
― Jack Kerouac

“What's in store for me
in the direction I don't take?”
― Jack Kerouac

[deathbypoem]

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

[deathbypoem]

“The summer demands and takes away too much.
But night, the reserved, the reticent,
gives more than it takes”
― John Ashbery

“It was always November there.”
― John Ashbery

[deathbypoem]

“There never was a war that was not inward.”
― Marianne Moore

[Kobi]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/82/eb/84/82eb848c53a56ff88d0f8f4fae689886.jpg

[Trev]

http://www.coolnsmart.com/images/01/44092_original.jpg

[MrSunshine]

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

[JDeere]

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[cinnamongrrl]

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[MrSunshine]

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
~George Chakiris

[BestButchBoy]

"If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn't buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love."

[Talon]

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.



--Claude Bristol

[Kobi]

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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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[Genesis]

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[ahk]

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.--William Feather

[BestButchBoy]

"C a r p e
d i e m.

Seize the day, boys.

Make your lives extraordinary."

[MrSunshine]

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[MrSunshine]

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

[BestButchBoy]

“Death frees from the fear of dying”
― Paulo Coelho

[Fancy]

Don't expect or look for perfection in other people (you can't give it in return).

~Buddhist Bootcamp

[MrSunshine]

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

[BestButchBoy]

Like
the
rising
sun,
she was wholly unaware of
her own dazzling beauty.

[Smiling]

"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."
-Elie Wiesel

[A. Spectre]

thought this poem may be apropos for the new year

http://www.poetseers.org/wp-content/uploads/emily-dickinson-hope-thing-feathers.jpg

[ahk]

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.--John Ruskin

[gotoseagrl]

“Our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.”

Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë

[BestButchBoy]

"Letting go
is like a
mental,
emotional,
and spiritual
delete button.
It doesn't change
what happened,
but
it removes
that event's power
to continue
hurting you.
Until you make peace
with
your difficult memories,
that pain
will continue to
bleed
into your current
and
future experiences."

[BestButchBoy]

"THERE ARE SOME THINGS

THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY,

LIKE MANNERS, MORALS,

INTELLIGENCE AND CLASS."

[Trev]

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life waiting for us"
~Joseph Campbell

[Blade]

The people who want to stay in your life will always find a way

[MrSunshine]

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
~Minna Antrim

[gotoseagrl]

"Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.”

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë

[Bèsame*]

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[grenade]

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

[JDeere]

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
Jessica Lange


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

[MrSunshine]

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley

[BestButchBoy]

"It’s simply about having the audacity to dream big and the unswerving conviction that you can make any lifestyle a reality."

[ahk]

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.--Rumi

[CherryWine]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Robert-M-Pirsig-life-future-live-goal-Meetville-Quotes-203439.jpg

[Fancy]

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.

- Ray Bradbury (Farewell Summer)

[MrSunshine]

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
~Ninon de L’Enclos

[ahk]

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.--Thomas Fuller

[BestButchBoy]

"Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go."
Anthony Bourdain

[Talon]

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something...
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.


~John Ruskin

[ahk]

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[MrSunshine]

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
~Walt Whitman

[Talon]

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind
would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.


__M.F.K. Fisher

[Degotoga]

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

[Keep Smilin]

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

[Orema]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Henry-Van-Dyke-fear-peace-war-Meetville-Quotes-162031.jpg

[Talon]

Develop interest in life as you see it,
in people, things, literature, music.....
The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.


--Henry Miller

[MrSunshine]

“Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here
Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:
Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”


~Shakespeare

[ahk]

It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot

[CherryWine]

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

-- Mark Twain

[Bard]

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

[Bard]

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Christopher Reeve

[Bard]

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Jean de la Bruyere
:moonstars:

[Bard]

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett :cigar2:

[Bard]

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.
Kesha
:rrose:

[Bard]

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais

:rrose::rrose:

[MrSunshine]

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

[ahk]

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.--Samuel Johnson

[Prudence]

--The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end, there it is. --------Winston Churchill

[MrSunshine]

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
~Robert Brault

[ahk]

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.--George Washington Carver

[WildHorses]

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

[Bèsame*]

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[BestButchBoy]

"WHEN YOU SEE CRAZY COMING, CROSS THE STREET."

[MrSunshine]

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown

[MrSunshine]

Anticipation Awakes the Passion, Vision Ignites the Heart, Touch Erupts the Soul.
~Craig D. Slovak

[Talon]

With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,
I strive and struggle to deliver right
the music of my nature...(w)


~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[BestButchBoy]

"Don't be
afraid to give
up the good
to go for
the great."
-John D. Rockefeller

[MrSunshine]

And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.

~Shakespeare

[BestButchBoy]

"You can be penniless, but as long as you have class, charisma, and are excited to get out of bed in the morning, you’ll lead a better life than most."

[Talon]

Young Ruth's role models were women of accomplishment.
For example, she admired the exploits of Amelia Earheart.


--Linda Bayer, author of Ruth Bader Ginsburg



My wife has the "disadvantage" of doing well at everything.


--Martin Ginsburg

[SleepyButch]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Fancy]

"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

~attributed to Joan Clarke - The Imitation Game

[BestButchBoy]

"Chase her. Chase her even when she’s already yours. That’s the only way you’ll be assured to never lose her."

[MrSunshine]

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

~Les Brown

[Kätzchen]

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent," ~ Sophia Loren.

[BestButchBoy]

"Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

[Orema]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/dd/ac/3b/ddac3bb4db0287eb2f8b1439b278cd13.jpg

[MrSunshine]

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

~Idries Shah

[BestButchBoy]

"LIFE IS A
COMBINATION
OF MAGIC AND
PASTA."
FEDERICO FELLINI

[BestButchBoy]

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

[PatrickIver]

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

[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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[Genesis]

Leo Tolstoy famously said, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

[SleepyButch]

http://inspirationboost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Keep-Moving-Quotes.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"HOW GLORIOUS THE
SPLENDOR OF A
HUMAN HEART
THAT TRUSTS
THAT IT IS
LOVED."
-BRENNAN
MANNING

[MrSunshine]

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

~Pierre Corneille

[EnchantedNightDweller]

I've Been to the Mountaintop

"Like anybody, I would like to live - a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[BestButchBoy]

"The best thing you’ll do in life is choosing a woman who knows how to have fun. Looks will fade. Money will run out. Being with someone who enjoys the little things will be the most rewarding choice you’ll make."

[PatrickIver]

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

–Vera Nazarian

[grenade]

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher