Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[feminality]

Your Heart

You need it to live ...
I need it to love :stillheart:

ME

[FemmeBibliophile]

All good things come to those who Frank. Let's go. We shall Frank. I only Frank those I love. It's time to Frank. Frankly my dear, I don't give a Frank. Let's just... Frank.

[BestButchBoy]

"I’ve found that growing up means being honest.

About what I want.

What I need.

What I feel.

Who I am."

[Bèsame*]

Don't underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and notice more than you realize.


Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. It's a sign that you have a big heart, and that you aren't afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.


Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.

[ahk]

To be prepared is half the victory.--Miguel de Cervantes

[BestButchBoy]

"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer."

[FemmeBibliophile]

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ~Khalil Gibran

PS: Thanks Frank!

[ahk]

Unless we remember we cannot understand.--E. M. Forster

[BestButchBoy]

"If they hate you, it’s either because they can’t have you or change you."

[Bèsame*]

https://heallovebe.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/happiness.jpg?w=448&h=443

[purepisces]

“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.” ~ Pat Benatar, Between a Heart and a Rock Place

[gotoseagrl]

People come and go. But that's okay. Let their coming build your gratitude, and their going build your strength.

- Ritu Ghatourey

[Bard]

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes :moonstars:

[Bard]

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3

[BestButchBoy]

"To lie in the warm expanse of your back,
to kiss those sun-speckled freckles,
to be warm and gentle together,
to drink you into honey.
That’s all."
▼
Azra.T, ”Holy Monday” after “Deer Tracks” by Richard Brautigan

[BestButchBoy]

"yours is the light by
which my spirit's born:
- you are my sun,
my moon,
and all of my stars."
~e.e. cummings

[Bard]

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow
:moonstars:

[Trev]

"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."
~Elizabeth Edwards

"Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."
~Marianne Williamson

[SnackTime]

Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other - Paulo Coelho

[Hominid]

"Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it"
~"J"

[feminality]

http://www.mediawebapps.com/upload/words51.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"I am always on time, which is a way of showing respect to those in my life."

[JDeere]

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

[BestButchBoy]

"Popularity is
for mediocre
people."

[Katniss]

“There is a secret place. A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen. More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements. Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds. Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxication so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway… Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.”


― Mirabai Starr, Interior Castle

[BestButchBoy]

"the way you love yourself sets the example for how everyone else will love you."

[Bèsame*]

Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Malcolm X

[Bèsame*]

http://www.fueldabook.com/fuelisms/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/25.jpg

[ahk]

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.--H. G. Wells

[MrSunshine]

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.... ~Pablo Neruda

[Candelion]

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[C0LLETTE]

"Failure is no proof you're going to do better next time".......me

[PatrickIver]

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

[BestButchBoy]

"In all strong, healthy relationships, people have fun."

[ahk]

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.--Francis of Assisi

[Degotoga]

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Ralph Marston

[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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[BestButchBoy]

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
~Paulo Coelho

[Kätzchen]

From chapter 1 in IQ84 by Haruki Murikami:

"Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality," ~ Aomame's taxi driver, while listening to Janacek's "Sinfoinetta", while in a sprawling traffic jam on a Tokyo expressway.

[BestButchBoy]

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark."

[jenny]

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh"

[BestButchBoy]

" think outside the box... and, by the way, there never was a box but in your own mind... "

[ahk]

Winners never quit and quitters never win.--Vince Lombardi

[BestButchBoy]

"IT'S NOT THE LOAD THAT

BREAKS YOU DOWN.

IT'S THE WAY YOU CARRY IT."
-C.S. LEWIS

[flapdoodle]

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~Peter Altenberg

[jenny]

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~ Erma Bombeck

[*Anya*]

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark."

Whose quote is this?

Very nice.

[Kobi]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bd/ab/47/bdab472ef7ce4f93af8985148aaae308.jpg

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

http://bryantmcgill.com/domains/bryantmcgill.com/uploads/images/blog/bryant-mcgill-one-passionate-heart.jpg

[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Life is too short to
wake up with regrets.
So love people who treat you right. Forget
about those who don't. Believe everything
happens for a reason. If you get a chance,
take it. If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy, they just
promised it would be worth it."
-Paulo Coelho

[MrSunshine]

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.


~Thomas Fuller

[C0LLETTE]

Just remembered this one (or close enough) so I'm going to use it as often as possible:

Gore Vidal to Norman Mailer: "No need to be modest. You're not that great"

[kittygrrl]

http://buymelaughs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Impressive-List-Of-30-Inspirational-Quotes-About-Life-and-Love-1.jpg

[Amulette]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/74/58/b4/7458b4b62d1398ca037cb84b6c4ab62a.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

" Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby I'm from New York!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There's nothing you can't do
Now you're in New York!
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Hear it for New York, New York, New Yooork! "

[jenny]

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

[flapdoodle]

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

[CherryWine]

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

-- Alice Walker

[ahk]

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.--M. C. Escher

[WildHorses]

The prettiest smiles hide the deepest secrets.
The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears and the kindest hearts have felt the most pain.

Anonymous

[JDeere]

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin

[BestButchBoy]

"The inability to love and accept ourselves
and our humanity is at the heart of many
illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must
start by loving yourself. If you have traits you
consider unlovable, love them anyway.
It's a paradox."

[ahk]

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.--Tom Wilson

[gotoseagrl]

"Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure."

The Professor, Charlotte Brontë

[FemmeBibliophile]

“Every time I see a train, I think of robbing it. Like a Wild West cowboy, I’m out to steal and collect graffiti.”

[JDeere]

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Jesse]

http://www.rebellesociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/to-be-nobody-but-yourself.jpg

[ahk]

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.--Ethel Barrymore

[ahk]

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.--William Shakespeare

[JDeere]

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
Miranda Lambert

[Fancy]

"The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom."

-Jon Stewart

[ahk]

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.--Pope Paul VI

[BestButchBoy]

"Nobody has everything, but everybody has something. Use what you have right now. Use it wisely, freely, with love."

[jenny]

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?"
Pooh: "You don't spell it. You feel it."
~ Winnie the Pooh

[BestButchBoy]

"Your life is a reflection of what you believe.
If you really believe something
or someone can stop you,
it can and it will.
But you already know that.
What you may not know is that
what you tell yourself
about yourself,
about your life,
about your limitations,
you will believe.

What you believe
is the foundation of
what you do and don't do."

[Trev]

http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/healingandtransformation/files/2014/07/charles_bukowski_quote-1.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all."

[kittygrrl]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/88/a6/2e/88a62eeab7148f48f632987fd2427690.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself."

[Fancy]

"Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep."

~Pema Chodron

[BestButchBoy]

"I am the master of myself. My middle name is moderation."

[FemmeBibliophile]

http://www.quotesfrenzy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Brand-New-Start-Life-Love-Quotes.jpg

[jenny]

"The best part of life is when your family becomes your friends, and your friends become your family." ~ Danica Whitfield

[MegBluEyz]

"You have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."
-Adrianna Huffington.

[BestButchBoy]

"Nothing is more unattractive than whining and complaining."

[Bèsame*]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3c/ee/75/3cee755219bdded450f34e45834c9c94.jpg

[ahk]

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.--Duke Ellington

[BestButchBoy]

“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
Hunter S. Thompson

[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

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_positive3.html#xJyYsqRkMfz8hWut.99

[jenny]

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does." ~ Duchess, "Alice in Wonderland"

[starryeyes]

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
~Maya Angelou

[kittygrrl]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5e/0e/54/5e0e54711eccb42e8a709cc248b64dee.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

A JAPANESE
LEGEND SAYS THAT
IF YOU CAN'T
SLEEP AT NIGHT
IT'S BECAUSE
YOU'RE AWAKE
IN SOMEONE ELSE'S
DREAM.

[Bard]

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
Sandra Bullock
]

[BestButchBoy]

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

[jenny]

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." ~ Giotto di Bondone

[kittygrrl]

http://img.picturequotes.com/2/9/8581/we-dont-lose-friends-we-just-learn-who-our-real-ones-are-quote-1.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"What is not love is fear."

[jenny]

"The key question to keep asking is, 'Are you spending your time on the right things?' Because time is all you have." ~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

[kittygrrl]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Negative people don't want solutions.

Solutions mean they have to
work to find something else
to be negative about."

[Fancy]

“There’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.”

Lewis Carroll

[ahk]

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.--Thomas Paine

[kittygrrl]

https://decodinghappiness.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/the_best_things_in_life_are_free_quote.jpg?w=900&h=825

[LOQUI]

"Because we were created from Divine Kindness, offering kindness to ourselves and others is a normal thing. Moving gently through the world is our nature. You might try making a list of at least ten ways that you’re kind to yourself and ten ways you’re kind to others. If being kind to yourself is a stretch, your work begins there. You’re worth your own kindness."

[BestButchBoy]

"Are wired into your biology.
They become your cells, tissues and organs.
There's no supplement, no diet, no medicine,
no exercise regimen that can compare
to the power of your
thoughts and beliefs."

[Fancy]

"We often speak for the purpose of control: to control what people think of us or to make sure people do what we want done in the way we want it. We often use our words to cover-up or hide our mistakes or faults. We use words to explain ourselves to others. Hugh Prather may have been right when he said, “No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.”"

-Joshua Becker
becoming minimalist blog

[Glenn]

"Nothing was the same until betrayal and jealousy reset us like a bone mending badly that needed to be broken again. We had to hurt." author- Patricia Cornwell

[kittygrrl]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Scottie-Somers-living-love-past-dreams-friends-tomorrow-happiness-inspiration-Meetville-Quotes-71501.jpg

[ahk]

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.--Ausonius

[LOQUI]

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

[BestButchBoy]

"If you want to leave her, leave her breathless.
If you want to lie, lie next to her.
If you want to let go,
let go of your pride and
pursue her."

[Fancy]

If you don't get my Harry Potter references then there is something Siriusly Ron with you!

;)

[Kobi]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/81/4d/54/814d540bb9b2751e86c77538989bf822.jpg

[ahk]

My sun sets to rise again.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[princessbelle]

"Blessed In Aging"

Author Unknown

Blessed are they who understand
My faltering step and shaking hand
Blessed, who know my ears today
Must strain to hear the things they say.

Blessed are those who seem to know
My eyes are dim and my mind is slow
Blessed are those who look away
When I spilled tea that weary day.

Blessed are they who, with cheery smile
Stopped to chat for a little while
Blessed are they who know the way
To bring back memories of yesterday.

Blessed are those who never say
"You've told that story twice today"
Blessed are they who make it known
That I am loved, respected and not alone.

And blessed are they who will ease the days
Of my journey home, in loving ways.

[kittygrrl]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3c/ba/fd/3cbafda2c647b818b495f72ea2cbe894.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway

[BestButchBoy]

LET GO OF EVERYTHING

THAT HOLDS YOU BACK

FROM BEING

A BETTER YOU

[Fancy]

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.

[ahk]

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.--Marcus Aurelius

[BestButchBoy]

"When you have to start compromising
yourself
or
your morals
for the people around you,
it's probably time
to change
the people
around you."

[BestButchBoy]

FIND A HEART THAT
WILL LOVE YOU
AT YOUR WORST
AND ARMS THAT
WILL HOLD YOU AT
YOUR WEAKEST.

[Lacey]

http://collectivelyconscious.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-reason-people-awaken-is-because-they-have-finally-stopped-agreeing-to-things-that-insult-their-soul.jpg

[Lacey]

http://37.media.tumblr.com/46f45a52ae72d46271f4d9684bcd8513/tumblr_n15nloeAdO1rngh4bo1_500.jpg

[Lacey]

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608027856174645975&pid=15.1&P=0

[Lacey]

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[Fancy]

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[BestButchBoy]

"The less
you respond
to negative
people, the
more peaceful
your life
will become."

[BestButchBoy]

“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”
Zelda Fiztgerald

[kittygrrl]

http://cdn3.gurl.com/wp-content/gallery/cheating-quotes/cheating4.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"The greatest enemy
of knowledge is not
ignorance,
it is the illusion
of knowledge."
Stephen Hawking

[Fancy]

I was normal three cats ago.

;)

[kittygrrl]

http://www.lovequotespict.com/wp-content/uploads/sweet-love-quotes-24-600x333.jpg

[Bard]

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"

:moonstars:

[BestButchBoy]

"There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of."

[Bard]

Frank: So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab. I see you shiver with antici... pation.

[BestButchBoy]

"FIND SOMEONE
WHO KNOWS
THAT YOU'RE
NOT PERFECT
BUT TREATS
YOU AS IF
YOU ARE."

[BestButchBoy]

"If you're helping
someone and
expecting something
in return, you're
doing business
not kindness."

[Fancy]

“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” – Hans Margolius

[BestButchBoy]

"If she makes
you feel
alive,
then love her
with all
that's in
you."

[Smiling]

Don’t hide. The sight of your face is a blessing.
Wherever you place your foot, there rests a blessing
Even your shadow
Passing over me like a swift bird
Is a blessing
The great spring has come
You sweet air, blowing through the city,
The country, the gardens
And the deserts are a blessing
He has come with love to our door
His knock is a blessing.

-Rumi

:moonstars:

[kittygrrl]

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[BestButchBoy]

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"Accept and acknowledge
your own brilliance.
Stop waiting for
others to tell you
how great you are!
Believe it for
yourself
and
about yourself."

[Fancy]

"We shout and scream and wail and cry but in the end we must all die."

— Mr Carson, Downton Abbey

[BestButchBoy]

"Love
is a verb.
Love is doing,
saying and
showing.
Never think
just saying you
love
someone
is enough."

[Kätzchen]

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[ahk]

Laughter is an instant vacation.--Milton Berle

[kittygrrl]

You don't know what you have til it's gone

[BestButchBoy]

"The only thing that can diminish your power is your belief that you do not have it.
Repeat this to yourself.
Every day."

[ahk]

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

[kittygrrl]

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[kittygrrl]

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[MrSunshine]

Women hold up half the sky.
~Mao Zedong

[JDeere]

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~Robin Tyler

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982

[BestButchBoy]

"OPTIMISM IS THE
FAITH THAT LEADS
TO ACHIEVEMENT.
NOTHING CAN BE
DONE WITHOUT
HOPE AND CONFIDENCE."

[BestButchBoy]

Wake up and smell the possibility.

[ahk]

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.--Buddha

[Fancy]

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

~ Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) Downton Abbey

:tea:

[BestButchBoy]

"The greatest act of rebellion
today is chivalry and behaving
like a gentleman."

[Fancy]

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized, and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

Isabel Allende

[MegBluEyz]

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

[kittygrrl]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[MasterfulButch]

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[BestButchBoy]

"

You are not perfect
in spite of
your flaws,
but actually
because of them.
You don’t need to be pretty
or good looking
to be beautiful.
Beauty is only skin deep,
but radiance is eternal.

"

[Fancy]

Have courage and be kind.

~Cinderella 2015

[BestButchBoy]

"This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world."
~ Shams Tabrizi

[betruetoyoursoul]

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

Audrey Hepburn

[JDeere]

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

[BestButchBoy]

PAST

NOW

FUTURE

[Fancy]

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.

- The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

[MegBluEyz]

“If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul.
But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time
you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection.
You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.”
― Colleen Hoover

[BestButchBoy]

"Confidence isn't walking
into a room and thinking
you're better than
everyone, it's walking in
not having to compare
yourself to anyone at all."

[Bèsame*]

You can tell
when people
are truly happy.
Their energy
is genuine.

[ahk]

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.--W. Clement Stone

[BestButchBoy]

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[Tierney]

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief



(If you have not read this book, you should. In my opinion one of the best books ever written)

[Bèsame*]

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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]

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[Genesis]

"Heartbreak opens onto the sunrise
For even breaking is opening
And I am broken
I’m open
Broken to the new light without pushing in
Open to the possibilities within, pushing out
See the love shine in through my cracks?
See the light shine out through me?
I am broken
I am open
I am broken open
See the love light shining through me
Shining through my cracks
Through the gaps
My spirit takes journey
My spirit takes flight
Could not have risen otherwise
And I am not running
I’m choosing
Running is not a choice from the breaking
Breaking is freeing
Broken is freedom
I am not broken
I’m free."
Spoken by Alike (Adepero Oduye)
Written by Dee Rees
Movie: Pariah

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[BestButchBoy]

"When you feel taken
advantage of at home
or work, don't sulk
and say things like
'Nobody cares.'
Why tell them
the obvious?
Clearly let them know
what you really do want…
it might just get
you some respect."

LORETTA LAROCHE

[MegBluEyz]

“In French you don’t really say “I miss you.” You say “tu se manques,” which means, “you are missing from me.” I love that.”
“You are missing from me.” You are a part of me, you are essential to my being. You are like a limb, or an organ, or blood.
I cannot function without you.”
-unknown

[Smiling]

Wander-Thirst

Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea,
And East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be;
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say good-bye;
For the seas call, and the stars call, and oh! the call of the sky!

I know not where the white road runs, nor what the blue hills are;
But a man can have the sun for a friend, and for his guide a star;
And there's no end of voyaging when once the voice is heard,
For the rivers call, and the roads call, and oh! the call of the bird!

Yonder the long horizon lies, and there by night and day
The old ships draw to home again, the young ships sail away;
And come I may, but go I must, and, if men ask you why,
You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the sky.
-Gerald Gould

[MegBluEyz]

“Happiness is not a checklist. A dream job, a fast car, a good home, even love,
mean nothing at all if you have not yet found a way to feel full and content in
your own mind and heart.”
-Beau Taplin

[Degotoga]

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

[Tierney]

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” - Criss Jami

[Lacey]

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[kittygrrl]

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[PaPa]

Knowledge makes me more aware, it makes me more conscious. "Knowing" is painful because after "it" happens I can't stay in the same place and be comfortable. I am no longer the same person I was before.

Gloria Anzaldúa

[kittygrrl]

536. Ode
..What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind ..[H. Wordsworth]

[Tierney]

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich

[Trev]

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
~ Carl Jung

[Tierney]

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ― Leo Buscaglia

[PaPa]

“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
~ George Eliot

[Kätzchen]

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves. ~ Tim Conway

[kittygrrl]

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[Adrienne Rich]

[Talon]

"I would have made a good Pope."



--) Richard M. Nixon

[BestButchBoy]

"This weekend, shake off what didn’t work out, shake off what somebody said, shake off the guilt, shake off the past & move on w/ your life!"

[Candelion]

Lions don't mate with mice, they mate with other lions.

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Françoise Gilot Author of Life With Picasso

[Blaze]

To love. .. is to live.

To live. .. is to celebrate.


To celebrate. .. is to experience.

To experience. .. is touching.

To touch. .. is Her.

To touch Her. .. is LOVE

BLW

[Tierney]

“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.” ― C. JoyBell C.

[LOQUI]

"Display has its purpose. But simplicity must rule our hearts."

[Talon]

Listen to every prompting of honour.


~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Tierney]

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
 For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
 For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
 For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
 For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
 People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
 As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”

― Sam Levenson

[Tierney]

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” ― George Sand

[Hominid]

“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” J. D. Salinger

[Hominid]

And in honor of National Poetry Day, one of my favorites. I had an email exchange with the author (who became Clinton's Poet Laureate shortly after) - every line is drawn from an Emily Dickinson Poem. But I emailed him because the last line was driving me mad - literally (almost) - I felt stupid when he told me what it meant. D'oh. Anyway, tactile and gorgeous.


Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
~Billy Collins


First, her tippet made of tulle,
easily lifted off her shoulders and laid
on the back of a wooden chair.

And her bonnet,
the bow undone with a light forward pull.

Then the long white dress, a more
complicated matter with mother-of-pearl
buttons down the back,
so tiny and numerous that it takes forever
before my hands can part the fabric,
like a swimmer's dividing water,
and slip inside.

You will want to know
that she was standing
by an open window in an upstairs bedroom,
motionless, a little wide-eyed,
looking out at the orchard below,
the white dress puddled at her feet
on the wide-board, hardwood floor.

The complexity of women's undergarments
in nineteenth-century America
is not to be waved off,
and I proceeded like a polar explorer
through clips, clasps, and moorings,
catches, straps, and whalebone stays,
sailing toward the iceberg of her nakedness.

Later, I wrote in a notebook
it was like riding a swan into the night,
but, of course, I cannot tell you everything -
the way she closed her eyes to the orchard,
how her hair tumbled free of its pins,
how there were sudden dashes
whenever we spoke.

What I can tell you is
it was terribly quiet in Amherst
that Sabbath afternoon,
nothing but a carriage passing the house,
a fly buzzing in a windowpane.

So I could plainly hear her inhale
when I undid the very top
hook-and-eye fastener of her corset

and I could hear her sigh when finally it was unloosed,
the way some readers sigh when they realize
that Hope has feathers,
that reason is a plank,
that life is a loaded gun
that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

[Hominid]

Oh, hell - I can't leave this one out -



For Strong Women

by Marge Piercy



A strong woman is a woman who is straining.

A strong woman is a woman standing

on tip toe and lifting a barbell

while trying to sing Boris Godunov.

A strong woman is a woman at work

cleaning out the cesspool of the ages,

and while she shovels, she talks about

how she doesn't mind crying, it opens

the ducts of her eyes, and throwing up

develops the stomach muscles, and

she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.



A strong woman is a woman in whose head

a voice is repeating, I told you so,

ugly, bad girl, bitch, nag, shrill, witch,

ballbuster, nobody will ever love you back,

why aren't you feminine, why aren't

you soft, why aren't you quiet,why

aren't you dead?



A strong woman is a woman determined

to do something others are determined

not to be done. She is pushing up on the bottom

of a lead coffin lid. She is trying to raise

a manhole cover with her head, she is trying

to butt her way though a steel wall.

Her head hurts. People waiting for the hole

to be made say, hurry,you're so strong.



A strong woman is a woman bleeding

inside.A strong woman is a woman making

herself strong every morning while her teeth

loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,

a tooth,midwives used to say,and now

every battle a scar. A strong woman

is a mass of scar tissue that aches

when it rains and wounds that bleed

when you bump them and memories that get up

in the night and pace in boots to and fro.



A strong woman is a woman who craves love

like oxygen or she turns blue choking.

A strong woman is a woman who loves

strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly

terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong

in words, in action, in connection, in feeling;

she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf

sucking her young. Strength is not in her,but she

enacts it as the wind fills a sail.



What comforts her is other's loving

her equally for the strength and for the weakness

from which it issues, lightning from a cloud.

Lightning stuns. In rain,the clouds disperse.

Only water of connection remains,

flowing through us. Strong is what we make together,

a strong woman is a woman strongly afraid.

[kittygrrl]

My mouth hovers across your breasts

in the short grey winter afternoon

in this bed we are delicate

and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves

tough and delicate we play rings

around each other our daytime candle burns

with its peculiar light and if the snow

begins to fall outside filling the branches

and if the night falls without announcement

there are the pleasures of winter

sudden, wild and delicate your fingers

exact my tongue exact at the same moment

stopping to laugh at a joke

my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter[Adrienne Rich 1929-2012]

[ahk]

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.--Joseph Campbell

[Tierney]

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher

[Hominid]

The most lovely metaphysical love poem - if you can "get" the references -

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

~John Donne


As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.

And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

[Talon]

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.


~Miguel de Cervantes

[kittygrrl]

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[Hominid]

Another Billy Collins' that makes me LOL

The Country

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

[Tierney]

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.” ― Deb Caletti

[Talon]

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough,
is true security to be found.



~Anne Lindbergh

[ahk]

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.--Elizabeth Kenny

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[Tierney]

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

[Tierney]

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.” ― Alexandre Dumas

[BestButchBoy]

"Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer."

[Jesse]

“Beneath the fearful, chattering mind is your indestructible, eternal, powerful Being, who can serve you in everything you do, if you only listen. If you drop your shoulders down from your ears, relax your tight belly, take a sweet, deep breath, and pay attention to the inner you.” - Elizabeth Lesser

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[deathbypoem]

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[Tierney]

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” ― Henry David Thoreau

[Tierney]

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.” ― Shaun Hick