Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[BestButchBoy]

"Instead of solely focusing
on what should be better,
consider and praise
what's already awesome."

[Tierney]

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” ― Stephen R. Covey

[Tierney]

“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar." ― Victoria Moran

[jenny]

"If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier." ~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

[cinnamongrrl]

Oh could I feel as I have felt or be what I have been,
Or weep as I could once have wept, or many a vanished scene;
As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be
so, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me.

Byron

[Hominid]

"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve"
WS Burroughs

[Hominid]

LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL (fear is conditional)

LOVE IS STRONG (fear is weak)

LOVE RELEASES (fear obligates)

LOVE SURRENDERS (fear binds)

LOVE IS HONEST (fear is deceitful)

LOVE TRUSTS (fear suspects)

LOVE ALLOWS (fear dictates)

LOVE GIVES (fear resists)

LOVE FORGIVES (fear blames)

LOVE IS COMPASSIONATE (fear pities)

LOVE CHOOSES (fear avoids)

LOVE IS KIND (fear is angry)

LOVE IGNITES (fear incites)

LOVE EMBRACES (fear repudiates)

LOVE CREATES (fear negates)

LOVE HEALS (fear hurts)

LOVE IS MAGIC (fear is superstitious)

LOVE ENERGIZES (fear saps)

LOVE IS AN ELIXIR (fear is a poison)

LOVE INSPIRES (fear worries)

LOVE DESIRES (fear Joneses)

LOVE IS PATIENT (fear is nervous)

LOVE IS BRAVE (fear is afraid)

LOVE IS RELAXED (fear is pressured)

LOVE IS BLIND (fear is judgmental)

LOVE RESPECTS (fear disregards)

LOVE ACCEPTS (fear rejects)

LOVE DREAMS (fear schemes)

LOVE WANTS TO PLAY (fear needs to control)

LOVE ENJOYS (fear suffers)

LOVE FREES (fear imprisons)

LOVE BELIEVES (fear deceives)

LOVE “WANTS” (fear “needs”)

LOVE versus fear: what do you feel?

-Sarah Nean Bruce

[MegBluEyz]

"When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved,
there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything
happens within you, and even men can turn themselves into the wind."
-The Alchemist

[Fancy]

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jenny]

"'Kindness' covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world." ~ Roger Ebert

[Tierney]

“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

[Tierney]

“You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart.” ― Dixie Waters

[jenny]

"At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough, and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey." ~ Lemony Snicket

[femmeandstrong]

My favorite...

Not all that is gold does not glitter...
not all those who wander are lost...
the old that is strong does not whither..
deep roots are not reached by the frost.

-by Tolkien

[Tierney]

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”

― Emily Dickinson

[Tierney]

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.” - Voltaire

[Hominid]

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

[Hominid]

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

[JDeere]

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

[JDeere]

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)

[Bèsame*]

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[BestButchBoy]

"Respect and loyalty
are not upgrades
in a relationship…
They are a
requirement."

[The_Lady_Snow]

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

[afrcnqueen]

I've seen better day. But I've also seen worse. I don't have everything that I want, but I do have all I need. I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect but I am blessed.The Law of Attraction

[BestButchBoy]

"Do you know what elegance is? It's not only what you're wearing , it is how you wear it. Who you are inside. It is the way you live, who you surround yourself with, the books you read and what your interests are."

[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]

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.--Julie Andrews

[jenny]

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'” ~ Toni Morrison

[Tierney]

“How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.”

― Emily Dickinson

[Tierney]

“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind."― Billie-Jo Williams

[Genesis]

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[MegBluEyz]

“We are born to long for understanding, to reach for the unreachable,
to search for meaning in the hieroglyphs that decorate the walls we create
home within. It took you, only, to realize that some words are born without
translation.”
-Tyler Knott Gregson-

[BestButchBoy]

CHOOSE
TO BE
OPTIMISTIC.
IT FEELS BETTER.

[Tierney]

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember - That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”

― Pablo Neruda

[Tierney]

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

― C. JoyBell C.

[Trev]

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”
~C.S. Lewis

[Ascot]

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jenny]

“Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.”― Toni Jordan, Addition

[Orema]

"Language can never “pin down” slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable. Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word, the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction. But who does not know of literature banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critical; erased because alternate? And how many are outraged by the thought of a self-ravaged tongue?"

—Toni Morrison

Here's an excerpt from her soon-to-be-released book (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/sweetness-2?mbid=social_twitter), God Help The Child.

[BestButchBoy]

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[Hominid]

For The Sake O' Somebody

~~ Burns

My heart is sair — I dare na tell —
My heart is sair for Somebody:
I could wake a winter night
For the sake o' Somebody.
O-hon! for Somebody!
O-hey! for Somebody!
I could range the world around,
For the sake o' Somebody.

Ye Powers that smile on virtuous love,
O, sweetly smile on Somebody!
Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my Somebody!
O-hon! for Somebody!
O-hey! for Somebody!
I wad do - what wad I not? —
For the sake o’ Somebody!

[Hominid]

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

[Hominid]

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[Orema]

“The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status—that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided—something about their presence is constructive in the long run.

—Toni Morrison

Toni's book, God Help the Child, is out tomorrow. I haven't been this excited about a novel since Walter Mosley released "Gone Fishin'"

[Hominid]

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Tierney]

“You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

[Tierney]

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” ― Mandy Hale

[Tierney]

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” ― Emily Dickinson

[Hominid]

What is the flesh and blood compounded of but a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Allen Tate

[gotoseagrl]

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

[Hominid]

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
Malcolm Turnbull

[Hominid]

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige

[Hominid]

On a roll!!

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius

[Hominid]

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.”

-Anonymous

[girlin2une]

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” ― Mandy Hale

This is a good one for me...sometimes I'm afraid of my own shadow...

[WildHorses]

You heart will be torn
But it too will mend
You must always remember
To never let your soul bend

[JDeere]

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James A. Baldwin

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward

[Hominid]

This is a good one for me...sometimes I'm afraid of my own shadow...

Sometimes?

[Hominid]

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm talking to my builder about having this carved over my doorway or on my mantle in the new house - books, woods, new house - seems appropos -

[BestButchBoy]

"Decide this minute to never again beg anyone for the love, respect, and attention that you should be showing yourself. Be your own best friend. Trust your inner spirit and follow your instincts. Accept who you are completely, the good and the bad, and make changes in your life as YOU see fit – not because you think anyone else wants you to be different, but because you know it’s the right thing to do, for YOU. Be the person you will be happy to live with for the duration of your life. Don’t rely on your significant other, or anyone else, for your happiness and self-worth. Know that our first and last love is always self-love, and that if you can’t love and respect yourself, no one else will be able to either."

[Tierney]

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde

[Tierney]

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” ― Oscar Wilde

[Tierney]

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen

[Hominid]

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Vote!

http://www.womenon20s.org/vote2

[Tierney]

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

[Tierney]

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” ― Sylvia Plath

[Tierney]

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Ascot]

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
Dorothy Parker

[Chicklette]

One can only truly see, without seeing...-Me

[Tierney]

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire

[Tierney]

"I call architecture frozen music." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Tierney]

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.” ― D.H. Lawrence

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[PaPa]

“Inverse Paranoia: believing the world is plotting to do you good.”
~ W. Clement Stone

[Genesis]

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[JDeere]

Confusion is always the most honest response.
Marty Indik

[Talon]

Sometimes, victory is achieved through surrender rather than battle.

[Chicklette]

A moment, is but a whisper in the conversation you share with life. - me

[MysticOceansFL]

The myst slowly surrounds you starting at your ankles making tiny circles, slowly moving up caressing each curve of your body and whispering in your ear I'm here to capture your desire and rekindle your passion- Me

[BestButchBoy]

"There are only two days in a year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, to believe, to act and above all, to live."

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Chicklette]

Conversation with a 3 year old:

Child: "Nana, Nana...wake up."
Nana: "Why..."
Child: "Because."
Nana: "Because why?"
Child: "Because, I da boss of you."

High femme in training?

[Orema]

Burn Me Down

with your hands wrapped full throttle
around my underground railroad
I can feel the tiptoeing of a thousand ballets
across the depth of my shy body
the way you held my kiss like the
earth forgot to turn
skin on fire
and your bare hands know
everything about burning me down

—Olivia Jardine

[deathbypoem]

Burn Me Down

with your hands wrapped full throttle
around my underground railroad
I can feel the tiptoeing of a thousand ballets
across the depth of my shy body
the way you held my kiss like the
earth forgot to turn
skin on fire
and your bare hands know
everything about burning me down

—Olivia Jardine


One of my absolute favorites. :)

[Tierney]

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” ― Eckhart Tolle

[Tierney]

“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.” ― Chloe Rattray

[Tierney]

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.” ― Emily Dickinson

[BestButchBoy]

"YOU are walking your own path. Sometimes the reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes circumstances with everyone else’s public highlight reel. Forget what everyone else is doing and achieving. Your life is about breaking your own limits and outgrowing yourself to live YOUR best life."

[MysticOceansFL]

Favorite quote::

Becareful following the masses sometimes the (M) Is silent.

[Bèsame*]

When your able to find humor in a difficult situation, you win!

[deathbypoem]

Our most belligerent demons are dope sick on our light --djt

[Tierney]

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.” ― C. JoyBell C.

[Tierney]

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” ― Marie Lu

[Tierney]

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” ― Aristotle

[BestButchBoy]

"It is not our responsibility to prove to people who we are. Our job and responsibility is to "be." What you do is proof of who you are."

[Chicklette]

Willy Wonka: And Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he’d ever wished for.

Charlie: What happened?

Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

[Tierney]

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”

― Deng Ming-Dao

[Tierney]

"There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.”

― Anuj Somany

[Tierney]

“Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what you feel, even when it may be diametrically opposed to everyone eles's opinion. You may be called the Devil Incarnate. You may feel like cow pies are being thrown at you. Sometimes that is part of being true to yourself.”

― Barbara Marciniak

[Chicklette]

Silent SongBird

With delicate ears
She orchestrates the harmonic silence
Each unspoken note
A chorus
A song
A serenade

So she listened-

With delicate voice
She sings with spirit and grace
Each unspoken lyric
A chorus
A song
A serenade

So she sang-

With loving heart
She dances within the soulful lull
Each unspoken melody
A chorus
A song
A serenade

So she danced-

With hope anew
She revels in the music
Each unspoken whisper
A chorus
A song
A serenade

So she loves-

~Lyrical (A random poet I know)

[gotoseagrl]

We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless. Unknown

[Kobi]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/52/ed/a2/52eda2ef1717b9bd540a1d8a388402cf.jpg

[Talon]

Beauty is an ecstasy, it is as simple as hunger.



~W. Somerset Maugham

[BestButchBoy]

"Nobody likes being rejected, but rejection does not mean that there is something wrong with you. Rejection is only damaging when you start believing you are not complete."

[Satiated]

Lust fades, so you better be with someone who can stand you. ~Story of Us

[Talon]

Easy come and easy go.

[Tierney]

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”


― Karen Marie Moning

[Tierney]

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”


― Robert Frost

[Tierney]

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

― Mary Oliver

[Talon]

The executioner is, I hear, very expert, and my neck is very slender.


---) Anne Boleyn

[Chicklette]

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

― Mary Oliver


The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

Janice Dickinson

[Chicklette]

I think about the days, I so strategically hide within myself..Playing a tune with my awkward fingers, strumming my loneliness with sad eyes. The lyrics I sang were quiet and rang true, if only to myself. I never needed, I often wanted..even loved. Needed was the note you hit when tuning your strings, setting them just right.

But..once that music starts, its called life ya know?
Its a song you sing, by living and breathing. At times the lyrics change, but the melody is forever. The chorus, repeating 1 2 3 times.

Solitude was my embracing audience, he/she listened to my tears accompanied by my awkward fingers; even as my heavy heart sang back up.
The the spot light often showed in hues of black and white, at times blinding me..and often then not..not shining at all. But still I sang.

Past the darkness, past the lyrics of change..more sad then happy...my tones increased with a hint of softness. The music played on and on. In a steady rhythm. It was safe, my harmony. 3 or 4 repetitive notes.

The lights shined, ever so bright..but not blinding..just bright.
My governed audience wasn't so silent anymore, I pondered why. I could, hear someone. Just a glimmer. As the sounds increased, I heard music..past my own. Something deeper, richer..more alive. Tho-I heard the chaos within its beat.

It allured me, it captured me. It set my soul on the brink, only to bring it back. Time and time again, your song makes me feel. I see past my own, and hear yours. I dance, constantly tired at times, only to feel rejuvenated..and left breathless at what you sing.

I have never played, or danced to anyone else's music..but my own.
Until I met the melody of your soul.

I simply have not.
Through chaos, you bring me back..and I ride you like no other.
I write this as tears scorch my cheeks, they taste of salt.
Tho-no wounds do they burn.

Your are the light to my dark.
Strum my soul-because your fingers...play it like no other can.

My song to you.
Is...simply who I am.

Now to find you.

(random poet I know)

[kittygrrl]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/29/2c/7c/292c7cbc0adde66fe247b777be1a2f3a.jpg

[Tierney]

“The things that inspire your life should consume your life.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich

[Tierney]

“You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve.” ― Robert J. Braathe

[Tierney]

“The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.” ― Valley Brown

[deathbypoem]

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[deathbypoem]

http://36.media.tumblr.com/10534d723d9900c831cabb3333196857/tumblr_ndb12dsXxY1r5vd4bo1_540.jpg

[deathbypoem]

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

[deathbypoem]

“all these years I have looked through your limbs
to the river below and the roofs and the night
and you were the way I saw the world”

w.s. merwin

[BestButchBoy]

Know then that the body is merely a garment
Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

~ Rumi

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[Tierney]

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” ― Eckhart Tolle

[Tierney]

“I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.” - Criss Jami

[Tierney]

“When your mind wants to bolt, but your heart hangs on, it is because you don’t know with absolute certainty what the truth is. When you waste so much time on something that you want to believe is true, you begin to overthink things. Eventually, something obvious becomes twisted into something absurd, which keeps us from believing a simpler answer. Over time, you believe your own lies and fantasies to shield yourself from hurt, when following what is logical would have been the quickest way to healing. It is through your own self-imposed delusions that you lose your perspective. The world then becomes different to you when in fact you are different. Why? Because your own ego gets in the way. Everyone wants to feel special. Everyone wants to have faith in others. Everyone wants to believe in fairytales, happy endings and have all bad interactions with others explained. It is easier to sit in denial with your delusions and pray God will intervene, not realizing he has. He gave you commonsense and intuition, but you didn’t like how it made you feel. This is what true mental illness really is: Following your gut instinct through hell because you want to prove you are right, either to yourself or others. You sacrifice choosing to do right, in order to avoid pain. However, you don't realize that you have been in pain for a really long time and believed this was how happiness felt.”

― Shannon L. Alder

[Bèsame*]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/b3/0a/20b30a1a611fd296576a636c062b80df.jpg

https://gardenhomeandparty.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/11-tumblr-fresh-as-a-daisy2.jpg

[Orema]

http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Rudy-Ray-Moore-funny-women-money-Meetville-Quotes-205317.jpg

[BestButchBoy]

"You are exactly where you are because all that you have to give and receive is right where you are now. Where you are is valuable and important. Everything you know is needed right where you are."

[Chicklette]

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.”

― José N. Harris

[Tierney]

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

― Frank McCourt

[Tierney]

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite

[Tierney]

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ― Albert Einstein

[Bèsame*]

https://cfaithholland.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/real-love.jpg?w=500&h=565

[deathbypoem]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/37/aa/5c/37aa5c7c7e9ca4ea8ec44d458f59a915.jpg

[deathbypoem]

http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xap1/t51.2885-15/s306x306/e15/10727563_430819710405155_2027401050_n.jpg

[Chicklette]

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. -Walt Disney

[Ascot]

Lulu the wonder cat asleep
at the foot of the bed.
Curled for all the world
like a black, furry hemorrhoid ring.

Snoring.

[BestButchBoy]

"The most accurate measure of our worth is how much we value ourselves. When we value who we are, we are sure to draw to us others who value us as much. We cannot convince others how wonderful and marvelous we are if we do not believe it."

[Bèsame*]

Confidence is silent.
Insecurities are loud.

[jenny]

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Feeling grateful today for so very many things. <3

[Tierney]

“All roads out of hell lead home.” ― Shannon L. Alder

[Tierney]

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho

[Tierney]

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” ― Robert Fulghum

[BestButchBoy]

“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy them and their existence”

[Bèsame*]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/50/f4/f2/50f4f21673011e52cc89cbe12f94d8f0.jpg

[Bèsame*]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/pf_images/prod_prayer_detail/535de6a6b9f7b6d55588cfd4

[Chicklette]

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. -Albert Einstein

[Talon]

"You are who you fellowship with. Be ruthlessly discerning."



~V.

[BestButchBoy]

"Your beliefs become your biology."

[Chicklette]

You can't always obtain what you want, so pull up your socks and move on. Wallowing in snide self pity, makes you look like a desperate 4 year old. I mean really, there are other boobs to chase.

-My daughter (telling her boyfriend)

[Tierney]

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

― Pablo Neruda

[Tierney]

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”

― Chad Sugg

[Tierney]

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” ― Sarah Williams

[BestButchBoy]

"Learn the rules like a pro so that you can break them like an artist."
PABLO PICASSO

[Chicklette]

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. ~Wayne Dyer

[Talon]

"It's called......>Non-traditional......>Non-conventional.....>And Unconditional."

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Smiling]

Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.
Nothing to reduce.
The entire world.
Hiroshima.
When people talk about war
I vow with all beings
to raise my voice in the chorus

and speak of original peace.

-Robert Aitken Roshi

[BestButchBoy]

A Cradle to Hold Me
"It is true I was created in you. It is also true that you were created for me. I owned your voice. It was shaped and tuned to soothe me. Your arms were molded into a cradle to hold me, to rock me. The scent of your body was the air perfumed for me to breathe."
MAYA ANGELOU

http://www.marycassatt.org/download-151028-Breakfast-in-Bed.download

[gotoseagrl]

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[Tierney]

“There's never an easy route to the things that matter.” ― Charles de Lint

[Tierney]

“I dwell on endless possibilities.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

[Tierney]

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

[Tierney]

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
And without feet I can make my way to you,
without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

[vixenagogo]

"i dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
and sung me moon-struck and kissed me quite insane."

-sylvia plath

[BestButchBoy]

http://www.marcandangel.com/images/16-love-yourself.jpg

[Talon]

Do not weep, do not wax indignant. Understand.


~Baruch Spinoza

[A. Spectre]

"A rodeo queen without a smile is a waste of a good hat."

~~~anonymous

[deathbypoem]

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

[jenny]

"The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart." ~ Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

[JDeere]

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

[LOQUI]

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly"
- GK Chesterton

[Tierney]

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” ― Sylvia Plath

[Tierney]

“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".” ― James Pratt

[Tierney]

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

― Charlotte Brontë

[gotoseagrl]

In this world there are only two tragedies: One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

[Tierney]

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

[Tierney]

“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”

― Ellen Bass

[Tierney]

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[jenny]

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces -- my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined." ~ Elizabeth Edwards

[BestButchBoy]

"Sexuality is who you go to bed WITh. Gender is who you go to bed AS."

[BestButchBoy]

"Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered."
GORGIO ARMANI

[gotoseagrl]

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe

[homoe]

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” Coco Chanel

[Tierney]

“I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”

― Barbara Brown Taylor

[Tierney]

“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.” ― Drew Myron

[Tierney]

“... your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...”

- John Geddes

[Tierney]

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

― Paulo Coelho

[Tierney]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

― E.E. Cummings

[Tierney]

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

― Kahlil Gibran

[Tierney]

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”

― Mary Oliver

[Bèsame*]

if you love something, then really love it.
If that trip, person, or afternoon
opened up
new worlds and mind sets,
then by all means
write about it or play about it,
or maybe even tell someone.
And tell it the way it really is, exactly how it feels.
It is beautiful to feel in a body built for feeling,
and exist intensely on a planet excluding intensity,
because life itself is both
intense and beautiful.
There's absolutely no need or reason
to pretend otherwise.

Victoria Erickson


http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=55436246

[Chicklette]

I am the powerful....
I am the goddess...
The vagrant of innocence....
Walking upon clouds of dreams...
Out reaching for tall tree worlds.....
I fall back to earth landing upon the wolf....
My brother yin is hungry...he stalks me...
Relentless....for I am the goddess the bitch and female...
We dance...am I free or do I face death....
The moon is high...we sleep with warmth..
Only to...balance another day...

(random poet, I know) Copyrighted, all right reserved.

[Tierney]

“Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts.” ― Paul Auster

[Tierney]

“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,
I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for me
to do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rang
constantly in my head, "You're not brave enough".


I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.”

― Sanhita Baruah

[Tierney]

“There’s a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then there’s a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you.” ― Christina Harlin

[Bèsame*]

The power of imagination makes us infinite.....John Muir

http://cdn1.bigcommerce.com/server4800/qzmo1aqk/product_images/uploaded_images/imagination-makes-us-infinite.jpg

[MysticOceansFL]

Actions speak louder than words!

[Chicklette]

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

[MysticOceansFL]

Fix the reflection in the mirror and toss all the anger the load that you carry will be much lighter!

[betruetoyoursoul]

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/68/42/5c/68425c81fc60a8c048dbbedb40ecffb4.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. Mignon McLaughlin

[MegBluEyz]

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you.
You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on
some other body, some external form.”
-Eckhart Tolle

[Tierney]

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” ― Ian McEwan

[Tierney]

“When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon

[Tierney]

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” ― Brené Brown

[A. Spectre]

When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.
~Caitlyn Siehl~

[Chicklette]

“Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” ― Shannon L. Alder

[Tierney]

“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!” ― Shannon L. Alder

[Tierney]

“So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don’t hide, because if you ask me about hurt and love I will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it. Don’t be scared. Go. Love.”

― Charlotte Eriksson

[Tierney]

“The spring breeze cuts around me, tearing the last of the old leaves from the branches of the bushes. It pulls on my clothes, and I imagine that if it took them from me, the last of my papers would soar out into the world, and I know it is time for me to stop holding certain things so close.” - Ally Condie

[Talon]

Many are the stars I see, but in my eye, no star like thee. :moonstars:


~Old English saying

[Tierney]

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

[Tierney]

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ― William Jennings Bryan

[Tierney]

“To say goodbye is to die a little.” ― Raymond Chandler

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Humanesque]

"Stay below the radar." 1/13/2013 8:39 pst

[Tierney]

“If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.” ― Jennifer DeLucy

[Orema]

The genius of Mad Men is that it’s as much about what’s invisible and what’s not said as what is. White male privilege is critiqued and dissected with fascinating scrutiny, because of the problem it creates in seeing the value in “others,” and the resulting self-destruction that comes from unchecked power and privilege. The catch is, those “others” have to be present to even begin to be neglected. —Ericka Blount Danois


Shame on Mad Men for implying Don Draper (or any Creative Director) came up with Coke's jingle "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing." The jingle was written by McCannn's inhouse musical director at the time, Billy Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Davis_%28songwriter%29).

[Tierney]

“Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are. ” ― Lucy Robinson

[Tierney]

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver

[BestButchBoy]

Just be cool. Don't be all, uncool.

[ahk]

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.--Edith Wharton

[Tierney]

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

[Tierney]

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” ― Jane Austen