Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[FeminineAllure]

If you want to study yourself -- look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people -- look into your own heart.

Friedrich von Schiller

[FeminineAllure]

Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990

[Spirit Dancer]

Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person,
of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Annie Gottlieb

[Spirit Dancer]

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group,
then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes
infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

Walter Annenberg

[Diva]

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

~Kenji Miyazawa

[hippieflowergirl]

love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

ee cummings

[Diva]

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

~Dale Carnegie

[JakeTulane]

“We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.” - Jeanette Winterson

[JakeTulane]

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” - Author Unknown

[Butterbean]

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

[Diva]

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

~Mark Twain

[Hack]

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation -- Tibetan Saying

[Duchess]

"One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment."(f)

– Bill Crawford

[violaine]

your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. how can you fake being a bard?

by being spoony, of course! --

-- anne c.

[Butterbean]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

-Charles Darwin

[Jerseyboi]

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T

[always2late]

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

[Tommi]

I always say, if you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu."


--Jolie Justus, Missouri state senator and out lesbian, speaking about the importance of having openly gay representation in politic

[JakeTulane]

“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” - Deepak Chopra

[JakeTulane]

“If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world" - Deepak Chopra

[JakeTulane]

“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.” - Deepak Chopra

[Spirit Dancer]

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where
the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands
that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us
like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

[Jet]

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

—Erma Bombeck

[Diva]

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

~Dennis Waitley

[Diva]

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

~Albert Schweitzer

[Lady Pamela]

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[moxie]

“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” - Alfred Adler

[Jerseyboi]

Laugh when you can. Apology when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Kiss slowly. Play hard. Forgive quickly. Take Chances. Give everything, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy...you get what you give, so give good :) -

[Jet]

Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. —Jet

[Ms. Meander]

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw!
~ the film, "Heathers"

[Hack]

It is easy to see the fly on the other person's nose, while ignoring the horse on your own. -- Tibetan proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when
you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

“What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder” - William Shakespeare

[Spirit Dancer]

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet
daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind
with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Alice Potter

[JakeTulane]

“Whatever happened to anyone else could happen to you-and to me - And the end of my youth was the possible truth that it all happens randomly.”- Indigo Girls

[Spirit Dancer]

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and
miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing
world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by
circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is
free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

George Santayana

[JakeTulane]

“Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Spirit Dancer]

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

G. K. Chesterton

[Spirit Dancer]

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins--not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown

[Spirit Dancer]

The heights by great ones reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Ms. Meander]

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

~ E. B White, Charlotte: Charlotte's Web

[Diva]

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
:dogwalking:


~Albert Schweitzer

[Diva]

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

~Frederick Keonig

[Butterbean]

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

[Lady Pamela]

Within the sound of silence,
A million words are heard.
If you but only listen with your intuition.
~*~

[always2late]

"We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness." - David Weatherford

[UofMfan]

No te quiero sino porque te quiero
y de quererte a no quererte llego
y de esperarte cuando no te espero
pasa mi corazón del frío al fuego.

Te quiero sólo porque a ti te quiero,
te odio sin fin, y odiándote te ruego,
y la medida de mi amor viajero
es no verte y amarte como un ciego.

Tal vez consumirá la luz de Enero,
su rayo cruel, mi corazón entero,
robándome la llave del sosiego.

En esta historia sólo yo me muero
y moriré de amor porque te quiero,
porque te quiero, amor, a sangre y fuego.

Pablo Neruda ~ Sonnet LXVI

[Diva]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!


~Mr. Day~

[Diva]

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[JakeTulane]

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Camus

[JakeTulane]

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship" - Louisa May Alcott

[moxie]

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” - (François-Marie Arouet) Voltaire

[UofMfan]

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra




One of my favorite quotes Diva.

I do believe the translation should read: Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you who you are. So true...

[Hack]

Consider the trees which allow the birds to perch and fly away without either inviting them to stay or desiring them never to depart. If your heart can be like this, you will be near to the way.

[Mister Bent]

We find by losing. We hold fast
by letting go. We become something
new by ceasing to be something old.
This seems to be close to the heart
of that mystery.
- Frederick Buechner

[BestButchBoy]

To Laugh
Y.Daniil

It is more of a cry
My laugh fills only others
My mind,
My body,
My soul:
Empty
I long to laugh,
to laugh
and hold my soul

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival." - C.S. Lewis

[JakeTulane]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

Year by year the complexities of this spinning world grow
more bewildering and so each year we need all the more
to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities.

Woman's Home Companion (1935)

[Spirit Dancer]

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.


Robert
Fulghum

[Spirit Dancer]

As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will
discover a nice benefit: your everyday, "ordinary" life will begin
to seem far more extraordinary. Little things that previously went
unnoticed will begin to please you. You'll be more easily satisfied,
and happier all around. Rather than focusing on what's wrong with
your life, you'll find yourself thinking about and more fully enjoying
what's right with your life. The world won't change, but your
perception of it will. You'll start to notice the little acts of
kindness and caring from other people rather than
the negativity and anger.

Jack Canfield

[Diva]

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

~Unattributed

[hippieflowergirl]

"if you want people to listen -- to actually listen and learn -- then speak in a way that does not tear down their desire to hear you or destroy their ability to care what you have to say. remember, you were not always you. once upon a time you knew as little as everyone else."

unknown

[Ms. Meander]

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~Marcus Aurelius

[Butterbean]

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Ldyluck88]

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick

[Spirit Dancer]

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby;
the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side,
we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized.
We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger
of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

Edward Steichen

[Spirit Dancer]

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still
believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad,
but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

[Spirit Dancer]

You are a second world in miniature; the sun and moon are within you, and also the stars.
Origen

[moxie]

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

[Spirit Dancer]

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. -- Nicholas Evans

[Billy]

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS:
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

[Spirit Dancer]

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly

[Spirit Dancer]

To have someone give you control of their bodies and minds,
to be entrusted with the responsibility to take care of them,
to have someone willing to suffer for you,
to forsake pride and dignity to please you...
what other gift in this world can possibility equate to that?
And more importantly, what makes you worthy to receive it? -- Anonymous

[Duchess]

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.(f)

Sir John Lubbock (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Sir+John&Author_Last_Name=Lubbock&Movie=)
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

[Spirit Dancer]

'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'.
'Come to the edge', he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire

[Lady Pamela]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

[Andrew, Jr.]

In politics, if you want anything said - ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin

If he/she hits you once, you can count on them hitting you again. ~ Me

[always2late]

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

[Lady Pamela]

Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions Watch your actions, they become your habits Watch your habits, they become your character Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

[Lady Pamela]

When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Barbara J. Winter

[Lady Pamela]

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

[Hack]

The obstacle is the path. -- Zen proverb

[Lady Pamela]

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

[Jet]

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

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

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

I like children – fried.

All quotes by W.C. Fields

[Diva]

I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. :coffee:


~Patrick Dennis

[Spirit Dancer]

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron

[violaine]

friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity -
- - Kahlil Gibran

the essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses -
- - David Storey


:writer:

[Diva]

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

~Tupac Shakur

[JakeTulane]

“Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
gayatri" - Jalal ad-Din Rumi quote

[JakeTulane]

“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” - Rumi

[JakeTulane]

“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”-Jalal ad-Din Rumi quote

[Spirit Dancer]

Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul.
That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of
"how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation,
a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

[Spirit Dancer]

The kind of beauty I want most is
the hard-to-get kind that comes
from within -- strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

[Spirit Dancer]

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach
out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the
world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of
existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of
knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always
to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Morris L. West

[Spirit Dancer]

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the
realization that all we want or need in life has been
etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are
"going through," but what we are "growing to"--a greater
sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment.
Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace
that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we
keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

Iyanla Vanzant

[Spirit Dancer]

The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides. -- Kahlil Gibran

[Ldyluck88]

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

[NJFemmie]

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God’s creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages; those that are married already, all but one, shall live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go.

[Butterbean]

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros






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[WolfyOne]

I read this on my FB today, liked it and looked it up....author is unknown

I wanted to share the quote

“Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.”

[Diva]

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.


~Doris Day

[always2late]

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable." ~ Wizard of Oz

[Beau]

“If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.”
-- Moliere

[Duchess]

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!(f)

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

[moxie]

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” - Eugene Ionesco

[Spirit Dancer]

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade

[Spirit Dancer]

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron

[Spirit Dancer]

And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. -- Khalil Gibran

[Spirit Dancer]

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage

[JakeTulane]

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." ~Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

'Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.' ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JakeTulane]

'The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer'

[always2late]

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. ~ Dante

[Ms. Meander]

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
~ Zimbabwe Proverb

[Ldyluck88]

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

[Duchess]

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. (f)

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

[Butterbean]

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

-Albert Einstein

[Spirit Dancer]

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily,
adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously,
and continues a friend unchangeably.

William Penn

[Spirit Dancer]

George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them
all out, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take
and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with
the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

[Spirit Dancer]

I am treating you as my friend, asking you
to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Katherine Mansfield

[JakeTulane]

“Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.” - Hannah Arrendt

[JakeTulane]

“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.” - Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears". ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

[Diva]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

~Norman Cousins

[Diva]

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

~Robert Cody

[Fancy]

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
--Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

[Ms. Meander]

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey

[always2late]

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mohandas Gandhi

[Ldyluck88]

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ~Nolan Bushnell

[Diva]

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

~Angela Monet

[Ldyluck88]

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson

[vixenagogo]

a happy life is just a string of happy moments.
but most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Abraham-Hicks

[Spirit Dancer]

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved; loved for ourselves,
or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor
Hugo

[Spirit Dancer]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love--
the first fluttering of its silken wings--the first rising sound and breath of that wind
which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or destroy.

[Spirit Dancer]

The person who wants the rose
must respect the thorn.

Persian proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me . . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

[Fancy]

If it fires you up, you gotta let it shine...

(Hillbilly Bone)

[Ldyluck88]

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. ~John Erskine

[moxie]

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'” - Charles M. Schulz

[hippieflowergirl]

"spending one's life unrecognized by the world is not nearly as painful as sinking into insignificance after having once mattered very much to one special person." me

[Diva]

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.

~Astrid Alauda

[LadyInRed]

I do not pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what love is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them then any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including some of the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.

[LadyInRed]

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

[LadyInRed]

“You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never been there for you. And all you've done is go farther and farther away from the precious love that's been waiting for you all the time.”

[TROOPER]

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

There is something
incredibly beautiful
so, amazingly alive
about her

I can feel
her cool calmness
sparkling across the surface
laminating yet reflecting
this mysteriously pure power
twirling from within

I can hear
the voice of her being
flowing through me
beckoning me to her
like the sweetest of lullabys
soothing my soul

and, I know
if I could dream at all
it would be
about her
as, I try to imagine
the taste of her tears.

TROOPER 04/2010


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[Diva]

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~Leonardo da Vinci (born this day in 1452)

[Diva]

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

~Leonardo da Vinci

[always2late]

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

[Ldyluck88]

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward

[Ms. Meander]

We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~ Blaise Pascal

[Ms. Meander]

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
~ Hermann Hesse

[Diva]

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

~Bertrand Russell

[vixenagogo]

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

-James Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

-James Allen

[moxie]

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you” - Friedrich Nietzsche

[always2late]

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~ Charles M. Schulz

[shadows papa]

"We live in a society that equates money,power,and status with dignity; when usually nothing could be further from the truth" Steve Earle

[Ms. Meander]

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
~ Unknown

[moxie]

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction." - Chuck Palahniuk

[nycfem]

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

[Diva]

This woman is an idiot.

~ Keith Olbermann, speaking of Sarah Palin



Right on, Keith. Right on.

[Ldyluck88]

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin

[Ms. Meander]

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
~ Anias Nin

[Diva]

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

~Steven D. Woodhull

[Diva]

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

~William James

[Butterbean]

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. "

~Albert Schweitzer
















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[Fancy]

Dave: How do I get a hold of you?

Hit Girl: You just contact the mayor's office. He has a special signal he shines in the sky; it's in the shape of a giant cock!

[JustLovelyJenn]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
--Buddha

[JustLovelyJenn]

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis

[JustLovelyJenn]

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
--Ellen Glasgow

[JustLovelyJenn]

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
--Bertolt Brecht

[JustLovelyJenn]

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

[Mister Bent]

We have such an itch for pattern and narrative, such a ravenous hunger for order,
But there is no pattern, there is no order, there isn't really even a coherent
Narrative shape. The fact of the matter is that at best we maunder forward with all
Possible grace in the moments when we are not thrashing and sobbing and crazy.

- Brian Doyle

[Hack]

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. -- Francis Bacon

[moxie]

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman

[lyric]

Ten years ago, I was a social worker in Tennessee, doing crisis intervention work with delinquent kids and their families. I was hundreds of miles away from loved ones or anyone remotely close to me, I was lonely, struggling with coming out of the closet to my family, and my personal life was a general mess. One morning, I was at the courthouse for the hearing of one of the kids on my caseload, and in the middle of the crowded a lobby, an elderly gentleman stopped me and handed me a business card before continuing to pass through and exit the courthouse. The card was pink and had roses on it. On one side was a bible verse. On the other, it read:

You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be.

I don't know who the man was or why he gave me that card. I've held onto it ever since, and as a matter of fact, it has a permanent place on my desk and is sitting here right in front of me. I've looked at it many times over the years and considered tossing it, but I knew that with my tendency to be an impulsive and leaping-without-looking kind of girl, I needed to hold onto it as a reminder, and it's served that very purpose. I've read it and have even repeated those words to myself out loud on numerous occasions.

You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be...


Or where you belong... or don't belong...
Or where is healthiest for you...
Or where you can most respect yourself...
Or what you can live with and what you can't...
Or where you can call home and truly be happy...

Although I think I've done a lot of growing up and am finally at that place, I'll still hold onto that card, and I will never forget the face of the kindly old man who gave it to me, nor the tangible piece of wisdom he gifted me with a decade ago.

[violaine]

solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost --
-- Kevin Patterson

rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them --
-- John mcphee

the act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium --
-- Norbet Platt

[cinderella]

Upon being informed by her butler that there were 10 men waiting for her backstage, Mae West responded:
"Send one home, I'm tired."

[cinderella]

"Once I was pure as the driven snow...now I'm just driven."
~Mae West

[Mister Bent]

You will think I am being melodramatic
When I say maybe basketball saved my life, but I leave you with this one image:
A guy in the middle of the night in a city long ago with his hands shaking so bad
He could hardly even get a grip on the ball, but an hour later, under the old streetlight,
I hit like eleven in a row and was panting and pleased and something was healed.
- Brian Doyle

[Diva]

Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

~Chuck Palahniuk

[Spirit Dancer]

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm
cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people
which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach
this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.

James Allen

[Spirit Dancer]

True silence really means going deep within yourself to that place
where nothing is happening, where you transcend time and space.
You go into a brand new dimension of nothingness. That's where
all the power is. That's your real home. That's where you really
belong, in deep Silence where there is no good or bad, no one
trying to achieve anything. Just being, pure being. . . . Silence is the ultimate reality.
Robert Adams

[Spirit Dancer]

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire,
but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to
change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have
not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely
determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it,
and then if we turn around to gaze at the remote past, we can
barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Marcel Proust

[moxie]

“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” - Leon Trotsky

[Butterbean]

"It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one

is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds

. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no

odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the

entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you

may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged

imagination."

~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script

[violaine]

to me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make --
-- Truman Capote

the pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible --
-- Vladimir Nabakov

the good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads --
-- William Styron

[MrSunshine]

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese

Moved and moved on, all is forgiven and forgotten. I ask for nothing, expect nothing. In the end none of it matters.~ Me

[JustLovelyJenn]

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love. ~Woody Allen

[Nat]

by Langston Hughes

White workers of the South
Miners,
Farmers,
Mechanics,
Mill Hands,
Shop girls,
Railway men,
Servants,
Tobacco workers,
Sharecroppers,
GREETINGS!

I am the black worker,
Listen:
That the land might be ours,
And the mines and the factories and the office towers
At Harlan, Richmond, Gastonia, Atlanta, New Orleans;
That the plants and the roads and the tools of power
Be ours:

Let us forget what Booker T. said,
"Separate as the fingers."

Let us become instead, you and I,
One single hand
That can united rise
To smash the old dead dogmas of the past-
To kill the lies of color
That keep the rich enthroned
And drive us to the time-clock and the plow
Helpless, stupid, scattered, and alone-as now-
Race against race,
Because one is black,
Another white of face.

Let us new lessons learn,
All workers,
New life-ways make,
One union form:
Until the future burns out
Every past mistake
Let us together, say:
"You are my brother, black or white,
You my sister-now-today!"
For me, no more, the great migration to the North.
Instead: migration into force and power-
Tuskegee with a new flag on the tower!
on every lynching tree, a poster crying FREE
Because, O poor white workers,
You have linked your hands with me.

We did not know that we were brothers.
Now we know!
out of that brotherhood
Let power grow!
We did not know
That we were strong.
Now we see
In union lies our strength.
Let unions be
The force that breaks the time-clock,
Smashes misery,
Takes land,
Takes factories,
Takes office towers,
Takes tools and banks and mines.
Railroads, ships and dams,
Until the forces of the world
Are ours!

White worker,
Here is my hand.

Today,
We're Man to Man.

[JustLovelyJenn]

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can play together all night.
--Bill Watterson

[JustLovelyJenn]

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

[JustLovelyJenn]

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

[Enchantress]

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

- Chinese Proverb

[Mister Bent]

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." ...I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar."

- Jeffrey Eugenides

[moxie]

"Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal." - Chuck Palahniuk

[Hack]

here's to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your(in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here's to silent certainly mountains;and to
a disappearing poet of always,snow
and to morning;and to morning's beautiful friend
twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and

let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up
with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here's to one undiscoverable guess
of whose mad skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

-- e.e. cummings

[Mister Bent]

"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
- Tom Masson

[Duchess]

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.(f)

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

[afixer]

Caelica 56: "All My Senses, Like Beacon's Flame"

All my senses, like beacon's flame,
Gave alarum to desire
To take arms in Cynthia's name
And set all my thoughts on fire:
Fury's wit persuaded me,
Happy love was hazard's heir,
Cupid did best shoot and see
In the night where smooth is fair;
Up I start believing well
To see if Cynthia were awake;
Wonders I saw, who can tell?
And thus unto myself I spake:
"Sweet God Cupid, where am I,
That by pale Diana's light,
Such rich beauties do espy,
As harm our senses with delight?
Am I borne up to the skies?
See where Jove and Venus shine,
Showing in her heavenly eyes
That desire is divine.
Look where lies the milken way,
Way unto that dainty throne,
Where while all the Gods would play,
Vulcan thinks to dwell alone."
I gave reins to this conceit,
Hope went on the wheel of lust;
Fancy's scales are false of weight,
Thoughts take thought that go of trust.
I stepped forth to touch the sky,
I a God by Cupid dreams;
Cynthia, who did naked lie,
Runs away like silver streams,
Leaving hollow banks behind
Who can neither forward move,
Nor, if rivers be unkind,
Turn away or leave to love.
There stand I, like Arctic pole,
Where Sol passeth o'er the line,
Mourning my benighted soul,
Which so loseth light divine.
There stand I like men that preach
From the execution place,
At their death content to teach
All the world with their disgrace.
He that lets his Cynthia lie
Naked on a bed of play,
To say prayers ere she die,
Teacheth time to run away.
Let no love‑desiring heart
In the stars go seek his fate,
Love is only Nature's art.
Wonder hinders Love and Hate.
None can well behold with eyes
But what underneath him lies.

—Fulke Greville


hear it read here (http://www.slate.com/id/2213759/), just scroll down to the player. :)

[Diva]

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

~Charlie Brown to Snoopy

[Butterbean]

"I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing."

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

[weatherboi]

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...”
Thomas S. Szasz

[Diva]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

~Oscar Wilde

[Diva]

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

~Dr. Seuss

[lyric]

"All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - Always." -Ghandi

[moxie]

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." - Gustave Flaubert

[violaine]

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
-- dian fossey

[Diva]

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

~Lord Byron

[cinderella]

"Good sex is like good Bridge... If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."

~ Mae West...gotta love that Mae!!

[Ldyluck88]

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer

[Fancy]

I wake each morning deciding to save or savor the world.

[Diva]

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

~Bill Russell

[always2late]

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

[Ldyluck88]

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

[PinkieLee]

"End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours." ~ unknown

[PinkieLee]

Be not forgetful to cherish the gifts each moment brings. ~ unknown

[NJFemmie]

If most people said what's on their minds, they'd be speechless.

[Diva]

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Diva]

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

~William Makepeace Thackeray

[moxie]

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

[Spirit Dancer]

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)


Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
US choreographer & dancer (1894 - 1991)

[Spirit Dancer]

If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran

[The_Lady_Snow]

WWMD?

What Would Madonna Do?

[Enchantress]

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

[violaine]

. . . the ears ripen in late summer
and come on with a conquering laughter,
come on with a high and conquering laughter.

the long-tailed blackbirds are hoarse.
one of the smaller blackbirds chitters on a stalk
and a spot of red is on its shoulder
and I never heard its name in my life. . .

--laughing corn
carl sandburg

[Mister Bent]

Ella Mae - the redwings returned today
A little rain fell in the morning
The afternoon was clear
An' that song you loved to hear
Was filling up the fence row where the birds all go
To talk over their long journey and sing.

[moxie]

"As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me." - Henry Rollins

[always2late]

"There are times when sorrow seems the only truth." - Oscar Wilde

[Toofrufru]

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela

[Diva]

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

~Chinese Proverb

[Ldyluck88]

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

[Ms. Meander]

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 within.

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

[The_Lady_Snow]

“Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.”

[Spirit Dancer]

We have no freer or quieter place to which we may retire
than into our own souls, particularly when we have within us
such thoughts that by looking into them we are immediately
in perfect tranquility. And I affirm that tranquility is nothing else
than the good ordering of the mind.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

[Spirit Dancer]

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.

John F. Kennedy

[Spirit Dancer]

Over all the mountaintops
Is peace.
In all treetops
You perceive
Scarcely a breath.
The little birds in the forest
Are silent.
Wait then; soon
You, too, will have peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[moxie]

“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 F. Buscaglia

[nycfem]

“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 F. Buscaglia

I've always loved this quote.

[Enchantress]

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

[Diva]

7/11 Beer.....when Rite~Aid Beer just won't do.

~David Letterman

[Kobi]

I received this in an email a while back. It is something to ponder:

Life is a theater--invite your audience carefully. Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships/fellowships!

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention to: which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people,
do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you? When you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the
FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

You cannot change the people around you..but you can change the people you are around. Pray for Godly wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the FRONT ROW of your life.

[Emmy]

Here is a favorite poem of mine that lately has been on my mind:


William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Lady Pamela]

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear;
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair."

— Douglas MacArthur

http://webpub.allegheny.edu/student/c/crosbya/weblog/self-esteem_logo.jpg

[Diva]

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.

~William Arthur Ward

[Diva]

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

~Dan Rather

[JakeTulane]

“Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music” - Martin Luther King