Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[nina03]

"Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready."
Nayyirah Waheed

[CherryWine]

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[nina03]

"Let me tell you the mean story. For years and years, I convinced myself I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all. That's the mean story." Dorothy Allison

[nina03]

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[Genesis]

I remember when I opened my school in South Africa and I said to Maya Angelou, ‘Gee this will be my legacy.’ And Maya in her Maya way said, ‘You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do everyday. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped, that’s your legacy.’ I don’t think about it. I just try to live it....

[nina03]

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

~Rumi

[Genesis]

Words of Wisdom: Becoming

I am becoming the woman I've wanted,
grey at the temples,
soft body, delighted,
cracked up by life
with a laugh that's known bitter
but, past it, got better,
knows she's a survivor -
that whatever comes,
she can outlast it.
I am becoming a deep
weathered basket.

I am becoming the woman I've longed for,
the motherly lover
with arms strong and tender,
the growing daughter
who blushes surprises.
I am becoming full moons
and sunrises.

I find her becoming,
this woman I've wanted,
who knows she'll encompass,
who knows she's sufficient,
knows where she's going
and travels with passion.
Who remembers she's precious,
but knows she's not scarce -
who knows she is plenty,
plenty to share.

- Jayne Relaford Brown, Finding Her Here

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[VintageFemme]

"My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. —André Breton

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[LOQUI]

"The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal"

-Lao Tzu-

[CherryWine]

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[LOQUI]

"Be careful who you share your weaknesses with.
Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you."

-Unknown-

[LOQUI]

"A lie may take care of the present,
but it has not future..."
-Unknown-

[gotoseagrl]

"No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams."

[LOQUI]

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
-John Harington-

[BullDog]

“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.”

- Alison Malee

[LOQUI]

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
-John Lubbock-

[LOQUI]

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
-Marcus Aurelius-

[CherryWine]

“Equality can feel like oppression. But it’s not. What you’re feeling is just the discomfort of losing a little bit of your privilege.” - Unknown

This one came to mind today after hearing about the shameful events in Charlottesville. Sadly, those fools will never get it.

[Orema]

If I were a man, I'd have been considered the greatest ever a long time ago. —Serena Williams

[Orema]

Don't explain. Your friends don't need it, your enemies won't believe you. —Paul Coelho

[Canela]

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[Talon]

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.


-F. Dostoyevsky

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[2qt]

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I need to hug more often...... ((((((((((((BFP))))))))))))

[girl_dee]

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I need to hug more often...... ((((((((((((BFP))))))))))))

(((((((( 2 )))))))))

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[BullDog]

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

- Anne Lamott

[kittygrrl]

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[CherryWine]

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[gotoseagrl]

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

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[Genesis]

Be grateful in all things. Every experience that you have can be turned into a catalyst for awakening the Queen within. #thequeencode

[Genesis]

That’s been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

-Steve Jobs

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[Genesis]

She was done not fully being herself.

She realized she was the only self she could be—and not being unapologetically true to herself was a disservice to her soul and the world.

She was done listening to the noise of the world. She realized the quiet voice of her own soul was the most beautiful sound.

She was done questioning her motives, her intentions, the call of her soul. She realized questions seek answers, and maybe she already knew the answers.

She was done striving, forcing, pushing through and staying on the hard path. She realized toughing things out might be a sign to pick another path.

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She was done with friends that admonished her to be more light and breezy. She realized they didn’t understand she swam in the deep waters of life, she felt at home in their dark depths and died if she lived on the surface.

She was done with the distractions, the denials, the small addictions that pulled her away from the true desires of her soul. She realized that strength of character came from focus and commitment.

She was done not following the desires that yelled out in her soul every day. She realized if she did nothing about them, they died a quiet death that took a piece of her soul with them.

She was done with dinner parties and cocktail hours where conversations skimmed the surface of life. She realized the beverages created distortion and a temporary happiness that wasn’t real and disappeared in the light of the day.

She was done trying to please everyone. She realized it could never be done.

She was done questioning herself. She realized her heart knew the truth and she needed to follow it.
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She was done analyzing all the options, weighing the pros and cons and trying to figure everything out before leaping. She realized that taking a leap implied not fully seeing where she landed.

She was done battling with herself, trying to change who she knew herself to be. She realized the world made it hard enough to fully be herself, so why add to the challenge.

She was done worrying, as if worry was the price she had to pay to make it all turn out okay. She realized worry didn’t need to be part of the process.

She was done apologizing and playing small to make others feel comfortable and fit in. She realized fitting in was overrated and shining her light made others brave enough to do the same.

She was done with the should’s, ought to’s and have to’s of the world. She realized the only must’s in her life came from things that beat so strong in her soul, she couldn’t not do them.

She was done with remorse and could have’s. She realized hindsight never applies because circumstances always look different in the rearview mirror and you experience life looking through the front window.

She was done with friendships based on shared history and past experiences. She realized if friends couldn’t grow together, or were no longer following the same path, it was okay to let them go.

She was done trying to fit in—be part of the popular crowd. She realized the price she had to pay to be included was too high and betrayed her soul.

She was done not trusting. She realized she had placed her trust in people that were untrustworthy—so she would start with the person she could trust the most—herself.

She was done being tired. She realized it came from spending her time doing things that didn’t bring her joy or feed her soul.

She was done trying to figure it all out, know the answers, plan everything and see all the possibilities before she began. She realized life was unfolding and that the detours and unexpected moments were some of the best parts.

She was done needing to be understood by anyone but herself. She realized she was the only person she would spend her whole with and understanding herself was more important than being understood by others.

She was done looking for love. She realized loving and accepting herself was the best kind of love and the seed from which all other love started.

She was done fighting, trying to change or not her accepting her body. She realized the body she came into the world with was the only one she had—there were no exchanges or returns—so love and acceptance was the only way.

She was done being tuned in, connected and up-to-date all the time. She realized the news and noise of the world was always there—a cacophony that never slowed or fell quiet and that listening to the silence of her soul was a better station to tune into.

She was done beating herself up and being so hard on herself as if either of these things led to changes or made her feel better. She realized kindness and compassion towards herself and others accomplished more.

She was done comparing and looking at other people’s lives as a mirror for her own. She realized holding her own mirror cast her in the best, most beautiful light.

She was done being quiet, unemotional and holding her tongue. She realized her voice and her emotions could be traced back to her deepest desires and longings. if she only followed their thread.

She was done having to be right. She realized everyone’s truth was relative and personal to themselves, so the only right that was required was the one that felt true for her.

She was done not feeling at home in the world. She realized she might never feel at home in the world, but that feeling at home in her soul was enough.

She was done being drained by others—by people who didn’t want to take the time for their own process and saw shortcuts though hers. She realized she could share her experience, but everyone needed to do the work themselves.

She was done thinking she had so much to learn. She realized she already knew so much, if she only listened.

She was done trying to change others or make them see things. She realized she could only lead by example and whether they saw or followed was up to them.

She was done with the inner critic. She realized its voice was not her own.

She was done racing and being discontent with where she was. She realized the present moment held all it needed to get her to the next moment. It wasn’t out there—it was right here.

She was done seeing hurt as something to be avoided, foreseen or somehow her fault. She realized hurt shaped her as much as joy and she needed both to learn and grow.

She was done judging. She realized judging assumed the presence of right and wrong—and that there was a difference between using information to inform and making someone else wrong.

She was done jumping to conclusions. She realized she only needed to ask.

She was done with regrets. She realized if she had known better she would have done better.

She was done being angry. She realized anger was just a flashlight that showed her what she was most scared of and once it illuminated what she needed to see, she no longer needed to hold on to it.

She was done being sad. She realized sorrow arose when she betrayed her own soul and made choices that weren’t true to herself.

She was done playing small. She realized if others couldn’t handle her light, it was because they were afraid of their own.

She was done with the facades and the pretending. She realized masks were suffocating and claustrophobic.

She was done with others’ criticism and complaints. She realized they told her nothing about herself—only informed her of their perspective.

She was done yelling above the noise of the world. She realized living out loud could be done quietly.

She was done needing permission, validation or the authority. She realized she was her her own authority.

She was done being something she was not. She realized the purpose of life was to be truly, happily who she was born to be…and if she paused long enough to remember, she recognized herself.

Author: Adrienne Pieroth

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[LOQUI]

"We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry..."

-Unknown-

[Fancy]

I was quiet, but I was not blind. - Jane Austen

[Kätzchen]

I was quiet, but I was not blind. - Jane Austen

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this quote! It's sooooo me!

[CherryWine]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[BullDog]

“Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.”

- Michelle Sagara West

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[Genesis]

It's not judging to have eyes.
It's not judging to know something.
You don't have to walk in someone else's shoes to see they are about to walk off a cliff.
If you see someone about to walk off a cliff, yell and stop them.
You can judge in service without out a haughty or arrogant heart.
You were born to judge just as you were born to think.
Your whole life is a series of judgements and adjustments.
Don't let people batter you from the bully-pulpit about judging to the point that you suppress your common sense.
They are not holier than you because they call their judging "discernment."
Don't listen to "non-judgers," who judge your judgement; it's hypocritical hogwash.

We judge people constantly.
We were born to judge.
You can judge a behaviour without condemning a soul.
Someone's salvation is out of your jurisdiction but once they have opened their mouth the invitation to judge is irretractable.
People often use the "judgement card" to hide when you are getting too close to the truth for comfort.
Hang on to your judgement.
Good judgement will keep you safe.
Good judgement can and does save lives.
Don't be afraid of your rightful power to judge others.
Judging is one of your most powerful tools you have to protect those you care about, and yourself, from harm.

— Bryant McGill

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Humble flower — no magnate, president, or king, was ever appointed with such authority as thee.
How many mighty souls have knelt in submission, before the grand estate, of your delicate blossoms?
Kings will stop and bow down, to look upon the greater majesty, of a simple flower.
The flower rules supreme, not by force, but through the victory of beauty.
The flower's beauty goes not unrequited, as its lovers and attendants serve their glorious beloved.

— Bryant McGill

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[Katniss]

“September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable or perplexed
But so many more so happy.
Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls
Dancing over and over with her shadow
Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls
And all of London littered with remembered kisses.”

― Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal

[Talon]

I'm going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.


--)Woody Allen

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"To See a World..."

(Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence"

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.


- William Blake

[Canela]

“Nobody’s going to save you.
No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you.
No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth,
Climb down your hair,
Nor mount you onto the white steed.
There is no one who will feed the yearning.
Face it.
You will have to do,
Do it yourself.”

``Gloria E. Anzaldúa

[Canela]

“Write with your eyes like painters,
With your ears like musicians,
With your feet like dancers.
You are the truthsayer with quill and torch.
Write with your tongues on fire.”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

[Orema]

Donald Trump continues to say in every way possible that power and privilege in America is primarily the provenance of people who are white, male, Christian and straight, and that all others should be targeted for denial, oppression or removal.... The assaults on common decency in general, but on traditionally marginalized populations in particular, have come like an unending barrage of bullets.... We are witnessing the boot come swiftly down on the necks of women and minorities. We are seeing a program of minority removal — from the free population, from the work force, from the dole (as they see it), from the country itself. We are seeing an uplifting of whiteness to the detriment of non-whiteness. We are seeing the end of unity and the rise of factions and fascism....Sometimes you simply have to call a thing a thing, and the thing here is that Trump’s inner racist is being revealed, and America’s not-so-silent racists are rising in applause.


Charles M. Blow, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Sept. 7, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion/inner-racism-revealed.html

[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

I know you’ll be bullied for speaking out. This is how they operate. Not everyone will like you for taking a stand. Let it roll off your back. Some people may burn your records or ask for refunds for tickets to your concerts. Whatever. Find the strength of moral conviction, even if it comes with a price tag, which it will. Don’t let them bully you into silence. That’s where their power lies — in the silence of rational voices and in the apathy of those who can speak truth to power.

This is a moment in American history that can’t be met with silence. According to PolitiFact, from 2005 to 2015, some 300,000 people were killed by gun violence. That’s roughly the population of Pittsburgh. The grief that extends through the affected families is endless.

Those of us who make our living in “the tower of song,” as Leonard Cohen so eloquently put it, must let our voices ring out. The N.R.A. will stick to its post-shooting playbook. It will say that we shouldn’t “politicize” the Las Vegas carnage by talking about gun control at this time, and that this isn’t about guns, it’s about people, and that even more of us should be armed to protect ourselves. Enough.

—Rosanne Cash speaking to Country Music musicians in today's New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/rosanne-cash-country-musicians-nra.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region&region=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region

[homoe]

"Never Under Estimate The Power Of A Well Written Letter"


Karen Joy Fowler in Jane Austen Book Club

[Orema]

I keep my cool, but I’m feignin’.
—Macy Gray

[gotoseagrl]

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there. Natalie Goldberg

[gotoseagrl]

For all that, the setting suns are open.
The end cracks open with the beginning:
Rosy, tender, glittering within the fissure.

Do you mean to tell me there should be no fissure?
No glittering, compact drops of dawn?
Do you mean it is wrong, the gold-filmed skin, integument,
shown ruptured?

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken.
It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

D.H. Lawrence

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Orema]

While I realize that neither professional sports leagues nor national television networks are likely to be the forces leading the anti-police-brutality revolution, I am quietly happy whenever anyone in a position of power decides to say something that might stop someone somewhere from killing a person who looks like me. And so thanks to the protesting players, and to Jemele Hill, for speaking out in support of them, even if her network is too cowardly to back her up.

—Kashana Cauley, writer and New York Times Op-Ed Contributor
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/opinion/jemele-hill-football-espn.html

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[BullDog]

Compassion, love, and affirming values exist because people intentionally work toward them. Claiming responsibility focuses our attention on what we can do to improve our world.

- Robin Chancer

Both optimism and pessimism require future-oriented thinking. They exist in the hypothetical, the imaginary. Mindfulness involves shifting our attention — repeatedly, resolutely — back to the present moment. We do not know the future. We cannot fully know the impact of any particular action. We must focus on what we can do, right here and right now. Bring the mind back from its runaway worries and future predictions. Focus that energy on concrete action, and the rewards will feed your soul.

- Robin Chancer

both from:

https://politicsmeanspolitics.com/how-to-stay-sane-if-trump-is-driving-you-insane-advice-from-a-therapist-42e982195e22

[LOQUI]

"Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter."

-No, I don't know the author...-

[Genesis]

If you feel something, let people know that you feel.

Love is like a mirror. When you love others you become their mirror and they become yours.

Real love always creates, it never destroys.

Live now.
When you are eating, eat.
When you are loving, love.
Whnen you are talking with someone, talk.
When you are looking at a flower, look.
Catch the beauty of the moment!

Love is open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that youa re left holding only yourself...

~ Dr. Leo Buscaglia's theory is that love is learned and that every one can and should learn to love.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Blue is known as a "sad" color.
But when I see the ocean,
all my sorrow is washed away...

~A.M.

[Genesis]

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[CherryWine]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b6/22/b4/b622b4925475f39a06da219be99c2fce--pin-interest-wise-words.jpg

[BullDog]

"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are."

- Danielle Laporte

[Kätzchen]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“Enough” is a feast.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuit and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… Of the questions of these reoccurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… Of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

What will your verse be?”

- John Keating, Dead Poets Society

[Genesis]

‘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

[Orema]

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[Fancy]

Happy Birthday Louisa May Alcott!

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
-LAC

[girl_dee]

"Don't Focus on things you cannot change"

M.

[BullDog]

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.

- Aesop

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“... Imagine! Imagine!
the long and wondrous journeys
still to be ours.”

-Mary Oliver

[Fancy]

"It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea." - Dylan Thomas

[Fancy]

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”

-Willa Cather
12/7/1873 - 4/24/1947

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"My passionate sense of social justice
and social responsibility has always contrasted
oddly with my pronounced lack of need
for direct contact with other human beings
and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler'
and have never belonged to my country, my home,
my friends, or even my immediate family, with
my whole heart; in the face of all these ties,
I have never lost a sense of distance and
a need for solitude… "

- Albert Einstein

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[CherryWine]

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/44/65/11/44651193b197f28f44fc3fb7de17127a.jpg

[cathexis]

Here is one that was said to me as a young kid. Not sure of it's origin...perhaps German/Irish/Southern/Mid-western (South Dakota).
Trust me it's weird.

"Darkabus, nightabus norn a light shorum. Boy climabus gatemus, breetemus torum."

Anyone else run into this poem, limerick or whatever it is. Was said to kids at night in lieu or a ghost story so to not scare the child.

Anyone know anything about this???

[Fancy]

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."


“Saying nothing sometimes says the most.”


-Emily Dickinson

December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886

[Orema]

We can build castles with the stones that life throws at us.

—Erica Crompton, freelance writer and mental health campaigner from Staffordshire, England

[Orema]

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

—Editorial Board, USA Today, December 12, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/12/trump-lows-ever-hit-rock-bottom-editorials-debates/945947001/

[Orema]

Bye Felisha

— Robin Roberts, showing her disdain and disgust for Omarosa Manigault on today's Good Morning America talk show.

[Orema]

"I am part of the problem ... I paid for peace of mind," he wrote. "I paid for her silence and cooperation. Most of all, I paid so I could remain who I was."

—Morgan Spurlock, 'Super Size Me' filmmaker admitting to sexual misconduct.
https://www.facebook.com/MorganSpurlock/posts/1195648287234595

[Fancy]

“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 Wadsworth Longfellow

[Fancy]

Expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both
cleanse you.

— natural

(Nayyirah Waheed)

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“...in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart.”

P.B. Shelley, On Love.

[Fancy]

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus


....the light returns, it always does.

[theoddz]

I love practicality. Maybe it's the Cardinal Earth sign that I am (December Capricorn) that makes me this way, but I love it, and I always like other people who are also practical.

My mother, a practical Taurean, used to always say, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do" . :winky:

I miss Mom, especially now, at Christmastime. :xmascandle:

~Theo~ :bouquet:

[Fancy]

“But the Queen Arwen said: 'A gift I will give you. For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him now when he departs to the Havens; for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so I have chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. But in my stead you shall go, Ring-bearer, when the time comes, and if you then desire it. If your hurts grieve you still and the memory or your burden is heavy, then you may pass into the West, until all your wounds and weariness are healed. But wear this now in memory of Elfstone and Evenstar with whom your life has been woven!'

And she took a white gem like a star that lay upon her breast hanging upon a silver chain, and she set the chain around Frodo's neck. 'When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you,' she said, 'this will bring you aid.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King (Lord of the Rings book 3)

[Jesse]

"Honor the place between no longer and not yet." -Nancy Levin

[Fancy]

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves... regret for the past and fear of the future.”

~Fulton Oursler

[Fancy]

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”



From Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches? By Mary Oliver

[Bèsame*]

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[Fancy]

“We are here and around the world for a deep democracy that says we will not be quiet, we will not be controlled, we will work for a world in which all countries are connected. God may be in the details, but the goddess is in connections. We are at one with each other, we are looking at each other, not up. No more asking daddy.”

—Gloria Steinem, Women’s March, Jan. 21, 2017

[BullDog]

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

- Neil Gaiman

[Fancy]

“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.”


“Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”


- Zora Neale Hurston (one of my favorite Harlem Renaissance writers)

[Fancy]

“What’s a Queen without her king?

Well, historically speaking more powerful.”

(Seen in some random place online)

[CherryWine]

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[Fancy]

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”

~Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others


(Such as our political climate?)

[Fancy]

“Strong, self-determining men are notorious for their lack of reverence.

. . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws. The ever-sleepless sea in its bed, crying out 'How long?' to Time; million-formed and never motionless flame; the contemplation of these two aspects alone, affords me sufficient food for ten spans of my expected lifetime. It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was, when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, "Religion," from Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston 1942

On this date in 1891, novelist, folklorist and short story writer Zora Neale Hurston was born in Eatonville, Fla., the first all-black community to be incorporated in the United States.

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[Orema]

Ah! Thank you. Thank you all. O.K., O.K. Thank you, Reese.

In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee, watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: “The winner is Sidney Poitier.” Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black. And I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that. And I’ve tried many, many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl — a kid watching from the cheap seats, as my mom came through the door bone-tired from cleaning other people’s houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation’s in Sidney’s performance in “Lilies of the Field”: “Amen, amen. Amen, amen.” In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille Award right here at the Golden Globes, and it is not lost on me that at this moment there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award.

It is an honor, and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them, and also with the incredible men and women who’ve inspired me, who’ve challenged me, who’ve sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson, who took a chance on me for “A.M. Chicago”; Quincy Jones, who saw me on that show and said to Steven Spielberg, “Yes, she is Sophia in ‘The Color Purple’”; Gayle, who’s been the definition of what a friend is; and Stedman, who’s been my rock — just a few to name. I’d like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, because we all know that the press is under siege these days.

But we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To tyrants and victims and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before, as we try to navigate these complicated times. Which brings me to this: What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell. And this year we became the story. But it’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics or workplace.

So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault, because they — like my mother — had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.

And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road, coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the N.A.A.C.P., where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.

And I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth — like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented — goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks’s heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery. And it’s here with every woman who chooses to say, “Me too.” And every man — every man — who chooses to listen. In my career, what I’ve always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave: to say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere, and how we overcome. And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.

So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, ‘Me too’ again. Thank you.”

—Oprah Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, 2018.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/movies/oprah-winfrey-golden-globes-speech-transcript.html

[Fancy]

YES! Bump...

Ah! Thank you. Thank you all. O.K., O.K. Thank you, Reese.

In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee, watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: “The winner is Sidney Poitier.” Up to the stage came the most elegant man I had ever seen. I remember his tie was white, and of course his skin was black. And I’d never seen a black man being celebrated like that. And I’ve tried many, many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl — a kid watching from the cheap seats, as my mom came through the door bone-tired from cleaning other people’s houses. But all I can do is quote and say that the explanation’s in Sidney’s performance in “Lilies of the Field”: “Amen, amen. Amen, amen.” In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B. DeMille Award right here at the Golden Globes, and it is not lost on me that at this moment there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award.

It is an honor, and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them, and also with the incredible men and women who’ve inspired me, who’ve challenged me, who’ve sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible. Dennis Swanson, who took a chance on me for “A.M. Chicago”; Quincy Jones, who saw me on that show and said to Steven Spielberg, “Yes, she is Sophia in ‘The Color Purple’”; Gayle, who’s been the definition of what a friend is; and Stedman, who’s been my rock — just a few to name. I’d like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, because we all know that the press is under siege these days.

But we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To tyrants and victims and secrets and lies. I want to say that I value the press more than ever before, as we try to navigate these complicated times. Which brings me to this: What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have. And I’m especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak up and share their personal stories. Each of us in this room are celebrated because of the stories that we tell. And this year we became the story. But it’s not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It’s one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics or workplace.

So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault, because they — like my mother — had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military.

And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road, coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone, but her story was reported to the N.A.A.C.P., where a young worker by the name of Rosa Parks became the lead investigator on her case and together they sought justice. But justice wasn’t an option in the era of Jim Crow. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago, just shy of her 98th birthday. She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men. And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.

And I just hope that Recy Taylor died knowing that her truth — like the truth of so many other women who were tormented in those years, and even now tormented — goes marching on. It was somewhere in Rosa Parks’s heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery. And it’s here with every woman who chooses to say, “Me too.” And every man — every man — who chooses to listen. In my career, what I’ve always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave: to say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere, and how we overcome. And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.

So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, ‘Me too’ again. Thank you.”

—Oprah Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7, 2018.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/movies/oprah-winfrey-golden-globes-speech-transcript.html

[homoe]

Rosa Parks/Quote
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“Listen: Anything holy
is not reversible.

There isn’t a man alive
Who could undo me.”


- Rachel McKibbens, Una Oración

[Fancy]

“So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete.
I am not this year and I am not your fault.
I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day,
but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore.
I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life.
I am not your fault.”

-Charlotte Eriksson

[Orema]

Power is the ability to make people say yes when they’d rather say no.
—Anonymous

[Genesis]

I'm not alone in this experience,
the inevitable has already caressed every human being on the face of the Earth.
Some recovered, others gave up,
but we have all experienced the touch of the wings of tragedy..."

~Paulo Coelho

[VintageFemme]

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -Martin Luther King

[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Fancy]

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.”


― Ella Baker


"We're going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see."


-- Viola Gregg Liuzzo

[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

In consideration of the annual march for life today...


“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”

Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

[Fancy]

“... She had heard about girls falling in love, and she knew what kind of people they were and what they looked like. Neither she nor Carol looked like that. Yet the way she felt about Carol passed all the tests for love and fitted all the descriptions.”

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

(Jan. 19, 1921 - Feb. 4, 1995)

[Fancy]

“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” ~Faulkner

[Orema]

All false prophets create a heightened sense of looming danger that allows them to consolidate power to a tragic end. Historically, the reaction of the panicked people is to retreat to their respective "tribes," and there you see the rise of protectionism, nationalism, populism, xenophobia, nativism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, with the corresponding reactions of increased hate speech and violence toward anything "foreign." ... Today, Trump is the West's most powerful false prophet.

—Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico

[Orema]

I’ma throw shade, if I can’t get paid. —Lil Kim

[Fancy]

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. - Virginia Woolf

[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

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Interesting perspective...

[Genesis]

Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley’s restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless—
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye—
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave:—from out their fragrant tops
External dews come down in drops.
They weep:—from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems...

- Edgar Allan Poe

[Fancy]

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”

― Laurence Binyon

[Fancy]

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”

~ Franklin Mercer Langston Hughes

[Bèsame*]

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[Fancy]

“Whatever you do, don’t run back to what broke you.”

-Frank Ocean

[ardentfemme]

“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
— Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts

[Fancy]

“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”


—Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer

[Fancy]

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”

Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

[VintageFemme]

Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very very hard on you. ―Srividya Srinivasan

[Fancy]

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

- Stephen Hawking

[Orema]

Hope grows out of the struggle for justice.

—Reverand William Barber II

[Fancy]

“If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare

[*Anya*]

All false prophets create a heightened sense of looming danger that allows them to consolidate power to a tragic end. Historically, the reaction of the panicked people is to retreat to their respective "tribes," and there you see the rise of protectionism, nationalism, populism, xenophobia, nativism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia, with the corresponding reactions of increased hate speech and violence toward anything "foreign." ... Today, Trump is the West's most powerful false prophet.

—Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico

Truer words have never been spoken in one paragraph.

[CherryWine]

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[Fancy]

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.


Rachel Carson, Silent Spring