Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[homoe]

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".



Maya Angelou....

[homoe]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power".




Abraham Lincoln

[Kätzchen]

"The only people who can see the whole picture" he murmured,
"are the ones who step out of the frame."

~ Salman Rushdie
(The Ground Beneath Her Feet,1999).

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Femmadian]

Dive for Dreams
by e.e. cummings


dive for dreams

or a slogan may topple you

(trees are their roots

and wind is wind)



trust your heart

if the seas catch fire

(and live by love

though the stars walk backward)



honour the past

but welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at this wedding)



never mind a world

with its villains or heroes

(for god likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth)

[Kätzchen]

"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build wings on your way down," ~ Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek).

[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber

[Kätzchen]

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep," ~ Salman Rushdie.

[Signmypapyrus]

No quotes or poems, but a review with quotes and poems

Pansy by Andrea Gibson (http://therumpus.net/2016/02/pansy-by-andrea-gibson/), which I read in one sitting on the bus and almost broke down sobbing.

[Femmadian]

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[Genesis]

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[BullDog]

Silence is the best reply to a fool.

- Imam Ali

[Kätzchen]

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people
not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Doug Larson

[homoe]

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Oscar Wilde

[Kätzchen]

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom,” — Marcel Proust

[homoe]

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

Wayne Dyer

[homoe]

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person...

Dave Barry

[charley]

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Oscar Wilde

The word 'aggression' is related etymologically to the words 'progress', 'digress', 'egress', 'transgress', 'degrade', 'congress'. etc.

Now, the word 'progress' literally means to move into the enemy's camp, fully armed.

And, the word 'aggress' literally means to move towards the enemy's camp, fully armed.

I think Wilde liked to engage with aggressive men.

:superfunny:

I also think it is a waste of time to engage with someone who refuses to look at facts.

:byebye:

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

http://citation-populaire.com/image/citation-marcelle-sauvageot-042894.png

[Fancy]

Slow motion gets you there quicker.

-Hoagy Charmichael

[Kätzchen]

Medicine

My medicine
has many contrasting flavours.
Engrossed in, or perplexed by
the differences between them,
the patient forgets to suffer.

-Leonard Cohen-
(May 2007: The Book of Longing)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KPRSTG9_k5E/Snc_NuejCMI/AAAAAAAADD8/Te61NwUOFYs/s400/cohen-book-of-longing.jpg

[Genesis]

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[VintageFemme]

In Just-
Spring when the world is mud-
Luscious the little
Lame balloonman

Whistles far and wee

And eddieandbill come
Running from marbles and Piracies and
it's Spring

When the world is puddle-wonderful

The queer
Old balloonman whistles
Far and wee

{there is more but this is my favorite part}

-ee cummings

[Chained Daisy]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/04/b1/a1/04b1a1621a78d5e1b8b6cade6b4bbe80.jpg

[Fancy]

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

― Emily Dickinson

[Kätzchen]

http://www.bestsayingsquotes.com/files/wisdom-quotes-pictures-2-19b2d393.jpg

[Bèsame*]

"You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice."

this is worth repeating

[Kätzchen]

"Happiness is beneficial for the body,
but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind,"

~Marcel Proust

[Kätzchen]

"The pleasure in rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure in rooting for David, while you don't know what to expect, you at least stand a chance of being inspired,"
~ Billy Beane, Coach of Oakland Athletics Baseball Club.

In, Money Ball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. (Lewis, Micheal. 2003).

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Canela]

You've got to train your mind to be stronger than your emotions or else you will lose yourself everytime...



~Not sure the author

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Femmadian]

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/dc/42/2d/dc422d2b457f3354901302c051c40042.jpg

[JDeere]

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
James Dean

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"It’s dark because you are trying too hard.

Lightly child, lightly.

Learn to do everything lightly.

Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.

Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.

Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.

When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.

No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.

And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.

There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.

That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered."

- Aldous Huxley, Island

[Genesis]

In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
"I know you're tired,
but come. This is the way."

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

- Rumi

[Femmadian]

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[homoe]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

Love is the Water of Life

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God

though it be sugar- eating.

What is agony of the spirit?

To advance toward death without seizing

hold of the Water of Life.

- Rumi

[Genesis]

Love is reckless; not reason.

Reason seeks a profit.

Love comes on strong,

consuming herself, unabashed.



Yet, in the midst of suffering,

Love proceeds like a millstone,

hard surfaced and straightforward.



Having died of self-interest,

she risks everything and asks for nothing.

Love gambles away every gift God bestows.



Without cause God gave us Being;

without cause, give it back again...

- Rumi

[Genesis]

A lifetime without Love is of no account

Love is the Water of Life

Drink it down with heart and soul!

- Rumi

[Kätzchen]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVjJqcVVAAA67oU.jpg

[Genesis]

“Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free...”

― Rumi

[Genesis]

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind;
dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

- Rumi

[Genesis]

In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art...

-Rumi

[Genesis]

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.

A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.

When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

[Genesis]

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.
For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it,
and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth,
and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?

And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole.
For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it.
So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”

― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

[Chained Daisy]

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[Genesis]

I can see the strength of your devotion,
in your shoreline of emotion-
your grace brings such healing,
and oh, those eyes as deep as the ocean.

Freeing from all the dry and deserted land,
now only pebbles on a shore can understand-
I see the crystalline moments you hold...
in those eyes as golden as the sand...

-L.L.

[Genesis]

The sadness is really hard to bear, struggling on the edge of love.
To really know if it is lost or still there, buried so deep under hurt, guilt and sorrow.
Or is it just a fond remembrance of a once new and passionate love?

The answers, the truth, lay deep inside.

There is no shortcut, no gentle path, it's an uphill battle all the way.
There will be a time, when you crest the hill, and the answer quietly appears.
You may be walking tall and alone or holding hands with the love of your life.
Only time and patience and tears will tell what your heart already knows,
but silently waits to whisper to your soul...

~Nadine Kingsley

[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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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

https://young.scot/media/6039/stone.jpg

[BullDog]

You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite steadily, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.

- Anton Chekhov

[Kätzchen]

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[Canela]

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[Chained Daisy]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8c/bf/05/8cbf0539d021f9be2c0227f5d565c5cd.jpg

[homoe]

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/inspirational-quotes-womens-day-132__880.jpg

[BullDog]

“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.”

– Dan Coppersmith

[Femmadian]

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[Femmadian]

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[LOQUI]

"In silence, I find my expression.
In silence, I connect to Source.
In silence, I hear the voice of my soul."

Author (I wish I knew :) )

[Kätzchen]

"The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand,"
~ Frederick L. Knowles.

B61eTwPjvN8

[Genesis]

Look, as dim a view as I have of the future right now, and it's pretty goddamn grim...

And it's not just exclusively an American problem, we're seeing the rise of authoritarianism and strongman leaders everywhere...

Don't be a hashtag activist.

Change is going to take some fucking time.

Dig in for the long haul.

Spend some time with the enemy.

Walk around in some other people’s shoes.

Try to get your priorities reasonable.

A little love.

Some good pasta.

Nice spicy noodles.

Survival...

- Anthony Bourdain

[Kätzchen]

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, for you do not know what it will bring back:
A new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country," ~ Anaïs Nin

[Genesis]

Success is no accident.
It is hard work,
perseverance,
learning,
studying,
sacrifice and most of all,
love of what you are doing or learning to do...
- Pele

[BullDog]

It is said that wisdom lies in not seeing things, but seeing through things.

- Manly P. Hall

[homoe]

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[homoe]

https://www.friendsquotation.com/images/quotes/english/shannon-l-alder/anyone-can-have-a-friend-52650-18330.jpg

[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[BullDog]

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

- Ashley Purdy

[homoe]

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

Faraaz Kazi

[homoe]

..

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

unknown

[LOQUI]

“When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay.
But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go”

― Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee Returns

[homoe]

https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/j/josephcampbell/386014/josephcampbell1.jpg

[Canela]

“When you have the choice between being right and being kind
just choose kind.” ~ Wayne Dyer

[Canela]

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation” ~ Wayne Dyer

[kittygrrl]

"..Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.." [116]

[homoe]

https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/f/frankaclark/379938/frankaclark1.jpg

[homoe]

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[kittygrrl]

https://www.goalcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Albert-Einstein-quotes-Genius1.jpg

[kittygrrl]

you don't choose love, it chooses you

[homoe]

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[Genesis]

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[homoe]

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[Genesis]

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life,
and beyond which life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living,
this ecstasy comes when one is most alive,
and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living,
comes to the artist, caught up
and out of himself in a sheet of flame;
it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field
and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck,
leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry,
straining after the food that was alive
and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight."

- Jack London

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Kätzchen]

HEARTWORK

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate ART.

― Suzy Kassem


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[homoe]

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."

Anne Frank

[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

..
“More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.”
― Marty Rubin

[homoe]

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[Bèsame*]

https://www.yourtango.com/sites/default/files/styles/body_image_default/public/image_list/large-1_0.jpg?itok=4NbAfOWq

[BullDog]

You are not for everyone.

The world is filled with people who, no matter what you do, will point blank not like you. But it is also filled with those who will love you fiercely. They are your people. You are not for everyone and that's OK. Talk to people who can hear you.

Don't waste your precious time and gifts trying to convince them of your value, they won't ever want what you're selling. Don't convince them to walk alongside of you. You'll be wasting both your time and theirs and will likely inflict unnecessary wounds, which will take precious time to heal. You are not for them and they are not for you; politely wave them on, and continue along your way. Sharing your path with someone is a sacred gift; don't cheapen this gift by rolling yourself in the wrong direction.

Keep facing your true north.

Rebecca Campbell

[Femmadian]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/d0/8d/1cd08d0df54c67a33af4ce0c6f8be57a.jpg
:heartbeat:

[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like...finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.” ― Candice Proctor

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Se è tardi a trovarmi, insisti, se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro, perché io son fermo da qualche parte ad aspettare te.” ― Walt Whitman

[Shystonefem]

You are not for everyone.

The world is filled with people who, no matter what you do, will point blank not like you. But it is also filled with those who will love you fiercely. They are your people. You are not for everyone and that's OK. Talk to people who can hear you.

Don't waste your precious time and gifts trying to convince them of your value, they won't ever want what you're selling. Don't convince them to walk alongside of you. You'll be wasting both your time and theirs and will likely inflict unnecessary wounds, which will take precious time to heal. You are not for them and they are not for you; politely wave them on, and continue along your way. Sharing your path with someone is a sacred gift; don't cheapen this gift by rolling yourself in the wrong direction.

Keep facing your true north.

Rebecca Campbell


I am definitely not for everyone and I am OK with that.

[kittygrrl]

Old witch wisdom-"When you spread poison, the universe remembers"

[homoe]

http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors5/w-c-fields-comedian-quote-never-cry-over-spilt-milk-because-it-may.jpg

[Shystonefem]

http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors5/w-c-fields-comedian-quote-never-cry-over-spilt-milk-because-it-may.jpg


Absolutely!

How are you my friend?

[BullDog]

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn

[homoe]

https://www.yourvibration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2012-06-26-at-10_31_08-AM.png

[kittygrrl]

"A cat may look at a king" English Proverb 1562 CE

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.” ― Steve Maraboli

:heartbeat:

[LOQUI]

"The obstacle is the path"

[Kätzchen]

If The Political Has Suddenly Gotten Very Personal, Therapist Harriet Lerner, Ph.D, Has Advice To Keep You Sane (sub-title of article from Oprah's Spring issue on Family Communication Issues).



Article Excerpt:


"Try putting on your Anthropologist's hat and viewing your difficult family as an interesting culture. Observe everything, even your own behavior. What sets you off? What happens if you respond differently? When tree-hugging Aunt Debbie starts hammering you again for not switching to hemp tampons, try using humor instead of leaving in a huff or getting hooked into a fight. Aunt Debbie will never change, but that's not the point. The goal is to bring your best self to your relationships, even when the other is being an jerk. That's the kind of human being you want to be" -- Dr. Harriet Lerner, PhD.



From Oprah's magazine this past spring (May 2018, Vol. 19, No. 5, page 121).

[LOQUI]

"Never make someone a priority when all you are to them
is an option.
-Maya Angelou-

[Bèsame*]

https://cdn.powerofpositivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12108090_10153410179417371_3304067357868751093_n-300x300.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/12/1a/db121a951d71805818a47fc83eb25523.jpg

[homoe]

http://www.wisdomenough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/blog-life-quote-dance.jpg

[Bèsame*]

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do. It also enables you to laugh at life's realities.


Dr. Seuss

[Orema]

Superstar athletes are rarely as generous, or as classy, or as outright talented as Serena Williams was on Saturday. The events of the U.S. Open show both how difficult it can be for women of color to be accepted as they are, and just how thoroughly she has rejected the status quo. Being the best may not be enough to take home the Grand Slam trophy, but Williams is winning at something much more consequential. —Gillian B. White, senior editor at The Atlantic.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/a-heart-breaking-grand-slam/569704/

[Reach *BANNED*]

"History has taught.. it is not enough for people to be angry-the supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force." - "Honoring Dr. Du Bois" (1968)

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

- Stephen King

[LOQUI]

“If I never said I was grateful to you...I say it now.
If I never said I was proud of the home that you kept... I say it now.
If I didn't tell you that you were beautiful when your face grew lined,
when you didn’t have a new blouse from one summer’s end to the next...
I say it now.
And, if I didn't tell you that I loved you, I say it now.”

Missing you... I will talk about tomorrow."

Call the Midwife

[WheatToast]

"A cat may look at a king" English Proverb 1562 CEYou can have it fast, you can have it cheap, or you can have it good. Pick Two.

[LOQUI]

"let go
of the illusion
that it
could have been
any different"

[homoe]

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[LOQUI]

"And then
my soul saw you
and
kind of went
"oh, there you are.
I've been looking
for you."

[kittygrrl]

"Illusions... of course, are by their nature sweet" Dangerous Liaisons

[Reach *BANNED*]

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” ― Paulo Coelho

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

[Reach *BANNED*]

"This is how it works. You're young until you're not. You love until you don't. You try until you can't. You laugh until you cry. You cry until you laugh. And everyone must breathe, until their dying breath." - Regina Spektor

[Genesis]

The potential of your life experience shrinks or expands according to your ability to love.
Love expands and opens.
Love is courageous.
Love is strength.
Love praises and embraces life.
Love stands-up and walks forward.
You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.
Fear seems to stalk you because it is in you.
When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.
The moment we confront our fears we are declaring that we are contenders for life, and for love.
To those who are mindful, life's preciousness becomes ever more apparent each day.
When we truly love ourselves and love life, we are compelled to deeply explore ourselves and life's possibilities.
Only when you decide to truly live can you be free of your fears, and only when you are free of your fears can you truly live.
Embracing life and overcoming fear are one and the same.
Your special destiny is too important to not act upon.
Leap toward life.
Expand in love.
Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear.

This is your time to live your life to its fullest...

— Bryant McGill

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”

― Christian D. Larson

[Reach *BANNED*]

“The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”

― Mary Oliver

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“A person is only being human and worthy of respect and admiration when open about flaws and imperfections so he or she can deal with them honestly.

Openness is essential for us to be able to trust in relationships because it allows us to deal constructively with these elements of imperfection. If I know that I am imperfect, am unreliable in the way I perform my responsibilities, or irresponsible toward justice in relationships, then deep down I know that everyone copes with the same problem. When one is open about these flaws, the person is openly acknowledging that areas of deficiency; this makes it much more likely that the person will use the openness as an opportunity to correct shortcomings and to grow. Openness alone about flaws without addressing the shortcoming is unfortunate in relationships because it demands that the other relational partner simply adjust to the shortcoming and live as if a problem cannot be corrected or is actually no problem. While we agree acceptance in relationships is important (Jacobson & Christensen, 1998), we do feel that untrustworthy and unloving behavior in relationships is unacceptable….Openness is not about saying, ‘This is the way I am, and to be in a relationship with me means that you take me as I am.’ Rather, it means, ‘This is what I see in myself, and I believe that I can be better.’ When openness points towards growth, our imperfections and flaws and those of our relational partners actually pull us together more clearly in an intimate bond.” (pp. 27)

Restoration Therapy: Understanding and Guiding Healing in Marriage and Family Therapy by Terry D. Hargrave and Franz Pfitzer

[homoe]

https://www.azquotes.com/vangogh-image-quotes/49/80/Quotation-Bette-Davis-If-everybody-likes-you-you-re-pretty-dull-49-80-81.jpg

[Orema]

Cain’t Stop. Won’t stop.

—Black senior citizens ordered off a Georgia bus that was taking them to vote this week.

[cathexis]

Haste makes waste (my mom's counter to folks trying to push her to hurry). Also, doing 2 things at once only results in doing each item twice hence more than four times the work.

[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[LOQUI]

"Look, we all wear masks, every one, every day,
and sometimes we wear them so much, we forget who we really are.
And sometimes, if we're lucky,
someone comes along and shows us who we really wanna be,
who we should be."

Nikita :)

[LOQUI]

"When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us."

Alexander Graham Bell

[LOQUI]

"Playing incompetent is so exhausting"

Claire (House of Cards)

[homoe]

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/everydayinspiration/files/2014/02/forgive1.png

[Reach *BANNED*]

"Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

[Reach *BANNED*]

"If a window of opportunity appears, do not pull down the shade." - Tom Peters

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

[Reach *BANNED*]

"Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that." - Rumi

[Reach *BANNED*]

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi

[Genesis]

And you?

The years,
what did they bring?

And were you filled?

Was it enough?

And would you go that way again?

Almost a lifetime we have lived apart.

And they who brought me news are long dead now.

They said you’d found a quiet town,
quite near the sea, and settled down.

I think of this.

Of the salt on your lips.

The years go by so quickly here.

The days.

And I have learned to lean against the pull.

It is a small pain now, but I shall not lose it.


And all is well, and I wish you well.

[Reach *BANNED*]

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

[Genesis]

http://pics.me.me/she-is-kind-but-strong-and-that-is-where-so-11945444.png

[Genesis]

”Wear your strongest posture now,

and see your hardest times as more than just

the times you fell

but a range of mountains

you learned to climb.”

– Morgan Harper Nichols

[Genesis]

”She wears strength and darkness equally well,

the woman has always been half goddess, half hell.”

– Unknown

[homoe]

https://forum.kvinneguiden.no/uploads/monthly_2016_12/12.jpg.a9eaef7efc7c64f83a30d85ba8194865.jpg

[CherryWine]

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

[Kätzchen]

“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue,”
― Robert K. Merton (In, Social Theory and Social Structure).

Social Theory and Social Structure (STSS) was first published in 1949, and revised again in 1957 & 1968. In 1998, STSS was listed by the International Sociological Association as the third most important sociological book of the 20th century.

[homoe]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6b/56/38/6b5638d1670b261a3eac80fb95a53327.jpg

[Kätzchen]

From the introduction section of Preet Bharara's recently released book... Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts On Crime, Punishment, And The Rule Of Law (March 19th, 2019):

In connect the dots, so long as you know how to count, you can draw the picture. Even a child can drag a crayon from the first little dot numbered one to the next one numbered two and so on and so forth until some jagged picture of a cow or a barn or a house or a dog emerges. No such luck in a real investigation. There's no foolproof guide or order, no guarantee that any of the work that you're doing --- dragging not a crayon across the page but your feet all over town interviewing witnesses, issuing subpoenas, looking into financial documents --- will yield a clear, accurate, actionable picture.

The same with "follow the money," another gross oversimplification. This facile phrase was not ripped from the headlines of Watergate as popularly assumed but coined by the late screenwriter/storyteller William Goldman for the film version of All The President's Men. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein themselves never used the phrase. It was invented by a brilliant Hollywood screenwriter and has become part of the popular lexicon, but is not as easy as it sounds.

Since the dawn of financial crime, investigators have known that you follow the flow of money to whom and from whom, and for what. The problem with phrases like "connect the dots" and "follow the money" is that they dramatically underestimate the difficulty and complexity, and the length of standard criminal investigation, especially one that involves what's in peoples minds.

The difficulty in investigation is not just complexity. Let's take something infinitely more complex than connect the dots. My younger son, Rahm, is obsessed with solving what my generation knew as the Rubik's Cube. I take him to cubing competitions on many weekends. He can solve a three-by-three standard multicolored cube in an average of eleven seconds, which, though not world class, is super impressive. The thing about cubing, though, is this: No matter how much you scramble it, there is a mathematically predictable solution. Depending on how many algorithms you've memorized, you might solve it in more or fewer moves, but the point is that it is always solvable if you have enough resolve, memory, and practice. And there is a preferred, mathematically determined ordering of steps to complete the puzzle. This is not true for criminal investigations. There are guidelines, sure, and best practices of course, but there is no predetermined and universal order of steps to take. More important, not every criminal mystery has a solution.

Back to follow the money. People think you find a check, you see who wrote it, you see who cashed it, and you're done. It's rarely so simple. Sophisticated people trying to hide their tracks use lots of accounts, lots of intermediaries. They favor cash, they falsify documents, they create shell companies and fraudulent paper trails. Often there is no record or trace of incriminating transactions at all. That's the heart of money laundering, which can be especially difficult crime to prove. Many of us have a hard enough time figuring out what's in our own heads, never mind ferreting out what illicit sparks are flaring in someone else's noggin. But that is what exactly the challenge in almost every white-collar or corruption case (pages 1-5 of The Introduction) -- Preet Bharara.


This is just a taste of how Preet Bharara sets up his spellbinding book on the years he spent as a Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. In the next few following pages of the introduction, Bharara recounts his first lasting impression of how his best highschool friend (a family type friend) was destroyed emotionally over the Menendez Brother's parricide crime.

This is such a good book. I hope more people read it, so they understand more fully that crimes of corruption, white-collar or not, are never as easy as arm-chair personalities would have most people believe.

[homoe]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/6c/b4/346cb445d96ebc120564815da087fdf7.jpg

[Kätzchen]

Antonio Gramsci's doctrine of Hegemony:

The rule of one class over another is not dependent on economic or physical power alone, but on persuading the ruled to accept a system of beliefs belonging to the ruling class (James Joll, UK, 1977).

[Kätzchen]

I finished Preet Bharara's latest book and he ends his book the way he began his book, with this quote:

"The law is an amazing tool, but it has its limits. Good people, on the other hand, don't have limits. The law is not in the business of forgiveness or redemption. The law cannot compel us to love each other or respect each other. It cannot cancel hate or conquer evil; teach grace or extinguish passions. The law cannot achieve these things, not by itself. It takes people -- brave and strong and extraordinary people," -- Preet Bharara, in Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and The Rule Of Law; Alfred A Knopf Publishers, NY, NY 2019.

I can't help but think of the only Supreme Court Justice of the late 20th Century, SCJ Thurgood Marshall, when Bharara asks the reader to contemplate the notion of the type of people it takes to make a difference in our country. Thurgood Marshall was, to me, a rarity among contenders of those nominated to serve the US as an Supreme Court Justice.

[VintageFemme]

every morning i wake up in the wrong place, at the wrong time, feeling the wrong things, wanting what i can't have, loving what's not good for me and then i have some sweetass coffee on the porch overlooking the rest of my miserable life and i say fuck it

i'll always have the sky

[VintageFemme]

Ninety-nine and half just won't do.

[Orema]

Anger prevents love and isolates the one who is angry. It is an attempt, often successful, to push away what is most longed for—companionship and understanding. It is the deal of the humanness of others, as well as a denial of your own humanness.

Anger is the agony of believing that you are not capable of being understood and that you are not worthy of being understood.

It is a wall that separates you from others as effectively as if it were concrete. Thick and very high.There is no way though it, under it, or over it. Certainly.

—bell hooks

[Orema]

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women. Sexism as a system of domination is institutionalized, but it has never determined in an absolute way the fate of all women in this society. Being oppressed means the absence of choices. It is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. Many women in this society do have choices (as inadequate as they are); therefore exploitation and discrimination are words that more accurately describe the lot of women collectively in the United States. Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppression. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme restrictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed.

—bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

[cathexis]

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women. Sexism as a system of domination is institutionalized, but it has never determined in an absolute way the fate of all women in this society. Being oppressed means the absence of choices. It is the primary point of contact between the oppressed and the oppressor. Many women in this society do have choices (as inadequate as they are); therefore exploitation and discrimination are words that more accurately describe the lot of women collectively in the United States. Many women do not join organized resistance against sexism precisely because sexism has not meant an absolute lack of choices. They may know they are discriminated against on the basis of sex, but they do not equate this with oppression. Under capitalism, patriarchy is structured so that sexism restricts women's behavior in some realms even as freedom from limitations is allowed in other spheres. The absence of extreme restrictions leads many women to ignore the areas in which they are exploited or discriminated against; it may even lead them to imagine that no women are oppressed.

—bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Regardless of the choices womyn have in education and work, there will continue to be oppression, especially where womyn interact with men
Most enlightened womyn actively work on their societal ingrained sexism in their relationships. It is a constant battle against societal repression. There are still many womyn who do not realize that they harbor inherit sexism learned through many generations of repression.
Cis-men practice overt and covert sexism without even being aware of their thoughts and behavior. Men are so accustomed to societal male privilege that the actions and views are often subconsciously generated. Now, enter in the straight, white cis-male, a situation which creates a trifecta of oppression. I believe that this group made up the majority of Trump's base and the bias against Clinton, but that is another discussion. That group of men would take much more energy to possibly get to the point of understanding womyn's oppression and their role in it than I'd be willing to invest.

My Partner and I choose to live out life in as much of a womyn only environment as possible within the constructs of a non-isolated womyn only rural community.
Cathexis

[Amulette]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cc/6e/56/cc6e56c0675cfe7089c45d77e863e0db.jpg

[Orema]

Everyone should be allowed to wear glitter.

—Betsy, a department store worker, upon hearing that I wouldn’t be allowed to wear her eye shadow at work.

[Amulette]

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[Genesis]

True inner joy is self – created.
It does not depend on outer circumstances.
A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.
This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

– Sri Chinmoy

[Genesis]

Let us live in joy, not hating those who hate us.
Among those who hate us, we live free of hate.
Let us live in joy,
free from disease among those who are diseased.
Among those who are diseased, let us live free of disease.
Let us live in joy, free from greed among the greedy.
Among those who are greedy, we live free of greed.
Let us live in joy, though we possess nothing.
Let us live feeding on joy, like the bright gods.

–Buddha

[Genesis]

Perhaps the tulip know the fickleness
Of Fortune’s smile, for on her stalk’s green shaft
She bears a wine cup through the wilderness...

– Hafiz

[kittygrrl]

She's a sunflower,https://www.chicagobotanic.org/sites/default/files/images/sunflowers/sunflower_big1.jpgstrong & bold

[Orema]

Today marks the three year anniversary of the first time I protested systemic oppression. I continue to work and stand with the people in our fight for liberation, despite those who are trying to erase the movement! The movement has always lived with the people! —Colin Kaepernick

[Orema]

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.

–Mary Oliver

[Kätzchen]

"I have spent 52 years of my life being an environmental leader and champion, and I'll take a back seat to no one in terms of my advocacy," Newsom told reporters just hours before sending the vetoed bill back to the Legislature.


LINK (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defying-environmentalists-newsom-vetoes-bill-to-block-trumps-endangered-species-act-rollback/ar-AAHXUyT?ocid=spartanntp)

[Orema]

You have to ask Rudy.

— Pres. Trump, when asked why it was appropriate for his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to be involved in government business.

[Orema]

It is good to remember that while every generation believes that it invented sex, every preceding generation forgets that it once believed the same thing.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Orema]

Moscow Mitch has been bribed with boatloads of campaign cash by @realDondaldTrump. Of course he has agreed to acquit. Half the senate jury in the impeachment trial may already be bought.

—Richard Painter, Law Professor, Former chief White House Ethics Lawyer (2005-2007), Politician, Former Republican.

[homoe]

“So ridiculous.” “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”


Only a idiot begrudges a 13 year old child their time in the spotlight!

[homoe]

“So ridiculous.” “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”


Only a idiot begrudges a 13 year old child their time in the spotlight!

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Cbdt76b2c8DqA1wL2_wf7A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNQ--/https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5df23dfd250000af61d2fef6.png

The kid has a good sense of humor too......:giggle:

[homoe]

So sorry Micheal but.......

"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas"

[homoe]

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick on Wednesday shed very little light into the NFL's investigation of the organization for videotaping the Cincinnati Bengals' sideline this past weekend. Belichick was rather curt with reporters, marking the third straight day in which he was asked about a team videographer who was caught filming the Bengals' sideline during Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns.

When asked whether the scout involved was aware of the rules that he can't film from the press box, Belichick said the following: "He was doing his job. That's what he was doing, he was doing his job. Like we all tried to do. That's what the football team, the football staff and the coaching staff did last week was try to do their job for Kansas City, and then Cincinnati, and then Buffalo next week and that's it.

A reporter asked a follow-up question, to which Belichick offered a quick response. "I just answered the question. That's it. We have no involvement in it. Zero," Belichick said.When asked if he had heard from the league, Belichick tried to put an end to the line of questioning.

Sound familar? If this isn't taking a page out of Trump's playbook I don't know what is!

[charley]

“So ridiculous.” “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”


Only a idiot begrudges a 13 year old child their time in the spotlight!

Sorry moe, but she isn't a child, she is a teenager, 16, going on 17... with the mind and heart of a mature sane/whole adult. :)

Actually, at a recent UN meeting, quite a few of the delegates representing other countries didn't even stay for her speech... There are a lot of evil people just like Trump - who btw isn't an idiot [he is a very clever so-and-so.... (cough!) ] - who don't like what she is saying and doing, because of their materialistic choices and vested interests, because of their greed, their selfishness, their ambition, and their general lack of moral/ethical character, etc.

Trump - like many people who are or could easily be classified as sexist/misogynist narcissist/sociopath/psychopath - will trash anyone, especially any woman (young or old) speaking with passion. I don't think his malicious lies (which are nothing more than fake news) are worth repeating.

On the other hand, part of Greta's speech is worth repeating:

"Greta, who inspired the school strikes for the climate movement, said: 'The biggest danger is not inaction; the real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR.'

She said the science showed that, at the current rate of emissions, the world is set to use up the whole 'carbon budget' - the amount of pollution that can be put into the atmosphere and still keep global warming to 1.5C - in eight years."

She said: 'Finding holistic solutions is what the COP should be all about, but instead it seems to have turned some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition.'

'Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action, like double-counting emissions reductions, and moving emissions overseas, and walking back on their promises to increase ambitions, or refusing to pay for solutions or loss and damage. This has to stop.'

[homoe]

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No need to be sorry Charley, I totally screwed up on her age! Where I got 13 from god only knows:|

[homoe]

~~
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree.....

[Orema]

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. —Confucius.

[Orema]

https://i.postimg.cc/V6H81jrL/ruth-bader-ginsburg.jpg

“Throw your hands in the air if you’re a true player!”
— Christopher Wallace aka Notorious BIG

[Bèsame*]

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[Orema]

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
—Marian Wright Edleman

[Orema]

https://images.totalbeauty.com/content/photos/quotes-5.jpg

[Orema]

https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/a-woman-of-many-hats-quotes-by-marty-rubin-655247.jpg

[Bèsame*]

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[Orema]

https://i.postimg.cc/vBTfTSMs/Hillary-Clinton-Quotes-1-1024x478.jpg

[homoe]

https://humoropedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Joan-Crawford-Quotes-1.jpg

[homoe]

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[Bèsame*]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[Orema]

Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, fall down seven times and get up eight. Keep moving, keep growing, keep trying. —Denzel

[Bèsame*]

https://ivemovedon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ivemovedon-motivation-sherill-crow.jpg

[PlatinumPearl]

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[Orema]

We all played bad before we played good.
—Branford Marsalis

[Kätzchen]

"Music is the cup of wine that fills the silence," ~ Robert Fripp (King Crimson, Frippertronics)


Quoted on Rosemary & Thyme S3 E1: The Cup of Silence

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[Kätzchen]

"The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are the people who are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about injustice when they see it."

~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller.

[Orema]

Donald Trump exiting Air Force One
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Credit...Photograph by Doug Mills/The New York Times

He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views. —Bram Stoker, “Dracula”

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Taken from an option piece by Maureen Dow’s at the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-trump-vampires.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[PlatinumPearl]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[Bèsame*]

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/20/33/890599712-A-quote-for-today-celebrating-plentiful-sun-after-rain.jpg

[AlexF]

This poem has guided me for many years.

Desiderata

GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

By Max Ehrmann © 1927

[AlexF]

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Francis William Bourdillon (b. 1852)


THE NIGHT has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes, 5
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

[homoe]

https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Stop-acting-as-if-life-is-a-rehearsal.-Live-this-day-as-if-it-were-your-last.-The-past-is-over-and-gone.-The-future-is-not-guaranteed.-Wayne-Dyer-630x315.png

[AlexF]

Invictus

BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

[AlexF]

Pablo Neruda

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

[Orema]

After uplifting and empowering white nationalists, stoking the fires of violence, pointing fingers, and threatening to sic the National Guard on us, he says ...

MAGA loves the Black people
—President Donald Trump, moments ago.

[homoe]

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f7/08/67/f70867954169e31a767a6917feeae663--ship-quotes-find-someone-who.jpg

[homoe]

https://quotereel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Clever-Quotes-2.jpg

[Stone-Butch]

Those who profess their own greatness become legends in their own minds.

M. Lawton

[C0LLETTE]

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

"Exactly"

Groucho Marx

[Stone-Butch]

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius



Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.

W.K. Hope

[C0LLETTE]

The mind is Patient Zero for sexually transmitted diseases.

C0LLETTE (I wrote it, what can I do? lol )

[Orema]

https://i.postimg.cc/Kc5MQ9YS/5404091-Anna-Deavere-Smith-Quote-Even-jealousy-is-based-on-fantasies-a.jpg

[Stone-Butch]

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

[Orema]

Freedom is a constant struggle. —Angela Davis

[homoe]

https://redpointtailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160801_QOTD.png

[Stone-Butch]

Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard