Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.” - Buddha

[JakeTulane]

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” - Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.” - Saint Bartholomew

[SassyLeo]

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

-Mohandas Gandhi

[The_Lady_Snow]

"Well let me buy a small diaper for your chin, because it looks like a baby's ass"

[moxie]

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. " — Charles Bukowski

[Enchantress]

“This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wonderous worlds Ive known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”

~ Shel Silverstein

[tuffboi29]

The past does not determine your furture.
-unknown

[Massive]

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." - [Matthew 7:12]

[Enchantress]

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."

~ Winnie the Pooh Quotes

[katzietootle]

<-----if you ask me how many times you've crossed my mind,i'll say once...because you never left

[Diva]

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

~Tenneva Jordan

[Diva]

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

~Author Unknown

[Diva]

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

~Victor Hugo

[Medusa]

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."
— Charles Bukowski (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13275.Charles_Bukowski)

[Nat]

But what was there to say?
Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honeycolored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

[Glenn]

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." A saying from the Hindu scriptures

[JakeTulane]

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." - Voltaire

[JakeTulane]

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." - Maya Angelou

[JakeTulane]

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." - Albert Camus

[katzietootle]

boredom is fatal....

[Butterbean]

If you want to be happy, be.

~Leo Tolstoy







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[BestButchBoy]

“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires” ~Godard

[Enchantress]

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you.”

~ Winnie the Pooh

[moxie]

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.” - Woody Allen

[Kobi]

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. " - William F. Buckley Jr.

[Jet]

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway

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[Kenna]

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever”

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

[Butterbean]

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

~Rose F. Kennedy











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[The_Lady_Snow]

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded. ~Robert Brault


Blessed Mother's Day

[Fancy]

Take courage friends.
The way is often hard, the path is never clear, and the stakes are very high.
Take courage.
For deep down, there is another truth:
you are not alone.

-Wayne B. Arnason

[always2late]

"Winning doesn't always mean being first." - Bonnie Blair

[femmedyke]

"Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. "
-Alice Walker

[Diva]

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love.

~Mildred B. Vermont

[Diva]

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

~Washington Irving

[JakeTulane]

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire." - Christian Nestell Bovee

[JakeTulane]

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[JakeTulane]

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." -
Albert Camus

[PinkieLee]

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.”

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, and we create the dreams.”

[Just_G]

Asking a homosexual to give up homosexual love isn't at all like asking him to give up booze, or greed, or any other such negative thing. It's asking him to give up love.
~John Shore~

[BestButchBoy]

"Jane, you ignorant slut." - Dan Aykroyd

[BestButchBoy]

"If you continue to give, you'll continue to have." ~ Fortune Cookie


[Glad I'm such a giver. Ha!]

[Jet]

Courage is grace under pressure. —Ernest Hemingway

[Massive]

"So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." - John 8:7

[Butterbean]

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.

~Malagasy Proverb










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[moxie]

“There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.” - Leo F. Buscaglia

[redrose]

Love is strong yet delicate.
It can be broken.
To truly love is to understand this.
To be in love is to respect this.

- Stephen Packer -
(f)

[BestButchBoy]

Your choices are made in every moment, in every word, in every thought and in every action. Those choices are driven by what you focus upon.

The life you live is the life you choose to most vividly and consistently imagine. Imagine the best, without ceasing, and that's exactly what you'll have.

~ Ralph Marston

[JakeTulane]

"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it." - Oprah Winfrey

[JakeTulane]

"You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart" - Marion Wink

[JakeTulane]

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkler.

[Diva]

My daughter is moving home to live with me tomorrow...she's been in Michigan. I'm beside myself with joy! So....of COURSE the Austin crew is meeting up at a local Hamburgery to welcome her here Tuesday night, and for the festivities, I have written her a poem (of sorts).....


Took You long enough to get here,
precious baby girl of mine!
Consider Yourself lucky
that there's not a hefty fine!
I always say that patience is a virtue
('k, maybe not)
I'm just glad You're home with me
in Austin, where it's hot.
Some say we've come full circle,
It's the way it's meant to be;
I'm just happy now
that You can do all my chores for me!
Cheap labor never looked so good ~
Wouldn't You agree?
She has enough of Mommy's genes,
And yes! She even sings!
So welcome, Erin Parker Hall,
I'm glad You're finally here!!!
I've missed You, oh, so much, You know,
And these are happy tears!

~Mom

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Failure is not an option." Susan B. Anthony

"Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big." Audrey Snead

[Massive]

You know you've found love
when you look in their eyes
and find yourself.

- Monique Patton -

Her Presence

To gaze upon my love,
Is to feel completely at ease.
I run my fingers through her hair,
And it smells of a warm breeze.

We stand in a timeless moment,
Together in a tight embrace.
Motionless in the night's air,
Observing every detail of her face.

The strength of her beauty,
Has command over my will
We spend every moment we can,
And yet, can never get our fill.

Her personality seals the deal.
I shall remain with her forever.
I make a pact with my self this night,
To never lose this treasure.

- Joshua Stone -

The best things in life
can never be kept;
They must be given away.
A Smile, a Kiss, and Love

- Tony Farrar -

:stillheart:
:bunchflowers:
:love1:

[The_Lady_Snow]

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

[always2late]

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make her realize how much worrying she has done over the squalls. - Unknown

[apretty]

the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house -audre lorde

you sit in the barbershop long enough--you're gonna get your haircut. --sam's dad to sam when sam was 17 and already having a hard time staying away from the booze, women and the law. i believe he's mostly straightened out since HS, he's got a wife now and 3 kids.

sam's mom, on the other hand, was less direct--when the cops came to the door one morning at 3 am to report that they'd found the remains of sam's truck that he'd set fire to (intentionally) earlier that evening, she was said to have explain to the the policemen, 'it's not sam, it's the alcohol!'

[daisygrrl]

I'd say I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not. I excel at not giving a shit. Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation beget disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C Equals A, or whatever. I also don't have a lot of interest in being a good person or a bad person. From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law. So you see my dilemma.

This is where I felt it the first time. The universe was cocking the fuck-with-me gun.

[Mister Bent]

"The earth? Oh, the earth will be gone in just a few seconds." (http://www.gargaro.com/MaRvInWaVs/boom.wav)

[Queerasfck]

"The earth? Oh, the earth will be gone in just a few seconds." (http://www.gargaro.com/MaRvInWaVs/boom.wav)

Ka Boom....

[Butterbean]

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

-Abraham Lincoln


This is inscribed on my mother's grave.


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[Kate09]

Desiderata

-- written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s --


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.

[BestButchBoy]

"Uninvite the devil's advocate, since the devil doesn't need one, he's doing fine. Have fun. Why not? It works." ~ Seth Godin

[JakeTulane]

“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

"You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” - Author Unknown

[femmedyke]

"Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone." -Jeanette Winterson

(http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9399.Jeanette_Winterson)

[JustLovelyJenn]

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine

[JustLovelyJenn]

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. ~Carl Reiner

[JustLovelyJenn]

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. ~Dinah Shore

[The_Lady_Snow]

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

[Mister Bent]

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
- Marilyn Monroe

[Duchess]

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.(f)

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

[Duchess]

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.(f)

Irish Proverbs (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=&Author_Last_Name=Irish+Proverbs&Movie=)
Sayings of Irish Origin

[Duchess]

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.(f)

Stephen R. Covey (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Stephen+R.&Author_Last_Name=Covey&Movie=)
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''

[Duchess]

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.(f)

Johann Kaspar Lavater (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Johann+Kaspar&Author_Last_Name=Lavater&Movie=)
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

[Duchess]

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.(f)

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

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
- Marilyn Monroe

We must have been having the same kind of day. (f)


Duchess

[vixenagogo]

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
-peace pilgrim.

[tuffboi29]

"We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence..."




Malcolm X

[Blade]

Well done good and faithful servant.
Matt.25:21

[moxie]

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
-C.S. Lewis

[Kate09]

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."
— Pablo Neruda

[Enchantress]

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

[Just_G]

We love what we love; for some people it's a first grade crush, for others is a big wheel, or the wrong girl. For some of us, it is something unreachable...something we have never had before. We know that even if we reach it, even if we pull it close and make it ours, it won't last. But we keep on, we reach for the big wheel or the wrong girl, cuz it doesn't matter what we reach for. What matters is the reaching.
Mary from In Plain Sight

[Fancy]

"Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by two parents, a single mother, two mothers, a step-mom, a grandmother, or a guardian."
-- President Barack Obama, in his Proclamation on Mother's Day, 2010.

[Diva]

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

~Frank McCourt

[redrose]

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[redrose]

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
~Anonymous

[redrose]

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you. (f)
~Colin Raye

[redrose]

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
~John Lennon

[redrose]

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
~Benjamin Franklin

[redrose]

Be good and you will be lonely.
~Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

'In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. (Charlie Brown)" - Charles Schultz

[JakeTulane]

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Altshuler

[JakeTulane]

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

[ALittleStar4You]

I wrote this and put in on my blog, pretending it to be found as anonymous. It however was written by me, shorty before coming out to myself.

What do you do when you feel worthless?
When you want to cease, but know you can't?
When you have lives that depend on you?
Where you're on the verge of tears at every second.
When you want to stop living for someone else and just want to be.
Hollow and sad. Empty. Unloved.
Needed.
~Anonymous.


It's rather depressing. But this is my theme as of late. I should change my siggy to say-"Amanda: wants/Needs to be someone's Little Star" Cuz i don't feel as shining as the original would lead people to believe these days.

[always2late]

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it" - Mark Twain

[moxie]

“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.” - Carl Jung

[Duchess]

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

Bertrand Russell (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=Bertrand&Author_Last_Name=Russell&Movie=)
British, Philosopher Quotes

[Duchess]

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.(f)

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

[Toofrufru]

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.

:candle:

[Butterbean]

"I want to love my wife as unconditionally as I love my children."

-Eric Clapton

[Diva]

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

~Anna Neagle

[Diva]

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

~James Dean

[Toofrufru]

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Rook]

Dejaré de amarte
cuando los barcos no surquen los mares
y la idea de volver se aleje para siempre
de aquellos que partieron un día,
cuando los libros no nos hagan reír o llorar,
cuando mis manos no quieran
el calor suave de tus manos.

Dejaré de amarte
cuando el otoño no sea mi estación predilecta,
cuando no tenga deseos de decirte en canciones
que desde el día que te vi eres todo para mí,
cuando imagine que el tiempo afuera deja de existir
y mi alma deje de sentirse llena de emoción por verte,
cuando las palabras me abandonen
y mis besos no quieran estar allí junto a tus besos,
cuando la primavera no traiga belleza
a caminos y puentes.

Dejaré de amarte
cuando la lluvia no moje el portal, ni deje sus gotas
en pétalos de rosas y hojas de árboles,
cuando mi corazón sediento de paz comprenda
que no queda más que hacer por este mundo.

Dejaré de amarte
cuando la eternidad deje de llamarme
para estar siempre allí, junto a ti.
:mohawk:

[Fancy]

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” - Aristotle

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

"It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on." - Sharon Salzberg

[Mister Bent]

"you're like a toddler with a loose lid on his sippy cup, no more juice."

[tuffboi29]

ok here's a thought....i just wrote this today and would really like some feedback....would love to hear it....thanx....sincerly Tuff....


Desire

I Like It Like....

teeth gnashing
nail digging
hair pulling
bodies sweating
backs arching
thighs shaking

I Want It Like....

candles lit
rose petals
names groaned
gasping air
eye contact
bitten lipps

I Need It Like....

take me
make me
break me
want me
need me
desire this

[Enchantress]

"Every issue, belief, attitude or assumption is precisely the issue that stands between you and your relationship to another human being; and between you and yourself.”

[Mister Bent]

"Cause you know that I can make you believe in love and sex and magic."

[moxie]

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” - C.S. Lewis

[always2late]

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed." - Bernard M. Baruch

[Toofrufru]

"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done."
Lucille Ball

[Sybelle]

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.--Carol Mosely-Braun

[Fancy]

The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

-Randy Pausch

[Kätzchen]

“Historically, photography has always been about manipulation,” Dunleavy says. “Even the smile is a form of manipulation, because it may mask the true feelings of the subject.”

(d. dunleavy)

LINK (http://rising.blackstar.com/the-emergence-of-photojournalism-ethics.html)

[Mister Bent]

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- Friedrich Neitzsche

[UofMfan]

Latin American proverb:

"Para sacar un clavo se necesita otro."

Truer words were never spoken. :)

[Oneida]

I'm sorry, you must have mistaken me for someone else. My name is Anastasia Beaverhausen.

-Karen Walker

[Fancy]

Kindness does wonderful things to a face. --Dixie Doyle

[Enchantress]

“Abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace."

~ Krishna

[Leigh]

Everyday is a new sky rising, a time of transformation and renewal. Everyday is a fresh chance to make your dreams happen. ~ Kitty Terin

[Kätzchen]

"Giving up security takes guts. Bohemians have the courage to reject mainstream society, to follow an ideal and forsake praise and security; to alienate family; to be, as Jack Kerouac put it, "yourself at whatever cost" (p. 22)"

~Laren Stover (2004 - New York: Bullfinch Press)
"The Bohemian Manifesto: A Fieldguide to Living on the Edge."

:moonstars:

[Kätzchen]

"This is love: To fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi

[afixer]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi

[femmedyke]

"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable." Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell

(and part of my horoscope from Rob Brezsny... Apparently somewhere in there there is a message for me this week. . . now if it could only smack me over the head. . . )

[Toofrufru]

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
Richard Bach

[PinkieLee]

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

[Spirit Dancer]

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better.
Arthur Gordon

[Spirit Dancer]

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing
one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Aldous Huxley

[Spirit Dancer]

There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.

unattributed

[Spirit Dancer]

Letting go doesn't mean we don't care. Letting go doesn't mean we shut down.
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave.
It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment.
It means we stop trying to do the impossible--controlling that which
we cannot--and instead, focus on what is possible--which usually means
taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness,
and love, as much as possible.

Melody Beattie

[Spirit Dancer]

On Letting Go
author unknown

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring.
It means I can't do it for someone else.

To "let go" is not to cut myself off.
It's the realization that I can't control another.

To "let go" is to admit powerlessness,
which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another.
It's to make the most of myself.

To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.

To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To "let go" is not to be in the middle, arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.

To "let go" is not to nag, scold, or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.

To "let go" is to fear less and to love more.

[Lillie]

" People come into your life for a reason; the negative people usually are there to teach you what you don't want to become, treat you how you don't want to be treated, and to show you what you don't deserve. Embrace them, let them teach you, and then let them go.":twitch::twitch:

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Time, the devourer of all things."

"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."

"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."

Ovid

[JakeTulane]

“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.” - Anthony Robbins

[JakeTulane]

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington

[JakeTulane]

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue." ~Alice Duer Miller

[Fancy]

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

-Sophia Loren

[BestButchBoy]

"You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home." - Marcello Rubini, "La Dolce Vita"

[tuffboi29]

Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching law;
Will you give me yourself?will you come
travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?


-from "Song of the Open Road"
Walt Whitman
"Leaves of Grass"






sincerly hope you like it...
Tuff

[Kätzchen]

Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go,
~ Len Santos

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars: You have to let go at some point in order to move forward,

~author unknown

[Mister Bent]

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

-Sophia Loren

Beauty's where you find it.

- Madonna

[Lillie]

the difference between a true Friend and a fake one is the fake one puts the knife in your back and a real one takes it out and helps to heal the wound
:sigh:

[Ms. Meander]

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
~ Peyton Conway March

[tuffboi29]

Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much.



- Oscar Wilde

[cinderella]

Before you embark on a journey of revenge; dig two graves.
~Confucious

[cinderella]

I love long lengthy walks...especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
~Noel Coward

[katzietootle]

"Who cares,even the carebears don't care!!!!"

[Rook]

At five in the afternoon.
It was exactly five in the afternoon.
A boy brought the white sheet
at five in the afternoon.
A frail of lime ready prepared
at five in the afternoon.
The rest was death, and death alone.

The wind carried away the cottonwool
at five in the afternoon.
And the oxide scattered crystal and nickel
at five in the afternoon.
Now the dove and the leopard wrestle
at five in the afternoon.
And a thigh with a desolated horn
at five in the afternoon.
The bass-string struck up
at five in the afternoon.
Arsenic bells and smoke
at five in the afternoon.
Groups of silence in the corners
at five in the afternoon.
And the bull alone with a high heart!
At five in the afternoon.
When the sweat of snow was coming
at five in the afternoon,
When the bull ring was covered in iodine,
A coffin on wheels is his bed
at five in the afternoon.
Bones and flutes resound in his ears
at five in the afternoon.
Now the bull was bellowing through his forehead
at five in the afternoon.
The room was iridiscent with agony
at five in the afternoon.
In the distance the gangrene now comes
at five in the afternoon.
Horn of the lily through green groins
at five in the afternoon.
The wounds were burning like suns
at five in the afternoon.
At five in the afternoon.
Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon!
It was five by all the clocks!
It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
~ Federico Garcia Lorca

[Guy]

Empty cans make the most noise.

[violaine]

even if you don't love me

aunque no me ames
y no desees en tu boca
mis pequeños senos
muy suavemente... amanece . . .

even if you don’t love me
and don’t desire my small breasts
in your mouth
very softly... dawn comes. . .

* * * *

the collector

I like waiting for you in the afternoon

I love the perversion in your eyes
Midnight at the bar
Abandoning myself from
Deep inside
My favourite objects
The soft pillow
The highway to you
The memory and your body . . .

[Kätzchen]

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind,” ~ Marcel Proust

:moonstars:

[always2late]

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

[JakeTulane]

“Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.” - Sun Tzu

[JakeTulane]

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

[JakeTulane]

“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Kätzchen]

From:
The Collected Poems (1988)
New York, NY: The Echo Press.


How it Was

Stalking a deer I wandered into the mountains and from there I saw.

Or perhaps it was for some other reason that I rose about the setting sun.

Above the hills of blackwood and a slab of ocean and the steps of a glacier, carmine-colored in the dusk.

I saw absence; the mighty power of counter-fulfillment; the penalty of a promise lost forever.

If, in tepees of plywood, tire shreds, and grimy sheet iron, ancient inhabitants of this land shook their rattles, it was all in vain.

No eagle-creator circled in the air from which the thunderbolt of its glory had been cast out.

Protective spirits hid themselves in subterranean beds of bubbling ore, jolting the surface from time to time so that the fabric of freeways was bursting asunder.

God the Father didn't walk about any longer tending the new shoots of cedar, no longer did man hear his rushing spirit.

His son did not know his sonship and turned his eyes away when passing a neon cross flat as a movie screen showing a striptease.

This time it was really the end of the Old and New Testament.

No one implored, everyone picked up a nodule of agate or diorite to whisper in loneliness; I cannot live any longer.

Bearded messengers in bead necklaces founded clandestine communes in imperial cities and ports overseas.

But none of them announced the birth of a child-savior.

Soldiers from expeditions sent to punish nations would go disguised and masked to take part in forbidden rites, not looking for any hope.

They inhaled smoke soothing all memory and, rocking from side to side, shared with each other a word of nameless union.

Carved in black wood the Wheel of Eternal Return stood before the tents of wandering monastic orders.

And those who longed for the Kingdom took refuge like me in the mountains to become the last heirs of a dishonored myth.


Czeslaw Milosz (1968)

[The_Lady_Snow]

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It´s time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!

[Lillie]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. :glasses:
George Carlin

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin


There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

:byebye::byebye:

[BestButchBoy]

Cool is effortless. Cool is soulful, an inner peace and calm within that’s radiated outward. Cool isn’t afraid to say or do anything. The uncool is. Cool is magnetic.

Cool is… (who wants to step up to the mic?)

from Mark VV

[tuffboi29]

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.



-Oscar Wilde

[Spirit Dancer]

By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release
and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine
the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.

Gary Zukav

[Spirit Dancer]

Mindfulness of oneself cultivates wisdom.
Mindfulness of others cultivates compassion.

Stonepeace

[Spirit Dancer]

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated,
means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

Nell Newman

[nycfem]

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”


Ambrose Redmoon

[chefhottie25]

I love this poem and wanted to share it.


The Forgiveness Parade

There's nothing like a full moon reflected in the eyes of a blind man
using a telescope to stir a bowl of Russian alphabet soup
for the cosmonauts who orbited the shadow of Jupiter
and are landing in an ocean of tears
shed by cold blooded murderers who miss their mothers convulsively
in their prison cells being wheeled caravan-style down Oswald Boulevard
as part of the Forgiveness Parade where relatives of the victims
stand quietly holding banners like 'Apology Accepted' as the vandals
stumble past in shackles followed by the hijackers and the pickpockets who
march single file up the fire escape of a skyscraper built by arsonists.

Jeffrey McDaniel

[Toofrufru]

“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
Robin Williams

[JakeTulane]

“Everything happens for a reason. Every action has a reaction. Always remember that whats meant to be will always find a way to come about." - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” - Jim Morrison

[JakeTulane]

“Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone” - Proverb

[Diva]

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

~Will Rogers

[Diva]

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

~Ralph Steadman

[nycfem]

"We are where our thoughts are; be sure your thoughts are where you want to be."

-Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav

[Massive]

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Lao Tzu

"I love you - those three words have my life in them." - by Alexandrea to Nicholas III

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is to love and be loved in return." - From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

"My love for you is a journey;
Starting at forever,
And ending at never." - anonymous quotation

"All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love." - Marquis de Lafayette

"She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes."
- Byron

:stillheart:
:bunchflowers:
:love1:

[Diva]

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

~Jean Houston

[Kätzchen]

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love, ~ Washington Irving

[Spirit Dancer]

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.
It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade

[Spirit Dancer]

Live a balanced life--learn some and
think some and draw and paint and sing and
dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

[Spirit Dancer]

The Amish love the Sunshine and Shadow quilt pattern. It shows
two sides--the dark and light, spirit and form--and the challenge of
bringing the two into a larger unity. It's not a choice between
extremes: conformity or freedom, discipline or imagination,
acceptance or doubt, humility or a raging ego. It's a
balancing act that includes opposites.

Sue Bender

[Spirit Dancer]

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

[Spirit Dancer]

If one dream should fall and break into a
thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick
one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn

[JakeTulane]

“Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” - Rita Mero

[JakeTulane]

“I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.” - Johnathan Larson (Rent)

[JakeTulane]

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” - Mark Twain

[JakeTulane]

"When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.” - Author Unknown

[JakeTulane]

“I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life'.' I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.” - Anthony Robbins

[Sybelle]

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything. Creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild.

[Sybelle]

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

[Sybelle]

There shouldn't be levels of honesty. Just honesty.

[Glenn]

"Of what value is sense, if it does not come to my rescue before I utter a word? In spite of whatever wisdom we may have, it is of little value if we have no control over our words. Those who talk much have less power than those who talk little." Hazrat Khan sufi master

[Kätzchen]

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
~ Albert Einstein

[Lillie]

“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”

Audre Lorde

[Toofrufru]

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones....Richard Bandler.

[redrose]

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis

[Fancy]

“Only in America - do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store”

[Toofrufru]

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

[tazz]

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Ohhh...

Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Ohhhh.....

Don't you try to pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on - call my name
Will you all my name?

I say :
La la la...

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy


"Been jaded, hated, who'll be around when the limelight's faded?
Been shut down, pushed out, made to smile when I wanted to frown." Christina Aguilera

[BestButchBoy]

Long may you run.

Neil Young.

[always2late]

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." - Mark Twain

[Mister Bent]

"If we had a keen vision of all ordinary human life,
it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heartbeat,
and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[Fancy]

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

[Rook]

[Maria and Chris are arguing, Maria meanwhile is holding a TV in her arms]

Chris Lecce: Now, Maria let's go over something. I came home last night.
Maria McGuire: [nods emphatically]
Chris Lecce: We had sex.
Maria McGuire: [nods again]
Chris Lecce: Then I woke up and went to work like I do every morning. Now did I forget something?
Maria McGuire: [drops the TV causing it to smash]
Chris Lecce: [looks down at the floor with an Astonishingly Puzzled expression on his face]
Maria McGuire: I'm leaving. And when I come back, I want you gone.
Chris Lecce: [to Maria who's walking away furious ] All right, all right!...I'll marry you.
Maria McGuire: [smiles sweetly and comes back to Chris who giggles, she giggles too immediately punching him in the Stomach] Life is just too short.
Chris Lecce: [doubled over weazing, weak cough]

-Another Stakeout {1993}
-------------------

Bill Reimers: [during an argument about who killed Kennedy, Bill checks the fridge] Those bastards. They ate everything and left us a dog turd.
Chris Lecce: Ralph Warren left us a dog turd?
Bill Reimers: No, Phil and Jack. I am gonna get those guys. I don't know how, but I will.
Chris Lecce: Give me the keys. I'll go to the supermarket. What do you want?
Bill Reimers: Truth and justice.
Chris Lecce: Anything else?
Bill Reimers: Doughnuts.
Chris Lecce: Why not? We're cops.

==

Bill Reimers: [Watching Phil and Jack leave and snickering] Yeah, I smell a rat, they are up to something. I don't know what it is, but they are up to something. I'm going to find out what it is
[he raises binoculars to his eyes, lowers them, then turns to Chris]
Bill Reimers: Do you know what it is?
Chris Lecce: [casually, with a Poker face] Yeah, I think I have a pretty good idea..[clearing his throat]
Chris Lecce: What, what, tell me?
Bill Reimers: [Turns at Chris' gesture, and sees that ink coating the rims of the binoculars is now around each eye, making him look like a racoon] Son of a bitch! Christ, I'm gonna *kill* 'em!

- Stakeout {1987}

:dance2::dance2:

[Mister Bent]

"The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable.
A blackness to hurt your ears with listening."

- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

[Hack]

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." -- Lao Tzu

[Diva]

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~Anais Nin

[tuffboi29]

This is the female form,
A devine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by it's breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor,
all falls aside but myself and it,.........


Be not ashamed woman,your privilege encloses the rest,and it is the exit of the rest,
You are the gates of the body,and you are the gates of the soul.



-Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
"I Sing the Body Electric"

[violaine]

“It's an acting job-acting natural.”


“I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.”

--Alistair Cooke

[BestButchBoy]

“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

[Toofrufru]

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant with the weak...
because in your life you will have been all of these."

~George Washington Carver

[always2late]

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~ Ralph Marston

[tuffboi29]

Kiss with your eyes closed, because the best things in life are unseen.

-Arthor unknown

[Glenn]

"Quotations there have been in superabundance. But what original commentary can you supply, from the uniqueness of your particular life? What holy text have you absorbed and made your own? In what ways have these timeless truths renovated your nature? Are you content to be a hollow victrola, mechanically repeating the words of others?" Sri Yukteswar

[Kätzchen]

I found this the other day --
lots of little interview clips of what people had
to say about how they feel when they experience love
or being in love

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[Andrew, Jr.]

"The first duty of love is to listen."

Author Unknown

[BestButchBoy]

“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

Teddy Roosevelt

[adorable]

1. “Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.” ~Donna Favors

2. “Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.” ~Ashleigh Brillant

3. “No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.” ~Paulo Coelho


Sadness be within the three
Lies be told and truth is real
pain my heart sees and feels
Deception to the others might
fool them now
As for me?
I've seen the light

[Kätzchen]

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

[gotoseagrl]

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
Charlotte Bronte

[ravfem]

i would give You the world if i could
Instead, i'll give You all that's mine to give...
my hopes
my dreams
and my love -

always my love.

:stillheart:

[gotoseagrl]

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet,
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

[BestButchBoy]

“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you."

Paul Newman

[always2late]

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. - Chinese Proverb

[Diva]

At the end of the day, it's not important what you take, but what you give.

~Tony Tatum, former Brigadeer General, now COO of the DC Schools

[afixer]

When the fear of remaining the same overcomes our fear of change; surely then we will let go. -unknown

[JustBeingMe]

The Heaviest thing you can carry is a Grudge.
Author unknown.

[BestButchBoy]

“Take it easy. But take it."

Woody Guthrie

[Medusa]

"Did you ever know that you're my hero?" - Said to myself just now at my desk while looking in a Chanel compact.

[Semantics]

Why think these songs irrational
They are no more so than the hive.
In mercury I seek the method of the molten.
I remember mercy in my praise of the chain.
The green apple is red where slapped.
Why should my psalms sicken, or be blasted
Like blackbirds by shotguns from trees.
Why would you bypass being adored by the radio.
For each gift pump the moment.
The herring are numerous
And the Lord's sperm are words,
As am I. I was lost
And sang my broken-down songs in the hell of the hour.
Then in my heart moved an oar,
And I was found by a breeze from a door in the sea of forms
And was rowed to the cherry trees on the shore.

Selah. Selah.

-Psalm 212 by Stan Rice

[Fancy]

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. - Peace Pilgrim

[moxie]

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.” - C.S. Lewis

[BestButchBoy]

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."

Plato

[always2late]

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart." -Unknown

[Diva]

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~e.e. cummings

[Fancy]

As I gaze at my garden and regard the varying colors the Creator has made for us, red, yellow, blue, white, pink, purple, etc..., I also think of the many colors the Creator has made of us, black, beige, brown, red, yellow and white -- and all of us are beautiful.

-Maya Angelou

[BestButchBoy]

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

[moxie]

“No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet” - C.S. Lewis

[Lady Pamela]

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I trust and allow the loving pulse of my spirit
to connect me with the wisdom of life's mysteries.

[always2late]

"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges

[Ms. Meander]

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity
~ Keshavan Nair

[Ms. Meander]

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

adapted

- Bertrand Russell

[Toofrufru]

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.
Unknown

[UofMfan]

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." ~ Helen Keller

[Spirit Dancer]

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities
and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of achievement,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness
And tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.

from the Sanskrit