Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Andrew, Jr.]

Please share with us what your favorites are.

Namaste,
Andrew

[Lady Jewel]

"When we come into this world, we are alone. When we leave this world, we are alone. But, this time called life was meant to be shared".
~Me

[D-Money]

"the Lord of The Rings trilogy restored balance to the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies"

- Will Wheaton

[Andrew, Jr.]

If he hits you once, you can be sure he will hit you again.

My Quote

[D-Money]

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."

-Alan Moore

[D-Money]

"life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words"

- Calvin & Hobbes

[D-Money]

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."

-The Treaty of Tripoli (Drafted under George Washington, Signed by James Madison)

[D-Money]

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

- Chuck Palahniuk

[Diva]

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

~Sara Teasdale

[Jet]

Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann



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.

[PinkieLee]

Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.

I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.

I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.

I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.

I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

[Diva]

Pinkie...
I love that! Have for quite some time....thanks for posting that!

~Diva

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The tongue like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood."

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."

"You will be not punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger."

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

[Selenay]

From the outside looking in, you could never understand it; from the inside looking out, you could never explain it.

[Selenay]

The first time I was inside a woman
I was confused.
I didn't recognize her, or myself.
I thought I was swimming, but in air.
Maybe flying, underwater.

There are secrets only the body yields,
like vibration,
and kissing, a happy accident
between two women
who have already exhausted all words.


--This Is What Happened In Our Other Life, Achy Obejas

[D-Money]

“they say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”

- Andy Warhol

[WolfyOne]

Life is what it is

[Mitmo01]

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live! -----Bob Marley

[D-Money]

"i much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."

- Johannes Kepler

[D-Money]

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

- Susan Sontag

[D-Money]

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

- Seneca

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

[D-Money]

"Get dirty. Get fucking filthy. Get poor.
Get off your ass. Get desperate. Get dangerous.
Get vilified. Get vile. Get romantic.
Get pro-active. Get started. Get your own life.
Get doing something. anything.
Because before you know it you're 40 with kids, a mortgage, and responsibilities that cause your fun to come second.
So before cancer , before children, before 50 hour work weeks,
before back and knee problems, before school loans,
before you lose your sense of humor...
Fight.
Fight and fuck, and run and smile.
Smile because the older you get, the less you will.
So yes, quit being such a goddamn pussy ...
because bitching and whining and worry never made anything better."


dunno who wrote this ... but i think it's brilliant.

[Mitmo01]

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.

NELSON MANDELA, speech, May 10, 1994

"Greivance and Resentment are like drinking poison and thinking that it will affect your enemy", Nelson Mandela

[Diva]

Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung.

~Voltaire

[Diva]

A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.

~Susan Ohanian

[Arwen]

You do not define anyone with your judgment. You only define yourself as someone who needs to judge. ~Wayne Dyer

[Diva]

Earth laughs in flowers.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[always2late]

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

[Diva]

A2L.........

That is such an amazing quote....I might have to steal it. <insert innocent eyes with batting lashes smilie here>

~Diva

[Tommi]

“I wish I'd seen you as a little girl, without your armor to fend off the world...I would have kept you underneath my wing...I would protect you from everything.”

Anonymous.

[Diva]

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

~Kofi Annan

[D-Money]

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

that song ... that phrase ... is my default ringer on my phone :)

i live by those words!

[D-Money]

"i love you ... more than all you know. i love you more than children, more than fields i've planted with my hands. i love you more than morning prayers or peace or food to eat. i love you more than sunlight, more than flesh or joy, or one more day. i love you more than god."

- from Robin and Marian, 1976

[Jet]

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.

[Bootboi]

From Will and Grace ala Karen Walker

"Honey gays love presents. Stick something shiny under their faces and their yours. It's how we won New York back from the Gay Indians..."

;)

[Andrew, Jr.]

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

"Do not pray for an easy life. Pray to be stronger men."

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

[D-Money]

“If you meet the Buddha, kill him.”

— Linji

[Soft*Silver]

Dont shit in my litter box.

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

for those who dont know, this is an ongoing "quote" parade that I have been subjecting the other sites to. Many seem to like it. Mr Smitty says he would like to feel welcomed here too. His words have deep meaning if you just think about them. That, or his catnip is getting to me too....

[Semantics]

"And the rain was brain colored
and the thunder sounded like something remembering something."

Stan Rice

[D-Money]

"I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today"

- Ariwara No Narihira (9th Century Japan)

[D-Money]

"Caretake this moment.
Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond
to this person, this challenge, this deed.
Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble.
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation
you happen to be in right now."

-Epictetus

[D-Money]

"stars, hide your fires;
let not light see my black and deep desires."

-'Macbeth', Act1 Scene4- William Shakespeare

[Lady Jewel]

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
`Marianne Williamson

[Softly]

Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support. Shakespeare

[Arwen]

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds & words return to us with astounding accuracy. ~Scovel Shinn

[Tommi]

"I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is."

Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995

[Semantics]

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Augusten Burroughs

[Surayna]

“I love her and that’s the beginning of everything.”
~Teen love

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) ~

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." Unknown

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

[Soft*Silver]

if there was a hell, it would be made of dirty litter boxes and empty food trays

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[D-Money]

"the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. you slip one on when you meet a stranger, you dance all night, then you throw it away ... the condom, i mean, not the stranger."

- Marla Singer, Fight Club

[Arwen]

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl; not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early like a child. ~ Joanna Field

[Leigh]

This has got to be My all-time favorite quote, coming from the movie Ghost Rider:

"There's an old saying: Raise no more devils than you can lay down. My father raised one too many."

[Mister Bent]

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.- Oscar Wilde

[Andrew, Jr.]

If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month - get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone.

[Diva]

A best friend is a sister destiny forgot to give you. :gimmehug::flowers::cracked::toast:


---Unknown

[Just_G]

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I am always saying "damned if I do, damned if I don't"! :confused:

[KayCee]

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love
Sigmund Freud

[D-Money]

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Elanor Roosevelt

[Diva]

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

~Abraham Lincoln

[always2late]

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will be taught to fly - Frank Outlaw

[FeminineAllure]

Speak only well of people and you need never whisper.

Out of a fortune cookie.

[Dean Thoreau]

I have this thing about einstein always have......I find much of what he has said to be timeless such as:

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.
(Albert Einstein, 1934)

[Diva]

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

~Dave Barry

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." Richard Wagner

"Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Lewis Stevenson

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Will Rogers *I wish I could learn this one*

"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff." Will Rogers

[Just_G]

There comes a time when one must say: This is me! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be. Don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.

[always2late]

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Andrew, Jr.]

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." Grace Hopper

"No act of appreciation is ever wasted." Mike Josephson

[Diva]

I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul remembering my good friends.

~William Shakespeare

[always2late]

"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."~ Geoffrey Gaberino

[Arwen]

There comes a time when one must say: This is me! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be. Don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.

I just had to requote this since it really really speaks to me on a very personal level. So done with others trying to make me fit into their narrow little worlds. DONE.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive. - The Dalai Lama

[Diva]

You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts.

~Charles Popplestown

[D-Money]

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends with you His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.


- Kahlil Gibran

[Arwen]

D, are you familiar with the arrangement Sweet Honey In The Rock did to this piece? Here are three young women doing that arrangement. I couldn't find the Sweet Honey In The Rock version on YouTube.

YouTube- On Children

Oh VBulletin, you are so much smarter than me!

[Diva]

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

~Mikhail Baryshnikov

[Diva]

As long as You're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

~Donald Trump

[Andrew, Jr.]

:cheer:"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.":heartbeat:

[Andrew, Jr.]

"The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner." Hebrew Proverb

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than 4 feet." Colette

[jenny]

"Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life." ~Brian Andreas

[Arwen]

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

"Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin."
-John Cudahy

[Duchess]

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.:candle:

James T. Ellison

[Alpha Dog]

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. And then, by all means, use restraints. -- Margaret Cho
:bullwhip:

[Just_G]

Often people move backwards, instead of forward, when overwhelmed by change. The danger in looking back, we see only what we want to see. We see what made us feel safe.
Author uknown to me

[weatherboi]

"This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."

Carl Fredrickson from the movie UP

[Diva]

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

~Kahlil Gibran

[Pixie]

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Buddha
:hiding:

[PinkieLee]

"The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

[FeminineAllure]

There is a destiny that makes us Brothers, ~And sisters too!~
No one goes his way alone;
All that we send into the hearts of others,
Comes back into our own.


Edwin Markham, 1852-1940
American Poet

[atomiczombie]

Fear of the Inexplicable

But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relationship between
one human being and another has also been cramped by it,
as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of
endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the
bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone
that is responsible for human relationships repeating
themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and
unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable
experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes
nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation
to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively
from his own existence. For if we think of this existence of
the individual as a larger or smaller room, it appears evident
that most people learn to know only a corner of their room, a
place by the window, a strip of floor on which they walk up and
down. Thus they have a certain security. And yet that dangerous
insecurity is so much more human which drives the prisoners in
Poe's stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons
and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their abode.

We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about
us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us.
We are set down in life as in the element to which we best
correspond, and over and above this we have through thousands of
years of accommodation become so like this life, that when we
hold still we are, through a happy mimicry,scarcely to be
distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to
mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors,
they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abuses belong to us;
are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we
arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us
that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now
still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust
and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those
ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into
princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps
everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless
that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
__________________

[Duchess]

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.(f)

Timothy Garton Ash
British, Author Quotes

[Diva]

Understand the preciousness of the unfulfilled desire. Begin to feel appreciation for the fact that the desire exists, rather than instant disappointment that it has not manifested.

~Anonymous

[SassyLeo]

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[Petal Soft]

The only good thing about being wrong
is the pleasure it brings to others!!

~~~Petal~~~

[always2late]

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."- T.S. Eliot

[Diva]

The idea of waiting for someting makes it more exciting.

~Andy Warhol

[Pixie]

“All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while,wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us”

[weatherboi]

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Indian Proverb

[jenny]

“Champion the right to be yourself. Dare to be different. Live your own life and follow your own star.” - Wilfred Peterson

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." Juvenal

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jet]

"It's a lousy war, kid... but it's the only one we've got." —What Price Glory?

[violaine]

:sheep::goat::dog::junesmiley:

Opossum Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s but of dark and bright
Meet in her fur and beady eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray less free,
Had half impaired the ’possum’s grace
Which swings in every raven tree.
Glint softly lightens o’er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how chaste their dwelling-place.

And on that nose or o’er that brow
So soft, so calm, so eloquent,
The grins that win, the feints that throw,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A ’possum’s heart is innocent.

http://opossum.craton.net/opoetry.htm

[Andrew, Jr.]

"My dear, I have kicked more ass than you have sat on."

Zotoh Zhaan, Farscape

[Beau]

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
Amos Bronson Alcott

[Diva]

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

~Nigerian Proverb

[always2late]

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of sh*t." :innocent:

[SassyLeo]

http://20.media.tumblr.com/UU8sftjMcqtuiy2jMIpfKQpdo1_500.jpg

[jenny]

"We...need to forgive ourselves...For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened." ~ From "Tuesdays With Morrie"

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear."

Holden Rinehart

[evolveme]

"Oh no!

Yer tire's all flat and junk!

Did I do that?

Let me get out my cellular and call yer wrecker.

Oh shoot.

I got no phone.

'Cos I'm a pothole?

Sooooooo...

'Kbye!"


- Pothole
Geico Commercial

[violaine]

Words buy
New life
Dust clears
No Scars
Burnt but
Bright eyed
The sun's out
A still night stirs

- stellar,
smashing pumpkins

:moonstars::rollcat::seesaw:

[Diva]

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SassyLeo]

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[jenny]

"Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction." ~Mahatma Gandhi

[Passionaria]

He who hesitates, is a fool ~Mae West

[violaine]

Music is a safe kind of high.
--Jimi Hendrix

[Mister Bent]

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept. - George Carlin

[Jet]

The portrait will be unhung and the man will be hung (reference to assassinating Hitler) — Valkyrie

[Diva]

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

~George Carlin (OMG the guy makes me laugh!)

[Arwen]

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


"Unfulfilled expectations cause upset." Original Source Unknown

[jenny]

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln

[Just_G]

“Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Harold Whitman

(I stole this from a friend's FB page)

[foxyshaman]

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

[MrSunshine]

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
~Henry Ellis

[Diva]

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

~Dr. Seuss

[jenny]

"It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today." ~ Viktor Frankl

[Toofrufru]

No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

[Jet]

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 vexations 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 not this 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.


--- Max Ehrmann, 1927

[violaine]

“I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl”

-- bjork

[Diva]

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

~Eliza Tabor

[daisygrrl]

“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.” --Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

[jenny]

"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Norman MacEwan

[daisygrrl]

The thought of a possible life is only an indulgence for those who already know themselves to be possible. For those who are still looking to become possible, possibility is a necessity.
--Judith Butler

…whenever a line is drawn, it passes through someone else’s flesh.
--Raven Kaldera

Gender identity—the sense of self—is stronger than the body, and will find a way to manifest itself…You simply can’t tell by looking at someone what his or her sexual orientation is, or what the person’s gender identity is.
--Jamison Green

[Diva]

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

~Buddha

[Mister Bent]

But there is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.

Paul Graham

[daisygrrl]

“Warming Her Pearls”
By Carol Ann Duffy

for Judith Radstone

Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
bids me wear them, warm them, until evening
when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them
round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her,

resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk
or taffeta, which gown tonight? She fans herself
whilst I work willingly, my slow heat entering
each pearl. Slack on my neck, her rope.

She´s beautiful. I dream about her
in my attic bed; picture her dancing
with tall men, puzzled by my faint, persistent scent
beneath her French perfume, her milky stones.

I dust her shoulders with a rabbit´s foot,
watch the soft blush seep through her skin
like an indolent sigh. In her looking-glass
my red lips part as though I want to speak.

Full moon. Her carriage brings her home. I see
her every movement in my head ... Undressing,
taking off her jewels, her slim hand reaching
for the case, slipping naked into bed, the way

she always does ... And I lie here awake,
knowing the pearls are cooling even now
in the room where my mistress sleeps. All night
I feel their absence and I burn.

[blush]

"Nothing's perfect," sighed the fox. "My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I'm rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat..."

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[purepisces]

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. ~ Gilda Radner

[always2late]

"I am not a has-been. I am a will be." -Lauren Bacall

[Diva]

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

~Buddha

[Diva]

~The Invitation~
By Orian Mountain Dreamer
Canadian Teacher and Author

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty every day.
And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

[purepisces]

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

[Mitmo01]

"For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul." - Judy Garland (1922-1969) American Actor, Singer


"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) [Count Lev Tolstoi] Russian Novelist, Moral Philosopher, Mystic

[jenny]

"Evil shrieks loudly while goodness clothes the world in silence." ~ Wafa Sultan

[Arwen]

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~~ William Butler Yeats

[purepisces]

I can resist anything but temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde :grindevil:

[Arwen]

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~~ Lucille Ball :stillheart:

Just because you can't find your own voice, doesn't mean you get to silence mine. ~~ June

[PinkieLee]

From Sex and the City...

“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you YOU love, well, that's just fabulous.”

[purepisces]

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum

[always2late]

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies." - Roderick Thorp

[purepisces]

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle

[kittygrrl]

"true love is kind"
"You know its love when forever is not long enough"
"True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them"

[Diva]

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
~Bertrand Russell~

:sparklyheart::moonstars::sparklyheart:

[always2late]

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer."

Ed Cole

[Andrew, Jr.]

"I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent."

Unknown

[Ms. Meander]

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

[purepisces]

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~ Walt Disney

[FeminineAllure]

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb quotes

[Diva]

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

~Kahlil Gibran

[Jet]

Do the right thing. —My grandmother

[always2late]

"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."~ Geoffrey Gaberino

[purepisces]

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
~ Simone de Beauvoir

[always2late]

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer

[Diva]

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

~Steve Jobs

[Arwen]

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.” Melba Colgrove

"Joy delights in joy." William Shakespeare

“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both” Ralph Waldo Emerson

[purepisces]

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. ~ Betty Friedan

[FeminineAllure]

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."- Albert Einstein

[Diva]

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

~Elbert Hubbard

[always2late]

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."~ Booker T. Washington

[Andrew, Jr.]

"My mother's wonderful. To me, she's perfection."

"I wish I could understand my father."

"I'm like anybody. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass as easily."


*I find these so close to how I feel. RIP MJ.

[Arwen]

“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.” ~~Goethe

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Everything changes nothing remains without change."

"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure."

[Duchess]

Faith is the acceptance that we can grasp the reality of a truth, not be fully understanding it, but know enough to understand it's right, it works, it's perfect.(f)

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

[weatherboi]

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, American translation.

[always2late]

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." ~ Douglas Everett

[weatherboi]

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Andrew, Jr.]

This is a saying in my kitchen. It was on my Grandmother's wall in her kitchen.

It reads "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, and the silent listener to every conversation."

:rockband:

[always2late]

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."~ Samuel Smiles

[violaine]

sehnsucht

sehnsucht
sehnsucht
kommt aus dem chaos
sehnsucht
sehnsucht
ist die einzje Energie
meine sehnsucht
meine sucht
sehnsucht
ist die einzje Energie

-- e.n.

[Arwen]

"Choice of attention - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."-W.H. Auden

We decide where we put our attention, and wherever we put our attention grows, and becomes more important in our lives. We decide how to spend our days, what to read, where to go, what to say and with whom to talk. All of that has some affect on our inner life. We can feel it; we can see the results. -Lissa Coffey

This is from a newsletter that I get on a daily basis. Lissa Coffey shares some amazing things! You can find her at www.coffeytalk.com I highly recommend her if you want to find thought-provoking discussions.

[weatherboi]

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
RWE

[Diva]

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

~Gertrude, from Hamlet
William Shakespeare

[weatherboi]

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

~Gertrude, from Hamlet
William Shakespeare



I love Shakespeare!!!:hamactor:

[Duchess]

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.(f)

Mother Teresa (http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&Author_First_Name=&Author_Last_Name=Mother+Teresa&Movie=)
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

[always2late]

"Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have. " ~ Henry Blinn

[Semantics]

Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish? -Rob Brezsny

[Andrew, Jr.]

Maya Angelou:

"Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

"Life loves the lover of it."

"Love is like a virus. If can happen to anyone at anytime to anyone."

[Diva]

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

~Charles de Montesquieu

[Arwen]

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.” ~ Goethe

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.” ~ Maya Angelou

“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” Robert S. Heinlein

[Just_G]

The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
Unknown

[Diva]

All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift.

~Jose Saramago

[FeminineAllure]

“I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.”
Luis Miguel quotes

[FeminineAllure]

“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett quotes

[always2late]

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."~ Greg Anderson

[Just_G]

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that. - Ellen DeGeneres

[Arwen]

What if your life's purpose were simply “Seek Joy”? Would you have the courage? How hard is it to release the negativity? Seek joy, y'all! ~ Stephanie Arwen Lynch

[always2late]

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your
heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your
purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly
environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." ~ James Allen

[Diva]

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

~Buddha

[weatherboi]

I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.

Bruce the Shark
Finding Nemo

[Pixie]

"Sulley, you're not supposed to name it. Once you name it, you start getting attached to it. Now put that thing back where it came from or so help me..."

Mike
Monsters Inc

[Arwen]

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. -- Glade Byron Addams

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.
-- Joss Whedon

Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
-- Sara Paddison

[violaine]

sacred, holy
to put it in words, to write it down. that is walking on hallowed ground.

- DM

[weatherboi]

sacred, holy
to put it in words, to write it down. that is walking on hallowed ground.

- DM

Love that song!!

[Jet]

Getting old isn't for sissies. —Bette Davis

[purepisces]

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
~ Buddha

[Arwen]

Shattered glass all scattered ‘cross the floor
Some fellow left his suitcase by the door
I'd like to think I left it all behind me
And know for sure the past will never find me
There are some who sanctify revenge
Time and life will leave them on the fringe
And some until the end will carry grudges
Time and life and death will be their judges

Flatlanders "Wishing For A Rainbow"

[Pixie]

“Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important things in this world.”

[Diva]

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

~Ernest Hemingway

[Diva]

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

~Virginia Woolf

[Beau]

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
-- George Sand

[weatherboi]

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Quote by - Bayard Taylor

[Diva]

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regrets.
Continue to learn.
Appreciate Your friends.
Do what You love.
Live as if that's all there is.

~Mary Anne Radmacher

[violaine]

it takes courage to enjoy it - the hardcore and the gentle-

bjork

[Diva]

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

~Mary H. Waldrip

[MrSunshine]

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley

[Arwen]

"Yeah. Well, you know me. Give me a full ballerina skirt and a hint of saloon and I'm on board." Nigel in "The Devil Wears Prada

[Pixie]

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson

[always2late]

"People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do." - Michelle Ventor

[Arwen]

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault. ~ Oscar Wilde.

[Just_G]

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Stolen from a friend's FB page today!

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Can love be defined? No, if you live it. And yes, in all other cases." Vadim Kotelnikov

[la_la]

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. - Jesus of Nazareth

[always2late]

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change." - Earl Nightingale

[weatherboi]

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new, an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more.

Anton Ego from the movie Ratatouille

[purepisces]

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[jenny]

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one." ~ Mother Teresa

[Ms. Meander]

"Dare to be naive."
~ Buckminster Fuller

[Diva]

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

~Friedrich von Schtiller

[Arwen]

Anyone can cook! Chef Gusteau from Ratatouille

[weatherboi]

Superladies? They're always trying to tell you their secret identity... think it'll strengthen the relationship or something like that. I say, "Girl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that. I mean, you tell me you're, uh... S-Super, Mega, Ultra Lightning Babe, that's alright with me. I'm good... I'm good.

Lucius from the move The Incredibles.
Love Samual L. Jackson

[always2late]

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." - Friedrich Nietzsche

[daisygrrl]

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~Mary Ellen Chase

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~Charles Dickens

Merry Xmas, ya'll!!!:cc:

[Ms. Meander]

"The best way out is always through."
~ Robert Frost


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Edison

[Arwen]

I'm too old for this sort of thing. Just wake me up when the planet's destroyed.Avatar, Wizards (1977)

[Diva]

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

~Albert Schweitzer

[Arwen]

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 worthwhile in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of 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 expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.
To give so much time to improving 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 word, but in great deeds.
To live in the 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

[purepisces]

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ~ Albert Einstein

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~ Ellen Burstyn

[always2late]

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." - Louis L'Amour

[Pixie]

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens

[Arwen]

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

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

How are you going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued? Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.--Anne Lamott (in Starting Over)

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.--Booker T. Washington :lips:

[Diva]

You want a man who will cover your eyes & lead you down to the beach
just so you can discover the feel of sand beneath your feet.
You want a guy who will wake you up at dawn
bursting to talk to you, because he can't wait another minute
just to find out what you're going to say.

~From "Runaway Bride" (Richard Gere & Julia Roberts)
:eyebat:

[weatherboi]

I love Pearl Jam

Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Oh I’m a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they’ve got none

Stay with me…
Let’s just breathe…

Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world to make me believe

Stay with me
You’re all I see…

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me

As I come clean…
I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would save, oh no

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave…

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah…

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side…

[Jet]

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
be now forever taken
from my sight
Though nothing can bring back the hour
of splendour in the grass
or glory in the flower,
we will grieve not.
Rather find strength
in what remains behind
—Wordsworth

[Gemme]

In reference to the leaves in his backyard, my dad said they were "knee high, no BUTT high to a giraffe!"

It's about what we take from it, right?

[Arwen]

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.--Isabelle Holland (The Long Search)

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.--Joseph Roux (Meditations of a Parish Priest)

Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.--Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness is giving up the right to retaliate. Forgiveness is the willingness to have something happen the way it happened. It's not true that you can't forgive something; it's a matter of the will, and you always have the choice. Forgiveness is never dependent on what the other person does or does not do; it is always under our control. Forgiveness is giving up the insistence on being understood....--Pixie Koestline Hammond (For Everything There Is a Season)

[Diva]

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Pixie]

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

[SassyLeo]

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