Is there a "quote" thread yet???

[WILDCAT]

*If not, I'll start:


THE ART OF PEACE

The Art of Peace is the principle of
nonresistance. Because it is nonresistant,
it is victorious from the beginning. Those
with evil intentions or contentious
thoughts are instantly vanquished. The
Art of Peace is invincible because it
contends with nothing.

___

There are no contests in the Art of Peace.
A true warrior is invincible because
he or she contests with nothing.
Defeat means to defeat the mind of
contention that we harbor within.


Quotes by: Morihei Ueshiba


PEACE AND LOVE ALL!!

:stillheart:

WELCOME, WILD!!

[NotAnAverageGuy]

I think the fluff forums has a quote of the day thread

[WILDCAT]

I think the fluff forums has a quote of the day thread

Oh, OK! Thanks. (Oops.)

And I just checked there and didn't see it!?

(Well, this doesn't "have" to be only the quote of the day, I guess. Feel free anyone... or not.)

'Tis a thread now, I guess.



*WILDCAT

[NotAnAverageGuy]

Oh wait maybe its your favorite quotes thread that I saw

but now we have this one too *thumbs up*

[WILDCAT]

Oh wait maybe its your favorite quotes thread that I saw

but now we have this one too *thumbs up*
___

No, I really didn't see the other one. My apologies to the thread starter there.

I just saw it NOW brought up on NEW POSTINGS! (That'll do it, I did!!)

Sorry for my blindness. I really must get new glasses, not funny now!


PEACE

*I still didn't think quotes would be under fun and fluff though, but rather writing... perhaps that prevented me from "seeing". I really did look there though, in case!

**Dusa, please close if you wish. No problem here... on my end. SMILE

[NotAnAverageGuy]

It happens Wildcat we miss things and such no worries here

[WILDCAT]

It happens Wildcat we miss things and such no worries here

OK, I don't want to interfere with anyone's threads though... and I really like/need the "quote" one. (And the poems, writings, etc... are all so important!)

Just, my bad... I missed it...


:doh:

[NotAnAverageGuy]

I agree with ya I kinda like the quote threads and the poetry stuff too

but my fave are the fluffy threads

[WILDCAT]

I see now there are several threads on the same "topics"...

"It's not what people call ya, it's what you answer to!"


--Madea!

:dogwalking:

[WILDCAT]

Writing Lessons:

There are... still... so many books I want to read.. and reread...

There are... still... so many places I want to travel.. to...

There are... still... foods I want to eat... and drinks I want to sample...

There are... blankets to lie upon or under...

There are... pillows upon which to prop my books or my head...

I definitely want to rocket to outer space... I also want to explore inner space...

I know no one ever wished they had been meaner...

Or hated more...

Or spent more hours away from people they loved...

I know that life is interesting and you can never go wrong Being interested.

If I were giving advice I would say: Sing
People who sing to themselves
People who make variations on songs they know
People who teach songs to other people
These are the people other people want to be with

and that will let you be a good writer
Because

There are... still... so many ideas to conceive

__

NIKKI GIOVANNI

:reader:

[Spirit Dancer]

Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned
to live our life trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned
to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being
accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

Don Miguel Ruiz




What another would have
done as well as you, do not
do it. What another would
have said as well as you,
do not say it; what another
would have written as well,
do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and
thus make yourself
indispensable.

Andre Gide

[Lady Pamela]

Seth on the Vibratory Nature of Existence

"Now the behavior of atoms and molecules is involved here, for again

these are only present within your universe during certain stages.

Their activity is perceived only during the range of particular

vibratory rhythms.

When your scientists examine them for example, they do not examine the

nature, say, of an atom.

They only explore the characteristics of an atom as it acts or shows

itself within your

system.

Its greater reality completely escapes them.

You understand that there are spectrums of light.

So are there spectrums of matter.

Your system of physical reality is not dense in comparison with some

others.

The dimensions that you give to physical matter barely begin to hint at

the varieties of dimensions possible.

Some systems are far heavier or lighter than your own, though this may

not involve weight in the terms with which you are familiar.

Probable actions emerge, then, into matter systems quite as valid as

your own, and quite as consistent.

You are used to thinking in single line thoughts, so you think of events

that you know as complete things or actions, not realizing that what you

perceive is but a

fraction of their entire multidimensional existence.

In greater terms, it is impossible to separate one physical event from

the probable events, for these are all dimensions of one action.

It is basically impossible to separate the "you" that you know from the

probable you's of which you are unaware, for the same reasons.

There are always inner pathways, however, leading between probable

events;

since all of them are manifestations of an act in its becoming, then the

dimensions between these are illusions.

The physical brain alone cannot pick up these connections with any great

success.

The mind, which is the inner counterpart of the brain, can at times

perceive the far greater dimensions of any given event

through a burst of sudden intuition or comprehension that cannot be

adequately described on a verbal level.

As I have said frequently, time as you think of it does not exist, yet

in your terms, time's true nature could be understood if the basic

nature of the atom was ever made known to you.

In one way, an atom could be compared to a microsecond.

It seems as if an atom "exists" steadily for a certain amount of time.

Instead it phases in and out, so to speak.

It fluctuates in a highly predictable pattern and rhythm.

It can be perceived within your system only at certain points in this

fluctuation, so it seems to scientists that the atom is steadily

present.

They are not aware of any gaps of absence as far as the atom is

concerned.

In those periods of nonphysical projection, the off periods of

fluctuation, the atoms "appear" in another system of reality.

In that system they are perceived in what are "on" points of

fluctuation, and in that system also then the atoms (seem to) appear

steadily.

There are many such points of fluctuation, but your system of course is

not aware of them, nor of the ultimate actions, universes, and systems

that exist within them.

Now the same sort of behavior occurs on a deep, basic, secret, and

unexplored psychological level.

The physically oriented consciousness, responding to one phase of the

atom's activity, comes alive and awake to its particular existence, but

in between are other fluctuations in which consciousness is focused upon

entirely different systems of reality; each of these coming awake and

responding, and each one having no sense of absence, and memory only

of those particular fluctuations to which they respond."

Seth, session 567

[Lady Pamela]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when 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

[Lady Pamela]

~ Into YOUR Bed ~

My alarm wakes me…
As I sit in the dark, staring at the clock…
Wondering how much longer this is going to linger.
I stare at myself in the mirror…
Wondering where I went wrong.
Wondering what I can’t give you.
Wondering why you always stray.
I feel my body naked in the shower.
I feel every curve, every part of my woman hood.
Wondering why this body wasn’t good enough for you.
Wondering why you found more pleasure with a man.
I weigh myself on the scale, and sure I don’t like what I see…
But I’ve learned to love the body I am in.
But she, she’s doesn’t have an ounce of fat on her, does she?
I pull my boots on; throw my leather jacket over my shoulders…
And wrap my legs around a motorcycle.
Proud of myself and my bike…
I wonder why what I have to offer isn’t good enough.
I work long hours, straight weeks sometimes.
My paychecks are great and she loves spending them.
But that doesn’t matter to her.
I stay sober and keep my head on straight.
As I watch her, my lover, run to that man.
That man with a drink at hand.
When I come home, I hear of how great he is.
How I should give him a chance, let him into our bed.
I listen as she speaks his words, and tells me how much of an asshole I’ve become.
Little does she know what she’s done.
I choke on the tears in the back of my throat.
And I hide behind my image.
I am terrified to let it show that she killed me.
My worst nightmare came true when I saw him laying there with you.
As I lower my eyes to the end table, I saw your ring sitting there.
The ring I gave you when I gave you my heart.
Legs and arms wrapped around him, and your hands lay across his chest.
As you both sleep peacefully.
I was past the point of being angry.
I just simply walked out.
And made a vow to myself to never go back.

~JRL

[Lady Pamela]

Dreams

Feelings that you give me make me dream
Dream of life's secrets
Your love is the joy that lets me live
And your words that touch my soul are the lilies in my forest



My orchid smells the sweet scent of passion
As you go down between my thighs your eyes gaze
You make me happy that I please you
You go deep in me to smell the scent of love



I spread wide for you to feel my soft body
You caress me with your tongue
You lick me softly
My warm body attracts you deep into me



The heat in me is the desire I can give you
You are aroused and I can smell your breath
The breath of lust has the scent of dreams
Dreams that I worship



Your tongue touches my clit and I moan
My sweet water begins to flow
As you lick my honey I moan again
Your tongue touches my orchid again and I arch



My breath quickens
My moans grow wilder
You make love to me so softly and gently
You are my goddess



The feelings you give me are the dreams of a virgin
I remember that night when my blood flowed to touch the earth
It was the dream that I became a woman
It was the touch that made me see heaven and cry



You took my heart and flew away
I am the female of nature
The female that stayed behind
Stayed behind and waited
For your dreams to make love to her again

[Lady Pamela]

Tender Tears

My tears unite with the waves
The honey in me seeks the ocean
The cool breeze brings your breath to my heart
As I imagine you touching me
Your fingers slip down between my thighs
And you go deep into my cave
I hold you tightly as the ocean surrounds us
I surrender to your touch
My eyes close as I utter the word Love



Spring that brought you to me is alive
The warm sand will be the bed of our union
I lay back on the shore as the waves break my heart
And the twinkling stars in the sky of the dawn bring your body to mine
I spread and open my mouth for your water
I cry in joy



A woman by the ocean...
Tender tears that flow
A cry in heaven
And a love that is still to be born
I need your touch
Love Love Love

[Lady Pamela]

Scents of Passion

We walk holding hands
In a garden that exists in our hearts
The rain keeps falling
And we get wet



My shirt is soaked with the falling drops
You could see through me
You could see through me as if I were naked
And you bring me closer to you



In your passioante embrace I feel your strength
Your breasts touch mine
Our bodies melt into one another
And I feel more wet on my rose



Your hand holds my breast tightly as you squeeze
You squeeze with the touch of a woman crying for love
And what I can do but visit your soul and mine
I fly in this love to the Heaven



You look through my soul and touch me deeper
My wet rose longs for your fingers
You unzip my trouser and you go inside
I feel the snow melting to become hot springs



I try to say I love you
But I can't
I just keep silent
This is how passion should feel



I am a bird on the trees
Soft and tender
I have to fly to show my beauty
I need to mate to become myself



I long for the dark nights
Where birds sleep in peace
They sleep on trees and find the warmth of love
All I know I just want you in me



You go down and take off my loose trouser
And you lay me softly on the bed of green grass
The red roses that surround us are like the maidens of desire
Who mate together every time it rains



As you strap on your strength and push it in me
I turn my head to the side
And just look at the red roses
Yours keep going in and out and I moan deeply



The red roses become like virgins touching themselves
They are young and fresh
And they touch each other and they giggle
I need to breath for yours is strong



I hear music playing as I feel the joy and pain of my passion
I hold you firmly with my hands and pierce your flesh with my red nails
Your blood flows on the soil
As you push harder I spread wider and wider



I am so desperate in this love
I come and my eyes see the gray sky
I turn my head and see the red roses watching me
I smile to this euphoria of the soul



Love is a silent touch
Love is the scent of passion
Love is the ancient song
Love is the freedom



The freedom to be a woman
The freedom to love another woman
And just be
Just be

[Lady Pamela]

Dancing Words

Words of love
Ideas in our minds
Feelings in strong hearts
Hearts that need the tender touch



Let me dance to the music
The music that rocks my heart
I just want to move my body to the music
The music that makes me desire to be loved



The lights become dim and suddenly they flash
And the music continues to play
I am dancing to a strange rythm
A rythm that I can't understand



Let my wild desires rage in my soul
I just want to be touched
Touch me and hold me close to you
Let's rock and dance



And there she is in her black leather
Dancing madly to madness itself
The words of love beat in my heart
I am in a passionate mood



She notices me staring at her
Her beauty is wild yet attractive
She begins to make her way to me
And the music rocks us to a euphoria of souls



Let's take the feelings of love in our hearts and move
My world will never be the same without you
You hold my hand and kiss me gently on my lips
The music keeps playing



She holds me closer to her
And I feel like melting
The smell of her body is exciting
I come closer to smell her



She notices and holds me even closer
And the music makes us move in coherent steps
Steps that make us shout to the rocking of love in our hearts
I can feel her heart beating a music that Nature has often made me hear



I kiss her watery lips
And she responds in a way that makes me shake
I shiver in her arms
I need a friend that will make me happy



And I need love
I want to dream a new dream
I want to feel needed again
I need the feeling that someone longs to have me



May She bless this new love in my life
Even for a moment to feel love
She brings me closer and we continue to dance
I just want to scream and say I love you



She holds my hand and tells me to follow her
We make our way to the washroom
She takes me inside
And she looks at me and smiles



She unbuttons my shirt
Her hands find their way to my bra
She holds my breasts and bring her mouth closer
She begins to suck my nipples passionately



I feel wet and she turns me round
She brings her body closer to mine
My back touches her breasts
Her hand goes down to my hips



She caresses me softly
She kisses my neck
She takes me to the stars of love
And her fingers go under my shirt and down to my panties



She touches me wildly like her soul
And I open my mouth in desire and moan
I bend as she pushes herself in me
I need you in me I cry in desire



I need to dance the steps of love
She passionately makes love to me
She kisses me all over
And I orgasm and scream more please more



She comes and I feel her wild soul in me
She kisses me warmly and I feel happy
And you gave me love
And you gave me passion



Words of love make me dance
Dance to the call of Nature
I need to be a woman
A woman in love with words of passion and tenderness

[adorable]

“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
~G. K. Chesterton

[Lady Pamela]

~**~Silently Waiting~**~

Beneath the moon I sit in wonderment

of where you are this very moment.


Thinking of all the wonderful things

we will have to say when we connect.

Visualizing the beauty that

we will create together once in each others arms.

Looking at the moon in full and knowing that as I look at it,

you are doing the same at that very moment.


Understanding we have purpose and

have been drawn together by a much

greater force than our own.

It is through these reflection's that I feel you deeply.

And await the day that you and I shall

embrace and look into each others eyes.

And feel within our core,

The devine connection and meaning to our love.


With loving thoughts and anxious mind...

I sit Silently Awaiting!!!

© Lady Pamela

[Lady Pamela]

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[Lady Pamela]

Repost from another thread.

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~*~Translucent Eyes~*~

I gaze into your translucent eyes,

As my mind is drawn within.

A world of many truths and lies,

Reflecting now and then.


Your secret desires never told

Of things you've wished to be

Protective walls built very strong

Created for personal safety


A glimpse of Innocence shining through

From things you do not know

Yet an unwavering sense of maturity

Of which you clearly show


Hidden emotions of fearful thoughts

Tucked away for none to see

Those making you feel vulnerable

From being all you can be


A proud secure woman, head held high

With integrity and confidence

You present yourself with pride and grace

That everyone can sense



~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~


© Written By: Lady Pamela

© Photography By: Rhiannon "Of her own eye"

Dedicated to: Rhiannon "My daughter"
For giving me inspiration to write.

[Lady Pamela]

Just a share not poetry...lol


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[Lady Pamela]

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Its Been To Long...

Its been to long since we have seen your face,
our hearts are so broken we feel out of place.

Everything has changed since you went away,
Your smile, laugh & love is missing everyday.

We wish you were still here & never had to go,
its so hard to be here & not watch you grow.

Wondering what you would be like today,
But now all we can do is pray.

Pray you are happy & healthy above,
and that your getting so much love.

Pictures of you always make us smile,
and we try & remember that your only gone for awhile.

We will see your face agan in Heaven so high,
when we finally get the chance to fly to the sky.

Shay never forget that we love you so much,
and we are forever missing your touch.

So fly high sweet angel & spread those wings,
and we will see you someday with your angel wings.



In tribute to my step daughter: Shay Shay

And no I am not crying...just sharing...smiles

[Bootsandheels]

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

[Kent]

William Parrish: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.
Share this quote
from the movie Meet Joe Black

[Kätzchen]

The Cloud
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;

Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move.
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when Sunset may breathe,
from the lit sea beneath,
Its ardors of rest and of love,

And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest,
on mine aery nest,
As still as a brooding dove.
That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor,
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof,
The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
Are each paved with the moon and these.

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone,
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim
When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape,
Over a torrent sea, Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof,--
The mountains its columns be.
The triumphal arch through which I march
With hurricane, fire, and snow,
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair,
Is the million-colored bow;
The sphere-fire above its soft colors wove,
While the moist Earth was laughing below.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb,
like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.

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[Kätzchen]

"Every single time you help somebody stand up, you are helping humanity rise."


― Steve Maraboli
in
Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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[Kätzchen]

"All of sudden this shooting star went by,
and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow."

— Nicholas Sparks

(American Novelist & Screenwriter)

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[Kätzchen]

Quoting ~>> Annie Proulx

(I really like her style of writing)



“By January it had always been winter.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News



“It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News



“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country--indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky--provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut... Other cultures have camped here a while and disappeared. Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that.”

― Annie Proulx, Close Range

[Kätzchen]

"Always leave them wanting more,"
~ Thelonius Monk

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[mustangjeano]

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart......Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred,the waste of spirits. Hannah More

[Kätzchen]

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children,
I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life,
as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial,
the alienation from the sources of our strength,”

~ Rachel Carson
(The Sense of Wonder, 1965).

[Kätzchen]

The way you live your day is a
sentence in the story of your life.
Each day you make the choice
whether the sentence ends with a period,
question mark, or an exclamation point.

-Steve Maraboli-

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[Kätzchen]

Medicine

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

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

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[Kätzchen]

You can observe a lot by just watching.

- Yogi Berra

[Kätzchen]

"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence:
Serving its purpose without obstructing the view,"

~ Sophia Loren





"If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful,"

~ Sophia Loren




"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.
A mother always thinks twice: Once for herself and once for her child,"

~ Sophia Loren


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*she just celebrated her birthday, she is now 78 yrs. old (September 20th, 1934) *

[Kätzchen]

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it,"

- Toni Morrison

[falloutmk]

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

[Kätzchen]

"What the world needs now is love sweet love,"
-- Burt Bacharach --

[Kätzchen]

http://pinkknotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/pink-sunrise1.jpg


“Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the horizon became a faint line suspended in the darkness, and then the line was drawn upward, higher and higher. It was as if a giant hand had stretched down from the sky and slowly lifted the curtain of night from the face of the earth. It was a magnificent sight, far greater in scale...than anything that I, with my limited human faculties, could fully comprehend.”

― Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[Jean_TX]

A quote that I try to live by:

If you want to think about what’s important in life, think about death. As some wise soul once noted, nobody on their deathbed ever said, “Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office” or “Gee, I wish I had won another award.”

(Originator unknown)

[homoe]

I can resist anything but temptation!

[~ocean]

"Liars share with those they deceive , the desire not to be deceived." Sissela Books

[Kent]

The truth shall set you free...

[Kätzchen]

"The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It's what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable. Mommy kept us at a frantic living pace that left no time for the problem. We thrived on thought, books, music, and art, which she fed to us instead of food (pp. 94)" ~ James McBride, The Color of Water (2006).

[Jean_TX]

From a book by Michael Palmer:

I can't make myself be happy, but I can always make myself not be miserable.

[Cid]

Whatever follows "I am" will come looking for you."
Pastor Joel Osteen.

I love that. If you say "I am tired" that's what you'll feel. If you say "I am gaining energy every minute. That's what you'll attract. Gotta love that!

[Kätzchen]

"Being happy is not the only happiness,"

-- Alice Walker


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[Kätzchen]

A heavy heart, Belovèd, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time. Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart. Then thou didst bid me bring
And let it drop adown thy calmly great
Deep being! Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature doth precipitate,
Which thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.

Sonnets from the Portuguese, XXV
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

[Kätzchen]

"Originally the pottery wheel and the dancing scene were intended to be two separate scenes. But instead of stopping at the end of the pottery scene, a shirtless Patrick and Demi segued into dancing an erotically charged dance together to the strains of The Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody... The Electricity between them dancing following the pottery scene was so electric that Jerry said, "We don't need love making - this is the love scene," -- Bruce Joel Rubin

(In, Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, pp. 127, Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009).

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[Kätzchen]

“You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.”

― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

[Kätzchen]

A Turn to the Right
A Little White Light

Let there be a season when no one rakes,
When all that has ever fallen can drift
with ordinary wings. Mithras, I hear you
out in the open, humming our favorite tune
through a leaf and a comb.
Lead us as if we were righteous
into the blue light of heaven,
where no one will forgive anyone
just in case it's condescending,
and we will love each other
to the withered toes.

-- Carolyn Reynolds Miller, from Rising and Falling (Lynx House Press: 2001).

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[Kätzchen]

Yesterday, I spent part of my day reading literature authored by Michel Foucault and Antonio Gramesci:

Foucault, because he's got a way with understanding complex social anomalies: "...There is notone but many silences, and they are an intregal part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses,"
(In, The History of Sexuality 1: An Introduction, 1984).


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and Gramsci, because of his doctrine of Hegemony: "...the rule of one class over another is not dependent on economic or physical power alone but on persuading the ruled to accept a system of beliefs belonging to the ruling class (James Joll, UK, 1977).

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[Kätzchen]

"It is not possible to make a mistake," -- advice for a shy friend.


(found scribbled onto the bathroom stall door at Powell's Bookstore)

[Asari]

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Cin]

and Gramsci, because of his doctrine of Hegemony: "...the rule of one class over another is not dependent on economic or physical power alone but on persuading the ruled to accept a system of beliefs belonging to the ruling class (James Joll, UK, 1977).


This needs to be put on a bumper sticker, or maybe written in the sky on a continuous loop around the world.

[Kätzchen]

"If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together," -- Rita Dove.

[Kätzchen]

Found an interesting comment, made by a poster on an NPR article this morning, about that family from Arizona who were rescued at sea. Don't know if this will make anyone else smile, but I found myself smiling while reading the comments section. (Link to NPR article found ~>>> HERE (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/11/211072485/family-rescued-in-pacific-after-sailing-where-god-led-us?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130811))

People are incapable of understanding that not everyone wants to live in a subdivision, eat at the "Olive Garden", and waste their lives in front of the TV. When I left college and decided to wander the country tending bar where ever I wound up, everybody said I was crazy. When I opened my first restaurant, at 26 years of age, on little more than entirely unproven confidence in my own ability and about a third of the money I needed to do it right, everybody said I was crazy. When I sold the place 5 years later and bought open ended "Around the World Fare" tickets for myself and my girlfriend and took off without any idea where we'd wind up or when we'd be back, everybody said I was crazy. When I came home and decided to buy a fire damaged Victorian era house and strip it to the frame and rebuild it without a day's experience in construction, everybody said I was crazy. Now, I live in one of the nicest houses in town with my beautiful wife and daughter and, everybody thinks I've lived a fascinating life. You just have to shrug off the constant nay saying of doughy-bodied know-it-alls and hope that you are smart enough to survive by your own wits. The Gastonguay family obviously is not. But, good on them for taking a chance, even if it was motivated by religious lunacy.

[Kätzchen]

Burned Forest
~ Nichita Stãnescu

Black snow was falling. The tree line
shone when I turned to see -
I had wondered long and silent,
alone, trailing memory behind me.

And it seemed the stars, fixed as they were,
ground their teeth, a stiffened nexus,
an infernal machine, tolling
the halted hours of conciousness.

Then, a thick silence descends,
and my every gesture
leaves a comet tail in the heavens.

And I hear evey glance I cast
as it echoes against
some tree.

Child, what were you seeking there,
with your gangly arms and pointed shoulders
on which the wings were barely dry -
black snow drifting in the evening sky.

A horizon howling, far from view,
darting its tongues and anthracite,
dragged me forever down the mute row,
my body, half naked, sliding from sight.

In distances of smoke the town afire,
blazing beneath the planes, a frigid pyre.
We two, forest, what did we do?
Why did they burn you, forest, in a toga of ash -
and the moon no longer passes over you?

From the book "Bas-Relief with Heroes"
english translation by Thomas Carlson and Vasile Poenaru.

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[Scots_On_The_Rocks]

"There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies. We're shaped by such forces. You can say to yourself, 'Yes, I see how such a thing may be.' But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking."

~Paul Muad'Dib Excerpt from the novel "Dune"

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[DMW]

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[*Anya*]

My daughter and I were talking today about the damage parents do, wether we want to or not, and she told me about this poem. I think it is so good:

This Be The Verse

BY PHILIP LARKIN

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.


Philip Larkin, “This Be the Verse” from Collected Poems. Used by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Philip Larkin.

Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178055

[Kätzchen]

Antonio Gramsci's doctrine of Hegemony:

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

[Amulette]

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov

[Kätzchen]

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it: It just blooms.

(Unknown)

[Talon]

If you look at how our society and culture shape personal development,
I believe you will agree with the following conclusion: there is a conspiracy at work in our society aimed at alienating you from your true self. The alienation from your true self begins at birth.

Many well-intentioned parents are encouraged to place their infant on a feeding schedule. The child is fed when the plan dictates, not when the child's biology requires. If a child needs to cry or rage, he or she is often discouraged from such displays because of the parent's social or personal discomfort. At school, the active child must learn to repress his or her excitement and assimilate into the passive learning environment that characterizes most educational approaches today. We are cajoled, manipulated, and sometimes coddled away from our core self in order to fit some idea of what society says we should be. We are conditioned to fit into the social norm, which too often means fragmenting and splitting ourselves into pieces so we can gain social approval. Some social critics have referred to this conditioning as creating a hypnotic trance. We are asleep, dreaming we are awake.

We have contributed to our problem by buying into these myths. We are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of this psychological crime. We disown many important and vital parts of ourselves to fit in and be what we think we should be. We collude with society and our parents and join the fatal conspiracy. We become as much to blame as our parents, well-intentioned caregivers, grandparents, teachers, mentors, lovers, spouses, colleagues, and bosses. We alienate our true self over and over again, often to the point where our true self is unrecognizable. We don't know our self except through the roles that we play.



~Allen Berger, Ph.D.

[Kätzchen]

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[torchiegirl]

...
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"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"

~Stonewall Jackson

...
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[C0LLETTE]

' Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."

Mickey Rooney

[C0LLETTE]

"Dick Clark really didn't make rock 'n roll safe for America, as many people think."

Annette Funicello

[C0LLETTE]

" The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.”

Ava Gardner

[C0LLETTE]

"“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

--- Ava Gardner


One of my all time favourite quotes by anyone...including Lincoln, Gandhi and Shakespeare.

[Daisy Chain]

`I don't care what you think about me, I don't think about you at all` CoCo Chanel

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

"Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors," ~ Czesláw Milösz (1963).

[Glenn]

There are three kinds of people on Earth:
Those who make things happen.
Those who watch things happen.
Those who ask what happened?
-Unknown

[Kätzchen]

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[not2shygrrl]

"Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people."


* Henry Ford *

[not2shygrrl]

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” *Henry Ford*

[Jesse]

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
― Dorothy Allison

[Jesse]

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[Jesse]

“There is nothing that threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

[Jesse]

“I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…
it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…
a man, a woman, what have you…
it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.” - Al Pacino

[Jesse]

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[Kätzchen]

Love that poem by Maya Angelou.
Thanks Jesse.

[Kätzchen]

"Beauty is not in the face;
Beauty is a light in the heart,"
--- Kahlil Gibran.

[Kätzchen]

"What I am saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us as their instrument, "---Czéslaw Milösz.

[Jesse]

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[Arden]

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." - Martin Luther King Jr August 28th 1963

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hope is a waking dream" - Aristotle

"Hope...sometimes that is all you have, when you have nothing else. If you have it, you have everything." - unknown

"Once you choose hope anything is possible." - Christopher Reeve

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr

because.....

"Hope dances in the puddles till the sun comes out again."

[Jesse]

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” -Stephen Hawking

[MsTinkerbelly]

The circle of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we're weak and sing with us when we are strong.

-Sark

[Kätzchen]

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,"--Jane Austen.

[Kätzchen]

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[MsTinkerbelly]

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break, and all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.

L.R. Knost

[Jesse]

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[Jesse]

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[Kätzchen]

The Cloud
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.

I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning, my pilot, sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;

Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move.
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when Sunset may breathe,
from the lit sea beneath,
Its ardors of rest and of love,

And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest,
on mine aery nest,
As still as a brooding dove.
That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor,
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof,
The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
Till the calm rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
Are each paved with the moon and these.

I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone,
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim
When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape,
Over a torrent sea, Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof,--
The mountains its columns be.
The triumphal arch through which I march
With hurricane, fire, and snow,
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair,
Is the million-colored bow;
The sphere-fire above its soft colors wove,
While the moist Earth was laughing below.

I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb,
like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.

[Kätzchen]

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life:

"A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy.
It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.

The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old chief simply replied,
"The one you feed."

[Kätzchen]

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after," ---Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

[Kätzchen]

I received a birthday gift of little tiny cards that when you open them, they give you a positive thought to dwell upon.

The name of the box of cards is called, "It's All In Your Head."

Here's the very first card I drew, randomly from 60 cards:

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good," ~ Eileen Caddy.

:bunchflowers:

[Kätzchen]

Here's another randomly drawn card from my belated birthday gift of It's All In Your Head box of inspirational quotes :

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee should not be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway," ~ Mary Kay Ash.

:stillheart: :stillheart: :stillheart:

[Kätzchen]

Another randomly drawn quote from my belated birthday present of It's All In Your Head box of thoughtful inspiration:

"Become a legend in your own time. Instead of spending $100 on a fancy dinner plus a $20 tip, spend $3.95 at McDonald's and leave a $10 tip. You'll make someone's day. And your day, too." :rrose:

[Kätzchen]

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[homoe]

Another randomly drawn quote from my belated birthday present of It's All In Your Head box of thoughtful inspiration:

"Become a legend in your own time. Instead of spending $100 on a fancy dinner plus a $20 tip, spend $3.95 at McDonald's and leave a $10 tip. You'll make someone's day. And your day, too." :rrose:

This is so true.........

[Kätzchen]

"Your mind functions best when it's open. To experience this phenomenon for yourself, let go of one of your favorite opinions."

(No citation of authorship provided on card quote)

[Kätzchen]

When you grow old or ill, the most important thing to.you will be who and what you've loved."

(No citation for this quote, either).

[Kätzchen]

The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes," ~ Marcel Proust

[Kätzchen]

"You'll need to quiet the talking left brain in order to liberate the talented right brain. As Yogi Berra put it, "You can't think and hit at the same time."

:stillheart:

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

"I can't believe ... impossible things," said Alice. And the Queen replied: "I daresay you haven't had much practice. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast," ~ Lewis Carroll (In, Alice In Wonderland. :stillheart:

[Kätzchen]

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry," ~ W. B. Yeats.



From the introduction to Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, p. Vii).

[Kätzchen]

People who achieve mastery have the ability to be outrageous. Be outrageous," ~ Gita Bellin.

[girl_dee]

Some of us thinking holding on makes us strong;

But sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

[Kätzchen]

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely like a good bonfire; leaving no trace of yourself. – Shunryu Suzuki

[Kätzchen]

I have been fortunate to receive two cards, which have book markers attached to the card. The book markers include an beautiful turn of poetic thought by an cherished well known and much beloved 19th century poet :stillheart:

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door,~Emily Dickenson

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[Kätzchen]

"Let the tain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby."

Langston Hughes

[BullDog]

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Oscar Wilde

[kittygrrl]

"Life is what you make it"

[Kätzchen]

"Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom," ~Alice Walker

:stillheart:

[Kätzchen]

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And the day came......

[Kätzchen]

"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers and our willingness to embrace what is true, rather than what feels good," ~ Carl Sagan.

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[homoe]

HEY, I know that place! It's Pictured Rocks right?

[Kätzchen]

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important." --- Aibileen (in, The Help).

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

"Coretta Scott King talked about how freedom is never really won, how every generation has to earn it and win it again," Billie Jean King. (In, Battle of the Sexes, Sports Illustrated, Sept,. 23rd, 2017.)

[Kätzchen]

My BFF just picked up the latest issue of Taproot magazine and as I began to browse articles, it simply opened up to am single huge page devoted to an intriguing quote by an favorite author:

Head

"The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages with an equally open one," -- Toni Morrison.

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy," ~Charles de Montesquieu.

(French social commentator and political thinker during the Age of Enlightenment).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu?wprov=sfla1

[Kätzchen]

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing,
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance,"

~ e.e. cummings

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[Kätzchen]

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[bright_arrow]

"She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword." ~ atticus

[Kätzchen]

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[Kätzchen]

https://www.50-best.com/images/marilyn_monroe_quotes/the_right_shoes.jpg

[Kätzchen]

https://tscarlettblogs.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/whenitrains.jpg

[C0LLETTE]

"Deep down, I'm shallow."

Ava Gardner ( gotta love her )

I've posted this before but I do like it... a lot.

[Kätzchen]

"What we see before us is but one tiny part of the world,"
-- The Wind-up Bird Chronicles (Murakami, H.).

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[Kätzchen]

And the day came .... (anais nin),

When there was nothing left to do but smile, smile smile (Jerry Garcia),

And ..... think positive thoughts (Eckhart Tolle).

[ardentfemme]

“Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too.” – anon

[*Anya*]

The whole movie touched me so much but not as much as the scene near the end, when Elio's father spoke to him. I think that I cried more than Elio did:

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.

But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

[Kätzchen]

"The rule of one class over another does not depend on economic or physical power alone but rather on persuading the ruled to accept the system of beliefs of the ruling class," ~ Antonio Gramsci


(From the excellent in-depth study guide concerning, and aptly titled: Antonio Gramsci, authored by James Joll, published by Penguin Books Ltd, Hammonsworth, Middlesex, England, 1977).

[Kätzchen]

"My Dad told me, way back, that there's no difference between a white snake and a black snake: They'll both bite."
-- U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.

In, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Mayer, J. & Abramson, J., 1994. Houghton Mifflin Company, NY NY, 10003. ISBN: 0-395-63318-4).

[Kätzchen]

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, that within me, something stronger --much better, is pushing right back," ~ Albert Camus.

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

https://i.imgur.com/GqnFoau.jpg

[homoe]

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

[homoe]

The shoe knows if the stocking has a hole.

Bahamian

[homoe]

STAYING POSITIVE does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that YOU will be okay no matter how things turn out.

unknown

[homoe]

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

Abraham Lincoln

[homoe]

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters..

Svetlana Alliluyeva

[Canela]

"When you say yes to others make sure you're
not saying no to yourself"

~Paolo Coehlo

[Canela]

The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you not having any

~WarriorGoddessTraining

[homoe]

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I believe this quote is from Bette Midler

[Canela]

"We had to take personal responsibility for our sorry state and quit blaming others for it.”

Big book of AA...

[kittygrrl]

kindness is the best kind of medicine

[Reach *BANNED*]

"Sometimes the hardest part of the journey, is believing you are worthy of the trip." - Glenn Beck

[Reach *BANNED*]

"To gain strength we must carry burdens; to gain wisdom we must become honest with ourselves, and to gain love we must become loving." - Anon.

[homoe]

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[Reach *BANNED*]

"The expression of praise as thanksgiving, gratitude, and joy is among the most powerful forms of affirmation." - Catherine Ponder

[homoe]

https://sosueme.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/a09a062e47ba81d4a923fd3f4b85caf6-lwren-scott-wisdom.jpg

[homoe]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

[homoe]

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

Tallulah Bankhead

[homoe]

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[homoe]

https://worldgen.online/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Absoluteunique.jpg

[homoe]

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Oprah Winfrey.........

[Reach *BANNED*]

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

[Reach *BANNED*]

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” ― Dave Eggers

[homoe]

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/40600000/54ff9839a81fa-books-rowling-de-booknerd-40616593-480-640.jpg

[homoe]

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane...........

[homoe]

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I'll have to try this seeing how much I dislike company....:giggle:

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[PlatinumPearl]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[WheatToast]

She walked in on us
We weren't doing anything
Jealousy killed us

Love is poured concrete
Trust is the rebar, for strength
No rebar, collapse

Promise to love me
As long as I'm lovable
If not, kick me out

Youth has such beauty,
But all that goddamn drama
I like them older

Did you cheat on her?
Yeah, but, but, but, but, but, but
You're motor boating.

My beautiful love
Please stop talking and kiss me
Ahh, that's much better

Sure, I love your dog
But must he stare when it's time
For cunnilingus?

When you are snippy
It triggers something in me
Sudden urge to flee

All I want from you
Is some love, care and respect
And hot monkey sex

[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

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[homoe]

https://designpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/time-to-move-on-quotes/feeling-lonely.jpg

[homoe]

"Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone". Billy Cox

[homoe]

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced". James Baldwin

[homoe]

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety". Abraham Maslow

[homoe]

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be". Ralph Waldo Emerson

[homoe]

"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got". Henry Ford

[homoe]

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do". Steve Jobs

[homoe]

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new". Albert Einstein.

[homoe]

"Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference". Mignon McLaughlin

[homoe]

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life". Naeem Callaway

[homoe]

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In honor of Opening Day and life's curves in general!

[homoe]

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"Donde tu vas, ya yo fui, me sente, me tome una soda, y regrese"

(translation: "Where you're going I already went, sat down, had a soda and returned").