The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Audrey Hepburn

<3
 

if i love You
(thickness means
worlds inhabited by roamingly
stern bright faeries

if you love
me) distance is mind carefully
luminous with innumerable gnomes
Of complete dream

if we love each (shyly)
other, what clouds do or Silently
Flowers resembles beauty
less than our breathing


ee cummings

Another one that I needed to remind myself of
 

Beloveds, invest your time, energy and attention in working to bring about the things that you desire to experience. When you are confronted by something that challenges what you are working toward, do not be against it! Allow other things to exist. Simply choose to put your attention elsewhere.

Iyanla Vanzant

"whatever the obstacles, be true to yourself"
-Candy Darling

[FONT SIZE=3]My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) [/SIZE]

If you are waiting for something to happen before you begin what you want to do, it will never happen. If you are waiting for the right time, the right person, the right circumstances, you could be waiting forever. How about this, what can you do right now? Whatever you can do, you better do it now. Now is all you have to work with.

Iyanla Vanzant

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road!

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Billy Joel

“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

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

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes." -Vince Fontaine :koolaid:

“There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.”
-Brian Andreas

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

Wayne Dyer

“He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.”
― Warren Ellis, Crooked Little Vein


and.....


“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"To dream anything that you want to dream - that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything you want to do - that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits - that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds

Ralph Waldon Emerson
 

"The ultimate measures of a man is where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Big Brother
 

I think about you night and day
The tears continue to fall like rain
My heart feels like its been broken
My life will never be the same

I hurt when I think of your smiling face
That you've been taken feels unreal
I try hard to continue on with life
It's not easy when pain is all I feel

You were taken from us so quickly
I never got to say goodbye
It doesn't seem fair that you were called
Gods unforeseen plan only makes me cry

I should have said "I love you" more
Know, Big Brother, that I do so deep
I should rejoice that you are in Heaven
No hang my head and weep

Although I know that you're better off
It hurts now that we're apart
No matter where life takes me now
Michael, you'll always be in my heart

In memory of my big brother, Michael Allen
June 12, 1972-October 19, 2011

Close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream.
That's how I get by.

But why is the rum gone?! - Captain Jack Sparrow

"Character is never erected on a neglected conscience." - Author Unknown

I am sure by now you all can tell I love Iyanla
 

It can be challenging to forgive someone. The hardest person to forgive may be you. At times, it is hard to believe that you can forgive yourself; that you deserve to be forgiven or, that you are worthy of forgiveness. When you forgive yourself for believing you deserve to be punished, growth occurs, learning takes place and healing is the result. When you forgive yourself you release fear, eliminating the possibility that fear will continue to control your behavior.

~~Iyanla Vanzant


What is prosperity? A mental state. A functional attitude that draws to you an abundance of every great thing. How do you get prosperity? Expect it. Always ask for the highest and best; never doubt that it will come.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

Life Lesson
 

When you see crazy coming....cross the street!

~~Iyanla Vanzant

I've found Today
I've shut the door on Yesterday,
Its sorrows and mistakes;
I've locked within its gloomy walls
Past Failures and heartaches.
And now I throw the key away
To see another room,
And furnish it with hope and smiles
And every springtime bloom.

No thought shall enter this abode
That has a hint of pain,
And worry, malice and distrust
Shall never therein reign.
I've shut the door on Yesterday
And thrown the key away ---
The Future holds no doubt for me,
Since I have found today.

---- Author Uknown

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. ~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? ~ Robert Brault

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. ~ Robert Brault,

I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.

I may have posted this before...sorry for the repetition
 

I like long walks...
 

Forgiveness doesn't stop the pain.
Forgiveness doesn't erase a memory.
Forgiveness doesn't fade a scar.
Forgiveness doesn't heal a wound.
Forgiveness doesn't unbreak a heart.
Forgiveness doesn't repair what was destoyed.
Forgiveness doesn't answer any nagging questions.
Forgiveness doesn't ease the grieving or loss.
Forgiveness can't return what was taken.
Forgiveness simply removes anger from the equation.