your words speak to me
no matter where I find them
your words call out to me
yet I remain silent

For one that is usually so self assured
your words make me stumble
your words speak to me
no matter where I find them

author...me Alix (TBW) 9/28/2012

Household tasks are easier quicker when they are done by someone else.
James Thrope

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd

Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
― Henry Cloud

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.”
― Peggy Noonan, Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”
― Mitch Albom

It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. - Deb Coletta

“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.” ― Emily Brontë

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Walter Winchell

..why is the why important

Peter Masters The Curious Human Phenomenon

<3
 

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne

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

I am feeling a bit ... mushy lately ..
 

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them in mutual weirdness and call it love.” – Dr. Seuss

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep within our being is a place of peace, joy and knowing. It is a place called love. We are love from the core of our being. If we can live from our being of love, we can't help but attract more of what we are.

~Iyanla Vanzant

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away...

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


well isnt this the truth !
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.”― Steve Maraboli

“What you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. If your life was ending tomorrow, would this be the way you'd want to have spent it?”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of
confidence and personal power.” ― Brian Tracy

"If you dream of a world in which you can put your partner’s picture on your desk, then put her picture on your desk…and you will live in such a world.
And if you dream of a world in which you can walk down the street holding your partner’s hand, then hold her hands…and you will live in such a world.
If you dream of a world in which there are more openly gay elected officials, then run for office…and you will live in such a world.
And if you dream of a world in which you can take your partner to the office party, even if your office is the US House of Representatives, then take her to the party. I do, and now I live in such a world. Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed – them and us. We are half of the equation."


Tammy Baldwin,
The first out lesbian and the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to the United States Congress

day 3 of rain......
 

You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same.
John Davis

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama


I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens


A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy--the less happy you're going to be. - Anthony Robbins

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. -Dalai Lama

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more.-Erica Jong

There are no mistakes: everything—even bumps in the road—provides a lesson that’s necessary or us to evolve, and to get wherever it is we need to be. – Diane Burnett

"The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” C.S. Lewis


Katniss~~(loving the scar tissue of life....)

"It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.
”
― Jarod Kintz

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Would he find her?
Without question.
Would he save her?
Always.” ― Lauren Kate

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
 

"Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end." Sonny

"But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes." Evelyn

As someone who clearly loves butches/TG/transmen, and who is helping to raise a gender-variant child, I love how this poem speaks to the inherent strength of these kids (and adults) who dare to just be themselves in a world that's so openly hostile to who they are:

Bedecked
By Victoria Redel

Tell me it’s wrong the scarlet nails my son sports or the toy
store rings he clusters four jewels to each finger.
He’s bedecked. I see the other mothers looking at the star
choker, the rhinestone strand he fastens over a sock.
Sometimes I help him find sparkle clip-ons when he says
sticker earrings look too fake.
Tell me I should teach him it’s wrong to love the glitter that a
boy’s only a boy who’d love a truck with a remote that revs,
battery slamming into corners or Hot Wheels loop-de-looping
off tracks into the tub.
Then tell me it’s fine—really—maybe even a good thing—a boy
who’s got some girl to him,
and I’m right for the days he wears a pink shirt on the seesaw in
the park.
Tell me what you need to tell me but keep far away from my son
who still loves a beautiful thing not for what it means—
this way or that—but for the way facets set off prisms and
prisms spin up everywhere
and from his own jeweled body he’s cast rainbows—made every
shining true color.
Now try to tell me—man or woman—your heart was ever once
that brave.

http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/in...ictoria-redel/

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites, and what suprises her. It's actions whisper...you are the most special person in my life.

~C. Stanley

i've waited longer for lesser things,
but here i am. -- mary chapin carpenter

I love this KAT

When confronted with a difficulty, we must immediately shift our attention from the problem to the solution. We can think, speak and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.


~~Iyanla Vanzant

You give issues, fears, and ideas power by virtue of your thoughts. As you strive to become a spiritual being, taking time to pray or meditate is the perfect way to keep your head and mind clear.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will continue to look for more. Until you wholeheartedly believe in your own value, worth, and worthiness, in spite of your accomplishments and posessions, or lack thereof, there will always be a void in your spirit.

~Iyanla Vanzant

“Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.” ― Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

“Be tough minded but tenderhearted.”― H. Jackson Brown Jr.,

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom.
They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

~Tom Stoppard

All which isn't singing is mere talking

all which isn’t singing is mere talking

and all talking’s talking to oneself
(whether that oneself be sought or seeking
master or disciple sheep or wolf)

gush to it as diety or devil
-toss in sobs and reasons threats and smiles
name it cruel fair or blessed evil-
it is you (ne i)nobody else

drive dumb mankind dizzy with haranguing
-you are deafened every mother’s son-
all is merely talk which isn't singing
and all talking’s to oneself alone

but the very song of(as mountains
feel and lovers)singing is silence

E. E. Cummings

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

― Mother Teresa

Never love anybody who treats you like your ordinary. -Oscar Wilde

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” -E.E. Cummings