“Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.”
― Frank Warren

“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.” ― Jim Rohn

“Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.” ― Steve Maraboli

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

~Maurice Chevalier(f)

WHEN I DRIFT LORD
 

When things start to go wrong
Lord don't let it last too long
And when I think I'll go astray
Please don't let me drift from my faith.

If someone doesn't seem to understand
Lord help me so that I won't demand
Open my eyes and help me to see
Just maybe the reason is me.

Lord if someone says that we're losing touch
If it's someone I love so very much
With a gentle whisper give me a lift
Lord, please help me if I start to drift.


Esther Lorenz

THE DIFFERENCE
 

I got up early one morning
and rushed right into the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just tumbled about me,
and heavier came each task.
"Why doesn't God help me?"
I wondered.
He answered, "You didn't ask."
I wanted to see joy and beauty,
but the day toiled gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me.
He said, "But you didn't seek."
I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all my keys at the lock.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."
I woke early this morning,
and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray.

“Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!”

-- RuPaul

I will not let anyone walk thru my mind with their dirty feet ~Ghandi

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

~Jim Rohn(f)

Love is trembling happiness.- Kahlil Gibran


And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.- Paulo Coelho


I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.- Michel de Montaige

For me the best times are always going to be the most intense,
the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.


~Fiona Apple

My soul is poured into yours and is blended.
Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance, you are precious to me.

~ Rumi

one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it

~ hermann hesse

THE TRUE GENTLEMAN
 

The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

- John Walter Wayland
(VA-OM 1899)

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.” ― Mae West

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”― Theodore Roosevelt


“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”― C. JoyBell C.

Three quotes tonight by Shirley Chisholm: In 1968, Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to US Congress. In her prior political career, Chisholm represented New York's 12th district for seven consecutive terms and was formerly an educator.

1) "Tremedous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."

2) "There is little in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."

3) "In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: Anti-humanism."

"If I'm not with a butch, everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian"

Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg

Hurt-Trent Reznor 1994
"What I have become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end

You can have it all
My empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way."

performed by Nine Inch Nails 1994 and Johnny Cash 2002

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." - - Dale Carnegie

The same girl who laughs and talks a lot and seems very happy is also the girl who may cry herself to sleep... - Unknown

If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven't danced in the rain. - unknown

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” ― H.L. Mencken

“Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.” ― Steve Maraboli

“I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.” ― Lisa Kleypas

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone


W. H. Auden


Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. (f)

~Robert J. McCracken

I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger. (f)

~Author Unknown

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. - Simone de Beauvoir

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side. - Unknown

It is not the length of life, but the depth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Collette

My dog, she looks at me sometimes with that look, and I think maybe deep down inside she must know exactly how I feel. But then maybe she just wants the food off my plate. - Unknown

“I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.” ― Brigid Lowry

“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”― Steve Maraboli


“When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?” ― Steve Maraboli

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.” ― Leo Babauta


“When you make a choice, you change the future.” ― Deepak Chopra


“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.” ― Asa Don Brown

Nizar Qabbani....
 

Letter From Under The Sea

If you are my friend...
Help me...to leave you
Or if you are my lover...
Help me...so I can be healed of you...
If I knew....
that the ocean is very deep...I would not have swam...
If I knew...how I would end,
I would not have began

I desire you...so teach me not to desire
teach me...
how to cut the roots of your love from the depths
teach me...
how tears may die in the eyes
and love may commit suicide

If you are prophet,
Cleanse me from this spell
Deliver me from this atheism...
Your love is like atheism...so purify me from this atheism

If you are strong...
Rescue me from this ocean
For I don't know how to swim
The blue waves...in your eyes
drag me...to the depths
blue...
blue...
nothing but the color blue
and I have no experience
in love...and no boat...

If I am dear to you
then take my hand
For I am filled with desire...from my
head to my feet

I am breathing under water!
I am drowning...
drowning...
drowning...



Katniss~~

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
― Charles Dickens

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha


Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith

Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn


Worry is like a rocking chair- it gives you something to do but it does not get you anywhere-- Anonymous

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. ~Author Unknown

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an enexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.


~Jaques Yves Cousteau

Don't chase me anymore, unless you're ready to catch me.