A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. --Josh Billings

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them. Yet others, a thousand miles and scores of months can't really seperate them.” ― B.M. Bower

“In the long histor of relations all the way back to the begining of time, I can't think of one in which immaturity or anger ever won over anyone.” -Marie Arana


“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid. It's an alarm, nothing less and nothing more. Treat it as such.” ― Anthony D. Ravenscroft

Loved this book...
 

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES, TOM ROBBINS

Oh Mae!!!
 

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. --Lyndon B. Johnson

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

~Jodi Picoult

So true. Thanks for posting this

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
~Marcus Aurelius

it's just a Mary Oliver kind of day.... <3
 

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Mary Oliver


When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
--C. S. Lewis

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
--Henry David Thoreau

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
--Confucius

“I think at this point in our world, we’ve got a really confused idea of the way gender and sexuality works. I think we’ve created this really superfluous sort of like binary in the way we think about gender. And I guess I identify as queer because I don’t identify with that. I think that makes us less whole as people. I don’t need to be assigned to what it is I can do or who I can love. And it seems like we keep drawing these battle lines which are completely unnecessary. So that’s what I basically mean. When I say I’m queer, I’m saying that I think human beings are amazing. And love is an honor and an opportunity. And a fragile thing. A fragile process in which there’s no room for doubt, or shame, or hatred.” ~ Ezra Miller

"Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial."

~Greta Christina

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The common people pray for rain, healthy children and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She craved his presence beside her. The way his fingertips light at the nape of her neck and his voice in the dark. Who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”
― Laini Taylor

“The more you are motivated by Love,
The more fearless & free your action will be.” ― Dalai Lama XIV


You only need one to love you. But they have to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one, THE one, delivers all of this.”
― C. JoyBell C.

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish."
~Marcus Aurelius

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
~Bertrand Russell

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” -Arthur C. Clarke

Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...
 

"San Francisco, my favorite city, where the women are strong and the men are pretty." -- Unknown

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.


If you want a happy ending, change where you end your story.


Orson Welles

I screamed silently, Make it stop!! End this teaching! I'm exhausted already!
She picked me up, stared straight at me, and put her third eye to mine, almost laughing.
I knew then that I was no longer living in the world that had brought me here....that I'd been given a new one.
Of course, this is what all the best, most profound teachings do. They kill you. I knew that I'd never look at human beings quite the same way again, nor would I return to my former ignorance. I was suddenly full of a new urgency to help myself and others become stronger, better, more profound.


~K. Cutrone

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

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
--Colin Powell

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau

Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations.
Martin Terman

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.
P.D. East

She is not only one of the most talented people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing, but also one of the most beautiful inside and out...I had the honor of loving her.

~Chris Zylka

I'd like for you to be still
It is as though you are absent
And you hear me from far away
And my voice does not touch you
It seems as though your eyes had flown away
And it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth
As are all things filled with my soul
You emerge from the things
Filled with my soul
You are like my soul
A butterfly of dream
And you are like the word: Melancholy.

I like for you to be still
And you seem far away
It sounds as though you are lamenting
A butterfly cooing like a dove
And you hear me from far away
And my voice does not reach you
Let me come to be still in your silence
That is bright as a lamp
Simple, as a ring
You are like the night
With its stillness and constellations
Your silence is that of a star
As remote and candid.

I'd like for you to be still
It is though you are absent
Distant and full of sorrow
So you would've died
One word then, one smile is enough
And I am happy;
Happy that it's not true.

~ Pablo Neruda

"She lives the poetry she cannot write." -Oscar Wilde

"You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free."
~Thich Naht Hanh

Nizar Qabbani "Words"
 

He lets me listen, when he moves me,
Words are not like other words
He takes me, from under my arms
He plants me, in a distant cloud
And the black rain in my eyes
Falls in torrents, torrents
He carries me with him, he carries me
To an evening of perfumed balconies


And I am like a child in his hands
Like a feather carried by the wind
He carries for me seven moons in his hands
and a bundle of songs
He gives me sun, he gives me summer
and flocks of swallows
He tells me that I am his treasure
And that I am equal to thousands of stars
And that I am treasure, and that I am
more beautiful than he has seen of paintings
He tells me things that make me dizzy
that make me forget the dance and the steps


Words…which overturn my history
which make me a woman…in seconds
He builds castles of fantasies
which I live in…for seconds…
And I return…I return to my table
Nothing with me…
Nothing with me…except words


Katniss~~

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

― Lemony Snicket