On my signature line - a favorite.
 

"I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an afterthought. There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul. I thought of the life I had lived until the winter of 1975 came along and changed everything. And made me what I am today." -- Amir

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini (2003)

“Angry people are rarely wise.” ― Jane Austen


“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on changes -- not excuses.” ― William Arthur Ward


" It is really pointless to be angry about something you can change, unless you're too lazy to change it." - B S Browner

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
~Herm Albright

"The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth."
~Sharon Lee

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Henry Miller

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
― Benjamin Franklin



“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci



“I didn't have to remember it kept repeating : The heart cannot lie.”
― Obengbia Leyony

some quotes that made me smile
 

♥Anais Nin♥
 

“Do I love you? My sweet, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
William Goldman

When you decide for someone what they can or cannot do, what they should or should not do, what they need or do not need, you are standing between them and God. This does not serve you, God, or the other person. The reason God gave us each a life is so that we could take care of it. If someone needs your insight, wait until they ask for it.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

Honest, open, heartfelt communication is one of the greatest gifts we can offer ourselves. When you are in true communication with another being, you have an opportunity to get clear about your own needs, desires and intentions. You also become clear about the expectations others may have of you.

~Iyanla Vanzant

If you want your relationships with other people to be healthy and fulfilling, surrender your expectations and set clear boundaries. When you let people know what you need and want, they can decide if they want to be involved.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

A dream I had
 

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth a thing.”
― Arthur C. Clarke


“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.” ― Frank Herbert


“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.” ― Stephen King

I don't envy you the headache you will have in the morning. But in the meantime, sleep well, and dream of large women. -- The Princess Bride

“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a butch.”
― Julie Anne Peters


“She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed . Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier until finally she knew she had to make a change or die this way."― Cecelia Ahern


“All I want is a best friend whom I can't wait to kiss again.”
― Robin Palmer

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
~Louise Erdrich

I like the quote but I don't agree with it. Life will only break you, if you choose to be broken. Life could never break me.

Thank you to those who left Me notes of support in regards to My post on the other thread. This is for all of you.


“What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”

― Gladys Hunt

“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
- Leo F. Buscaglia

“How does one become a butterfly?” She asked pensively.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

-Trina Paulus

A riding crop and a blindfold doesn't make it BDSM. There is a big difference between being kinky and being in the scene. It's not a sexual thing to me, it's a very spiritual thing.
~ DominaBlue.

BDSM goes far beyond what is seen and it grasps the spirit nature by the heart and brings me to other worlds beyond description. Love and ecstasy are brought about in the realization the pain is truly about them caring so deeply for me.
~ me ~

It does not serve you or the world for you to behave as if you are powerless. It is an insult to the Creator of your life, in whose image and likeness you were created. You have gifts. You have the opportunity to share words of compassion, to express feelings of love, to know the joys of sharing and to experience the wonderment of seeing a life grow before your eyes. That is powerful! You are powerful! Now, why don't you try acting like it?

~Iyanla Vanzant

“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
~Lauren Kate

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.― Maya Angelou



“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
― George MacDonald


" Forgiveness can be immediate, but trust requires a track record." - Unknown

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


Langston Hughes

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss