Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opinion of the majority is not the final proof of what is right. - Schiller


Malice must go under the disguise of plainess, or else it is exposed.- Marquess of Halifax

“The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.” - peaceful warrior

A lot of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard

A sick mind can not endure any harshness. - Latin Proverb

Misfortune does not always come to injure. Italian Proverb

" No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." --Eleanor Roosevelt

The trouble with going with the flow is, you might wind up getting sucked down the drain. - Unknown

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. -Mahatma Gandhi


I like a man who grins when he fights. -Winston Churchill

Cherish what you have rather than what you don't.

-mak ray

Learning to Float....by April Linder
 

Learning to Float

Relax. It's like love. Keep your lips
moist and parted, let your upturned hands
unfold like water lilies, palms exposed.

Breathe deeply, slowly. Forget chlorine
and how the cement bottom was stained
blue so the water looks clear

and Caribbean. Ignore the drowned mosquitoes,
the twigs that gather in the net
of your hair. The sun is your ticket,

your narcotic, blessing your chin,
the floating islands of your knees.
Shut your eyes and give yourself

to the pulsating starfish, purple and red,
that flicker on your inner lids.
Hallucination is part of the process,

like amnesia. Forget how you learned
to swim, forget being told
Don't panic. Don't worry. Let go

of my neck. It's only water. Don't think
unless you're picturing Chagall,
his watercolors of doves and rooftops,

lovers weightless as tissue,
gravity banished, the dissolving voices
of violins and panpipes. The man's hand

circles the woman's wrist so loosely,
what moors her permits her to float,
and she rises past the water's skin,

above verandas and the tossing heads
of willows. Her one link to earth,
his light—almost reluctant—touch, is a rope

unfurling, slipping her past the horizon,
into the cloud-stirring current. This far up,
what can she do but trust he won't let go?


Katniss~~

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others.

When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit.

But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Takuan Soto

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

I have never been in a situation where having money, made it any worse. -Unknown

A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.- Latin proverb


The right to speak your mind, doesn't automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphreys

Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

~Latvian Proverb

It wasn't good, really, the way it went,
but it was right.
When an end must begin,
I let it.

The smell, the sight, the rasp of it,
I had to relinquish my grasp on it,
The tempestuous tumult portending torpor,

A soul laid fallow
in order to bloom again.

~Fatale

Crashed on my shores,
shell cracking, she'll shock.
Briny bitch licking salty wounds,
won't take a grain but will litter a mile.

I shall wear the husk of your rattle
at my throat,
Keep the fleshed fangs still.

Gouging your way out to the in,
I am not right or empty.

Suttee on an icy pyre,
muslin lust quickening.
Widowed eventuality anneals.

Sometimes I won't,
sometimes I never will.
Venial vanity,
mortality in vein,
my pulses slam on the altar of your imagined.

Deserted crossroad bearing memories of the traveled,
I add mine to the path.

~Fatale

That flavor you teased you were,
you're not.
Those flecks are not vanilla bean.

Thank God they're not.

That gentleness you claimed you had,
you don't.
Those passions aren't kind.

Thank God they're not.

The brilliance you try to deny,
you can't.
Such acumen will always shine.

Thank God you do.

Fatale

Julie Parker quotes
 

sometimes when people are at their lowest, pain makes them do crazy things
sometimes when people do crazy things, they push us away
sometimes when people push us away, they need our love even more
sometimes when people need our love even more, they give us an opportunity to be the best we can be
so go ahead and push, i can take it
you ain't seen anything as strong as me
i'm a girl

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limbo - being pushed away by one hand while being held onto with the other

bell hooks
 

shakespeare #116