“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