Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[wetfromashower]

Sometimes you have to put your heart on the line for a chance at something great...

[JAGG]

Everything's okay in the end. If its not okay, it's not the end.- Carolyn Myers


They say it's a sign of greatness if you laugh at yourself- Unknown


The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and nobody ever minds if you return it!- Unknown

[jac]

"Faith in action is love, and love in action is service" ~St. Mother Teresa

When I win the $640 million from my mega bucks ticket this weekend, I will have several homeless shelters strategically placed where service is needed. Yes indeed!

[Trey339]

you are never alone

[Trey339]

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

[Kobi]

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Ralph Nichols

[wetfromashower]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha

[WomenMoveMe]

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
― Rollo May

[MrSunshine]

I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean into your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more".
~Rumi

[JustJo]

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

~ Goethe ~

[Kobi]

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

[SugarFemme]

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

[JAGG]

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?- Dr. Robert Schuller

If you doubt your power you give power to your doubt.- Unknown


It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.- Philip Adams

[jac]

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

"Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just Be."

"May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers."

"Use your time wisely. Every moment produce beautiful thoughts, loving, kindness, forgiveness. Say beautiful things, inspire, forgive, act physically to protect and help."

"You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

[WomenMoveMe]

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― Kahil Gibran

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”
― Thomas Moore

“I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are...”
― Betty Berzon

[wetfromashower]

Don't stumble over something behind you...

[Kobi]

“Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”

― Joseph Campbell

[JAGG]

I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death.-Unknown

This we know: The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. We did not weave the web of life-we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.- Chief Seattle

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honor, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Britain

[Fancy]

If you can love your enemy, you already have victory.

-Preacher Green (The Help)

[justkim]