Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 872

Genesis · 08-02-2015, 09:54 PM

Genesis · 08-02-2015, 10:30 PM

Genesis · 08-02-2015, 10:35 PM

Tierney · 08-03-2015, 07:23 AM

“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” ― Lisa Wingate

Tierney · 08-03-2015, 07:25 AM

“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Tierney · 08-03-2015, 07:26 AM

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” ― Elbert Hubbard

Kobi · 08-03-2015, 09:57 AM

ahk · 08-03-2015, 10:36 AM

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.--Joseph Campbell

afrcnqueen · 08-03-2015, 02:03 PM

"Self esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgement of others."
O.W.

afrcnqueen · 08-03-2015, 02:07 PM

Hominid · 08-03-2015, 02:52 PM

Apropos to shitty work happenings today: much debate about originator, but it was NOT mother Theresa, it is a military quote, likely Navy - I once bought a cake for my staff with this on it when they were getting kicked in their faces:

We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing.

ahk · 08-04-2015, 09:08 AM

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.--Carl Sagan

Tierney · 08-04-2015, 01:48 PM

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed” ― Jodi Picoult

Tierney · 08-04-2015, 01:52 PM

“When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.” ― Steve Maraboli

Tierney · 08-04-2015, 01:57 PM

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B. White

Tierney · 08-05-2015, 05:10 AM

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ― Lao Tzu

Tierney · 08-05-2015, 05:11 AM

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” ― John Lennon

Tierney · 08-05-2015, 05:12 AM

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit” ― E.E. Cummings

PaPa · 08-05-2015, 05:22 AM

The Invitation

By Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

BestButchBoy · 08-05-2015, 09:18 AM

"To heal a wound, you have to stop touching it."

08-02-2015, 09:54 PM	#17421
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	The Sun-Kissed Sea by Kyle, Charles Wesley, 1853-

08-03-2015, 09:57 AM	#17427
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08-03-2015, 02:03 PM	#17429
afrcnqueen Member How Do You Identify?: By name Preferred Pronoun?: She. Relationship Status: Happy on my journey to Self- Love!! :-) Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: where Love resides..... Posts: 278 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,176 Thanked 704 Times in 208 Posts Rep Power: 8528783	"Self esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgement of others." O.W. __________________ I know I'm a handful, but that's what you've got two hands for...

08-03-2015, 02:07 PM	#17430
afrcnqueen Member How Do You Identify?: By name Preferred Pronoun?: She. Relationship Status: Happy on my journey to Self- Love!! :-) Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: where Love resides..... Posts: 278 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,176 Thanked 704 Times in 208 Posts Rep Power: 8528783	__________________ I know I'm a handful, but that's what you've got two hands for...

08-03-2015, 02:52 PM	#17431
Hominid Member How Do You Identify?: Male with interesting historical perspective Relationship Status: Taking Applications Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: In perpetual Wonder. And Western Mass. Posts: 254 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 417 Thanked 753 Times in 187 Posts Rep Power: 11507408	Apropos to shitty work happenings today: much debate about originator, but it was NOT mother Theresa, it is a military quote, likely Navy - I once bought a cake for my staff with this on it when they were getting kicked in their faces: We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing. __________________ Comfort the Disturbed Disturb the Comfortable

08-02-2015, 10:30 PM	#17422
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858

08-02-2015, 10:35 PM	#17423
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858

08-03-2015, 07:23 AM	#17424
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.” ― Lisa Wingate

08-03-2015, 07:25 AM	#17425
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love.” ― Shannon L. Alder

08-03-2015, 07:26 AM	#17426
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” ― Elbert Hubbard

08-03-2015, 10:36 AM	#17428
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,538 Times in 2,630 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.--Joseph Campbell

08-04-2015, 09:08 AM	#17432
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,538 Times in 2,630 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.--Carl Sagan

08-04-2015, 01:48 PM	#17433
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed” ― Jodi Picoult

08-04-2015, 01:52 PM	#17434
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.” ― Steve Maraboli

08-04-2015, 01:57 PM	#17435
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B. White

08-05-2015, 05:10 AM	#17436
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ― Lao Tzu

08-05-2015, 05:11 AM	#17437
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” ― John Lennon

08-05-2015, 05:12 AM	#17438
Tierney Timed Out - Identity Issues How Do You Identify?: Mr. Wayne Preferred Pronoun?: Hey, Mister Wayne Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: In the Ether Posts: 1,328 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,057 Thanked 4,892 Times in 1,162 Posts Rep Power: 0	“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit” ― E.E. Cummings

08-05-2015, 05:22 AM	#17439
PaPa Senior Member How Do You Identify?: GQ Butch Daddy Relationship Status: A Very Protective BIG Daddy... Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 2,657 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,597 Thanked 5,871 Times in 1,530 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	The Invitation By Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.' It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

08-05-2015, 09:18 AM	#17440
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,450 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I friggin' love this "To heal a wound, you have to stop touching it."