Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

“You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.” ~Joan Baez

[JakeTulane]

"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

[JakeTulane]

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - -- Raymond Lindquist

[JakeTulane]

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?" -- Leo Buscaglia

[JakeTulane]

"There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life." -- Author Unknown

[Arwen]

Does the world change when we understand who we are? No, but we see it more clearly. Do we change when we understand who we are? No, but because we can see ourselves more clearly, we may start to make different choices in our lives. So our lives may change dramatically. Once we start this growth process, we can't go back - like a flower reaches toward the sunlight we continue our journey within.

-Lissa Coffey

[Mister Bent]

"And all alone the moose he stood, laughing in a shot up wood."

- Lennart Hyland


This quote makes me absurdly happy.

[Spirit Dancer]

When one begins to practice simplicity, the ego is deprived
of the very strategy by which it sustains itself. Nothing
will deflate the ego more effectively than to be recognized
for what it is. It lives by pretension. It dies when the mask
is torn away and the stark reality is exposed to the gaze of
others. Simplicity also avails in braking the tyranny of
things. Ostentation, artificiality, ornamentation, pretentious
style, luxury—all require things. One requires few things
to be one’s self, one’s age, and one’s moral, intellectual,
or spiritual stature. What one is does not
depend upon what one has.

Albert E. Day

[Just_G]

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ~Oscar Wilde

[Ravin]

Suck It Up Princess.. It's Not The End Of The World!

[jenny]

‎"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore

[Tucker]

Interfice errorem, diligere errantem

[nycfem]

I am such a fan of Julia Butterfly Hill. Great quote!

I recommend her book: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods

Originally Posted by JakeTulane

"As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break." -- Julia Butterfly Hill

[jenny]

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”--Kerouac

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love.

~Woody Allen

[Jet]

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
— John Lennon

"Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing--the push-pull and the rhythm of it."
— Joe Perry, Aerosmith

"All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."
— Bob Seger, Rock 'n' Roll Never Forgets

"There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry."
— Stevie Wonder

"[My mama] said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but you're no Chuck Berry.'"
— Jerry Lee Lewis

"To me, Chuck Berry always was the epitome of rhythm and blues playing, rock and roll playing. It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection. He is rhythm supreme. He plays that lovely double-string stuff, which I got down a long time ago, but I'm still getting the hang of. Later I realized why he played that way--because of the sheer physical size of the guy. I mean, he makes one of those big Gibsons look like a ukulele!"
— Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones

"Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers."
— Cub Koda

"While Elvis was a country boy who sang "black" to some degree ... Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where country music was filtered through an R&B sensibility."
— Clive Anderson

"Well, Chuck Berry is the first singer-songwriter I know of."
— Roy Orbison

"You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless."
— Smokey Robinson

Chuck Berry is "a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues.''
—Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers

"the epitome of what it is to be a rock 'n' roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."
— Joan Jett

[Tucker]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

[JakeTulane]

“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy” - Robert Louis Stevenson

[JakeTulane]

“True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.” - Edward O. Wilson

[JakeTulane]

"Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge