Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 271

Diva · 01-19-2011, 03:56 PM

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

~Roy Disney

Andrew, Jr. · 01-20-2011, 10:21 AM

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep...for both are infinite."

~William Shakespeare

Fancy · 01-20-2011, 01:35 PM

I sit and listen while the sky beckons to me from the window, flirting, showing off its clear blue shirt in the sun.

Enchantress · 01-20-2011, 01:36 PM

"Life is waiting for you to happen"

~ Marianne Williamson

Sparkle · 01-20-2011, 01:45 PM

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Mark Twain

scootebaby · 01-20-2011, 01:46 PM

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer

Fancy · 01-20-2011, 04:02 PM

It doesn’t matter what they will make of you
or your days: they will be wrong,
they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man,
all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention.
Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad,
you slept, you awakened.
Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons.
--Jane Hirshfield

Semantics · 01-20-2011, 06:09 PM

...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Diva · 01-21-2011, 01:54 AM

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

~Janeane Garofalo

Janstevie · 01-22-2011, 11:14 AM

Love is when the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

justkim · 01-22-2011, 11:36 AM

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald -

StillettoDoll · 01-22-2011, 07:57 PM

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Starbuck · 01-22-2011, 08:01 PM

Seen on a bumper sticker: I believe in good men, flying dragons, and other fairytale creatures.

Spirit Dancer · 01-23-2011, 07:39 AM

Living life in terms of your vision and working toward your goals must be done in the context of today's activities. Do not focus too heavily on the results of your efforts. Do not live for the future attainment of your goal. Live your life through the lens of your vision and what can be done in the present moment. Living your vision is not about reaching your goals. It is about living and working toward them. It is not about producing results but about living your life in a more meaningful and personally rewarding way.

Ari Kiev

Spirit Dancer · 01-23-2011, 07:40 AM

I wish there were a book I could read each day to tell me exactly what to do to live consciously from my heart and soul. But part of the mystery and magic, part of the reason I'm here, is to try to stumble through and hear what the soul has to say about what it needs at each moment--whether it is to work through an emotional block, discover what the next lesson is, meet the next soul mate (my children are soul mates; my best friends are soul mates), or finish my business with the one I'm with now. Ultimately, for most of us, the journey comes down to the same issue: learning to love freely. First ourselves, then other people.

Melody Beattie

Spirit Dancer · 01-23-2011, 07:41 AM

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Diva · 01-23-2011, 02:11 PM

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

Diva · 01-23-2011, 02:12 PM

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

~Andy Rooney

Diva · 01-23-2011, 02:13 PM

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

~William Shakespeare, Othello

always2late · 01-23-2011, 07:02 PM

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo

01-20-2011, 01:45 PM	#5405
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,555 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain __________________ I am made of stars

01-21-2011, 01:54 AM	#5409
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	For the pessimist....how boring..... I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. ~Janeane Garofalo

01-22-2011, 07:57 PM	#5412
StillettoDoll Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Lady Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 2,824 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,779 Thanked 3,852 Times in 1,470 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I quote others only in order the better to express myself. Michel de Montaigne __________________

01-22-2011, 08:01 PM	#5413
Starbuck Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 2,436 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,378 Thanked 2,148 Times in 756 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Seen on a bumper sticker: I believe in good men, flying dragons, and other fairytale creatures. __________________ To forgive is to set the prisoner free, And then discover the prisoner was you.

01-23-2011, 07:39 AM	#5414
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Living life in terms of your vision and working toward your goals must be done in the context of today's activities. Do not focus too heavily on the results of your efforts. Do not live for the future attainment of your goal. Live your life through the lens of your vision and what can be done in the present moment. Living your vision is not about reaching your goals. It is about living and working toward them. It is not about producing results but about living your life in a more meaningful and personally rewarding way. Ari Kiev __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

01-19-2011, 03:56 PM	#5401
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney

01-20-2011, 10:21 AM	#5402
Andrew, Jr. Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Me Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Over the Rainbow in a House Posts: 5,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,004 Thanked 5,249 Times in 2,216 Posts Rep Power: 0	"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep...for both are infinite." ~William Shakespeare

01-20-2011, 01:35 PM	#5403
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I sit and listen while the sky beckons to me from the window, flirting, showing off its clear blue shirt in the sun.

01-20-2011, 01:36 PM	#5404
Enchantress Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A complex confection. Preferred Pronoun?: Miss Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The land of milk and honey. Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 741 Thanked 3,420 Times in 1,200 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"Life is waiting for you to happen" ~ Marianne Williamson

01-20-2011, 01:46 PM	#5406
scootebaby Timed Out How Do You Identify?: yes dear Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: south florida Posts: 2,494 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,264 Thanked 6,737 Times in 1,777 Posts Rep Power: 0	Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer

01-20-2011, 04:02 PM	#5407
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	It doesn’t matter what they will make of you or your days: they will be wrong, they will miss the wrong woman, miss the wrong man, all the stories they tell will be tales of their own invention. Your story was this: you were happy, then you were sad, you slept, you awakened. Sometimes you ate roasted chestnuts, sometimes persimmons. --Jane Hirshfield

01-20-2011, 06:09 PM	#5408
Semantics Senior Member How Do You Identify?: malapropist Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New England Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,367 Thanked 3,968 Times in 1,201 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke

01-22-2011, 11:14 AM	#5410
Janstevie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Butch Relationship Status: single Join Date: May 2010 Location: England Posts: 1,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 112 Thanked 1,331 Times in 411 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Love is when the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

01-22-2011, 11:36 AM	#5411
justkim Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Relationship Status: <3 myself Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 2,023 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,062 Thanked 6,799 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald -

01-23-2011, 07:40 AM	#5415
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I wish there were a book I could read each day to tell me exactly what to do to live consciously from my heart and soul. But part of the mystery and magic, part of the reason I'm here, is to try to stumble through and hear what the soul has to say about what it needs at each moment--whether it is to work through an emotional block, discover what the next lesson is, meet the next soul mate (my children are soul mates; my best friends are soul mates), or finish my business with the one I'm with now. Ultimately, for most of us, the journey comes down to the same issue: learning to love freely. First ourselves, then other people. Melody Beattie __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

01-23-2011, 07:41 AM	#5416
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly. Eleanor Roosevelt __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

01-23-2011, 02:11 PM	#5417
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

01-23-2011, 02:12 PM	#5418
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	HA! If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ~Andy Rooney

01-23-2011, 02:13 PM	#5419
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello

01-23-2011, 07:02 PM	#5420
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi