Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 384

Janstevie · 11-01-2011, 10:53 AM

I'm so proud of my heart,
It's been used, hurt, cheated and broken,
But it still works.

Fancy · 11-01-2011, 12:07 PM

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Miss July · 11-01-2011, 12:10 PM

You can either choose to be a victim or a survivor

UofMfan · 11-01-2011, 12:34 PM

"No existe amor en paz. Siempre viene acompañado de agonías, éxtasis, alegrías intensas y tristezas profundas."~ Paulo Coelho

sara-bera · 11-02-2011, 09:02 AM

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon

Fancy · 11-02-2011, 09:36 AM

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arwen · 11-02-2011, 11:20 AM

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." -Helen Keller, 1902

We see what we choose to see. Helen Keller could not physically see with her eyes- and yet she could see with her heart, she could experience wonder. Her life, and the way she chose to live her life, is such an inspiration to us. There is wonder all around us, but do we choose to see it? -Lissa Coffey

“Why you? Because there’s no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn’t soon enough.” — Donna Brazile

CockyDude · 11-02-2011, 11:36 AM

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

Arwen · 11-03-2011, 10:39 AM

“People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whether it lasts forever or not.” — Colleen Seifert

jenny · 11-03-2011, 01:21 PM

"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people." ~ Harry Chapin

sara-bera · 11-03-2011, 01:50 PM

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -Audrey Hepburn

Kätzchen · 11-03-2011, 09:50 PM

"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee,"

~ King David
(Psalms 119:11)

ruffryder · 11-03-2011, 09:58 PM

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

Paulo Coelho. Close some doors. Not because of pride, but because that no longer fits your life.

always2late · 11-04-2011, 05:12 AM

Sometimes you have to forget how you feel and remember what you deserve.

always2late · 11-04-2011, 05:33 AM

Some Like Indians Endure ~ Paula Gunn Allen

i have it in my mind that
dykes are like indians

they're a lot like indians
they used to live as a tribe
they owned tribal land
it was called the earth

they were massacred
lots of times
they always came back
like the grass
like the clouds
they got massacred again

they thought caringsharing
about the earth and each other
was a good thing
they rode horses
and sang to the moon

but i don't know
about what was so longago
and it's now that dykes
make me think i'm with indians

because they bear
witness bitterly
because they reach
and hold
because they live every day
with despair laughing
in cities and country places
because earth hides them
because they know
the moon
because they gather together
enclosing
and spit in the eye of death
indian is an idea
some people have
of themselves
dyke is an idea some women
have of themselves
the place where we live now
is idea
because whiteman took
all the rest
because father
took all the rest
but the idea which
once you have it
you can't be taken
for somebody else
and have nowhere to go
like indians you can be
stubborn

the idea might move you on,
ponydrag behind
taking all your loves and
children maybe downstream

maybe behind the cliffs
but it hangs there
and idea
like indians
endures

it might even take your
whole village with it
stone by stone
or leave the stones
to find more
to build another village
someplace else

like indians
dykes have fewer and fewer
someplaces else to go
so it gets important
to know
about ideas and
to remember or uncover
the past
and how the people
traveled
all the while remembering
the idea they had
about who they were
indians, like dykes
do it all the time

dykes know about dying
and that everything belongs
to the wind
like indians
they do terrible things
to each other
out of sheer cussedness
out of forgetting
out of despair
so dykes
are like indians
because everybody is related
to everybody
in pain
in terror
in guilt
in blood
in shame
in disappearance
that never quite manages
to be disappeared
we never go away
even if we're always
leaving

because the only home
is each other
they've occupied all
the rest
colonized it; an
idea about ourselves is all
we own

and dykes remind me of indians
like indians dykes
are supposed to die out
or forget
or drink
or shatter
or go away
to nowhere
to remember what will happen
if they don't

they don't anyway
even though the worst happens

they remember and they
stay
because the moon remembers
because so does the sun
because the stars
remember
and the persistent stubborn grass
of the earth

Arwen · 11-04-2011, 11:00 AM

Be there. Go there now and never leave. Imagine that your dreams have already come true. Live your life from that mindset. Predicate your behavior on that reality, not the illusions that now surround you. Filter every thought, question, and answer from there. Let your focus shift and be born again - because dwelling from, not upon, the space you want to inherit is the fastest way to change absolutely everything.

See the difference?
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Arwen · 11-04-2011, 11:12 AM

"Wonder is a state of mind in which... nothing is taken for granted... Each thing is a surprise, being is unbelievable. We are amazed at seeing anything at all; amazed not only at particular values and things but at the unexpectedness of being as such, at the fact that there is being at all." -Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)

mustangjeano · 11-04-2011, 11:54 PM

"...if your heart is in your dreams,
no request is to extreme
when you wish upon a star
as dreamers do..."

Disney movie, Pinocchio

Ms. Meander · 11-05-2011, 07:25 AM

Who so loves, believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

CockyDude · 11-05-2011, 09:57 AM

A boy makes his girl jealous of other women.
A gentleman makes other women jealous of his girl.

11-01-2011, 12:10 PM	#7663
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11-02-2011, 11:20 AM	#7667
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." -Helen Keller, 1902 We see what we choose to see. Helen Keller could not physically see with her eyes- and yet she could see with her heart, she could experience wonder. Her life, and the way she chose to live her life, is such an inspiration to us. There is wonder all around us, but do we choose to see it? -Lissa Coffey “Why you? Because there’s no one better. Why now? Because tomorrow isn’t soon enough.” — Donna Brazile __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

11-02-2011, 11:36 AM	#7668
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11-03-2011, 10:39 AM	#7669
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	“People are opportunities. The gift is in the interaction and the connection with another person, whether it lasts forever or not.” — Colleen Seifert __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

11-03-2011, 01:21 PM	#7670
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people." ~ Harry Chapin __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

11-01-2011, 10:53 AM	#7661
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	I'm so proud of my heart, It's been used, hurt, cheated and broken, But it still works.

11-01-2011, 12:07 PM	#7662
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	The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Ralph Waldo Emerson

11-01-2011, 12:34 PM	#7664
UofMfan Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: A very happy Mr. Grumpy Cat Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Neither here or there Posts: 7,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 27,733 Thanked 18,937 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	"No existe amor en paz. Siempre viene acompañado de agonías, éxtasis, alegrías intensas y tristezas profundas."~ Paulo Coelho

11-02-2011, 09:02 AM	#7665
sara-bera Member How Do You Identify?: female Join Date: May 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,161 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,687 Thanked 2,858 Times in 739 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon

11-02-2011, 09:36 AM	#7666
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	Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

11-03-2011, 01:50 PM	#7671
sara-bera Member How Do You Identify?: female Join Date: May 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,161 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,687 Thanked 2,858 Times in 739 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -Audrey Hepburn

11-03-2011, 09:50 PM	#7672
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow ツ Posts: 16,055 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,111 Thanked 33,512 Times in 10,641 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	"Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee," *~ King David* (Psalms 119:11)

11-03-2011, 09:58 PM	#7673
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,679 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix Paulo Coelho. Close some doors. Not because of pride, but because that no longer fits your life.

11-04-2011, 05:12 AM	#7674
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	Sometimes you have to forget how you feel and remember what you deserve. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

11-04-2011, 05:33 AM	#7675
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	Some Like Indians Endure ~ Paula Gunn Allen i have it in my mind that dykes are like indians they're a lot like indians they used to live as a tribe they owned tribal land it was called the earth they were massacred lots of times they always came back like the grass like the clouds they got massacred again they thought caringsharing about the earth and each other was a good thing they rode horses and sang to the moon but i don't know about what was so longago and it's now that dykes make me think i'm with indians because they bear witness bitterly because they reach and hold because they live every day with despair laughing in cities and country places because earth hides them because they know the moon because they gather together enclosing and spit in the eye of death indian is an idea some people have of themselves dyke is an idea some women have of themselves the place where we live now is idea because whiteman took all the rest because father took all the rest but the idea which once you have it you can't be taken for somebody else and have nowhere to go like indians you can be stubborn the idea might move you on, ponydrag behind taking all your loves and children maybe downstream maybe behind the cliffs but it hangs there and idea like indians endures it might even take your whole village with it stone by stone or leave the stones to find more to build another village someplace else like indians dykes have fewer and fewer someplaces else to go so it gets important to know about ideas and to remember or uncover the past and how the people traveled all the while remembering the idea they had about who they were indians, like dykes do it all the time dykes know about dying and that everything belongs to the wind like indians they do terrible things to each other out of sheer cussedness out of forgetting out of despair so dykes are like indians because everybody is related to everybody in pain in terror in guilt in blood in shame in disappearance that never quite manages to be disappeared we never go away even if we're always leaving because the only home is each other they've occupied all the rest colonized it; an idea about ourselves is all we own and dykes remind me of indians like indians dykes are supposed to die out or forget or drink or shatter or go away to nowhere to remember what will happen if they don't they don't anyway even though the worst happens they remember and they stay because the moon remembers because so does the sun because the stars remember and the persistent stubborn grass of the earth __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

11-04-2011, 11:00 AM	#7676
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	Be there. Go there now and never leave. Imagine that your dreams have already come true. Live your life from that mindset. Predicate your behavior on that reality, not the illusions that now surround you. Filter every thought, question, and answer from there. Let your focus shift and be born again - because dwelling from, not upon, the space you want to inherit is the fastest way to change absolutely everything. See the difference? The Universe from www.tut.com <--highly recommended! __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

11-04-2011, 11:12 AM	#7677
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	"Wonder is a state of mind in which... nothing is taken for granted... Each thing is a surprise, being is unbelievable. We are amazed at seeing anything at all; amazed not only at particular values and things but at the unexpectedness of being as such, at the fact that there is being at all." -Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

11-04-2011, 11:54 PM	#7678
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11-05-2011, 07:25 AM	#7679
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,214 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Who so loves, believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

11-05-2011, 09:57 AM	#7680
CockyDude Timed Out How Do You Identify?: FTM-man Preferred Pronoun?: He, Him Relationship Status: What is today? Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Midwest Posts: 239 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 151 Thanked 420 Times in 141 Posts Rep Power: 0	A boy makes his girl jealous of other women. A gentleman makes other women jealous of his girl.