Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 432

Kobi · 03-10-2012, 11:45 PM

"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'"

-H. L. Mencken

always2late · 03-11-2012, 12:16 AM

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

Fancy · 03-11-2012, 04:57 AM

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Butterbean · 03-11-2012, 08:33 AM

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown

deedarino · 03-11-2012, 08:43 AM

UofMfan · 03-11-2012, 09:33 AM

"Dale valor a las cosas, no por lo que valen, sino por lo que significan." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

Hollylane · 03-11-2012, 10:02 AM

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

~Leo Buscaglia

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

~Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

~Leo Buscaglia

puddin' · 03-11-2012, 04:00 PM

"i am sapiosexual. i think geeks and nerds are sexy. correct spelling and grammar, foreplay ~ i often want to rub my clit against their minds." -Kayar silkenvoice

girl_dee · 03-11-2012, 08:31 PM

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr

WomenMoveMe · 03-11-2012, 08:50 PM

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn...Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Brontë

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― E.E. Cummings

Kobi · 03-12-2012, 06:22 AM

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives."

-Stephen R. Covey

jenny · 03-12-2012, 07:09 AM

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~ Ferris Bueller, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

deedarino · 03-12-2012, 07:17 AM

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~Eden Phillpotts

Perhaps the greatest of all illusions, is that life could somehow be better than it already is. ~Notes from the Universe

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb

WomenMoveMe · 03-12-2012, 03:16 PM

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”
― William Shakespeare

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

macele · 03-12-2012, 04:14 PM

When we were kids, we were so poor, words were our only toys. -- Roger Miller

JAGG · 03-12-2012, 05:00 PM

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.- Charles M. Schulz

Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn’t say, did, or didn’t do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered, because you never know how long or short you are going to be here.- Emily Doberstein

You can have success now, or you can have it later. It's entirely up to you.-
Elements of Success

-Red-Flag- · 03-12-2012, 05:05 PM

probably my favorite of all time

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

e.e. cummings

Fancy · 03-12-2012, 06:28 PM

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos

deedarino · 03-12-2012, 07:27 PM

It's not from the known, but the unknown, that creativity and inventiveness are born.

Turn away from the predictable, cliché, and reliable. Brave the void where the darkness is greatest. Trust the quiet, find the stillness, feel the calm. Then steadily think, speak, and move as if you were led. Behave as if your vision were clear. Anticipate the emotional rush that will come with your triumph. And as if by magic, as you raise your pen to write, you'll find the words have already been summoned, flooded in light that was there all along, in a world that has just as anxiously anticipated your arrival.

~notes from the Universe

ruffryder · 03-12-2012, 07:35 PM

Greatness isn't supposed to be easy. But you can choose to have great effort every day. Jason Selk

Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything. Leonard Jacobson

"When you feel hurt and misunderstood, sometimes the only thing to do is find solace in nature."

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. Gloria Gaither

03-10-2012, 11:45 PM	#8621
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.'" -H. L. Mencken __________________

03-11-2012, 12:16 AM	#8622
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	Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

03-11-2012, 08:33 AM	#8624
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,217 Times in 772 Posts Rep Power: 17690476	When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974 Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown Last edited by Butterbean; 03-11-2012 at 08:46 AM.

03-11-2012, 08:43 AM	#8625
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	__________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

03-11-2012, 04:00 PM	#8628
puddin' Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: a genderqueer nuisance Preferred Pronoun?: bitchboi Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: new zealand Posts: 7,120 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,467 Thanked 7,968 Times in 2,341 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	"i am sapiosexual. i think geeks and nerds are sexy. correct spelling and grammar, foreplay ~ i often want to rub my clit against their minds." -Kayar silkenvoice __________________ be true, be you, be brave.

03-11-2012, 04:57 AM	#8623
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	Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

03-11-2012, 09:33 AM	#8626
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 18,936 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	"Dale valor a las cosas, no por lo que valen, sino por lo que significan." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

03-11-2012, 10:02 AM	#8627
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,362 Times in 5,877 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. ~Leo Buscaglia I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia

03-11-2012, 08:31 PM	#8629
girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,861 Times in 13,915 Posts Rep Power: 21474873	The more things change, the more they are the same. Alphonse Karr

03-11-2012, 08:50 PM	#8630
WomenMoveMe Member How Do You Identify?: I just wander about and be! Relationship Status: Caution: Dead End Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Kentucky Posts: 561 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,473 Thanked 2,100 Times in 417 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi “But he who dares not grasp the thorn...Should never crave the rose.” ― Anne Brontë “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.” ― E.E. Cummings

03-12-2012, 06:22 AM	#8631
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	"Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives." -Stephen R. Covey __________________

03-12-2012, 07:09 AM	#8632
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	"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~ Ferris Bueller, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" __________________ "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.

03-12-2012, 07:17 AM	#8633
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~Eden Phillpotts Perhaps the greatest of all illusions, is that life could somehow be better than it already is. ~Notes from the Universe The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

03-12-2012, 03:16 PM	#8634
WomenMoveMe Member How Do You Identify?: I just wander about and be! Relationship Status: Caution: Dead End Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Kentucky Posts: 561 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,473 Thanked 2,100 Times in 417 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Kahlil Gibran “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― William Shakespeare “There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

03-12-2012, 04:14 PM	#8635
macele Member How Do You Identify?: a bold-assed maximus Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: mississippi Posts: 1,066 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,178 Thanked 3,232 Times in 847 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	When we were kids, we were so poor, words were our only toys. -- Roger Miller

03-12-2012, 05:00 PM	#8636
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,534 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.- Charles M. Schulz Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn’t say, did, or didn’t do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered, because you never know how long or short you are going to be here.- Emily Doberstein You can have success now, or you can have it later. It's entirely up to you.- Elements of Success __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

03-12-2012, 05:05 PM	#8637
-Red-Flag- Member How Do You Identify?: .Butch. Join Date: May 2010 Location: .Maine. Posts: 1,254 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,777 Thanked 3,610 Times in 930 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	<3 probably my favorite of all time i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) e.e. cummings

03-12-2012, 06:28 PM	#8638
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	In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Tori Amos

03-12-2012, 07:27 PM	#8639
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	It's not from the known, but the unknown, that creativity and inventiveness are born. Turn away from the predictable, cliché, and reliable. Brave the void where the darkness is greatest. Trust the quiet, find the stillness, feel the calm. Then steadily think, speak, and move as if you were led. Behave as if your vision were clear. Anticipate the emotional rush that will come with your triumph. And as if by magic, as you raise your pen to write, you'll find the words have already been summoned, flooded in light that was there all along, in a world that has just as anxiously anticipated your arrival. ~notes from the Universe __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

03-12-2012, 07:35 PM	#8640
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 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Greatness isn't supposed to be easy. But you can choose to have great effort every day. Jason Selk Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything. Leonard Jacobson "When you feel hurt and misunderstood, sometimes the only thing to do is find solace in nature." We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. Gloria Gaither