Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them in mutual weirdness and call it love.” – Dr. Seuss

[Electrocell]

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MissItalianDiva]

Deep within our being is a place of peace, joy and knowing. It is a place called love. We are love from the core of our being. If we can live from our being of love, we can't help but attract more of what we are.

~Iyanla Vanzant

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[little_ms_sunshyne]

There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away...

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe


well isnt this the truth !
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman

[Kobi]

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

[JAGG]

“Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.”― Steve Maraboli

“What you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. If your life was ending tomorrow, would this be the way you'd want to have spent it?”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of
confidence and personal power.” ― Brian Tracy

[Angeltoes]

"If you dream of a world in which you can put your partner’s picture on your desk, then put her picture on your desk…and you will live in such a world.
And if you dream of a world in which you can walk down the street holding your partner’s hand, then hold her hands…and you will live in such a world.
If you dream of a world in which there are more openly gay elected officials, then run for office…and you will live in such a world.
And if you dream of a world in which you can take your partner to the office party, even if your office is the US House of Representatives, then take her to the party. I do, and now I live in such a world. Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed – them and us. We are half of the equation."


Tammy Baldwin,
The first out lesbian and the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to the United States Congress

[Kobi]

The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.

~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons

[weatherboi]

You all laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you are all the same.
John Davis

[Ms. Meander]

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf

[Rook]

[Electrocell]

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama


I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens


A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley

[Angeltoes]

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy--the less happy you're going to be. - Anthony Robbins

[Angeltoes]

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. -Dalai Lama

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more.-Erica Jong

There are no mistakes: everything—even bumps in the road—provides a lesson that’s necessary or us to evolve, and to get wherever it is we need to be. – Diane Burnett

[Katniss]

"The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” C.S. Lewis


Katniss~~(loving the scar tissue of life....)

[JAGG]

"It’s what you do in your free time that will set you free—or enslave you.
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― Jarod Kintz

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Would he find her?
Without question.
Would he save her?
Always.” ― Lauren Kate

[Scuba]

"Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end." Sonny

"But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes." Evelyn

[Dance-with-me]

As someone who clearly loves butches/TG/transmen, and who is helping to raise a gender-variant child, I love how this poem speaks to the inherent strength of these kids (and adults) who dare to just be themselves in a world that's so openly hostile to who they are:

Bedecked
By Victoria Redel

Tell me it’s wrong the scarlet nails my son sports or the toy
store rings he clusters four jewels to each finger.
He’s bedecked. I see the other mothers looking at the star
choker, the rhinestone strand he fastens over a sock.
Sometimes I help him find sparkle clip-ons when he says
sticker earrings look too fake.
Tell me I should teach him it’s wrong to love the glitter that a
boy’s only a boy who’d love a truck with a remote that revs,
battery slamming into corners or Hot Wheels loop-de-looping
off tracks into the tub.
Then tell me it’s fine—really—maybe even a good thing—a boy
who’s got some girl to him,
and I’m right for the days he wears a pink shirt on the seesaw in
the park.
Tell me what you need to tell me but keep far away from my son
who still loves a beautiful thing not for what it means—
this way or that—but for the way facets set off prisms and
prisms spin up everywhere
and from his own jeweled body he’s cast rainbows—made every
shining true color.
Now try to tell me—man or woman—your heart was ever once
that brave.

http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/in...ictoria-redel/

[Kobi]

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

~Rona Barrett