Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 125

Diva · 06-04-2010, 09:24 AM

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

~Frida Kahlo

Diva · 06-04-2010, 09:28 AM

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

~Maya Angelou

Diva · 06-04-2010, 09:30 AM

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

~Buddha

Fancy · 06-04-2010, 11:11 AM

“I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.”
- Mae West

purepisces · 06-04-2010, 11:53 AM

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino

PinkieLee · 06-04-2010, 12:13 PM

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the people I can and the wisdom to know that person is me.

~ words of wisdom stolen from a friend's facebook page!

Kätzchen · 06-04-2010, 12:51 PM

"I don't want to live in a culture of despair - I'd like to live in a culture of hope," ~ Natalie Merchant

femmedyke · 06-04-2010, 12:53 PM

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman

Butterbean · 06-04-2010, 01:51 PM

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

~Joan Didion

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femmedyke · 06-04-2010, 04:00 PM

"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face.
My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."
— Alice Hoffman (Incantation)

Soon · 06-04-2010, 04:14 PM

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

--Virginia Woolf

Mister Bent · 06-04-2010, 08:11 PM

"...we Irish come through the door fists and hearts first."

- Bruce Springsteen

chefhottie25 · 06-04-2010, 08:15 PM

a few years ago I wrote this poem for a dear friend. It is very special to me.

Asian Pears
Your story was this: you were happy
then you were sad.
You slept, You awakened...
Sometimes you ate persimmons.
At times you spoke, at other times you were silent.
What could you say? mostly it seems you were silent.
Actions were taken
or not-
It doesn't matter what they will make of you.
Of your days... they will be wrong.
They will never speak of the little girl propelled into womanhood.
All the stories they tell will be of their own bromidic invention.
You were happy, then you were sad.
Sometimes you ate asian pears.

Soon · 06-04-2010, 08:23 PM

"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
Write yourself.
Your body must be heard."

— Hélène Cixous

Kätzchen · 06-04-2010, 08:35 PM

Esse

I looked at that face, dumbfounded.

The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn't notice them.

What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird?

A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute? - and in a whiteness tinged with pink two sculpted holes, containing a dark, lustrous lava.

To absorb that face but to have it simultaneously against the background of all spring boughs, walls, waves, in its weeping, its laughter, moving it back fifteen years, or ahead thirty.

To have. It is not even a desire. Like a butterfly, a fish, the stem of a plant, only more mysterious.

And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, leap, rend your clothing, repeating only: is!

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things: A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

(1954)

~ Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems 1931-1987

Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky
Copyright © Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky (1988)

Diva · 06-04-2010, 09:10 PM

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

Kätzchen · 06-04-2010, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diva

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

~Elisabeth Foley

>>>>> *amen* <<<<<<

Diva · 06-04-2010, 09:18 PM

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

~Author Unknown

BestButchBoy · 06-05-2010, 06:56 AM

I can find a lot of women willing to ride in the town car with me. I long to find a woman who is willing ride the bus with me.

A metaphor.

Diva · 06-05-2010, 07:08 AM

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.

~Alexander King

06-04-2010, 09:28 AM	#2482
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	I love Maya! I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ~Maya Angelou

06-04-2010, 11:53 AM	#2485
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~ Og Mandino __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

06-04-2010, 12:53 PM	#2488
femmedyke Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: mostly in my head Posts: 396 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 638 Thanked 957 Times in 198 Posts Rep Power: 8571021	“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman __________________ “purple does something strange to me” -charles bukowski

06-04-2010, 04:00 PM	#2490
femmedyke Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: mostly in my head Posts: 396 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 638 Thanked 957 Times in 198 Posts Rep Power: 8571021	"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am." — Alice Hoffman (Incantation) __________________ “purple does something strange to me” -charles bukowski

06-04-2010, 08:11 PM	#2492
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"...we Irish come through the door fists and hearts first." - Bruce Springsteen __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

06-04-2010, 09:24 AM	#2481
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	I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. ~Frida Kahlo

06-04-2010, 09:30 AM	#2483
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	Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. ~Buddha

06-04-2010, 11:11 AM	#2484
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'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.” - Mae West

06-04-2010, 12:13 PM	#2486
PinkieLee Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: I need ya boo, gotta see ya boo Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Big Money Texas Posts: 4,708 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 24,309 Thanked 13,074 Times in 3,049 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the people I can and the wisdom to know that person is me. ~ words of wisdom stolen from a friend's facebook page!

06-04-2010, 12:51 PM	#2487
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 33,514 Times in 10,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	"I don't want to live in a culture of despair - I'd like to live in a culture of hope," ~ Natalie Merchant

06-04-2010, 01:51 PM	#2489
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion .

06-04-2010, 04:14 PM	#2491
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. --Virginia Woolf

06-04-2010, 08:15 PM	#2493
chefhottie25 Member How Do You Identify?: boi Preferred Pronoun?: hy Relationship Status: happily taken Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: ohio Posts: 1,406 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26 Thanked 889 Times in 478 Posts Rep Power: 1175217	a few years ago I wrote this poem for a dear friend. It is very special to me. Asian Pears Your story was this: you were happy then you were sad. You slept, You awakened... Sometimes you ate persimmons. At times you spoke, at other times you were silent. What could you say? mostly it seems you were silent. Actions were taken or not- It doesn't matter what they will make of you. Of your days... they will be wrong. They will never speak of the little girl propelled into womanhood. All the stories they tell will be of their own bromidic invention. You were happy, then you were sad. Sometimes you ate asian pears.

06-04-2010, 08:23 PM	#2494
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	"Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard." — Hélène Cixous

06-04-2010, 08:35 PM	#2495
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 33,514 Times in 10,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	Esse I looked at that face, dumbfounded. The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn't notice them. What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird? A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute? - and in a whiteness tinged with pink two sculpted holes, containing a dark, lustrous lava. To absorb that face but to have it simultaneously against the background of all spring boughs, walls, waves, in its weeping, its laughter, moving it back fifteen years, or ahead thirty. To have. It is not even a desire. Like a butterfly, a fish, the stem of a plant, only more mysterious. And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, leap, rend your clothing, repeating only: is! She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things: A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. (1954) ~ Czeslaw Milosz: The Collected Poems 1931-1987 Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky Copyright © Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Pinsky (1988)

06-04-2010, 09:10 PM	#2496
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 Austin crew at Threadgill's this evening! The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

06-04-2010, 09:18 PM	#2498
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	Here's another! <smile> Can You tell I spent time with good friends today? Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

06-05-2010, 06:56 AM	#2499
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,450 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I can find a lot of women willing to ride in the town car with me. I long to find a woman who is willing ride the bus with me. A metaphor.

06-05-2010, 07:08 AM	#2500
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	Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. ~Alexander King