Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 144

Rook · 06-29-2010, 01:15 PM

Quote:

*After Bitchfest back n forth for 10 minutes*
Bro: " you're an ass, this conversation's over"
Me: "Fine"
Bro "And one other thing, u fuckin dyke..."
Me:" You're right about one thing, dipshit"
Bro :-stunned- "What?"
Me: "I'm done talking to you" -removing hearing aids-

gotta love squabbling siblings...

nowandthen · 06-29-2010, 04:40 PM

Dalai Lama:
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come

EnderD_503 · 06-29-2010, 07:08 PM

"There has never been a great athlete who has died not knowing what pain is." Bill Bradley

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." Anson Dorrance

"Pain is temprorary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong

"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." Charles Barkley

SuperFemme · 06-29-2010, 09:55 PM

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

ALBERT MEMMI, Racism

Jesse · 06-29-2010, 10:42 PM

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin

BestButchBoy · 06-30-2010, 04:05 AM

You're not here to just get by. You're here to live life with excellence.
Excellence requires your focused effort and devotion. Excellence comes from your commitment to getting it right.

Excellence is well worth all that effort and commitment. When you live with excellence, you live at life's highest level.

If you're going to do something, do what's necessary to do it with excellence. If you're going to spend the time and make the effort, make enough effort to make it great.

You are absolutely capable of achieving excellence in your own unique ways. Why would you settle for anything less?

Instead of merely getting by, get excited about your best possibilities. And then get going on fulfilling them with excellence.

The whole world is lifted higher by those who choose to create excellence. Be a source of relentless excellence and truly make a difference.

-- Ralph Marston

Give your day [and your life] hell.

Oneida · 06-30-2010, 04:57 AM

It's all fun and games until Marketing comes to the meeting...

afixer · 06-30-2010, 07:13 AM

There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
- Frank Zappa

Diva · 06-30-2010, 07:15 AM

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

~Samuel Smiles

Spirit Dancer · 06-30-2010, 08:11 AM

The most extraordinary thing about
the oyster is this. Irritations get
into its shell. It does not like them.
But when it cannot get rid of them,
it uses the irritation to do the
loveliest thing an oyster ever has
a chance to do. If there are
irritations in our lives today,
there is only one prescription:
make a pearl. It may have to be
a pearl of patience, but, anyhow,
make a pearl.
And it takes faith and love to do it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Spirit Dancer · 06-30-2010, 08:12 AM

Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater
value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting.
The sun, having set, comes up. The tide ebbs, but always flows in again.
Fred van Amburgh

Spirit Dancer · 06-30-2010, 08:14 AM

People have been wonderful
to me in the good times
and the bad,
and I've come to believe
that you do indeed reap
what you sow.
For those who constantly
gripe about life, I turn
and walk away.
For those who speak
negatively about people
behind their backs,
I move on.

Bob Losure

Spirit Dancer · 06-30-2010, 08:16 AM

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay
to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism
a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

nowandthen · 06-30-2010, 08:29 AM

The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering. In other words, the enhancement of fundamental values is indispensable to our basic quest for happiness.

Butterbean · 06-30-2010, 08:45 AM

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

~Babatunde Olatunji

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Boots13 · 06-30-2010, 09:00 AM

“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?”

Descartes

Fancy · 06-30-2010, 10:39 AM

An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of the day.
“I envy a holy man, who is content with so little,” commented the sovereign.
“I envy Your Majesty, who is content with less than I. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and mountains of the whole wide world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my soul. Your Majesty, however, has only this kingdom.”

~from Paulo Coelho's blog

JakeTulane · 06-30-2010, 11:00 AM

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." ~Charles M. Schultz

JakeTulane · 06-30-2010, 11:05 AM

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair." ~William Cowper

JakeTulane · 06-30-2010, 11:06 AM

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey

06-29-2010, 04:40 PM	#2862
nowandthen Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: S/he Relationship Status: In a realationship with my PhD. Dissertation work for the next 3 years Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: West Coast Posts: 508 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 400 Thanked 947 Times in 325 Posts Rep Power: 6580599	truth telling Dalai Lama: It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come __________________ "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt" asked the Rabbit, "Sometimes", said the Skin Horse, for he was always honest. " It's a Kind of testing, The kind of testing that spiritual warriors need in order to awaken their Heart" PC

06-29-2010, 10:42 PM	#2865
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-30-2010, 04:05 AM	#2866
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 5,451 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Achieving Excellence You're not here to just get by. You're here to live life with excellence. Excellence requires your focused effort and devotion. Excellence comes from your commitment to getting it right. Excellence is well worth all that effort and commitment. When you live with excellence, you live at life's highest level. If you're going to do something, do what's necessary to do it with excellence. If you're going to spend the time and make the effort, make enough effort to make it great. You are absolutely capable of achieving excellence in your own unique ways. Why would you settle for anything less? Instead of merely getting by, get excited about your best possibilities. And then get going on fulfilling them with excellence. The whole world is lifted higher by those who choose to create excellence. Be a source of relentless excellence and truly make a difference. -- Ralph Marston Give your day [and your life] hell.

06-30-2010, 08:11 AM	#2870
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 12,941 Times in 3,467 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into its shell. It does not like them. But when it cannot get rid of them, it uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but, anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and love to do it. Harry Emerson Fosdick __________________ “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

06-30-2010, 08:12 AM	#2871
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 12,941 Times in 3,467 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting. The sun, having set, comes up. The tide ebbs, but always flows in again. Fred van Amburgh __________________ “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

06-29-2010, 07:08 PM	#2863
EnderD_503 Member How Do You Identify?: Queer, trans guy, butch Preferred Pronoun?: Male pronouns Relationship Status: Relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,329 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,090 Thanked 3,878 Times in 1,021 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"There has never been a great athlete who has died not knowing what pain is." Bill Bradley "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." Anson Dorrance "Pain is temprorary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong "These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." Charles Barkley

06-29-2010, 09:55 PM	#2864
SuperFemme Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Permanently Banned 10/24/2010 Preferred Pronoun?: She. Relationship Status: Married (one of 18,000) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Atascadero, CA Posts: 4,933 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,309 Thanked 7,108 Times in 2,327 Posts Rep Power: 0	There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. ALBERT MEMMI, Racism

06-30-2010, 04:57 AM	#2867
Oneida Member How Do You Identify?: Free Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Eden Posts: 241 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 99 Thanked 268 Times in 100 Posts Rep Power: 142535	It's all fun and games until Marketing comes to the meeting...

06-30-2010, 07:13 AM	#2868
afixer Member How Do You Identify?: human Preferred Pronoun?: ma'am Relationship Status: adrift in my head Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: in and out of the woods Posts: 989 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 491 Thanked 1,508 Times in 659 Posts Rep Power: 8660555	There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. - Frank Zappa

06-30-2010, 07:15 AM	#2869
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	An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ~Samuel Smiles

06-30-2010, 08:14 AM	#2872
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 12,941 Times in 3,467 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on. Bob Losure __________________ “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

06-30-2010, 08:16 AM	#2873
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 12,941 Times in 3,467 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball __________________ “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

06-30-2010, 08:29 AM	#2874
nowandthen Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: S/he Relationship Status: In a realationship with my PhD. Dissertation work for the next 3 years Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: West Coast Posts: 508 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 400 Thanked 947 Times in 325 Posts Rep Power: 6580599	Dalai Lama The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering. In other words, the enhancement of fundamental values is indispensable to our basic quest for happiness. __________________ "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you." "Does it hurt" asked the Rabbit, "Sometimes", said the Skin Horse, for he was always honest. " It's a Kind of testing, The kind of testing that spiritual warriors need in order to awaken their Heart" PC

06-30-2010, 08:45 AM	#2875
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	Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji .

06-30-2010, 09:00 AM	#2876
Boots13 Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: No Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PNW Posts: 823 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,387 Thanked 2,314 Times in 428 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” Descartes

06-30-2010, 10:39 AM	#2877
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	An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of the day. “I envy a holy man, who is content with so little,” commented the sovereign. “I envy Your Majesty, who is content with less than I. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and mountains of the whole wide world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my soul. Your Majesty, however, has only this kingdom.” ~from Paulo Coelho's blog

06-30-2010, 11:00 AM	#2878
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." ~Charles M. Schultz

06-30-2010, 11:05 AM	#2879
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair." ~William Cowper

06-30-2010, 11:06 AM	#2880
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." ~Robert Southey