Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 150

Jesse · 07-09-2010, 02:41 PM

Any belief that creates fear or feelings of unworthiness is a lie! - Says ME

Jesse · 07-09-2010, 02:43 PM

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Butterbean · 07-09-2010, 03:09 PM

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~Japanese Proverb

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Kätzchen · 07-09-2010, 09:15 PM

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep.

-Salman Rushdie

afixer · 07-10-2010, 04:26 PM

Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

afixer · 07-10-2010, 04:34 PM

To The Whore Who Took My Poems

some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have my
paintings too, my best ones; its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn't you take my money? they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I'm not Shakespeare
but sometime simply
there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise;
there will always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.

Charles Bukowski

Enchantress · 07-10-2010, 06:07 PM

"Avoid the crazy train at all costs. The tickets are cheap but the ride is long and scary"

Spirit Dancer · 07-11-2010, 10:02 AM

Negative thinking will always lead to failure
and nervous prostration; but positive faith--positive thinking--will lead you
towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

Albert E. Cliffe

Spirit Dancer · 07-11-2010, 10:02 AM

Positive thinking is not always the easiest course of action when confronting
difficulties. If, however, we can remain focused on keeping hope strong
and not succumbing to negative influences, we will meet with success
in dealing with anything life may throw in our path.

Hiram Rogers Lloyd

Spirit Dancer · 07-11-2010, 10:05 AM

If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran

Oneida · 07-11-2010, 10:15 AM

"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past."

Anne Lamott

"You can either practice being right or practice being kind."

Anne Lamott

miss entycing · 07-11-2010, 11:27 AM

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”

~ Mae West

miss entycing · 07-11-2010, 11:34 AM

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”

“I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain dark things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

~ Pablo Neruda

Diva · 07-11-2010, 02:07 PM

Deep experience is never peaceful.

~Henry James

Diva · 07-11-2010, 02:10 PM

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

~Nhat Hanh

Kätzchen · 07-11-2010, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diva

Deep experience is never peaceful.

~Henry James

True, True, True!

*amen*

Thanks for this quote, ((((( DIVA ))))))

Diva · 07-11-2010, 08:26 PM

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

~Terri Guillemets

Jesse · 07-11-2010, 10:42 PM

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Jesse · 07-11-2010, 10:44 PM

This is one of my favorite quotes. This is for you Diva!

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

Kätzchen · 07-12-2010, 02:50 AM

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were saltprose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

Where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda

(out of all his poetry, I think this sonnet is exquisite)

07-09-2010, 02:41 PM	#2981
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	Any belief that creates fear or feelings of unworthiness is a lie! - Says ME __________________ “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.”

07-09-2010, 02:43 PM	#2982
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	If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld __________________ “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.”

07-11-2010, 10:02 AM	#2988
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	Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith--positive thinking--will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. Albert E. Cliffe __________________ “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

07-11-2010, 10:02 AM	#2989
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	Positive thinking is not always the easiest course of action when confronting difficulties. If, however, we can remain focused on keeping hope strong and not succumbing to negative influences, we will meet with success in dealing with anything life may throw in our path. Hiram Rogers Lloyd __________________ “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

07-11-2010, 10:05 AM	#2990
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	*If he is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. -- Kahlil Gibran* __________________ “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

07-09-2010, 03:09 PM	#2983
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	Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb .

07-09-2010, 09:15 PM	#2984
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: I’m devoted to my own wellness (lucky me) ツ Join Date: May 2010 Location: Blue Lady in a ruby red county Posts: 15,844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,606 Thanked 33,390 Times in 10,550 Posts Rep Power: 21474867	A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. -Salman Rushdie

07-10-2010, 04:26 PM	#2985
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	Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes

07-10-2010, 04:34 PM	#2986
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	To The Whore Who Took My Poems some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but jezus; twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have my paintings too, my best ones; its stifling: are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them? why didn't you take my money? they usually do from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner. next time take my left arm or a fifty but not my poems: I'm not Shakespeare but sometime simply there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise; there will always be money and whores and drunkards down to the last bomb, but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Charles Bukowski

07-10-2010, 06:07 PM	#2987
Enchantress Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A complex confection. Preferred Pronoun?: Miss Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The land of milk and honey. Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 741 Thanked 3,421 Times in 1,200 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"Avoid the crazy train at all costs. The tickets are cheap but the ride is long and scary"

07-11-2010, 10:15 AM	#2991
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	"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past." Anne Lamott "You can either practice being right or practice being kind." Anne Lamott

07-11-2010, 11:27 AM	#2992
miss entycing Senior Member How Do You Identify?: dangerous, but worth the risk. Preferred Pronoun?: just be nice.. it's that easy. Relationship Status: CapitalM's carved upon my skin. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: on the southern edge of sanity, under a carolina moon. Posts: 3,276 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,341 Thanked 8,263 Times in 2,254 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.” “Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.” ~ Mae West __________________ True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate their life, through devotion, to something beyond themselves. Whenever someone awakens fully, it affects human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a stone into a dark murky pond. Ripples of light... Not one word need be spoken.

07-11-2010, 11:34 AM	#2993
miss entycing Senior Member How Do You Identify?: dangerous, but worth the risk. Preferred Pronoun?: just be nice.. it's that easy. Relationship Status: CapitalM's carved upon my skin. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: on the southern edge of sanity, under a carolina moon. Posts: 3,276 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,341 Thanked 8,263 Times in 2,254 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	some favorites.... “I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” “I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ~ Pablo Neruda __________________ True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate their life, through devotion, to something beyond themselves. Whenever someone awakens fully, it affects human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a stone into a dark murky pond. Ripples of light... Not one word need be spoken.

07-11-2010, 02:07 PM	#2994
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	Deep experience is never peaceful. ~Henry James

07-11-2010, 02:10 PM	#2995
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	If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ~Nhat Hanh

07-11-2010, 08:26 PM	#2997
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	Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. ~Terri Guillemets

07-11-2010, 10:42 PM	#2998
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	An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi __________________ “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.”

07-11-2010, 10:44 PM	#2999
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	This is one of my favorite quotes. This is for you Diva! Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum __________________ “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.”

07-12-2010, 02:50 AM	#3000
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: I’m devoted to my own wellness (lucky me) ツ Join Date: May 2010 Location: Blue Lady in a ruby red county Posts: 15,844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,606 Thanked 33,390 Times in 10,550 Posts Rep Power: 21474867	Sonnet XVII I do not love you as if you were saltprose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: Where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. - Pablo Neruda (out of all his poetry, I think this sonnet is exquisite)