Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[SuperFemme]

“Not only do physically disabled people have experiences which are not available to the able-bodied, they are in a better position to transcend cultural mythologies about the body, because they cannot do things the able-bodied feel they must do in order to be happy, ‘normal,’ and sane….If disabled people were truly heard, an explosion of knowledge of the human body and psyche would take place.” – Susan Wendell

[Janstevie]

Lead me not into Temptation... i know a short cut follow me.

[Leigh]

[Mister Bent]

"Someone needs to get down on my Johnson."

- Liam, True Blood, Season 1 Episdoe 3

[BestButchBoy]

I could drink a case of you darling
and I’d still be on my feet.

~Joni Mitchell

[Duchess]

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Rhonda Britten
Founder, Fearless Living Institute

[Nat]

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shops and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you

ee cummings

[Kätzchen]

When I die if you need to weep
Cry for your brother or sister
Walking the street beside you:
And when you need me put your arms around anyone
And give them what you need to give me.

I want to leave you something -
Something better than words or sounds.

Look for me in the people I've known or loved
And if you cannot give me away
At least let me live in your eyes and not on your mind.

You can love me most by letting hands touch hands;
By letting bodies touch bodies;
And by letting go of children that need to be free.

Love doesn't die; people do.
So when all that's left of me is love,
Give me away.

-Merritt Malloy

[Arwen]

Worry about the Amazon - it's the lungs of the world. Destroy it and we destroy the world. Come here and see for yourself. Hire local people to take you into the jungle like me and we will have an alternative source of income through tourism. Moises "Baruga" Soria Huane (Peruvian logger)

From http://www.walkingtheamazon.com

[Jesse]

"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." -Jonathan Carroll

[gotoseagrl]

being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land

(do lovers suffer?all divinities
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad?only their smallest joy's
a universe emerging from a wish)

love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star

- -do lovers love?why then to heaven with hell.
whatever sages say and fools,all's well

ee cummings

[Jesse]

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.
Muriel Rukeyser

[jenny]

"she held her grief behind her eyes like an ocean & when she leaned forward into the day it spilled onto the floor & she wiped at it quickly with her foot & pretended no one had seen." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"

[JakeTulane]

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama

[JakeTulane]

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius

[JakeTulane]

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott

[JakeTulane]

""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." - Louisa May Alcott


"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

[jenny]

"i sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & i think to myself, this is one thing i will never regret & i carry that quiet with me all day long." ~ Brian Andreas [Storypeople]

[jenny]

"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of other houses, a yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back, with wonder." ~ Kevin Arnold, "The Wonder Years"

[Diva]

One day, a scorpion looked around and decided that he wanted a change. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. "Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?" But knowing all about scorpians, the frog said, "If I let you on my back, you will sting me and kill me!" The scorpian argued, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!" Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. "Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN sting me & kill me?" said the frog. "Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!" So the frog agreed to take the scorpian across the river. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws sticking into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current. Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. "You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?" The scorpion shrugged, "I could not help myself. I'm a scorpian, it is my nature." Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

~Attributed to Aesop