Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Janstevie]

Five rules to follow for a happy life:

1. It's important to have a woman , who helps at home , who cooks from time to time , cleans up and has a job.

2. It's important to have a woman , who can make you laugh.

3. It's important to have a woman , who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important to have a woman , who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.

5. It's very , very important that these four women do not know each other.

[jenny]

"This is a really volcanic ensemble you're wearing, it's really marvelous!" ~ Duckie Dale, "Pretty in Pink"

"I know I'm old enough to be his mother, but when the Duck laid that kiss on me last night, I swear my thighs just went up in flames! He must practice on melons or something." ~ Iona, "Pretty in Pink

[Kätzchen]

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds and that’s what you’ve given me.”

~ from the movie, The Notebook

[Spirit Dancer]

One of Dr. Johnson’s ingredients of happiness was, “A little less time than you want.” That means always to have so many things you
want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough
for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed.

Helen Hunt Jackson

[Spirit Dancer]

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand. . .
and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Edith Beynon

[Spirit Dancer]

To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake

[Just_G]

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken

[Just_G]

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ~Zora Neale Hurston

[Just_G]

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. ~Terri Guillemets

[CrankyOldGuy]

You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky - Stanley Kowalski

[jenny]

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

[Enchantress]

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"

~ Phillip Morris

[Pixie]

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. -Dante

[Random]

Nasreddin Hodja's two wives were constantly asking him which one of them was his favorite.

"I love you both the same," was always his answer, but they did not accept this answer, and asked him repeatedly, "Which one of us do you love the most?"

Finally he secretly gave each of them a blue bead, privately instructing each woman that she should tell no one of the gift.

After that whenever either of the wives would ask him, "Which one of us is your favorite wife?" he would answer, "I love best the one to whom I gave the blue bead," and each was satisfied.

Turkish Folk Tale..

Tales of the Hodja...

[Random]

My baba used to tell me stories of the Hodja when I was a lil girl.. This was my favorite..

The Cauldron That Died
Nasreddin Hodja, having need for a large cooking container, borrowed his neighbor's copper cauldron, then returned it in a timely manner.

"What is this?" asked his neighbor upon examining the returned cauldron. "There is a small pot inside my cauldron."

"Oh," responded the Hodja. "While it was in my care your cauldron gave birth to a little one. Because you are the owner of the mother cauldron, it is only right that you should keep its baby. And in any event, it would not be right to separate the child from its mother at such a young age."

The neighbor, thinking that the Hodja had gone quite mad, did not argue. Whatever had caused the crazy man to come up with this explanation, the neighbor had a nice little pot, and it had cost him nothing.

Some time later the Hodja asked to borrow the cauldron again.

"Why not?" thought the neighbor to himself. "Perhaps there will be another little pot inside when he returns it."

But this time the Hodja did not return the cauldron. After many days had passed, the neighbor went to the Hodja and asked for the return of the borrowed cauldron.

"My dear friend," replied the Hodja. "I have bad news. Your cauldron has died, and is now in her grave."

"What are you saying?" shouted the neighbor. A cauldron does not live, and it cannot die. Return it to me at once!"

"One moment!" answered the Hodja. "This is the same cauldron that but a short time ago gave birth to a child, a child that is still in your possession. If a cauldron can give birth to a child, then it also can die."

And the neighbor never again saw his cauldron.

[JakeTulane]

"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other." - H. G. Wells

[JakeTulane]

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?" - Kahlil Gibran

[JakeTulane]

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning." - Lao Tzu

[jenny]

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~Carl Jung

[Janstevie]

Dont miss the doughnut by looking through the hole.