Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 217

Tucker · 10-13-2010, 07:25 AM

"Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait."

Nat · 10-13-2010, 07:55 AM

The Wild Swans at Coole

W B Yeats

THE trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty Swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?

jenny · 10-13-2010, 08:00 AM

“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” - Alice M. Swaim

Tucker · 10-13-2010, 08:03 AM

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
— Augusten Burroughs

jenny · 10-13-2010, 10:17 AM

"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season." ~ Wu-Men

Butterbean · 10-13-2010, 10:18 AM

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

~e.e. cummings, 1955

Charming Texan · 10-13-2010, 06:31 PM

We submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us.

- Edmund Burke

Butterbean · 10-14-2010, 01:40 AM

*looks at all the wreakage of tampons, midol pills, chocolate and heating pads* *shakes head* War is hell*"

-Bad_Boi

JakeTulane · 10-14-2010, 04:46 AM

"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to form a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." - Abigail Adams

JakeTulane · 10-14-2010, 04:47 AM

"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights." - Inez Milholland, Suffragist 1909

JakeTulane · 10-14-2010, 04:48 AM

"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own." - Joyce Carol Oates

Tucker · 10-14-2010, 07:36 AM

"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones."
— Augusten Burroughs

jenny · 10-14-2010, 08:35 AM

"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else
in life." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fancy · 10-14-2010, 09:51 AM

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.

Diva · 10-14-2010, 10:44 AM

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

~George Sand

Diva · 10-14-2010, 10:47 AM

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

~Sissela Bok

Diva · 10-14-2010, 11:55 AM

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

~Cynthia Heimel

jenny · 10-14-2010, 12:41 PM

"You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know when it will all be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

JAGG · 10-14-2010, 09:56 PM

Once I thought that life was beauty,
I woke and found that life was duty.

JAGG · 10-14-2010, 09:59 PM

" When life brings you lemons,
Find the guy who's life has brought him vodka."

10-13-2010, 07:25 AM	#4321
Tucker Member How Do You Identify?: A pretty little thing Preferred Pronoun?: Fatale Relationship Status: Independently owned and operated Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Afternoons in Utopia. Posts: 832 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 1,293 Times in 486 Posts Rep Power: 3051091	Augusten Burroughs "Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait."

10-13-2010, 07:55 AM	#4322
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender Preferred Pronoun?: whatevs Relationship Status: in a relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tx Posts: 3,535 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,042 Thanked 13,967 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	The Wild Swans at Coole W B Yeats THE trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty Swans. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings. I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All's changed since I, hearing at twilight, The first time on this shore, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread. Unwearied still, lover by lover, They paddle in the cold Companionable streams or climb the air; Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still. But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful; Among what rushes will they build, By what lake's edge or pool Delight men's eyes when I awake some day To find they have flown away? __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl

10-13-2010, 08:00 AM	#4323
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” - Alice M. Swaim __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-13-2010, 08:03 AM	#4324
Tucker Member How Do You Identify?: A pretty little thing Preferred Pronoun?: Fatale Relationship Status: Independently owned and operated Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Afternoons in Utopia. Posts: 832 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 1,293 Times in 486 Posts Rep Power: 3051091	Magical Thinking "I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions." — Augusten Burroughs

10-13-2010, 10:17 AM	#4325
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season." ~ Wu-Men __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-13-2010, 10:18 AM	#4326
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	To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

10-13-2010, 06:31 PM	#4327
Charming Texan Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Mister Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Austin Posts: 228 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 85 Thanked 269 Times in 117 Posts Rep Power: 2116591	We submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us. - Edmund Burke __________________ Beauty is quite different from charm, beauty is what you notice in a woman, charm is when a woman notices you.

10-14-2010, 01:40 AM	#4328
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	looks at all the wreakage of tampons, midol pills, chocolate and heating pads shakes head War is hell*" -Bad_Boi

10-14-2010, 04:46 AM	#4329
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10-14-2010, 04:47 AM	#4330
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	"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights." - Inez Milholland, Suffragist 1909

10-14-2010, 04:48 AM	#4331
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	"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own." - Joyce Carol Oates Last edited by JakeTulane; 10-14-2010 at 04:52 AM.

10-14-2010, 07:36 AM	#4332
Tucker Member How Do You Identify?: A pretty little thing Preferred Pronoun?: Fatale Relationship Status: Independently owned and operated Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Afternoons in Utopia. Posts: 832 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 1,293 Times in 486 Posts Rep Power: 3051091	Dry. "Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones." — Augusten Burroughs

10-14-2010, 08:35 AM	#4333
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-14-2010, 09:51 AM	#4334
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	Honey, I'm hoooome.... A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.

10-14-2010, 10:44 AM	#4335
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	Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ~George Sand

10-14-2010, 10:47 AM	#4336
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	Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ~Sissela Bok

10-14-2010, 11:55 AM	#4337
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	Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. ~Cynthia Heimel

10-14-2010, 12:41 PM	#4338
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know when it will all be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-14-2010, 09:56 PM	#4339
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,534 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	poem Once I thought that life was beauty, I woke and found that life was duty. __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

10-14-2010, 09:59 PM	#4340
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,534 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Lemons " When life brings you lemons, Find the guy who's life has brought him vodka." __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.