Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 26

Diva · 01-23-2010, 02:36 AM

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

~John Maxwell

Pixie · 01-23-2010, 07:37 AM

~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.
~ Anthony Robbins

Soon · 01-23-2010, 10:08 AM

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

--Mercedes Lackey

Mister Bent · 01-23-2010, 02:42 PM

When she sees his eyes later -- red and swollen
and faraway, she remembers the symmetry of the stars
at night, and whispers freely,
I don't know what to do with the poetry.
I don't know what to do with my body.
He tells her she has done it already.

- Fanny Howe

Soon · 01-24-2010, 09:23 AM

To Have Without Holding

Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.

It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles that feel
as if they are made of wet plaster,
then of blunt knives, then
of sharp knives.

It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch; to love and let
go again and again. It pesters to remember
the lover who is not in the bed,
to hold back what is owed to the work
that gutters like a candle in a cave
without air, to love consciously,
conscientiously, concretely, constructively.

I can't do it, you say it's killing
me, but you thrive, you glow
on the street like a neon raspberry,
You float and sail, a helium balloon
bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing
on the cold and hot winds of our breath,
as we make and unmake in passionate
diastole and systole the rhythm
of our unbound bonding, to have
and not to hold, to love
with minimized malice, hunger
and anger moment by moment balanced.

--Sharon Olds

Diva · 01-24-2010, 09:34 AM

Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.

~Buddha

Diva · 01-24-2010, 09:35 AM

Happiness is not a station to arrive at,
but a manner of traveling.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Mister Bent · 01-24-2010, 01:22 PM

I wasn’t exactly sure how to tap into this subterranean sea that I sensed (or, rather, hoped) lay beneath my crusty separate self like an aquifer beneath a desert. I had no divining rod except a raggedy sort of faith in the power of love - the pure stuff, not the compromised cupfuls we flavor and bottle and hand out in small portions and sometimes take back.

- Jan Shoemaker

Semantics · 01-24-2010, 02:28 PM

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pixie · 01-24-2010, 08:48 PM

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone”- Sam Levenson

Diva · 01-25-2010, 04:53 AM

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

~William Shakespeare

Diva · 01-25-2010, 04:55 AM

There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

daisygrrl · 01-25-2010, 05:42 AM

"I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship."
~ Louise May Alcott

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
~ Annie Dillard

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
~ William Durant

jenny · 01-25-2010, 09:40 AM

"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." ~ Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure"

hippieflowergirl · 01-25-2010, 03:12 PM

human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted

martin luther king, jr.

Andrew, Jr. · 01-25-2010, 04:10 PM

"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet. "

MrSunshine · 01-25-2010, 05:23 PM

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

~Doris Lessing

Jet · 01-25-2010, 05:30 PM

Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is love. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The Oversoul

FeminineAllure · 01-25-2010, 07:53 PM

“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
MWhitner Calvin & Hobbes quotes

Diva · 01-26-2010, 07:48 AM

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile
is very important in our day~to~day lives.
How one creates that smile largely
depends on one's own attitude.
It is illogical to expect smiles from others
if one does not smile oneself.
Therefore, one can see that many things
depend on one's own behavior.

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

01-23-2010, 07:37 AM	#502
Pixie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Equal Opportunity Friend Preferred Pronoun?: Girl Relationship Status: in service Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sacramento! Posts: 2,868 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,691 Thanked 4,103 Times in 1,332 Posts Rep Power: 15274784	~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. *~ Anthony Robbins* __________________ Unexplored glimmering in the rough How does a diamond hide? -Pixie-

01-23-2010, 02:42 PM	#504
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	When she sees his eyes later -- red and swollen and faraway, she remembers the symmetry of the stars at night, and whispers freely, I don't know what to do with the poetry. I don't know what to do with my body. He tells her she has done it already. - Fanny Howe __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

01-24-2010, 01:22 PM	#508
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,825 Times in 1,722 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	The Pure Stuff I wasn’t exactly sure how to tap into this subterranean sea that I sensed (or, rather, hoped) lay beneath my crusty separate self like an aquifer beneath a desert. I had no divining rod except a raggedy sort of faith in the power of love - the pure stuff, not the compromised cupfuls we flavor and bottle and hand out in small portions and sometimes take back. - Jan Shoemaker __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

01-24-2010, 08:48 PM	#510
Pixie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Equal Opportunity Friend Preferred Pronoun?: Girl Relationship Status: in service Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sacramento! Posts: 2,868 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,691 Thanked 4,103 Times in 1,332 Posts Rep Power: 15274784	“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone”- *Sam Levenson* __________________ Unexplored glimmering in the rough How does a diamond hide? -Pixie-

01-25-2010, 04:55 AM	#512
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	<smile> There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. ~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

01-23-2010, 02:36 AM	#501
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 we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ~John Maxwell

01-23-2010, 10:08 AM	#503
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” --Mercedes Lackey

01-24-2010, 09:23 AM	#505
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	*To Have Without Holding* Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds that thwack like rubber bands in an open palm. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles that feel as if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, then of sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It pesters to remember the lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the work that gutters like a candle in a cave without air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killing me, but you thrive, you glow on the street like a neon raspberry, You float and sail, a helium balloon bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing on the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionate diastole and systole the rhythm of our unbound bonding, to have and not to hold, to love with minimized malice, hunger and anger moment by moment balanced. --Sharon Olds

01-24-2010, 09:34 AM	#506
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	Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods. ~Buddha

01-24-2010, 09:35 AM	#507
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	Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

01-24-2010, 02:28 PM	#509
Semantics Senior Member How Do You Identify?: malapropist Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New England Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,367 Thanked 3,968 Times in 1,201 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

01-25-2010, 04:53 AM	#511
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	God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare

01-25-2010, 05:42 AM	#513
daisygrrl Member How Do You Identify?: mouthy but adorable; kinky Gerbera Preferred Pronoun?: hey, cutie (or dudette) Relationship Status: xoxo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The South (Gooogia peach) Posts: 475 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,157 Thanked 525 Times in 223 Posts Rep Power: 1065210	"I am not afraid of storms, I am learning to sail my own ship." ~ Louise May Alcott "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Annie Dillard "Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." ~ William Durant __________________ You can’t change that system by just getting your own rights, tinkering with the engine and leaving. You have to take on the whole machine. --Riki Anne Wilchins Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain. --Leslie Feinberg

01-25-2010, 09:40 AM	#514
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	"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." ~ Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure" __________________ "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.

01-25-2010, 03:12 PM	#515
hippieflowergirl Member How Do You Identify?: ~ Preferred Pronoun?: ~ Relationship Status: ~ Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ~ Posts: 424 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 461 Thanked 467 Times in 176 Posts Rep Power: 274206	human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted martin luther king, jr.

01-25-2010, 04:10 PM	#516
Andrew, Jr. Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Me Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Over the Rainbow in a House Posts: 5,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,004 Thanked 5,249 Times in 2,216 Posts Rep Power: 0	"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man with no feet. "

01-25-2010, 05:23 PM	#517
MrSunshine Senior Member How Do You Identify?: The Gardner Preferred Pronoun?: Ummmm Relationship Status: Nah Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sunshine State, State of Sunshine Posts: 2,616 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,577 Thanked 3,891 Times in 1,155 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ~Doris Lessing

01-25-2010, 05:30 PM	#518
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Within us is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. When it breaks through our intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through our will, it is virtue; when it flows through our affections, it is love. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The Oversoul

01-25-2010, 07:53 PM	#519
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.” MWhitner Calvin & Hobbes quotes __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-26-2010, 07:48 AM	#520
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	I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day~to~day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behavior. ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama