Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Janstevie]

When the world tells you to "give up" Hope whispers " try one more time"

[CrankyOldGuy]

"The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals." ~Gandhi

[Miss Scarlett]

From a very wise and dear friend:

I know that Spirit is guiding me at all times.
I feel this Divine Flow within me right now.

I stay aware of the fact that I am being guided
and led in exactly the right way.
I follow what I know is my path.

I stay calm and serene regardless of what is happening
on the outside of me.
I view these events as exactly what they are: Events.

They really have nothing to do with me.
What is important is my inner state.

Today I feed my inner self the soul food that I need to live
and breathe from a mode of peace and harmony.
I can do this because I completely trust my inner guidance.

And so it is...
Peace

[hpychick]

"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"
— Virginia Woolf

[Kätzchen]

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it,"

- Toni Morrison

[Diva]

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

~Albert Einstein

[Miss Scarlett]

From my friend:

SELF-FORGIVENESS

Today I practice self-forgiveness.
I realize that I am human being and that I will have human experiences.
As I forgive myself I release any and all negative thoughts
and feelings that I may be harboring about me,
about you or really about anything.

As I do this I create a vacuum within myself
that is quickly within myself
that is filled with love, peace and joy.
This is where I want to be
and this is where I go
and this is where I remain.

The most important thing for me
is to have my life filled with
love, peace and understanding.
Today this is this most important thing for me to remember
and I do so.

And so it is.

[girl_dee]

~ You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. ~

Oprah Winfrey

[2myladyblue]

Buddha: To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras (circa 582-507 B.C.)Greek philosopher, mathematician, mystic"Father of Vegetarianism"

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." ~Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President

"My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension."~BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)American statesman, inventor and author

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.... ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

-Blue

[Spirit Dancer]

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am
not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what
light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right;
stand with them while they are right and part
with them when they go wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

[Spirit Dancer]

As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the
soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves
more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look
into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look
through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a
glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our
breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

[Miss Scarlett]

I Am Not I

I am not I
I am this one
Walking beside me whom I do not see,
Whom at times I manage to visit,
And whom at other times I forget;
Who remains calm and silent while I talk,
And forgives, gently, when I hate,
Who walks where I am not,
Who will remain standing when I die.

From Lorca and Jimenez: Selected Poems by
Juan Ramon Jimenez, translated by Robert Bly

[Janstevie]

Friends are like bra's, close to your heart and there for support.

[Ms. Meander]

“That’s the night I slept on a cheese sandwich to keep my dignity.”
- Liz Tuccillo: Unpopular In Jail, The Moth podcast

[Fancy]

No one as yet had approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

-Rudyard Kipling

[Diva]

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

~Fran Lebowitz

[Diva]

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

~Paulo Coelho

[Janstevie]

God bless you Elizabeth Taylor.

[wolfbittenpoet]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

Thank you Jack Kerouac. Forever your ghost gives me a feeling of not being alone amongst the shelves.

[Miss Scarlett]

My Mom's favourite poem.

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Dylan Thomas