Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 295

Ms. Meander · 03-31-2011, 07:34 AM

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Mr.Nobody · 03-31-2011, 02:50 PM

Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

StillettoDoll · 03-31-2011, 07:01 PM

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -- Mark Twain

Jesse · 03-31-2011, 07:31 PM

“Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not” - Anon

Jesse · 03-31-2011, 08:16 PM

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Jesse · 03-31-2011, 08:36 PM

“Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” Jeb Dickerson

Miss Scarlett · 04-01-2011, 04:33 AM

Received yesterday from a dear and wise old friend:

I AM MY OWN PERSON

Today I know that I am not at anybody else’s mercy.
Nobody has power over me unless I give it to them.
And today I absolutely chose not to allow that to happen.
This goes for people, places, organizations and things.
Nobody can control me unless I say so.
Nobody determines what I do or where I go unless I willing to let that happen.
In order to become a victim one first must assume the position.

Today I take pride that I am my own person.
This does not mean that I do not consult with people or even depend on them on certain things in certain ways.
What this does mean is that I am my own person and I do tap into my own personal Power and exercise my right to do so.
It is not only my right - it is my Spiritual responsibility.
And So It Is.

Miss Scarlett · 04-01-2011, 04:35 AM

This morning from the same friend:

I LOVE MY BODY

Today I embrace the health that I have.
I know that my body is “picture perfect”.
I embody all the qualities that God is therefore,
I AM the same as GOD IS.
I know that I AM all that GOD IS.
My expressions are pure and perfect.
I praise the health that I have.
I embrace the wholeness that I am.
God is good, so am I
and so it is.

Mister Bent · 04-01-2011, 08:47 AM

Our dead skin is flaking away and leaving us, our cells dying and vanishing. More silver in my hair daily.
Dust of our lives, eye grit, detritus - we are too lost in its swirl to notice how many worlds there are within
two people. And how, when those worlds touch, the whole web lights up, every strand. And it was dust
we fought about so bitterly: dust on the piano keys, under the coffee table, insinuating itself into the
computer keyboard. Dust that may be vanquished for a day or two but always returns, creeping,
seeping, too humble to be humiliated and thus invincible. Dust of our own bodies, their seat and longing,
illuminated in a stream of sunlight just for a moment.

Alison Luterman

Andrew, Jr. · 04-01-2011, 11:04 AM

I wonder'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales & hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

This is from William Wordsworth's "Daffodils".

foxyshaman · 04-01-2011, 11:20 AM

Luck is what happens when Fate gets tired of waiting.

Jesse · 04-02-2011, 04:08 AM

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved

Jesse · 04-02-2011, 04:11 AM

Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992

Jesse · 04-02-2011, 04:19 AM

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
~Eustache Deschamps

Mister Bent · 04-02-2011, 07:15 AM

There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint.
You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

- Orson Welles

Sparkle · 04-02-2011, 09:52 AM

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Tom Robbins

Diva · 04-02-2011, 11:42 AM

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

~Anne Sexton

violaine · 04-02-2011, 12:38 PM

"'come to the edge', he said.
they said, 'We are afraid'.
'come to the edge', he said.
they came.
he pushed them...
and they flew."
- - Guillaume Apollinaire

DamselFly · 04-02-2011, 02:10 PM

words are energy
gather, store, and offer them
with utmost care

(Taoist saying)

girl_dee · 04-02-2011, 02:11 PM

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~Robert Brault

03-31-2011, 07:34 AM	#5881
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,218 Times in 1,148 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

03-31-2011, 02:50 PM	#5882
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. __________________ Noblesse oblige...

03-31-2011, 07:01 PM	#5883
StillettoDoll Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Lady Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 2,824 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,779 Thanked 3,871 Times in 1,479 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. -- Mark Twain __________________

03-31-2011, 07:31 PM	#5884
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	“Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not” - Anon __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

03-31-2011, 08:16 PM	#5885
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

03-31-2011, 08:36 PM	#5886
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	“Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” Jeb Dickerson __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

04-01-2011, 04:33 AM	#5887
Miss Scarlett Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: . Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: . Posts: 5,530 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,478 Thanked 12,947 Times in 3,419 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Received yesterday from a dear and wise old friend: I AM MY OWN PERSON Today I know that I am not at anybody else’s mercy. Nobody has power over me unless I give it to them. And today I absolutely chose not to allow that to happen. This goes for people, places, organizations and things. Nobody can control me unless I say so. Nobody determines what I do or where I go unless I willing to let that happen. In order to become a victim one first must assume the position. Today I take pride that I am my own person. This does not mean that I do not consult with people or even depend on them on certain things in certain ways. What this does mean is that I am my own person and I do tap into my own personal Power and exercise my right to do so. It is not only my right - it is my Spiritual responsibility. And So It Is.

04-01-2011, 04:35 AM	#5888
Miss Scarlett Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: . Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: . Posts: 5,530 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,478 Thanked 12,947 Times in 3,419 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	This morning from the same friend: I LOVE MY BODY Today I embrace the health that I have. I know that my body is “picture perfect”. I embody all the qualities that God is therefore, I AM the same as GOD IS. I know that I AM all that GOD IS. My expressions are pure and perfect. I praise the health that I have. I embrace the wholeness that I am. God is good, so am I and so it is.

04-01-2011, 08:47 AM	#5889
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 1,721 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	From "Dust" Our dead skin is flaking away and leaving us, our cells dying and vanishing. More silver in my hair daily. Dust of our lives, eye grit, detritus - we are too lost in its swirl to notice how many worlds there are within two people. And how, when those worlds touch, the whole web lights up, every strand. And it was dust we fought about so bitterly: dust on the piano keys, under the coffee table, insinuating itself into the computer keyboard. Dust that may be vanquished for a day or two but always returns, creeping, seeping, too humble to be humiliated and thus invincible. Dust of our own bodies, their seat and longing, illuminated in a stream of sunlight just for a moment. Alison Luterman __________________ 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

04-01-2011, 11:04 AM	#5890
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 5,250 Times in 2,217 Posts Rep Power: 0	Ode to the Daffodil... I wonder'd lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales & hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. This is from William Wordsworth's "Daffodils".

04-01-2011, 11:20 AM	#5891
foxyshaman Member How Do You Identify?: spiritually minded dirt dog Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: canada Posts: 898 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,957 Thanked 2,593 Times in 663 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Luck is what happens when Fate gets tired of waiting. __________________ Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Muriel Strode

04-02-2011, 04:08 AM	#5892
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

04-02-2011, 04:11 AM	#5893
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992 __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

04-02-2011, 04:19 AM	#5894
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

04-02-2011, 07:15 AM	#5895
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 1,721 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. - Orson Welles __________________ 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

04-02-2011, 09:52 AM	#5896
Sparkle Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please Relationship Status: Loved Up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Western MA Posts: 2,183 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,001 Thanked 6,562 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. Tom Robbins __________________ I am made of stars

04-02-2011, 11:42 AM	#5897
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	Stolen from Papa! Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton

04-02-2011, 12:38 PM	#5898
violaine Timed Out How Do You Identify?: atypical Preferred Pronoun?: plague words and phrases Relationship Status: love wise guys of the avian world Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: wekiva springs basin Posts: 3,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,934 Thanked 3,293 Times in 1,301 Posts Rep Power: 0	"'come to the edge', he said. they said, 'We are afraid'. 'come to the edge', he said. they came. he pushed them... and they flew." - - Guillaume Apollinaire

04-02-2011, 02:10 PM	#5899
DamselFly Member How Do You Identify?: QueerStoneFemme Preferred Pronoun?: Ma'am or Damsel Relationship Status: single Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: hovering here and there Posts: 259 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,053 Thanked 771 Times in 199 Posts Rep Power: 396593	utmost care words are energy gather, store, and offer them with utmost care (Taoist saying) __________________ so long as space remains so long as sentient beings remain i will remain in order to help, to serve, to make my own contribution (Buddhist prayer, a favorite of H.H.)

04-02-2011, 02:11 PM	#5900
girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,861 Times in 13,915 Posts Rep Power: 21474873	Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. ~Robert Brault