Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Mr.Nobody]

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard

[justkim]

- Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is Love, enjoy it! -
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba -
(RIP, November 23, 1926 – April 24, 2011)

[justkim]

- No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. -
– Buddha -

[Butterbean]

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.


~Wernher Von Braun

[Mr.Nobody]

I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to"— Leonard Peltier

[Mr.Nobody]

Sacred Words Of Motherhood

I've carried children within my body. Slept with babies on my chest. I've kissed boo boos & mended broken hearts. I've been puked on, peed on, pooped on & spent sleepless nights in the rocking chair. But I wouldn't have it any other way. My body is far from magazine perfect, but when I look in the mirror I see a MOM, & there is no greater honor or blessing!!

Joslynn Lurie-Santa Cruz

[violaine]

Under der linden

an der heide,

dâ unser zweier bette was,

dâ mugt ir vinden

schône beide

gebrochen bluomen unde gras.

vor dem wald in einem tal,

tandaradei,

schône sanc diu nahtegal


--Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170–c. 1230)

[justkim]

- The truth is, we make a mistake when we think that generations can be separated. The truth is you need me so that I have shoulders you can stand on, and we need you because you have shoulders somebody else can stand on. We are one. -
- Maya Angelou -

[Kätzchen]

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief . . . and unspeakable love,"

~ Washington Irving

[JakeTulane]

"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment." - Samuel Alexander

[JakeTulane]

"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." -Diane Arbus

[JakeTulane]

"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood." - Lionel Trilling

[wolfbittenpoet]

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide your madness." Allen Ginsberg

[Corkey]

I have seen the future, and they are us.
~~Me, after watching Stargate Universe last night.

[wolfbittenpoet]

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

[Butterbean]

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

~Toni Morrison

[UofMfan]

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.” ~ Paulo Coelho

[justkim]

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake

[JakeTulane]

"It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." - Wendell Berry

[JakeTulane]

"It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." - Marion Zimmer Bradley