Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 329

always2late · 05-28-2011, 05:54 PM

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

JakeTulane · 05-29-2011, 06:30 AM

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Diva · 05-29-2011, 06:31 AM

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

~Buddha

JakeTulane · 05-29-2011, 06:31 AM

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." ~Victor Hugo

JakeTulane · 05-29-2011, 06:34 AM

"Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away." ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Ms. Tabitha · 05-29-2011, 12:00 PM

Sometimes in our flower bed of life, we have to get rid of the weeds

always2late · 05-29-2011, 05:57 PM

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrould

Elijah · 05-29-2011, 08:21 PM

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Elijah · 05-29-2011, 08:41 PM

I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Translated by Stephen Tapscott

~Pablo Neruda

Reader · 05-29-2011, 10:20 PM

Someone I know said to me recently:

"Sure. It's easy to love someone who's lovable. But, it's hard to love someone who is difficult. The real challenge is to try and love a difficult person."

jenny · 05-30-2011, 06:16 AM

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

FeminineAllure · 05-30-2011, 07:56 AM

Some pursue happiness, others create it.

JakeTulane · 05-30-2011, 08:05 AM

"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do." - Phillips Brooks

JakeTulane · 05-30-2011, 08:06 AM

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

JakeTulane · 05-30-2011, 08:07 AM

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly." - Richard Bach

always2late · 05-30-2011, 06:03 PM

What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people. - Aristotle

Fancy · 05-30-2011, 08:33 PM

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” Etty Hillesum

Elijah · 05-30-2011, 09:28 PM

Spanish Moss

hangs in the heavy night air
haunting and beguiling
I watch
enamored
she begins to sway
to call out
almost taunting
I hesitate
watching her sultry dance
pulling Me to her
I take refuge
under her canopy
I lie under her
staring up
into her
most
intimate places
I feel her
all around Me
and drift
off
to sleep

in the morning
slivers of light
awaken Me
and I know
I must go

I now know
too much
you see

~ERS

JakeTulane · 05-31-2011, 07:00 AM

"All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why." ~James Thurber

JakeTulane · 05-31-2011, 07:01 AM

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

05-28-2011, 05:54 PM	#6561
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. - Robert Frost __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

05-29-2011, 05:57 PM	#6567
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrould __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

05-29-2011, 08:21 PM	#6568
Elijah Member How Do You Identify?: Genderqueer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: Open to healthy possibilities... Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 554 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 738 Thanked 1,629 Times in 393 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you” ~Friedrich Nietzsche __________________ "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." ~Washington Irving

05-29-2011, 08:41 PM	#6569
Elijah Member How Do You Identify?: Genderqueer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: Open to healthy possibilities... Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 554 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 738 Thanked 1,629 Times in 393 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue. Translated by Stephen Tapscott ~Pablo Neruda __________________ "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." ~Washington Irving

05-30-2011, 06:16 AM	#6571
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	Thank you, to those who have served. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy __________________ "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.

05-29-2011, 06:30 AM	#6562
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	"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

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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	It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ~Buddha

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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	"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." ~Victor Hugo

05-29-2011, 06:34 AM	#6565
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	"Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away." ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

05-29-2011, 12:00 PM	#6566
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05-29-2011, 10:20 PM	#6570
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05-30-2011, 07:56 AM	#6572
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	Some pursue happiness, others create it. __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

05-30-2011, 08:05 AM	#6573
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	"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do." - Phillips Brooks

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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	"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

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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	"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly." - Richard Bach

05-30-2011, 06:03 PM	#6576
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people. - Aristotle __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

05-30-2011, 08:33 PM	#6577
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05-30-2011, 09:28 PM	#6578
Elijah Member How Do You Identify?: Genderqueer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: Open to healthy possibilities... Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 554 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 738 Thanked 1,629 Times in 393 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Spanish Moss hangs in the heavy night air haunting and beguiling I watch enamored she begins to sway to call out almost taunting I hesitate watching her sultry dance pulling Me to her I take refuge under her canopy I lie under her staring up into her most intimate places I feel her all around Me and drift off to sleep in the morning slivers of light awaken Me and I know I must go I now know too much you see ~ERS __________________ "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." ~Washington Irving

05-31-2011, 07:00 AM	#6579
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	"All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." ~James Thurber

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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	"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry