Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 330

JakeTulane · 05-31-2011, 07:02 AM

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." ~Charles Caleb

Latino.Hrt · 05-31-2011, 09:44 AM

-while it is always important to honor what we’ve lost-sometimes a loss can also represent a chance for a new beginning-

Janstevie · 05-31-2011, 12:33 PM

War will cease when people refuse to fight.

gotoseagrl · 05-31-2011, 01:42 PM

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin

gotoseagrl · 05-31-2011, 01:44 PM

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner

Sparkle · 05-31-2011, 04:26 PM

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself;
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Song of Myself - Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

smouldering · 05-31-2011, 04:31 PM

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ~Sheila Graham

Elijah · 05-31-2011, 08:01 PM

It Is Spring Again

It is spring, And the ledger is opened again.
From the abyss where they were frozen,
those days suddenly return, those days
that passed away from your lips, that died
with all our kisses, unaccounted.
The roses return: they are your fragrance;
they are the blood of your lovers.
Sorrow returns. I go through my pain
and the agony of friends still lost in the memory
of moon-silver arms, the caresses of vanished women.
I go through page after page. There are no answers,
and spring has come once again asking
the same questions, reopening account after account.

~Faiz Ahmed Faiz

StillettoDoll · 06-01-2011, 04:26 AM

I don't have hobbies, I have interests. Hobbies cost money. Interests are free.
George Carlin

StillettoDoll · 06-01-2011, 04:37 AM

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

George Carlin

shadows papa · 06-01-2011, 04:57 AM

"And it all comes true,yes it all comes true, like a wheel inside a wheel it turns on you. And you think 'what have I done? What can I do?'. What you believe about yourself it all comes true" John Mellencamp

JakeTulane · 06-01-2011, 05:36 AM

"A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration." - Richard Schickel

JakeTulane · 06-01-2011, 05:37 AM

"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins." - Franz Kafka

JakeTulane · 06-01-2011, 05:38 AM

"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed." - Lajos Kossuth

always2late · 06-01-2011, 06:59 AM

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

UofMfan · 06-01-2011, 06:59 AM

Quiza fue una hecatombe de esperanzas
un derrumbe de algun modo previsto
ah pero mi tristeza solo tuvo un sentido

todas mis intuiciones se asomaron
para verme sufrir
y por cierto me vieron

hasta aqui habia hecho y rehecho
mis trayectos contigo
hasta aqui habia apostado
a inventar la verdad
pero vos encontraste la manera
una manera tierna
y a la vez implacable
de desahuciar mi amor

con un solo pronostico lo quitaste
de los suburbios de tu vida posible
lo envolviste en nostalgias
lo cargaste por cuadras y cuadras
y despacito
sin que el aire nocturno lo advirtiera
ahi nomas lo dejaste
a solas con su suerte
que no es mucha

creo que tenes razon
la culpa es de uno cuando no enamora
y no de los pretextos
ni del tiempo

hace mucho muchisimo
que yo no me enfrentaba
como anoche al espejo
y fue implacable como vos
mas no fue tierno

ahora estoy solo
francamente
solo

siempre cuesta un poquito
empezar a sentirse desgraciado

antes de regresar
a mis lobregos cuarteles de invierno

con los ojos bien secos
por si acaso

miro como te vas adentrando en la niebla
y empiezo a recordarte. ~ Mario Benedetti

Arwen · 06-01-2011, 09:17 AM

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

Fancy · 06-01-2011, 09:21 AM

"Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be."

— David M. Eagleman (Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives)

FeminineAllure · 06-01-2011, 12:50 PM

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.”
August Wilson

Nat · 06-01-2011, 01:18 PM

"You may not have a son, but you have a symbolic son. I have been the avatar of several people's symbolic son. You can have many avatars of a symbolic person in your life."

- something I wrote down from a dream in the middle of the night

05-31-2011, 09:44 AM	#6582
Latino.Hrt Member How Do You Identify?: Latino Butch Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: 806 Posts: 106 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1 Thanked 107 Times in 43 Posts Rep Power: 1728711	-while it is always important to honor what we’ve lost-sometimes a loss can also represent a chance for a new beginning- __________________ 'LIVING LIFE IN COLOUR'

05-31-2011, 01:42 PM	#6584
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,105 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

05-31-2011, 01:44 PM	#6585
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,105 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. Anita Brookner __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

05-31-2011, 04:26 PM	#6586
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	Happy Birthday Mr. Whitman Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself; (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Song of Myself - Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman __________________ I am made of stars

05-31-2011, 04:31 PM	#6587
smouldering Member How Do You Identify?: Punky girly girl, glittery femme Preferred Pronoun?: she, her, etc. Relationship Status: Single, Recovering Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,288 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,306 Thanked 3,974 Times in 924 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ~Sheila Graham __________________ ~~Smouldering~~ Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ~William Shakespeare

05-31-2011, 07:02 AM	#6581
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	"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." ~Charles Caleb

05-31-2011, 12:33 PM	#6583
Janstevie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Butch Relationship Status: single Join Date: May 2010 Location: England Posts: 1,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 112 Thanked 1,331 Times in 411 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	War will cease when people refuse to fight.

05-31-2011, 08:01 PM	#6588
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	It Is Spring Again It is spring, And the ledger is opened again. From the abyss where they were frozen, those days suddenly return, those days that passed away from your lips, that died with all our kisses, unaccounted. The roses return: they are your fragrance; they are the blood of your lovers. Sorrow returns. I go through my pain and the agony of friends still lost in the memory of moon-silver arms, the caresses of vanished women. I go through page after page. There are no answers, and spring has come once again asking the same questions, reopening account after account. ~Faiz Ahmed Faiz __________________ "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

06-01-2011, 04:26 AM	#6589
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	I don't have hobbies, I have interests. Hobbies cost money. Interests are free. George Carlin __________________

06-01-2011, 04:37 AM	#6590
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	Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff. George Carlin __________________

06-01-2011, 04:57 AM	#6591
shadows papa Member How Do You Identify?: With a Warning Label Preferred Pronoun?: Her Bastard Relationship Status: Peaceful Easy Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Back Where I Come From Posts: 699 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,223 Thanked 1,643 Times in 484 Posts Rep Power: 3193789	"And it all comes true,yes it all comes true, like a wheel inside a wheel it turns on you. And you think 'what have I done? What can I do?'. What you believe about yourself it all comes true" John Mellencamp __________________ "Cry,cuss,sling snot, whatever. Just KEEP PEDALING!!" Shad

06-01-2011, 05:36 AM	#6592
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	Sometimes I find this to be true. "A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration." - Richard Schickel

06-01-2011, 05:37 AM	#6593
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 who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins." - Franz Kafka

06-01-2011, 05:38 AM	#6594
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	"And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed." - Lajos Kossuth

06-01-2011, 06:59 AM	#6595
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	Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

06-01-2011, 06:59 AM	#6596
UofMfan Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: A very happy Mr. Grumpy Cat Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Neither here or there Posts: 7,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 27,733 Thanked 18,936 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Quiza fue una hecatombe de esperanzas un derrumbe de algun modo previsto ah pero mi tristeza solo tuvo un sentido todas mis intuiciones se asomaron para verme sufrir y por cierto me vieron hasta aqui habia hecho y rehecho mis trayectos contigo hasta aqui habia apostado a inventar la verdad pero vos encontraste la manera una manera tierna y a la vez implacable de desahuciar mi amor con un solo pronostico lo quitaste de los suburbios de tu vida posible lo envolviste en nostalgias lo cargaste por cuadras y cuadras y despacito sin que el aire nocturno lo advirtiera ahi nomas lo dejaste a solas con su suerte que no es mucha creo que tenes razon la culpa es de uno cuando no enamora y no de los pretextos ni del tiempo hace mucho muchisimo que yo no me enfrentaba como anoche al espejo y fue implacable como vos mas no fue tierno ahora estoy solo francamente solo siempre cuesta un poquito empezar a sentirse desgraciado antes de regresar a mis lobregos cuarteles de invierno con los ojos bien secos por si acaso miro como te vas adentrando en la niebla y empiezo a recordarte. ~ Mario Benedetti

06-01-2011, 09:17 AM	#6597
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,123 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950) __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

06-01-2011, 09:21 AM	#6598
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be." — David M. Eagleman (Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives)

06-01-2011, 12:50 PM	#6599
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	“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” August Wilson __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

06-01-2011, 01:18 PM	#6600
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender Preferred Pronoun?: whatevs Relationship Status: in a relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tx Posts: 3,535 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,042 Thanked 13,966 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"You may not have a son, but you have a symbolic son. I have been the avatar of several people's symbolic son. You can have many avatars of a symbolic person in your life." - something I wrote down from a dream in the middle of the night __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl