Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 352

justkim · 07-14-2011, 02:00 PM

- Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. -
- Don Miguel Ruiz -

Novelafemme · 07-14-2011, 09:31 PM

i found this on one of my favorite blogs:

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” - William Gibson

jelli · 07-14-2011, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

i found this on one of my favorite blogs:

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” - William Gibson

Is this a blog that you feel like sharing? If not, completely understand.

Novelafemme · 07-14-2011, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jelli

Is this a blog that you feel like sharing? If not, completely understand.

Oh sure...although it was from an entry she made ages ago...schmutzie.com

she is a friend of mine and fabulous!!

socialjustice_fsu · 07-14-2011, 10:46 PM

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame,
to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
~ Walter Pater

Janstevie · 07-15-2011, 06:02 AM

My diet is going well . . . apart from the chip butties and pizza last night, and the crisps, and the alcohol, and the tube of smarties . . . maybe it's not going as well as I thought :-((

Kätzchen · 07-15-2011, 10:32 AM

"This is the kind of Friend You are-
Without making me realize my soul's anguished history,
You slip into my house at night,
And while I am sleeping,
You silently carry off all my suffering
and sordid past in Your beautiful Hands."

— Hafiz of Shiraz

JakeTulane · 07-15-2011, 12:33 PM

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung

JakeTulane · 07-15-2011, 12:34 PM

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

JakeTulane · 07-15-2011, 12:36 PM

"You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate." --Jim Rohn

always2late · 07-15-2011, 12:58 PM

Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

JakeTulane · 07-16-2011, 05:01 AM

"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it." --Hardy D. Jackson

JakeTulane · 07-16-2011, 05:02 AM

"By your own soul, learn to live
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dream,
Hope your hope and pray your prayer." --Parkenham Beatty

JakeTulane · 07-16-2011, 05:03 AM

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -- Robert Bennett

cinderella · 07-16-2011, 10:19 AM

"I will stop looking back with regrets or looking forward with fear and give the best I have today."

~Anonymous

JakeTulane · 07-17-2011, 06:36 AM

"But an accurate definition of the self is impossible. You are more than you realize, more than you can define. And the more time you spend trying to nail down the definition, the less time you spend living right now. ... Your past is not your identity... You, living now, is your identity." --George Lawrence-Ell

JakeTulane · 07-17-2011, 06:39 AM

"The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be." --Max De Pree

JakeTulane · 07-17-2011, 06:40 AM

"How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Ms. Meander · 07-18-2011, 05:44 AM

"The years that are gone seem like dreams--if one might go on sleeping and dreaming--but to wake up and find--oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."

- Kate Chopin

JakeTulane · 07-18-2011, 06:09 AM

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." --Albert Einstein

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07-18-2011, 06:09 AM	#7040
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	"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." --Albert Einstein