Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 364

Nat · 08-18-2011, 12:11 PM

"Practices and not principles are what enable us to live together in peace. Conversations across boundaries of identity, whether national, religious or something else, <<disallowed word>>begin with the sort of imaginative engagement You get when you read a novel, watch a movie or attend to a piece of at that speaks from some place other than your own."

- Kwame Anthony Appiah

VintageFemme · 08-18-2011, 11:03 PM

dogs and angels are not very far apart —charles bukowski

always2late · 08-19-2011, 09:55 AM

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

ruffryder · 08-19-2011, 11:05 AM

"The essential things in life are not seen with the eyes, but with the heart."

ruffryder · 08-20-2011, 01:46 PM

"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together."

ruffryder · 08-21-2011, 09:19 AM

Don’t try to make people change…pray for them and let God do the changing. – Joyce Meyer

sara-bera · 08-21-2011, 09:28 AM

"The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love." -Daniel Chidiac

ruffryder · 08-21-2011, 12:43 PM

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

Duchess · 08-21-2011, 12:50 PM

"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!"
— Bob Marley

Diva · 08-22-2011, 06:25 AM

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

(I lifted this from a FB post...powerful!)

Hack · 08-22-2011, 07:25 AM

To bread I do not ask to teach me
but only not to lack during every day of life.

-- Neruda

jenny · 08-22-2011, 10:59 AM

"What I like doing best is Nothing."
"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.
It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
"Oh!" said Pooh." ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh"

VintageFemme · 08-22-2011, 11:51 AM

everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell -nietzche

jenny · 08-22-2011, 11:52 AM

"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"

[So true. Just sayin'.]

sara-bera · 08-22-2011, 04:29 PM

"Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary." -Oscar Wilde

ruffryder · 08-22-2011, 04:40 PM

"No one ever climbed a hill just by looking at it."

You don't have to see the whole staircase, you just have to take the first step.Martin Luther King Jr.

JAGG · 08-22-2011, 05:00 PM

True love is endless forgiveness. To truely love , is to love for no reason.

Duchess · 08-22-2011, 05:58 PM

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fancy · 08-22-2011, 09:13 PM

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

Gentle Tiger · 08-23-2011, 12:45 AM

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

08-18-2011, 12:11 PM	#7261
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 13,967 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"Practices and not principles are what enable us to live together in peace. Conversations across boundaries of identity, whether national, religious or something else, <<disallowed word>>begin with the sort of imaginative engagement You get when you read a novel, watch a movie or attend to a piece of at that speaks from some place other than your own." - Kwame Anthony Appiah __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl

08-18-2011, 11:03 PM	#7262
VintageFemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Outside Posts: 2,299 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,828 Thanked 7,622 Times in 1,655 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	dogs and angels are not very far apart —charles bukowski __________________ Unfinished Business & Open to Serendipity

08-19-2011, 09:55 AM	#7263
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	Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

08-21-2011, 12:50 PM	#7269
Duchess Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Absolute Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Toe curling :-) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,382 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,792 Thanked 5,592 Times in 1,521 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!" — Bob Marley __________________ *無料のライブ*

08-22-2011, 07:25 AM	#7271
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,776 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	About last night. To bread I do not ask to teach me but only not to lack during every day of life. -- Neruda

08-19-2011, 11:05 AM	#7264
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"The essential things in life are not seen with the eyes, but with the heart."

08-20-2011, 01:46 PM	#7265
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together."

08-21-2011, 09:19 AM	#7266
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Don’t try to make people change…pray for them and let God do the changing. – Joyce Meyer

08-21-2011, 09:28 AM	#7267
sara-bera Member How Do You Identify?: female Join Date: May 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,161 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,687 Thanked 2,859 Times in 739 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	"The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love." -Daniel Chidiac

08-21-2011, 12:43 PM	#7268
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

08-22-2011, 06:25 AM	#7270
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	Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. (I lifted this from a FB post...powerful!)

08-22-2011, 10:59 AM	#7272
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	"What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh." ~ A.A. Milne, "Winnie-the-Pooh" __________________ "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.

08-22-2011, 11:51 AM	#7273
VintageFemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Outside Posts: 2,299 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,828 Thanked 7,622 Times in 1,655 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell -nietzche __________________ Unfinished Business & Open to Serendipity

08-22-2011, 11:52 AM	#7274
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	"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." ~ Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" [So true. Just sayin'.] __________________ "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.

08-22-2011, 04:29 PM	#7275
sara-bera Member How Do You Identify?: female Join Date: May 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,161 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,687 Thanked 2,859 Times in 739 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	"Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary." -Oscar Wilde

08-22-2011, 04:40 PM	#7276
ruffryder Senior Member How Do You Identify?: FTM Preferred Pronoun?: guy ones Relationship Status: ... Join Date: May 2011 Location: chillin' in FL Posts: 3,690 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 21,951 Thanked 9,678 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	motivation "No one ever climbed a hill just by looking at it." You don't have to see the whole staircase, you just have to take the first step.Martin Luther King Jr.

08-22-2011, 05:00 PM	#7277
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,534 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	love True love is endless forgiveness. To truely love , is to love for no reason. __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

08-22-2011, 05:58 PM	#7278
Duchess Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Absolute Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Toe curling :-) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,382 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,792 Thanked 5,592 Times in 1,521 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Martin Luther King, Jr. __________________ *無料のライブ*

08-22-2011, 09:13 PM	#7279
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	The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Frost

08-23-2011, 12:45 AM	#7280
Gentle Tiger Moderator How Do You Identify?: As a Tiger of course Preferred Pronoun?: Not the Old Man Relationship Status: Two Tigers Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Northern California Posts: 7,492 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,001 Thanked 15,992 Times in 3,993 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Change Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton __________________ Please like