Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 375

purepisces · 09-28-2011, 10:10 AM

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher

purepisces · 09-28-2011, 10:17 AM

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan

Arwen · 09-28-2011, 04:28 PM

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

JAGG · 09-28-2011, 06:10 PM

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image.

BugsAndKisses · 09-28-2011, 06:44 PM

This family is my special field,
In their soil my love is sealed,
So with gentle hands this earth I groom,
And where I step the flowers bloom.

For you Mom <3

Kätzchen · 09-28-2011, 07:03 PM

I'm half-way into the book (ch. 15) but the beginning of the book is too precious. Here's how this story begins in chapter 1:

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

Just a few lines before the first chapter opens, Jacob prefaces his story about knowing the importance of keeping a confidence and says that in "seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul."

This story touches my heart...
I've read it like 3 other times already.

Diva · 09-29-2011, 12:44 AM

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

~Marquis de Sade

Diva · 09-29-2011, 12:46 AM

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

~Marquis de Sade

mustangjeano · 09-29-2011, 01:04 AM

" Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness- both the ones you have received and the ones you have given- you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter" Dawna Markova

Fancy · 09-29-2011, 09:15 AM

If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass!

-as seen on a friend's FB

ruffryder · 09-29-2011, 09:54 AM

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

"Until you learn from it, you will not be released of it."

purepisces · 09-29-2011, 10:44 AM

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens

purepisces · 09-29-2011, 10:46 AM

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Janstevie · 09-29-2011, 10:56 AM

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.

Diva · 09-29-2011, 10:57 AM

A seed lies surrounded and pushed down by the dark, heavy dirt around it. The seed still breaks through because that is it's sole intention.

~from Power of Positivity

Arwen · 09-29-2011, 11:08 AM

What matters is that we talk with each other, the rest is "details!" -Lissa Coffey

always2late · 09-29-2011, 06:41 PM

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress - Mark Twain

JAGG · 09-29-2011, 07:05 PM

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.-
Henry David Thoreau

BugsAndKisses · 09-29-2011, 08:02 PM

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

UofMfan · 09-30-2011, 10:13 AM

"¿Por qué se suicidan las hojas cuando se sienten amarillas?" ~ Pablo Neruda

09-28-2011, 10:10 AM	#7481
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

09-28-2011, 10:17 AM	#7482
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

09-28-2011, 04:28 PM	#7483
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 28,107 Times in 6,411 Posts Rep Power: 21474863	“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” — Elizabeth Gilbert __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

09-28-2011, 06:10 PM	#7484
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image. __________________ 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.

09-28-2011, 07:03 PM	#7486
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: As a very feminine woman. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Near smoke signals in the sky. Posts: 16,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,450 Thanked 33,611 Times in 10,707 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	"Water for Elephants" (2007) I'm half-way into the book (ch. 15) but the beginning of the book is too precious. Here's how this story begins in chapter 1: I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other. When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it. Just a few lines before the first chapter opens, Jacob prefaces his story about knowing the importance of keeping a confidence and says that in "seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul." This story touches my heart... I've read it like 3 other times already.

09-28-2011, 06:44 PM	#7485
BugsAndKisses Member How Do You Identify?: ladybug, lover of little things Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Settled Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: florida Posts: 341 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 278 Thanked 864 Times in 215 Posts Rep Power: 10789161	This family is my special field, In their soil my love is sealed, So with gentle hands this earth I groom, And where I step the flowers bloom. For you Mom <3

09-29-2011, 12:44 AM	#7487
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 17,175 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ~Marquis de Sade

09-29-2011, 12:46 AM	#7488
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 17,175 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ~Marquis de Sade

09-29-2011, 01:04 AM	#7489
mustangjeano Member How Do You Identify?: old school stonebutch, Queer TG butch, ranch hand Preferred Pronoun?: he Relationship Status: single, not looking Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Northern Ca. Posts: 1,088 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,459 Thanked 1,029 Times in 361 Posts Rep Power: 15314316	" Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness- both the ones you have received and the ones you have given- you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter" Dawna Markova

09-29-2011, 09:15 AM	#7490
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 7,077 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass! -as seen on a friend's FB

09-29-2011, 09:54 AM	#7491
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 9,679 Times in 2,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller "Until you learn from it, you will not be released of it."

09-29-2011, 10:44 AM	#7492
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

09-29-2011, 10:46 AM	#7493
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

09-29-2011, 10:56 AM	#7494
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: 21474853	Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.

09-29-2011, 10:57 AM	#7495
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 17,175 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	A seed lies surrounded and pushed down by the dark, heavy dirt around it. The seed still breaks through because that is it's sole intention. ~from Power of Positivity

09-29-2011, 11:08 AM	#7496
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 28,107 Times in 6,411 Posts Rep Power: 21474863	What matters is that we talk with each other, the rest is "details!" -Lissa Coffey __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

09-29-2011, 06:41 PM	#7497
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	It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress - Mark Twain __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

09-29-2011, 07:05 PM	#7498
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	love Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.- Henry David Thoreau __________________ 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.

09-29-2011, 08:02 PM	#7499
BugsAndKisses Member How Do You Identify?: ladybug, lover of little things Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Settled Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: florida Posts: 341 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 278 Thanked 864 Times in 215 Posts Rep Power: 10789161	To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

09-30-2011, 10:13 AM	#7500
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 18,935 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	"¿Por qué se suicidan las hojas cuando se sienten amarillas?" ~ Pablo Neruda