Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Fancy]

I'd make a million trips to his lips if I were a bee because he's sweeter than sugar candy to me.

(said by my friend Jenna)

[Rook]

“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

[adorable]

Elie Wiesel on the Freeing of the Nazi Death Camps

That day I encountered the first American soldiers
in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
I remember them well.
Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place,
hell on earth,
where our destiny had been played out.
They looked at us,
just liberated,
and did not know what to do or say.
Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death,
we were empty of all hope—
too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them.
Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness.
And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings
from a wounded and generous humanity.

[MysticOceansFL]

One night I had a wonderous dream, One set of foot prints there was seen, The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord,"What have we here?" Those prints are large and round and neat. But Lord, the are to big for feet. "My child," He said in somber tones, "For miles I carried you alone I challenged you to walk in faith, But you refused and made me wait." "You disobeyed, you would not grow, The walk of faith, you would not know, So I got tired, I got fed up, And there I dropped you on your butt." "Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When one must rise and take a stand, Or leave their butt prints in the sand."


Have a great week end Folks!

[Sachita]

‎"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself."
~ Josh Billings

[Butterbean]

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ~Ralph W. Sockman

[Rook]

“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."

[cinderella]

Heathcliff to Cathy responding to Cathy's comment that her husband loved her:

"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a lifetime, he couldn't love you half as much as I love you in a single day!"

'Wuthering Heights'

[Hack]

Whoever desired each other as we do? Let us look
For the ancient ashes of hearts that burned,
And let our kisses touch there, one by one,
Till the flower, disembodied, rises again.

Let us love that Desire that consumed its own fruit
And went down, aspect and power, into the earth:
We are its continuing light,
Its indestructible, fragile seed.

-- Neruda

[JAGG]

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
~Theodore Parker

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by adorable

Elie Wiesel on the Freeing of the Nazi Death Camps

That day I encountered the first American soldiers
in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
I remember them well.
Bewildered, disbelieving, they walked around the place,
hell on earth,
where our destiny had been played out.
They looked at us,
just liberated,
and did not know what to do or say.
Survivors snatched from the dark throes of death,
we were empty of all hope—
too weak, too emaciated to hug them or even speak to them.
Like lost children, the American soldiers wept and wept with rage and sadness.
And we received their tears as if they were heartrending offerings
from a wounded and generous humanity.

This is moving and powerful, heartwrenching. I love this. Even though it leaves a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart.

[UofMfan]

A cierta edad, un poco por amor propio, otro poco por picardía, las cosas que más deseamos son las que fingimos no desear. ~ Marcel Proust

[*Anya*]

My profile quote no longer fits. It spoke to me for many years.

My shell has cracked and my icy heart has melted...must find new one that speaks to me of rebirth.

".. Take me...whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat" ~Dorothy Allison

[ruffryder]

"Don't try to understand everything because sometimes its not meant to be understood but to be accepted."

[Hack]

....you may also like Mario Benedetti, though I find not a lot of his stuff is translated. Here's one I read often as a reminder of many things.

FROM THE AFFECTIONS
How to let you know that there is always time?
That one has to look for it and give it to oneself...
That nobody lays down rules, apart from life...
That life without certain rules loses shape...
That shape is not lost when we open up...
That opening ourselves up is not to love indiscriminately...
That it is not forbidden to love...
That we can also hate...
That hate and love are two affections...
That the aggression just because, hurts a lot ...
That the wounds close...
That doors should not be closed...
That the biggest door is affection...
That affections define us...
That defining oneself is not rowing against the tide...
That not the stronger the stroke, the more you draw...
That to look for a balance doesn't mean to be warm...
That refusing words is to open distances...
That meeting is very beautiful...
That sex is part of the beauty of life ...
That life comes from sex...
That the children's asking why, has its reason why...
That wanting to know about someone, is not just curiosity...
That knowing everything about everybody is unhealthy curiosity...
That being thankful never hurts...
That self-determination is not doing things alone...
That nobody wants to be alone...
That so as not to be alone we only have to give...
That in order to give, we have to receive before...
That to be given, we also have to know how to ask...
That giving oneself as a present definitively is not to love oneself…
That to be loved we must show what we are...
That so that someone can be, they have to be helped...
That help is to encourage and support...
That adulation is not support...
That fawning is as pernicious as to turn the face...
That things face to face are honest...
That nobody is honest because they do not steal...
That when there is no pleasure in things you're not living...
That to feel life one must not forget that there is death...
That one can be a living death...
That we feel with the body and the mind...
That we listen with our ears...
That it is hard to be sensitive and not be hurt...
That being hurt is not to bleed to death...
That so as not to be hurt we build walls ...
That it would be better to build bridges...
That across them we go to the other side and no one returns...
That returning does not mean stepping back...
That stepping back may also be to go forward...
That despite going forward and forward, we do not wake up closer to the sun...
How to let you know that that nobody lays down rules, apart from life?

[Hollylane]

Beautiful poem...

I Love You
by Mario Benedetti

(English Translation)

Your hands are my caress
my daily reminders
I love you because your hands
work for justice

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

your eyes are my spell
against a cursed day
I love you for your gaze
that looks and plants the future

your mouth that is yours and mine
your mouth doesn’t lie
I love you because your mouth
knows how to shout rebellion

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

and for your open face
and your wanderer’s footstep
and your weeping for the world
because you are of the people I love you.

and because love is not a halo
nor morality tale
and because we are a couple
that knows it is not alone

I love you in my paradise
which is to say that in my ideal country
people live happily
without even having permission

if I love you it's because you are
my love my accomplice and my everything
and in the street arm in arm
we are many more than two

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Te quiero
~Mario Benedetti

Tus manos son mi caricia
mis acordes cotidianos
te quiero porque tus manos
trabajan por la justicia

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

tus ojos son mi conjuro
contra la mala jornada
te quiero por tu mirada
que mira y siembra futuro

tu boca que es tuya y mía
tu boca no se equivoca
te quiero porque tu boca
sabe gritar rebeldía

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos

y por tu rostro sincero
y tu paso vagabundo
y tu llanto por el mundo
porque sos pueblo te quiero

y porque amor no es aureola
ni cándida moraleja
y porque somos pareja
que sabe que no está sola

te quiero en mi paraíso
es decir que en mi país
la gente viva feliz
aunque no tenga permiso

si te quiero es porque sos
mi amor mi cómplice y todo
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos.

[Butterbean]

To His Coy Mistress



Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long Loves Day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.
Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood:
And you should if you please refuse
Till the Conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable Love should grow
Vaster then Empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine Eyes, and on thy Forehead Gaze.
Two hundred to adore each Breast.
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An Age at least to every part,
And the last Age should show your Heart.
For Lady you deserve this State;
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Thy Beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv'd Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to durst;
And into ashes all my Lust.
The Grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning glew,
And while thy willing Soul transpires
At every pore with instant Fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our Time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.


Andrew Marvell

[*Anya*]

Originally Posted by *Anya*

My profile quote no longer fits. It spoke to me for many years.

My shell has cracked and my icy heart has melted...must find new one that speaks to me of rebirth.

".. Take me...whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat" ~Dorothy Allison

New quote:

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart

It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul"

~Judy Garland~

[Butterbean]

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero

[JAGG]

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.
~Sultana Zoraya

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
~John Gay

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
~ G. K. Chesterton