Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kobi]

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes;
a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs;
an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

~Leonard Louis Levinson

[Kobi]

..... a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

[JAGG]

The power to change our destinies lie within ourselves.-Unknown

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill


The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. -Albert Einstein

[Kobi]

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

~Frederick Douglass

[jac]

Saw this on a picture message on a friend's facebook...

"DO NOT CROSS THIS PASTURE: Unless you can do it in 9 seconds, because the bull can do it in 10!"

[macele]

“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[Janstevie]

You are only truely in control of your life when you accept that you are not.

[jac]

This was on a magnet...
"To fear is human. To arr is pirate"

[JAGG]

Far better is it to dare mighty things and win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt


Often people fall short, not because they have tried and failed, but because the fear of failure kept them from trying at all . - Unknown


Knowledge often masters those who cannot master it.-The Clever librarian

[sara-bera]

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe

[sara-bera]

"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places." -unknown

[girl_dee]

If I wait to be
perfect
before I love myself
I will always be
unsatisfied
and ungrateful

if I wait until
all the flaws, chips,
and cracks disappear
I will be the cup
that stands on the shelf
and is never used.

Aynsley Bubbico

[sara-bera]

“Never cut what can be untied.” -Proverb

[Wolfz7]

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.


-Lucille Ball

[Wolfz7]

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.

[Trey339]

The greatest pleasure of life is love
Euripides

[Softhearted]

Why are quantum physicists so bad at sex?

Because when they can find the position, they can't find the momentum, and when they can find the momentum, they can't find the position.

Bazinga!

source: unknown, it was told to me by a friend and I spat out my drink in laughter!

[Prudence]

A child believes that only the action of someone who is unfriendly can cause pain.
Chased-By-Bears (from the book "A Cherokee Feast of Days")

[weatherboi]

"There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so!" - William Shakespeare

[Soon]

Whenever you accept what is, something deeper emerges than what is. So, you can be trapped in the most painful dilemma, external or internal, the most painful feelings or situation, and the moment you accept what is, you go beyond it, you transcend it.
~Eckhart Tolle