Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 461

Metro · 06-01-2012, 08:01 AM

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
—Unknown

deedarino · 06-01-2012, 08:01 AM

"It’s easy to lose sight of the divine in the partner who takes out the garbage, & easier still if he or she doesn’t. It’s hard to remember to look for & see the beloved in the parking attendant or the check-out clerk we encounter. We need shared gestures, small ceremonies that help us pay attention, that let us see & honour the mystery of the other every day. This is the commitment my soul longs to make to the world."~ Oriah from The Invitation May we see with our hearts today, seeing & honouring the sacred essence in each person we encounter - and in the one we see in the mirror. :-)

gaea · 06-01-2012, 09:41 AM

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

Janstevie · 06-01-2012, 11:33 AM

"When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.'"

Talon · 06-01-2012, 12:25 PM

You cannot grow spiritually and remain the same.
Understanding *that* is knowledge.
Seeing *that* is wisdom.

gaea · 06-01-2012, 02:00 PM

"if you cant afford to be honest, stay single" -Author unknown to me

Maria · 06-01-2012, 02:03 PM

The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

JAGG · 06-01-2012, 05:57 PM

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.-Unknown

Live life to the fullest because everyday is another day someone else did not get to live.-Unknown

It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein

Kobi · 06-02-2012, 02:49 AM

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

deedarino · 06-02-2012, 07:43 AM

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.~Maya Angelou

deedarino · 06-02-2012, 07:56 AM

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible;
to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
~Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

deedarino · 06-02-2012, 10:40 AM

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."~Albert Einstein

"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."~Lord Milner

“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."~Lise Hand

Ms. Meander · 06-02-2012, 06:39 PM

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

Girl Friday · 06-02-2012, 08:00 PM

mustangjeano · 06-02-2012, 09:33 PM

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Jesse · 06-02-2012, 10:53 PM

If you were a flower I wouldn't pick you at all! Not because I don't like you but because I'll let you grow in the garden & cultivate you with love and care so I can keep you as a friend in the rest of my life.

Jesse · 06-02-2012, 11:08 PM

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings

Canela · 06-02-2012, 11:37 PM

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

T4Texas · 06-02-2012, 11:45 PM

The times you know, we had some times
with gentle women and vintage wines
but that was when we didnt know our youth was passing by
now all we have to think about are times gone by.

-Rod McKuen_

Kobi · 06-03-2012, 10:48 AM

06-01-2012, 08:01 AM	#9202
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	"It’s easy to lose sight of the divine in the partner who takes out the garbage, & easier still if he or she doesn’t. It’s hard to remember to look for & see the beloved in the parking attendant or the check-out clerk we encounter. We need shared gestures, small ceremonies that help us pay attention, that let us see & honour the mystery of the other every day. This is the commitment my soul longs to make to the world."~ Oriah from The Invitation May we see with our hearts today, seeing & honouring the sacred essence in each person we encounter - and in the one we see in the mirror. :-) __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

06-01-2012, 09:41 AM	#9203
gaea Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: west coast Posts: 3,910 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,630 Thanked 14,363 Times in 3,381 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt __________________ Gaea "Building a lifetime together one day at a time" Courage: the willingness to risk who you are for who you want to be and what you have for what you want You're not who your past says you are, you are who you choose to be today moving forward.

06-01-2012, 02:00 PM	#9206
gaea Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: west coast Posts: 3,910 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,630 Thanked 14,363 Times in 3,381 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"if you cant afford to be honest, stay single" -Author unknown to me __________________ Gaea "Building a lifetime together one day at a time" Courage: the willingness to risk who you are for who you want to be and what you have for what you want You're not who your past says you are, you are who you choose to be today moving forward.

06-01-2012, 05:57 PM	#9208
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	Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.-Unknown Live life to the fullest because everyday is another day someone else did not get to live.-Unknown It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer. -Albert Einstein __________________ 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.

06-02-2012, 02:49 AM	#9209
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall __________________

06-01-2012, 08:01 AM	#9201
Metro Senior Member How Do You Identify?: • Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: • Posts: 1,606 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,476 Thanked 2,915 Times in 733 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. —Unknown

06-01-2012, 11:33 AM	#9204
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: 21474852	"When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.'"

06-01-2012, 12:25 PM	#9205
Talon Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Divine Feminine Preferred Pronoun?: . Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: . Posts: 4,921 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,246 Thanked 10,227 Times in 3,305 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	You cannot grow spiritually and remain the same. Understanding that is knowledge. Seeing that is wisdom.

06-01-2012, 02:03 PM	#9207
Maria Member How Do You Identify?: Regular, with sugar Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: . Posts: 681 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 472 Thanked 1,333 Times in 501 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

06-02-2012, 07:43 AM	#9210
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.~Maya Angelou __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

06-02-2012, 07:56 AM	#9211
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. ~Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

06-02-2012, 10:40 AM	#9212
deedarino Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Woman Relationship Status: In recovery. Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Oregon Posts: 632 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,518 Thanked 1,955 Times in 496 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	For You... "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."~Albert Einstein "If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."~Lord Milner “That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end."~Lise Hand __________________ Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head~Ani I want to think again of dangerous and noble things; I want to be light and frolicsome; I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as if I had wings Mary Oliver

06-02-2012, 06:39 PM	#9213
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,218 Times in 1,148 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	One of my very favorite books You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

06-02-2012, 08:00 PM	#9214
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06-02-2012, 09:33 PM	#9215
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	The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller __________________ "Your outlook affects your outcome". John Paul Warren

06-02-2012, 10:53 PM	#9216
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	If you were a flower I wouldn't pick you at all! Not because I don't like you but because I'll let you grow in the garden & cultivate you with love and care so I can keep you as a friend in the rest of my life. __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-02-2012, 11:08 PM	#9217
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,783 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

06-02-2012, 11:37 PM	#9218
Canela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Babe, she, her, ella Relationship Status: Well loved… Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 2,375 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,643 Thanked 6,518 Times in 1,697 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. __________________ . . . . . Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

06-02-2012, 11:45 PM	#9219
T4Texas Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: Ready to play again! Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 233 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 436 Thanked 647 Times in 167 Posts Rep Power: 6739721	The times you know, we had some times with gentle women and vintage wines but that was when we didnt know our youth was passing by now all we have to think about are times gone by. -Rod McKuen_ __________________ Chivalry is when you meet a woman you would rather die for, than live with.

06-03-2012, 10:48 AM	#9220
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	__________________