Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Arwen]

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

"Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin."
-John Cudahy

[Duchess]

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

James T. Ellison

[Alpha Dog]

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. And then, by all means, use restraints. -- Margaret Cho

[Just_G]

Often people move backwards, instead of forward, when overwhelmed by change. The danger in looking back, we see only what we want to see. We see what made us feel safe.
Author uknown to me

[weatherboi]

"This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke."

Carl Fredrickson from the movie UP

[Diva]

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

~Kahlil Gibran

[Pixie]

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Buddha

[PinkieLee]

"The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

[FeminineAllure]

There is a destiny that makes us Brothers, ~And sisters too!~
No one goes his way alone;
All that we send into the hearts of others,
Comes back into our own.


Edwin Markham, 1852-1940
American Poet

[atomiczombie]

Fear of the Inexplicable

But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relationship between
one human being and another has also been cramped by it,
as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of
endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the
bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone
that is responsible for human relationships repeating
themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and
unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable
experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes
nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation
to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively
from his own existence. For if we think of this existence of
the individual as a larger or smaller room, it appears evident
that most people learn to know only a corner of their room, a
place by the window, a strip of floor on which they walk up and
down. Thus they have a certain security. And yet that dangerous
insecurity is so much more human which drives the prisoners in
Poe's stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons
and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their abode.

We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about
us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us.
We are set down in life as in the element to which we best
correspond, and over and above this we have through thousands of
years of accommodation become so like this life, that when we
hold still we are, through a happy mimicry,scarcely to be
distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to
mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors,
they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abuses belong to us;
are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we
arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us
that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now
still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust
and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those
ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into
princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps
everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless
that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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[Duchess]

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Timothy Garton Ash
British, Author Quotes

[Diva]

Understand the preciousness of the unfulfilled desire. Begin to feel appreciation for the fact that the desire exists, rather than instant disappointment that it has not manifested.

~Anonymous

[SassyLeo]

The only good thing about being wrong
is the pleasure it brings to others!!

~~~Petal~~~

[always2late]

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."- T.S. Eliot

[Diva]

The idea of waiting for someting makes it more exciting.

~Andy Warhol

[Pixie]

“All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while,wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us”

[weatherboi]

Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.

Ancient Indian Proverb

[jenny]

“Champion the right to be yourself. Dare to be different. Live your own life and follow your own star.” - Wilfred Peterson

[Andrew, Jr.]

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." Juvenal

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." Ralph Waldo Emerson