Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[MissItalianDiva]

Each time you fall into the past or jump into the future you miss what is going on right now. Right now you have the opportunity to create a fresh new start. Release the past! Receive your good now. Trust that when you reach tomorrow, there will be nothing but good waiting for you.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

“Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.” ― P Cicero




“The urge to jump into his arms and feel the warmth of them surrounding me is so powerful, I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.”― Simone Elkeles


“Everything that happens to you matters to me.” ― Unkown

[Angeltoes]

"I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it." --Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[Angeltoes]

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.

--mevlana jelaluddin rumi

[Kätzchen]

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle,”

~ Ernest Hemingway

[Angeltoes]

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea."
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[Angeltoes]

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." ― James Joyce, Ulysses

[Angeltoes]

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
― James Joyce, The Dead

"Love loves to love love."
― James Joyce, Ulysses

"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Angeltoes]

"If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it."
― Toba Beta,

[ruffryder]

If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don't drag your feet. Annot L Sheppard


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

[ruffryder]

"Most people who judge a book by it's cover have difficulty reading."


You may have to endure some people speaking against you, but if you can stay on the high road, you will prove their criticism invalid. Joel Osteen

Try to be like the turtle-at ease in your own shell. Bill Copeland

[JAGG]

“One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Ian McEwan

[Electrocell]

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Laozi



It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. Mahatma Gandhi



This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. William Lyon Phelps

[prettyboyreg]

I myself am entirely made of flaws, stitched together with good intentions~ Author unknown

[stargazingboi]

First Love ~John Clare

I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet,
Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower
And stole my heart away complete.
My face turned pale as deadly pale.
My legs refused to walk away,
And when she looked, what could I ail?
My life and all seemed turned to clay.

And then my blood rushed to my face
And took my eyesight quite away,
The trees and bushes round the place
Seemed midnight at noonday.
I could not see a single thing,
Words from my eyes did start --
They spoke as chords do from the string,
And blood burnt round my heart.

Are flowers the winter's choice?
Is love's bed always snow?
She seemed to hear my silent voice,
Not love's appeals to know.
I never saw so sweet a face
As that I stood before.
My heart has left its dwelling-place
And can return no more

[JAGG]

“Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.” ― Toni Coleman

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli

A relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.”
― Jerry Spinelli

[Fancy]

‎"Neither a promotion, losing weight, finding a soul mate, writing a book, nor becoming a billionaire will ensure happiness.

Nothing ensures happiness. No destination is great enough. No dream come true will do.

Because happiness, dear one, that's not present at the start of a journey will not be present at its end."

[Talon]

I loved him as a woman loves-reckless of sorrows, sin, or scorn.

~Letitia Landon

[Duchess]

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

~Jane Austen

[JAGG]

“The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.”― Steve Maraboli

“Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she’d ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?” ― Nick Hornby


“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” ― Steve Maraboli