Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JAGG]

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”― Sarah Dessen


“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks


“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”― Melissa de la Cruz

[Katniss]

Sometimes while wandering,
when I cannot find which road
leads back the way I came,
the road goes anywhere,
and anywhere at all is home.

~~Muso Soseki


Katniss~~

[Angeltoes]

"The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out from the heart"

~Charles Bukowski.

[Kätzchen]

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

― Mary Oliver

[Angeltoes]

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."

― L.M. Montgomery

[Rook]

Porthos:[French Accent] Stop praying and revel with me, Aramis! I need my spirits lifted. I'm old, I'm weak, my strength is gone.

Aramis: [U.K Accent] Porthos! I'm praying.

Porthos: I just said you're praying. Are you deaf, too? I know you're blind, because if you'd seen the tits that just walked out of here, you'd have tears in your eyes. [Porthos sniffs]

Aramis: Sometimes there are more important things in life than a good pair of tits.

Porthos: Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral.

Aramis: Forgiveness...

Porthos: Forgiveness...?

[Porthos farts]

Porthos: There... i am i forgiven? Come on [smacks Aramis on the shoulder] Am i forgiven?

[Aramis pauses, collects himself and slaps the shit out of Porthos]

Porthos: I have come to zee conclusion your Forgiveness is not as sweet....nor sublime!! [rubs cheek]

[Childish fight erupts between the two, Athos enters while Aramis pins Porthos down]

Athos:[American Accent...Possibly Wisconsin] Am I interrupting something?...

[Aramis & Porthos rush to Greet and explain while pushing each other]

[Talon]

From pacifist to terrorist,
each person condemns violence and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

~Gloria Steinem

[JAGG]

" Happiness isn't something you wait around for, or something that is going to happen someday. It is happening all the time , you just have to choose it. Make it happen . It is all up to you , the when and how much, depends on your choices." -Unknown

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” -― Steve Maraboli

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.”― Julio Cortázar

[Soon]

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Trey339]

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu

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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu

[Electrocell]

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles



“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It


“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

[JAGG]

“I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it, you will meet someone and be happy. I used to say it too. But I know it's not true. Every time I fall in love it is because something in that person reminds me of him. And sadly none really measure up”
― Betty Smith



“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life.
After they were gone?
That was all you thought about.
Day and night.” ― J.R. Ward


“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.” ― Sarah Addison Allen

[puddin']

“don’t grieve. anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~rumi

[lyric]

"The Journey"
by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.

[Duchess]

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

~Stephen Levine

[Talon]

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.


~Voltaire

[Duchess]

"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires."

~Marcia Wieder

[Duchess]

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

~ Napoleon Hill

[JAGG]

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ” ― Haruki Murakami

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” ― Nicholas Sparks

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.” ― J.M. Barrie

[Duchess]

The House by the Side of the Road

New England poet Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) evokes the age old image of
a humble house where the weary traveler finds a welcome - a house such as
Baucis and Philemon's - to remind us that we are here to help one another
along life's journey. Friends are "help-mates" to each other.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the peace of their self-content;
There are souls, like stars, that swell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran;
But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears
Both parts of an infinite plan;
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in my house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad, they are weak,
They are strong,
Wise, foolish - so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban? -
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss