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Butterbean · 12-22-2012, 10:47 AM

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

MegBluEyz · 12-22-2012, 05:51 PM

" 'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said."

Coco Chanel

ahk · 12-22-2012, 07:08 PM

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.--Luther Burbank

Jesse · 12-22-2012, 07:46 PM

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe

"Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. " ~Terri Guillemets

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell

JAGG · 12-22-2012, 08:14 PM

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes you happy, truth liberates.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”― Bill Ayers

JustLovelyJenn · 12-22-2012, 08:16 PM

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
--Dr. Seuss

JustLovelyJenn · 12-22-2012, 08:17 PM

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
--Dale Evans

JustLovelyJenn · 12-22-2012, 08:22 PM

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
--Mary Ellen Chase

Nomad · 12-23-2012, 08:01 AM

"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.

Nomad · 12-23-2012, 03:35 PM

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
But all I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who has seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

JAGG · 12-23-2012, 06:40 PM

“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.” ― George Alexiou

"Happiness lies in the seeds of independence." Unknown

“Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before. ” ― Urania Sarri

Jesse · 12-23-2012, 07:42 PM

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
~Eric Sevareid

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher

“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou

Bèsame* · 12-23-2012, 10:02 PM

"Maybe Christmas", he thought , "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps....means a little bit more!"

The Grinch

ahk · 12-24-2012, 10:54 AM

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.--Joshua Reynolds

Trev · 12-24-2012, 01:23 PM

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."
~Bess Streeter Aldrich

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
~Oren Arnold

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart."
~Unknown

Semantics · 12-24-2012, 02:24 PM

We die only once, and for such a long time.

-Molière

ahk · 12-24-2012, 07:08 PM

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. --Bernard Manning

Jesse · 12-24-2012, 09:18 PM

ahk · 12-25-2012, 10:04 AM

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. --Calvin Coolidge

JAGG · 12-25-2012, 12:50 PM

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ― Rumi

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, over look things. Not in this case. In this case you must ask yourself , are you the exception or the rule? Is it just a relationship of convenience to him ? I realize it's hard to face the truth,even harder to act upon it. He's just not that into you” ― Greg Behrendt

12-22-2012, 07:46 PM	#10544
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	“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe "Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. " ~Terri Guillemets He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell __________________ “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.”

12-22-2012, 08:14 PM	#10545
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	“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes you happy, truth liberates.” ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie “Find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”― Bill Ayers __________________ 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.

12-22-2012, 08:16 PM	#10546
JustLovelyJenn Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Relationship Status: That's Need to Know Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 4,478 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 12,464 Thanked 13,994 Times in 3,685 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. --Dr. Seuss __________________ --Jenn

12-22-2012, 08:17 PM	#10547
JustLovelyJenn Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Relationship Status: That's Need to Know Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 4,478 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 12,464 Thanked 13,994 Times in 3,685 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. --Dale Evans __________________ --Jenn

12-22-2012, 08:22 PM	#10548
JustLovelyJenn Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Relationship Status: That's Need to Know Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 4,478 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 12,464 Thanked 13,994 Times in 3,685 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. --Mary Ellen Chase __________________ --Jenn

12-22-2012, 10:47 AM	#10541
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,217 Times in 772 Posts Rep Power: 17690476	We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

12-22-2012, 05:51 PM	#10542
MegBluEyz Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Butch Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 352 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,072 Thanked 826 Times in 156 Posts Rep Power: 6654895	" 'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said." Coco Chanel

12-22-2012, 07:08 PM	#10543
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,555 Times in 2,643 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.--Luther Burbank

12-23-2012, 08:01 AM	#10549
Nomad Timed Out How Do You Identify?: stone femme Daddy's girl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her Relationship Status: disinterested Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: in my head Posts: 991 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,848 Thanked 3,745 Times in 734 Posts Rep Power: 0	"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.

12-23-2012, 03:35 PM	#10550
Nomad Timed Out How Do You Identify?: stone femme Daddy's girl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her Relationship Status: disinterested Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: in my head Posts: 991 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,848 Thanked 3,745 Times in 734 Posts Rep Power: 0	cant give up this man... "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne, and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Baby I have been here before I know this room, I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew you. I've seen your flag on the marble arch Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah There was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show it to me, do you? And remember when I moved in you The holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Maybe there’s a God above But all I’ve ever learned from love Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you It’s not a cry you can hear at night It’s not somebody who has seen the light It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah You say I took the name in vain I don't even know the name But if I did, well, really, what's it to you? There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

12-23-2012, 06:40 PM	#10551
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	“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.” ― George Alexiou "Happiness lies in the seeds of independence." Unknown “Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before. ” ― Urania Sarri __________________ 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.

12-23-2012, 07:42 PM	#10552
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	Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher “I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou __________________ “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.”

12-23-2012, 10:02 PM	#10553
Bèsame* Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femm Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: loved by many Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Closer to the waves Posts: 15,307 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,009 Thanked 40,863 Times in 10,672 Posts Rep Power: 21474864	"Maybe Christmas", he thought , "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps....means a little bit more!" The Grinch __________________ kisses A kiss is a whisper in your mouth. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise to give it back.

12-24-2012, 10:54 AM	#10554
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,555 Times in 2,643 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.--Joshua Reynolds

12-24-2012, 01:23 PM	#10555
Trev Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Just a good ole boy Preferred Pronoun?: Male ones Relationship Status: She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Somewhere between right and wrong Posts: 3,372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,988 Thanked 10,145 Times in 2,400 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever." ~Bess Streeter Aldrich "Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." ~Oren Arnold "A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart." ~Unknown __________________ Trev

12-24-2012, 02:24 PM	#10556
Semantics Senior Member How Do You Identify?: malapropist Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New England Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,367 Thanked 3,971 Times in 1,201 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	We die only once, and for such a long time. -Molière

12-24-2012, 07:08 PM	#10557
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,555 Times in 2,643 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. --Bernard Manning

12-24-2012, 09:18 PM	#10558
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	__________________ “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.”

12-25-2012, 10:04 AM	#10559
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,555 Times in 2,643 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. --Calvin Coolidge

12-25-2012, 12:50 PM	#10560
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	“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ― Rumi When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ― Ernest Hemingway “We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, over look things. Not in this case. In this case you must ask yourself , are you the exception or the rule? Is it just a relationship of convenience to him ? I realize it's hard to face the truth,even harder to act upon it. He's just not that into you” ― Greg Behrendt __________________ 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.