Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 529

VintageFemme · 12-25-2012, 06:22 PM

a cloud of questions
somehow transforming into
rainfall of answers

Soon · 12-25-2012, 06:49 PM

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
― Anaïs Nin

Kätzchen · 12-25-2012, 09:43 PM

“...time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”
― Stephen Hawking

Talon · 12-26-2012, 12:10 PM

"The core question is always, "Am I ok? Is it OK to be gay, to be an English major, to want to have a baby without a husband?
I tell them, "You have to trust who you are and live that out, even if it's difficult". It sounds simple, but it's not".

~Cheryl Strayed

JAGG · 12-26-2012, 05:19 PM

“You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.” ― Steve Maraboli

“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?” ― Steve Maraboli

Jesse · 12-26-2012, 05:23 PM

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown

"The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master." - Ben Hur Lampman

Trev · 12-26-2012, 05:58 PM

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
~R.I.Fitzhenry

"You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide."
~Ingrid Bergman

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
~Sydney J. Harris

Ms. Meander · 12-27-2012, 05:26 AM

I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.
- Ralph Ellison

Talon · 12-27-2012, 10:54 AM

The idea that fame transforms all problems is true financially and in many other ways, but no glass slipper can quiet the ghosts that haunt the psyche.

~Jewel Kilcher

ahk · 12-27-2012, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesse

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown

"The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master." - Ben Hur Lampman

What happened to Bear?

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. --Steven Wright

ahk · 12-27-2012, 11:17 AM

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.--Henry Morton Stanley

Trev · 12-27-2012, 12:29 PM

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
~Charlie Chaplin

"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."
~Charles H. Perkhurst

MegBluEyz · 12-27-2012, 01:57 PM

"We have to Appreciate with Gratitude, the Precious Moments that Life Bestows us With, Each Day, Moment by Moment." - Vashi Ram Chandi

JAGG · 12-27-2012, 07:06 PM

“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”-Christopher Morley

“Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.”
― Steve Maraboli

“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.” ― Steve Maraboli

gotoseagrl · 12-27-2012, 08:39 PM

If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. ~ Charlotte Bronte, Villette

always2late · 12-28-2012, 01:23 AM

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. - Fritz Perls

Talon · 12-28-2012, 09:22 AM

Our bodies are our gardens...our wills our gardeners.

~Shakespeare

ahk · 12-28-2012, 10:31 AM

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --Confucius

JAGG · 12-28-2012, 06:35 PM

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole you.” ― Maya Angelou

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?” ― Rumi

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw

ahk · 12-29-2012, 10:58 AM

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.--Galileo Galilei

12-25-2012, 06:22 PM	#10561
VintageFemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Outside Posts: 2,299 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,828 Thanked 7,622 Times in 1,655 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	haiku a cloud of questions somehow transforming into rainfall of answers __________________ Unfinished Business & Open to Serendipity

12-25-2012, 09:43 PM	#10563
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: I’m devoted to my own wellness (lucky me) ツ Join Date: May 2010 Location: Blue Lady in a ruby red county Posts: 15,844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 31,606 Thanked 33,390 Times in 10,550 Posts Rep Power: 21474867	“...time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison “The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievements in ways we cannot begin to imagine. It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.” ― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success “My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” ― Stephen Hawking __________________ I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou —

12-26-2012, 05:19 PM	#10565
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	“You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.” ― Steve Maraboli “The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.” ― Joyce Carol Oates “No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?” ― Steve Maraboli __________________ 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.

12-26-2012, 05:23 PM	#10566
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	In memory of Bear... "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown "The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master." - Ben Hur Lampman __________________ “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.”

12-26-2012, 05:58 PM	#10567
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	"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." ~R.I.Fitzhenry "You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide." ~Ingrid Bergman "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." ~Sydney J. Harris __________________ Trev

12-25-2012, 06:49 PM	#10562
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,095 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.” ― Anaïs Nin

12-26-2012, 12:10 PM	#10564
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	"The core question is always, "Am I ok? Is it OK to be gay, to be an English major, to want to have a baby without a husband? I tell them, "You have to trust who you are and live that out, even if it's difficult". It sounds simple, but it's not". ~Cheryl Strayed

12-27-2012, 05:26 AM	#10568
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	I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed. - Ralph Ellison __________________ 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

12-27-2012, 10:54 AM	#10569
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	The idea that fame transforms all problems is true financially and in many other ways, but no glass slipper can quiet the ghosts that haunt the psyche. ~Jewel Kilcher

12-27-2012, 11:17 AM	#10571
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	The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.--Henry Morton Stanley

12-27-2012, 12:29 PM	#10572
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	"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure." ~Charlie Chaplin "Purpose is what gives life a meaning." ~Charles H. Perkhurst __________________ Trev

12-27-2012, 01:57 PM	#10573
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	"We have to Appreciate with Gratitude, the Precious Moments that Life Bestows us With, Each Day, Moment by Moment." - Vashi Ram Chandi

12-27-2012, 07:06 PM	#10574
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	“There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.”-Christopher Morley “Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.” ― Steve Maraboli “While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.” ― Steve Maraboli __________________ 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.

12-27-2012, 08:39 PM	#10575
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,104 Times in 1,726 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. ~ Charlotte Bronte, Villette __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

12-28-2012, 01:23 AM	#10576
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. - Fritz Perls __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

12-28-2012, 09:22 AM	#10577
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	Our bodies are our gardens...our wills our gardeners. ~Shakespeare

12-28-2012, 10:31 AM	#10578
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	Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --Confucius

12-28-2012, 06:35 PM	#10579
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	“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole you.” ― Maya Angelou “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?” ― Rumi “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” ― George Bernard Shaw __________________ 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.

12-29-2012, 10:58 AM	#10580
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	We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.--Galileo Galilei