Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[KCBUTCH]

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on you road doesn't mean they've gotten lost"
-Dali Lama

"When I let go of what I am. I become what I might be"- Lao Tzu

"I am not what happened to me. O am what I choose to become"- Carl Jung

[StrongButch]

1) Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart. 2) Among the things you can give and still keep your word, a smile and a grateful heart. 3) The heart of a fool is in her mouth, but the mouth of a wise woman is in her heart. 4) A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. 5) Smile,its the key that fits the lock to everybodys heart.

[justanolecowboy]

Love, something we all live with, dream of, or hope for

Tis a gift that is not to be taken lightly

A gift from one heart to another given in faith

From one soul wanting to give to another soul longing to receive

Coming together from darkness and sorrow, from loss and despair

Into the glow of a rainbow after the rains have fallen

Sunshine lights the path, though it be dark in the early morn

A new dawn is to awaken the sleeping heart of the lost soul

A new era approaches the lives of two who have wandered

Within the shadows of their life, the attic of their minds


Where dust had gathered a breeze now gently blows all away

To reveal the beauty of what may come and shine forth

A beauty that can only be shared by two with faith in themselves

and trust in their hearts

A desire for consummate love bubbles within and gives a reason to live

To live and let every moment together count, waste not one day nor even one moment

This is beauty that can overcome the darkness, a love that can grow

When given the chance to risk, to grab hold of the clouds and soar

Open the door, let it all in, cherish it, live it, and do not let go

Refrain not when love knocks gently on your heart's door


One has so much to give, the other has so much need

to be loved and cared for, someone to walk with, to be there

Which is the one who needs to give, or the one who needs to be

Held and loved, nourished and soothed, it changes from day to day


Arms that ache to be holding the one, the love that blooms

A fire that burns and must be quenched before it consumes


Love cannot grow if not given a chance,

A risk not taken is to not feel the dance

Of moments together to create memories

Swaying together with a garden breeze

Gently caressing the lovers that embrace

Behind curtains of white gossamer lace


From shaking hands and heart, about to risk, a Sacred Love begins to grow, born of purity and faith, trust and spiritual knowing

There are times when someone also needs the courage to just live

Reach out, take the hand offered, take the heart that loves you

Treat it with great care, and give back the love

And the rose, when turned, becomes Eros, the god of Love

[UofMfan]

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

-- first sentence from "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967) by
Gabriel García Márquez

[JAGG]

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” Friedrich Nietzsche


“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”― Carlos Castaneda


“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore.”
― André Gide

[KCBUTCH]

"Appearances of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are already in ourselves"
-Kahlil Gibran


"I am not interested in your limiting beliefs;
I am interested in what makes you limitless.

I'm not interested in your weakness, but your strength;
not in your vices but your virtues;
not your insecurities but your greatness.

Stop spinning in your past or on all the reasons you feel you are not good enough.
It's time to step into a higher state of being above the fray and fear.

It is not what makes you small or limited that you should focus on.
It is what makes you magnificent, remarkable, loving, blessed...ready!!"
-Brendon Burchard (Author of the Charge)

[dixie]

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

~Frida Kahlo

[ruffryder]

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch

Being at the right place at the right time is just a matter of making the most of every moment. Dr. Richard McCoy

[ruffryder]

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan

[jcisbutch]

insanity is repeating the same action over and over and ecpecting different results...Einstein

[ruffryder]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill

[ruffryder]

"Courage is looking fear in the eye and saying: Get the hell out of my way I got things to do!"

[Talon]

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.


~Goethe

[Spirit Dancer]

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
–Charles Swindoll

[Spirit Dancer]

The type of hugging I recommend is the bear hug. Use both arms, face your partner and perform a full embrace.
– David Bresler

[Kobi]

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”

― Tom Robbins

[StrongButch]

1) Things dont change only the way you look at them. 2) Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. 3) Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still 4) As long as you have a certain desire about how it should be you cant see how it is 5) The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new 6) The more we give love, the greater our compacity to do so 7) We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

[MarquisdeShey]

“Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its wildest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life, if we are to live as nature meant us to; that is, unless we are content to be less than men”. ~ William Morris

[Trev]

"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing."
~Jim Dodge

"A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn't."
~Don Williams, Jr.

[dixie]

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

~Soren Kierkegaard