Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[StrongButch]

1) Teacher: Are you cheating? Me: No we are sharing. Teacher: Sharing is cheating! Me: No sharing in caring! 2) Life is not like a box of chocolates, its more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. 3) People who have their feet planted firmly on the ground have trouble putting pants on. 4) When will my dog get the hint my leg "just wants to be friends" 5) I hate when your playing Guitar Hero and as soon as your getting great you have an itch. 6) Two elderly men sitting on a bench outside a retirement home One says Ted I am 83 yrs old and now im full of aches and pains. I know your about my age how do you feel? Ted says like a newborn baby! Really like a newborn baby? Ted say yep no hair,no teeth and I just think I wet my pants! (lol)

[ahk]

Honesty is the best policy. --Benjamin Franklin

[Duchess]

"The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them."

— Josiah Gilbert

[JAGG]

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.” ― Henry James

“A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life,...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

[MarquisdeShey]

Sometimes all you can do for someone who is not being kind is to remind them of how kindness feels. ~SPS

[Kobi]

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."


— Leo Buscaglia

[MarquisdeShey]

No one ever asks how they may impact your life. No one ever asks how deeply they may love or hurt you. No one ever asks how they should take your breath away or breath life back into you. No one ever asks...they just do.

~SPS

[ahk]

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.--Voltaire

[JAGG]

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
― E. Lockhart

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Somebody knows.”
― Ally Carter

[MarquisdeShey]

It was not the physical pain or the emotional pain that broke my heart. It was hearing you say you never loved me at all.

~ SPS

[Duchess]

"Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost."

— Albert Einstein

[KCBUTCH]

"the only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday"-unknown

"strength doesn't come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't" -Rikki Rogers

"It is better to be alone than with someone who makes you feel alone"-unknown

"HAPPINESS IS NOT A STATE TO ARRIVE AT BUT A MANNER OF TRAVELING"-UNKNOWN

[justanolecowboy]

Originally Posted by Kobi

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."

— Leo Buscaglia

I love Leo - I have all his books - most of them dog -earred and tattered about as they have gone from place to place with me...and from saddle bag - to brief case - to desk...I cherish the collection - what a marvelous out of the box thinker he was.

[PaPa]

Don't look at the past with anger, nor the future with fear, only around in awareness. Let peaceful thoughts flow into your mind like streams flows into the ocean.

[KCBUTCH]

Originally Posted by Kobi

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."


— Leo Buscaglia

true story-when I was about 15 and in a immense amount of emotional turmoil and found myself somewhere in Kentucky watching tv in a hotel by myself
That is when I was introduced to Leo- the man changed my life that day
He told his story of how He used to be a professor at UCLA and had tenure
every semester he'd asked his students to come by his office to get to know them a bit

One day a young woman came in highly intoxicated and he told her he could not see her that way for there was no way he could know her if she were not herself- weeks went by and he saw her less and less until one day she just was not there
no one even the class remembered her existence
He then went to the Dean of Women and found the young girl had gone to The Pacific Palasades (cliffs) and jumped
it was then he thought to himself- "we teach children how to read, write and arithmetic but not how to live"

He then gave up his tenure to become a motivational speaker to help people learn to live. he is a great man- I admire and hope to be more like every day thank you for sharing this

[sara-bera]

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

[Talon]

Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly...but flooding the river.


~Madagascan Proverb

[Kobi]

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

― William Shakespeare

[JAGG]

“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen


“The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

[KCBUTCH]

In Your time, Spirit ,may I grow in my understanding of self.

My spiritual journey involves a discovery of self. For years, I pretended to be what I was not, what I imagined myself to be, or what others wanted me to be. Today I am beginning to know myself. I understand my needs and my strengths. I accept my weaknesses and live with my confusion. From the time I put down the glass, things have progressively gotten better, but there is still a great deal I do not understand.The daily violence and suffering, and my own personal defenses, impatience, and judgment-where do they come from? I do not know, and that is okay. I still search. My suspicion is that the answer lies within my own insecurities, as they do crop up time to time, ever reminding me of my humanness.