Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 548

Semantics · 02-08-2013, 10:30 PM

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Rob Brezsny

Angeltoes · 02-08-2013, 11:12 PM

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

Mistakes are proof that you are trying. ~Anonymous

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ~ Lillian Hellman

Angeltoes · 02-08-2013, 11:32 PM

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

ahk · 02-09-2013, 01:24 AM

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. --Antisthenes

Spirit Dancer · 02-09-2013, 07:35 AM

What is the worth of anything but for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge

Kobi · 02-09-2013, 10:39 AM

“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.”

― Yohji Yamamoto

JAGG · 02-09-2013, 07:00 PM

"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant

“Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my father would have done. If I can't be with him, the least I can do is act like him sometimes.” - Unknown

justanolecowboy · 02-09-2013, 09:10 PM

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

justanolecowboy · 02-09-2013, 09:21 PM

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb

Kobi · 02-10-2013, 12:36 AM

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

― Mark Twain

Jesse · 02-10-2013, 12:52 AM

justanolecowboy · 02-10-2013, 07:24 AM

COMPARISON is the thief of joy -Theodor Roosevelt

Trev · 02-10-2013, 07:43 AM

"Take it and return it: the kiss of love."
~Unknown

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
~Immanuel Kant

little_ms_sunshyne · 02-10-2013, 09:25 AM

One of my favorites...

“With a chaste heart
With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
Holding the leash of blood
So that it might leap out and trace your outline
Where you lie down in my Ode
As in a land of forests or in surf
In aromatic loam, or in sea music

Beautiful nude
Equally beautiful your feet
Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
Your ears, small shells
Of the splendid American sea
Your breasts of level plentitude
Fulfilled by living light
Your flying eyelids of wheat
Revealing or enclosing
The two deep countries of your eyes

The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
Burnished gold
Fine alabaster
To sink into the two grapes of your feet
Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
Flowering fire
Open chandelier
A swelling fruit
Over the pact of sea and earth

From what materials
Agate?
Quartz?
Wheat?
Did your body come together?
Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
The cleavage of one petal
Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
Until alone remained
Astonished
The fine and firm feminine form

It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
Yet suffocate itself
So much is clarity
Taking its leave of you
As if you were on fire within

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

― Pablo Neruda

Janstevie · 02-10-2013, 12:35 PM

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders & says... 'Oh shit...she's awake!!

Semantics · 02-10-2013, 01:21 PM

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious
daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty

Hollylane · 02-10-2013, 02:36 PM

TheMerryFairy · 02-10-2013, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hollylane

I just love this post!

I suppose it is something to keep in mind.

Katniss · 02-10-2013, 03:15 PM

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

Angeltoes · 02-10-2013, 03:22 PM

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu

02-09-2013, 07:35 AM	#10945
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,952 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	What is the worth of anything but for the happiness 'twill bring? Richard Owen Cambridge __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

02-09-2013, 10:39 AM	#10946
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,666 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.” ― Yohji Yamamoto __________________

02-09-2013, 07:00 PM	#10947
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 17,543 Times in 4,141 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown “I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.” ― Marilyn Vos Savant “Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my father would have done. If I can't be with him, the least I can do is act like him sometimes.” - Unknown __________________ 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.

02-09-2013, 09:10 PM	#10948
justanolecowboy Member How Do You Identify?: ftm Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: committed. Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: IL Posts: 493 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,110 Thanked 1,957 Times in 458 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939 __________________

02-09-2013, 09:21 PM	#10949
justanolecowboy Member How Do You Identify?: ftm Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: committed. Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: IL Posts: 493 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,110 Thanked 1,957 Times in 458 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. ~Latin Proverb __________________

02-08-2013, 10:30 PM	#10941
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 4,022 Times in 1,209 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful. Rob Brezsny

02-08-2013, 11:12 PM	#10942
Angeltoes Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Nunya Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Bernlandia Posts: 1,740 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,286 Thanked 5,525 Times in 1,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. ~ Alexandra Adornetto Mistakes are proof that you are trying. ~Anonymous It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~Chuck Palahniuk It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you. ~ Lillian Hellman

02-08-2013, 11:32 PM	#10943
Angeltoes Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Nunya Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Bernlandia Posts: 1,740 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,286 Thanked 5,525 Times in 1,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~ Stephen Hawking

02-09-2013, 01:24 AM	#10944
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 8,579 Times in 2,649 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. --Antisthenes

02-10-2013, 12:36 AM	#10950
Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,666 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ― Mark Twain __________________

02-10-2013, 12:52 AM	#10951
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 17,797 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	__________________ “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.”

02-10-2013, 07:24 AM	#10952
justanolecowboy Member How Do You Identify?: ftm Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: committed. Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: IL Posts: 493 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,110 Thanked 1,957 Times in 458 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	COMPARISON is the thief of joy -Theodor Roosevelt __________________

02-10-2013, 07:43 AM	#10953
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 10,143 Times in 2,400 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	"Take it and return it: the kiss of love." ~Unknown "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." ~Immanuel Kant __________________ Trev

02-10-2013, 09:25 AM	#10954
little_ms_sunshyne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: . Posts: 3,312 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,339 Thanked 12,241 Times in 2,540 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Love this poem... One of my favorites... “With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty Holding the leash of blood So that it might leap out and trace your outline Where you lie down in my Ode As in a land of forests or in surf In aromatic loam, or in sea music Beautiful nude Equally beautiful your feet Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound Your ears, small shells Of the splendid American sea Your breasts of level plentitude Fulfilled by living light Your flying eyelids of wheat Revealing or enclosing The two deep countries of your eyes The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of Burnished gold Fine alabaster To sink into the two grapes of your feet Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises Flowering fire Open chandelier A swelling fruit Over the pact of sea and earth From what materials Agate? Quartz? Wheat? Did your body come together? Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills The cleavage of one petal Sweet fruits of a deep velvet Until alone remained Astonished The fine and firm feminine form It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body Yet suffocate itself So much is clarity Taking its leave of you As if you were on fire within The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” ― Pablo Neruda

02-10-2013, 12:35 PM	#10955
Janstevie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Butch Relationship Status: single Join Date: May 2010 Location: England Posts: 1,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 112 Thanked 1,334 Times in 415 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says... 'Oh shit...she's awake!!

02-10-2013, 01:21 PM	#10956
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 4,022 Times in 1,209 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	it's true. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty

02-10-2013, 02:36 PM	#10957
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,372 Times in 5,877 Posts Rep Power: 21474861

02-10-2013, 03:15 PM	#10959
Katniss Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Dame, doll, twist, dish Preferred Pronoun?: Ladylike ones Relationship Status: ***** Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: We drink sweet tea here Posts: 2,903 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,654 Thanked 10,381 Times in 2,095 Posts Rep Power**: 21474850	As a nod towards nature who has blessed my backyard with blooming daffodils, snowdrops and camellias. I wandered lonely as a cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed---and gazed---but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. William Wordsworth

02-10-2013, 03:22 PM	#10960
Angeltoes Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Nunya Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Bernlandia Posts: 1,740 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,286 Thanked 5,525 Times in 1,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu