Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 549

TimilDeeps · 02-10-2013, 03:31 PM

feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied, not pushed away, but gone entirely
for that moment you can't help feeling good in, a moment of sudden, irrational joy
over nothing of consequence, really, which makes it all somehow seem even worse.
Shouldn't happiness be the result of some grand event, something adequate to counter
that aching, gaping chasm that opened when . . . But, no: it's merely this: there goes
our little neighbor, running barefoot, no pants, fox stole wrapped around her shoulders.

Kim Addonizio

TimilDeeps · 02-10-2013, 03:35 PM

We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I say.
You touch my knees with your blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the floor
and burns a hole through it.
Don't tell me, I say. I don't want to hear.
Did you ever, you start,
wear a certain kind of dress
and just by accident,
so inconsequential you barely notice it,
your fingers graze that dress
and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,
you see it too
and you realize how that image
is simply the extension of another image,
that your own life
is a chain of words
that one day will snap.
Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,
and beginning to rise heavenward
in their confirmation dresses,
like white helium balloons,
the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,
and above all that,
that's where I'm floating,
and that's what it's like
only ten times clearer,
ten times more horrible.
Could anyone alive survive it?

Ai Ogawa

Bèsame* · 02-10-2013, 04:22 PM

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak

JAGG · 02-10-2013, 07:10 PM

“ The simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.” ― Ally Carter

"Trying to stay afloat in life can be difficult. But don't mistake every rope for a lifeline. Some ropes have anchors tied to the other end." - Unknown

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill

Kobi · 02-10-2013, 08:07 PM

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved,
now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits.

Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never.

Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?

Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

Beethoven

Mr.Nobody · 02-10-2013, 11:01 PM

Oh, Great Spirit......

Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.

(translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)

Janstevie · 02-11-2013, 07:18 AM

Now Seniors have their own texting codes:

* ATD- At the Doctor's

* BFF - Best Friends Funeral

* BTW- Bring the Wheelchair

* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth

* CBM- Covered by Medicare

* CUATSC- See You at the Senior Citizens

* DWI- Driving While Incontinent

* FWIW - Forgot Where I Was

* GGPBL- Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

* GHA - Got Heartburn Again

* LMDO- Laughing My Dentures Out

* LOL- Living on Lipitor

* * TOT- Texting on Toilet

*

Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)

ruffryder · 02-11-2013, 10:53 AM

Great reminders for love in the air this month!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobi

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

― Mark Twain

Quote:

Originally Posted by JAGG

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

Talon · 02-11-2013, 11:51 AM

I do not know what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself in,
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

~Isaac Newton

ahk · 02-11-2013, 12:12 PM

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.--Grandma Moses

JAGG · 02-11-2013, 06:08 PM

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that?" - Unknown

“Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.” ― Rob Bell

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

Spirit Dancer · 02-11-2013, 09:24 PM

HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and
sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson~

KCBUTCH · 02-11-2013, 09:34 PM

"Take a Deep Breath! It will dissolve anxiety and calm your mind and heart." -Garnet Hill

"This Universe is not outside you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."-Rumi

dixie · 02-11-2013, 09:37 PM

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

~Henry David Thoreau

DamonK · 02-11-2013, 09:44 PM

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein

Talon · 02-12-2013, 08:23 AM

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

~Heraclitus

justanolecowboy · 02-12-2013, 10:16 AM

I uttered her name (and) knew then that beauty existed - (ldw)

Kobi · 02-12-2013, 03:41 PM

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Trev · 02-12-2013, 07:22 PM

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
~Unknown

JAGG · 02-12-2013, 08:32 PM

“May you live every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ― Michael Levine

02-10-2013, 03:31 PM	#10961
TimilDeeps Senior Member How Do You Identify?: queer fucker Preferred Pronoun?: Mine Relationship Status: I'm dating myself. It's really working out. I think I'm the one!!! Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: To your right and a bit South. Posts: 1,522 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 108 Thanked 1,470 Times in 445 Posts Rep Power: 19646657	Happiness after Grief feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied, not pushed away, but gone entirely for that moment you can't help feeling good in, a moment of sudden, irrational joy over nothing of consequence, really, which makes it all somehow seem even worse. Shouldn't happiness be the result of some grand event, something adequate to counter that aching, gaping chasm that opened when . . . But, no: it's merely this: there goes our little neighbor, running barefoot, no pants, fox stole wrapped around her shoulders. Kim Addonizio

02-10-2013, 03:35 PM	#10962
TimilDeeps Senior Member How Do You Identify?: queer fucker Preferred Pronoun?: Mine Relationship Status: I'm dating myself. It's really working out. I think I'm the one!!! Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: To your right and a bit South. Posts: 1,522 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 108 Thanked 1,470 Times in 445 Posts Rep Power: 19646657	Conversation We smile at each other and I lean back against the wicker couch. How does it feel to be dead? I say. You touch my knees with your blue fingers. And when you open your mouth, a ball of yellow light falls to the floor and burns a hole through it. Don't tell me, I say. I don't want to hear. Did you ever, you start, wear a certain kind of dress and just by accident, so inconsequential you barely notice it, your fingers graze that dress and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper, you see it too and you realize how that image is simply the extension of another image, that your own life is a chain of words that one day will snap. Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands, and beginning to rise heavenward in their confirmation dresses, like white helium balloons, the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning, and above all that, that's where I'm floating, and that's what it's like only ten times clearer, ten times more horrible. Could anyone alive survive it? Ai Ogawa

02-10-2013, 04:22 PM	#10963
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: 29,012 Thanked 40,863 Times in 10,672 Posts Rep Power: 21474864	Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are. Markus Zusak __________________ kisses A kiss is a whisper in your mouth. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise to give it back. Last edited by Bèsame; 02-10-2013 at 04:23 PM. Reason: Spaces*

02-10-2013, 07:10 PM	#10964
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	“ The simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.” ― Ally Carter "Trying to stay afloat in life can be difficult. But don't mistake every rope for a lifeline. Some ropes have anchors tied to the other end." - Unknown "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill __________________ 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.

02-10-2013, 08:07 PM	#10965
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 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us. I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits. Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never. Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. ever thine ever mine ever ours Beethoven __________________

02-10-2013, 11:01 PM	#10966
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	Oh, Great Spirit...... Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me, I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my Spirit may come to you without shame. (translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887) __________________ Noblesse oblige...

02-11-2013, 07:18 AM	#10967
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 1,331 Times in 411 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Now Seniors have their own texting codes: * ATD- At the Doctor's * BFF - Best Friends Funeral * BTW- Bring the Wheelchair * BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth * CBM- Covered by Medicare * CUATSC- See You at the Senior Citizens * DWI- Driving While Incontinent * FWIW - Forgot Where I Was * GGPBL- Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low * GHA - Got Heartburn Again * LMDO- Laughing My Dentures Out * LOL- Living on Lipitor * * TOT- Texting on Toilet * Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)

02-11-2013, 11:51 AM	#10969
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	I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in, now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton

02-11-2013, 12:12 PM	#10970
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	Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.--Grandma Moses

02-11-2013, 06:08 PM	#10971
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	“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that?" - Unknown “Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.” ― Rob Bell “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers __________________ 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.

02-11-2013, 09:24 PM	#10972
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 12,941 Times in 3,467 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson~ __________________ “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

02-11-2013, 09:34 PM	#10973
KCBUTCH Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Undaunted QUEER Dom, Daddy Preferred Pronoun?: MYSELF, Syr, Hy, or friend prefered Relationship Status: Cautious, indifferent... Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Below the foothills above the beach Posts: 1,848 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,240 Thanked 3,305 Times in 884 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	"Take a Deep Breath! It will dissolve anxiety and calm your mind and heart." -Garnet Hill "This Universe is not outside you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."-Rumi __________________ "If you want to know the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration"-Nikola Tesla

02-11-2013, 09:37 PM	#10974
dixie Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: I usually just poke it with a stick. Preferred Pronoun?: Bitch Relationship Status: Intertwined deeply Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: We're all a little mad here. Posts: 6,627 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,972 Thanked 21,384 Times in 4,808 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~Henry David Thoreau

02-11-2013, 09:44 PM	#10975
DamonK Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: May 2010 Location: . Posts: 2,199 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,527 Thanked 7,762 Times in 1,881 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein

02-12-2013, 08:23 AM	#10976
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	No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. ~Heraclitus

02-12-2013, 10:16 AM	#10977
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: 21474851	I uttered her name (and) knew then that beauty existed - (ldw) __________________

02-12-2013, 03:41 PM	#10978
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 34,657 Times in 7,654 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free __________________

02-12-2013, 07:22 PM	#10979
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	"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach." ~Unknown __________________ Trev

02-12-2013, 08:32 PM	#10980
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	“May you live every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” ― Elbert Hubbard “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ― Michael Levine __________________ 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.