Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kätzchen]

I do like to play the game of chess, but my love for playing the game is not about winning - it is more about the moves, the logic behind the move, the inestimable capacity and resilency of making the best move possible.

We begin with Garry Kasparov, the world champion who said this of another world champion, Anatoly Karpov.

1) Karpov’s strongest point, and maybe his weakest, is that he doesn’t look for the best move.

For those of you who enjoy reading chess books, the best chess author of the 20th century was Irving Chernev, who gives us an observation on masters, followed by two more observations from Aron Nimzowitsch and Andrew Soltis, both masters.

2) A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones.

3) It is when working under limitations that the master reveals himself.

4) Masters…know when to panic.

http://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden...tend_blog_view

[Angeltoes]

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

~Maureen Dowd

[cinnamongrrl]

Now Close the Windows

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.

Robert Frost

[girl_dee]

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

[JAGG]

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.” ― Christian Nestell Bovee


“Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.”― Jaachynma N.E. Agu


“INTENT reveals desire; ACTION reveals commitment.” ― Steve Maraboli

[Janstevie]

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

[Katniss]

A Color of the Sky

Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
There are the dark parts on the road
when you pass through clumps of wood
and the bright spots where you have a view of the ocean,
but that doesn’t make the road an allegory.

I should call Marie and apologize
for being so boring at dinner last night,
but can I really promise not to be that way again?
And anyway, I’d rather watch the trees, tossing
in what certainly looks like sexual arousal.

Otherwise it’s spring, and everything looks frail;
the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves
are full of infant chlorophyll,
the very tint of inexperience.

Last summer’s song is making a comeback on the radio,
and on the highway overpass,
the only metaphysical vandal in America has written
MEMORY LOVES TIME
in big black spraypaint letters,

which makes us wonder if Time loves Memory back.

Last night I dreamed of X again.
She’s like a stain on my subconscious sheets.
Years ago she penetrated me
but though I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed,
I never got her out,
but now I’m glad.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle.
What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel.
What I thought was an injustice
turned out to be a color of the sky.

Outside the youth center, between the liquor store
and the police station,
a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;

overflowing with blossomfoam,
like a sudsy mug of beer;
like a bride ripping off her clothes,

dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds,

so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene.
It’s been doing that all week:
making beauty,
and throwing it away,
and making more.

Tony Hoagland

Katniss~~(I kind of like the fact my green lawn is littered with cherry blossoms!)

[Trev]

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
~Unknown

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

[Kobi]

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato


Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

[femmeInterrupted]

"If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.
So saying he made a signal to the seamen, and straightaway they weighed anchor and cast the ship loose from its moorings, and they moved eastward.
And a cry came from the people as from a single heart, and it rose the dusk and was carried out over the sea like a great trumpeting.
Only Almitra was silent, gazing after the ship until it had vanished into the mist.
And when all the people were dispersed she still stood alone upon the sea-wall, remembering in her heart his saying,
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."

[KCBUTCH]

A thick warm morning already,
the suns shines boldly upon my skin.

Kisses and a tail wag and were off for our morning jaunt
exploring scents, greeting and being...

I often question which of us is more protective he or I?
My muscle bound buddy, my best friend, confidant, go to...
He's a prince, a love and kind, he is no Alpha but that's my job.

He minds me, despite his stubborn willfulness, the breed is like that.
Determined... I admire that.

My furry friend. My sweet boy.
To laze around my days with you, a great pleasure!
-KC (4/21/13)

[justanolecowboy]

The Firefighter Within
Never give up.
Never give in.
Fight 'til you lose...
(or) fight 'til you win.
Never let up. Never let down. Never let the frightened see you frown. Wield your weapons, conquer all fears. Work 'til your sweat...replaces their tears. Learn from your losses. Savor your wins. Prepare for the next one. And battle again.

[JAGG]

" Because I was right all along. Home isn't a place it's a feeling. And when we are together we both know we are home. That is the only way I can explain it." - The Vera Wood files


“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.” ― D.H. Lawrence


“Even "meant to be" takes work.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

[Lasiurus_cinereus]

“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” - Henry Rollins

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Trev

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
~Unknown

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."
~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Perfect. Thank you

[Talon]

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.


~Nietzsche



Brevity is the soul of the wit.


~Shakespeare

[MegBluEyz]

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"See the world as yourself. Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as yourself: then you can care for all things."
-Tao Te Ching

[StrongButch]

1) There are really only two options regarding commitment your either in or your out. 2) Love is a symbol of eternity.It wipes out all sense of time,all memory of a beginning and all fear of an ending. 3) Love puts the fun in together,the sad in apart,the joy in a heart. 4) Commitment and passion transform dreams into realities. 5) Without commitment,you cannot have depth in anything,wheather it be a relationship,a business or hobby.

[macele]

"I don't have the answers, Charley. But I know that people get confused in this life about what they want and what they've done and what they think they should have because of it. Everything they think they are or did takes hold so hard that it won't let them see what they can be. I've got a big idea about us, Charley. And I'm not gonna wait forever. But I am gonna wait. And when you're far away, I want you to think about that. And... come back to me."

-- Sue Barlow(Annette Bening) from the movie Open Range

[Katniss]