Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[SugarFemme]

[SugarFemme]

[Kobi]

[ahk]

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.--Andy Warhol

[Genesis]

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself." ~ Walter Anderson

[Genesis]

“What Is Love?
I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love.
His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes
and the stars through his soul” ― Victor Hugo

[Genesis]

“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound.
Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[Butterbean]

[MissItalianDiva]

It is okay to be vulnerable, because when you are vulnerable, you are innocent. Innocence is our gift from God.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

It's all there. Everything you need to know. Why you are here, what you are here to do and how you must go about accomplishing every task. It's all right there in your heart. Spend some time listening to your heart. Ask to be guided away from what you no longer need or desire onto the path of all that you deserve.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

Your feelings are always valid. The challenge we all face is to understand what we are feeling and to de-charge or neutralize it, thereby making it possible to express the feeling at the highest level possible for everyone involved. We must each learn to get beneath the feeling and root out the cause in order to bring our mental, emotional, and spiritual energies back into balance.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

Own everything you create, internally and externally. Acknowledge every emotion for exactly what it is, a part of you. When you own what you feel, you are empowered to make a conscious choice about how to change the feeling.
~~Iyanla Vanzant

[JAGG]

“ Love clings to the very core of our memories and lies there in silence until a new desire reawakens and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting energy. Like water, love is a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.”
― Laura Esquivel


“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
― Marilyn Monroe


“And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the person who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.”
― Erin McCarthy

[MissItalianDiva]

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

[Trev]

"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision."
~Robyn Davidson

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
~Bruce Lee

[SugarFemme]

[Genesis]

The Roses of Saadi
I wanted you to have roses this morn,
And stuffed a lot of them in my snug dress,
In my tight belt I could not all shoehorn.

The knots gave way, and threw them all around,
To wind and sea they were all gone forlorn
To flow with water, never will come round.

The waves were crimson red as if on fire.
This eve my dress is drenched in their fragrance,
Breathe it and keep it to your heart's desire.
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

[MegBluEyz]

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

Aristotle

[Kobi]

[Trev]

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
~Alfred Korzybski

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
~May Sarton

[Genesis]

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables