Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 691

Kobi · 12-06-2013, 09:23 AM

puddin' · 12-06-2013, 02:16 PM

“no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. people must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~nelson mandela

Kobi · 12-07-2013, 12:40 AM

JAGG · 12-07-2013, 09:48 AM

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”― Virginia Woolf

“It isn't easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.” ― Victor Hugo

“If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.
If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!”
― John Boyd

The_Lady_Snow · 12-07-2013, 06:19 PM

I loved her
not for the way
she danced
with my angels
but for the way
the sound of
her name
could silence my
demons.

Soon · 12-07-2013, 08:11 PM

"Imagine yourself standing in the rain on the bank of a raging river. Suddenly, the water-swollen bank gives way. You fall in and find yourself being tossed around in the rapids. Your efforts to keep afloat are futile and you are drowning. By chance, along comes a huge log and you grab it and hold on tight. The log keeps your head above water and saves your life. Clinging to the log you are swept downstream and eventually come to a place where the water is calm. There in the distance, you see the riverbank and attempt to swim to shore. You are unable to do so, however, because you are still clinging to the huge log with one arm as you stroke with the other. How ironic. The very thing that saved your life is now getting in the way of your getting where you want to go. There are people on the shore who see you struggle and yell, “Let go of the log!” But you are unable to do so because you have no confidence in your ability to make it to shore.

And so, very slowly and carefully, you let go of the log and practice floating. When you start to sink, you grab back on. Then you let go of the log and practice treading water, and when you get tired, hold on once again. After awhile, you practice swimming around the log once, twice, ten times, twenty times, a hundred times, until you gain the strength and confidence you need to swim to shore. Only then do you completely let go of the log."

--Anita Johnson, Eating by the Light of the Moon

JAGG · 12-07-2013, 08:26 PM

“ I am not sure what I fear more, being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
― Adam Levin

“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear .” ― Daphne du Maurier

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't see it for a time.” ― Deb Caletti

Asari · 12-07-2013, 08:50 PM

“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.”

[Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973)]
―Konrad Lorenz

BestButchBoy · 12-08-2013, 07:34 AM

“ I’m very fucking grateful to be alive. I have so many friends who are sick or gone, and I’m here. Are you kidding? No complaints!
~Meryl Streep

Kobi · 12-08-2013, 09:27 AM

Smiling · 12-08-2013, 04:44 PM

Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

little_ms_sunshyne · 12-08-2013, 05:34 PM

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

~Lisa Kleypas

JAGG · 12-08-2013, 05:37 PM

“There is always danger for those who are afraid.”
― George Bernard Shaw

" Those who are afraid of dying do not yet know what it feels like to really live." -Unknown

“If you act like prey, they’ll act like predators”
― Alyxandra Harvey

Jet · 12-08-2013, 11:14 PM

ROMEO
Have courage, man. The wound can’t be that bad.

MERCUTIO
No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!

Kobi · 12-09-2013, 07:38 AM

Genesis · 12-09-2013, 11:26 AM

Genesis · 12-09-2013, 11:27 AM

Genesis · 12-09-2013, 11:31 AM

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Buddha

Genesis · 12-09-2013, 03:53 PM

i am not yours.
i did not make the long hard journey through and across the spirit world
to
be a man’s ocean.
my body is not yours.
my mouth is not yours.
my water is not yours.
nothing i am belongs to you
unless i decide
to
open my hand
and
give it to you.

- Nayyirah Waheed

JAGG · 12-09-2013, 05:58 PM

“Fear works from the inside.”
― Andrew Clements

“If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.”
― Steven Pressfield

“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
― Paulo Coelho

12-06-2013, 02:16 PM	#13802
puddin' Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: a genderqueer nuisance Preferred Pronoun?: bitchboi Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: new zealand Posts: 7,120 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,467 Thanked 7,962 Times in 2,340 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	rip mr. mandela... “no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. people must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ~nelson mandela __________________ be true, be you, be brave.

12-07-2013, 09:48 AM	#13804
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”― Virginia Woolf “It isn't easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.” ― Victor Hugo “If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!” ― John Boyd __________________ 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.

12-07-2013, 06:19 PM	#13805
The_Lady_Snow MILLION $$$ PUSSY How Do You Identify?: Kinky, Raw, Perverted, Uber Queer Alpha Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Iconic Ms. Relationship Status: Keeper of 3, only one has the map to my freckles Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: La Reina del Sur Posts: 22,488 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 32,231 Thanked 80,077 Times in 15,670 Posts Rep Power: 21474875	--Christopher Poindexter I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons. __________________ "If you’re going to play these dirty games of ours, then you might as well indulge completely. It’s all about turning back into an animal and that’s the beauty of it. Place your guilt on the sidewalk and take a blow torch to it (guilt is usually worthless anyway). Be perverted, be filthy, do things that mannered people shouldn’t do. If you’re going to be gross then go for it and don’t wimp out."---Master Aiden

12-07-2013, 08:26 PM	#13807
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“ I am not sure what I fear more, being misunderstood or being betrayed.” ― Adam Levin “Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear .” ― Daphne du Maurier “Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't see it for a time.” ― Deb Caletti __________________ 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.

12-07-2013, 08:50 PM	#13808
Asari Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: female ones Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Germany Posts: 146 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 563 Thanked 274 Times in 90 Posts Rep Power: 4780808	“All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.” [Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973)] ―Konrad Lorenz __________________ “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Mahatma Gandhi

12-06-2013, 09:23 AM	#13801
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 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860

12-07-2013, 12:40 AM	#13803
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 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860

12-07-2013, 08:11 PM	#13806
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	"Imagine yourself standing in the rain on the bank of a raging river. Suddenly, the water-swollen bank gives way. You fall in and find yourself being tossed around in the rapids. Your efforts to keep afloat are futile and you are drowning. By chance, along comes a huge log and you grab it and hold on tight. The log keeps your head above water and saves your life. Clinging to the log you are swept downstream and eventually come to a place where the water is calm. There in the distance, you see the riverbank and attempt to swim to shore. You are unable to do so, however, because you are still clinging to the huge log with one arm as you stroke with the other. How ironic. The very thing that saved your life is now getting in the way of your getting where you want to go. There are people on the shore who see you struggle and yell, “Let go of the log!” But you are unable to do so because you have no confidence in your ability to make it to shore. And so, very slowly and carefully, you let go of the log and practice floating. When you start to sink, you grab back on. Then you let go of the log and practice treading water, and when you get tired, hold on once again. After awhile, you practice swimming around the log once, twice, ten times, twenty times, a hundred times, until you gain the strength and confidence you need to swim to shore. Only then do you completely let go of the log." --Anita Johnson, Eating by the Light of the Moon

12-08-2013, 07:34 AM	#13809
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,438 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	No Complaints! “ I’m very fucking grateful to be alive. I have so many friends who are sick or gone, and I’m here. Are you kidding? No complaints! ~Meryl Streep

12-08-2013, 09:27 AM	#13810
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 34,617 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474860

12-08-2013, 04:44 PM	#13811
Smiling Senior Member How Do You Identify?: with a distinct flair Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: somewhere else Posts: 1,852 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,623 Thanked 4,388 Times in 1,009 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats

12-08-2013, 05:34 PM	#13812
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 2,541 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. ~Lisa Kleypas

12-08-2013, 05:37 PM	#13813
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“There is always danger for those who are afraid.” ― George Bernard Shaw " Those who are afraid of dying do not yet know what it feels like to really live." -Unknown “If you act like prey, they’ll act like predators” ― Alyxandra Harvey __________________ 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.

12-08-2013, 11:14 PM	#13814
Jet Timed Out - TOS Drama How Do You Identify?: .. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: .. Posts: 3,471 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 292 Thanked 2,647 Times in 1,293 Posts Rep Power: 0	Romeo and Juliet Act 3 ROMEO Have courage, man. The wound can’t be that bad. MERCUTIO No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!

12-09-2013, 07:38 AM	#13815
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12-09-2013, 11:26 AM	#13816
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,439 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,606 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,299 Posts Rep Power: 21474858

12-09-2013, 11:27 AM	#13817
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,439 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,606 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,299 Posts Rep Power: 21474858

12-09-2013, 11:31 AM	#13818
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,439 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,606 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,299 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha

12-09-2013, 03:53 PM	#13819
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,439 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,606 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,299 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Birthmarks by Nayyirah Waheed i am not yours. i did not make the long hard journey through and across the spirit world to be a man’s ocean. my body is not yours. my mouth is not yours. my water is not yours. nothing i am belongs to you unless i decide to open my hand and give it to you. - Nayyirah Waheed

12-09-2013, 05:58 PM	#13820
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 17,530 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“Fear works from the inside.” ― Andrew Clements “If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.” ― Steven Pressfield “The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” ― Paulo Coelho __________________ 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.