Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 73

JakeTulane · 04-05-2010, 08:37 AM

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." - Alan Cohen

Spirit Dancer · 04-05-2010, 08:37 AM

The beauty is forever there before us,
forever piping to us, and we
are forever failing to dance. We
could not help but dance if we
could see things as they really are.
Then we should kiss both hands
to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts,
minds, and souls into life with
a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush
the hem of the real beauty and joy
and wonder that are always there.

Margaret Prescott Montague

JakeTulane · 04-05-2010, 08:38 AM

"One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding." - Alice Walker

Fancy · 04-05-2010, 08:56 AM

"You know, I made this card for my mom because I love her. I have been loving her for 8 years now. Thats a long time."

~My son told his Sunday school teacher yesterday

HeartBreak Kid · 04-05-2010, 10:14 AM

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and the preceptor of his time.

~Bethune, Norman~

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way.

~Grau, Shirley Ann ~

Diva · 04-05-2010, 10:46 AM

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

Butterbean · 04-05-2010, 01:45 PM

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

-American Indian Proverb, Maricopa

Random · 04-05-2010, 01:52 PM

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -Rumi

afixer · 04-05-2010, 02:08 PM

Bluebird - Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.

...more

read by Bukowski

Butterbean · 04-05-2010, 02:20 PM

Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews. 10
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast, 15
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate. 20
But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust: 30
The grave 's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires 35
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapt power. 40
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun 45
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Hack · 04-05-2010, 03:35 PM

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. -- Pablo Picasso

always2late · 04-05-2010, 06:19 PM

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo

Mister Bent · 04-05-2010, 07:10 PM

"It is a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." - Margaret L'Engle

Corkey · 04-05-2010, 07:18 PM

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". ...Einstein

Corkey · 04-05-2010, 07:45 PM

Just because you ask a question, it doesn't mean you are entitled to an answer. Me

moxie · 04-05-2010, 08:05 PM

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title” - Virginia Woolf

Diva · 04-05-2010, 09:14 PM

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package.

~Unknown

Duchess · 04-05-2010, 09:56 PM

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer
American, Writer Quotes

Duchess · 04-05-2010, 09:58 PM

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Ken Keyes Jr.
1921-1995, American Author

HeartBreak Kid · 04-05-2010, 11:27 PM

Life Truism #1: Being last on the list sucks all around.Even for the list makers. But if there's a list, someone has to be last!........AND really it's the list's fault when you think about it......

04-05-2010, 08:37 AM	#1442
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 12,948 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there. Margaret Prescott Montague __________________ “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

04-05-2010, 10:14 AM	#1445
HeartBreak Kid Member How Do You Identify?: self Preferred Pronoun?: User formally Known as Tygerlily Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: my skin Posts: 372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 260 Thanked 446 Times in 166 Posts Rep Power: 27	The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and the preceptor of his time. ~Bethune, Norman~ Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way. ~Grau, Shirley Ann ~ __________________ ~Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love . That's All~ ~Richard Brautigan, "Deer Tracks"~ Peace and Love http://images5.cafepress.com/product...x480_Front.jpg "Pssssst.......your STEREOTYPES are showing".... ~StabbyK~

04-05-2010, 01:52 PM	#1448
Random Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: back in the land of trees and snow Posts: 2,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,017 Thanked 5,326 Times in 1,378 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -Rumi __________________ ~Volunteer~ "It gets in your blood"

04-05-2010, 03:35 PM	#1451
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,778 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I want this tattooed on me somewhere An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. -- Pablo Picasso

04-05-2010, 06:19 PM	#1452
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

04-05-2010, 08:37 AM	#1441
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." - Alan Cohen

04-05-2010, 08:38 AM	#1443
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding." - Alice Walker

04-05-2010, 08:56 AM	#1444
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,092 Times in 2,321 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"You know, I made this card for my mom because I love her. I have been loving her for 8 years now. Thats a long time." ~My son told his Sunday school teacher yesterday

04-05-2010, 10:46 AM	#1446
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,176 Times in 5,238 Posts Rep Power: 0	Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

04-05-2010, 01:45 PM	#1447
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,218 Times in 772 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something. -American Indian Proverb, Maricopa

04-05-2010, 02:08 PM	#1449
afixer Member How Do You Identify?: human Preferred Pronoun?: ma'am Relationship Status: adrift in my head Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: in and out of the woods Posts: 989 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 491 Thanked 1,511 Times in 659 Posts Rep Power: 8660554	Bluebird - Charles Bukowski there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pur whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there. ...more read by Bukowski

04-05-2010, 02:20 PM	#1450
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,218 Times in 772 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	Andrew Marvell. 1621–1678 To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges' side 5 Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. 10 My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, 15 But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. 20 But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25 Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust: 30 The grave 's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires 35 At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. 40 Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun 45 Stand still, yet we will make him run.

04-05-2010, 07:10 PM	#1453
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,827 Times in 1,721 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"It is a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." - Margaret L'Engle __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

04-05-2010, 07:18 PM	#1454
Corkey Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Human Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Very Married Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Where I want to be Posts: 8,155 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 47,491 Thanked 29,291 Times in 6,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". ...Einstein __________________ "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". ~Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)

04-05-2010, 07:45 PM	#1455
Corkey Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Human Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Very Married Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Where I want to be Posts: 8,155 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 47,491 Thanked 29,291 Times in 6,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Just because you ask a question, it doesn't mean you are entitled to an answer. Me __________________ "Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk about them". ~Old Tassel, Chief of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)

04-05-2010, 08:05 PM	#1456
moxie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: a cynical princess wannabe Preferred Pronoun?: lipgloss junkie Relationship Status: yep Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: the ville Posts: 3,027 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,544 Thanked 6,769 Times in 1,846 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title” - Virginia Woolf

04-05-2010, 09:14 PM	#1457
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,176 Times in 5,238 Posts Rep Power: 0	Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package. ~Unknown

04-05-2010, 09:56 PM	#1458
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04-05-2010, 09:58 PM	#1459
Duchess Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Absolute Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Toe curling :-) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,382 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,792 Thanked 5,592 Times in 1,521 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	*I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.* *Ken Keyes Jr.* *1921-1995, American Author* __________________ *無料のライブ*

04-05-2010, 11:27 PM	#1460
HeartBreak Kid Member How Do You Identify?: self Preferred Pronoun?: User formally Known as Tygerlily Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: my skin Posts: 372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 260 Thanked 446 Times in 166 Posts Rep Power: 27	Musings from MS. Gives-a-fuck....... Life Truism #1: Being last on the list sucks all around.Even for the list makers. But if there's a list, someone has to be last!........AND really it's the list's fault when you think about it...... __________________ ~Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love . That's All~ ~Richard Brautigan, "Deer Tracks"~ Peace and Love http://images5.cafepress.com/product...x480_Front.jpg "Pssssst.......your STEREOTYPES are showing".... ~StabbyK~