Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[moxie]

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo F. Buscaglia

[nycfem]

Originally Posted by puregrrl

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo F. Buscaglia

I've always loved this quote.

[Enchantress]

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis

[Diva]

7/11 Beer.....when Rite~Aid Beer just won't do.

~David Letterman

[Kobi]

I received this in an email a while back. It is something to ponder:

Life is a theater--invite your audience carefully. Not everyone is spiritually healthy and mature enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you let go, or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships/friendships/fellowships!

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention to: which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people,
do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones always have drama or don't really understand, know and appreciate you and the gift that lies within you? When you seek growth, peace of mind, love and truth, the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the
FRONT ROW and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

You cannot change the people around you..but you can change the people you are around. Pray for Godly wisdom and discernment and choose wisely the people who sit in the FRONT ROW of your life.

[Emmy]

Here is a favorite poem of mine that lately has been on my mind:


William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Lady Pamela]

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear;
as young as your hope,
as old as your despair."

— Douglas MacArthur

[Diva]

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.

~William Arthur Ward

[Diva]

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."

~Dan Rather

[JakeTulane]

“Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music” - Martin Luther King

[JakeTulane]

“The earth is what we all have in common.” - Wendell Barry

[JakeTulane]

“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.” - Sidonie Gabrielle

[Ldyluck88]

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ~Albert Camus

[always2late]

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate." - Joseph Priestley

[Ldyluck88]

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo

[Ms. Meander]

Once you STOP, then you can START.

~ a good friend

[Butterbean]

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

~Anonymous

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[adorable]

"the ability to communicate like an adult.

honesty, integrity, open to other ideas besides their own.

And for shit sakes don't try to run the fuck!" ~Mr. Sunshine


Omg! This is so damn funny - I'm still laughing.

[Andrew, Jr.]

"To manifest your heart's desires you must BE what your heart desires."

"Your inner knowing is your only true compass."

~Joy Page~

[weatherboi]