Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 937

Orema · 04-06-2016, 07:45 AM

Unwanted favors gain no gratitude. —Sophocles

Jesse · 04-06-2016, 08:06 AM

Orema · 04-07-2016, 07:26 AM

It is often easier to fight for principles that to live up to them. —Adlai Stevenson

gotoseagrl · 04-07-2016, 01:47 PM

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

Orema · 04-08-2016, 07:12 AM

Soon · 04-09-2016, 01:38 PM

“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.”
--Pema Chodron

Bubala · 04-09-2016, 03:09 PM

“Venus favors the bold.” Ovid

Bubala · 04-09-2016, 06:43 PM

"Don't worry much if your wife is fateful or not, worry more whether or not you do everything you can to make her happy, for happy ones rarely go screwing around."

Genesis · 04-09-2016, 07:16 PM

"... To be human
is to become visible
while carrying
what is hidden
as a gift to others.

To remember
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
true inheritance.

You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
an accident
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater
night
than the one
from which
you have just emerged ..."

- David Whyte

Genesis · 04-09-2016, 07:24 PM

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
That myth is more potent than history.
That dreams are more powerful than facts.
That hope always triumphs over experience.
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death...”

- Robert Fulghum

Genesis · 04-10-2016, 11:17 AM

“I am a lover without a lover.
I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

~Warsan Shire

Orema · 04-11-2016, 07:20 AM

Orema · 04-12-2016, 07:13 AM

Nat · 04-12-2016, 08:42 AM

Proof of Poetry

BY TOM SLEIGH

I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter
and in my twenties I almost ended up there—

and then as an alternative to vodka, to live

alone like a hermit philosopher and court
the extreme poverty that I suspected lay in store for me anyway—

and then there were the years in which

I needed very badly to take refuge in mediocrity,
years like blunt scissors cutting out careful squares,

and that was the worst, the very worst—

you could say that always my life
was like a patchwork quilt always ripped apart—

my life like scraps stitched together in a dream

in which animals and people,
plants, chimeras, stars,

even minerals were in a preordained harmony—

a dream forgotten because it has to be forgotten,
but that I looked for desperately, but only sporadically

found in fragments, a hand lifted to strike

or caress or simply lifted for some unknown reason—
and in memory too, some specific pain, sensation of cold or warmth.

I loved that harmony in all its stages of passion,

the voices still talking inside me . . . but then, instead of harmony,
there was nothing but rags scattered on the ground.

Nat · 04-12-2016, 08:53 AM

IN THE COUNSELOR’S WAITING ROOM

- Bettie Sellers

The terra cotta girl
with big flat farm feet
traces furrows in the rug
with her toes,
reads an existentialist paperback
from psychology class,
finds no ease there
from the guilt of loving
the quiet girl down the hall.
Their home soil has seen to this visit,
their Baptist mothers,
who weep for the waste of sturdy hips
ripe for grandchildren.

homoe · 04-12-2016, 05:30 PM

"The only safe thing is to take a chance" Elaine May

homoe · 04-12-2016, 05:35 PM

"Who is the happier man: He who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter Thompson

homoe · 04-12-2016, 06:27 PM

"In America, any boy can become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.......Adlai Stevenson

Orema · 04-14-2016, 07:13 AM

gotoseagrl · 04-14-2016, 11:26 AM

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West

04-06-2016, 08:06 AM	#18722
Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,784 Times in 3,940 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	__________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”

04-07-2016, 01:47 PM	#18724
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,105 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

04-09-2016, 03:09 PM	#18727
Bubala Member How Do You Identify?: Lady Sunflower Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: San Fran Posts: 844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 463 Thanked 1,671 Times in 615 Posts Rep Power: 9338276	“Venus favors the bold.” Ovid __________________ When life turns its back on you....grab its ass

04-09-2016, 06:43 PM	#18728
Bubala Member How Do You Identify?: Lady Sunflower Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: San Fran Posts: 844 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 463 Thanked 1,671 Times in 615 Posts Rep Power: 9338276	"Don't worry much if your wife is fateful or not, worry more whether or not you do everything you can to make her happy, for happy ones rarely go screwing around." __________________ When life turns its back on you....grab its ass

04-09-2016, 07:16 PM	#18729
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: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	To be human... "... To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth, you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged ..." - David Whyte

04-06-2016, 07:45 AM	#18721
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,486 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,419 Thanked 34,755 Times in 8,930 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	Unwanted favors gain no gratitude. —Sophocles

04-07-2016, 07:26 AM	#18723
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,486 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,419 Thanked 34,755 Times in 8,930 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	It is often easier to fight for principles that to live up to them. —Adlai Stevenson

04-08-2016, 07:12 AM	#18725
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04-09-2016, 01:38 PM	#18726
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 13,096 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don’t deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.” --Pema Chodron

04-09-2016, 07:24 PM	#18730
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: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	Imagination... “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death...” - Robert Fulghum

04-10-2016, 11:17 AM	#18731
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: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,669 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	I am <3 “I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.” ~Warsan Shire

04-11-2016, 07:20 AM	#18732
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04-12-2016, 07:13 AM	#18733
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,486 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,419 Thanked 34,755 Times in 8,930 Posts Rep Power: 21474861

04-12-2016, 08:42 AM	#18734
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender Preferred Pronoun?: whatevs Relationship Status: in a relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tx Posts: 3,535 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,042 Thanked 13,967 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Proof of Poetry BY TOM SLEIGH I wanted first to end up as a drunk in the gutter and in my twenties I almost ended up there— and then as an alternative to vodka, to live alone like a hermit philosopher and court the extreme poverty that I suspected lay in store for me anyway— and then there were the years in which I needed very badly to take refuge in mediocrity, years like blunt scissors cutting out careful squares, and that was the worst, the very worst— you could say that always my life was like a patchwork quilt always ripped apart— my life like scraps stitched together in a dream in which animals and people, plants, chimeras, stars, even minerals were in a preordained harmony— a dream forgotten because it has to be forgotten, but that I looked for desperately, but only sporadically found in fragments, a hand lifted to strike or caress or simply lifted for some unknown reason— and in memory too, some specific pain, sensation of cold or warmth. I loved that harmony in all its stages of passion, the voices still talking inside me . . . but then, instead of harmony, there was nothing but rags scattered on the ground. __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl

04-12-2016, 08:53 AM	#18735
Nat Senior Member How Do You Identify?: bigender Preferred Pronoun?: whatevs Relationship Status: in a relationship Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Tx Posts: 3,535 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,042 Thanked 13,967 Times in 2,589 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	IN THE COUNSELOR’S WAITING ROOM - Bettie Sellers The terra cotta girl with big flat farm feet traces furrows in the rug with her toes, reads an existentialist paperback from psychology class, finds no ease there from the guilt of loving the quiet girl down the hall. Their home soil has seen to this visit, their Baptist mothers, who weep for the waste of sturdy hips ripe for grandchildren. __________________ I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl. - Bjork What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl

04-12-2016, 05:30 PM	#18736
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,571 Times in 14,919 Posts Rep Power: 21474890	"The only safe thing is to take a chance" Elaine May

04-12-2016, 05:35 PM	#18737
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,571 Times in 14,919 Posts Rep Power: 21474890	"Who is the happier man: He who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter Thompson

04-12-2016, 06:27 PM	#18738
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,571 Times in 14,919 Posts Rep Power: 21474890	"In America, any boy can become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.......Adlai Stevenson

04-14-2016, 07:13 AM	#18739
Orema Superlative Soul Sister How Do You Identify?: Lesbian Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Moving in a single file Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Cottage of Content Posts: 13,486 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 41,419 Thanked 34,755 Times in 8,930 Posts Rep Power: 21474861

04-14-2016, 11:26 AM	#18740
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,105 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence