Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 23

JakeTulane · 01-18-2010, 10:04 AM

"A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness." - Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

JakeTulane · 01-18-2010, 10:06 AM

"The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." - Denis Diderot

T D · 01-18-2010, 10:58 AM

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

~ MLK Jr ~

Arwen · 01-18-2010, 11:21 AM

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

purepisces · 01-18-2010, 01:43 PM

A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~ Dr. Robert Schuller

Selenay · 01-18-2010, 03:22 PM

Make love to me in Spanish.
Not with that other tongue.
I want you juntito a mí,
tender like the language
crooned to babies.
I want to be that
lullabied, mi bien
querido, that loved.

I want you inside
the mouth of my heart,
inside the harp of my wrists,
the sweet meat of the mango,
in the gold that dangles
from my ears and neck.

Say my name. Say it.
The way it's supposed to be said.
I want to know that I knew you
even before I knew you.

--Sandra Cisneros

always2late · 01-18-2010, 08:45 PM

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. - English Proverb

Lady Jewel · 01-18-2010, 10:13 PM

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." ~Rumi

Lady Jewel · 01-18-2010, 10:15 PM

"If you can’t smell the fragrance
Don’t come into the garden of Love.
If you’re unwilling to undress
Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.
Stay where you are.
Don’t come our way".~Rumi

Lady Jewel · 01-18-2010, 10:18 PM

My daughter is sick as a dog right now and I asked her if her body ached and if she needed some Tylenol for the aches and pains and her response was, "I feel so sick right now, my body aches so bad, that even my immune system hurts" LOL. (I think its one of those, "Ya had to be there" lines, but it cracked me up when she said it.) I think Im gonna use that quote from now on when Im sick.

Lady Jewel · 01-18-2010, 10:20 PM

"Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it"
~Tagore

Lady Jewel · 01-18-2010, 10:29 PM

"Sensuality often accelerates the growth of love so much that its roots remain weak and are easily pulled up."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Diva · 01-18-2010, 11:42 PM

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

~Oprah Winfrey

Diva · 01-18-2010, 11:42 PM

Never fear growing old; there are many who never had the privilege.

~Anon

always2late · 01-19-2010, 07:54 AM

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." ~ Mack R. Douglas

JakeTulane · 01-19-2010, 08:46 AM

"Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open." -Thomas Dewar

JakeTulane · 01-19-2010, 08:48 AM

"Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts." - Eleanor H. Porter

JakeTulane · 01-19-2010, 08:49 AM

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

purepisces · 01-19-2010, 09:48 AM

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ~ Jeanette Winterson

Arwen · 01-19-2010, 11:30 AM

"Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep."
-Agnes Meyer

When trees have deep roots they don't fall over as easily. It works the same with people. Our roots help to support us, and to keep us strong when the wind blows hard. Our roots can nourish us. It's up to us to grow these roots for ourselves - with our friends, our family, our community and our memories.
-Lissa Coffey

Thanks for being part of my memories (good, bad and otherwise) to everyone here on the Planet. And, yes, I mean all y'all.

01-18-2010, 10:58 AM	#443
T D Member How Do You Identify?: Person of the trans variety Preferred Pronoun?: He, Sir, Bro, TD, Stevin Relationship Status: On occasion Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 1,165 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,428 Thanked 1,123 Times in 310 Posts Rep Power: 3570338	"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ MLK Jr ~ __________________ “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

01-18-2010, 11:21 AM	#444
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,131 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ~~ Eleanor Roosevelt There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-18-2010, 01:43 PM	#445
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710904	A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~ Dr. Robert Schuller __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-18-2010, 03:22 PM	#446
Selenay Member How Do You Identify?: A soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings. Preferred Pronoun?: All I ask of living is to have no chains on me. Relationship Status: All I own are the strides I spend to the finish line. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Somewhere in between here and gone. Posts: 662 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 110 Thanked 1,450 Times in 370 Posts Rep Power: 6344714	Make love to me in Spanish. Not with that other tongue. I want you juntito a mí, tender like the language crooned to babies. I want to be that lullabied, mi bien querido, that loved. I want you inside the mouth of my heart, inside the harp of my wrists, the sweet meat of the mango, in the gold that dangles from my ears and neck. Say my name. Say it. The way it's supposed to be said. I want to know that I knew you even before I knew you. --Sandra Cisneros __________________ Two or three things I know for sure, And one is that I would rather go naked Than wear the coat the world has made for me.

01-18-2010, 08:45 PM	#447
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	If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. - English Proverb __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-18-2010, 10:04 AM	#441
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	"A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness." - Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

01-18-2010, 10:06 AM	#442
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	"The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes." - Denis Diderot

01-18-2010, 10:13 PM	#448
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 790	"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness." ~Rumi Last edited by Lady Jewel; 01-18-2010 at 10:21 PM.

01-18-2010, 10:15 PM	#449
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 790	More Rumi "If you can’t smell the fragrance Don’t come into the garden of Love. If you’re unwilling to undress Don’t enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way".~Rumi Last edited by Lady Jewel; 01-18-2010 at 10:21 PM.

01-18-2010, 10:18 PM	#450
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 790	From the mouth of babes.... My daughter is sick as a dog right now and I asked her if her body ached and if she needed some Tylenol for the aches and pains and her response was, "I feel so sick right now, my body aches so bad, that even my immune system hurts" LOL. (I think its one of those, "Ya had to be there" lines, but it cracked me up when she said it.) I think Im gonna use that quote from now on when Im sick.

01-18-2010, 10:20 PM	#451
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 790	How profound "Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it" ~Tagore

01-18-2010, 10:29 PM	#452
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 790	"Sensuality often accelerates the growth of love so much that its roots remain weak and are easily pulled up." Friedrich Nietzsche

01-18-2010, 11:42 PM	#453
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 17,180 Times in 5,238 Posts Rep Power: 0	Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. ~Oprah Winfrey

01-18-2010, 11:42 PM	#454
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 17,180 Times in 5,238 Posts Rep Power: 0	Never fear growing old; there are many who never had the privilege. ~Anon

01-19-2010, 07:54 AM	#455
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 achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." ~ Mack R. Douglas __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-19-2010, 08:46 AM	#456
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	"Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open." -Thomas Dewar

01-19-2010, 08:48 AM	#457
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	"Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts." - Eleanor H. Porter

01-19-2010, 08:49 AM	#458
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	"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

01-19-2010, 09:48 AM	#459
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710904	They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? ~ Jeanette Winterson __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-19-2010, 11:30 AM	#460
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,131 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	"Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep." -Agnes Meyer When trees have deep roots they don't fall over as easily. It works the same with people. Our roots help to support us, and to keep us strong when the wind blows hard. Our roots can nourish us. It's up to us to grow these roots for ourselves - with our friends, our family, our community and our memories. -Lissa Coffey Thanks for being part of my memories (good, bad and otherwise) to everyone here on the Planet. And, yes, I mean all y'all. __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

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