Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Talon]

Smile. It scares people.

[Semantics]

“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one saw them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic- their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)-and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.”


Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

[JAGG]

Be smart, don't act smart. -Unknown


Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. -Immanuel Kant


The truly powerful do not proclaim themsleves, they are proclaimed by others. -Unknown

[Trey339]

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

[Liam]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond all measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.—Marianne Williamson

[Janstevie]

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved !!!

[girl_dee]

Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful for the little things in life.

[Kobi]

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

~ Gloria Naylor

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Originally Posted by Talon

Smile. It scares people.

Aha! With me smiling a lot, this explains why I get funny looks off people!

*Whimpers I not that scary, am I?*

[sara-bera]

“Do what you can with what you have, where you are" -Theodore Roosevelt

[Kobi]

[Fancy]

“Her memory will be a flower tucked into literature’s turban.
In her loneliness, every sister cries for her.”

~Amail
written after Zarmina’s suicide, called “The Poet Who Died Young”

[Talon]

Originally Posted by 1QuirkyKiwi

Aha! With me smiling a lot, this explains why I get funny looks off people!

*Whimpers I not that scary, am I?*

.....this is the look I get sometimes...which actually makes me chuckle...people can be strange.

Aw...sweet Kiwi, you're a doll....and that's waaaay better.

[Talon]

Originally Posted by Fancy

“Her memory will be a flower tucked into literature’s turban.
In her loneliness, every sister cries for her.”

~Amail
written after Zarmina’s suicide, called “The Poet Who Died Young”

Fancy, this is beautiful.

[gaea]

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman

[Arwen]

You know everything you need to know. Just try to remember it." Harsh Cry of the Heron, Tales of the Otori, Book 4. Lian Hearn

[JAGG]

Love is when you seek to find the potential in someone and desire more than anything else in the world to help them bring it out. -Unknown


It is better to suffer the consequences of the truth, than the consequences of a lie. -Unknown


The study of history is realizing that the source of every current existence lies in the past. -Brea Ettel

[Charming Texan]

Don't shake a whore tree expecting an angel to fall out - my co-worker, today.

It's an HR free zone apparently. ha.

[Arwen]

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -Anne Frank (1929-1945)

We could place blame, point fingers, wallow in pain from all the things that "should" have been "if only" blah blah blah... But there comes a time when we must stand on our own two feet and recognize that we create our own future. We create our own present. We have choices to make every day. Look within. Find that strength and move on. -Lissa Coffey

Self-responsibility is the key for me. If you don't have it, I don't want to spend time with you. Arwen

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Originally Posted by Talon

.....this is the look I get sometimes...which actually makes me chuckle...people can be strange.

Aw...sweet Kiwi, you're a doll....and that's waaaay better.

Thank you!

I smile more, I can't help it, lol! I wonder why people are so unnerved by those of us who smile a lot? Maybe it's because they think we know something they don't, or they're miserable souls who look like they've suck on Lemons all day... LOL!