Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Katniss]

Learning to Float

Relax. It's like love. Keep your lips
moist and parted, let your upturned hands
unfold like water lilies, palms exposed.

Breathe deeply, slowly. Forget chlorine
and how the cement bottom was stained
blue so the water looks clear

and Caribbean. Ignore the drowned mosquitoes,
the twigs that gather in the net
of your hair. The sun is your ticket,

your narcotic, blessing your chin,
the floating islands of your knees.
Shut your eyes and give yourself

to the pulsating starfish, purple and red,
that flicker on your inner lids.
Hallucination is part of the process,

like amnesia. Forget how you learned
to swim, forget being told
Don't panic. Don't worry. Let go

of my neck. It's only water. Don't think
unless you're picturing Chagall,
his watercolors of doves and rooftops,

lovers weightless as tissue,
gravity banished, the dissolving voices
of violins and panpipes. The man's hand

circles the woman's wrist so loosely,
what moors her permits her to float,
and she rises past the water's skin,

above verandas and the tossing heads
of willows. Her one link to earth,
his light—almost reluctant—touch, is a rope

unfurling, slipping her past the horizon,
into the cloud-stirring current. This far up,
what can she do but trust he won't let go?


Katniss~~

[Tommi]

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others.

When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit.

But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Takuan Soto

[Trey339]

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

[JAGG]

I have never been in a situation where having money, made it any worse. -Unknown

A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.- Latin proverb


The right to speak your mind, doesn't automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert Humphreys

[Mrs Arcstriker]

Even the devil himself does not know where women sharpen their knives.

~Latvian Proverb

[Duchess]

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~Dalai Lama

[Fatale]

It wasn't good, really, the way it went,
but it was right.
When an end must begin,
I let it.

The smell, the sight, the rasp of it,
I had to relinquish my grasp on it,
The tempestuous tumult portending torpor,

A soul laid fallow
in order to bloom again.

~Fatale

[Fatale]

Crashed on my shores,
shell cracking, she'll shock.
Briny bitch licking salty wounds,
won't take a grain but will litter a mile.

I shall wear the husk of your rattle
at my throat,
Keep the fleshed fangs still.

Gouging your way out to the in,
I am not right or empty.

Suttee on an icy pyre,
muslin lust quickening.
Widowed eventuality anneals.

Sometimes I won't,
sometimes I never will.
Venial vanity,
mortality in vein,
my pulses slam on the altar of your imagined.

Deserted crossroad bearing memories of the traveled,
I add mine to the path.

~Fatale

[Fatale]

That flavor you teased you were,
you're not.
Those flecks are not vanilla bean.

Thank God they're not.

That gentleness you claimed you had,
you don't.
Those passions aren't kind.

Thank God they're not.

The brilliance you try to deny,
you can't.
Such acumen will always shine.

Thank God you do.

Fatale

[Nomad]

sometimes when people are at their lowest, pain makes them do crazy things
sometimes when people do crazy things, they push us away
sometimes when people push us away, they need our love even more
sometimes when people need our love even more, they give us an opportunity to be the best we can be
so go ahead and push, i can take it
you ain't seen anything as strong as me
i'm a girl

- - -

limbo - being pushed away by one hand while being held onto with the other

[Metro]

“feminism is for everybody”

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”

“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”


—Gloria Jean Watkins a.k.a. "bell hooks"

[puddin']

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

[Janstevie]

Promises are like babies…Fun to make but hell to deliver.

[Katniss]

In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.



Katniss~~

[Janstevie]

It does'nt matter if the glass is half empty or half full, there is clearly room for more wine.

[sara-bera]

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson

[JAGG]

Money is to be respected. Never handle another persons money, without respect for how hard it was to earn it. -T Boone Pickens Jr

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself dishonest. - B Berkeley


To him that watches, everything is revealed.- Italian proverb

[Fatale]

That's the thing about ephemera, isn't it?
Here then gone.

Fleetingly of foot, afoot,
Corner of the eye glimpsed,
There then gone.

Did you see her?
Do you think you know her?
A filamentary figment stealing your breath,
Near then gone.

Was she, were you
ever
really
there?

~Fatale

[Kätzchen]

It Doesn't Matter To Me

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer-
(Native American Elder)

It doesn't matter to me what you do for a living:
I want to know what you ache for and if you dare of meeting your hearts' longing.

It doesn't matter to me how old you are:
I want to know if you would risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventures of being alive.

It doesn't matter to me which planets are squaring with your moon:
I want to know if you have touched the center of your sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shriveled from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain:
-mine and your own-
without moving to hide it, fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy:
-mine and your own-
if you can dance with wildness and ecstacy,
fill the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to be careful or to be realistic
or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't matter to me if the story you are telling me is true:
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself,
if you can bear the causation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can live with failure:
-yours and mine-
and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes!"

It doesn't matter to me where or what or with whom you have studied:
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

[JAGG]

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.- Einstein

A kite only rises against the wind. - Hamilton Mable

Patience has its limits. Taken too far and it's cowardice.- George Jackson