Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 22

Selenay · 01-16-2010, 09:21 AM

I am the woman of myth and bullshit.
(True. I authored some of it.)
I built my house of ill repute.
Brick by brick. Labored,
loved and masoned it.

I live like so.

-Sandra Cisneros

Arwen · 01-16-2010, 10:39 AM

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. ~~Gordon Lightfoot

I`m a little nuts. I`m a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it`s my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot

FeminineAllure · 01-16-2010, 12:33 PM

"It is not ideas that change the world but simple gestures of love given to the people around you, and often to those you feel most at odds with. In order to save the world you must serve the people in your life. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."
- Thomas Merton

FeminineAllure · 01-16-2010, 12:50 PM

D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.

Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931)
Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

JakeTulane · 01-16-2010, 05:08 PM

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” - James Nathan Miller

JakeTulane · 01-16-2010, 05:10 PM

"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood” - William Shakespeare

always2late · 01-16-2010, 07:51 PM

"We cannot hold a torch to light another persons path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland

Arwen · 01-16-2010, 09:16 PM

"I'm not ignoring the bad stuff, I just prefer to dance while I figure out the answers...." (No clue of the author. Couldn't Google one. Friend of mine on FB said this.)

JakeTulane · 01-17-2010, 03:38 AM

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~Elwyn Brooks White

JakeTulane · 01-17-2010, 03:41 AM

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." ~Marion Howard

JakeTulane · 01-17-2010, 03:42 AM

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~Danny Kaye

Diva · 01-17-2010, 07:47 AM

A smile starts on the lips,
A grin spreads to the eyes,
A chuckle comes from the belly;
But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
Overflows, and bubbles all around.

~Carolyn Birmingham

weatherboi · 01-17-2010, 05:24 PM

The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.
Lord Byron

Beau · 01-17-2010, 06:28 PM

“We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it”

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

always2late · 01-17-2010, 07:47 PM

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right." ~ Martin Luther King

Diva · 01-17-2010, 07:56 PM

How can a woman be expected to be happy with someone who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

~Oscar Wilde

Arwen · 01-17-2010, 08:50 PM

In the long run, it's not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. You're not forgiving them for their sake. You're doing it for yourself. For your own health and well-being, forgiveness is simply the most energy-efficient option. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don't let these people live rent free in your head. If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind? It's not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them as a way of looking out for yourself. It's one thing you can be totally selfish about. ~~Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. ~~ Mahatma Gandhi

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.~~Catherine Ponder

Diva · 01-17-2010, 09:45 PM

Art in the blood takes on the strangest forms.

~Sherlock Holmes

Diva · 01-18-2010, 04:44 AM

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

~Oprah Winfrey

JakeTulane · 01-18-2010, 10:02 AM

"You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves." - Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

01-16-2010, 09:21 AM	#421
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	I am the woman of myth and bullshit. (True. I authored some of it.) I built my house of ill repute. Brick by brick. Labored, loved and masoned it. I live like so. -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.

01-16-2010, 10:39 AM	#422
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	One of my favorite artists You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. ~~Gordon Lightfoot I`m a little nuts. I`m a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it`s my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ~~ Gordon Lightfoot __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-16-2010, 12:33 PM	#423
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	"It is not ideas that change the world but simple gestures of love given to the people around you, and often to those you feel most at odds with. In order to save the world you must serve the people in your life. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything." - Thomas Merton __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-16-2010, 12:50 PM	#424
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best. Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931) Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-16-2010, 07:51 PM	#427
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	"We cannot hold a torch to light another persons path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-16-2010, 05:08 PM	#425
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	"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.” - James Nathan Miller

01-16-2010, 05:10 PM	#426
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	"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood” - William Shakespeare

01-16-2010, 09:16 PM	#428
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	"I'm not ignoring the bad stuff, I just prefer to dance while I figure out the answers...." (No clue of the author. Couldn't Google one. Friend of mine on FB said this.) __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-17-2010, 03:38 AM	#429
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	"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~Elwyn Brooks White

01-17-2010, 03:41 AM	#430
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	"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." ~Marion Howard

01-17-2010, 03:42 AM	#431
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	"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~Danny Kaye

01-17-2010, 07:47 AM	#432
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	A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around. ~Carolyn Birmingham

01-17-2010, 05:24 PM	#433
weatherboi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Owned boy Preferred Pronoun?: Hey boy!!! Relationship Status: counting freckles slowly under Her direction!!! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: i have 2 sets of geographic coordinates!!! Posts: 6,097 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26,797 Thanked 12,559 Times in 2,993 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. Lord Byron

01-17-2010, 06:28 PM	#434
Beau Timed Out How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: . Posts: 178 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 71 Thanked 339 Times in 87 Posts Rep Power: 0	on my way to the championships “We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

01-17-2010, 07:47 PM	#435
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	"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right." ~ Martin Luther King __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-17-2010, 07:56 PM	#436
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	How can a woman be expected to be happy with someone who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~Oscar Wilde

01-17-2010, 08:50 PM	#437
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	In the long run, it's not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. You're not forgiving them for their sake. You're doing it for yourself. For your own health and well-being, forgiveness is simply the most energy-efficient option. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don't let these people live rent free in your head. If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind? It's not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them as a way of looking out for yourself. It's one thing you can be totally selfish about. ~~Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. ~~ Mahatma Gandhi When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.~~Catherine Ponder __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-17-2010, 09:45 PM	#438
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	Just heard this from Robert Downey, Jr. on the Golden Globes Art in the blood takes on the strangest forms. ~Sherlock Holmes

01-18-2010, 04:44 AM	#439
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	I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. ~Oprah Winfrey

01-18-2010, 10:02 AM	#440
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	"You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves." - Adam Cooper and Bill Collage