Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[puddin']

"take off your jeans and unzip my dress. behold! lingerie meets jockeys. then peel off another layer and both of us are pretty much the same. totally hot. uh-huh - there's something hugely sexy about presenting masculine and being a woman underneath. ditto being a "straight"-looking woman who fucks chicks. mix them together and fireworks a-go-go. gender-playtime. mmm." ~charlotte dingle

[CherryWine]

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

- Wally Lamb from She's Come Undone

[Shystonefem]

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest 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 accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, book cover
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 interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest 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.

by
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
copyright © 1999 by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.

[ahk]

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.--Jim Rohn

[Orema]

You get what you settle for.
~Louise Sawyer~

[Orema]

"If the concept of God has any use, it is to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can't do that, it's time we got rid of him"

James Baldwin

[BestButchBoy]

Everything in moderation, including moderation.
- Julia Child

[Nat]

"I know what this is, Alexander. Why you're with me. You're a man who dares to dance with the freaks. I perpetuate that deviance for you, allow you to show the world that you live outside the box. But, I know that's where this ends for us, and I understand. It comes with the territory of my complicated identity. But my feelings for you are simpler. They live very much inside the box. I am afraid, Alexander, that I may have fallen in love with you... I am a man. A man who knows she's a woman. And that's exactly where I'm supposed to be. That's the crisscross that I've come to love. I don't want the surgery. I don't want to undo what God has given me. I know how beautiful I am."

- Venus to Tig, Sons of Anarchy

[Tierney]

“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” ― C. JoyBell C.

[Tierney]

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

― T.S. Eliot

[Tierney]

“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day,
the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”

― Arnold Bennett

[BestButchBoy]

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― C.G. JUNG

[TheHinduPose]

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Khalil Gibran

[BestButchBoy]

"There is
no need
to be
perfect
to inspire people.
Let people get
inspired
by how
you deal with
your
imperfections."

[LOQUI]

"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."

[kittygrrl]

[LOQUI]

"An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception."

[Orema]

It is an interesting sidelight that our language—created and codified by men—does not have one unflattering term to describe men who vent their anger at women. Even such epithets as "bastard" and "son of a bitch" do not condemn the man but place the blame on a woman.

—Harriet Lerner, from The Dance of Anger

[LOQUI]

"In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."

[Tierney]

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” ― William Jennings Bryan