Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[TimilDeeps]

feels like such a betrayal: the hurt not denied, not pushed away, but gone entirely
for that moment you can't help feeling good in, a moment of sudden, irrational joy
over nothing of consequence, really, which makes it all somehow seem even worse.
Shouldn't happiness be the result of some grand event, something adequate to counter
that aching, gaping chasm that opened when . . . But, no: it's merely this: there goes
our little neighbor, running barefoot, no pants, fox stole wrapped around her shoulders.

Kim Addonizio

[TimilDeeps]

We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I say.
You touch my knees with your blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the floor
and burns a hole through it.
Don't tell me, I say. I don't want to hear.
Did you ever, you start,
wear a certain kind of dress
and just by accident,
so inconsequential you barely notice it,
your fingers graze that dress
and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,
you see it too
and you realize how that image
is simply the extension of another image,
that your own life
is a chain of words
that one day will snap.
Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,
and beginning to rise heavenward
in their confirmation dresses,
like white helium balloons,
the wreathes of flowers on their heads spinning,
and above all that,
that's where I'm floating,
and that's what it's like
only ten times clearer,
ten times more horrible.
Could anyone alive survive it?



Ai Ogawa

[Bèsame*]

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak

[JAGG]

“ The simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.” ― Ally Carter

"Trying to stay afloat in life can be difficult. But don't mistake every rope for a lifeline. Some ropes have anchors tied to the other end." - Unknown

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston Churchill

[Kobi]

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved,
now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits.

Yes, unhappily it must be so. You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never.

Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?

Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

Beethoven

[Mr.Nobody]

Oh, Great Spirit......

Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me, I am small and weak,
I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold
the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have
hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,
but to fight my greatest enemy - myself.
Make me always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
my Spirit may come to you without shame.


(translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887)

[Janstevie]

Now Seniors have their own texting codes:

* ATD- At the Doctor's

* BFF - Best Friends Funeral

* BTW- Bring the Wheelchair

* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth

* CBM- Covered by Medicare

* CUATSC- See You at the Senior Citizens

* DWI- Driving While Incontinent

* FWIW - Forgot Where I Was

* GGPBL- Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low

* GHA - Got Heartburn Again

* LMDO- Laughing My Dentures Out

* LOL- Living on Lipitor

* * TOT- Texting on Toilet

*


Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)

[ruffryder]

Great reminders for love in the air this month!

Originally Posted by Kobi

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

― Mark Twain

Originally Posted by JAGG

"Never turn your back on something you love."- Unknown

[Talon]

I do not know what I may appear to the world,
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,
and diverting myself in,
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.



~Isaac Newton

[ahk]

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.--Grandma Moses

[JAGG]

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that?" - Unknown

“Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.
Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love.
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful.
Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.” ― Rob Bell

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

[Spirit Dancer]

HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, and
sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson~

[KCBUTCH]

"Take a Deep Breath! It will dissolve anxiety and calm your mind and heart." -Garnet Hill

"This Universe is not outside you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."-Rumi

[dixie]

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

~Henry David Thoreau

[DamonK]

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein

[Talon]

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.


~Heraclitus

[justanolecowboy]

I uttered her name (and) knew then that beauty existed - (ldw)

[Kobi]

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[Trev]

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
~Unknown

[JAGG]

“May you live every day of your life.” Jonathan Swift

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” ― Michael Levine