Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Spirit Dancer]

One of the paradoxes of our time is that
we have more power at our disposal than
ever before, and yet we seem more powerless than ever.

Ralph W. Sockman (1953)

[Spirit Dancer]

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

Rabindranath Tagore

[Kätzchen]

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Ghandi-

[JAGG]

We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. -Helen keller


Never never never never , give up. - Winston Churchill


A single sunbeam drives away many shadows.- ST. Francis of Assisi

[ntxgirl]

“I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.”
- Anonymous

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
- John F. Kennedy

“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.”
- Unknown

[Spirit Dancer]

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result;
it is a cause. It is not a product.
It is a power, like money, or steam
or electricity. It is valueless unless you
can give something else by means of it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[Spirit Dancer]

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

[Tommi]

“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”

Will Durant

[MissItalianDiva]

Trouble comes to pass, not to stay. You can trust life to give you the courage that is required to do anything or face anything. Challenge comes to make you, not break you. ~ Iyanlan Vanzant

[MissItalianDiva]

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

~Iyanlan Vanzant

[Spirit Dancer]

Reason and Passion
BY
Khalil Gibran


And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion."

And he answered saying:

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

If either your sails or our rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing;

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.

Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."

And since you are a breath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

[Kent]

Faith sees God
Intellect does not

[Estella]

The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle.

[Duchess]

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

~Dalai Lama

[JAGG]

Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young

Restleness and discontent are the first necessities of change. -Thomas Edison

Never answer a question until it's asked . - Unknown

[Katniss]

The Surgery of the Sea

At the furthermost reach of the sea
where Atlantis sinks under the wake of the waves,
I have come to heal my life.

I knit together like a broken arm.
The salt fills the crevices of bone.
The sea takes all the fragments of my lives
& grinds them home.

I wake up in a waterbed with you.
The sea is singing & my skin
sings against your skin.
The waves are all around us & within.
We sleep stuck to each other's salt.

I am healing in your arms.
I am learning to write without the loss of love.
I am growing deeper lungs here by the sea.
The waves are knives; they glitter & cut clean.

This is the sea's surgery.
This is the cutting & the healing both.
This is where bright sunlight warms the bone,
& fog erases us, then makes us whole.

Erica Jong


Katniss~~ (tonight, dreaming the sea)

[Fancy]

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not."

-Barry (Dinner for Schmucks)


....the only one.

[lusciouskiwi]

[Butterbean]

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. ~Gabrielle Roth

[Duchess]

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

~Dalai Lama