Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Nomad]

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”

[cinnamongrrl]

Thou ancient oak! whose myriad leaves are loud
With sounds of unintelligible speech,
Sounds as of surges on a shingly beach,
Or multitudinous murmurs of a crowd;
With some mysterious gift of tongues endowed,
Thou speakest a different dialect to each;
To me a language that no man can teach,
Of a lost race, long vanished like a cloud.
For underneath thy shade, in days remote,
Seated like Abraham at eventide
Beneath the oaks of Mamre, the unknown
Apostle of the Indians, Eliot, wrote
His Bible in a language that hath died
And is forgotten, save by thee alone.

[Electrocell]

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
― Mother Teresa

[Duchess]

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

~Elton John

[Stud_puppy1991]

This is actually an excerpt from one of my favorite stories in How Beautiful The Ordinary, coming from David Levithan's story, A Word From The Nearly Distant Past:

You will miss the taste of Fruit Loops
You will the sound of traffic
You will miss your back against his
You will even miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things.

[Duchess]

The House By the Side of the Road
by Sam Walter Foss

Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by -
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban;
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife.
But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears -
Both parts of an infinite plan;
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead
And mountains of wearisome height;
And the road passes on through the long afternoon
And stretches away to the night.
But still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice,
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the road
Like a man who dwells alone.
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by -
They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish - so am I.
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

[MissItalianDiva]

We all have people in our lives who anger or annoy us, who rub us the wrong way. We can usually see the faults of others very clearly. Everyone comes into our lives to mirror back to us some part of ourselves we cannot or will not see.

~Iyanla Vanzant

[macele]

"Never think you've seen the last of anything."

-- Eudora Welty

[JAGG]

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. So be careful who your surround yourself with.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.” ― Ann Landers

“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.” ― Ellen Glasgow

" Same merry-go-round different horse." - Unknown

[Stud_puppy1991]

"I'd rather face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."- Ani DiFranco
"In the end, everything is a gag."- Charlie Chaplin
"Love is like war, easy to begin, but very hard to stop."- H.L. Meckner

[Duchess]

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

~William McGill

[Duchess]

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693

[Angeltoes]

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"― Rainer Maria Rilke

[gaea]

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
- Anthony Robbins

[JAGG]

“There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.” ― Steve Maraboli

“Do you know how there are moments when the world seems to stop and you can feel your heart soaring, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”― Jodi Picoult

[Soon]

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur



“She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

[Scuba]

Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. But life being what it is...a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control...

Benjamin Button

[Metro]

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

– Margaret Thatcher

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Read this and loved it...

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk,thinking that if people were rain,I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” -John Green

[Duchess]

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

~Louise L. Hay