Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Kent]

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley

[Kent]

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
― Bob Marley

[Kent]

“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
― Bob Marley

[Glenn]

There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. ~ Old English proverb

[Kobi]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote in a variety of genres, including "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story highlighting the "rest cure" for women in the 19th century; Woman and Economics, a sociological analysis of women's place; and Herland , a feminist utopia novel. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote in favor of equality between men and women.

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• And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

• There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.

• In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed for men and forbidden to women.

[Kätzchen]

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of soul, but is not compatible with innocence.
-- Angela Carter

[Kätzchen]

Wonder is retained by wise pondering. -- Ravi Zacharias

[Kätzchen]

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson

[Kätzchen]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

[Kätzchen]

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build wings on your way down. -- Annie Dillard

[Kätzchen]

The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing from a limb and not falling, accelerating thirty-two feet per second per second, through empty air. Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his wings with exact, deliberate care, revealing the broad bars of white, spread his elegant, white-banded tail, and so floated onto the grass. I had just rounded a corner when his incouciant step caught my eye; there was no one else in sight. The fact of his free fall was like the old philosophical conundrum about the tree that falls in the forest. The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)

[Kätzchen]

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
--Thomas Merton

[Kätzchen]

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

-- Thomas Merton

[JAGG]

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute. -Josh Billings

Do not ask a blind man which is the right way. - German Proverb

There is no wisdom like frankness.-Ben Disraeli

[thedivahrrrself]

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams

[InkSlinger]

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." - Meister Eckhart


"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence." - Meister Eckhart

[Kobi]

Mary Daly, a feminist theologian, was noted for her strong critique of patriarchy and of traditional religion, especially the Roman Catholic church.

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• If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

• Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

• 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

• I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

• Patriarchy is the homeland of males; it is Father Land; and men are its agents.

• Women who are Pirates in a phallocentric society are involved in a complex operation. First, it is necessary to Plunder -- that is, righteously rip off -- gems of knowledge that the patriarchs have stolen from us. Second, we must Smuggle back to other women our Plundered treasures. In order to invert strategies that will be big and bold enough for the next millennium, it is crucial that women share our experiences: the chances we have taken and the choices that have kept us alive. They are my Pirate's battle cry and wake-up call for women who I want to hear.

• The fact is that we live in a profoundly anti-female society, a misogynistic "civilization" in which men collectively victimize women, attacking us as personifications of their own paranoid fears, as The Enemy. Within this society it is men who rape, who sap women's energy, who deny women economic and political power.

• Males do indeed deeply identify with "unwanted fetal tissue," for they sense as their own condition the role of controller, possessor, inhabitor of women. Draining female energy, they feel "fetal." Since this perpetual fetal state is fatal to the Self of the eternal mother (Hostess), males fear women's recognition of this real condition, which would render them infinitely "unwanted." For this attraction/need of males for female energy, seen for what it is, is necrophilia -- not in the sense of love for actual corpses, but of love for those victimized into a state of living death.

• Since women on average survive men by a significant number of years, it should not be surprising that gynecology is functioning to remedy this unacceptable situation.

• The gynecological profession and the popularizing media have combined their efforts to make the poisoning of women appear acceptable. Just as popping The Pill is both "normal" and normative for younger women, so is estrogen replacement therapy for their mothers and older sisters.

[Janstevie]

Let’s commit the perfect crime… I’ll steal your heart, and you steal mine.

[Maria]

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by someone who annoys me. (Fred Allen)

[JAGG]

Any idiot can face a crisis. It is the day to day living that wears you out.-Anton Chekhov

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. _ Aristotle

Too many people expect wonders from democracy,when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. _ Walter Winchell