Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." ~ Theodor Geisel

[BestButchBoy]

The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ~Hunter S. Thompson

[Enchantress]

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

~Francis Thompson, "The Poppy," 1891

[pajama]

Just found this the other day and I loved it. So perfectly summarizes so many parts of me....

Fall in love or fall in hate.
Get inspired or be depressed.
Ace a test or flunk a class.
Make babies or make art.
Speak the truth or lie and cheat.
Dance on tables or sit in the corner.
Life is divine chaos. Embrace it.
Forgive yourself. Breathe.
And enjoy the ride.

Solbeam

[jenny]

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." ~ Joan Baez

[JakeTulane]

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey

[JakeTulane]

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal." - Victor Hugo

[JakeTulane]

"More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t." - Author Unknown

[BestButchBoy]

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
~Cary Grant

[Nat]

Give Me Your Hand – Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don’t let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousnes.

Give me your hand.

[jenny]

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." ~ Mary Catherine Bateson

[Nat]

"Dear Darkening Ground"
by Rainer Maria Rilke; translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows


Dear darkening ground,
you've endured so patiently the walls we've built,
perhaps you'll give the cities one more hour

and grant the churches and cloisters two.
And those that labor—let their work
grip them another five hours, or seven,

before you become forest again, and water, and widening wilderness
in that hour of inconceivable terror
when you take back your name
from all things.

Just give me a little more time!
I want to love the things
as no one has thought to love them,
until they're worthy of you and real.

[Duchess]

"True generosity is when you give your all and yet feel as if it cost you nothing."

~ adapted from Simone De Beauvoir

[always2late]

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter

[Nat]

"Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman’s name and address hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, the laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes with bands on their teeth. She could get all society by the ears. For any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that."
— Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)

[jenny]

“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” - C.S. Lewis

[Tcountry]

Grandma always says....
"Love 'em for who they are...and don't ever try to change 'em"

[BestButchBoy]

"Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another." ~Ernest Hemingway

[Janstevie]

Two things i love most, good horses and beautiful women, and when i die i hope they tan this old hide of mine and make it into a ladies riding saddle, so i can rest in peace between the two things i loved in life.

[Mister Bent]

If you’re alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living.

- Mel Brooks