"I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's lives. I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness."

-- Seimone Augustus

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,
we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents.
Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.
We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property.
We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being
was not determined by his wealth.
We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians,
therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.
We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know
how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things
that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.

John (Fire) Lame Deer
Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. (f)

~Jewish Proverb

Power to those who care not what mere humans think of them,
but follow true their own unique visions and identities with great courage, fire, depth of soul, and unrelinquishable passion.

Several quotes by ~>> Princess Diana
 

Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectaton of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

I live for my sons, I would be lost without them.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang onto that love.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life-
a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running to wherever they are.

Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

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“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”
― Leslie Feinberg

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ~Tom Robbins

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.(f)

~Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), Theatre Arts, December 1955

quote from Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
 

“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.”

Longfellow, "Eliot's Oak"
 

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.

“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

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. (f)

~Elton John

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.

Powerful truth
 

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

“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

"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

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

~William McGill

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

~William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693