Man lives by believing something. Not by debating and arguing about many things.- Thomas Carlyle

Posted this before...but its one of my favorites, so I am revisiting it :)
 

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Joyce Maynard

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

~ Robert Fulghum

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I guess I just had my first giggle of the day!

I can totally relate to this quote! *hehe*

"I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask!"

~ Minnie Driver

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

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"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.3

That many of us do not love our queer selves I take as a given particularly for those of us...who grew up before there was a community that offered us some kind of loved vision of our lives. All too many of us have grown up in the shadows of contempt and horror, and made what we could through stubborn survival. Sometimes that has meant we became sad or abusive or woefully self-destructive. We have lost friends, time, a sense of meaning or purpose in what we do. We have lost little bits of ourselves we did not know were precious. Sometimes we managed to piece together a sense of self that got us through another day, one day at a time, always hopeful for a better day. That too is a mystery and a poem. Our stories are complicated, astonishing, scary, and hopeful as any parable. Made over into verse, our stories can become life-saving. Poetry is that for me, the life-saving examination of experience shaped in language - at the best gospel and revelation. What we make of our stories is what comes after, but what is shared cracks open all that came before, shifts the perspective, and alters the landscape. Sometimes that is a seared and searing revelation of the awful. Sometimes it is the heartening whisper of hope. All of it begins in the soul alone with the page shaping words to purpose, inventing a loved version of what is known...

Sympathetic magic. Bad poetry.
You do not have to despair.

- Dorothy Allison
from "Sympathetic Magic"

Every stone is different. No other stone exactly like it....God loves variety. In odd days like these...people study how to be all alike instead of how to be as different as they really are.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese proverb

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St. Elmo faves
 

Alec: You cannot have the Pretenders' first album! That's mine.
Leslie: I bought it.
Alec: You did not! You can have all the Billy Joels... except The Stranger.
Leslie: I'm taking Thriller and Mahler's ninth.
Alec: Kevin is so fond of Mahler.
Leslie: I moved in with Jules.
Alec: Oh how nice, roomies again... No Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simons.
Leslie: You got me those for Valentine's Day. Remember?
Alec: You ran out on this relationship. You take the consequences.
Leslie: I didn't run out on anything. You ran out.
Alec: You fucked Kevin.
Leslie: You fucked many!
Alec: Nameless, faceless many!
Leslie: I feel much better now, thanks.
Alec: You're not taking The Police.
Leslie: Anyway, I didn't just fuck Kevin! I was confused and angry, and I care about him deeply.
Alec: Get your clothes, give me the keys and get out! Now!
Leslie: I can't believe this is happening to us.
Alec: Wasted love! God, I just wish I could get it back!

{odd how this part always reminds me of my very first Break-up..don't ask which was Me...}

another Fave St Elmo
 

Kirby: It's true love, my friend.
Kevin: Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.
Kirby: You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in... how long? What is it... a year... maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution?
Kevin: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony... palimony... it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
Kirby: It's the only illusion that counts, my friend.
Kevin: Says who?
Kirby: Anyone who's been in love.
Kevin: Love sucks.
Kirby: So does your attitude.

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"YABBA DABBA DOO"

Fred Flintstone

I'm a huge fan of the Indian (Bengali) intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath - he was expert in a variety of subject areas: In his time (era) he was a popular poet, musician, novelist.... his writings reshaped Bengali literature and music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How I came to learn about him - my exposure to his writings - was through my friend Robert, who lived up in the hills of Ashland - the Greensprings area. He collected his books - his writings. Robert put on some of music and handed me a book one starry, warm summers' night and he had me read some beautiful prose that TAgore authored.

It was one of those extended moments hazed by "blue sparkles" and I will never forget the long drawn out conversations I had with Robert about Tagorian philosophy! Robert was such a character that, I took my friend Brynn out there one summer to meet him and she soon came to see what it was that I enjoyed about late night conversations, out on the Greensprings, with Robert! His property was absolutely beautiful - rustic cabin, acres of pines, deer that wandered throughout the land, a gazebo that stood near a natural babbling creek - out in the middle of nowhere! *Those were the days!*

Anyhow, here's some quotes authored by Tagore:

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

And my all-time favorite:

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

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"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

We have everything necessary in the world today to bring about the millennium. Only selfishness makes it impossible.- Paramahansa Yogananda

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: Where knowledge is free:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches it's arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father; let my country awake!- Tagore

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." Emily Bronte

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.

I thought about posting this quote last night: He was passionate about what was happening in his society - incongruencies at a deep socio-cultural level; and I wanted to say a hearty - AMEN - when I read this quote, this morning!

Thanks "Popcorninthesofa" !!!

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PS/ wouldn't is be something is a revolution like this took place in the hearts of people here in our American society??? Indeed, "Let my country awake!"