This is one of my favorite quotes. This is for you Diva!

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were saltprose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

Where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda


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(out of all his poetry, I think this sonnet is exquisite)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

~Leo Aikman

A break up is like a broken mirror, it's better to leave it broken than to hurt yourself trying to fix it.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It is also the price of having a highly intelligent, driven, desirable woman in your life--but it is worth paying... and will make you a better man in the end.”—John Alanis

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

I LOVE it!
 

...and up on the Quote Wall it goes! Thank You, sweet J!

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

~A.A. Milne

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Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubos

This heart is not
a summer field
and yet.....
how dense love's foliage
has grown.


Izumi Shikibu

“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

~Kahlil Gibran

Truth telling
 

Paradoxical as it may sound, success in walking the path of knowledge does not lie in the outcome of our struggle, but only in how impeccably we struggle, because it is this struggle which forcs us to move our point of perception. Theun Mares:sunglass:

Too funny....
 

Jann is on Bravo! :D
 

John Waters
 

What a fabulous John Waters quote!

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

Catechism For A Witch's Child
by J L Stanley

When they ask to see your gods,
your book of prayers,
show them lines
drawn delicately with veins
on the underside of a bird's wing.
Tell them you believe
in giant sycamores mottled
and stark against a winter sky
and in nights so frozen
stars crack open,
spilling streams of molten ice to earth,
and tell them how you drank
the holy wine of honeysuckle
on a warm spring day
and of the softness
of your Mother
who never taught you
death was life's reward
but who believed in the earth
and the sun
and a million, million light years
of being.

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