Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JAGG]

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.-Bertrand Russell



I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more I seem to have of it.-Thomas Jefferson



Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth."
"Or by misleading the innocent. -Spock and McCoy"And The Children Shall Lead"stardate

[Kobi]

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

~Lucretia Mott

[MissItalianDiva]

Every person, situation, circumstances, and experience in your life is a reflection of some aspect of who you believe yourself to be.

Iyanla Vanzant

[Fancy]

“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

[Ms. Meander]

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller

[Spirit Dancer]

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened
and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard
you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do
for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world.
Expect victory and you make victory.

Preston Bradley

[Kobi]

"Some individuals know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace."

~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

[Fancy]

"When folks get wrapped up in themselves they make very small packages."

[Kobi]

"What I'm saying is, don't delude yourself that the powerful cultural values that wrecked the lives of so many of my classmates have vanished from the earth. Don't let The New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you — there's still a glass ceiling.

Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

~from her address to the graduating class of Wellsley, 1996

[JAGG]

Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous. -Mrs. Radcliff


Life is about change, whether good or bad, and being able to adjust accordingly.- Okechukwu Keke



Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -Unknown

[gaea]

Originally Posted by Talon

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small confined space.



--Gloria Steinem

someone once tried putting me on a pedestal however my arse was too big i ended up falling off

[gaea]

Originally Posted by Talon

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.


~Eleanor Roosevelt

the quote i think should have read " I have spent my life as a "woman" followed with the rest...as a women were are born in opposition yes?

[Spirit Dancer]

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted--
if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

John Oliver Hobbes

[Spirit Dancer]

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

William Allen White

[Talon]

Originally Posted by gaea

someone once tried putting me on a pedestal however my arse was too big i ended up falling off

...*chuckle*

[Talon]

Originally Posted by gaea

the quote i think should have read " I have spent my life as a "woman" followed with the rest...as a women were are born in opposition yes?

*s*

This is an exellent point, Gaea...



>All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[MissItalianDiva]

Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will always be driven to look for more.

~~Iyanla Vanzant

[Jesse]

It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine. – Byron Katie.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? – Caroline Myss.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen.

[UofMfan]

"Feche algunas portas. Não no por olgulho ou arrogância, mas por que já não levam a lugar nenhum." ~ Paolo Coelho

[Jesse]

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ~George Eliot

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho