Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 322

daisygrrl · 05-13-2011, 06:24 PM

"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns."

"I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them."

"I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life.... Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted."

"The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal."

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form."

Elijah · 05-13-2011, 06:42 PM

Your Catfish Friend
by Richard Brautigan

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful
here by this pond. I wish
somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them."

nycfem · 05-13-2011, 06:56 PM

"Each of us has a special word that no one will ever understand. Even if we say the word, simply the word, people will be clueless. it will take a thousand more words to explain and even then it will only be a ghost of a meaning. So keep your word close and smile because it is your own."

-our very own wolfbittenpoet/ The Typewriter Boy

Diva · 05-13-2011, 11:50 PM

As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Diva · 05-13-2011, 11:51 PM

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

~Sakyong Mipham

Diva · 05-13-2011, 11:53 PM

Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

UofMfan · 05-14-2011, 07:53 AM

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” ~ Tom Robbins

hpychick · 05-14-2011, 08:21 AM

What a superbly accurate quote from one of our very own. To add to wolfbitten's idea - our words, although they are but symbols for our thoughts and feelings, shape who we are, and who we are not. They stand the test of time. They can pull us deeply toward love and to extreme levels of hatred. Even as I write these words, I wonder if they - like chocolate - will taste the same way to you, as they do to me.

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Originally Posted by nycfembbw

"Each of us has a special word that no one will ever understand. Even if we say the word, simply the word, people will be clueless. it will take a thousand more words to explain and even then it will only be a ghost of a meaning. So keep your word close and smile because it is your own."

-our very own wolfbittenpoet/ The Typewriter Boy

JakeTulane · 05-14-2011, 08:51 AM

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." - Marcus Aurelius

JakeTulane · 05-14-2011, 08:52 AM

"As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence." - Ronald Harmon

JakeTulane · 05-14-2011, 08:53 AM

"I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known." – Euripides

femmedyke · 05-14-2011, 09:05 AM

When one must, one can. ~ Charlotte Whitton

Blade · 05-14-2011, 10:14 AM

If it isn't possible to happen, it will happen to you....MY MOM

WolfyOne · 05-14-2011, 11:12 AM

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~author unknown~

Kätzchen · 05-14-2011, 11:56 AM

"Dreams are illustrations - from the book your soul is writing about you,"

~ Marsha Norman

DamselFly · 05-14-2011, 01:50 PM

each day i wonder how many things that i'm dead wrong about.
(jim harrison)

DamselFly · 05-14-2011, 01:58 PM

the first cup kisses away my thirst
and my loneliness is quelled by the second
the third cup gives insight worthy
of ancient scrolls
and the fourth exiles my troubles
my body becomes lighter with the fifth
and the sixth sends word from the Immortals
but the seventh, o the seventh cup,
if i drink you,
a wind will hurry my wings toward
the Sacred Island
(Lu Tong, 798-835 CE)

DamselFly · 05-14-2011, 02:00 PM

an intelligent person is never bored
(my father)

Ms. Tabitha · 05-14-2011, 05:43 PM

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Ms. Tabitha · 05-14-2011, 06:03 PM

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

05-13-2011, 06:24 PM	#6421
daisygrrl Member How Do You Identify?: mouthy but adorable; kinky Gerbera Preferred Pronoun?: hey, cutie (or dudette) Relationship Status: xoxo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The South (Gooogia peach) Posts: 475 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,157 Thanked 525 Times in 223 Posts Rep Power: 1065210	a few of my fave quotes from the brilliant Dorothy Allison "Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns." "I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them." "I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life.... Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted." "The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal." "Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form." __________________ You can’t change that system by just getting your own rights, tinkering with the engine and leaving. You have to take on the whole machine. --Riki Anne Wilchins Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain. --Leslie Feinberg

05-13-2011, 06:42 PM	#6422
Elijah Member How Do You Identify?: Genderqueer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: Open to healthy possibilities... Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 554 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 738 Thanked 1,629 Times in 393 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, "It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me," I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, "I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them." __________________ "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." ~Washington Irving

05-14-2011, 09:05 AM	#6432
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05-14-2011, 10:14 AM	#6433
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05-14-2011, 11:12 AM	#6434
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05-13-2011, 06:56 PM	#6423
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05-13-2011, 11:50 PM	#6424
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ~Sakyong Mipham

05-13-2011, 11:53 PM	#6426
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,174 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

05-14-2011, 07:53 AM	#6427
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05-14-2011, 08:51 AM	#6429
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05-14-2011, 11:56 AM	#6435
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05-14-2011, 01:50 PM	#6436
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05-14-2011, 01:58 PM	#6437
DamselFly Member How Do You Identify?: QueerStoneFemme Preferred Pronoun?: Ma'am or Damsel Relationship Status: single Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: hovering here and there Posts: 259 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,053 Thanked 771 Times in 199 Posts Rep Power: 396593	tea the first cup kisses away my thirst and my loneliness is quelled by the second the third cup gives insight worthy of ancient scrolls and the fourth exiles my troubles my body becomes lighter with the fifth and the sixth sends word from the Immortals but the seventh, o the seventh cup, if i drink you, a wind will hurry my wings toward the Sacred Island (Lu Tong, 798-835 CE) __________________ so long as space remains so long as sentient beings remain i will remain in order to help, to serve, to make my own contribution (Buddhist prayer, a favorite of H.H.)

05-14-2011, 02:00 PM	#6438
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05-14-2011, 05:43 PM	#6439
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05-14-2011, 06:03 PM	#6440
Ms. Tabitha Member How Do You Identify?: Hey Lady Preferred Pronoun?: Female Relationship Status: Married ~ 4-1-13 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 1,440 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 980 Thanked 3,581 Times in 1,040 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Maya Angelou