Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[SoNotHer]

The envious will die, but envy never.

MOLIÈRE, Tartuffe

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

MOLIÈRE, The Misanthrope

[Kobi]

“Get Off The Scale!

You are beautiful.
Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.
Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.

Get off the scale!
I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are.
I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it.
I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile.
I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.

It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity.
That’s it.
It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love.
Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned.
Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[1QuirkyKiwi]

"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.

3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.

6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.

7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.

10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.

11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
- Unknown

[Fancy]

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

~Walt Whitman

[1QuirkyKiwi]

At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is having friends.
At age 16 success is having a drivers license.
At age 20 success is having sex.
At age 35 success is having money.
At age 50 success is having money.
At age 60 success is having sex.
At age 70 success is having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is having friends.
At age 80 success is not peeing in your pants.
- Unknown

[jenny]

"Listen, here's what I think. I think that we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we *embrace*, what we create... and who we include." ~ Père Henri, "Chocolat"

[justkim]

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I have no idea who said it.. but...

I love it

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it !!!

[justkim]

[justkim]

[Novelafemme]

“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.” ~ Pico Iyer

[1QuirkyKiwi]

Decicated to those of us who are still waiting on that special woman to come into our lives...

Heart To Heart

Tonight thoughts of you are vividly strong
To love you this much, how can it be wrong
Though distance is fact, and a major part
I knew of this obstacle, right from the start

Love knows no boundaries, distance, nor time
And my only thought was for to make me your
Love travels the miles on angels' wings
And if returned, it means everything

To kiss your lips, feel your embrace
Your gentle hands caressing my face
These things I long for while we're apart
Yet still I know, we touch with our hearts

Daydreams take me to a place in time
To a heavenly realm that is so sublime
No barriers, no buffers, nor distance to close
Just two hearts entwining, the merging of souls

And there we will reign, two hearts as one
Until dealing with distance is finally done
When hearts are the focus, no price is too high
Whatever the cost, I'll gladly comply

And so tonight, as I look to the stars
Two hearts are embracing, 'tho from afar
I've closed that distance, don't be alarmed
My spirit is with you, I'm there in your arms

Unknown

[Trey339]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
buddha

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
mark twain

this one made me laugh hard ha

[Kobi]

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

― H. Jackson Brown Jr.


Sobering thought eh?

[Fancy]

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.


Jean-Paul Sartre

[JAGG]

The friend who declines to sacrifice himself for his friend's faults is still a good friend, it's the friend that puts him in that position who's not a great friend.- BW Compton

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.- Zig Ziglar

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.- Henry Ford

[Kobi]

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

[spritzerJ]

“Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.” -Pema Chodron

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”- Dalai Lama

“In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”- Buddha

“The dew of compassion is a tear.” -Lord Byron

“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'” -Conor Oberst

[Trey339]

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde~


A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.~

[Kobi]