Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[lyric]

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." --Erica Jong

[moxie]

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.” - Chuck Palahniuk

[violaine]

music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing in love, war, beauty, children, romance, rejection, Pethedine, poetry, panties, God, Auden, Johnny Cash, cold potatoes, too-much-money, not enough money, writer’s block, flowers, animals and more flowers. But maybe I’m projecting here --
— Nick Cave

[Diva]

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact.

~Winston Churchill

[Jet]

Originally Posted by lyric

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." --Erica Jong

she was a sassy soft porn author, jus sayin'

[Jet]

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
as a final resting place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate --
we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion --
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
-- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom --
and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

—Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, November, 1863

[Diva]

Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

~William James

[JakeTulane]

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." ~Vincent Van Gogh

[JakeTulane]

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[JakeTulane]

“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.” - Mother Teresa

[NJFemmie]

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
~~Grenville Kleiser


Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~~Joseph Addison


I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~~Woody Allen

[NJFemmie]

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~~Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
~~Mel Brooks

[femmedyke]

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it." ~Toni Morrison

[chefjenn]

It's barely dawn outside..I hear the whirring of the fan before I even realize I am awake. The first rays of sunlight creep in our bedroom window and without opening my eyes, I imagine that it has cast a gentle orange-pink light on the wall behind our bed. It's warm on my eyelids. My eyes remain closed when I roll over and lazily reach an arm out to find you..but you are out of my reach. If must have been warm last night because you've managed to work your way to the far side of the bed, just about as close to the fan as you could get.. I open my eyes just slightly.. I giggle quietly. My eyes gaze over you. I love the crazy way your hair starts to curl when you've slept hard. I run my fingers absentmindedly through your hair, and down the back of your neck, noticing every freckle. I've seen them all before, and I feel like I've memorized every one.Your skin is warm and smells faintly like the cologne you put on last night.I trace your freckles down your back, and your skin gets those little goose-bumps that you get when I touch you ever-so-softly...Your body tenses just slightly. I pause, not wanting to wake you. I don't want to ruin this moment. I love watching you sleep. I watch your chest rise and fall from behind you, listen to your slow and even breathing. You are peaceful, and there is nothing that makes me happier than looking at you and knowing that you're sleeping well. I think about our lives together, and what we've been through. It hasn't been an easy road for us. There have been many obstacles, but in the end, like you always had promised me, it was worth it.
I love the way the sunlight hits your skin, making your body look strong and inviting to curl up next to. I kiss your neck, and you moan in approval, essentially unaware that I am there.. I coax you onto your back... I can't help but be taken by how gorgeous you are. I still have to stop and pinch myself to realize that you really are mine, and that I don't have to wish for you to be with me anymore, that you are here. I am content. I have everything I've ever wanted. I know that you are dreaming.. and I.... I am dreaming with my eyes open. <3

[Diva]

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

~ David Mustaine

[Diva]

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

[redrose]

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
~Robert Bulwer-Lytton

[Butterbean]

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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[BestButchBoy]

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” ~Coco Chanel

[Fancy]

"It's not illegal, just frowned upon...like masterbating on an airplane."