Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 118

Fancy · 05-26-2010, 09:17 AM

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”
~Victor Hugo

Butterbean · 05-26-2010, 12:30 PM

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

~Mother Teresa

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Liam · 05-26-2010, 12:55 PM

I speak quietly,
I do not sing,
I whisper, for beauty
is a fragile thing.

—"Marigolds," Everything Glistens and Everything Sings, Charlotte Zolotow, 1987

UofMfan · 05-26-2010, 01:39 PM

Opinions are like A-holes, everybody has one.

I know, very profound

gotoseagrl · 05-26-2010, 08:49 PM

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." Vincent Van Gogh

Kätzchen · 05-27-2010, 01:45 AM

I'm up working late tonight and came across something in my readings that I thought I would leave here. It's found in Chapter 2 - "Striving for Home: Community, Collaboration and Sustainability," in Ted Bernard's (2010) Hope & Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. (www.newsociety.com)

Striving for home implies finding a community such as Athens with a resilient social structure and lots of social capital woven into the complex networks occupied by smart and caring people. These communities have the marking of a deep economy with locally owned businesses, organic farmers, farmers' markets, locavores, craftspeople, cyclists, and purveyors of slow food. They strive for environmental and social justice. there are ample "third places" (niether work nor home) to gather and celebrate. Such communities retain some of their natural and historically significant landscapes and folks have a few notions about their bio-region and what happens beyond the bounds of their place. Just as they invest in social capital by nurturing soils, waters, forests, steep slopes, and biodiversity. And the "wage" peaceable campaigns to save this sacred thing called community. As Moore writes in the epigraph for this chapter, community evolves in this "struggle for community."

(Bernard, 32)

Diva · 05-27-2010, 03:17 AM

Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing.

~Stacey Charter

JakeTulane · 05-27-2010, 04:58 AM

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C. S. Lewis

JakeTulane · 05-27-2010, 05:01 AM

"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keefe

JakeTulane · 05-27-2010, 05:03 AM

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" -
Walt Whitman

always2late · 05-27-2010, 06:38 AM

"How a person plays a game shows something of their character, how they lose shows all of it." - Anonymous

Fancy · 05-27-2010, 07:23 AM

"I think I was born happy. If I have a bad moment, it doesn't take me long to switch the gear back. I say, "That sucked," and move on."

~ Renée Zellweger

Liam · 05-27-2010, 07:40 AM

I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

—The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White, 1970

Butterbean · 05-27-2010, 11:27 AM

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

~William Wordsworth

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SassyLeo · 05-27-2010, 12:37 PM

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein

Duchess · 05-27-2010, 01:10 PM

LETTING GO

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.

The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19]

People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.

Let them go.

And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.. You've got to know when it's dead.

You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something.. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye.. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!!

If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to past hurts and pains .......

LET IT GO!!!

If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth......

LET IT GO!!!

If someone has angered you.

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......

LET IT GO!!!

If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.... ..

LET IT GO!!!

If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents

LET IT GO!!!

If you have a bad attitude.... ...

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......

LET IT GO!!!

If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him.........

LET IT GO!!!

If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship. ....

LET IT GO!!!

If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.. .....

LET IT GO!!!

If you're feeling depressed and stressed ............

LET IT GO!!!

If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to......

LET IT GO!!!

~By Rev. T.D. Jakes

Hack · 05-27-2010, 08:48 PM

Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent-thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Lady Pamela · 05-27-2010, 10:29 PM

"When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

~ Cree Prophecy ~

Lady Pamela · 05-27-2010, 10:43 PM

Healing without active participation
Serves only the physical.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Ask yourself honestly in duress..
"What is my body trying to tell me?"
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Healing has to be on all levels.
To heal one without the other
Ensures the return of what ails you.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Healing
is a leap forward spiritually.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

True healing
involves body, mind and Spirit.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Do not request healing
When you harbour hate.
It will be a short term fix.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Do not look for expensive cures,
New age fads.
Examine your thinking.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

In the midst of your suffering
You are not alone,
Surrounded by those
Urging you on.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Holding bad thoughts
Ends in disease.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Anger unrecognised
Will kill you,
One way or the other.
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Instead of fighting beaurocracy
And non-hearing doctors,
Become your own physician.
Ask in the darkness,
"What do I need to acknowledge?"
~ © Alison Stormwolf ~

Enchantress · 05-27-2010, 11:02 PM

This is my simple religion.
There is no need for temples;
no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness.”

~ Dalai Lama

05-26-2010, 12:55 PM	#2343
Liam Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Guy Preferred Pronoun?: He, Him, His Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The Evergreen State Posts: 2,269 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 14,865 Thanked 6,876 Times in 1,861 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I speak quietly, I do not sing, I whisper, for beauty is a fragile thing. —"Marigolds," Everything Glistens and Everything Sings, Charlotte Zolotow, 1987 __________________ <3 Love is weird.

05-26-2010, 08:49 PM	#2345
gotoseagrl Senior Member How Do You Identify?: old-fashioned queer stone submissive girl Preferred Pronoun?: mermaid, very lucky babygirl Relationship Status: Saltwater mermaid ♡ Join Date: May 2010 Location: CA Posts: 2,209 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,192 Thanked 6,103 Times in 1,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." Vincent Van Gogh __________________ Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D. H. Lawrence

05-27-2010, 01:45 AM	#2346
Kätzchen Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, please. Relationship Status: Attached to my granddaughter and chosen family. Join Date: May 2010 Location: ツ Posts: 16,066 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,111 Thanked 33,522 Times in 10,647 Posts Rep Power: 21474868	I'm up working late tonight and came across something in my readings that I thought I would leave here. It's found in Chapter 2 - "Striving for Home: Community, Collaboration and Sustainability," in Ted Bernard's (2010) Hope & Hard Times: Communities, Collaboration and Sustainability. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers. (www.newsociety.com) Striving for home implies finding a community such as Athens with a resilient social structure and lots of social capital woven into the complex networks occupied by smart and caring people. These communities have the marking of a deep economy with locally owned businesses, organic farmers, farmers' markets, locavores, craftspeople, cyclists, and purveyors of slow food. They strive for environmental and social justice. there are ample "third places" (niether work nor home) to gather and celebrate. Such communities retain some of their natural and historically significant landscapes and folks have a few notions about their bio-region and what happens beyond the bounds of their place. Just as they invest in social capital by nurturing soils, waters, forests, steep slopes, and biodiversity. And the "wage" peaceable campaigns to save this sacred thing called community. As Moore writes in the epigraph for this chapter, community evolves in this "struggle for community." (Bernard, 32)

05-27-2010, 06:38 AM	#2351
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"How a person plays a game shows something of their character, how they lose shows all of it." - Anonymous __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

05-27-2010, 07:40 AM	#2353
Liam Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Guy Preferred Pronoun?: He, Him, His Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The Evergreen State Posts: 2,269 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 14,865 Thanked 6,876 Times in 1,861 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking. —The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White, 1970 __________________ <3 Love is weird.

05-26-2010, 09:17 AM	#2341
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent” ~Victor Hugo

05-26-2010, 12:30 PM	#2342
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa .

05-26-2010, 01:39 PM	#2344
UofMfan Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: A very happy Mr. Grumpy Cat Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Neither here or there Posts: 7,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 27,733 Thanked 18,937 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Opinions are like A-holes, everybody has one. I know, very profound

05-27-2010, 03:17 AM	#2347
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	Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing. ~Stacey Charter

05-27-2010, 04:58 AM	#2348
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C. S. Lewis

05-27-2010, 05:01 AM	#2349
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keefe

05-27-2010, 05:03 AM	#2350
JakeTulane Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Mr. Prickly Porcupine Preferred Pronoun?: Butch - Hy, Hym, Hys Relationship Status: She has softened My quills Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Permanently Banned 8/8/2011 Posts: 4,880 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,221 Thanked 5,264 Times in 2,732 Posts Rep Power: 0	"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman

05-27-2010, 07:23 AM	#2352
Fancy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: N/A Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NY Posts: 3,742 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,696 Thanked 7,076 Times in 2,316 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"I think I was born happy. If I have a bad moment, it doesn't take me long to switch the gear back. I say, "That sucked," and move on." ~ Renée Zellweger

05-27-2010, 11:27 AM	#2354
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth .

05-27-2010, 12:37 PM	#2355
SassyLeo Is Grateful How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Engaged Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The PDX Posts: 1,526 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 846 Thanked 1,577 Times in 620 Posts Rep Power: 856202	Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein __________________ Joy is the best makeup -Anne Lamott

05-27-2010, 01:10 PM	#2356
Duchess Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Absolute Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Toe curling :-) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,382 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,792 Thanked 5,592 Times in 1,521 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I received this in an email today. Even if you're not religious, it still makes sense. *LETTING GO* There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something.. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye.. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ....... LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth...... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you. LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...... LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.... .. LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude.... ... LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him......... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship. .... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves.. ..... LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed ............ LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying 'take your hands off of it,' then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! *~By Rev. T.D. Jakes* __________________ *無料のライブ*

05-27-2010, 08:48 PM	#2357
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,776 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent-thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

05-27-2010, 10:29 PM	#2358
Lady Pamela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A Lady..Femme..Free Spirit with a touch of survivalist woman in me. Preferred Pronoun?: Spiritual Warrior..She Ra..Baby Doll, or anything close..ha! Relationship Status: In perfect love and perfect trust I believe that will be directed..for now Just friends in my life. Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Live in Utah but take trips to Arkansas. Plan to move there eventually. Posts: 2,579 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,073 Thanked 5,940 Times in 1,609 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money." ~ Cree Prophecy ~ __________________ Believe what people show you the first time. It will keep you in balance, and will show you truth! ~~ Author unknown ~~ When negative thoughts come to mind, Let them die stillborn. Speak and do posotive in any situation, And watch your dreams grow and flurish. If you can't say anything posotive, Zip it up. Do not give birth to that which you do not want to see grow. See it, Believe it, Own it, Have it! ~~ Lady Pamela ~~

05-27-2010, 10:43 PM	#2359
Lady Pamela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A Lady..Femme..Free Spirit with a touch of survivalist woman in me. Preferred Pronoun?: Spiritual Warrior..She Ra..Baby Doll, or anything close..ha! Relationship Status: In perfect love and perfect trust I believe that will be directed..for now Just friends in my life. Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Live in Utah but take trips to Arkansas. Plan to move there eventually. Posts: 2,579 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,073 Thanked 5,940 Times in 1,609 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Healing without active participation Serves only the physical. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Ask yourself honestly in duress.. "What is my body trying to tell me?" ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Healing has to be on all levels. To heal one without the other Ensures the return of what ails you. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Healing is a leap forward spiritually. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ True healing involves body, mind and Spirit. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Do not request healing When you harbour hate. It will be a short term fix. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Do not look for expensive cures, New age fads. Examine your thinking. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ In the midst of your suffering You are not alone, Surrounded by those Urging you on. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Holding bad thoughts Ends in disease. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Anger unrecognised Will kill you, One way or the other. ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ Instead of fighting beaurocracy And non-hearing doctors, Become your own physician. Ask in the darkness, "What do I need to acknowledge?" ~ © Alison Stormwolf ~ __________________ Believe what people show you the first time. It will keep you in balance, and will show you truth! ~~ Author unknown ~~ When negative thoughts come to mind, Let them die stillborn. Speak and do posotive in any situation, And watch your dreams grow and flurish. If you can't say anything posotive, Zip it up. Do not give birth to that which you do not want to see grow. See it, Believe it, Own it, Have it! ~~ Lady Pamela ~~

05-27-2010, 11:02 PM	#2360
Enchantress Senior Member How Do You Identify?: A complex confection. Preferred Pronoun?: Miss Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The land of milk and honey. Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 741 Thanked 3,420 Times in 1,200 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” ~ Dalai Lama