Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Arwen]

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
— Chinese proverb

[Butterbean]

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[always2late]

"The essential thing is not knowledge, but character." ~ Joseph Le Conte

[Guy]

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.

[Rook]

Alec: You cannot have the Pretenders' first album! That's mine.
Leslie: I bought it.
Alec: You did not! You can have all the Billy Joels... except The Stranger.
Leslie: I'm taking Thriller and Mahler's ninth.
Alec: Kevin is so fond of Mahler.
Leslie: I moved in with Jules.
Alec: Oh how nice, roomies again... No Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simons.
Leslie: You got me those for Valentine's Day. Remember?
Alec: You ran out on this relationship. You take the consequences.
Leslie: I didn't run out on anything. You ran out.
Alec: You fucked Kevin.
Leslie: You fucked many!
Alec: Nameless, faceless many!
Leslie: I feel much better now, thanks.
Alec: You're not taking The Police.
Leslie: Anyway, I didn't just fuck Kevin! I was confused and angry, and I care about him deeply.
Alec: Get your clothes, give me the keys and get out! Now!
Leslie: I can't believe this is happening to us.
Alec: Wasted love! God, I just wish I could get it back!

{odd how this part always reminds me of my very first Break-up..don't ask which was Me...}

[Rook]

Kirby: It's true love, my friend.
Kevin: Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.
Kirby: You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in... how long? What is it... a year... maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution?
Kevin: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony... palimony... it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
Kirby: It's the only illusion that counts, my friend.
Kevin: Says who?
Kirby: Anyone who's been in love.
Kevin: Love sucks.
Kirby: So does your attitude.

[BestButchBoy]

"YABBA DABBA DOO"

Fred Flintstone

[Kätzchen]

I'm a huge fan of the Indian (Bengali) intellectual, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath - he was expert in a variety of subject areas: In his time (era) he was a popular poet, musician, novelist.... his writings reshaped Bengali literature and music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How I came to learn about him - my exposure to his writings - was through my friend Robert, who lived up in the hills of Ashland - the Greensprings area. He collected his books - his writings. Robert put on some of music and handed me a book one starry, warm summers' night and he had me read some beautiful prose that TAgore authored.

It was one of those extended moments hazed by "blue sparkles" and I will never forget the long drawn out conversations I had with Robert about Tagorian philosophy! Robert was such a character that, I took my friend Brynn out there one summer to meet him and she soon came to see what it was that I enjoyed about late night conversations, out on the Greensprings, with Robert! His property was absolutely beautiful - rustic cabin, acres of pines, deer that wandered throughout the land, a gazebo that stood near a natural babbling creek - out in the middle of nowhere! *Those were the days!*

Anyhow, here's some quotes authored by Tagore:

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

And my all-time favorite:

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

[adorable]

"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

[Glenn]

We have everything necessary in the world today to bring about the millennium. Only selfishness makes it impossible.- Paramahansa Yogananda

[Glenn]

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: Where knowledge is free:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches it's arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father; let my country awake!- Tagore

[JakeTulane]

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” - Oscar Wilde

[JakeTulane]

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[gotoseagrl]

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." Emily Bronte

[Liam]

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more.

—Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high: Where knowledge is free:
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches it's arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever widening thought and action;
Into that heaven of freedom my Father; let my country awake!- Tagore

I thought about posting this quote last night: He was passionate about what was happening in his society - incongruencies at a deep socio-cultural level; and I wanted to say a hearty - AMEN - when I read this quote, this morning!

Thanks "Popcorninthesofa" !!!



PS/ wouldn't is be something is a revolution like this took place in the hearts of people here in our American society??? Indeed, "Let my country awake!"

[diamondrose]

The following poem is a poem my roommate gave to me when my dog passed away

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its aweful gaps, we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.
-Irving Townsend


my own words~ this poem is so true. I adopted my dog from a shelter, knowing full well that he was a senior dog, yet I wouldn't give up the 3 years I got with him for anything. I find peace within myself knowing that I gave him a happy and loved final 3 years.
Fatboy- You are still alive in my heart 1/23/2009

[Toofrufru]

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”


Audrey Hepburn

[BestButchBoy]

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE