Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 20

Lady Jewel · 01-13-2010, 08:31 PM

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

~Mother Theresa

Arwen · 01-13-2010, 10:29 PM

You know it's weird when you wake up that morning and realize your entire adult life was based on a decision made by a teenager. A stoned teenager? ~ Stew Passing' Strange *http://stewsongs.com/

always2late · 01-13-2010, 10:33 PM

"The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible." - Jeff Taylor

Diva · 01-14-2010, 12:54 AM

We all have big changes in our lives that are ~ more or less ~ a second chance.

~Harrison Ford

weatherboi · 01-14-2010, 05:52 AM

Like the church, like a cop, like a mother
You want me to be truthful
Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon though
And I need your approval...

Joni Mitchell

Soon · 01-14-2010, 06:19 AM

Risk! Risk anything!
Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you.
Act for yourself.
Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

always2late · 01-14-2010, 06:44 AM

"We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright..." ~ Mary Caroline Richards

JakeTulane · 01-14-2010, 07:01 AM

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place” - C.S. Lewis

JakeTulane · 01-14-2010, 07:03 AM

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” -Baltasar Gracian

Diva · 01-14-2010, 07:15 AM

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

~William James

Pixie · 01-14-2010, 09:04 AM

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
Ben Okri

violaine · 01-14-2010, 09:55 AM

“in human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
-- Henry David Thoreau

purepisces · 01-14-2010, 09:57 AM

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez

HeartBreak Kid · 01-14-2010, 12:32 PM

I love fleshy women whose buttocks rise
in my hands like freshly baked bread,
arms that surge outward from my embrace,
thighs that surround me like love itself.
I love flesh that is firm and tender, flesh
that is wild, I love flesh that is yours
these afternoons when rain falls gently as flesh itself,
when all that is moral dissolves like flesh,
and only the sounds of flesh can be heard
singing, We are still here, love, we are going on.
~Michael Blumenthal, "Flesh

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Blade · 01-14-2010, 05:55 PM

When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.....

ummm anybody know where I can get a flea collar in my size

Arwen · 01-14-2010, 05:59 PM

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
-Jane Smiley

Desire moves us to action. The bigger the desire, the swifter the action. When we really want something, we get creative, and pull out all the stops. We engage our intelligence, we find the means to fulfill our desire. We become empowered.
-Lissa Coffey

HeartBreak Kid · 01-14-2010, 06:58 PM

Ayn Rand-Anthem-
excerpts-things to ponder

~My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.~

~I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.~

~For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.~

~And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.

The sacred word:

EGO ~

MrSunshine · 01-14-2010, 07:09 PM

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

~Malcolm Gladwell

Selenay · 01-15-2010, 12:27 AM

A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:

For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive

- Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn

Diva · 01-15-2010, 04:59 AM

Every experience in life,
everything with which we have come in contact in life,
is a chisel which has been
cutting away at our life statue,
molding,
modifying,
shaping it.
We are part of all we have met.
Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought
has had its hand in molding us,
shaping us.

~Orison Swett Marden

01-13-2010, 10:29 PM	#382
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	You know it's weird when you wake up that morning and realize your entire adult life was based on a decision made by a teenager. A stoned teenager? ~ Stew Passing' Strange http://stewsongs.com/* __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-13-2010, 10:33 PM	#383
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	"The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible." - Jeff Taylor __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-14-2010, 06:44 AM	#387
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	"We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright..." ~ Mary Caroline Richards __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-14-2010, 09:04 AM	#391
Pixie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Equal Opportunity Friend Preferred Pronoun?: Girl Relationship Status: in service Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Sacramento! Posts: 2,868 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,691 Thanked 4,103 Times in 1,332 Posts Rep Power: 15274784	“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” Ben Okri __________________ Unexplored glimmering in the rough How does a diamond hide? -Pixie-

01-14-2010, 09:57 AM	#393
purepisces Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Just a girl in love with the world Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 604 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,477 Thanked 1,607 Times in 491 Posts Rep Power: 9710905	When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~Paul Rodriguez __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-13-2010, 08:31 PM	#381
Lady Jewel Member How Do You Identify?: * Preferred Pronoun?: * Relationship Status: * Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: * Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 120 Thanked 322 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 791	"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." ~Mother Theresa

01-14-2010, 12:54 AM	#384
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	We all have big changes in our lives that are ~ more or less ~ a second chance. ~Harrison Ford

01-14-2010, 05:52 AM	#385
weatherboi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Owned boy Preferred Pronoun?: Hey boy!!! Relationship Status: counting freckles slowly under Her direction!!! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: i have 2 sets of geographic coordinates!!! Posts: 6,097 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26,797 Thanked 12,549 Times in 2,993 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Like the church, like a cop, like a mother You want me to be truthful Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon though And I need your approval... Joni Mitchell

01-14-2010, 06:19 AM	#386
Soon Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: attached Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: . Posts: 6,896 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,046 Thanked 13,094 Times in 3,386 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield

01-14-2010, 07:01 AM	#388
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01-14-2010, 07:03 AM	#389
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	"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.” -Baltasar Gracian

01-14-2010, 07:15 AM	#390
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	Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~William James

01-14-2010, 09:55 AM	#392
violaine Timed Out How Do You Identify?: atypical Preferred Pronoun?: plague words and phrases Relationship Status: love wise guys of the avian world Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: wekiva springs basin Posts: 3,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,934 Thanked 3,293 Times in 1,301 Posts Rep Power: 0	“in human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” -- Henry David Thoreau

01-14-2010, 12:32 PM	#394
HeartBreak Kid Member How Do You Identify?: self Preferred Pronoun?: User formally Known as Tygerlily Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: my skin Posts: 372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 260 Thanked 446 Times in 166 Posts Rep Power: 28	I love fleshy women whose buttocks rise in my hands like freshly baked bread, arms that surge outward from my embrace, thighs that surround me like love itself. I love flesh that is firm and tender, flesh that is wild, I love flesh that is yours these afternoons when rain falls gently as flesh itself, when all that is moral dissolves like flesh, and only the sounds of flesh can be heard singing, We are still here, love, we are going on. ~Michael Blumenthal, "Flesh " __________________ ~Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love . That's All~ ~Richard Brautigan, "Deer Tracks"~ Peace and Love http://images5.cafepress.com/product...x480_Front.jpg "Pssssst.......your STEREOTYPES are showing".... ~StabbyK~

01-14-2010, 05:55 PM	#395
Blade Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: TG Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: once in a while someone amazing comes along...and here I am! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Down on the farm Posts: 5,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,855 Thanked 14,415 Times in 4,058 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas..... ummm anybody know where I can get a flea collar in my size

01-14-2010, 05:59 PM	#396
Arwen Joy Seeker How Do You Identify?: Smartly-Flavored Preferred Pronoun?: Goddess Relationship Status: Mrs. Syzygy 1/9/14 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Joyville, NM (aka Land of Enchantment) Posts: 10,140 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,636 Thanked 28,119 Times in 6,414 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." -Jane Smiley Desire moves us to action. The bigger the desire, the swifter the action. When we really want something, we get creative, and pull out all the stops. We engage our intelligence, we find the means to fulfill our desire. We become empowered. -Lissa Coffey __________________ I wrote a book, y'all! *FREE* Tarotscopes Seek Joy, y'all. Eschew hate. 9Words: A Poetry Challenge \| Do you like me?

01-14-2010, 06:58 PM	#397
HeartBreak Kid Member How Do You Identify?: self Preferred Pronoun?: User formally Known as Tygerlily Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: my skin Posts: 372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 260 Thanked 446 Times in 166 Posts Rep Power: 28	Ayn Rand-Anthem- excerpts-things to ponder ~My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.~ ~I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.~ ~For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.~ ~And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die, should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO ~ __________________ ~Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love . That's All~ ~Richard Brautigan, "Deer Tracks"~ Peace and Love http://images5.cafepress.com/product...x480_Front.jpg "Pssssst.......your STEREOTYPES are showing".... ~StabbyK~

01-14-2010, 07:09 PM	#398
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01-15-2010, 12:27 AM	#399
Selenay Member How Do You Identify?: A soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings. Preferred Pronoun?: All I ask of living is to have no chains on me. Relationship Status: All I own are the strides I spend to the finish line. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Somewhere in between here and gone. Posts: 662 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 110 Thanked 1,447 Times in 369 Posts Rep Power: 6344715	A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours: For those of us who were imprinted with fear like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk for by this weapon this illusion of some safety to be found the heavy-footed hoped to silence us For all of us this instant and this triumph We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive - Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn __________________ Two or three things I know for sure, And one is that I would rather go naked Than wear the coat the world has made for me.

01-15-2010, 04:59 AM	#400
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	Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. ~Orison Swett Marden