Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 221

JakeTulane · 10-20-2010, 04:50 AM

'Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold." - Tryon Edwards

JakeTulane · 10-20-2010, 04:53 AM

"How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it." - James Russell Lowell

JakeTulane · 10-20-2010, 04:53 AM

"You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters." -St. Bernard

always2late · 10-20-2010, 06:47 AM

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile - it's free! - Jenny Finch

Janstevie · 10-20-2010, 08:55 AM

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Butterbean · 10-20-2010, 08:56 AM

Life is the sum of all your choices.

~Albert Camus

jenny · 10-20-2010, 09:43 AM

"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it." ~ Shel Silverstein

Spirit Dancer · 10-20-2010, 11:51 AM

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board. As you pass through life, pay attention to the signs and stations; if you don't like the scenery, pull the emergency cord and get off the train. There is no other conductor in charge. There is no one who needs to give you permission to transfer. This is your life. Your journey. Your trip to conduct.

Bernie Siegel

Spirit Dancer · 10-20-2010, 11:52 AM

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt
and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked.
By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed.
The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Plutarch

jenny · 10-20-2010, 02:04 PM

"Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions." ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936

"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults." ~Gore Vidal

BestButchBoy · 10-20-2010, 03:18 PM

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
~Bob Newhart

Mister Bent · 10-20-2010, 06:03 PM

"I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood
and energy to theirs enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer."

"I am a boy no longer. I am a man now who works away from horses, who lives in a common blindness,
seeing with his eyes only. But a man with a remembered glimpse of sightedness. And it is horses that
I have to thank."

jenny · 10-20-2010, 06:51 PM

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Semantics · 10-20-2010, 07:05 PM

"It shocks to me realize how life and memory work. A word here, a flash there, and suddenly the layer of grass is peeled back, a mound of earth is removed, and you're staring into the grave at the skull of what you loved. The bones had always been there, you just hadn't known where to look. Or perhaps you hadn't been brave enough."

L. Rice

Fancy · 10-20-2010, 07:36 PM

"You're at the end of my string!"

-Bear

ravfem · 10-20-2010, 07:56 PM

Don't talk about it....

Be about it.

JakeTulane · 10-21-2010, 04:30 AM

"I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange." - Dizzy Gillespie

JakeTulane · 10-21-2010, 04:31 AM

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something” - Proverb

JakeTulane · 10-21-2010, 04:33 AM

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” - Walt Whitman

always2late · 10-21-2010, 06:04 AM

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” –Theodore Roosevelt

10-20-2010, 06:47 AM	#4404
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	Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile - it's free! - Jenny Finch __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

10-20-2010, 09:43 AM	#4407
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it." ~ Shel Silverstein __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-20-2010, 11:51 AM	#4408
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures, who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive. But no matter how much advice you get, you are the one who chooses which train to board. As you pass through life, pay attention to the signs and stations; if you don't like the scenery, pull the emergency cord and get off the train. There is no other conductor in charge. There is no one who needs to give you permission to transfer. This is your life. Your journey. Your trip to conduct. Bernie Siegel __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

10-20-2010, 11:52 AM	#4409
Spirit Dancer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Complex but Tender Preferred Pronoun?: ~Ma`am~ Relationship Status: Shotgun Rider Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Following the red road Posts: 4,519 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,304 Thanked 12,913 Times in 3,466 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied. Plutarch __________________ “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland

10-20-2010, 02:04 PM	#4410
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	*because I'm in that* sort of mood.... a twofer. "Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions." ~Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936 "I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults." ~Gore Vidal** __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-20-2010, 04:50 AM	#4401
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	'Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold." - Tryon Edwards

10-20-2010, 04:53 AM	#4402
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	"How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it." - James Russell Lowell

10-20-2010, 04:53 AM	#4403
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	"You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters." -St. Bernard

10-20-2010, 08:55 AM	#4405
Janstevie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Soft Butch Relationship Status: single Join Date: May 2010 Location: England Posts: 1,814 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 112 Thanked 1,331 Times in 411 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

10-20-2010, 08:56 AM	#4406
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,216 Times in 772 Posts Rep Power: 17690476	Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus

10-20-2010, 03:18 PM	#4411
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,450 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." ~Bob Newhart

10-20-2010, 06:03 PM	#4412
Mister Bent Senior Member How Do You Identify?: . Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: . Posts: 2,905 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,151 Thanked 5,824 Times in 1,721 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	2 by Mark Spragg "I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer." "I am a boy no longer. I am a man now who works away from horses, who lives in a common blindness, seeing with his eyes only. But a man with a remembered glimpse of sightedness. And it is horses that I have to thank." __________________ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

10-20-2010, 06:51 PM	#4413
jenny Member How Do You Identify?: queer femme Relationship Status: inquire within Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 956 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 434 Thanked 1,593 Times in 580 Posts Rep Power: 5091118	"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross __________________ "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

10-20-2010, 07:05 PM	#4414
Semantics Senior Member How Do You Identify?: malapropist Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New England Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,367 Thanked 3,968 Times in 1,201 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	"It shocks to me realize how life and memory work. A word here, a flash there, and suddenly the layer of grass is peeled back, a mound of earth is removed, and you're staring into the grave at the skull of what you loved. The bones had always been there, you just hadn't known where to look. Or perhaps you hadn't been brave enough." L. Rice

10-20-2010, 07:36 PM	#4415
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	to his sister... "You're at the end of my string!" -Bear

10-20-2010, 07:56 PM	#4416
ravfem Senior Member How Do You Identify?: i'm a girl Relationship Status: negative Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,811 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,239 Thanked 3,126 Times in 1,270 Posts Rep Power: 1969286	Don't talk about it.... Be about it. __________________

10-21-2010, 04:30 AM	#4417
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	Happy Day of your Birth - Mr. Gillespie "I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange." - Dizzy Gillespie

10-21-2010, 04:31 AM	#4418
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	“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something” - Proverb

10-21-2010, 04:33 AM	#4419
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	“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” - Walt Whitman

10-21-2010, 06:04 AM	#4420
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	“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” –Theodore Roosevelt __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi