Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 25

JakeTulane · 01-21-2010, 08:02 AM

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

JakeTulane · 01-21-2010, 08:03 AM

"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

purepisces · 01-21-2010, 08:28 AM

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ~ Jim Morrison

jenny · 01-21-2010, 03:52 PM

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But
the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Mother Teresa

purepisces · 01-21-2010, 04:50 PM

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ~ Gilda Radner

FeminineAllure · 01-21-2010, 11:39 PM

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran

HeartBreak Kid · 01-21-2010, 11:41 PM

I may have posted this already.......
But damn...it's just that delicious....

She was wildfire, that girl. She could move like lightning or flow easy as a dream. If she desired you, she only had to think about you and you'd be hers. She wore orange and red like painted passion.

Soft and hot at times, or hard as stone when she needed to be. She was an orphan, had the soul of an orphan, had to learn things the hard way. But once she made a decision, there was no turning back.
People say she had a heart of stone, but that's not true. She was sweet too, and generous. She'd offer her soul, which was as wide as the earth is wide.

Always giving of herself. Constantly giving everything, as if there were an endless river inwards. Creating worlds from her own substance. Can you imagine the pain she was able to endure? Burning like that at all times?

Can we? Be like her? I asked my friend, crying from inside, and she said,

Oh my tender love, so many girls have died trying.

~"Kim Jensen, from "Halfway Places"~

Peace and Love

Diva · 01-22-2010, 12:15 AM

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich person's abode.

~Henry David Thoreau

HeartBreak Kid · 01-22-2010, 02:06 AM

What if is my son's favorite game, I have found it is also a favorite of those "afraid" of LOVE

So at 3:00am it just fits.........
What if you slept ?

And what if,
In your sleep
You dreamed ?

And what if,
In your dream,
You went to heaven
And there plucked
A strange and
Beautiful flower ?

And what if,
When you awoke,
You had the flower in your hand ?

....Ah, what then?

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

Peace and Love

Diva · 01-22-2010, 03:26 AM

One's level of integrity and character is revealed by the way one care's for their pet.

~A friend of mine at Animal Trustees of Austin

daisygrrl · 01-22-2010, 05:37 AM

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~Rita Mae Brown

always2late · 01-22-2010, 06:43 AM

"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures." - Charles Noble

robbrt · 01-22-2010, 07:16 AM

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

Hemingway--"A Farewell To Arms"

excellent read.

jenny · 01-22-2010, 09:35 AM

"Rescue work is like jazz. Improvisation based on fundamentals." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"

purepisces · 01-22-2010, 12:08 PM

Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~ Woody Allen

jenny · 01-22-2010, 03:10 PM

"Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. The swamps grow spongy and pungent. Standing water goes warm and soupy, clotted with frog eggs and twitching with larvae. Along the ditches, heron-legged stalks of canary grass shoot six feet high and unfurl seed plumes. In the fields, the clover pops its blooms and corn trembles for the sky." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time"

HeartBreak Kid · 01-22-2010, 06:12 PM

" i slept...an i drempt we were making love, slow sweet and damn....
oh so good....
we were connected mind body and soul, two bodies perfectly in sync....
i felt you tense as i tensed......
i tasted your pleasure on your lips...and skin....
i rode a wave of pure pleasure from your touch....
we peaked...and peaked....and peaked again......untill we lay still....
damp and chilled from our exertion.....
we spoon and our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces....
i breath in your scent......
and doze in you arms.....safe and content.....
we, i awake...i am alone....my body aches to feel urs.....
i lost you in a dream......."
~Me~

Peace and Love......

Diva · 01-22-2010, 06:16 PM

The art of living does not consist in
preserving and clinging to a particular
mode of happiness,
but in allowing happiness to change
its form without being disappointed
by the change;
happiness, like a child, must be allowed
to grow up.

~Charles L. Morgan

FeminineAllure · 01-22-2010, 09:04 PM

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

Charming Texan · 01-22-2010, 10:21 PM

Drunk as Drunk

Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.

Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.

- Neruda

01-21-2010, 08:28 AM	#483
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	People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ~ Jim Morrison __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-21-2010, 03:52 PM	#484
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	"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." ~ Mother Teresa __________________ "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.

01-21-2010, 04:50 PM	#485
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	I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ~ Gilda Radner __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-21-2010, 11:39 PM	#486
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. Kahlil Gibran __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-21-2010, 11:41 PM	#487
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 may have posted this already....... But damn...it's just that delicious.... She was wildfire, that girl. She could move like lightning or flow easy as a dream. If she desired you, she only had to think about you and you'd be hers. She wore orange and red like painted passion. Soft and hot at times, or hard as stone when she needed to be. She was an orphan, had the soul of an orphan, had to learn things the hard way. But once she made a decision, there was no turning back. People say she had a heart of stone, but that's not true. She was sweet too, and generous. She'd offer her soul, which was as wide as the earth is wide. Always giving of herself. Constantly giving everything, as if there were an endless river inwards. Creating worlds from her own substance. Can you imagine the pain she was able to endure? Burning like that at all times? Can we? Be like her? I asked my friend, crying from inside, and she said, Oh my tender love, so many girls have died trying. ~"Kim Jensen, from "Halfway Places"~ Peace and Love __________________ ~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~

01-21-2010, 08:02 AM	#481
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	"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

01-21-2010, 08:03 AM	#482
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	"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

01-22-2010, 12:15 AM	#488
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	Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich person's abode. ~Henry David Thoreau

01-22-2010, 02:06 AM	#489
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	WHAT IF....... What if is my son's favorite game, I have found it is also a favorite of those "afraid" of LOVE So at 3:00am it just fits......... What if you slept ? And what if, In your sleep You dreamed ? And what if, In your dream, You went to heaven And there plucked A strange and Beautiful flower ? And what if, When you awoke, You had the flower in your hand ? ....Ah, what then? ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~ Peace and Love __________________ ~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~

01-22-2010, 03:26 AM	#490
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	One's level of integrity and character is revealed by the way one care's for their pet. ~A friend of mine at Animal Trustees of Austin

01-22-2010, 05:37 AM	#491
daisygrrl Member How Do You Identify?: mouthy but adorable; kinky Gerbera Preferred Pronoun?: hey, cutie (or dudette) Relationship Status: xoxo Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The South (Gooogia peach) Posts: 475 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,157 Thanked 525 Times in 223 Posts Rep Power: 1065210	Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. ~Rita Mae Brown __________________ You can’t change that system by just getting your own rights, tinkering with the engine and leaving. You have to take on the whole machine. --Riki Anne Wilchins Hold on to the lessons, let go of the pain. --Leslie Feinberg

01-22-2010, 06:43 AM	#492
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	"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures." - Charles Noble __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

01-22-2010, 07:16 AM	#493
robbrt Member How Do You Identify?: huckleberry/white patsy Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/mx Relationship Status: tectonically shifted road warrior Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Indiana Posts: 955 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,112 Thanked 904 Times in 457 Posts Rep Power: 2494130	"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." Hemingway--"A Farewell To Arms" excellent read.

01-22-2010, 09:35 AM	#494
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	"Rescue work is like jazz. Improvisation based on fundamentals." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time" __________________ "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.

01-22-2010, 12:08 PM	#495
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	Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~ Woody Allen __________________ Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

01-22-2010, 03:10 PM	#496
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	My favorite opening paragraph of a book, ever. "Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun. The swamps grow spongy and pungent. Standing water goes warm and soupy, clotted with frog eggs and twitching with larvae. Along the ditches, heron-legged stalks of canary grass shoot six feet high and unfurl seed plumes. In the fields, the clover pops its blooms and corn trembles for the sky." ~ Michael Perry, "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time" __________________ "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.

01-22-2010, 06:12 PM	#497
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 slept...an i drempt we were making love, slow sweet and damn.... oh so good.... we were connected mind body and soul, two bodies perfectly in sync.... i felt you tense as i tensed...... i tasted your pleasure on your lips...and skin.... i rode a wave of pure pleasure from your touch.... we peaked...and peaked....and peaked again......untill we lay still.... damp and chilled from our exertion..... we spoon and our bodies fit together like puzzle pieces.... i breath in your scent...... and doze in you arms.....safe and content..... we, i awake...i am alone....my body aches to feel urs..... i lost you in a dream......." ~Me~ Peace and Love...... __________________ ~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~

01-22-2010, 06:16 PM	#498
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	The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan

01-22-2010, 09:04 PM	#499
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-22-2010, 10:21 PM	#500
Charming Texan Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Mister Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Austin Posts: 228 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 85 Thanked 269 Times in 117 Posts Rep Power: 2116591	Drunk as Drunk Drunk as drunk on turpentine From your open kisses, Your wet body wedged Between my wet body and the strake Of our boat that is made of flowers, Feasted, we guide it - our fingers Like tallows adorned with yellow metal - Over the sky's hot rim, The day's last breath in our sails. Pinned by the sun between solstice And equinox, drowsy and tangled together We drifted for months and woke With the bitter taste of land on our lips, Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime And the sound of a rope Lowering a bucket down its well. Then, We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses. - Neruda