Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[MysticOceansFL]

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

[Kätzchen]

"Our lives teach us who we are,"
~Salman Rushdie

[PinkieLee]

what if this is it
right here
right now
your defining moment

what if every event, heartache, and mistake
was perfectly planned to lead you
into the situation you presently find yourself in

what if mystic voices whispered answers to
you while you sleep
and people are carefully thrown in your path
all for the evolution of your greatest good
whether you like them or not

what if it did not matter what you did
or said or felt in the past
what if it was not an accurate prediction of
what your future will look like

what if you were not the only one feeling
this way
tired and lost
joyful and free
all at the same time

what if others were also thirsty
for the same soul balm you were craving
what if you could meet them simply by
following your own truth

what if the reason you don’t fit it
feel outside the box
outside the norm
is because you were not built to fit
but to create your own molds and make
your own set of rules

what if they were wrong
the mean voices that live in your head
that say things like
“no you can’t”
and “that is not possible” and “what
a stupid idea”

what if those voices do not belong to
you but some hurt angry child you never met
that needs love and care

what if your faults
were also your assets
disguised as flaws

what if nothing was random
not even a spilled cup of coffee
or a broken heel on the way to work

what if there is no one left to
impress
what if there is nothing
wrong with you
and nothing wrong with them

what if it was all striped away
your comforts
distractions
addictions
and praise

so you could finally meet
the raw, naked version of
yourself
who is much stronger and bad ass than
you expected

what if this helps you see
what you are really made of
and you realize
that is it not only more than enough
but that you

yes

you

dear

soul

are nothing short of extraordinary

BY MCCABE RUSSELL

[Arwen]

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. -John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

[Arwen]

He has achieved success who has lived well laughed often and loved much. Bessie A. Stanley

[justkim]

What is now proved was once only imagined.
- William Blake -

[Fancy]

“I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packed more sex than two naked bodies in bed.”
-Bette Davis

[Mister Bent]

With pithy public-service announcements about the transitory nature of existence, I remind myself regularly not to get too comfortable here. But it's the kind of advertising that's immediately forgotten as I settle into my comfortable home. In the morning, I take a shower - plenty of hot water - and slip into one of several familiar identities, a few of them the worse for wear but nothing a little accessorizing won't fix. They all answer to the name "Sy." They all recognize Sy's aging face in the mirror. They're all unable to accept that at any moment all of this will end.

- Sy Safransky

[femmedyke]

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. . .
~ Carolyn Kenmore

[justkim]

Self-worth comes from one thing -
- thinking that you are worthy.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer -

[Hack]

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment. ~Henry David Thoreau

[justkim]

Your Attitude + Your Choice = Your Life
- Unknown -

[girl_dee]

"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.

"At last it dawned on Me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So, treasure every moment you have and remember: time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination."

~ Souza

[afixer]

a tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else.
so tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday to believe in us, too.




because when you say you miss someone, you mean you miss the way you were before you started missing someone.

[always2late]

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg

[justkim]

- A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle -
- Unknown -

[StillettoDoll]

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other .Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katherine Hepburn

[StillettoDoll]

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; Yet, strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahil Gibran

[Fancy]

“Life is like Tango... sad, sensual, sexy, violent and quiet.”

[The_Lady_Snow]

"If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies."