Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 350

JakeTulane · 07-09-2011, 05:16 AM

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche

Oiler41 · 07-09-2011, 08:20 AM

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glynn

Hack · 07-09-2011, 01:39 PM

I remember you as you were in the last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the still heart.
In your eyes the flames of the twilight fought on.
And the leaves fell in the water of your soul.

Clasping my arms like a climbing plant
the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace.
Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning.
Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul.

I feel your eyes traveling, and the autumn is far off:
Grey beret, voice of a bird, heart like a house
Towards which my deep longings migrated
And my kisses fell, happy as embers.

Sky from a ship. Field from the hills:
Your memory is made of light, of smoke, of a still pond!
Beyond your eyes, farther on, the evenings were blazing.
Dry autumn leaves revolved in your soul.

-- Pablo Neruda

tapu · 07-09-2011, 04:14 PM

The great tragedy of filial love is that the parent always loves the child more than the child loves the parent.

I can't find who said that. I know it has to be that way or else the child would never depart for their own life. Still... my guy is 12 already!

Janstevie · 07-09-2011, 04:59 PM

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life... It goes on.

deb_U_taunt · 07-09-2011, 05:10 PM

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving

justkim · 07-09-2011, 07:19 PM

- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world. -

- Harriet Tubman -

Soon · 07-09-2011, 07:40 PM

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

~Bertolt Brecht

JakeTulane · 07-10-2011, 08:13 AM

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore" - Marilyn Ferguson

JakeTulane · 07-10-2011, 08:15 AM

"The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But--transcending both these limited aims--what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?" --Evelyn Underhill

JakeTulane · 07-10-2011, 08:17 AM

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

UofMfan · 07-10-2011, 08:21 AM

UN AMOR

Por ti junto a los jardines recién florecidos me duelen
los perfumes de primavera.

He olvidado tu rostro, no recuerdo tus manos,
¿cómo besaban tus labios?

Por ti amo las blancas estatuas dormidas en los parques,
las blancas estatuas que no tienen voz ni mirada.

He olvidado tu voz, tu voz alegre.
He olvidado tus ojos.

Como una flor a su perfume, estoy atado a tu recuerdo impreciso.
Estoy cerca del dolor como una herida, si me tocas me dañarás irremediablemente.

Tus caricias me envuelven como las enredaderas a los muros sombríos.
He olvidado tu amor y sin embargo te adivino detrás de todas las ventanas.

Por ti me duelen los pesados perfumes del estío:
Por ti vuelvo a acechar los ginos que precipitan los deseos,
las estrellas en fuga, los objetos que caen.

~ Pablo Neruda

Ms. Meander · 07-10-2011, 08:22 AM

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

Janstevie · 07-10-2011, 10:01 AM

Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

JAGG · 07-10-2011, 04:58 PM

"You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense, as when you give offense." -Ken Keyes Jr.

tapu · 07-10-2011, 05:06 PM

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster

Fancy · 07-11-2011, 08:40 AM

"Three Things" by Jan Taddeo.

It includes in part,

"Here’s an adage I’ve always liked:
Don’t just do something, stand there.
Stand in the surf, or sit on a rock, or lay your
body across the earthy loam...and be quiet.

Very quiet.

Do you hear it? That still small voice, the
echo of your soul, reverberating with the call
to your own true self to emerge."

JakeTulane · 07-11-2011, 09:04 AM

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

JakeTulane · 07-11-2011, 09:07 AM

"Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway." --J. Z. Knight

JakeTulane · 07-11-2011, 09:08 AM

"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein

07-09-2011, 04:14 PM	#6984
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,114 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The great tragedy of filial love is that the parent always loves the child more than the child loves the parent. I can't find who said that. I know it has to be that way or else the child would never depart for their own life. Still... my guy is 12 already! __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

07-09-2011, 07:19 PM	#6987
justkim Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Me... Preferred Pronoun?: ... Relationship Status: <3 myself Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: ... Posts: 2,023 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,062 Thanked 6,799 Times in 1,553 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world. - - Harriet Tubman - __________________ Kim "A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Unknown -

07-10-2011, 08:22 AM	#6993
Ms. Meander Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Femme Relationship Status: Ethical Nonmonogamist Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Mountains Posts: 1,520 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4,706 Thanked 5,214 Times in 1,147 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. - Oscar Wilde __________________ My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. - Maya Angelou

07-10-2011, 04:58 PM	#6995
JAGG Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: JAGG Relationship Status: =) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tulsa (cat free zone) Posts: 6,093 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 18,651 Thanked 17,531 Times in 4,137 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	offense "You add suffering to the world just as much when you take offense, as when you give offense." -Ken Keyes Jr. __________________ I don't want to spend my life with someone I can live with, I want to spend my life with someone I can't live without.

07-10-2011, 05:06 PM	#6996
tapu Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Understated butch. Preferred Pronoun?: I Relationship Status: Party of One Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Maine Posts: 1,654 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 3,114 Times in 1,103 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster __________________ Really? That's not funny to you?

07-09-2011, 05:16 AM	#6981
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	"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche

07-09-2011, 08:20 AM	#6982
Oiler41 Member How Do You Identify?: Human Preferred Pronoun?: He/Him Relationship Status: Happily Single! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Nunya Posts: 1,225 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,355 Thanked 2,574 Times in 789 Posts Rep Power: 18276167	What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Glynn

07-09-2011, 01:39 PM	#6983
Hack Just a guy. How Do You Identify?: Just a guy Preferred Pronoun?: male Relationship Status: Sparkle's consort Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: MA Posts: 1,458 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 807 Thanked 3,776 Times in 958 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I remember you as you were in the last autumn. You were the grey beret and the still heart. In your eyes the flames of the twilight fought on. And the leaves fell in the water of your soul. Clasping my arms like a climbing plant the leaves garnered your voice, that was slow and at peace. Bonfire of awe in which my thirst was burning. Sweet blue hyacinth twisted over my soul. I feel your eyes traveling, and the autumn is far off: Grey beret, voice of a bird, heart like a house Towards which my deep longings migrated And my kisses fell, happy as embers. Sky from a ship. Field from the hills: Your memory is made of light, of smoke, of a still pond! Beyond your eyes, farther on, the evenings were blazing. Dry autumn leaves revolved in your soul. -- Pablo Neruda

07-09-2011, 04:59 PM	#6985
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	In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life... It goes on.

07-09-2011, 05:10 PM	#6986
deb_U_taunt Senior Member How Do You Identify?: ........ Join Date: May 2011 Location: ....... Posts: 1,748 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,324 Thanked 5,256 Times in 1,361 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” Washington Irving

07-09-2011, 07:40 PM	#6988
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	Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertolt Brecht

07-10-2011, 08:13 AM	#6989
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	"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore" - Marilyn Ferguson

07-10-2011, 08:15 AM	#6990
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	"The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But--transcending both these limited aims--what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?" --Evelyn Underhill

07-10-2011, 08:17 AM	#6991
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 need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

07-10-2011, 08:21 AM	#6992
UofMfan Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: A very happy Mr. Grumpy Cat Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Neither here or there Posts: 7,987 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 27,733 Thanked 18,937 Times in 4,705 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	UN AMOR Por ti junto a los jardines recién florecidos me duelen los perfumes de primavera. He olvidado tu rostro, no recuerdo tus manos, ¿cómo besaban tus labios? Por ti amo las blancas estatuas dormidas en los parques, las blancas estatuas que no tienen voz ni mirada. He olvidado tu voz, tu voz alegre. He olvidado tus ojos. Como una flor a su perfume, estoy atado a tu recuerdo impreciso. Estoy cerca del dolor como una herida, si me tocas me dañarás irremediablemente. Tus caricias me envuelven como las enredaderas a los muros sombríos. He olvidado tu amor y sin embargo te adivino detrás de todas las ventanas. Por ti me duelen los pesados perfumes del estío: Por ti vuelvo a acechar los ginos que precipitan los deseos, las estrellas en fuga, los objetos que caen. ~ Pablo Neruda

07-10-2011, 10:01 AM	#6994
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	Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.

07-11-2011, 08:40 AM	#6997
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	"Three Things" by Jan Taddeo. It includes in part, "Here’s an adage I’ve always liked: Don’t just do something, stand there. Stand in the surf, or sit on a rock, or lay your body across the earthy loam...and be quiet. Very quiet. Do you hear it? That still small voice, the echo of your soul, reverberating with the call to your own true self to emerge."

07-11-2011, 09:04 AM	#6998
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 need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality." --Florida Scott Maxwell

07-11-2011, 09:07 AM	#6999
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	"Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway." --J. Z. Knight

07-11-2011, 09:08 AM	#7000
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	"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein