Quotes, Poems, & Sayings... - Page 379

girl_dee · 10-11-2011, 05:38 PM

I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings

Elijah · 10-11-2011, 07:09 PM

Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

~Neruda

Soon · 10-11-2011, 09:13 PM

To Have Without Holding

Marge Piercy

Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.

It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles that feel
as if they are made of wet plaster,
then of blunt knives, then
of sharp knives.

It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch; to love and let
go again and again. It pesters to remember
the lover who is not in the bed,
to hold back what is owed to the work
that gutters like a candle in a cave
without air, to love consciously,
conscientiously, concretely, constructively.

I can't do it, you say it's killing
me, but you thrive, you glow
on the street like a neon raspberry,
You float and sail, a helium balloon
bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing
on the cold and hot winds of our breath,
as we make and unmake in passionate
diastole and systole the rhythm
of our unbound bonding, to have
and not to hold, to love
with minimized malice, hunger
and anger moment by moment balanced.

Fancy · 10-11-2011, 09:19 PM

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Mason Cooley

Diva · 10-11-2011, 09:24 PM

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

~Malcolm Forbes

Diva · 10-11-2011, 09:25 PM

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

~Madonna

Diva · 10-11-2011, 09:28 PM

At the end of the day, I must be satisfied with how I lived my life, not how You would have lived my life for me.

~Me.

Mr.Nobody · 10-11-2011, 11:02 PM

THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH
"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people but grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the light and for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

Touch not the poisonous firewater. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."

macele · 10-12-2011, 02:22 AM

Mr. Nobody's post of THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH, reminded me of this quote, ...

to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

for anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils.

and what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

-- Socrates - Quoted in Plato's Apology

macele · 10-12-2011, 02:35 AM

i couldn't get the sound to work on the website for a knock at the door, duirwaigh.
so i went via youtube to make sure you could hear the music.
but please, go to the website.
so much to be inspired by. other short films there as well.

maybe this should be posted in my favorite poems, but o well lol.

http://www.duirwaigh.com/index.php?o...d=47&Itemid=57

cuddlyfemme · 10-12-2011, 06:36 AM

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot

Janstevie · 10-12-2011, 04:48 PM

It's hard to find a friend thats, 96% Witty 98% Sexy & 100% Sweet, So dont lose me.

Liam · 10-13-2011, 06:53 AM

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears.

—Rudyard Kipling

cinderella · 10-13-2011, 03:34 PM

"Why do people say... 'grow some balls'? Balls are soft and sensitive. If you really want to be tough, say 'grow a vagina' - those things take a pounding!"

quote attributed to Betty White

Mr.Nobody · 10-13-2011, 04:07 PM

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi

always2late · 10-14-2011, 05:29 AM

A person can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. - Hal Lindsey

Fancy · 10-14-2011, 11:41 AM

in an email from a friend that stuck in my mind...

"One of Thich Nhat Hanh's stories I read this summer was about a beautiful white moth that came into the circle of children he was leading. While the group was admiring it, one boy went and stomped it into the ground. Thich Nhat Hahn's response was to offer a prayer that began, "Dear white moth, please forgive us for not recognizing your beauty, your gift to us, your sacrifice to our ignorance, our violence, and our unskillfulness..." It was the word "unskillfullness" that struck me. In considering our three lifelines, "Opening to life's gifts" seems on the surface the easist of practices, but I think as a parent, the most challenging skill of all. In the midst of the chaos and everyday stuff of family life, to be able to hold off any urge to crush, miss, or allow other forces to take an experience of beauty and grace- now that is a challenge we need each other for!"

Diva · 10-14-2011, 12:12 PM

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus

Diva · 10-14-2011, 12:13 PM

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

Mr.Nobody · 10-14-2011, 03:41 PM

Beautiful people do not just happen…
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have
known defeat,
known suffering,
known struggle,
known loss,
and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern…
Beautiful people do not just happen…~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

10-11-2011, 07:09 PM	#7562
Elijah Member How Do You Identify?: Genderqueer Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Masculine ones Relationship Status: Open to healthy possibilities... Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Michigan Posts: 554 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 738 Thanked 1,629 Times in 393 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? What primal night does Man touch with his senses? Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars, through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain: Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark. ~Neruda __________________ "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." ~Washington Irving

10-11-2011, 11:02 PM	#7568
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life. Beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people but grovel to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the light and for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Touch not the poisonous firewater. Abuse no one and nothing, For abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again In a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home." __________________ Noblesse oblige...

10-12-2011, 02:35 AM	#7570
macele Member How Do You Identify?: a bold-assed maximus Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: mississippi Posts: 1,066 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,178 Thanked 3,231 Times in 847 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	A Knock at the Door i couldn't get the sound to work on the website for a knock at the door, duirwaigh. so i went via youtube to make sure you could hear the music. but please, go to the website. so much to be inspired by. other short films there as well. maybe this should be posted in my favorite poems, but o well lol. http://www.duirwaigh.com/index.php?o...d=47&Itemid=57

10-13-2011, 06:53 AM	#7573
Liam Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Guy Preferred Pronoun?: He, Him, His Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The Evergreen State Posts: 2,269 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 14,865 Thanked 6,876 Times in 1,861 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears. —Rudyard Kipling __________________ <3 Love is weird.

10-13-2011, 03:34 PM	#7574
cinderella Member How Do You Identify?: Pinky's mommy :) Preferred Pronoun?: Su Majestad Relationship Status: Happy with my puppy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pocono Mtns., Pa. Posts: 1,238 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 4 Thanked 1,501 Times in 638 Posts Rep Power: 14266108	Oh Betty...lol "Why do people say... 'grow some balls'? Balls are soft and sensitive. If you really want to be tough, say 'grow a vagina' - those things take a pounding!" quote attributed to Betty White __________________ Who needs reality when you have Turner Classic Movies!! The is an organ of fire.

10-11-2011, 05:38 PM	#7561
girl_dee Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: dee Relationship Status: Hitched up Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Livin’ the Dream Posts: 24,079 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 30,560 Thanked 54,833 Times in 13,908 Posts Rep Power: 21474873	I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings

10-11-2011, 09:13 PM	#7563
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	To Have Without Holding Marge Piercy Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds that thwack like rubber bands in an open palm. It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles that feel as if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, then of sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again. It pesters to remember the lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the work that gutters like a candle in a cave without air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killing me, but you thrive, you glow on the street like a neon raspberry, You float and sail, a helium balloon bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing on the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionate diastole and systole the rhythm of our unbound bonding, to have and not to hold, to love with minimized malice, hunger and anger moment by moment balanced.

10-11-2011, 09:19 PM	#7564
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	Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. Mason Cooley

10-11-2011, 09:24 PM	#7565
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	Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. ~Malcolm Forbes

10-11-2011, 09:25 PM	#7566
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	A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. ~Madonna

10-11-2011, 09:28 PM	#7567
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	At the end of the day, I must be satisfied with how I lived my life, not how You would have lived my life for me. ~Me.

10-12-2011, 02:22 AM	#7569
macele Member How Do You Identify?: a bold-assed maximus Preferred Pronoun?: she Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: mississippi Posts: 1,066 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 3,178 Thanked 3,231 Times in 847 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	Mr. Nobody's post of THE TEACHING OF TECUMSEH, reminded me of this quote, ... to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. for anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. and what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? -- Socrates - Quoted in Plato's Apology

10-12-2011, 06:36 AM	#7571
cuddlyfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: her/she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,271 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 717 Thanked 2,452 Times in 1,270 Posts Rep Power: 11496123	Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot

10-12-2011, 04:48 PM	#7572
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	It's hard to find a friend thats, 96% Witty 98% Sexy & 100% Sweet, So dont lose me.

10-13-2011, 04:07 PM	#7575
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi __________________ Noblesse oblige...

10-14-2011, 05:29 AM	#7576
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	A person can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope. - Hal Lindsey __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

10-14-2011, 11:41 AM	#7577
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	unskillfulness in an email from a friend that stuck in my mind... "One of Thich Nhat Hanh's stories I read this summer was about a beautiful white moth that came into the circle of children he was leading. While the group was admiring it, one boy went and stomped it into the ground. Thich Nhat Hahn's response was to offer a prayer that began, "Dear white moth, please forgive us for not recognizing your beauty, your gift to us, your sacrifice to our ignorance, our violence, and our unskillfulness..." It was the word "unskillfullness" that struck me. In considering our three lifelines, "Opening to life's gifts" seems on the surface the easist of practices, but I think as a parent, the most challenging skill of all. In the midst of the chaos and everyday stuff of family life, to be able to hold off any urge to crush, miss, or allow other forces to take an experience of beauty and grace- now that is a challenge we need each other for!"

10-14-2011, 12:12 PM	#7578
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	Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus

10-14-2011, 12:13 PM	#7579
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	Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot

10-14-2011, 03:41 PM	#7580
Mr.Nobody Member How Do You Identify?: Niizh manidoowag... Preferred Pronoun?: I prefer amature nouns Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 840 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 370 Thanked 1,528 Times in 536 Posts Rep Power: 15623423	Beautiful people do not just happen… The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern… Beautiful people do not just happen…~Elizabeth Kubler Ross __________________ Noblesse oblige...