Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[jenny]

"Doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life." ~ Catherine Goldhammer, "Still Life With Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea"

[Hollylane]

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

I don't obey very well!

Lost Girl opening lines

[JAGG]

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Buz Luhrmann


Think about how hard it is to change yourself and then you'll realize what little chance you have of changing others. -Unknown


A rich man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least. -Unknown

[Girl Friday]

Your "word" and your "intent" mean fuck-all if you can't, don't or won't back them up with some action.

My mom



I give everyone a chance and a shovel. They can either prove themselves or bury themselves. Their choice.

My brother




The Chinese have a wise saying: fall down seven times, get up eight. The Irish have an equally wise saying: fall down once and stay down. You can drink just as well from there.

My father

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face. Carl Jung

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. E. W. Howe

[Fancy]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[JustJo]

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

~ Albert Einstein ~

[Kobi]

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

~Author Unknown

[Talon]

Originally Posted by Kobi

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

~Author Unknown

I like this very much, Kobi.


Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.


~Fran Lebowitz

[deedarino]

Singing is an act of vibration. It takes music from the realm of the unformed-- whether that is in your mind or from that magical space of inspiration--and moves it from within to without. From the first breath singing moves the energy in a circular way inside your body. As the breath fills your lungs, it brushes against the second and third chakras—the centers of creation and honoring self and others. Instead of merely exhaling, pushing the air past the fourth and fifth chakras where heart charka and the center of will and intention reside, singing engages both the heart and mind. Sound vibrations from vocal chords resonate in the sinus cavities, filling the head with motion and sound while the brain lights up with the processing of the mathematics of music. This marriage of activities brings the third eye into play and opens the door for inspiration from the crown chakra before sending the sound out into the world.

Once the vibration begins, it is sustained with each note, moving throughout your body and the space around you. This can help you to harmonize your frequency with the world and with the divine. The use of the voice can bring about catharsis, a cleansing from the expression of emotion, which is why we feel better after singing certain types of songs. All of this occurs even if we are not conscious of what we are singing, but when we really connect with an intention, the power of the voice and music together are powerful tools in creation.

Even if you are not a singer by nature or talent, you are not left out. If you have a voice, it is your birthright to celebrate life with song. It doesn’t matter if you don’t feel you have a nice voice. Chanting or humming, singing solo or with others, your voice is yours to enjoy. Whether you sing along to the radio or use vocalization as part of your meditation time, singing and harmonizing are healing activities that bring your body’s vibrations into alignment with the universe.

DailyOm.com

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by Girl Friday

Your "word" and your "intent" mean fuck-all if you can't, don't or won't back them up with some action.

My mom



I give everyone a chance and a shovel. They can either prove themselves or bury themselves. Their choice.

My brother




The Chinese have a wise saying: fall down seven times, get up eight. The Irish have an equally wise saying: fall down once and stay down. You can drink just as well from there.

My father

I love your brothers quote, I do the very same thing!

[JAGG]

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan


You know procrastination is the same thing as masturbation. Sure, it feels great in the beginning, but in the end, you're really just fucking yourself.- (I thought this was hilarous)



Some people say that nobody's perfect. Well I think that everybody's perfect, just in different ways. - Guess who.

[deedarino]

What you acquire, hoard, and flash on the outside may make you valuable in the minds of some, but it’s only what you own on the inside and give away freely that will make you valuable in the hearts of all. ~ Sandra Kring


The greatness of a man is not how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and ability to effect those around him positively~Bob Marley

[Kobi]

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

~Author Unknown

[BrownEyedAngel]

A Cherokee Legend

An old Cherokee was teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside us all," he said to the boy.

"It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "But Grandfather, which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

[Girl Friday]

Letting go doesn't always mean you're not in love anymore. Sometimes letting go just means you've realized that you won't ever stop the bleeding if you keep handing someone else a knife.

me

[BrownEyedAngel]

“Wizards First Rule
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."

Zedd to Richard & Kahlan ~ "Wizard's First Rule" ― Terry Goodkind

[deedarino]

Don't only practice your Art,
but force you way into it's Secrets,
for it and Knowledge can raise men
To the Divine...
~Ludwig von Beethoven

[pajama]

TO HIM who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 5
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images 10
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;—
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around— 15
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air—
Comes a still voice—Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, 20
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go 25
To mix forever with the elements;
To be a brother to the insensible rock,
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 30
Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world,—with kings,
The powerful of the earth,—the wise, the good, 35
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods—rivers that move 40
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man! The golden sun, 45
The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.—Take the wings 50
Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness,
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound,
Save his own dashings,—yet the dead are there:
And millions in those solitudes, since first 55
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep—the dead reign there alone.
So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw
In silence from the living, and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe 60
Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come 65
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glide away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron and maid,
The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man— 70
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side
By those, who in their turn shall follow them.

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take 75
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 80
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.