Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Miss Scarlett]

[Miss Scarlett]

[Miss Scarlett]

[ahk]

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

[Tommi]

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.


Tom Hiddleston

[Genesis]

Borrowed a box of broken dreams
and picked through a few,
but none fit the hole within my chest,
so I tucked a few just out of view

and to the hopeless, I gave the rest.
My feet led me to where I'll sleep tonight,
so arriving I sat and leaned against the wall,
as the rain it fell like a symphony
in an abandoned concert hall,

The wind it seems to call your name
or perhaps that's just what I would like to hear,
and the shadows deceive, for I do believe,
sometimes I can see you standing there.
Standing off to the corner,
just on the edge of my field of view,
smiling and asking where have I been,

God knows, I'd tell you if I knew,
My memories are what’s broken,
that and everything else that makes me whole,
an incomplete disaster,
a staggering body without a soul,
in search of what I once was,
and hoping that I'll never find that place,

longing to go back just one more time,
to make up for my mistakes,
But the wind it seems to call your name,
or perhaps that's just what I would like to hear,
and the shadows deceive for I do believe,
sometimes I can see you standing there.

So I'll keep on stumbling forward,
as I fall backwards once again
and keep an eye out for you my love,
I'll keep searching for my friend,

On the breeze I'll hear them whisper,
your name so very soft
and perhaps I'll borrow a broken dream
that someone else has lost

For the wind it seems to call your name,
or perhaps that's just what I would like to hear,
and the shadows deceive, for I do believe,
sometimes I can see you standing there.

[firecat242]

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

[ArkansasBoi]

AFTER A WHILE (Veronica Shoftshall, 1971)

After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept
your defeats
with your head up
and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman,
not the grief of a child

And you learn to build
all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground
is too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way
of falling down in mid-flight.

After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.

And you learn
that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn...

[Ms. Meander]

You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not everyone
knows how to love

[Trev]

"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another."
~Ayn Rand

"Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that."
~Unknown

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
~Dale Carnegie

[firecat242]

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb

I am not a Miley Cyrus fan but I love what the lyrics say.

[JAGG]

“Whenever you behave in a way that is inconsistent with your ideal of your very best behavior, you experience a negative self-image. Because you feel yourself to be performing below your best, below what you truly aspire to. Over time it adds up, the roots of depression.”
― Brian Tracy



“Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can." -Steve Goodier


“When you lack confidence, what you're really saying is, I need those people over there to approve of me. That is the desire to control other people and what they think. Those who exude confidence will tell you, they look only to them selves and their actions for approval.” - Marly Stoval

[FemmeItalian]

[Kobi]

[Miss Scarlett]

[Miss Scarlett]

[Bèsame*]

[ahk]

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.--Dalai Lama

[MegBluEyz]

"Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it."
-Chris Brogan

[Genesis]

"You, always the same, you
Friendship, tenderness,
I can’t describe it….
You’ve been like my shadow, you
The story of love
that never was…

You, eternally mine, you
A hotel, your body
You, my secret friend, you
A rush of passion
Early morning love
There exists no bond
between you and me
nothing of love
nothing at all

You, the same as yesterday
The unconditional one
who asked nothing of me
You, the same as yesterday
the one I didn’t know how to love
…I don’t know why

You, so intense, you
Solitude, affection,
I can’t describe it….
You, the hours I felt my lowest, you
The body of a woman
A pair of white roses

There exists no bond
between you and me
There were no promises,
nor vows
nothing at all

Friend,
You, the same as yesterday
the unconditional one
who asked nothing of me
You, the same as yesterday
the one I didn’t know how to love
…I don’t know why…"

By Juan Carlos Calderon