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Butterbean · 01-31-2014, 05:25 PM

“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.”
― Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

Rolo · 01-31-2014, 06:00 PM

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
- Audrey Hepburn

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
- Barbara de Angelis

Degotoga · 01-31-2014, 06:23 PM

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

JAGG · 01-31-2014, 07:29 PM

" If you can't find any hope in your despair, don't worry hope will find you ! Just remember this, when you are down to nothing, that means the universe is up to something.” - Unknown

“There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the love I longed for , yet hoping for it just the same.” ― Elizabeth Berg

" Be brave, and great forces will come to your aid. " - Unknown

Rolo · 01-31-2014, 08:39 PM

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
- Sarah Ockler

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?
- Billy Connolly

Butterbean · 02-01-2014, 10:36 AM

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

ahk · 02-01-2014, 12:01 PM

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.--Lillian Hellman

Degotoga · 02-01-2014, 06:51 PM

"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me."
- Steve Maraboli

C0LLETTE · 02-01-2014, 08:39 PM

"Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Alloy and Abramson] that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased."

Wikipedia

i.e. In theory, Depressives may be the only ones amongst us that are not in denial.

Bèsame* · 02-01-2014, 08:46 PM

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JAGG · 02-01-2014, 09:16 PM

“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.”
― Lauren Conrad

" How far would you go to keep love alive? Ask me that question and I will show you." -Unknown

" I bet you would be very happy in my arms." -Unknown

Genesis · 02-02-2014, 03:09 AM

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." - Alice Walker

Janstevie · 02-02-2014, 10:36 AM

I'm planning on having my favourite drink this weekend, it's called, a lot.

Butterbean · 02-02-2014, 01:13 PM

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall

Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway

Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. ~Zig Ziglar

JAGG · 02-02-2014, 03:45 PM

“I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, integrity, love.”
― Unknown

" A strong will is all the strength you will ever need." -Unknown

“Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.”
― K.L. Toth

Genesis · 02-02-2014, 04:06 PM

Maybe my beliefs aren't your beliefs ~
Maybe my way of seeing the world isn't your way ~
Maybe my dreams seem to high ~
Maybe my hopes and faith seem silly ~
Maybe what I see as pretty you don't ~
Maybe my idea of love seems unrealistic ~
Maybe my aspirations seem to far out there ~
That's okay ~ They are after all mine ~
So I will believe in what I feel is true ~ I will see the world for what it can be ~ I will dream as high as my dreams can reach ~ I will hope and have faith until my last breath ~ I will see beauty in nature and seek it in others and I will keep my beliefs and aspirations alive ~ for love gives my life it's breath and fuels my passion. - C.Nordyke

C0LLETTE · 02-02-2014, 10:18 PM

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - A Midsummer Nights Dream

DMW · 02-03-2014, 10:06 AM

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

01-31-2014, 06:00 PM	#14142
Rolo Member How Do You Identify?: Femme lesbian Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Canada eh! Posts: 101 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 99 Thanked 205 Times in 55 Posts Rep Power: 1932750	I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. - Audrey Hepburn Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara de Angelis __________________ I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

01-31-2014, 06:23 PM	#14143
Degotoga Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Respectful and situational appropriate ones Relationship Status: Enjoying butchelorhood Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Texas Posts: 3,301 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,390 Thanked 4,380 Times in 1,233 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________ Don't try to explain yourself to stupid people. You're not the jackass whisperer.

01-31-2014, 07:29 PM	#14144
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	" If you can't find any hope in your despair, don't worry hope will find you ! Just remember this, when you are down to nothing, that means the universe is up to something.” - Unknown “There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the love I longed for , yet hoping for it just the same.” ― Elizabeth Berg " Be brave, and great forces will come to your aid. " - Unknown __________________ 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.

01-31-2014, 08:39 PM	#14145
Rolo Member How Do You Identify?: Femme lesbian Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Canada eh! Posts: 101 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 99 Thanked 205 Times in 55 Posts Rep Power: 1932750	Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up. - Sarah Ockler When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it? - Billy Connolly __________________ I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

02-01-2014, 06:51 PM	#14148
Degotoga Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stone Butch Preferred Pronoun?: Respectful and situational appropriate ones Relationship Status: Enjoying butchelorhood Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Texas Posts: 3,301 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,390 Thanked 4,380 Times in 1,233 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me." - Steve Maraboli __________________ Don't try to explain yourself to stupid people. You're not the jackass whisperer.

01-31-2014, 05:25 PM	#14141
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.” ― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons “Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.” ― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot “I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.” ― Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor “When you quit drinking you stop waiting.” ― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

02-01-2014, 10:36 AM	#14146
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ― Leo Buscaglia “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

02-01-2014, 12:01 PM	#14147
ahk Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: Male Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: NM Posts: 5,317 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,688 Thanked 8,538 Times in 2,630 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.--Lillian Hellman

02-01-2014, 08:39 PM	#14149
C0LLETTE Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Depends on the day. Preferred Pronoun?: "I" and "we" Relationship Status: Very good. Thank you for asking. Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 11,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,676 Thanked 15,176 Times in 4,341 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	"Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Alloy and Abramson] that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than non-depressed individuals. Although depressed individuals are thought to have a negative cognitive bias that results in recurrent, negative automatic thoughts, maladaptive behaviors, and dysfunctional world beliefs, depressive realism argues not only that this negativity may reflect a more accurate appraisal of the world but also that non-depressed individuals’ appraisals are positively biased." Wikipedia i.e. In theory, Depressives may be the only ones amongst us that are not in denial. __________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ Last edited by C0LLETTE; 02-01-2014 at 08:41 PM. Reason: edit

02-01-2014, 08:46 PM	#14150
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02-01-2014, 08:47 PM	#14151
Bèsame* Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femm Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: loved by many Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Closer to the waves Posts: 15,374 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,109 Thanked 40,937 Times in 10,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474864	__________________ kisses A kiss is a whisper in your mouth. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise to give it back.

02-01-2014, 08:49 PM	#14152
Bèsame* Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Femm Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: loved by many Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Closer to the waves Posts: 15,374 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 29,109 Thanked 40,937 Times in 10,727 Posts Rep Power: 21474864	__________________ kisses A kiss is a whisper in your mouth. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise to give it back.

02-01-2014, 09:16 PM	#14153
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	“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.” ― Lauren Conrad " How far would you go to keep love alive? Ask me that question and I will show you." -Unknown " I bet you would be very happy in my arms." -Unknown __________________ 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.

02-02-2014, 03:09 AM	#14154
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed." - Alice Walker

02-02-2014, 10:36 AM	#14155
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	I'm planning on having my favourite drink this weekend, it's called, a lot.

02-02-2014, 01:13 PM	#14156
Butterbean Member How Do You Identify?: ---- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: ----- Posts: 1,143 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,417 Thanked 2,215 Times in 771 Posts Rep Power: 17690475	Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. ~Mignon McLaughlin Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. ~Zig Ziglar

02-02-2014, 03:45 PM	#14157
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	“I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, integrity, love.” ― Unknown " A strong will is all the strength you will ever need." -Unknown “Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.” ― K.L. Toth __________________ 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.

02-02-2014, 04:06 PM	#14158
Genesis Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Femme on a varied spectrum/babygirl Preferred Pronoun?: she/her/hers Relationship Status: Loved ლ ⚢ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Devenir un avec l'immatérialité des étoiles... Posts: 9,434 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,603 Thanked 14,668 Times in 6,298 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Maybe my beliefs aren't your beliefs ~ Maybe my way of seeing the world isn't your way ~ Maybe my dreams seem to high ~ Maybe my hopes and faith seem silly ~ Maybe what I see as pretty you don't ~ Maybe my idea of love seems unrealistic ~ Maybe my aspirations seem to far out there ~ That's okay ~ They are after all mine ~ So I will believe in what I feel is true ~ I will see the world for what it can be ~ I will dream as high as my dreams can reach ~ I will hope and have faith until my last breath ~ I will see beauty in nature and seek it in others and I will keep my beliefs and aspirations alive ~ for love gives my life it's breath and fuels my passion. - C.Nordyke

02-02-2014, 10:18 PM	#14159
C0LLETTE Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Depends on the day. Preferred Pronoun?: "I" and "we" Relationship Status: Very good. Thank you for asking. Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 11,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 16,676 Thanked 15,176 Times in 4,341 Posts Rep Power: 21474860	"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” - A Midsummer Nights Dream __________________ ______________________________ ______________________________

02-03-2014, 10:06 AM	#14160
DMW Member How Do You Identify?: FTM/Male (Will 14) Relationship Status: Caught An Angel and she doesn't lie! Join Date: May 2012 Location: @ Posts: 784 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,256 Thanked 1,858 Times in 614 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me. Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)