Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Genesis]

[lamuymuyfem]

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

[ahk]

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

[Butterbean]

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

[JAGG]

“ Love isn't just a word. And it angers me how much people toss it around, until it has little or no meaning. If people are going to say, "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. And also if you are going to tell someone you love them, make sure they have earned it. ”
― C. JoyBell C.


“Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.”
― C. JoyBell C.


“People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.”
― Ruti Yudovich

[MegBluEyz]

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing. ”
― Brian Andreas

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

[Butterbean]

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

[ahk]

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

[Genesis]

[JAGG]

" New love gives rise to the possibility of anything. " - Stephan Rhodes


" You know I am worth the effort, so what is your problem?" - Mark Graves


“Happiness is a decision . Love is a decision. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love.”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

[Degotoga]

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[Selenay]

Originally Posted by Butterbean

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her...”
― J.K. Rowling

One day I just said, "Hey, what if this is it? What if this is just what I look like, and nothing I do changes that? So how much time would I save if I stopped taking that extra second every time I look in the mirror to call myself a big fat fuck? How much time would I save? How much time would I save if I just let myself walk by a plate-glass window without sucking in my gut and throwing back my shoulders? How much time would I save?"

And it turns out I save about 97 minutes a week.
I can take a pottery class.

-Margaret Cho

[Butterbean]

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
― Langston Hughes

[Janstevie]

One day someone is going to hug you so tight that all of your broken pieces will stick back together.

[BestButchBoy]

"Have that snowflake assassinated" -Putin

[ahk]

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.--Mark Twain

[Butterbean]

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”

-Gertrude Stein

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”

-Gertrude Stein


“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

-Gertrude Stein

[Jet]

Originally Posted by Butterbean

“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”

-Gertrude Stein

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”

-Gertrude Stein


“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

-Gertrude Stein

You forgot one:
"America is my country and Paris is my hometown." —Gertrude Stein