Hello all! I've been abundantly blessed by my virtual coffee chats with so many of you in this wonderful forum on Books and Literature! (The Relationship forum is fun too, but this is where inspiration comes from... "the stuff dreams are made of" )

Anyways... We all have favorite quotes, quotes that have touched a chord in our hearts and minds, quotes that have influenced our decisions, inspired us to go that extra mile, give us courage to face the day, and shown us what real living is like.

Lets share these divine inspirations with our little world here - on this little posting. I'll start with one of my all-time favorites....

Being a star-gazer myself and being the proud owner of a tempestuous personal history, this is one of my favorites - it reminds me that no matter what is swirling around me at a given time, I can get through it.

"The most tempestuous wind cannot disturb the quiet of the stars."

Literary wishes and Shakespearean dreams,
HistorianChick

granmaboat

"nothing evols unless it is involved."

Delow84

"I would rather feel pain, than nothing at all"

life1973happened

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.
~Stephen Bishop

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ~Clarence Darrow

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

A paper should be like a mini skirt: long enough to cover everything, but short enough to keep it interesting.

I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.

I'm not sure what's wrong... But it's probably your fault!

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

People are seldom too busy to stop and tell you how busy they are.

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.

Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.

Intelligent doesn't have to mean educated. And Creative doesn't have to mean talented.

life1973happened

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
- - - Geoffrey Cottrell

Americans always try to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else.
- - - Winston Churchill

Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
- - - Maryon Pearson

I CAN'T BELIEVE OUT OF TEN THOUSAND SPERM, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO MADE IT

raggablue

"custard is not just a dessert, its a way of life"

Delow84

"Don't ever frown, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile."

life1973happened

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."
- Jane Austen, Persuasion

pyg

Home, i think, is where you know you can break down and cry, and know that a warm bosom and a cup of hot chocoate will be there for you, no questions asked.

loved the poem, excon.

life1973happened

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Men insist that they don’t mind women succeeding so long as they retain their “femininity”. Yet the qualities that men consider “feminine” timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement—are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

raggablue

" a woman is like a teabag, you dont know how strong she is untill she is in hot water"