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" :) )

Anyway... 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

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." Unknown

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." Unknown

Wow... that's prolific... wow.

It isn't a literary quote, but it is one I live by at work nearly everyday.

"Failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." - Unknown

"Life is not about being dealt a good hand , it is about playing a bad hand well"

Danish proverb

"second thoughts make liars of us all"
"as long as there is hate, there will be people to hate"

I also like this one...

"I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left"

Unknown

Unknown...

The only people who never do anything wrong are the people who never do anything.

Quotes and sayings that I have come to reflect on, be inspired by, love to hear and fall short of, from time to time.

"I'm Sorry"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing" Abraham Lincoln

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in" Andrew Jackson

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want" Zig Ziglar

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" Mark Twain

"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short" Blaise Pascal

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast" Marlene Dietrich

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation" Roberto Assagioli

"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears" Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

"Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world" Lesson from Colin Powell

"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy. Leadership does not emerge from blind obedience to anyone. Xerox's Barry Rand was right on target when he warned his people that if you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is redundant. Good leadership encourages everyone's evolution." Lesson from Colin Powell

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. Too often, change is stifled by people who cling to familiar turfs and job descriptions. One reason that even large organizations wither is that managers won't challenge old, comfortable ways of doing things. But real leaders understand that, nowadays, every one of our jobs is becoming obsolete. The proper response is to obsolete our activities before someone else does. Effective leaders create a climate where people's worth is determined by their willingness to learn new skills and grab new responsibilities, thus perpetually reinventing their jobs. The most important question in performance evaluation becomes not, "How well did you perform your job since the last time we met?" but, "How much did you change it?" Lesson from Colin Powell


Just to share a few...

What about the en's classic from A Christmas Carol?

"...there is nothing in the world so irresitstably contagious as laughter and good humor."

Or, Shakespeare...

"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o'th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that;"

"If you have to ask how much something costs, you probably can't afford it." (I think it was Rockefeller but don't hold me to that.)

These are some I have passed along to my grandchildren, I don't know the origins:

Charity begins at home, with a smile and a kind word.

Be open, Be kind, Be careful and take your time.

May your words be sweet today for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

May you always have a song in your heart and harmony in your life.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Merry meet; merry part

Smile and the world smiles with you; weep and you weep alone.

Forgive, as you would hope for forgiveness

Righty tite-y; Lefty loosy.(opens and closes everything)

Try to stay closes to your family, especially grandmas.

These are some I have passed along to my grandchildren, I don't know the origins:

Righty tite-y; Lefty loosy.(opens and closes everything)



I'm embarrassed to say how often I use this. :)

Here's another favorite: "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

This is not a quote but I read this at probably once, twice a week. This is something I think we all need as a gently reminder every so often. For me that... every so often... is once a week (short term memory, maybe? )

Enjoy...

To let go does not mean to stop caring, it means I can't do it for someone else.

To let go is not to cut myself off, it's the realization that I don't control another.

To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.

To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another, I can only change myself.

To let go is not to care for, but to care about.

To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own outcomes.

To let go is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.

To let go is not to deny but to accept.

To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but to search out my own shortcomings and to correct them.

To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires but to take each day as it comes and to cherish the moment.

To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone but to try to become what I dream I can be

To let go is not to regret the past but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more.

Author Unknown

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
-- Mark Twain

Was reminded of the truth of this quote today...

Here's to everyone truly living life to its fullest!

"Who is John Galt?" --Ayn Rand

If you've ever read Atlas Shrugged--that quote is a daily reminder that anyone can stand up and do what's right, and in doing so, can change the world.

Be smarter than the equiptment that you are working with

I got that from the US Army in Basic Training. LOL

"HistorianChick agrees: "Atlas Shrugged" twice in the space of a few days.... I just may have to pick that one up too. Crud. There goes my paycheck."

I got my copy really cheap on half.com - the shipping cost more than the book.

"Keep your mind ever on the Star, but let your eyes watch over your footsteps...", The Kybalion.

Knowledge is power!

Grok

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”

Henry David Thoreau

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. ~Don Herold

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. ~Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. ~William Shakespeare

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!" ~Lemony Snicket

Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises. ~William Shakespeare

When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - like a great book one after the next. ~Author Unknown

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay~

Funny that you should put that one in here - I took this as a banner quote not too long ago...

I have bruises and scars still on my knees to prove this hole exists. How about you? Did you get out scar free?

I do too, but not on my knees. More on my butt. LOL :)

Life goes on, even when we don't think it will, or can.

Rainer Maria Rilke quotes:

“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it”

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”

That, in its simplicity, is the essence of life. Wow. I've taken the opinion that what we go through isn't only for our own personal growth, but also for the benefit and help of others. Thanks for that great quote, mafiaangel

“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”

That, in its simplicity, is the essence of life. Wow. I've taken the opinion that what we go through isn't only for our own personal growth, but also for the benefit and help of others. Thanks for that great quote, mafiaangel

I love quotes too :) Here is another, from the same person, that I forgot to post:


“...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”

"It's only after you've lost everything, that you are free to do anything" - Fight Club

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” — Thomas Szasz

YODA: Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin. The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.

ANAKIN: I won’t let my visions come true, Master Yoda.

YODA: Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

ANAKIN: What must I do, Master?

YODA: Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

I do not understand how anyone can live
Without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
- Gustave Flaubert

There's no place like home,
There's no place like home,
There's no place like home.
- Frank L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz

Home is where the books are.
- Richard Burton

People who live in glass houses shouldn't.
- J. S. Singer

It is easier to pull down than to build up.
- Latin Proverb

"Apathy is a curse , but who cares?"

"there are two ways of getting home. One is to stay there, the other is to walk round the world until we come back to the same place." - GK Chesterson, The Everlasting Man

I do too, but not on my knees. More on my butt. LOL :)

Life goes on, even when we don't think it will, or can.


Life goes on, even when you don't want it to.
Remember the old song that said, "Why do the birds go on singing?"

"There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love.” –Washington Irving.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland

If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
~Author Unknown


Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

They say that time heals all wounds but all it's done so far is give me more time to think about how much I miss you. ~Ezbeth Wilder

They say marriage is a great institution , but who the hell wants to live in an institution.

"there are two ways of getting home. One is to stay there, the other is to walk round the world until we come back to the same place." - GK Chesterson, The Everlasting Man

But Home is where the heart is. My folks called where they were from "back home" and where we lived "home".

Ah, new question: what does it take for you/me to feel "at home"?

Growing up, I moved around a LOT (OH, MI, PA, NY, IL, KY, MD, China, FL, TN) and I have found that home is not a location or a place... its family. It truly is where the heart is. For wood and stone do not a house make, but the hearts and lives of the people inside.

:) In my opinion, that is!

Hello Chick:

It's more than a quote... But, I've got the time...

I bargained for life with a penny,
And life would pay no more,
However, I begged at evening,
When I counted my scanty store.

For life is a just employer,
He gives you whatever you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why you must bear the task.

I worked for a menials hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of life,
Life would have willingly paid.

Napoleon Hill

Haste makes waste

"nothing evols unless it is involved."

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

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.

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

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

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

"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

Ah, new question: what does it take for you/me to feel "at home"?


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.

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.

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

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Well, it's not literature... but one of my favorite songs is "Closer to Fine" by Indigo Girls.

"There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine"

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in Ourselves..."

~Julius Ceasar~ I, ii, 140

"Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit."

~Jessica~The Merchant of Venice

"The Roomba. Vacuum and entertainment, in one nifty package!" :D

Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Drew Sirtors

He was my cream, and I was his coffee -
And when you poured us together, it was something.
~Josephine Baker (What you think about that one, K?? )

"love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind"

No wonder why love is blind!

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and eternity.

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Man is always torn between the wish to regress to the womb and the wish to be fully born. Every act of birth requires the courage to let go of something, to let go of the breast, to let go of the lap, to let go of the hand, to let go eventually of all certainties, and to rely only upon one thing: one's own power to be aware and to respond; that is, one's own creativity.

To be creative means to consider the whole process of life as a process of birth, and not to take any stage of life as a final stage. Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

STORY OF THE LITTLE GRAPE STEM

Once upon a time there was a little grape stem. This stem was so glad to be alive... She drank water and minerals from the soil and grew and grew. She was young and strong and could manage quite well... All by Herself.

But then, the wind was cruel, the rain was harsh, the snow was not one bit understanding, and the little grape stem suffered. She drooped, weak and suffering. It would be so easy to stop trying to grow, to stop trying to live. And the grape stem felt poor! The winter was long, and the stem was weary.

But then the little grape stem heard a voice. It was another grape stem calling out to her "Here, reach out...hang on to me. But the stem hesitated. "What would this mean?" she thought, for you see, the little
stem had always managed quite well...All by herself.

But then, ever so cautiously, she reached out towards the other grape stem. "See, I can help you," it said. "Just wind your tendrils about me and I will help you lift your head." And the little stem trusted....and suddenly she could stand straight again.

The wind came...and the rain...and the snow, But when it came, the little grape stem was clinging to many other stems. And although the stems were swayed by the wind...and frozen by the snow, They stood strongly united to each other. And in their united strength...they could smile and grow.

And then, one day the little stem looked down and saw a tiny stem, swaying and frightened. And our little grape stem said, "Here, hang on... I will help you." And the other stem reached up to our grape stem... And together all the stems grew... Leaves budded... flowers bloomed... And finally, grapes formed And the grapes fed many.

— Author Unknown

There but for the grace of God go I.

"Angels and minsters of grace defend us!"

"Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey."

"Only a fool walks into the future backward."

"We all can be only who we are, no more, no less."

"Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is."

"Love is a passion for life shared with another person."

-terry goodkind

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds upon the heel that crushed it.

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K.

Some people know better, and they still make the mistake. That's when ignorance becomes stupidity."
-- Aaron McBride

Surprises are things that you not only didn't know, but that contradict things you thought you knew. And so they're the most valuable sort of fact you can get. They're like a food that's not merely healthy, but counteracts the unhealthy effects of things you've already eaten."
-- Paul Graham

So many times I found myself on the receiving end of unkind treatment, or on the giving end of the same, that there is not often a space in which I can find peace to escape from this woman I have become. I want so much to not know the things I've known, to not feel the things I've felt, to not have hurt the ones I've hurt."

Make changes based on your strongest opportunities, not your most convenient ones."
-- MegaTokyo

Because you have always been so kind to me, and I won't be seeing you again since I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite. ~ The Princess Bride



The quotes I share tonight, I have experienced in a very short and sad period. The sun will rise tomorrow regardless of my pain and me remind me it's a new day. A day to stop forgiving, stop remembering, stop being the fool, and stop being the joke. Tomorrown sun will dry the tears of tonight, but tonight they flow freely, just as they were meant to do all along...

Rebirth of the Eagle

The Eagle has the longest life span of its species.

It can live up to 70 years.

But to reach this age the Eagle must make a hard decision.
In it's 40's its long and flexible talons can no longer grab prey which serves as food. It's long and sharp beak becomes bent. It's old aged and heavy wings , due to their thick feathers , become stuck to its chest and make it difficult to fly.

The Eagle is left with 2 options , DIE or go through a painful process of change which lasts 150 days.
The process requires the Eagle to fly to a mountain top and sit on its nest.
There the Eagle knocks its bent beak against a rock until it plucks it out. After plucking it out the eagle will wait for a new beak to grow back and then it will pluck out its withered talons. When its new talons grow back the Eagle starts plucking its old aged feathers out.

After 5 months the Eagle takes its famous flight of rebirth and LIVES for 30 more years.

Why is change needed?

Many times in order to survive we have to start a change process.
We sometimes need to get rid of old memories , habits , and other past traditions.
Only freed from past burdens can we take advantage of the present.

Unknown author
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Though this is a myth I think the philosophy is good.

Morning all...

Ok, I've been quoting a quote all night... and can't remember the whole thing. I did a quick search on here (I thought lifehappened put it on here... ) but I couldn't find it...

HELP!

Its about "you" being the hole that I walk around all day and fall into at night...

What is it?? Rather than Google it, I'd rather ask all y'all! :)

Its somewhere in this thread I think... you must serch... now

LOL! All right, all right... work for it, huh? I got it! :)

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Success!! Yessss...

"prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance" My Mom

Its not a quote, but I've been singing this song as of late...

Stand
Rascal Flatts

You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless
Like you've lost your fight
But you'll be all right

[Chorus:]
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand, Then you stand
Life's like a novel
With the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon
With only one way down
Take what you're given before its gone
Start holding on, keep holding on

[Repeat Chorus]

Every time you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place

[Chorus]

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.

--Terry Goodkind, "Wizard's First Rule"

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen.

It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ~Albert Einstein

Don't sell yourself short. Revel in your moments. Let each moment shine as a spectrum of color, imprinting its rainbow rays on your life... Live in each breath, don't worry about the next, but truly revel in your today's. Find the key to momentary living in your own personal way.
~A HistorianChick original~

Yes, its my signature, but I've learned to live this... and that's what this thread is for - those quotes that have influenced your life.

Sometimes, I need my own advice.

Happiness is not about having what you want but wanting what you have

I'm half Irish and half Indian. Whatever you do, never give me a bottle of whiskey and a knife.

PAIN... Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran

This is my favourite ever, but has left me few friends.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
Kahlil Gibran

Ooo ^... I'd give you another greenie if I could... I can see how that one would leave you few friends, but wow, its so true.

Letting go isn't about giving up. It's about accepting that there are things that cannot be.

Sometimes you have to let someone go to see if there is anything worth holding on to.

To let go isn't to forgot, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. Letting go isn't about winning or losing. It's not about pride and it's not about how you appear, and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. Letting go isn't blocking memories or thinking sad thoughts, and doesn't leave emptiness, hurt, or sadness. It's not about giving in or giving up. Letting go isn't about loss and it's not about defeat. To let go is to cherish the memories, but to overcome and move on. It is having an open mind confidence in the future. Letting go is learning and experiencing and growing. To let go is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. Letting go is growing up. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free.

Hi,

Quotes that I often think about "If he is not nice to the waitress, he is not nice", "A beautiful body is a body that can move"

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.

-Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1853 (in a letter to former business associates Morgan & Garrison, the partnership of Charles Morgan and C.K. Garrison)

"The tragedy of wisdom is realizing you didn't have to learn everything the hard way."

"an eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" - Gandhi

"A stupid man doesn't learn from his mistakes.
A smart man learns from his mistakes.
A wise man learns from others' mistakes" -??

"Sorry for being topless." -- How Carla Bruni, official girlfriend to President Sarkozy of France, once greeted a surprised British journalist.

Psalm is a wonderful book full of memorable verses I grew up with and now hold close to my heart. Psalm 23 being one of them that I listed below.

There is also another verse I have said a thousand times over in my head, as it was also a children's song. I can't remember where the verse is located in the Bible, if any of you knows please share with me. The verse was something I would say when I found myself scared or nervous about something. I always found so much comfort in the words. As silly as it may sound, I still find myself singing the verse in my head.

It goes... Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your path.


The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Psalm 23. 1


The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27. 1

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Psalm 39. 5

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm 45. 1

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
Psalm 51. 15

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heave.
Psalm 85. 10

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalm 91. 2

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalm 103. 8

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119. 105

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139. 14

Proverbs 3:5-6 :)

Psalm 91 too... That's my favorite.

"The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows - so if you are broken down, you can still enjoy the beauty of the view." Dan Eldon

"Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee."

And, last but not least...

"I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten your day even if she couldn't brighten her own."

Wow love that last one

I've embodied that quote all too many times... :)

The test for whether you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ~ Bella Abzug

"There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women."
~ Kofi Annan

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
~ Susan B. Anthony

"Independence is happiness." ~ Susan B. Anthony

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." ~ Susan B. Anthony

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand." ~ Susan B. Anthony

"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
~ Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958),

"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
~ Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."
~ Elizabeth Blackwell

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
~ Margaret Fuller

Sounds like the blurb for the suffragettes handbook

A journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step.

My fortune cookie fortune lol

This is one I have forced myself to live by lately... good when you feel that you are overrun with negative thoughts.

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

I wish I could quote the entire essay "Self-Reliance" by Emerson, but I think it would be a bit lengthy. If you haven't read it, read it. Written in 1841 it's lessons are well tought even today.



Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to light a candle then curse the darkness

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

Bumper stickers that are funny, do they count as quotes that influence our lives?

"Flying saucers are real, the Air Force doesn't exist."

"No radio. Already stolen."

"I may be fat but you're ugly, and I can lose weight."

"Cynics are people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"Wink. I'll do the rest."

"Just when you think you've won the rat race along come faster rats."

"When you're in love, you're at the mercy of a stranger."

"There's one in every crowd and they always find me."

"Smile. It's the second best thing you can do with your lips."

"When you do a good deed get a receipt (in case heaven is like the IRS)."

"We're staying together for the sake of the cats."

"If I throw a stick, will you leave?"

Very good. Real. What love/euphoria should be.

Not corny at all. :)

As you slide down the bannister of life, may all the splinters point in the right direction.

"Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendship alive despite separation, distance or time. Care gives latitude to another person, gets you past the dislikes and annoyances. Quite simply caring, sustains love."

~Sara Paddison

As you slide down the bannister of life, may all the splinters point in the right direction.

LOL... but OUCH!!

I believe in the sun
Even when
It is not shining

I believe in love
Even when
I cannot feel it

I believe in God
Even when
He is silent

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Shared that with one of my AMHD favorites today - thought I'd put it on here. :)

The quote was found on the wall of a Jewish hiding place in Cologne.

As we go through life,
From the cradle to the hearse,
Nothing is ever so bad,
That it couldn't be worse.

simoneaugie agrees: Danes drive me crazy! Perhaps this is the real reason. LOL

LOL... so crazy as in woo hoo , or crazy as in go away?

'life isn't about finding yourself, its about creating yourself'

To be yourself
In a world that is constantly trying
To make you something else
Is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have a child is to constantly have your heart float around outside your body.

I may not be much, but I am all I got

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

Very, very true.

Shakespeare also said it well in Hamlet through the instruction of a father to his son:

"And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade.

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Rivers know this, there is no hurry; we shall get there someday"

"If peace be in the heart, the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty..."

---C. F. Richardson

The only source of peace of this depth and magnitude for me has come from asking Jesus Christ to come into my heart.


Just like a bird
Confined in a cage,

I cannot always
Choose my boundaries

But I can
Choose my song!

---Unknown

I have applied this to my life almost daily... not always successfully, but it is always in my mind.


Transition is not because something is wrong. Transition is because something is over... Unknown


Commitment and loyalty lies in trust and truth.
---Jan Bolinger

Love is blind but when one receives one's sight and can still love, that is true love.
---Jan Bolinger

This is a great thread HistorianChick!
Like a polititian... just keeps on going... :)

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia"

Charles Monroe Schulz

"Love Unexpressed Is Love Unknown"



It is a foolish person who won't give up that which he cannot keep, for that which he cannot lose.

"We hate eachother because we fear eachother. We fear eachother because we don't know eachother. We don't know eachother because we won't sit at the same table together." -General Thomas J. Jackson "stonewall jackson"

From my favorite chick flick, The Holiday:

Arthur Abbott: Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.
Iris: You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for god's sake! Arthur, I've been going to a therapist for three years, and she's never explained things to me that well. That was brilliant. Brutal, but brilliant.

Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly."


Lady Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."
Winston Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is --- in fact --- a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate."

--gregory house, md (... or the writers)

"I'm fast. I'm a perfect storm of genetics and caffeine."

Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls (... or the writers... :) )

“When I was 17, I thought my father to be the most stupid man alive. When I turned 21, I couldn't believe how much he had learned in 4 years.”
- Mark Twain

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading
accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
Woody Allen

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.
Bill Mahr

Thirty days hath September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except January and February
Which last FOREVER.

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person , but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"

"life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW, what a ride!"
Unknown

Men are like chocolates, avoid the nutty ones and don't pick up the ones others have tried and put back.

Men are like chocolates, avoid the nutty ones and don't pick up the ones others have tried and put back.


Niiiice. Very nice. ;)

I wonder what Shakespeare would have said, in regards to my quote...

A while back, I played Marilla in the play Anne of Green Gables. I've always loved the books by L.M.Montgomery and shall add a few of her famous quotes here:

"Good friends are always together in spirit." (Like that K?)

“I'm not a bit changed—not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me—back here—is just the same. It won't make a bit of difference where I go or how much I change outwardly; at heart I shall always be your little Anne, who will love you and Matthew and dear Green Gables more and better every day of her life.”

"All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years—each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet."

I'll add more later but these shall do for now. :)

I wonder what Shakespeare would have said, in regards to my quote....


He would have said:

"There's daggers in men's smiles". - (Hamlet, Act II, Scene III)

"Men of few words are the best men" . - (King Henry V, Act III, Scene II)

Hamlet:
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
Infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
Admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
A god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
To me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—
Nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

:D

How come I am not the least bit surprised you were able to pull those out of the sky?

Shakespeare would be proud and honored to have such a wonderful PR rep!

Of course, we do admit that present company (those in this thread) are excluded... ;)

We love you, "M"!! :D

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



Ps: and Thank you "J" :-)

From a doctor I saw in urgent care tonight. Wow, she was such a good doctor that actually spent time with her patients.

"Happiness and acceptance comes from within. I do not look for it from the world. As long as I know I did my best to serve you I am happy."

From a doctor I saw in urgent care tonight. Wow, she was such a good doctor that actually spent time with her patients.

"Happiness and acceptance comes from within. I do not look for it from the world. As long as I know I did my best to serve you I am happy."

Urgent care! Thoughts and prayers are being sent your way.

The quote is indeed a great one. "The World can't give it to you and the World can't take it away!" :p This comes from a song by the way but seemed appropriate for this post. :)

"The course of true love never did run smooth"
Midsummer Nights Dream, Act i, Sc.1

"I'll note you in my book of memory"
Henry VI, Act ii, Sc.4
(That one is for K. My book of memory has been forever imprinted by your sweet influence- thanks. ;))

"I'll be as patient as a gentle stream"
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii, Sc.6

On a lighter note...

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten and seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something I made you."

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.

Its not a quote, but boy... Don't you love it? :D

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.


Love, love, love - all the wretched can't of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.


So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. (one I'm reminded of daily) Maybe I need a faster angel:)

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."

[QUOTE=HistorianChick]"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."[/QUOTE

"Is this your original or author unknown"? Pretty funny.

Wish I could claim it... for I KNOW the author's frustration! Today, especially!

Got to spread the love, HC. My boss is going to love the kickboxing quote!

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
- Anonymous

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

I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.
- Anonymous

Annnnnd some quotes dedicated to my drink of choice, coffee! :)

Amazing what caffeine and no sense of self-preservation can do.

Caffeine Binge: That which is necessary to function normally.

**DISCLAIMER: This mail was answered before my first coffee.** (should I add this to my signature! )

Just bring me my coffee, and s-l-o-w-l-y back away.

:D

It's hard to try and give your heart to someone when the last person you gave it to is still breaking it and won't give it back.

Everyone is always asking me what’s wrong, but I don’t even think it makes any sense, its just... my heart hurts.

And I hate that every time the phone rings... I want so badly for it to be you.

After all this time you still have this amazing power to make me feel absolutely crazy each time I see you.

I need you. I need that guy who can make me laugh just by the way he says hello when I pick up the phone, the guy who makes my hands shake when I'm sitting next to him, and the guy who isn't afraid to keep hugging me when I'm not ready to let go yet.

It's weird, yeah I miss you, but it's so much more then that. I miss the way my heart stopped at just the sight of you and that smile. The sad part about it is your smile isn't the only one that I'm missing. I miss my own, the one that's only there when yours is.

I can't breathe. It’s like this love I have is suddenly being overpowered by this pain I feel of him not loving me back.

Sometimes I feel like the heart and mind play tricks on each other. That just when you have got yourself convinced with one that something is what you want, the other steps in and makes you feel nothing but doubt.

All written by ~ Hollie Seals

Going to be using one or two of those - claiming them as my own. Thanks K.

Do you realize anybody reading these can tell what kind of mood were in, depending on the quotes we decide to post?

Mine will not be much different than yesterday.

I've actually thought of that once or twice...

And judging from the over 2,000 views, that's a whole lot of people knowing how we are feeling!

And yet, they still come back for more!!

We're interesting, K! We're fascinating! We're mysterious - OK, well, the mystery is in what the mood will be for the day, not the actual interpreting! We're captivating!

:D

What happened to charming, great-looking and intelligent?

"They do not love that do not show their love"
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I, Sc.2

"The private wound is deepest"
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act v, Sc.4

"Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well"
King John, Act ii, Sc.4

I'm remembering the Rubber Band today...

When does a rubber band fly to a greater distance, when it is stretched or when it is thrown?

Do we as individuals remember the truth of the rubber band as we desperately try to keep our head above water while balancing life, love, bills, work, and family? Can we honestly say that we revel in the stretching of our daily life? Or, would we rather be simply left alone, thrown into a world of busyness with only a casual toss?

Remembering the rubber band gives meaning to daily struggles and brief periods of inner-insanity. It reminds us that we are going through these hardships not only for ourselves, but also for the benefit of others. It shows us that we are going to make it, that we are going to fly into the undiscovered future with our head held high and our spirits refreshed.

I'd rather be stretched and have a head start on the race than be tossed carelessly onto the track and left alone to watch others soar past.

I'm remembering the rubber band today. I'm being thankful for the stretching.

~A HistorianChick original~







:)

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous. There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of their work belongs among the most precious possessions of mankind. We owe it to a few writers of antiquity (Plato, Aristotle, etc.) that the people in the Middle Ages could slowly extricate themselves from the superstitions and ignorance that had darkened life for more than half a millennium. Nothing is more needed to overcome the modernist's snobbishness.

(Albert Einstein, 1954)

The closest to my idea of love: watching the skyline, making out, making mistakes, making believe desire means it’s with somebody else, then breaking up, and, if we’re lucky, forgiveness that comes right before take-off. There, I’ve said it. What more can one want? A lover who loves me as much as the rain. Rain, and, from the opening credits to the closing heart, Gershwin.

~ The Muse This Time by R Zamora Linmark

Kimmy Wallace: He’s got you on a pedestal and me in his arms.

George Downes: It’s amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

George Downes: Tell him you love him. Bite the bullet.

Julianne Potter: This is my one chance at happiness. I have to be ruthless!

Julianne Potter: Michael… I love you. I’ve loved you for nine years, I’ve just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and… well, now I’m just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn’t it?


~ My Best Friends Wedding

"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible, and how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you, it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. and how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. and you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little peices of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade."

Iris - The Holiday

"Iris, in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are the leading lady but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend."

Arthur - The Holiday

Some people

walk in the rain

others just get wet

-----Roger Miller

One of my favorite fragrances is the incoming rain, not yet arrived, but the fragrance precedes to give us the promise of much needed moisture.

I read a story of a little girl who, having been in danger of dying just after being born and being in a state of health where the parents could not touch her little body, the mother prayed that God would hold her in His loving arms and care for her until they could. Several years later, while at a sporting event of her brother's, the little girl nonchalantly mentions when her mother speaks of the incoming rain, that is how God smells. The mother explains that, no, it is just rain. The little girl explains that when she was sick, God held her against his chest and that is how God smelled. I don't do the story justice in this and may not have gotten it all correct.

I can remember the joy as a child of a shower moving in and it smelled so fresh and clean and then how marvelous it was to just walk in the rain and feel it hit your face and feeling so free. The rumbling of thunder is to me so calming.

I think we should all walk in the rain and enjoy the experience even as adults. I seldom use an umbrella. When I see people running in and out of building, with newspapers being held over their heads or rushing to their cars with umbrellas, I always wonder why.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse

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

In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton

What about when your just plain mad, and that turns to tears, where are those quotes..

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. ~Malcolm X

Malcolm X seemed like a smart man

And you're a smart woman.

One that anyone would be proud to call a friend.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. (To late)
Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather'
US novelist & screenwriter (1920 - 1999)

(Love the site these came from)

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. (To late )
Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather'Yes, but isn't this the same guy that put the horse head in the bed???? That's not exactly "reasoning...." :)
US novelist & screenwriter (1920 - 1999)

(Love the site these came from)

I think we have the same sites, K.

Great minds, eh?

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.” To move ahead you need to believe in yourself... have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs, Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.”The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes, Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind!

Adlin Sinclair

Awesome exhortation, Jolie... had to spread the love, or else I'd give you a greenie for it.

Very true.

The Naughty Naughty Naughty man my Father-in-law was contributed these remarkable quotes during his lifetime:

1) She sits among the lima beans and peas

2) I can't get over a girl like you, so get up and close the window

3) Want to play Pearl Harbor? Go to sleep and I'll attack you.

The rest are too naughty to share - He was a naughty man and litearlly chased me around the house.

I miss my Pops :(

Crud, I'm in another mood.... This whole "being an emotional woman" thing really stinks at times!


"Wanting him is hard to forget, loving him is hard to regret, losing him is hard to accept, but even with all the hurt I've felt, letting go is the most painful yet."


"Sometime you just have to hold your head up high, blink away the tears and say good-bye."


"You didn't intentionally break my heart, you even said you were sorry, but I cried anyway... I know the truth that you're too scared to admit, you're with her, but when you look at me, you can't even remember her name..."


"I cried today... not because I miss you... or even wanted you... but because I realized I'm gonna be all right without you."


"So... from now on... when you think of me... just remember that I could've been the best thing you ever had."


And that, my friends, is the scope of my emotions this morning.... what a ride, eh?

Ok, I'm going to put a lot of A Day To Remember quotes on here

"I gave you everything I had, until I had nothing left. Now you act as if I'm just a burden.
I've finally let go."

"Don't threaten me with what you think I feel.
If you could read my mind you'd be in tears."

"All I ever wanted to be was be the one who would wipe those tears from your eyes"

"You'll tell me that you care, and then run straight back to him"

That's just from one song ha ha

Awww, shucks, Rome... those tears that were threatening to spill? Yeah... Its raining, babe!

Rah...

I've got to start working on an article - get my mind off all this!

Great quotes, by the way. :)

That's why I listen to them when I'm at my other job, because I get so angry over how she walked away from everything I don't even let sadness show.

But you know, even on this insane emotional roller-coaster I am reminded that I choose the way I live each moment. I choose to feel sad, wounded, upset, and angry or I choose to feel content, resolved, beautiful, and yes, happy.

So, today I have chosen to get off this emotional roller coaster and take a ride on that delightful porch swing... the swing on which I can sit and watch the sunset while reflecting on the amazing blessings of my life.

I'm reveling in my beautiful moments.

HC, is the following an original? You have your sig of "Don't sell yourself short," etc. as an original. But I wasn't sure about this one. If I ever use it, just want to credit it to the writer.


Always remind me that my tears have made my rainbow.
My failures, my heartaches, my mistakes have made my rainbow. My beautiful reminder of grace. My promise in the storm.

I read "my tears have made my rainbow" and went from there...

So yes, it is partially original. The concept inspired me.

Thanks for that kudos! It makes me smile when things I write touch hearts.

HC, is the following an original? You have your sig of "Don't sell yourself short," etc. as an original. But I wasn't sure about this one. If I ever use it, just want to credit it to the writer.

Thanks for this question... I think I've fixed it in the signature...

I'm sorry... I love you all... all of your quotes are awesome... in fact all of you are awesome... but drum roll... PLEASE!!

I was responding to a post and noticed a signature of one of our Member's AND JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH IT... every one of them.

I wondering, if I give him credit, would I be allowed to use it as well? Oh Gosh I just love it... okay here they are... Each one is now engraved in my heart.

I share these signatures that I saw on our member

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Katieperez's signature


Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
Jesus Christ & The American Soldier
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

Freedom isn't free.............. God bless our troops!

~If you are not willing to stand behind our troops, then please, feel free to stand in front of them~

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OOoooo, AH. That is very good!

I had someone use something I said as a signature quote and it was an amazing honor! I don't think she would mind you using it at all. The guy that used mine sent me a PM and asked.

I like it too! Very true, very true. :)

(Mornin, Darling AH... how you be today?)

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
~Lao Tzu



“Do everything. Love as much as you can. it may hurt but it helps us grow. Give all you have...you may be poor but you will be content. Always forgive....your heart can not afford not to. Teach what you know and learn what you don't. Stay open to all”



"Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain."
[Latin = Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus et mihi vivam Quod superest aevi--si quid superesse volunt di.]
~Horace

Doing good there HC - day off - beautiful snow - ( gained 4 pounds over night... huh?? ) LOL but all and all good.

Happy Friday my beautiful friend :)

Doing good there HC - day off - beautiful snow - ( gained 4 pounds over night....huh??? ) LOL but all and all good.

Happy Friday my beautiful friend :)


Ooo... ooo... ooo... Its FRIDAY!! Happy dance! Join me, AH?

Lets dance a little jig, unaware of the opinions formulating in the minds that are watching our giddy, excited dance! Throw caution to the wind and lets dance! :) :)

Wooo-hoooo! It's almost the weekend!

Ooo... ooo... ooo..... Its FRIDAY!!! Happy dance! Join me, AH?

Lets dance a little jig, unaware of the opinions formulating in the minds that are watching our giddy, excited dance! Throw caution to the wind and lets dance! :) :)

Wooo-hoooo! It's almost the weekend!
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WOW!! Oh yeah!

This guy copied me!!

Ok, maybe not the whole "dimmed lights making-out-with-myself-on-the-floor" stuff, but other than that, yeah, buddy! :D

Almost makes you wonder if he knew he was being videoed...

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. ~ Winston Churchill

80 percent of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well. ~ Winston Churchill

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Love is an action. ~ M. Scott Peck

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ~ Dorothy Thompson

"The humble improve."

~ A quote from Wynton Marsalis

"The humble improve."

~ A quote from Wynton Marsalis

You have defined my mood, yet again.

Odd, isn't it?

You should see me when I try... ;)

''You aren't being punished,you just haven't been rewarded yet''
-Unknown Author

“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
-J.D.Salinger

''It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.''
''Don't use the brakes. Cars are made to go, not to stop! ''
-from the French film A About de Soufflé

Okay HC I know we are doing quotes that have influenced us but what about a song that has influenced us? I have to post the words to this song, as they made me smile today and can influence us to look at a bad situation, with a smile...

Well you know those times
When you feel like there's a sign there on your back
Says I don't mind if you kick me
Seems like everybody has
Things go from bad to worse
You'd think they can't get worse than that
And then they do

You step off the straight and narrow
And you don't know where you are
Use the needle of your compass
To sew up your broken heart
Ask directions from a genie
In a bottle of Jim Beam
And she lies to you
That's when you learn the truth

If you're going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared, don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there

Well I been deep down in that darkness
I been down to my last match
Felt a hundred different demons
Breathing fire down my back
And I knew that if I stumbled
I'd fall right into the trap that they were laying, yeah

But the good news
Is there's angels everywhere out on the street
Holding out a hand to pull you back up on your feet
The one's that you've been dragging for so long
You're on your knees
You might as well be praying
Guess what I'm saying

If your going through hell
Keep on going, don't slow down
If you're scared don't show it
You might get out
Before the devil even knows you're there

Wow what's that song called?

Rodney Atkins If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows) Lyrics

May the saddest day of your future be no worse, than the happiest day of your past. (Irish blessing) :)

Happiness is a journey, not a destination
Dance as though no one is watching you
Love as though you have never been hurt before
Sing as though no one can hear you
Live as though heaven is on earth.

By Father Alfred D'Souza


Never Regret.
If it's good, it's wonderful
If it's bad… it's experience

I just broke up with someone and the last thing he said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you."

Ha nice.
Bet he felt right stupid

I just broke up with someone and the last thing he said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you."

LOL... nice one Jolie :-)

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
Oscar Wilde

Girl I dated one time: You must be gay.
Me: Screw you.
Girl: You had your chance. You blew it.
Me: I was lucky!

She then kicked me a half dozen times.

One of my all time personal favorite comebacks.

Another one...
At a young age, I once asked a girl out on a date.

Girl: No Way! You're a dog!
Me: That makes us two of a kind. We'd be perfect together!

She tried to kick me too...

Tssk not as good as the above one

Oh no not yours that's good too
I took longer to type than you

I've been reading this thread for awhile, I've yet to contribute so I thought I would... not really a quote, but probably one of my favorite songs.
"Miss Sunflower" Ryan Adams

If I was a sunset, I'd want to lay on your bed,
And watch the Hollywood lights flicker as it started to dim.
If I was a movie, you know I'd feel pretty good.
I'd watch you dancing all night in the dark where I stood.


I don't think about you
I don't think about you
I don't think about you
You don't think about me.. . Miss Sunflower Blue


She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell
And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still
She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette
And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get


I don't think about you
I don't think about you
I don't think about you
You don't think about me.. . Miss Sunflower Blue


I'm still out on Sunset in a taxicab
I'm still at the movies, and I'm holding your hand
Still at an overpass view looking out at the lights
Still on an airplane, and I'm starting to cry
I don't think about you


If I was the evening, you know I'd send you a breeze
I'd let it whisper in your ear, kiss you and sing you to sleep
If I wasn't so screwed up, maybe all the words might have come
But I think the needing just took everything they wanted was sung



I don't think about you
I don't think about you
I don't think about you
You don't think about me.. . Miss Sunflower Blue

Another... now I'm not a big fan of country music, but John Prine had it right.

"Pretty soon I met a woman
Pretty soon she done me wrong
Pretty soon my life got sadder
Than any country song"

I also love this thread... Obviously! But I might be in deep trouble posting those lyrics as it seems to have started a little wave. Sorry HC, I didn't mean to...

I think songs and therefore lyrics, in this day and age, influence our lives more than beautiful quotes sometimes. I could be wrong but I find myself exchanging songs and lyrics with my girlfriend, as a way to express how she, or I, might be feeling that day. It's kind of like exchanging Hallmark cards. It puts a smile on your face knowing, somebody out there knows how you feel. They just have the ability to write and a team that can take those words and put them to a tune.

Isn't that what we all do on here? I mean some of us have a rare ability to write (HC) Some of us have an ability to be an expert (J_9) and the rest of us soak it all in. I love music, all kinds, any time of the day. I can also appreciate a good quote, from some of history's greatest, as I am a history geek and can't get enough. However, a well-written song helps to express, to me alone, the mood I am in, on any given day.

I work so much better when I have music on in the background. But not just any music. Depending on my mood, I have a genre that fits. If I'm trying to solve a big problem, or write a complex speech, in which I need to concentrate, I listen to Sandi Patty or another Christian artist. If I'm feeling flirty, a little Frank Sinatra is perfect. If I'm feeling punchy or sarcastic, numerous top 40 artist are just what the doctor ordered. If I'm just 'there' I like the classics (you heard me, CLASSICS) Barry Manilow, Carpenters, or Anne Murray is perfect! Absolutely Perfect! My 70's and 80's favorites fall somewhere in between all of those moods.

Anybody else?

I've been reading this thread for awhile, ive yet to contribute so i thought i would... not really a quote, but probably one of my favorite songs.


I'm so glad you finally made it in the thread... your wonderful addition will be forever recorded as one of the Quotes that have influenced our lives!

For the record:
Songs, quotes, anticdotes, stories, parables, wise sayings, dreams, and any of the like are welcomed on this amazing and inspiring thread!

If its helped, influenced, changed, inspired, or just plain made you laugh, it is welcome here!



A big thank you needs to be exteded to all of you - you've helped me through "hell" and I'm keeping on moving... So, thanks to all of you for the inspiration and aid. You've made a difference!


:)

I feel as though I've just been scolded..

Wink.. wink...

The stories we hear about how the West was won are all lies. The history of the West was written by the horse. Wherever a settler left his footprint there was a hoof print beside it. Men came further and further west to stake their claim on the great American wilderness. But they encountered a strength that couldn't be tamed - wild horses. Mustangs. The settlers called them parasites that would strip the land and starve their own herds. They couldn't domesticate them so they destroyed them. Isolated and hungry, they were on their way to disappearing from the face of the earth. Sometimes when the light disappears an afterimage remains - just for a second. Mustangs are an afterimage of the West, no better then ghosts, hardly there at all. No one really wants them, not ranchers, not city people - that's their destiny. Let them disappear once and for all, along with all the other misfits, loners, and relics of a wilderness no one cares about anymore. Lucky for us a few mustangs survived, hidden away in the mountains. We need to protect them, for they are the hope of some kind of living memory of what the promise of America used to be - and could be again. I believe there is a force in this world that lives beneath the surface, something primitive and wild that awakens when you need an extra push just to survive, like wildflowers that bloom after fire turns the forest black. Most people are afraid of it, and keep it buried deep inside themselves. But there will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father. There was once a time when Americans came West to discover their destiny. Today they seem to move around every which way, restless and unsettled. But I think they're still looking for the same thing - a place where they can be optimistic about the future, a place that helps them to be who they really want to be, where they can feel that this life makes sense, a place where they can feel what I feel when I'm riding Flicka - because when we're riding, all I feel... is free.

~ Flicka (2006)

Well I got another one, this was soon after my break-up, and I was hanging out with a really really good friend of mine, his name is Jon, and the dialogue went something like this:

J: Hey man, turn that frown upside-down, I got our whole night planned out!
Me: Oh yeah?
J: Yeah! Now take a swig of Black Velvet, because we got killing to do and we ain't stopping till we've killed fity men!
Me: Uhhh..
J: (hands me an Xbox controller)


That's right... a doritos stained night of sweet Halo action.

I feel as though I've just been scolded..

Wink..wink...

LOL! Nooooo... not scolded in the least. Encouraged to post more of what has influenced your life, whatever medium it is! :)

Imagine we are all the same. Imagine we agree about politics, religion and morality. Imagine we like the same types of music, art, food and coffee. Imagine we all look alike. Sound boring? Differences need not divide us. Embrace diversity. Dignity is everyone's human right.

~ Bill Brummel (documentary filmaker)

Beloved let us love one another, for love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love. The Bible

~live, laugh love~


''life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it''


''patience is a virtue you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead''


''life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get''


La Bela vita~~~~ the good life

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ~African Proverb

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimists are nostalgic about the future. ~Chicago Tribune

If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson


I wonder....
Is it possible to bubble over with happiness and contentment, while still wrestling with the pangs of loneliness and heartache? Is it possible to be completely secure and desperately lost? Is it too far out of the realm of reason to wish upon oneself joy and sorrow? Is it necessary to understand the mysteries of the heart and believe in the possibility of redemption? I think not. For within my heart is joy and sorrow, happiness and irrevocable despair, contentment and desire. Within my soul is peace and contentment, but living in my heart is pain and loss. Did I simply define humanity? Is balance the great secret? If so, let balance reign in my heart, let it live in my soul, let it influence my emotions, let it rule my mind. For to be balanced is to be alive. I choose to be alive.
~ A HistorianChick original ~

And thus is the true state of my "being."

A woman should not be judged for needing reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.

~ Quote from the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.

Cheesy as this book was there are some good points. I think the one above is a good example of that.

I wonder....
Is it possible to bubble over with happiness and contentment, while still wrestling with the pangs of loneliness and heartache? Is it possible to be completely secure and desperately lost? Is it too far out of the realm of reason to wish upon oneself joy and sorrow? Is it necessary to understand the mysteries of the heart and believe in the possibility of redemption? I think not. For within my heart is joy and sorrow, happiness and irrevocable despair, contentment and desire. Within my soul is peace and contentment, but living in my heart is pain and loss. Did I simply define humanity? Is balance the great secret? If so, let balance reign in my heart, let it live in my soul, let it influence my emotions, let it rule my mind. For to be balanced is to be alive. I choose to be alive.
~ A HistorianChick original ~

And thus is the true state of my "being."

Wow, I'm right there with you, sister! I really love that HC original!

"If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call."

~ Ben Affleck

To a wonderful friend of mine (you know who you are) these are for you....

"Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you're down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry. You have a forever friend, and forever has no end."
~ Unknown

"A friend is a person who know what you are saying, even if you're not talking."
~ Sarah Bennett

"I believe that friends are quiet angels who sit on our shoulders and lift our wings when we forget how to fly."
~ Unknown

"Some friends come and go like a season. Others are arranged in our lives for good reason."
~ Sharita Gadison

"When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you, and your best friend will be there."
~ Unknown

if I ever see an amputee being hanged, I would start shouting out random letters.

Although these quotes have not changed my life in anyway,I find them special.:)

"A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death."
- Ali ibn abi Talib (radiAllah anhu)


"If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant."
- Ibn Ata'illah

"If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time."

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."

"Oh what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive"-Sir Walter Scott

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-Oscar Wilde

"Starting a novel is like opening a door on a misty landscape;you can see very little,but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing from the first pages"-Iris Murdoch

"I go to nature to be soothed & healed,and to have my senses put in tune once more"-John Burroughe

"All are stricken and you are safe?
All got it wrong and you got it right?
All are blameworthy, and you have excuses?"

"Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave."
- Ali ibn Abu Talib (radiAllahu anhu)

A pirate was captured and brought before Alexander the Great.
Alexander asked the pirate:
'How dare you molest the people?'
The pirate replied: 'And how dare you molest the entire world? I am called a thief because I do it with a little ship only. You do it with a great navy and you are called an Emperor!'


"Education is our passport to the future,
for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today"
- El-Malik el-Shabbaz (Malcolm X)

"I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience. "
- Umar (radiAllahu anhu)

"If something is meant to go elsewhere,
it will never come your way,
but if it is yours by destiny,
from you it cannot flee."

I have a lot more... but these should do for now:)

This may make you cry but it is an inspiring little story so thought I would share.


Sally jumped up as soon as she
Saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She
Said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all
right? When can I see him?"

The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could,
but your boy didn't make it."

Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer?
Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God, when
my son needed you?"

The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time alone
with your son? One of the nurses will be out in a
few minutes, before he's transported to the
university."

Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she
Said good-bye to son. She ran her fingers lovingly
Through his thick red curly hair.

"Would you like a lock of his hair?" the nurse
Asked.

Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy's
Hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to
Sally. The mother said, "It was Jimmy's idea to
donate his body to the university for study. He said
it might help somebody else. "I said no at first,
But Jimmy said, 'Mom, I won't be using it after I
Die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend
One more day with his Mom." She went on, "My Jimmy
Had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone
Else. Always wanting to help others if he could."

Sally walked out of Children's mercy Hospital for
the last time, after spending most of the last six
months there. She put the bag with Jimmy's
belongings on the seat beside her in the car. The
drive home was difficult. It was even harder to
enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy's
belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his
hair to her son's room. She started placing the
model cars and other personal things back in his
room exactly where he had always kept them. She laid
down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried
herself to sleep.

It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying
beside her on the bed was a folded letter. The
letter said:


"Dear Mom, I know you're going to miss me; but don't
Think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving
You, just 'cause I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I
Will always love you, Mom, even more with each day.
Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if
You want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so
Lonely, that's okay with me. He can have my room and
Old stuff to play with. But, if you decide to get a
Girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same
Things us boys do. You'll have to buy her dolls and
Stuff girls like, you know. Don't be sad thinking
About me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and
Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me
Around some, but it will take a long time to see
Everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch
Them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn't look
Like any of his pictures. Yet, when I saw Him, I
Knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD!
And guess what, Mom? I got to sit on God's knee and
Talk to Him, like I was somebody important. That's
When I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter,
To tell you good-bye and everything. But I already
Knew that wasn't allowed. Well, you know what Mom?
God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to
Write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name
Of the angel who is going to drop this letter off to
You. God said for me to give you the answer to one
Of the questions you asked Him 'Where was He when I
Needed him?' "God said He was in the same place with
Me, as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was
Right there, as He always is with all His children.

Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I've
Written except you. To everyone else this is just a
Blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool? I have to
Give God His pen back now. He needs it to write some
More names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit
At the table with Jesus for supper. I'm, sure the
Food will be great.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt
Anymore. The cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I
Couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't
Stand to see me hurt so much, either. That's when He
Send The Angel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel
Said I was a Special Delivery! How about that?
Signed with Love from: God, Jesus &Me.

Comments on this post
HistorianChick agrees: M, you gave me a gift with that story... a gift that you probably had no idea you were giving. I lost my Dad to cancer not that long ago - thank you for these beautiful tears. I'm printing this off to have my own "letter."

Hey "J" I know exactly what you mean , I lost my Dad to cancer as well , it's the most horrible thing to see someone you love have to go through.

And glad you liked the story , you know what a cry baby I am :-)

It means even more, knowing that you understand exactly how precious it is. Again, thank you. You've touched my heart.

I lost my mom to cancer.

My Dearest Allie,
I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter any more, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Noah

~ A scene from The Notebook.

(and women everywhere sighed)

Well i got another one, this was soon after my break-up, and i was hanging out with a really really good friend of mine, his name is Jon, and the dialogue went something like this:

J: Hey man, turn that frown upside-down, I got our whole night planned out!
Me: Oh yeah?
J: Yeah! Now take a swig of Black Velvet, cus we got killin to do and we ain't stopping till we've killed fity men!
Me: Uhhh...?
J: (hands me an Xbox controller)


Thats right... a doritos stained night of sweet Halo action.

LMAO!! This is great. Too bad I have to spread the love...

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Edward Teller (1908 - )




:)

I've always loved this...



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A PSALM OF LIFE

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN
SAID TO THE PSALMIST

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

A man drove me to drink and I didn't have the decency to thank him! If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.”"
Anonymous

My Dearest Allie,
I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter any more, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Noah

~ A scene from The Notebook.

(and women everywhere sighed)

So is this a book I should read "K"? Or would it be too girly :-)

I loved the movie, loved the book. I think it's a wonderful story for anybody but I'm really the wrong person to ask about stuff like that. It's a movie that had me leaving in tears but tears believing true love exists, but so also does real pain and loss.

I loved the movie, loved the book. I think its a wonderful story for anybody but I'm really the wrong person to ask about stuff like that. Its a movie that had me leaving in tears but tears believing true love exists, but so also does real pain and loss.

Thanks "K"... I'll take that as a yes :-)

Jessica has a snow day so I'll try to post for her though she didn't ask me to. I have come to look forward to her sharing a moment with us. I look into her heart as she so gracefully does each and everyday. I spoke with her this morning so I'm going to give this a shot.

Jessica's quotes today might be...

Once you go through something you think will kill you and it doesn't, every day is like a present. ~Elissa B. Terris

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~Helen Keller

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know, we must seek it. ~Marsha Sinetar

Her movie suggestion would be, 'Washington Square'

Her book choice would be, 'Blue like Jazz' written by, Donald Miller

Her song choice, 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor

Jessica has a snow day so I'll try to post for her though she didn't ask me to. I have come to look forward to her sharing a moment with us. I look into her heart as she so gracefully does each and everyday. I spoke with her this morning so I'm going to give this a shot.

Jessica's quotes today might be...

Once you go through something you think will kill you and it doesn’t, every day is like a present. ~Elissa B. Terris

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~Helen Keller

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know, we must seek it. ~Marsha Sinetar

Her movie suggestion would be, 'Washington Square'

Her book choice would be, 'Blue like Jazz' written by, Donald Miller

Her song choice, 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor

Wow...

Yeah...

You completely described me...

That's pretty cool... very "kindred spirity" of you K, wow...

Thank you for my quotes, yes, they would have been my choices.

In addition...

"A friend is one who can touch your heart from across the world or across the room." :)

The illitarate of the twentyfirst century will not be those whose cannot read and write but those who cannot learn,unlearn, and relearn- Alvin Tofler

No matter how thin your slice is there is always two sides- Baruch Spinoza

And

There is no such thing as bad weather just the wrong clothes- Billy connolly

"We Can Do It"

~ Rosie Riveter :p

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.” (Emerson)

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ( Thich Nhat Hanh)

“I will not wish thee riches nor the glow of greatness, but that wherever thou go, some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile, or shadowed life know sunshine for awhile. And so thy path shall be a track of light, like angels' footsteps passing through”

God teach me to laugh again, but never let me forget that I cried... unknown

If you are going through hell, keep on going

God grant me patience
Because if I pray for strength
I will beat the hell out of him

I love those in post #238!

Here's my first one for right now.

"It's not practice that makes perfect, but perfect practice that makes perfect."

--me

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

~ Gilda Radner

“If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.”

“It's possible to forget how alive we really are. We can become dry and tired, just existing, instead of really living. We need to remind ourselves of the juice of life, and make that a habit. Find those places inside that jump for joy, and do things”

“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.” (Shakespeare)

Yes, my friends, I'm tired today. Tired of surviving, tired of singing, tired of standing. Tired of smiling when I don't feel like it, tired of being strong, tired of trying to move on. I'm just simply tired. I'm going home for the weekend, to curl up in my canopy bed and let my Mom pamper me. When I return, I'll be ready to face another countless days of standing, surviving, and being strong, but I'm going to allow myself to be weak this weekend. To be weak and just be me. There is just so much going on in my head these days - relationship unknowns, family heartaches, job frustrations, personal struggles - that I'm just ready to rest. Ready to put down my sword and sit under my shield for a while, letting the battle wage around me. I'm simply tired.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” (C.S.Lewis)

“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”

“Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements”


:)

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” (C.S.Lewis)

“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”

“Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements”


:)


I love that one! Great quote... :-)...

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. -Rabbi Julius Gordon

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
-Jane Austen

~ Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

~ I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was

~ I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I’m going to smile.

~ There's a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there's nothing I can say to make her feel all right.

life1973happened
~ There's a girl in my mirror crying tonight, and there's nothing I can say to make her feel all right."

I liked the above.

Here are some more I like...

"Don't seek anything other than contentment, because therein is the bliss and the comfort of your body. Then consider the case of a person who possesses the whole world, can he take with him in the grave more than cotton and a shroud?"
- A poet

"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions--not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness, not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation, but simply because these are what one believes."-Rollo May

"Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood."
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiAllahu anhu)

:)

"You've got to stand on your own two feet. Even when you don't think your strong enough. You've got the strength God gave all women to survive. You just have to tap into it."

~ A line from the, The Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

"There's no place like home." :)

(There's nothing like a good friend, too. Thanks K... )