Quotes for the day..

[toofrufru]

Limited expectations yield only limited results.
- Susan Laurson Willig


"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden

[ireT72]

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
– E. E. Cummings

[KShawn]

"To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Laozi 'Lao Tzu' (604-531 BC)

[Sassy_thong]

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman,but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.

~ Unknown ~

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Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it'scalled falling in love, because you don't force
yourself to fall, you just fall.

~ Unknown ~

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone, and an day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

~ Unknown ~

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell.

[joectigger]

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
~Rita Mae Brown

[theeladyscorpian]

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson*

[Shadow Eyes]

True love does not a happy ending or an ending at all, because it shall continue for all ages!

[HYSterical HERnia]

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis



Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino

[KwanYin]

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. -Dorothy Allison

[bmerchef]

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track...

[Southpawbutch]

"You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person, and a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon."

~Hugh Macleod~

[ireT72]

Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
– Helen Keller

[KShawn]

"Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score."

~ Anonymous ~



"Obstacles are things a person sees
when he takes his eyes off his goal."

~ Anonymous ~

[CatFemme43]

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet" - --Colette

[Boots13]

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith.
Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes.
But if one believes,
then miracles occur.

[KShawn]

"Love is…
wishing he was by you side."

Published on April 3, 2003
Kim Grove Casali (1942-1997)
Stefano Casali

[Southpawbutch]

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."

~Albert Einstein~

[DivaTX45]

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.


~Anonymous

[DivaTX45]

Never regret anything, because at one time, it was exactly what You wanted.


~Bodyglove

[bmerchef]

What I am looking for...is a blessing not in disguise...

[bmerchef]

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself...

[Roo]

"...life is going to pull your pants down and punch you in the money bags."

[Duchess]

Think not I am what I appear.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

[ELISHEBA]

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese proverb

[angie]

"Over my tanned face and pale body."

[lilfirefly]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind
Buddha

[lilfirefly]

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind
Buddha

[toofrufru]

"Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner." Amy Bloom

"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher." Socrates

[toofrufru]

"Greatness is not born of luck or talent; it is a product of habit and hard work. No matter your natural talent, fingers don't play Chopin the first time they touch a piano. We have to practice." - Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

[FireflySoul]

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." - Mother Teresa

[FireflySoul]

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong

[girlina]

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

Now, if you as an individual break away from society, is that action motivated by ambition? If it is, then you have not broken away at all, you are still within the prison, because the very basis of society is ambition, acquisitiveness, greed. But if you understand all that and bring about a revolution in your own heart and mind, then you are no longer ambitious, you are no longer motivated by envy, greed, acquisitiveness, and therefore you will be entirely outside of a society which is based on those things. Then you are a creative individual and in your action there will be the seed of a different culture.

So there is a vast difference between the action of creative revolution, and the action of revolt or mutiny within society. As long as you are concerned with mere reform, with decorating the bars and walls of the prison, you are not creative. Reformation always needs further reform, it only brings more misery, more destruction. Whereas, the mind that understands this whole structure of acquisitiveness, of greed, of ambition and breaks away from it--such a mind is in constant revolution. It is an expansive, a creative mind; therefore, like a stone thrown into a pool of still water, its action produces waves, and those waves will form a different civilization altogether.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

[theeladyscorpian]

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ~Martha Washington*

[theeladyscorpian]

Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat. ~Emily Dickinson*

[Duchess]

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

~Source Unknown

[joectigger]

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.”
Rosa Parks

[lilfirefly]

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell

[DivaTX45]

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.

~Anonymous

[Southpawbutch]

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."

~Saint Jerome~

[bmerchef]

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins...