Quotes for the day..

[ELISHEBA]

Ears hear and eyes see.
What then does mind do?

A Zen Question

[ireT72]

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
– Aristotle

[CatFemme43]

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
Oprah Winfrey

[KShawn]

"Nothing you love is lost.
Not really.
Things, people - they always go away,
sooner or later.
You can't hold them,
any more than you can hold moonlight.
But if they've touched you,
if they're inside you, then they're still yours.
The only things you ever really have
are the ones you hold inside your heart."

~ Anonymous ~

[theeladyscorpian]

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. ~Alexander A. Bogomoletz*
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Sincerity is the way of Heaven. ~Mencius*

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. ~Peter McWilliams*

[Southpawbutch]

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves."

~Bill Vaughan~

[Star_catcher]

It is not the words you say..but the content of it's meaning.
( i don't know who said this..but it has stuck with me)

[bmerchef]

Don't knock masturbation...it's sex with someone I love...

[diabolo_13]

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense. ~Henry David Thoreau

[Duchess]

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

~Saint Basil
Greek, Saint Quotes

[Duchess]

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

~Lin Yn-tang
1895-1976, Chinese Writer and Philologist

[Live42day1521]

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

[lilfirefly]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned

[HYSterical HERnia]

Remember when all we had to do was to keep our ponytails straight and catch fireflies?
-- Author Unknown

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.
-- Emilie Buchwald

Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well.
-- Author Unknown

How wonderful to meet such a natural little girl. She knows what she wants and she asks for it. Not like these over-civilized little pets that have to go through analysis before they can choose an ice cream soda.
-- John Lee Mahin

[Duchess]

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

~Anonymous

[Duchess]

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

~Anonymous

[Duchess]

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

~Anthony de Mello
Author Nationalities, Dancer Quotes

[KShawn]

"Die when I may,
I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

[HYSterical HERnia]

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
-- Author Unknown

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-- Norman Cousins


Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.
-- Anonymous

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
-- Erma Bombeck

[theeladyscorpian]

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton*

[theeladyscorpian]

The wisest men follow their own direction. ~Euripides*
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson*

[chosetodance]

"How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciouness."

[bmerchef]

The light at the end of the tunnel...
is just the light of an oncoming train...

[Bigfish1967]

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 336)


~Elijah

[Duchess]

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

~Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

[Duchess]

No matter how broken your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.

~Anonymous

[Duchess]

Optimism instead of pessimism,
Positivity instead of negativity,
To look for new challenges rather than drown in my sorrows,

Doesn't mean that you are not missed or loved.



Duchess

[glamour girlie]

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett

[June2Pence]

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. -- Jeanette Winterson

And this.

“There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.” -- Jeanette Winterson

[GlamourFemme]

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."

---Alexandre Dumas

[DivaTX45]

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

~Mother Teresa

[ireT72]

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
– Ruth Gordon

[Will14]

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

Thanks lilfirefly...Now, I just need to do that...Ahh ...piece a cake
Will

[KShawn]

"Every garden may have some weeds."

English Proverb

[shuggita]

"You have got to discover you,
What you do,
And trust it."

Barbra Streisand (1942 – )
Singer and actress

[ELISHEBA]

Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.


Robert Aitken, Roshi

[Roo]

sorry little darlin'. hope i didn't dent your 'do.

[theeladyscorpian]

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran*
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. ~Francis Maitland Balfour*
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If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation. ~Mena Trott*

[bmerchef]

For it was not into my ear you whispered...but into my heart...
It was not my lips you kissed...but my soul...

[Duchess]

I cannot say good-bye to those whom I have grown to love, for the memories we have made will last a lifetime and never know a good-bye

~Anonymous