Quotes for the day..

**DivaTX45** · 05-18-2009, 03:48 AM

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dali Lama

**BERK** · 05-18-2009, 06:36 AM

"Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

**shigi** · 05-18-2009, 06:44 AM

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

**Languardia** · 05-18-2009, 12:28 PM

Do unto others as though you were the others.

--Elbert Hubbard

**Galant_1** · 05-18-2009, 02:49 PM

.....no matter what the situation-you always have a choice

**toofrufru** · 05-18-2009, 05:51 PM

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy,
it raises us to the highest level of human experience.
In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become
vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique
among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture
that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no
limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and,
at the same time, both....Leo Buscaglia.

**musicfemme** · 05-18-2009, 07:42 PM

"For a second, I think you took on the shape of a unicorn."

**mountain_drumcat** · 05-19-2009, 03:08 AM

Now!

**DivaTX45** · 05-19-2009, 04:09 AM

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

~Dale Carnegie

**KShawn** · 05-19-2009, 04:52 AM

"Everything in life can be nourishing.
Everything can bless us,
but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur.
Being present with quality is a decision
we are invited to make each day."

MacRina Wiederkehr

**BERK** · 05-19-2009, 05:05 AM

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

-- Carlos Castenada

**shigi** · 05-19-2009, 07:33 AM

"We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young

**GentleAngel** · 05-19-2009, 08:10 AM

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

- Indian Proverb

GentleAngel

**toofrufru** · 05-19-2009, 08:19 AM

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and
her flaming self-respect and it's these things I'd
believe in even if the whole world indulged in wild
suspicions that she wasn't all she should be…I love her
and that's the beginning of everything....F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**glamour girlie** · 05-19-2009, 11:12 PM

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

**joectigger** · 05-19-2009, 11:48 PM

"Some people just need a hug...until they can't breathe anymore."

**KShawn** · 05-20-2009, 03:55 AM

"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love,
then love will wholeheartedly respond to you."

Marianne Williamson (1952- )

**BERK** · 05-20-2009, 05:32 AM

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

-- Anthony Robbins

**christie0918** · 05-20-2009, 07:07 AM

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw

**toofrufru** · 05-20-2009, 07:09 AM

Love is not a matter of counting the years --
it's making the years count....Wolfman Jack Smith.

Love creates an "us" without
destroying a "me"....Unknown.

**shigi** · 05-20-2009, 07:33 AM

"There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience." - Laurence J. Peter

**Oiler41** · 05-20-2009, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by shigi

"There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience." - Laurence J. Peter

This one is great,,and oh so very true! Thanks for sharing it!

Glynn

**ArwenN** · 05-20-2009, 09:42 AM

"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian."
~~ Pat Paulsen

**Galant_1** · 05-20-2009, 10:00 AM

.....each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart-

**Ramy** · 05-20-2009, 11:10 PM

This one seems to fits all the mishaps I manage to find myself in...

You're not a magnet for accidents -- that's not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you. -- Twilight

**Oiler41** · 05-21-2009, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by Ramy

This one seems to fits all the mishaps I manage to find myself in...

You're not a magnet for accidents -- that's not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you. -- Twilight

I've felt like this at times in my life, lol. Had two car wrecks, two weeks apart at the exact same intersection when I was a teenager. It certainly found me, lol.

Glynn

**Ramy** · 05-21-2009, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Oiler41

I've felt like this at times in my life, lol. Had two car wrecks, two weeks apart at the exact same intersection when I was a teenager. It certainly found me, lol.

Glynn

I liked it because I seem to find myself in ALL sorts of mischief at any given moment!

**BERK** · 05-21-2009, 04:26 AM

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

-- Aldous Huxley

**Oiler41** · 05-21-2009, 04:29 AM

Originally Posted by BERK

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

-- Aldous Huxley

Amen! What a great quote!

Glynn

**KShawn** · 05-21-2009, 04:51 AM

"Most people think of peace as a state of
Nothing Bad Happening,
or Nothing Much happening.
Yet if peace is to overtake us
and make us the gift of serenity and well-being,
it will have to be the state of
Something Good Happening."

E.B. White (1899-1985)

**toofrufru** · 05-21-2009, 06:01 AM

Love grows by giving. The love we give away
is the only love we keep. The only way to
retain love is to give it away....Elbert Hubbard.

**DivaTX45** · 05-21-2009, 06:06 AM

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

~Aphra Behn

**shigi** · 05-21-2009, 07:01 AM

Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.

**Southpawbutch** · 05-21-2009, 04:18 PM

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

~Mark Twain~

**glamour girlie** · 05-21-2009, 04:46 PM

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.
-- David Niven (The Moon is Blue, 1953)

**joectigger** · 05-21-2009, 09:13 PM

"With a smile like that, you've got it made."

**KShawn** · 05-22-2009, 05:01 AM

"Sometimes I think I spend my whole life
trying to figure out where I fit in."

~ Anonymous ~

"Sometimes it isn't what you do,
but what you don't do that makes you who you are."

~ Anonymous ~

**chosetodance** · 05-22-2009, 07:01 AM

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

**toofrufru** · 05-22-2009, 07:27 AM

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.
We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.
And some people still wonder why some are afraid
when they are told they are loved....Unknown.

In love, there is always one who kisses
and one who offers the cheek....French Proverb.