posted August 24, 2013 07:11 AM            

- An irascible old man.
(Kurt Vonnegut)

posted August 24, 2013 08:44 AM            

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posted August 24, 2013 09:17 AM            

And when the way seems long
And our hearts begin to fail~
She sings a more wonderful song.
She tells a more wonderful tale.

-Adapted from a poem by Robert Lowell

posted August 24, 2013 03:00 PM            

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posted August 24, 2013 07:05 PM            

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Originally posted by Zander916:
“Many people hold onto a grudge because it offers the illusion of power and a perverse feeling of security. But in fact, we are held hostage by our anger. It is never too late to forgive. But you can forgive too soon. I am especially wary of what I call "saintly forgiveness." Premature forgiveness is common among people who avoid conflict. They're afraid of their own anger and the anger of others. But their forgiveness is false. Their anger goes underground. I define forgiving as letting someone back into your heart. This returns us to a loving state -- and not merely within the relationship -- we feel good about ourselves and the world. True forgiveness isn't easy, but it transforms us significantly. To forgive is to love and to feel worthy of love. In that sense, it is always worthwhile.”

― Robert Karen P.H.D.

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This really applies to me right now, Tony!

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posted August 24, 2013 07:13 PM            

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Originally posted by Padre35:

Before you accuse me...take a look at yourself

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This one is take the mote out of your eye so you can see the splinter in yo brother

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posted August 26, 2013 04:05 AM            

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”Sing what you can't say
Forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
My loveletter to nobody”

posted August 27, 2013 10:50 PM            

Assortment from the inside front cover of my Personal Journal Vol.26, Jan - Mar, 1998.

A Coward Dies a Thousand Deaths-- The Brave man only one. [?]

Keep talking till somebody listens and hears You!

If someone says "shut up"--- CRY OUT ALL THE MORE!!!

By hearing, you are heard.

1) Listen
2) Ask what you need
3) Give and receive freely

Woman = AUDACIOUSNESS !! Ha!
Men = belligerence

I drink the water of a deeper well

What Doesn't Kill you, makes you stronger. [?]

Life: I know what I want to do--- I WANT the freedom to DO it.

When you control your emotions, you control your life.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

Religion is for people who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for people who've already been there. [?]
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. --Cicero

There is no greater burden than great potential. --Charles M. Schulz

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. --Doug Engelhart

Mistakes: Portals of Discovery. --James Joyce

If you don't defend your honor, people will assume you have none. --Michael Levine

Circumstances don't mold our character-- they REVEAL it.

YOU! are changed INSIDE--- NOT the world.

Pioneers make life safe for us. (Indians & Arrows)

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. --Charles H. Spurgeon

The Good versus The Evil: The same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay. --Charles C. Colton

There's a danger in not expressing feeling; even more in NOT KNOWING your feelings. [?]

To hear the truth and not accept it does NOT nullify truth. --Brotherhood Journal

True knowledge comes first in knowing that you know nothing at all.

All too often, it's AUDACITY and NOT talent that moves an artist to center-stage... You COULD do it better if only you would LET yourself do it. --Cameron & Bryan, The Artist's Way (page 34).

Daniel 11:32 The people that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord Thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord God delivereth him out of them all.

If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be Peace in the World.
---Chinese Proverb

posted August 27, 2013 11:31 PM            

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is strange, with its twists and its turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When they might have won, had they stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.
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Often the struggler has given up
When they might have captured the victor's cup;
And they learned too late when the night came down,
How close they came to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit!

posted August 28, 2013 01:16 AM            

"After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box." Italian Proverb

"Of course, he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest." Arnold Schoenberg

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think of yourself." James Stphens

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason." (good OR bad) Marya Mannes

"Only mediocrity can be trusted to always be at its best." Max beerbohm

"Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on." Arthur K. Watson

"His shortcoming is his long staying." Anon

"We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions." Dwight Morrow

"Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking." Idi Amin

"Young men think old men to be fools and old men know young me to be so." Anon

posted August 28, 2013 03:39 AM            

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What a fantastic collection mirage!! Thank you for sharing those!

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posted August 28, 2013 03:40 AM            

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Originally posted by Zander916:
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a****les.”

¯ Steven Winterburn

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posted August 28, 2013 04:06 AM            

"Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
So leaf subsides to leaf
As Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay"

-Robert Frost

posted August 28, 2013 12:09 PM            

John Lennon

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posted August 28, 2013 02:40 PM            

”Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt

”Sometimes you win sometimes you learn.” ////

“There’s no such thing as ruining your
life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.” Sophie Kinsella

“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me, and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing, and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.” Anthony Hopkins

”Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important and you’ll capture it perfectly.”

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”Sing what you can't say
Forget what you can't play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
My loveletter to nobody”

posted August 28, 2013 08:12 PM            

I don't know who wrote that,but i really dig it

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on"- Thomas Jefferson

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all." - Alfred lord Tennyson

posted August 29, 2013 04:03 PM            

Harvey Fierstein

“There is a fine line between compassion and a victim mentality. Compassion though is a healing force and comes from a place of kindness towards yourself. Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness.”
― Bronnie Ware