Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ellen_Goodman)


... I run by some cool quotes often so I thought I could share with some cool people ;) ...
Charisma~

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
--Henry David Thoreau

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with a soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
--Jim Morrison, late member of the rock group; The Doors

"The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think."


Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.
--Wilferd A. Peterson

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
--Unknown

:cool:

Friends are like late busses; the good ones only come once in a lifetime.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."

– Kathleen Winsor

"YOu need money for education, you need education to make money. You need money for education, you need education for money.......need....money.....education......need. ..education...money...."=ME

"In therapy, would you teach social skills to socialize or will you ask them to socialize to develop social skills?"-My Ab psyc professor.

I dug up a fave the other day that I'd almost lost.

"Committments, authenticity and self-disclosure"

I have no idea who said this or in what context, but it fits most closely for most things I ponder.
Ian

we did not inherit the earth from our parents ,it is on loan to us by our children. - African saying

I spent most of my money on beer and women ,the rest I just wasted -sign in my garage that still cracks me up even though it's dated

But for the grace of god go I=author unknown

Look at my sig.

"I'm so hungry i could eat at Arby's!" ROFL. Ok, that was from The Simpsons, but who cares its still funny

my favorite (so far) is in my signature.... IAN... LOVE your aviator! :)

my favorite (so far) is in my signature.... IAN... LOVE your aviator! :)
awesome quote haha thanks for that laugh!

"I'm so hungry i could eat at Arby's!" ROFL. Ok, that was from The Simpsons, but who cares its still funny
LOL! too many cartoons for you ...

Look at my sig.
"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! "



AWESOME!!

When you come to the edge of all the light you know,and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -Barbara J. Winter

oh you hate your job? why didn't you say so? they have a support group for that its called EVERYBODY and they meet at the bar. -drew carey

^ cool quote...


"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

– Carlos Castaneda

One of my favorite sayings, as with my signature here, isn't so much a quote, but an excerpt, from a book.
Nova

This one is from Peter Pan:

Wendy: Peter, what are your real…feelings ?

Peter: Feelings ?

Wendy: What do you feel ? Happiness ? Sadness ? Jealousy ?

Peter: Jealousy ? Tink !

Wendy: Anger ?

Peter: Anger ? Hook !

Wendy: Love ?

Peter: Love ?

Wendy: Love…

Peter: I have never heard of it.

Wendy: I think you have, Peter. I daresay you’ve felt it yourself for something..or someone.

Peter: Never. Even the sound of it offends me.

Wendy: Peter..

Peter: Why do you spoil everything ?! We have fun, don’t we ? I taught you to fight and fly. What more could there be ?!

Wendy: There is so much more…

Peter: What ? What else is there ?

Wendy: I don’t know. I think it becomes clearer when you grow up.

Peter: I will not grow up ! You can not make me ! I will banish you, like Tinkerbell !

Wendy: I will not be banished !

Peter: Go home and grow up..and take your feelings with you !!

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most days I feel like a stepping stone in someone else's life.
my own quote

created after a long and introspective night within the depths of my mind, at 4:42 am, on 11-15-2005.
Nova

The only limits are those we impose on ourselves, whether through total belief in ourselves, or failure of belief in ourselves.
my own quote

created March 24, 1990- My 26th birthday present to myself, during an incredibly difficult time I was going through, at the time.
Nova

NOVA... you have some really great quotes. Especially your own :)


Here is one today. I think I may try and post my own written quotes sometime too. :D



"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny."

– Don Sutton

here is yet another..

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes)

Another one..from Peter Pan, lol !

Peter:
You can't catch me and make me a grown up !

One of my favorite sayings, as with my signature here, isn't so much a quote, but an excerpt, from a book.
Nova

This one is from Peter Pan:

Wendy: Peter, what are your real…feelings ?

Peter: Feelings ?

Wendy: What do you feel ? Happiness ? Sadness ? Jealousy ?

Peter: Jealousy ? Tink !

Wendy: Anger ?

Peter: Anger ? Hook !

Wendy: Love ?

Peter: Love ?

Wendy: Love…

Peter: I have never heard of it.

Wendy: I think you have, Peter. I daresay you’ve felt it yourself for something..or someone.

Peter: Never. Even the sound of it offends me.

Wendy: Peter..

Peter: Why do you spoil everything ?! We have fun, don’t we ? I taught you to fight and fly. What more could there be ?!

Wendy: There is so much more…

Peter: What ? What else is there ?

Wendy: I don’t know. I think it becomes clearer when you grow up.

Peter: I will not grow up ! You can not make me ! I will banish you, like Tinkerbell !

Wendy: I will not be banished !

Peter: Go home and grow up..and take your feelings with you !!
Sadly,

I have never, ever watched that movie. Cool though because you just gave me reason to do so. Peter Pan and Wendy sound just like something in my relationship with my best friend.

Just like him I say.. :D

here is a type of inspirational...

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

– Swami Sivananda Saraswati

here is a type of inspirational...

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."



– Swami Sivananda Saraswati



That is absolutely beautiful, Charisma
Thank you for sharing it.
Nova

"And thou who thinks to seek for me..know they seeking and yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the mystery;
That if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee."

Charge of the Goddess-Doreen Valiente

"And thou who thinks to seek for me..know they seeking and yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the mystery;
That if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee."

Charge of the Goddess-Doreen Valiente
OMG! This is AWESOME!!!

Thank YOU for sharing Nova!:cool:

OMG! This is AWESOME!!!

Thank YOU for sharing Nova!:cool:

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Nova

"The reasonable man adapts to his
environment. The unreasonable man
adapts his environment to suit him. The
entire progress of our race, therefore,
can be attributed to the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw, attributed

"No, you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable, and life's like an hourglass glued to the table, no one can find the rewind button now. Sing it if you understand."

--Anna Nalick (2 a.m./Breathe)

this is a quote from one of my favorite movies .. the notebook


Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Young Noah (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331516/): Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a **** and I tell you when you are a pain in the ***. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-*** thing.
Young Allie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046097/): So what?
Young Noah (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331516/): So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I though that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.


Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone.

I really like that.. I guess because it reminds me of something ( not completely) my best friend put into words with me once...


Here is one for the day...

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching."

– Tennessee Williams

one more for a brighter day!....

Seize the second as each one counts! - Cindy Lewis

this is a quote from one of my favorite movies .. the notebook


Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Young Noah (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331516/): Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a **** and I tell you when you are a pain in the ***. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-*** thing.
Young Allie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046097/): So what?
Young Noah (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331516/): So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I though that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.


Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone.

That was a GREAT movie !!!!!

yeah it was.... the best love story that ive seen in awhile

Ok.. now I feel left out. I have yet another movie added to my list of what I haven't watched...LOL!

Here is today's quote....(words to live by)

"Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that."

– Harold Kushner

Charisma-
I used to have so many people in my past life that felt it was their entire purpose in life to try and remove my 'pain' and melancholy...
I need both aspects though, as much as I do my bell like laughter, and my wicked sense of humor, and my attribution of metaphors to describe everything in life, also as much as I have a need to give things unique names other than the boring names society attributes to them.
Like I just bought a really cool, quirky, tropical fern, with green pointy 'lasagna' looking leaves, that I've named Pyewakyt.

Or why when some 'manager' is yelling to his employees at Dominoes Pizza place, when I picked up my pizza, a few days ago, I had to loudly declare to him, that if he didn't apologize to each and every one of them, and apologize to me, also, I would not only not take my order (it equaled out to over $20), but that I would call his Corporate Office tomorrow, and not only have his **** fired, but sue them for emotional trauma (and I do know the law, Char..trust me on this) because he, and only he, was affecting me, while I was being subjected to his abuse.
That was Bullpoop, as far as I was concerned. But to someone else, who abuses people..maybe I'm as loony as loony can be..and need to be 'fixed'....see where I'm headed with this ?


I know the people from my past meant well..and that they couldn't understand me and how I 'was built'...I still see them, in my mind's eye..always chattering, loudly like squirrels, lol !! when they were actually saying 'We HAVE to find a way to stop her..we have to fix her...this laughter...this sadness..this anger..all on a turn of a dime at times...it's illogical...she is illogical..we have to DO SOMETHING TO FIX HER.
And try they did, lol.
There's nothing to fix though, mind you (0: because I'm not meant to be their twin. I don't have their identical genes, blood type, fingerprints, in other words..DNA...
And yet..the goobers still attempt to do so...but I'll patronize them every so often and allow them to think they are able to do that, lol !!
Now...are you going to carry that quote I posted on here with you -everywhere you go....really ?
If you like it that much...you can always Google The Charge, and read it in its entirety.
Too funny...you go girl !!!

Nova

"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
-Joseph Campbell

"In the story of Sir Galahad, the knights agree to go on a quest, but thinking it would be a disgrace to go forth in a group, each "entered into the forest, at one point or another, there where they saw it to be thickest, all in those places where they found no way or path." Where there is a way or path, it's someone else's way. Each knight enters the forest at the most mysterious point and follows his own intuitions. What each brings forth is what never before was on land or sea: the fulfillment of unique potentialities, which are different from anybody else's. All you get on your life way are little clues."
-Joseph Campbell

I am amazed every day now when I look in this thread I created and I love that I did. No regrets! I love being able to come and see such cool quotes and thoughts.

As to the quote.. I am loving it because I was always one to use this language in my own poems as a teen in highschool. I would only get along with those who really read them and attempted to understand or even knew what they meant. There were many who would look at my words and be like, " what ???, I don't even know if that is English..."... MORON! lol sorry...

I will get to google it soon. I am working now.. lol ( my excuse for my new procrastination ) hahaha....

I just read into it in my own way.

Let's see... I just thought in a short version that it is as if .. "well if you can't find that happiness within yourself or whatever you seek out within yourself first.. you just wont find it at all. Without finding YOU... there is nothing else to learn from. How can you be without YOU?"... I don't know but that is just one small bit of what I got from that quote from "The Charge:)

another...


If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jimmy_Buffett)

I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date
-The Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland

Good day everyone!


"The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense."

– Arnold Bennett

haha I thought this one to be funny..

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Neil_Armstrong)

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are all small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."

– Rita Mae Brown

"No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains."

– Louis Brandeis

HAPPY TURKEY DAY EVERYONE!



"Ruin and recovering are both from within."

– Epictetus

I'm not crazy, I'm mentally impaired :D

woot woot!!! Draga!

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henri-Fr%E9d%E9ric_Amiel)



"There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us."

– Margaret Mitchell

:D

"Bipolar people are like spiders; more afraid of you than you are of us. And we can walk on the ceiling." :D -unknown.

"Bipolar people are like spiders; more afraid of you than you are of us. And we can walk on the ceiling." :D -unknown.

hahaha that is funny :)

What I though was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal.
Dr. Fred Alan Wolf on Quantum Physics

Asking yourself questions about life opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Dr. Fred Alan Wolf- on Quantum Physics

All that we are is the result of what we have though.
The mind is everything.
What we think
We Become
Buddha

I Create My Reality.
I Live the Life I Love
and
I Love the Life I Live.
-Willie Dixon

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henri-Fr%E9d%E9ric_Amiel)" by Charisma Dream



Oooo,

Thanks Charisma, I needed that...

Dwaggamel .... Good to see you around. :)\


"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

"It's all uphill from here.." (unknown)

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - OSCAR WILDE

I dont know the key to sucess, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -BILL COSBY

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henri-Fr%E9d%E9ric_Amiel)" by Charisma Dream



Oooo,

Thanks Charisma, I needed that...
:) Glad I could help!

"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."– Joseph Joubert

"It's all uphill from here.." (unknown)
Yay !!! Good to see you on here, Speed !!

"None will improve your lot if you yourself do not."
– Bertolt Brecht

My new sig line....
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."

– John Ruskin

Hi all!

"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians. How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we're the origins of war. Not history's forces nor the times nor justice nor the lack of it nor causes nor religions nor ideas nor kinds of government nor any other thing! We are the killers; we breed war. We carry it, like syphilis, inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love each other just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children; we could change the world."

Eleanor of Aquitaine, from The Lion in Winter.

Be well!

stillsmallvoice

Hi all!

"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians. How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we're the origins of war. Not history's forces nor the times nor justice nor the lack of it nor causes nor religions nor ideas nor kinds of government nor any other thing! We are the killers; we breed war. We carry it, like syphilis, inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love each other just a little? That's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children; we could change the world."

Eleanor of Aquitaine, from The Lion in Winter.

Be well!

stillsmallvoice
VERY COOL.:cool:

Good day to everyone... Maya is one of my fav people to quote.


"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"

– Maya Angelou

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Paula_Poundstone)

Hi Charismasdream!

See http://tinyurl.com/bvskq (http://tinyurl.com/bvskq). Turn your speakers on!

Whaddya think?

Be well!

stillsmallvoice

.." ;) "