Interesting Quotes

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. 

-- Dinah Craik

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. 

-- Author Unknown

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

-- Robert Brault

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

-- Buddha

[xxxooxxx]

“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”

― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

[I fish]

“Much-Afraid, don’t you know by now I never think of you are now but as you will be when I have brought you the Kingdom of Love and washed you from all the stains and defilements of the journey?”(164).
Hannah Hurnard
Hinds Feet On High Places

[I fish]

“‘You poor little thing,’ came the whisper of Self-Pity through the mist.‘It is too bad…just think of all the time you are wasting, getting nowhere at all. Trudge, trudge, day after day, nothing to show for it, and you ought to be getting up onto the High Places’”(160).
Hannah Hurnard
Hinds FEet On High Places

[Old Sam]

"There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first."

Tallulah Bankhead

[Anonymous]

Poetry is an echo,
asking a shadow to dance.

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.

-- Unknown

[Laurie Caring-Stalker]

A true friend walks in when the whole world walks out.

-- Unknown

[Anonymous]

One hand plus one hand
isn’t two hands;
it’s hands united.

Join your hand to our hands
so the world isn’t
in the hands of a few.....

but in everyone’s hands.

G. Arango

[Anonymous]

I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.

I sang oh reckless free-hearted
free-throated rythms,
Even the moon remembers them
And is kind to me.

- Carl Sandburg

[Phaerae]

The Essence of a New Day This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good. ~ Unknown

[La Sunshine]

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~Michel de Montaigne

[I fish]

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell


If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell


Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell


War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell


Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

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[Always Wary]

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Old Sam]

"FORE!"

Arnold Palmer

[I fish]

“Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet.

Well?" I asked him.

He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken

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[aWitchintheWoods]

And now for a little feminine humor....

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man.
If you want anything done, ask a woman." -Margaret Thatcher

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning!!" -Catherine Aird

"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house".-Zsa Zsa Gabor

"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman." -Maryon Pearson

And the absolute best......

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
-Eleanor Roosevelt