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skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
edited September 2013 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. i have been bent and broken, but -i hope- into better shape.

charles dickens, great expectations
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  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. i have been bent and broken, but -i hope- into better shape.

    charles dickens, great expectations

    that IS a great expectation

    (this is a good thread to have here ~)
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    it's alright if you grow your wings on the way down.... Robert Bly
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

    Audrey Hepburn
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. i have been bent and broken, but -i hope- into better shape.

    charles dickens, great expectations
    :clap::clap::clap::clap:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • AnnafalkAnnafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    pandora wrote:
    "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

    Audrey Hepburn

    Great one :)
  • mikalinamikalina Posts: 7,206
    pandora wrote:
    "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

    Audrey Hepburn


    Nice one....
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  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    for valentine's day tomorrow....


    This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then you both grew sarcastic.

    Lorrie Moore, LIKE LIFE: Stories
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
    it gives a lovely light! "

    Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself- and especially to feel or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is.
    JM
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    "Love as much as you can"
    EV 15-8-2009 Berlin.
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    How like a winter hath my absence been
    From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
    What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
    What old December's bareness everywhere!

    William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVII (97)
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    "Money often costs too much.”

    ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    speak softly and carry a big stick
    t roosevelt
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    "And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name."

    - William Shakespeare
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
    H. Rider Haggard, She


    Do not allow me to forget you.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Of Love and Other Demons
  • morellomorello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    "if you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it"

    That's on my work intranet quote of the day today & I thought I'd share. :)
    <hr>
    PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014, Auckland1&2 2024
    EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    isnt worth it
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • vogonpoetbythelakevogonpoetbythelake Posts: 2,146
    "once you hold the hand of love it's all sir mountable"

    rollings
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    vogonpoetbythelake wrote:
    "once you hold the hand of love it's all sir mountable"

    rollings

    :lol:
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    isnt worth it

    --dimi
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    pandora wrote:
    "And as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
    Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
    A local habitation and a name."

    - William Shakespeare

    that is so cool
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    It was like picking a scab off a sore; he actually wanted scar tissue- it would be quite wrong to try and forget, to blank it all out. Every fraught memory that lurked here had played its role: everything he was today was an indirect result of the life he had led then. It confirmed the rightness of every step he had taken.

    William Boyd, ARMADILLO
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    rollings wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    isnt worth it

    --dimi
    :)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    And if I shed a tear I won't cage it
    I won't fear love
    And if I feel a rage I won't deny it
    I won't fear love

    SARAH MCLACHLAN
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • supersonicyearssupersonicyears Posts: 2,619
    You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
    "In the age of darkness
    want to be enlightened"
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming " Wow! What a Ride!"

    Hunter S. Thompson
  • supersonicyearssupersonicyears Posts: 2,619
    “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see"
    - Benjamin Franklin
    "In the age of darkness
    want to be enlightened"
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

    Nella Larsen, Quicksand
  • rollingsrollings unknown Posts: 7,125
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

    Nella Larsen, Quicksand

    what then did she do?
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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