words of wisdom that may bring a smile

[RedAngel]

The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 millions years despite not having brains is great news for stupid people.

[bo0m]

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

 

Marilu Henner

[Alphaleader]

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

 

Especially on ET ^^ lol

[bo0m]

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

 

Especially on ET ^^ lol

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

 

Dr Seuss

 

Happy Bday m8

[Free Palestine]

[bo0m]

Every morning the maple leaves.

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts

from one foot to the other. Every morning the same big

and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out

You will be alone always and then you will die.

So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog

of non-definitive acts,

something other than the desperation.

Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your party.

Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I came to your party

and seduced you

and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.

You want a better story. Who wouldn’t?

 

A forest, then. Beautiful trees. And a lady singing.

Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on.

What a sweet lady. Sing lady, sing! Of course, she wakes the dragon.

Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly

flames everywhere.

I can tell already you think I’m the dragon,

that would be so like me, but I’m not. I’m not the dragon.

I’m not the princess either.

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down.

I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure,

I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow

glass, but that comes later.

 

Let me do it right for once,

for the record, let me make a thing of cream and stars that becomes,

you know the story, simply heaven.

Inside your head you hear a phone ringing

and when you open your eyes

only a clearing with deer in it. Hello deer.

Inside your head the sound of glass,

a car crash sound as the trucks roll over and explode in slow motion.

Hello darling, sorry about that.

Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we

lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell

and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.

Especially that, but I should have known.

 

Inside your head you hear

a phone ringing, and when you open your eyes you’re washing up

in a stranger’s bathroom,

standing by the window in a yellow towel, only twenty minutes away

from the dirtiest thing you know.

All the rooms of the castle except this one, says someone, and suddenly

darkness,

suddenly only darkness.

In the living room, in the broken yard,

in the back of the car as the lights go by. In the airport

bathroom’s gurgle and flush, bathed in a pharmacy of

unnatural light,

my hands looking weird, my face weird, my feet too far away.

I arrived in the city and you met me at the station,

smiling in a way

that made me frightened. Down the alley, around the arcade,

up the stairs of the building

to the little room with the broken faucets, your drawings, all your things,

I looked out the window and said

This doesn’t look that much different from home,

because it didn’t,

but then I noticed the black sky and all those lights.

 

We were inside the train car when I started to cry. You were crying too,

smiling and crying in a way that made me

even more hysterical. You said I could have anything I wanted, but I

just couldn’t say it out loud.

Actually, you said Love, for you,

is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s

terrifying. No one

will ever want to sleep with you.

Okay, if you’re so great, you do it—

here’s the pencil, make it work …

If the window is on your right, you are in your own bed. If the window

is over your heart, and it is painted shut, then we are breathing

river water.

 

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently

we have had our difficulties and there are many things

I want to ask you.

I tried that one time, high school, second lunch, and then again,

years later, in the chlorinated pool.

I am still talking to you about help. I still do not have

these luxuries.

I have told you where I’m coming from, so put it together.

I want more applesauce. I want more seats reserved for heroes.

Dear Forgiveness, I saved a plate for you.

Quit milling around the yard and come inside.

Richard Siken

[la7ette]

A lie is growing like a snowball..................The longer is rolled!

ML

[United Blood]

Don't do anything well for the first time because no one will ever appreciate how difficult it was.

[Phobia]

When you fall, I will be there to catch you ... With love ~ the floor

[bo0m]

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

 

Larry King

[Monoxide]

"To define is to limit"

[Alphaleader]

What is interesting about French proverbs is that their literal translations may sound funny, but many of the proverbs have an English equivalent :

 

" On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne." This French phrase is literally translated as "One does not change a winning team," and is similar in meaning to the common English phrase "If it's not broken, don't fix it," or "Leave well enough alone."

[bo0m]

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[bo0m]

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Nancy]

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people.