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[davemac27]

its weird how you go from being strangers to being friends to being more than just friends to being practically strangers again .... and it all happens so fast.... - MTC Member

[reggie5490]

Listen to many, speak to a few

[sha79]

He did not need to ask how she knew his surname; she had taken it from him along with certain other things, such as his heart when he had kissed her. -Stardust

[Leyna]

A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~ Sigmund Freud

[nyekker]

the best way out is through

- robert frost

[frontsight]

Life is the art of drawing without erasers...

[BettyConfidential]

“Before you speak, listen.

Before you write, think.

Before you spend, earn.

Before you invest, investigate.

Before you criticize, wait.

Before you pray, forgive.

Before you quit, try.

Before you retire, save.

Before you die, give.”

 

- William A. Ward

[Leyna]

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minutes, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to k*ll. - Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

[BornAtNight]

A fake person will make a mistake and act like it never happened, a REAL person will make a mistake, admit it and apologize regardless of the outcome.

[_Honey_]

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

[Darien Faust]

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."

 

supposedly attributed to either Orwell or Churchill

[maniaclara]

"One should rather die than be betrayed.

There is no deceit in death.

It delivers precisely what it has promised.

Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope."

~ Steven Dietz

[El Chapo]

Everybody wants to change the world,

but nobody wants to change~

[erato]

From the song that Mistress Owens sang to Nobody Owens:

 

“Kiss a lover

Dance a measure,

Find your name

And buried treasure…”

“Face your life

Its pain, its pleasure,

Leave no path untaken”

[erato]

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.

If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe

in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless,

it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

 

To love is to be vulnerable.

 

~C.S. Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

Here's one of my favorite verses of a poem, one that's been on my wall since I can't even remember.

 

 

I wake to sleep

and take my waking slow

I feel my fate

in what I cannot fear

I learn by going

where I have to go.

 

~Theodore Roethke in The Waking