Inspiration
Taken from the wonderful biopage of Raspberryblu
“Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.”
~Picasso
"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
Rabindranath Tagore
Victoria's Secret
Well their stuff's real nice
Oh but I can buy the same damn thing on a Wal*Mart shelf half price
And still look sexy
Just as sexy
As those models on TV
No I don't need no designer tag to make my man want me
You might think I'm trashy
A little too hard core
But get in my neck of the woods
I'm just the girl next door
--Gretchen Wilson "Redneck Woman"
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money."
~Cree Indian Proverb
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
--Scott Adams
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Lady" does not mean "passive." "Woman" does not mean "weak." We just have a different armory and supply line than he does.
~ Lisa Joseph
Hand guns are made for killin'
Ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
"I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze."
-D. H. Lawrence
Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living, and what they really want.
-James Truslow Adams
"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people, that each protects the solitude of the other."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
What lasts is what's written. We look to literature to find an essence of an age"
-Peter Brodie
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming."
When a woman’s pain becomes conscious, she can do something with it. She can use it to learn with, to grow strong with, to become a knowing woman.
--Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-Robert Frost
"Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
-Lisa Simpson
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
-Janeane Garofalo
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
“I don’t think---“
“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter.
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."
-- Chinese Proverb
-Oscar Wilde