Quotes etc presented by Crystal Forest

Nobody is going to come save you. That's your job. Save yourself. If you don't like where you are, get out of there. The object is not for them to like you; the object is for them to listen to you. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Your family thinks of you as a pet. You have to leave them. They are just where you came from; they are not what you are. They will give you everything they have, but will not make you want it or know what to do with it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell

--Ann LaMott from the book "Word by Word"

"Legal" is not the same as "right".

"Acceptable" is not the same as "appropriate".

"Tolerance" is not the same as "approval".

"Possible" is not the same as "wise".

"Open-minded" is not the same as "empty-headed".

"Flexible" is not the same as "spineless".

--Manny Olds (oldsma@pobox.com) of Riverdale Park, Maryland, USA

Don't ever think you know what's right for the other guy.

He might start thinking he knows what's right for you.

-- Paul Williams

"When choosing between two evils, I always choose the one I haven't tried before."

-- Mae West

Sensual is running a feather down your lover's body.

Kinky is using the whole chicken.

Perverted is if the chicken is still alive...

Twisted is using boneless skinless chicken breasts.

--unknown

They say that love is but a dance

Don't let the music fade away

Don't let the moment pass.

--Eric Woolfson

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

--unknown

Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart.

--nknown

Love is friendship set on fire.

--French Proverb

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's looking.

--unknown

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."

--Voltaire

A mistake is only a failure is one does not learn from it.

--unknown

Nature within her inmost self divides

To trouble men without having to take sides

--Robert Frost

I want to live

I want to grow

I want to see

I want to know

I want to share what I can give

I want to be

I want to live

--John Denver

Don't talk about what you have done

Or what you are going to do

Do It

And let it speak for itself

--Anon.

Doing nothing is fine

As long as you do it with style

--JH Brown

Patience walks with steady tread

Faith with uplifted eyes

But Hope, tiptoe-ing ahead

Sees first the sun rise.

--unknown

We find comfort in those who agree with us, growth amoung those who do not.

--unknown

You can clutch the past so tightly tht it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

--unknown

If it leaves you standing alone, then stand alone. At least you will be pure.

~Ramtha

Have the courage to do what you know in your heart is right, that you believe is right, and be strong enough to risk being wrong to do so.

~Lazaris

This is your life. It is my life. ENJOY it. What will get in the way of your doing that is too expensive. Sell it!

~Diane Connors

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. We ask ourselves.....

"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of god. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you.

You were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. It is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we give other people the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~~Nelson Mandella

"It is never too late to become what you might have been "

~~George Elliott

"One does not have to bring their opponent to their knees ...

... just their senses. "

~~Myfriend Dorie's grandma but original source is unknown

"The most inappropriate place to hang the veil of inhibition is between yourself and your true love"

~~David Townsend