posted August 12, 2006 11:08 AM         

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
-- Jackie Gleason

posted August 15, 2006 06:37 AM         

“So you failed. Alright. You really failed.
You failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed, you failed.
You think I care about that?...
You want to be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make ‘em wonder why you’re still smiling. That’s true greatness to me.”

posted August 15, 2006 07:19 AM         

At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.
- The Secret Life of Bees (ch. 1)

“No person is perfect… we need to let the puzzle of the human heart just be what it is.”

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It’s that hard. If God said in plain language, ‘I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,’ a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.”

“I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called “bee yard etiquette.” She reminded me that the world was really one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places: Don’t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don’t be an idiot; wear long sleeves and long pants. Don’t swat. Don’t even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper. Act like you know what you’re doing, even if you don’t. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”

"We walked to the woods beside the pink house with her stories still pulled around our shoulders. I could feel them touching me in places like an actual shawl."

posted August 17, 2006 08:33 AM         

"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How CAN any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
~ Zora Neale Hurston

*edit. Another from Zora Neale:
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

And from the book Beloved by Toni Morrison:
Then she did the magic: lifted Sethe's feet and legs and massaged them until she cried salt tears.
"It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts."

posted September 14, 2006 05:51 AM         

~Rod Serling

posted September 14, 2006 08:22 PM         

"Genius is childhood recaptured."
- Baudelaire

"We are near to awakening when we dream that we dream."
- Novalis

posted September 14, 2006 08:24 PM         

"The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."
- Chinese saying

I was thinking:

The temptation to succeed will be greatest just before you are about to quit.

posted September 18, 2006 05:56 PM         

I don't even have a quote to share right now, I'm just shocked! Well i guess it's not that incredible, but the second post in this thread quotes "Conversation with God" by Neale Donald Walsche and I was just searching the forums for a place to post a thread about that book.. to hopefully discuss it with everyone here.

I just picked up the book yesterday and it's incredible..
anyone know where I could make a thread about this?

thanks!! lovely quotes by the way.

posted November 08, 2006 07:09 AM         

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

posted November 08, 2006 12:46 PM         

~C S Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (the book, of course)