misselephant’s most recent Quotables

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they make act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome it. Fore I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul"

Being able to be with small children teaches us how to deal with adults who act like babies.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

"We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are."

It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like we're together, cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else.

Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

People were meant to be loved
Stuff was meant to be used
The reason why we're so unhappy is because
People are being used and
Stuff is being loved.

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close”

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

“Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love ..... If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. .... So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

you are all i need, rid me of all usual essentials...watch as i only excel.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.