poems of love and trust

Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave. ~Verse from a traditional tattoo artist's song, as quoted on pbs.org, "Skin Stories: The Art and Culture of Polynesian Tattoo," 2003



Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. ~Mason Cooley



You are my sonshine. ~Author Unknown



If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. ~Author Unknown



The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James



Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ~Aldous Huxley



We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. ~David Grayson



Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey



Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks



Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner



The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson



Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Calvin



Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun



No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~Charles Dudley Warner



You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings



Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience. ~Abigail Charleson



There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady



Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

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