Cupcake_Quotes

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:43:01 GMT

Never pick up a zombie prostitute... She will rip you off.

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:43:05 GMT

I think I could fall madly in bed with you.

Flies spread disease - keep yours zipped.

When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

The only reason I would kick you off my bed, would be to fuck you on the floor.

Love is a sensation, caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location in a girls destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you get my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

Nice pants. Can I test the zipper?

My name is Sex, PLEASURE to meet you

Love is the desire to be irresistibly desired.
[Robert Frost]

"Sex… could kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere and secretions spit out of every gland, and the muscles tense and spasm like you're lifting three times your body weight. It's violent, it's ugly, and it's messy, and if God hadn't made it unbelievably fun… the human race would have died out eons ago... Men are lucky they can only have one orgasm. You know that women can have an hour-long orgasm? ... Hey, Foreman. What's up?" - Cameron on "House, MD"

here's my lotion..
go have fun in my bathroom,
because it's the only thing you're
getting from me.

you thought this was love?
it was just me moaning
&&saying I loved the way you
banged my headboard.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Sex relieves tension - love causes it. ~ Woody Allen

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa.

An erection is like the Theory of Relativity - the more you think about it, the harder it gets.

I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:29:14 GMT

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence
--Vince Lombardi

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.
--Georgio Armani

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
--George Herbert.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
--Marie Curie Polish (French chemist)

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself.
--Anais Nin

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
--Brian Tracy

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in your world.
--Brian Tracy

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
--Arsenio Hall

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
--Tom Landry

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen
--John Redman Coxe

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions
--Earl Gray Stevens

Self confidence is the key to the universe.
--Carrol Wrackley

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.
--Jack Gibb

I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have
Cannonball into the water
I'm gonna muster up every ounce of confidence I have
For you I will
-Teddy Geiger, For You I Will

it's not about being who everyone else wants you to be.
it's about being yourself && finding someone who loves
every bit of it

i know what i want;
and i know how to get it

sweetie;
compared to me..
you're trailer trash..

and just because i love myself
and im not all depressive
doesn't mean im a conceited bitch

IM miss america;
and you're just the girl next door

see this face?
these kind of girls are BORN with boyfriends

I'm not cocky, I'm just confident

CONFiDENCE; wear it like make up!

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in your world.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself.

im not cocky im confident; so when you tell me im the best it's a compliment :]

when you feel GOOD about yourself what you're wearing does not mean a thing

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards."

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

i got so much confidence
you'll think im conceited

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:29:45 GMT

Paradise wasn't on a beach..
It was in your arms
& now that you're in heaven
I don't have the chance to be in your arms *

god had to break our hearts
to prove he only takes the best

and I'm sure the view from heaven
beats the hell out of mine here
and if we all believe in heaven
maybe we'll make it through one more year

If tears could build a stairway, and memories were a lane, I would walk right up to heaven to bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken no time to say goodbye you were gone before I knew it, and only God knows why. My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow, what it meant to lose you, no one will ever know

My heart still aches in sadness and secret tears still flow.
What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know.

A little tribute true and tender,
Just to show that we remember.
Time may pass and fade away
But memories of you will always stay.

I have trouble accepting the fact that you're gone, so I wont...
It'll be like we went for awhile without seeing each other.
But I can see why God would want you closer to him,
cause you truly were an angel on Earth.

God saw you were getting tired, and a cure was not meant to be
So he put his arms around you, and whispered come with me
With tearful eyes we watched you, as we saw you pass away
Although we love you deeply, we could not make you stay
Your golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands at rest
God broke our hearts to prove to us... He only takes the best

Tears are the words my heart uses
to explain that even my fake
smiles can’t cover up my pain
and even though you’re gone
baby we’ll never be apart
because no matter what the distance
you’ll forever be in my heart

For now we'll say goodbye.
We know it's not the last time,
I've lost the best part of my day.
This is the last thing I, I will remember.
It's better where you're going anyway

If tears could build a stairway
I would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you home.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song,
seems like we just got started and then before you know it...
the times we had together were gone.

the Cars lined the streets, as it was coming to an end.
the sun shined so brightly the day we buried our friend.

And I wonder where you are
And if the pains ends when you die.
And I wonder if there was
Some better way to say good-bye.

The cemeteries are filled with people
who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

We should all be so lucky to have someone who will never let us go.
The ultimate legacy is to leave behind someone who will love you forever.

It's foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his

Never Forgotten
Always Loved
I miss you Daddy
because your up above

Only the young die good.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it
makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days

Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

When you were born, you cried and everyone smiled.
Live your life so that when you die,
everyone cries and you're the only one smiling

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all

On the plus side, death is one of the few things
that can be done just as easily lying down

Success in life is being truly missed and remembered long after you are gone.

Suicide is just a last cry for help that can't be answered...

Seeing death as the end of life is like
seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death.
When a life has been lived completely honestly,
completely successfully, or just completely,
the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die
any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Of the two, taxes happen annually.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was
worthwhile initially scared me to death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend,
others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Death is well understood, it's life that isn't.

I'm staring at your photograph,
remembering each moment you made me laugh,
I never thought it would end this way, that id
still be missing you to this very day...

Not all scars show, not all wounds heal
Sometimes you can't always see
The pain someone feels

For now we'll say goodbye.
We know it's not the last time,
I've lost the best part of my day.
This is the last thing I, I will remember.
It's better where you're going anyway

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:20:38 GMT

This is for those of us who would rather wear dog tags than diamonds.
For those of us who still sleep with stuffed animals, just because he got them for us.
This goes out to those of us who never lets go of her cell phone.
This goes out to those of us whose heart swells with pride every time the national anthem is played.
This goes out to the proud women who stand tall behind a United States soldier.
We sit and we wait, for a letter, for a phone call, and for the lucky ones, a homecoming.
Many people don’t understand this life; they say it’s unfair, they say they couldn’t do it.
Well, here is our response....

Do not tell us you’re sorry, or that you know how we feel.
Don’t try to make us laugh when we’re sad, we don’t want to laugh, we’d rather sit and think about our man.
We may not be “happy” with all of this, but we don’t mind waiting.
To us, it’s an honor.
We are the girls who wake up every morning with a sick feeling in her stomach; we’re the ones who just lay there for a minute to prepare ourselves for the day ahead.
We’re the ones who look forward to going to sleep; because they are with us in our dreams.
We are the ones you see wearing a sweatshirt or t-shirt that is 2 sizes too big just because it’s his.
This is for those of us who’s best friends they have never met; we meet them on myspace or support groups.
They are those only ones who understand.
This goes out to the women who spend holidays alone, this is for those of us who take pictures to send to our men when we wear a cute outfit or have a good hair day.
We know the real meaning of love, its not cute presents or formal dinners; its hearing his voice, it’s seeing him for the first time in many months.
For those of us that know what a chow hall is, those of us that know terms like head, rack and porthole.
This is for those of us who belong to a United State soldier.
You may see us struggle but you will never see us fall.
We are among the silent ranks; we are the few, the proud, the ones left behind.
We are bonded together by the United States Army.
Our men are brothers, a family of one.
Each one of us have one of the few.
We stand tall and we stand strong.
We stand behind our soldiers through thick and thin.
♥
We are the girls of the United States Army

Naughty boy!
You have extra hours of
Duty in my room!

I may wear the glass slippers..
but my hero wears combat boots

Whenever life seems to drift you away from me,
I can't help but cry. You've grown to be such a part of me that without you life is no more than a desperate sigh.
They do say love comes and goes, and to that I disagree. So, here's my hand, take it and don't let go of me.

In her love I am the hero, the king,the poet;
and alive without her love, I am nothing at all, not even truly alive.

It takes a second to say I love you,
but a lifetime to show it

When you're in love with someone it inspires you and gives you hope.
You have faith that even if you can't be with them on earth, that if God wills, you will be with them one day in heaven.

They look ordinary
They lace up just the same
But it's not the boots that matter
It's my soldier in the boots
that means the world to me.

You're not home to watch me grow or feel me kick,
but I love you Daddy, you're my hero & I can't wait to meet you!

Deployments last a few months
but our love lasts..forever

This deployment only makes me
love you more.

At night when I go to sleep
Theres an empty spot
where you should be.

When you're gone
This house is just a home.
I call home in your arms.

The girl he left behind
is still behind him.
Supporting her hero.

I just want to hug you, but your are 480 some miles away,
what I wouldn't do for a hug.

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Before I sleep and after I wake up and all the hours in between ...
you occupy my mind.
So, practically every moment of the day you are in my thoughts. I miss you.

Well she was an american girl raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinking that there was a little more to life
Somewhere else after all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to yeah, and if she had to die trying
She had one little promise she was gonna keep

I was Brave today,
because I thought of you
& how you always believed in me.
Thank you Love

we all die. the goal isn't to live forever.
the goal is to create something that will.

in my lifetime, i've come to realize that you can't depend upon other people for what you want. & you can't be scared to go out there & get it. you have to dream big, wish hard, & chase after your goals. because no one is going to do it for you.

People always wanna talk bad about a Soldier!
-Are you rocking dog tags?
-Have you woke up countless times wondering if you're gonna make it home?
-Do you risk ur life EVERYDAY in another COUNTRY for all Americans?
-Yet you love the freedom & country
You have & live in everyday
-So next time you talk about a Soldier think about all the things
YOU have Because of them, and just remember
The ones who talk bad are the ones
Who COULDN'T last a day in the shoes of a - U.S. Army Soldier

Blowing kisses into the wind,
I hope they find you wherever you are,
I hope you catch them from this far

When he's gone,
I live for these three words.
I'm coming home =]

Months, weeks & days have gone by but no worries we’ve got time to make it up

"The world sees a man going to war to fight for his country and
so much more, but what they don't see are the ones left behind, but
to her/him it doesn't matter because in the end, all she/he sees is
her/his hero, her/his daddy, her/his whole world. In one hug, one
kiss and one stare, she/he will remind him of what he's fighting for."

I am a military girlfriend. I hold no formal recognition with the powers that be. I am at the bottom of the chain. I hold no Military ID card, I am not a "dependent" or a parent. The man I love may face unspeakable dangers, and I am at the mercy of those who possess this recognition for news. I understand this and accept this.
I am a military girlfriend. I have promised to be here for him upon his return, no matter how long he is away. People may say I am insane for making such a commitment with no guarantees, but I hold onto our promises and have faith that he will come home safe to me. I know full well that my love for him fuels him in the worst of times.

I am a military girlfriend, there is no ring on my finger to symbolize our commitment, though I love him no less for it. I hope every day that he will be able call because a simple 30-second phone call can bring the greatest spectrum of emotions smiling with tears in my eyes from so much joy and pain. My relationship is based on a brief communication where "I love you and I’m okay" speaks more than volumes and gives me the strength to keep going.

I am a military girlfriend. I take no moment spent together for granted. I hold onto every touch, caress, kiss, every word. I have memorized the feel of his skin, his smell, the sound of his voice, and I play it over and over in my mind so that I will not forget. I cry myself to sleep some nights because missing him hurts so badly, but wake up the next morning, brush myself off, and start a new day.

I am a military girlfriend. The events of the next several months hold my life, my love, and my future in the balance. When you watch the news reports, you may turn away and go about your business relatively unaffected. When I watch news stories of the war I do not see nameless soldiers a half a world away. I see individuals who will be forever changed by war. News of every casualty causes me physical pain and deep sadness.

I am a military girlfriend, not a spouse or family member. When you say your prayers for the wives, mothers, and fathers, please don’t forget about me.

It isn't about the
big diamonds
the fancy cars
or the big house...
Its all about the
COMBAT BOOTS!!!

This will be the first time in a week, that i'll talk to you and i can't
speak. It's been 3 whole days since I've had sleep cause I dream of your lips
on my cheeks... I miss the lips that made me fly

When my daddy goes to work,
He's always dressed in green.
He has to be, because you see,
He's a United States Marine.

When my daddy has to go away,
to protect some far off land,
Mommy and I will wait and pray,
to again hold daddy's hand.

You don't become a hero
You become a hero because of who you are
Because of what you do.

Roses are red,
cammies are green,
I'm in love with a US Marine

If you think marines are tough..
..You should met their girls!

Home is where the military sends us <33

Crazy enough to love a man in the military.

My man rocks the cammies !!

I keep his dogtags
close to my heart.

My heart is deployed
and I want it back

My heart is at bootcamp
and I want it back

Baby, how's our little baby girl
does she know her daddy's half way round the world
tell her she is my heart
---Brian McKnight ft. Rascal Flatts

Wherever you go
I will be waiting
Whenever you call
I will be there
Whatever it takes
I'll make your darkest days
So bright
I'm in your heart tonight

America is not at war
The Marine Corps is
America is at the mall

Heroes are the ones that don't come back.

oceans apart day after day,
and i slowly go insane.
i hear your voice on the line,
but it doesn't stop the pain.

God welcomed you home
after you fought in the war.

Dear Marine,
Have yourself a Merry Christmas in Heaven <3

Dear Lord
We Stand Together and Never Alone
Through Our Trials and Triumphs Father
We Have Faith That You Will Bring Us Home
Walk Beside Us In Battle
Carry Us Through To Victory
Give Us The Strength To Do That
Which Others Could Not
Be With Us Today
Just As You Were Yesterday
Take Care Of Us Today
And Carry Us Through Tomorrow
Give Us The Strength
And The Will To Fight
Dear Lord
Watch Over Us Tonight
Amen

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:09:15 GMT

That's why I'm here today.
And at the end he said,
You are what I'm fighting for.
It was the first of his letters from war.
- Letters from War, Mark Schultz

I watched the flag pass by one day,It fluttered in the breeze A young soldier saluted it And then he stood at ease I looked at him in uniform so young,so tall,so proud With hair cut square And eyes alert He'd stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like Had fallen through the years How many died on foreign soil How many mothers tears? How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea? How many foxholes were soldiers graves? I heard the sound of Taps on night When everything was still I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill I wondered just how many times that taps had meant "amen" When a flag had draped a coffin Of a brother and a friend I thought of all the Children Of the mothers and the wives Of the fathers,sons,and husbands with interrupted lives I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea Of unmarked graves in Arlington No, freedom isn't free. Enjoy your freedom And God bless our troops

It's a flag blowin' in the summer wind
Over some fallen hero's grave.
-Rodney Atkins

For those who fight for it life has a special flavor the protected never know

what a Marine really is....
His emotions are impenetrable yet his shoulders are soft for those that need someone to lean on. His hands are firm yet know exactly where they need to be. If he has his arms wrapped around you, you're either in the last moments of your life or the safest place you could ever be. He's stubborn but will let you have your way just to see you smile. He's deadly with a rifle and gentle with a child. He plays poker with the devil but guards the gates of heaven. He curses like no other but is a perfect gentleman. He has a thousand yard stare but when you look into his eyes it's the most comforting thing you've ever felt. The Marine Corps trained him as a weapon but raised him as a lover. He knows every part of an M-16 and he knows every curve of his woman. There is no other man like him. Whether you love him or hate him both is a privilege. He could be your worst nightmare or your sweetest dream

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~José Narosky

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic. ~John A. Logan

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare

God, hold our troops in Thy loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the selfless acts
They perform for us in our time of need.
Amen !
-A prayer for our troops

Wave A Flag In support of our men and women in the military. Please wave a flag to show these heroes we are proud of them.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. ~Charles Sumner

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" ~Eve Merriam

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. ~Albert Einstein

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. ~David Friedman

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ~James Morrow

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

All the arms we need are for hugging. ~Author Unknown

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ~Napoleon

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ~Colman McCarthy

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. ~Abraham Flexner

Draft beer, not people. ~Attributed to Bob Dylan

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ~John F. Kennedy

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
~John McCrae

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. ~Author Unknown

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway

War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ~David Lloyd George

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~José Narosky

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. ~James Russell Lowell

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. ~Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973

War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin

War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire, War

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. ~Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If....?"

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985

[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ~Isaac Asimov

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ~Henry Fosdick

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin

In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ~Francis Meehan

Only the dead have seen the end of war. ~Plato

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. ~Ambrose Bierce

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ~Napoleon Hill

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ~Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" - with his mouth. ~Mark Twain

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ~Bertrand Russell, attributed

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ~Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. ~Albert Einstein

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war. ~Martin H. Fischer

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery. ~Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ~Norman Cousins

I think war might be God's way of teaching us geography. ~Paul Rodriguez

The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? ~Gregory Clark

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. ~Omar Bradley

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ~Holly Near

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. ~Albert Einstein

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it. ~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ~Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. ~Lucy Ellman

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stewart Mill

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. ~Louis Simpson

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton

The expendability factor has increased by being transferred from the specialised, scarce and expensively trained military personnel to the amorphous civilian population. American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War 5 per cent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 per cent, while in a Third World War 90-95 per cent would be civilians. ~Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929

Organized slaughter, we realize, does not settle a dispute; it merely silences an argument. ~James Frederick Green

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? ~Thomas Jefferson

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~Charles Evans Hughes

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. ~William Cowper

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink across the map turn red.
~Marya Mannes, Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times, 1959

If we don't end war, war will end us. ~H.G. Wells, Things to Come, 1935

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

They should pick a dry year to fight the war. Better yet, civilize the moronic races and have no wars at all. ~Clair J. Clark, letter to wife, March 1944

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. ~Georges Clemenceau

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. ~Edward Gibbon

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill? ~Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ~Fred Woodworth

In an incredible perversion of justice, former soldiers who sprayed festeringly poisonous chemicals on Vietnam, and now find today that they themselves have been damaged by them, appeal to the people for sympathy and charity. The effects of the defoliant "Agent Orange" are discussed at length, but not one single newspaper article or hearing that we are aware of has even mentioned the effects of the people who still live in those regions of Vietnam. It's as outlandish as if Nazis who gassed Jews were now to come forward and whine that the poisons they utilized had finally made them sick. The staggering monstrousness goes unlaughed at and even unnoticed, as in a Kafka novel. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match, No. 79

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ~Herbert V. Prochnow

Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second. ~S.L.A. Marshall

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ~Franklin P. Jones, referring to the atomic bomb

If I ever go to war,
We’ll never be apart,
Though we may not meet again,
I’ll hold you in my heart.
Remember all the times we had,
Don’t let my memories cease,
I am a Marine now baby,
And I’ll die to bring us peace.
And if I go to heaven,
And I see that pearly gate,
I’ll gladly decline entrance,
Then stand my post and wait.
I’m sorry Sir I can’t come in,
I’m sort of in a bind,
See i promised my girl id wait for her Sir
And a Marine never leaves someone behind

The brave have always defined
what the rest of us wish to be.
But bravery is misunderstood.
It is not the absence of fear,
but the will to overcome it

I'm not as brave as you
but I'm gonna hide these tears and be strong.

You are the light that's leading me
to the place where I find peace again.
You are the strength that keeps me walking.
You are the hope that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose, you're my everything.

I love you,
not only for who you are,
but for what I am when I'm with you.

Definition of forever:
The length of time
I will be in love with you.

I love you.
Those three words
have my life in them.

My love for you is a journey;
Starting at forever, & ending at never.

When they asked me what I loved about life,
I smiled and said you ♥

There is something in your eyes
makes me wanna lose myself
makes me wanna lose myself in your heart.

True love means:
I will stand by you
support you & love you
no matter what distance separates us.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:47:57 GMT

Give Us Hearts to Understand
Give us hearts to understand;
Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;
never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;
Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
never to take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts to understand
That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;
that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
that as we care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten who we are.
We have sought only our own security.
We have exploited simply for our own ends.
We have distorted our knowledge.
We have abused our power.
Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
help us to find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
help us to find the way to restore our humanity.
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
whose breath gives life to the world, hear me;
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in Beauty.

When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life
in such a manner that when you die, the world cried and you rejoice

Native American Prayer for Peace
O Great Spirit of our
Ancestors, I raise
my pipe to you.
To your messengers the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides
for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children
to love, to respect, and to be kind to each
other so that they may grow
with peace in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things that
you provide for us on this Earth.

Wakan Tankan Nici Un = (May the Great Spirit walk with you)

Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
~Chief Tecumseh~

"When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear,
when that happens, The
Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. "
~Chief Seattle

"Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself."
~Hopi ~

My Face
My face is a mask I order to say nothing
About the fragile feelings hiding in my soul.
-Glenn Lazore (Mohawk)

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beast, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and moon should man learn.. all things tell of Tirawa.
All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly.... We have the right hand that strikes and makes for evil, and we have the left hand full of kindness, near the heart. One foot may lead us to an evil way, the other foot may lead us to a good. So are all things two, all two.
-Eagle Chief (Letakos-Lesa) Pawnee

"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way.
We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.
The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."
-From the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians

"The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors."
Chief Plenty Coups (Crow)

"When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore."
-Wintu Woman, 19th Century

Among the Indians there have been no written laws. Customs handed down from generation to generation have been the only laws to guide them. Every one might act different from what was considered right did he choose to do so, but such acts would bring upon him the censure of the Nation.... This fear of the Nation's censure acted as a mighty band, binding all in one social, honorable compact.
-George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-bowh)(Ojibwa Chief 1818-1863)

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting in your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit in pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own,if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tip of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from God's presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
The Invitation
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(A Native American Elder)

Great Spirit, God, Creator of All
Great Spirit, God, Creator of All
I welcome You into my heart, mind, body and soul
There is always room for You here.
Grant me the wisdom to heed my inner voice
And the strength to stay grounded while I sing my sacred song.
Guide me down my chosen path and give me the courage to pursue
what is available to me.
I am thankful for the lessons and grateful for my struggles;
I have not forgotten what has brought me to where I am today.
Open my heart to the healing wholeness of nature;
We are all related, and through this I will find serenity.
Great Spirit, God, Creator of All
Cleanse my spirit and wash my soul.
There is always room for You here.
-Laurel Singing Water Cat

Elders teach us of what they have learned from their elders, who learned before them, and then from each adding their own experienced wisdom. Listen to your elders that are here now, and those that have passed

.

There are many types of teachers.
We are each students and each a teacher.

Listen to the Animals, for they are your brothers and sisters.
Keep your ears open to all that speak for they may have a lesson for you, take the jewels that they may offer and discard the rest.
Your soul knows the truth. Seek your teachers. Learn.

Many believe the greatest teacher, besides our Elders and Spirit, is a shaman. The shaman is a healer, knower of medicine and ceremony, for the healing of the mind, body, and soul through the gained learning and the shaman's connection with Spirit and the Spirit Worlds. A shaman is said to be able to enter the upper and lower spirit realms, to walk on the wind and between the worlds. A shaman knows herbs and the uses of them as medicine and in ceremony, dance, vision quests, and healings. So many of us may be a shaman of sorts, it is a word, seek a teacher, not a shaman

As I Walk with Beauty
As I walk, as I walk
The universe is walking with me
In beauty it walks before me
In beauty it walks behind me
In beauty it walks below me
In beauty it walks above me
Beauty is on every side
As I walk, I walk with Beauty.

The Lights
The Sun is a luminous shield
Borne up the blue path
By a god;
The moon is the torch
Of an old man
Who stumbles over the stars.
-Eda Lou Walton

"The Great Spirit is in all things, is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us; that which we put into the ground, She returns to us...."

PRAYER FOR THE WHITE MAN
And now, Grandfather, I ask you to bless
the White Man.
He needs your Wisdom, your guidance.
You see, for so long,
he has tried to destroy my people,
and only feels comfortable
when given power.
Bless them, show them the peace we understand,
teach them humility.
For I fear they will someday destroy themselves
and their children,
As they have done so Mother Earth.
I plead, I cry.
After all, They are my Brothers.......

Give Us Hearts to Understand
Give us hearts to understand;
Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;
never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;
Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;
never to take from her what we cannot use.
Give us hearts to understand
That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;
that to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;
That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;
that as we care for her she will care for us.
We have forgotten who we are.
We have sought only our own security.
We have exploited simply for our own ends.
We have distorted our knowledge.
We have abused our power.
Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,
Help us to find the way to refresh your lands.
Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,
help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.
Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with misuse,
help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.
Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,
help us to find a way to replenish them.
Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost in selfishness and corruption,
help us to find the way to restore our humanity.
Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the wind,
whose breath gives life to the world, hear me;
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in Beauty.

Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding
by Larry Kibby
Great Spirit Grandfather,
I send these words to you,
Hear my prayer.
For these are my words,
To Father Sun,
To Grandmother Moon,
To Mother Earth
To all my relations,
That have been Created as I.
To the Four Winds,
That bring us the
Seasons of Life.
To the East
Where Father Sun rises
Bringing to us a new day
A new meaning of life,
A light in which to see
The path before us.
To the South
Where the warm air comes to us
Bringing heat and warmth,
The seasons of spring
And summer.
To the West
Where Father Sun goes
To bring to us darkness,
So as we may see the universe
And search for the questions
Of our life.
To the North
Where the cold winds come from
Bringing to us the seasons
Of fall and winter.
Oh Great Spirit
Hear my words
For to you I offer
My heart and soul
You made me
What I am
And I am Indian
America's Prisoners of War
I pray for my people of the past
Whose blood covers this our Mother Earth
I pray now as an Indian
Blood of my Ancestors.
Great Spirit Grandfather,
Look down upon
Your people,
For we are humble
Before you.
We seek your guidance,
So that we your people
May walk forever
In a proud manner
Before you.
Great Spirit Grandfather,
You gave your people
The breath of life,
So that we may live
With dignity and pride,
To always know
And understand
That life was meant for us
Your most humble
Traditional people,
And all that
Was Created
And given
The breath of life.
Great Spirit Grandfather,
Let my heart
Soul and mind
Be always strong with
Wisdom, knowledge
And Understanding.
Great Spirit Grandfather
Hear my words
For wisdom
So that I may open
My eyes and
See all that
Is good around me.
Great Spirit Grandfather
Hear my words
For wisdom
So that I may open my ears
And hear all that is good
Around me.
For I am humble
Before you.
I seek the strength
To continue on this path
That I travel on before you
In a most Sacred manner.
Great Spirit Grandfather
Hear my words
For they are words
That come from the
Heart, soul and mind,
And are filled with
Wisdom, knowledge and
Understanding.
Great Spirit Grandfather
My words are for you
To know and understand
That in a most Sacred manner
I honor and respect
The life you have put before me,
I seek the strength
To forever continue
Upon this Sacred path.
Great Spirit Grandfather
Upon the four winds
Are my words for strength
For they come from the
Heart, soul and mind
Words I send to you
In a Sacred manner.
Great Spirit Grandfather
Let all
The wisdom, knowledge and understanding
Be my strength
To continue on this path
That I travel on before you
As a Traditional Native American Indian,
Now and forever.

Voices That Beautify The Earth
Voice above,
Voice of Thunder,
Speak from the dark of clouds;
Voice below,
Grasshopper-voice,
Speak from the green of plants;
So may the earth be beautiful.

An Indian Prayer
by H. Kent Craig
My grandfather is the fire
My grandmother is the wind
The Earth is my mother
The Great Spirit is my father
The World stopped at my birth
and laid itself at my feet
And I shall swallow the Earth whole when I die
and the Earth and I will be one
Hail The Great Spirit, my father
without him no one could exist
because there would be no will to live
Hail The Earth, my mother
without which no food could be grown
and so cause the will to live to starve
Hail the wind, my grandmother
for she brings loving, lifegiving rain
nourishing us as she nourishes our crops
Hail the fire, my grandfather
for the light, the warmth, the comfort he brings
without which we be animals, not men
Hail my parent and grandparents
without which
not I
nor you
nor anyone else
could have existed
Life gives life
which gives unto itself
a promise of new life
Hail the Great Spirit, The Earth, the wind, the fire
praise my parents loudly
for they are your parents, too
Oh, Great Spirit, giver of my life
please accept this humble offering of prayer
this offering of praise
this honest reverence of my love for you.
Oh Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the wind,
Whose breath gives life to the world,
Hear me!
I come to you as one of your many children.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
May I walk in beauty.
Make my eyes behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things that you have made,
And my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things
That you have taught your children--
The lessons that you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
Make me strong, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be
able to fight my greatest enemy: myself.
Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes, so that
When life fades as the faded sunset
My spirit will come to you without shame.

Words That Speak
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged....
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
-Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle

"It ended...
His body changed to light,
A star that burns forever in the sky."
Aztec-American Indian

Man has responsibility, not power.
Native American Proverb (Tuscarora).

Hymn to the Sun
Praised be my Lord God with all His creatures; and specially our brother the sun, who brings us the day.
Praised be my Lord for our sister the moon, and for the stars, the which He has set clear and lovely in heaven.
Praised be my Lord for our brother the wind, and for air and cloud, calms and all weather, by the which Thou upholdest in life all creatures. . . .
Praised be Thy Lord for our brother fire, through whom Thou givest us light in the darkness;
Praised be my Lord for our mother the earth, the which doth sustain us and keep us and bringeth forth divers fruits, and flowers of many colours, and grass.
Praised be my Lord for all those who pardon one another for His love's sake, and who endure weakness and tribulation; blessed are they who peaceably shall endure, for Thou, 0 most Highest, shalt give them a crown!
Amen.

"LIKE A BROTHER"
I will draw thorns from your feet-
We will walk the white path of life together-
like a brother of my own blood-
I will love you-
I will wipe tears from your eyes-
I will put your aching heart to rest

Apache Wedding Prayer
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the
earth.

Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Blackfoot

Respect means listening until everyone has been heard and understood, only then is there a possibility of "Balance and Harmony" the goal of Indian Spirituality."
Dave Chief

Earth, Teach Me
Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself ~ as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness ~ as dry fields weep with rain.
An Ute Prayer

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Cree Prophecy

We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.
old indian saying

"Give thanks for unknown blessings
already on their way."

"I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins."

"Every animal knows more than you do." [Nez Perce]

Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.
(Native American Blackfoot)

CROWFOOT(Blackfoot)
- Final Vision -
Life is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of the buffalo in the winter.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset

"We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft clods of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now...but it will grow again....like the trees. May serenity circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the winds."
--Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce- "In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat" (Thunder coming up over the land from the water)"

When I am dead, cry for me a little. Think of me sometimes, but not too much. It is not good for you or your wife or your husband or your children to allow your thoughts to dwell too long on the dead. Think of me now and again as I was in life, at some moment which is pleasant to recall, but not for long. Leave me in peace as I shall leave you, too, in peace. While you live, let your thoughts be with the living.
---Ishi - Yahi of California - (1862- 1916)

"There is a road in the hearts of all of us, hidden and seldom traveled, which leads to an unkown, secret place. The old people came literally to love the soil, and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. Their teepees were built upon the earth and their alters were made of earth. The soul was soothing, strengthening, cleasnsing and healing. That is why the old Indian still sits upon the earth instead of propping himself up and away from its life giving forces. For him, to sit or lie upon the ground is to be able to think more deeply and to feel more keenly. He can see more clearly into the mysteries of life and come closer in kinship to other lives about him."
- Chief Luther Standing Bear

...... everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

I have been to the end of the earth.
I have been to the end of the waters.
I have been to the end of the sky.
I have been to the end of the mountains.
I have found none that are not my friends.
-Navajo proverb

Our dust and bones.
Ashes cold and white.
I see no longer the curling smoke rising.
I hear no longer the songs of women.
Only the wail of the coyote is heard.
-Plenty Coups

The wind that gave our grandfathers his first breath also receives his last sigh and the wind must also give our children the spirit of life.
-Chief Seattle, Dwamish

"When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them."
Chief Seattle, Dwamish

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.

"You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things."

Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
-Cree Prophecy

"The Spirits Warn You Twice,
The Third Time You Stand Alone"

"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725

All birds, even those of the same species, are not alike, and it is the same with animals and with human beings. The reason WakanTanka does not make two birds, or animals, or human beings exactly alike is because each is placed here by WakanTanka to be an independent individuality and to rely upon itself.
Shooter Teton Sioux

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:52:28 GMT

The most dangerous animal on earth is a mother protecting her young.

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it

who ever said you needed a man to raise a child?

i never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me mommy

any woman can give birth; but it take a special woman to be a real mother

while we try to teach our children about life; they teach us what life is all about

i'm a stay at home mommy & spoiled wifey

when they placed you in my arms you slipped into my heart

I know how to do anything - I'm a Mom

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. Do you believe there is a devil? asked one.
No, said the other promptly.It's like Santa Claus: it's your father

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.