Life is grand, love is real, beauty is everywhere...

[redqueen]

:loveya:

[gmoney]

1. Been looking in the mirror again?

Frankly, I'm not seeing it from here.

[redqueen]

3. Heh... cute

Nah... just feelin the love. :)

[gmoney]

7. Well, then look in the mirror...

"It is better to look good than to feel good." -- Fernando, as played by Billy Crystal

[redqueen]

11. Shouldn't that end with "... dahling"?

I don't remember exactly... but that sounds right. :P

[Rising Phoenix]

2. well aren't we in a good mood?

good for you, and for the record I agree: Life is grand, love is very real, and beauty is everywhere

[redqueen]

4. Odd, but no...

Actually I've been uberbitchy lately... but still... I have hope. :)

[no name no slogan]

8. I saw this on a sign at the Astrodome

hung up by a Katrina survivor, of course:

"Never give up hope, because hope is all we have."

[redqueen]

12. That's sad...

It's not all we have... but once we give that up, we may as well have nothing.

[chaska]

5. I was going to post something negative, but I just don't have the heart...

I want to go have a good cry now. And I don't know why.

I'm so emotional these days.

[redqueen]

6. Awwww

Feel better, friend.

:pals:

I'm negative half the time... but it's the positive stuff I feel more like sharing.

If you wanna be negative, though, have at it! Balance, you know. :)

[chaska]

13. I'm prone to going around saying how much beauty there is in the world....

myself. But I also see how hideous it is too. I'm so exhausted from bouncing between these damned poles.

...hold me.

IT'S BUSH WHAT DONE THIS TO ME.

[redqueen]

15. Well, like I said... balance.

*holds you*

:rofl: at your last sentence.

[jpgray]

9. Yeah but does Led Zeppelin suck or not?

Let's get down to what's important.

[redqueen]

10. They suck sooooo bad...

the most overrated band EVER!

:grr:

:nuke:

[jpgray]

14. Hooray!

[Maestro]

27. Redqueen, no!!!!!!!!!!

You are such a beautiful, thoughtful, good Texas woman and then you say this. :cry: Ten Years Gone and much of the later Zep when John Paul Jones started to have more of an influence on the writing of songs is so great and was so needed in the time of really bad Disco.

[redqueen]

28. Was only joking, love...

I love LZ!

You kidding?

No Quarter? Four Sticks? How could I not love them?!

[Maestro]

39. Phew!

I was worried there for a sec.

[SarahB]

16. And tomorrow will be even better!

:loveya:

[redqueen]

17. Awwww...

I hope someday I find what you two have...

:hi:

[Merrick]

18. Life is pain, love is a mental disorder, beauty is fleeting

sorry to ruin the party. I'm not invited many places...

[redqueen]

19. Balance, friend...

always welcome. :)

[Merrick]

20. You're right. Let's go run through the sprinklers!

And eat cotton candy. WEE!!
:bounce:

[redqueen]

23. Or we could sit

and contemplate the suffering of the children who die every second, simply due to lack of clean drinking water. :(

[kmla]

42. Balance? I had that once. But then I fell off the teeter-totter...

As John Mellencamp once said in one of his songs,

"... I know there's a balance.
I see it when I swing past..."

Truer words - never spoken.

:D

[Wapsie B]

21. Glad to hear that.

Maybe some of that feeling will rub off.

[redqueen]

24. It's a choice.

:hi:

[Wapsie B]

26. As in you choose to be happy?

Ok, maybe one of these days I'll get it through my head.

:hi:

[redqueen]

29. Something like that, yeah...

:)

[trof]

22. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;--

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[redqueen]

25. Thanks, trof...

:loveya:

[Meatwad]

I dunno about that...

When I look around, all I see is ugly:


I'm a giant meatball, fer christssakes!

[redqueen]

33. Yeah...

what do you know? ;)

:hi:

[progmom]

30. Thank you for your reminder.

I first saw your thread earlier, when I wasn't feeling it at all.

It helped.

Thanks.

:hug:

[redqueen]

32. Awwww

I'm so glad to hear that...

:pals:

[SOteric]

31. Life

may be either grand or the proverbial bitch, but beating all hell out of it's alternative.

Love is real. It's real agony and real splendor.

Beauty is everywhere, but rarely a physical manifestation.

[redqueen]

34. Nice!

Every day above ground's a great day for me. :)

[RandomKoolzip]

35. Bullshit.

Love is a pathetic chemical reaction, Life is perpetual misery, and Beauty makes people do stupid things.

And then we die.

[jpgray]

36. This one, he's great at parties

He's right about Love though. Mix trace amounts of Arthur Lee with Bryan MacLean and you can power a small internet album review site.

[RandomKoolzip]

38. Which has been done before.

Parties are just excuses to act unintelligently and indulge in hormonal pursuits. So fuck 'em.

[redqueen]

40. Awwwww

You're so cute when you're grouchy.

*pinches your cheeks*

:P

Infatuation is a chemical reaction. Love is something deeper. (And I'm not having sex ever again unless / until I find it.)

I only stare at beautiful scenes... I don't do stupid things over them. I would hope the reactions of unthinking people wouldn't spoil your appreciation for the beauty...

[hippiechick]

37. BLAH

:( J. Geils said it best: Love Stinks

[redqueen]

41. Why does everyone immediately think about romantic love?

I guess that's what we're all really craving...

Anyway... yeah, it stinks. But the flipside (balance) of that stinkage is fantastic, I say. :)

[tigereye]

43. beauty is everywhere if you are willing to look

nice points.

[Elidor]

44. This is just how I sound after I get *ahem* "lucky"

Did you get lucky, too?

[redqueen]

45. HA!

Um, no.

Prolly won't for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

[kwassa]

46. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour

upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

- Bill Somebody

[redqueen]

48. hah... that Somebody... what a hack!

;)

[chaska]

47. Hey Queenie...,

I was just thinking about this thread, and remembering the warm feeling radiating from your posts. You're a pretty okay chick.

Thanks for being you.

Edit: :hug:

[redqueen]

49. Awwwwww

Thanks, chaska.

Thank you for being you, too. :)

:hug: :hug: