what does your quote mean to u?

[Lacy Mitchell]

my quote. the light at end of the tunnel may be u. when times are dark and someone feels all alone they may see you as an inspiration to keep on going and deal with their situation. this site and its members were my light,my way out. thank u all . you may never know if you were the light for some one but more than likely at some time you were. lacy

[Absaroka]

"Everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon"

Lets people know my age, sort of.

The moon is feminine. It's eclipsing my natural male order of things.

All is well but all is not what it seems. A sense of wonder at the strangeness of life.

Other quotes I've used on other forums, from the same time period. All similarly appropriate here.

"What a long strange trip it's been"
"Confusion will be our epitah"

Zari

[Lydia]

Mine is extracted from a chapter opening paragraph in a story by Mark Twain. "Double-Barreled Detective Story : a virtually unkown ripping yarn. When it was first published in a magazine, many questions were asked about the flying esophagus, but Mark Twain had the last laugh.

Why? It just appeals to my sense of the ridiculous, and is as unexplainable as my crossdressing.

Hugs,

Lydia

[Virginia]

It is just an extension of my "Magical Mystery Tour!"

and........... (with acknowledgement to Mickey "D's") I'm lovin it!

Virginia

[Carolynn]

I guess it's a recognition that there are choices that I made, that made my life more difficult. I chose them for what seemed to be good reason at the time, but there is some regret. Had I made other choices, there would still have been regrets, and some very similar to what I have with this path.

Maybe it stems from one of my favorite poems, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" too. It was my hands down favorite during my most difficult highschool years and the source of endless day dreams, full of "what ifs". And oddly enough, time passed by and unlike Frost's expection of never taking that alternate road, I did bend my path back to tread it, but rather farther down the way, missing so much on the journey. And so regrets.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost


Carolynn

[Kimberly Kael]

Mine is just another reminder that nothing worth doing comes easily. If I started down the gender rabbit hole expecting nothing but support I knew I would be in for a rude surprise, so that's one side of it. On the other side is the revelation that merely meeting everyone's expectations of who I should be might feel like the easy path, but it's also the path that preserves a status quo which consigns people who feel as I do to the closet.

[Lacy Mitchell]

thank u all for your answers as i have read your differert articles and i wondered about your quotes. although i still am wondering about susans binary quote.which is two objects mixed together to make somthing different i belive.hmmmmmm

[Michelle Miller]

"Inside me, there's a thin girl, screaming to get out, but cookies & ice cream usually shut her right up."

Lack of self control, really.

[Rikki]

My quote simply expresses my fondest wishes for all my friends on the forum: "Be safe....... be frilled"

All the best to all you great people!!!

Rikki

[Anita]

This is a great thread--I had wondered about the origins of some of the signature lines, and here they are! I haven't had one for a long, long time--and it probably doesn't show up on older posts, if you don't have one now.

My girlfriend explained Susan's binary quote, and it just happened I was studying binary again in my old Algebra II book, trying to wake up long-dormant parts of my brain. I don't have to use binary numbers, factoring, or imaginary numbers to get a floor sanded, you know?

I hope more of us chime in! I still have some curiosity about some of the other ones out there.

[Susan]

I have used a number of quotes over the years. My current one reflects my career in computers. Binary has only two numbers 0 and 1 or On and Off. To count in binary starting from zero you go:

0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000 (binary)
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (decimal)

I hope that explains my quote

I have also used:

"Its always easier to get forgiveness than permission" - because its true

and

"Never underestimate the power of brains and a push up bra" - I don't think I need to explain that one.

I have plenty more I could use.

[Wendae]

I really believe I was a lesbian in a past life. I have little interest in intercourse which relects my taste in sexual pursuits with women. I don't think I can be more specific here.

[CJ]

Hi all,

Yes, the signature quote. It's always hard for me to find a pithy saying that'll encapsulate how I feel about myself or about the world around me.

My "siggie saying" is a (probably very poorly) rendered Latin translation of a quote by 20th-century American social critic and philosopher, Eric Hoffer.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

Source: The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), Section 159

From the Wikipedia article on Hoffer:

Hoffer was among the first to recognize the central importance of self-esteem to psychological well-being. Hoffer focused on the consequences of a lack of self-esteem. Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in human psychology. He postulated that fanaticism and self-righteousness are rooted in self-hatred, self-doubt, and insecurity. As he describes in The True Believer, he believed a passionate obsession with the outside world or with the private lives of other people is merely a craven attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life.

Another interesting quote from the same source cited above (Section 100) is this:

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Not much I can add to that, I think.

The relevance of my siggie quote is, or should be, obvious to anyone who's engaged in the process of learning how to love his or her own self. When I reach the end of my own learning, I'll be sure to let you all know what it feels like to fully love one's own self. Likely, it'll involve communications from beyond the grave.

Love,
CJ

[Lacy Mitchell]

thanks again for your quotes we have some members with deep meanings in there quotes and some math /computer gurus. thank you lacy

[Rik]

Mine is from the film 'Highlander'

I like to think of it as this, there can be only 1 <insert name here>, as we are all individual.