January 2010
“Another fresh new year is here …
Another year to live!
To banish worry,...”
– William Arthur Ward
December 2009
“And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I...”
– Minnie L. Haskins
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next...”
– T.S. Eliot
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up...”
– Bill Vaughn
Free Advice
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your...
“There are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of...”
– Plato
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the...”
– Woodrow T. Wilson
“Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
Happy
I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end of it or even to tomorrow for that matter and realize that my life is a collection of boring meetings and empty pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes and laundry.
I want to travel to places I’ve never been and eat fresh fruit and homemade ice cream and sing out loud to my...
“Shallow understanding, from people of good will is more frustrating than...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My quest has been this: to live the ultimate biblical life. Or more precisely,...”
– The Year of Living Biblically: One’s Man’s Humble Quest To Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
By: A. J. Jacobs
“To love justice, to long for the right; to love mercy, to pity the suffering, to...”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity...”
– Mark Twain
A question I never, ever thought to ask.
“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and...”
“Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a...”
– Penelope J. Stokes
“For some, they think that letting go is one way of expressing how much you love...”
“…Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people...”
– Neale Donald Walsch
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively...”
– John O’Donohue
“What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing?...”
– Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for...
Never surrender. Never give up or in; fight for your happiness!
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will...”
– Marcus Aurelius
“The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly,...”
– Henry Miller
“Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope...”
– Joshua Harris
Let my heart be broken by the things that break...
So that I may learn to be a blessing and in turn, be blessed.
Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
And there are a few cats too…
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can...”
– Marilyn Monroe
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much...”
– Desmond Tutu
“Remember, the people who know me are the ones who are free to live and love without any agenda.”
“Is that what it means to be a Christian?” It sounded kind of stupid as Mack said it, but it was how he was trying to sum everything up in his mind.
“Who said anything about being a Christian? I’m not a Christian.”
The idea struck Mack as odd and...
“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and the Jewish Law. I am a...”
– Albert Einstein
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta figure out who’s worth...”
– Bob Marley
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and...”
– Robertson Davies
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Nietzsche
“Sadness isn’t sadness, it’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears,...”
– Paul McCartney
“I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.”
– Chloë Sevigny
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
“Maybe it is our imperfections which make us so perfect for one another.”
– Emma (1996)
“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
– Jostein Gaarder
You know the beautiful thing about love? It’s so...
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of...”
– Kahlil Gibran