February 2010
January 2010
“You don’t meet a lot of people that you really like. I don’t anyway.”
– Nick Cave
“We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but...”
– Arianna Huffington
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe...”
– Milton Berle
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a...”
– Thomas Jefferson
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on...
Always have, always will.
“In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain—I find no sea...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“There was a law of life so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay...”
– Norman Mailer
“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner:...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by...”
– Anais Nin
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the...”
– C. S. Lewis
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“In life, as in art, some endings are bittersweet. Especially when it comes to...”
– Timing IS everything but only if everything is given its time.
“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell...”
– But first you have to beg. And my knees are bloody from the effort. Let this be the beginning of my timeout with mercy.
“We humans are so careless. We only realize how beautiful life is when we chance...”
– Akira Kurosawa
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
– James Dean
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
– Michel de Montaigne
I SO wish this weren’t true but it appears to be the case with that which I would most like to forget.
“A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be...”
– Maharaji
I have dreams and I have nightmares.
And I’m trying my best to overcome the nightmares because of my dreams.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be...
Every. Damn. Day.
Life's Little Instructions by William Snell circa...
Sing in the shower. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated. Watch the sunrise at least once a year. Never refuse homemade brownies. Strive for excellence not perfection. Plant a tree on your birthday. Learn three clean jokes. Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Leave everything a little better then you found them....
“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her...”
– Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some...”
– Haruki Murakami
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes...”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each...”
– Sylvia Bremer
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Innocence and independence make a brave spirit.”
– Thomas Fuller
I strive to keep the first in tact while maintaining the second.
“Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.”
– Philip Larkin
“There are some things within our social order to which I am proud to be...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the...”
– Booker T. Washington
“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own...”
– Paulo Coelho
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin
“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Commitment is the component of love. Short term commitment is the decision that...”
– Robert Steinberg
Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above...
For they are already halfway dead.
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
– Peter Ustinov