"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt back your head and laugh at the sky."--Buddha
"The door to happiness opens outward."--From a Little Book of Happiness
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is is any reaction, both are transformed."--Carl Jung
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." ---Oscar Wilde
"Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures."---H. Jackson Brown
"So often time it happens, we live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key."
--The Eagles--"Already Gone"
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."---Scott Hamlton
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."---Confuscious
"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk . . . it's a miracle."---Arthur Rubenstein
"People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator. When I was 6 years old
and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life.
I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers. I appreciate where we've com from.
----Julia Simon (`1933-1998)
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."---Walter Elliot
"A stong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."----Patricia Neal
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow. It empties today of its strength."---Corrie Ten Boom
"Treasure this day and treasure yourself. Truly neither will ever happen again."---Ray Bradbury
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"---Robert Browning
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and to listen to some music at least once a week." ---Charles Darwin
"By abandoned roads
this lonely
poet marches
into autumn dusk."----Basho (haiku)
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of a day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow." ----ANON
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am grateful that thorns have roses.
----Allophonus Karr
"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes fail. But you only
fail if you give up."
"Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman."
"Laughter is the sun that drives that drives winter from the human face."
"Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones."
"My life is a series of defining moments."
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." --Jean Anouith
"Miracles take us beyond the limitations of our thinking."
"Irrigators guide the water.
Fletchers shape the arrow shaft.
Carpenters shape the wood.
The wise control themselves."-----Buddha
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can subordinate
experience."---Paulo Coelho
"Why are we so full of restraint?
Why do we not give in all directions?
Is it fear of losing ourselves?
Until we lose ourselves
there is not hope of finding ourselves."---Henry Miller
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."--Mark Twain
"Hussel wrote that the body is our experience
of what is always here, and the body in motion
experience is the unity of all its parts as the cntinuous
'here' that moves toward and through the various
'theres'...It is the body that moves, but the world that
changes." ---Rebecca Solnit
"What if the movement of love-making also moves
one to different thought spaces and places?"
--Kate Thorn (after reading Godbody)
"Walking returns the body to its original limits
again, to something supple, sensitive, and vulnerable."
--Rebecca Solnit
"Life is a huge dream; why work so hard?"
---Li Po
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than
to love people." --Vincent Van Gogh
"In the experience of walking, each step is
a thought. You can't escape yourself."--Solnit
"Change is the process of becoming more like
who we are." --Nathan Brody
"There are an infinite number of causes for everything."
---Leda Cosmides
"It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the
place I had always been looking for. . . These are the
places the desert is most itself: stark, open, free, an
invitation to wander, a laboratory of perception, scale,
light, a place where loneliness has a luxurious flavor like
the blues." Solnit
"Children begin to walk to chase desires no one will
fulfill for them: the desire for that which is out of reach,
for freedom, for independence from the secure confines
of the maternal Eden." Solnit
"Males when talking --the left hemisphere is used
during language use. Females show more concentrated
focal points of brain activation, and this occurs in in both
(right and left) hemisperes. . . Females have more
neurophil--the fibrillar substance comprising dendrites,
axons, and synapeses that facilitate interneuron communication."
--Howard (the Owner'sManual for the Brain)
"The pilgrimage begins with the first step; the jpourney itself
is the most important part."---Solnit
. . ."But I begin to think of time as having a shape,
something you could see, like a series of liquid
transparencies, laid on top of another. You don't have
to look back along time but down through it, like water.
Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that,
sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away."---
Margaret Atwood
"This is the middle of my life. I think of it as a place,
like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,
halfway across, half over."--Margaret Atwood
"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in our
ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow,
or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something
we are." ---John Sheerin
"A strong positive attitude will create more miracles
than any wonder drug."---Patricia Neal
"It is a good thing to be rich; it is a good thing to be
strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many
friends." ----Euripides
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow. It
empties today of its strength."
"Nations have recently been led to to borrow
millions 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 Flexnor--1866-1959
"Treasure this day and treasure yourself. Truly,
neither will ever happen again." --Ray Bradbury
"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to
live."---Unknown
"You can't depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus." ---Mark Twain
"In all things of nature there is something of the
marvelous."---Aristotle
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
--Henry David Thoreau
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable . . . but through it all, I still
know quite certainly that just to be alive is a
great thing."----Agatha Christie
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of
many things which escape those who dream
by night."---Edgar Allan Poe
