Monday, June 22, 2009
Happiness
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Testing
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
My gratitude list
1. The extra little surprises in life
2. New York
3. Fresh, clean sheet and a comfy bed
4. The things I have been blessed with and the things I have been blessed to have missed
5. People to love and who love me
Simple but important things
What are you grateful for today? (Isn't amazing how big of a mood/focus changer gratitude is?)
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Appreciation
- Margaret Cousins
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Self-Expression on Photography
In the life of an artist, creativity is often circular or, in its three-dimensional incarnation, spiral-shaped- a coiled spring. The creative life passes through the same stages over and over again. Each new piece of work, each new phase of life, and each subject matter is shaped by the previous activities of the artist's life. The spiral gives the artwork direction, movement and life.
-Brooks Jensen
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Giveaway
http://www.laurennicolegifts.com/liputogienat.html
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Bono
Friday, May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Accentuate the Positive
Bing Crosby
AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE (Mister In-Between)
(Johnny Mercer / Harold Arlen)
You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
(To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark)
Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between
Do you hear me, hmm?
(Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear
About the elininatin' of the negative
And the accent on the positive)
And gather 'round me children if you're willin'
And sit tight while I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right
(You've gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between)
You've got to spread joy (up to the maximum)
Bring gloom (down) down to the minimum
Otherwise (otherwise) pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene
To illustrate (well illustrate) my last remark (you got the floor)
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they say (what did they say)
Say when everything looked so dark
Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No! Don't mess with Mister In-Between
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Sleep
O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my sense in forgetfulness?
- William Shakespeare
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friend Making Mondays!
SIGHT
Like:
* Beautiful flowers
* Eyes that are full of depth and mystery
* Rich colors and interesting patterns/textures
* The feet of little ones - whether it be a baby, puppy, or kitty
Dislike:
* Hairy backs
HEARING
Likes:
* Stevie Nicks singing
* Deep male speaking voices in the caliber of Sean Connery or James Earl Jones
* Music that feels like returning home
* Bass guitar and drums
Dislike:
* Misogynistic men yelling
TASTE
Likes:
* Chocolate
* Cheese
* Tea - sweet, peach, or other yummy varieties
* Margaritas and hurricanes
Dislike:
* Hot strong, bitter coffee (cold coffee such as a frappe is fine)
TOUCH
Likes:
* Massages
* Hugs (especially the run and tackle airport greeting of my sister)
* When a guy guides me with his hand on the small of my back
* Holding hands
Dislike:
* Weak hands
SMELL
Likes:
* Delicious men's cologne (even in candle form, but always better on a handsome guy)
* Roses
* Baking or cooking food
* Lemon - so very clean smelling!
Dislikes:
* Vomit - I so cannot handle it, sight or smell.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Life
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Carrying the past forward....
In a sense, everything that has happened to you becomes a part of who you are and how you have developed. I think the real question is what you make of what life has given you.
In response to her question of why people enter and leave our lives:
This is a question I have often pondered myself. I can't tell you how or why things happen. Some reasons do become clear later down the road. Some people help us develop characteristics, thoughts, or just show us something new. Others help us realize strengths or characteristics in us that may have not been realized. All I do know for sure is that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is veiled or at the least foggy. Every person you have met in your life has contributed in some way, no matter how minute, to who you are today.
As far as the doc goes, just be honest about how you feel. You cannot control anyone else, but at least you can try.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Fact Quote
- Bertrand Russell
Monday, April 20, 2009
Waiting
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Yet another quote...
- Sir Winston Churchill
Friday, April 17, 2009
Reaching the finish line...
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quitting is not an option...period! Whether we press on to finish or change the direction of our path, quitting is taking the easy way out. It starts a bad pattern that diminishes our belief in the good in ourselves, sets an example of accepting less than the best, and undermines what we think we are capable of in the future. We must, must, must expect more and believe we have it in ourselves to meet and exceed our goals! We must believe we are worth it! We must believe we can achieve whatever we set our minds to! We must find a way to succeed and to win in life! We must believe we are and can be more than we are at this moment! We must be little engines that can! We must say "I think I can! I think I can!" When we have made it to the top of the mountain we must celebrate our victory and leave a remembrance of what we can do when we set our minds to it! We must say "I knew I could! I knew I could!" We must remember what we are capable of so in the hard times we have a benchmark, a milestone, to point to! We must set new goals and go for bigger goals and conquer new territory! We must never be happy to reminisce on past successes! WE MUST PRESS ON! Over and over, bigger and better! We must fulfill our mission in the world and make the biggest, best impact we can make! WE CAN! WE ARE CAPABLE! WE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW UNTIL WE ARE GONE!
http://trevorcrookblog.com/2008/11/07/set-yourself-on-fire-for-success-16-powerful-quotes/
A "few" more quotes
"He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven"
-Hindu Saying
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda
"I know more ways not to do something than any man alive"
-Thomas Edison
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"
-Derek Bok
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"
-Marie Curie
"Ninety percent of success is showing up"
-Woody Allen
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"We have as much time as we need"
-Melody Beattie
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present"
-Anonymous
"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight"
-Anita Defrantz
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right"
-Mary Kay Ash
"The key to change ... is to let go of fear"
-Rosanne Cash
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you"
-Althea Gibson
"Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it"
-Julia Child
"I want to do it because I want to do it"
-Amelia Earhart
"We dont know who we are until we see what we can do"
-Martha Grimes
"A word after a word is power"
-Margaret Atwood
"No one can figure out your worth but you"
-Pearl Bailey
"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nothing is too difficult - you only need to know how"
-Yiddish Proverb
"You really can change the world if you care enough"
-Marian Wright Edelman
"Find a need and fill it"
-Ruth Stafford Peale
"I dont want to be a passenger in my own life"
-Diane Ackerman
"Don't agonize. Organize"
-Florynce Kennedy
"Dont compromise yourself. You're all you've got"
-Janis Joplin
"Be a how thinker, not an if thinker"
-Anonymous
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything"
-Geena Davis
"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"
-Hellen Keller
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity"
-Oprah Winfry
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse"
-Florence Nightingale
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs"
-Joan Didion
"This work is about transformation-from the person we are to the person we really are, in the end we can't be anyone else"
-Marion Rosen
"Fall seven times. Stand up eight"
-Japanese proverb
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there"
-Will Rogers
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must take it"
-Charles Buxton
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with my problems longer"
-Albert Einstein
"It is not knowledge but the act of learning which grants the greatest enjoyment"
-Gauss
"It is better to solve one problem five different ways than to solve five different problems"
-Poyla
"The import thing is to not stop questioning"
-Albert Einstein
"STARING is not a viable problem solving strategy"
-Margaret Kenny
"They know enough who know how to learn."
-Henry Adams
"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price."
-Joan Didion
"People often say that this or that person has not found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something that one creates."
-Thomas Szasz
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
-Benjamin Mays
"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball."
-Billy Jean King
"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."
-Albert Camus
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-Shakespeare's Hamlet
"If today's students can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
-Jesse Jackson
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton
"Of all the traps and pitfalls of life, self-disesteem is the deadliest and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use- I cant do it.'"
-Maxwell Maltz
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the Stuff Life is made of."
-Benjamin Franklin
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-Helen Keller
"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
-Helen Hayes
"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind: it forces you to stretch your own."
-Charles Scribner Jr.
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
-Thomas Mann
"What one has to do usually can be done."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Memory is the art of attention."
-Samuel Johnson
"The reward of study is understanding."
-Babylonian Talmud
"When you can't solve the problem, manage it."
-Robert Schuller
"Learning without thought is labor lost…"
-Confucius
"People seldom hit what they do not aim at."
-Henry David Thoreau
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome
"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
-John Foster Dulles
The Little Engine That Could
"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis
"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
- William Hazlitt, English Essayist (1778-1830)
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. "
- Henry Ford
Websites:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/1091c.asp
http://www.zimbio.com/Courage+Quotes/articles/2/YOu+Can+If+You+Think+You+Can
http://searchwarp.com/swa146551.htm
http://www.isshin-ryu.com/newsletters/2005/news-mar2005.htm
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?fd605807-0029-4ccd-83d0-fbd6e4af7754
http://melodylaila.com/thoughts/2008/01/03/inspiration-from-the-little-engine/
Poems:
If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.
The dangerous people are not the ones
Who hit you with clubs and rob you with guns!
The thief won't attack your character traits
Or belittle your abilities to your face!
It likely will be a well-meaning friend
Who merely crushes your will to win.
No, he doesn't rob you, at point of gun,
He simply says, "It can't be done."
When pointed to thousands who already are
He smiles and says, "They're superior!"
Personality-wise, and abilities, too,
They're way ahead of what others can do!"
It matters not that his words are untrue
For, you feel "others" must know you!
So, you're robbed of your hopes, your dreams to succeed.
Robbed of the material blessing received,
Robbed of your faith that says, "I can."
And robbed by an ignorant, gunless friend.
So, the deadliest of men is not he with a gun,
But the one who tells you "It can't be done!"
For that taken by burglars can be gotten again.
But, what can replace your will to win?
You can be a total winner even if you're a beginner,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,
You can wear the gold medallion,
You can ride your own black stallion,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,
It's not your talent or the gift at birth,
It's not your bank book that determines worth,
And it isn't in the color of your skin,
It's your attitude that lets you win,
You can upset Connors or Austin,
Or win the marathon at Boston,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,
You can profit through inflation,
You can redirect this nation,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can,
It doesn't matter if you've won before,
It makes no difference what's the half time score,
It's never over until the final gun,
So keep on trying and you'll find you've won,
You grab your dream and then believe it,
Go out and work and you'll achieve it,
If you think you can, you can,
If you think you can, you can!
Sources -
http://www.cybernation.com/victory/youcandoit/youcan.php
More Quotes
- Maya Angelou
"We are what we believe we are."
- C. S. Lewis
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Marilyn Monroe Quotes
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)
http://quotethehood.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a010980c2dc9c000b0109811d77da000c.html
I believe everything happens for a reason! People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so that you will eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes, good things fall apart, so better things can fall together
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact and on two feet.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.
“...If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything...”
“the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream”
“I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you”
• If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
• I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
• Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
• I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
• A career is wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it on a cold night.
• It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
• A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.
• My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
• I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
• To a reporter: Please don't make me a joke.
• Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
• It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
• I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
• I am invariably late for appointments ... sometimes, as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
• I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
• I restore myself when I'm alone.
• 1956 interview about her childhood: Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
• Shelley Winters: If she'd been dumber, she'd have been happier.
• About Marilyn Monroe, by her ex-husband, Arthur Miller: To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.
Influential women - Eleanor Roosevelt edition
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html
Perfect Love
Fear
Neat Jewelry & Quote Borrowing
I randomly ran across this jewelry website. These are pretty interesting pendants, and I love the quotes! I am going to throw some of them up here.
**** “The most beautiful stones have been washed by the waters and polished to brilliance by life’s strongest storms”
*** “Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven” -Bertrand Russel
** “Wherever you are, It is your Friends who make your World” -William James
* “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature” –Emerson
“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today just the way you are” –Proverbs 27:17
“Happiness is when what you Think, what you Say, and what you Do are in Harmony” - Gandhi
“Stillness is the greatest revelation” –Lao-Tzu
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Obstacles
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan
Friday, March 27, 2009
Lost Brilliance
Monday, March 16, 2009
Tag! You're it!
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Copy and paste the questionnaire, and post with your answers on your blog.
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Refer and link back to me.
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Tag four bloggers and leave them comments to let them know they have been tagged.
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Answer honestly!
What is your blogger name?
Southerner Out Of Water/Just Call Me Dorothy
When is your birthday?
June 24
How long have you been blogging?
I have started and stopped a couple over the past few years. I don't tend to be consistent in posting.
Who tagged you?
Kenlie at http://www.sweettorts.com/
Tell me your five most favorite body parts.
5? I like my super curly hair and my green/hazel eyes that reflect my moods.
What do you wish most for your birthday?
To relax and have the best birthday yet.
What color are you nails right now?
Natural
What’s your plan for the next month?
Work and school make up the bulk of my life right now.
At what age did you have your first crush?
I don't know but there were many.
Have you attended any school reunions?
Yes. It was good to see where people were, but the people I really wanted to see weren't there. People really don't change much sometimes.dd
Have you ever passed gas in public and pretended like you didn’t smell anything?
LOL
Are you a clean freak?
Usually not, but I can be.
What era do you wish you were born in?
There are many fascinating points in time like the Golden Age of Hollywood, but I don't think I could take the outdated female stereotypes and roles of the period.
Are you a vegetarian?
No, I love meat.
How many pillows do you sleep with at night?
4 or 5
Are you a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper?
It is hard to go to sleep and slow down my mind. Once I am asleep, I am like the dead.
Do you secretly wear granny panties when your man is not around?
What man?
What is your ultimate dream job?
Not sure yet.
What does your husband do that annoys you the most?
Again...what man?
What is your dream car?
Something really fast and vintage
Do you wake up easily in the morning?
Nope, but I do it when I have to.
Do you like hairy men?
No back hair!!! Maybe a little chest hair.
How about a man with a goatee?
Depends on the guy...
Which would you prefer: a two-hour spa massage, a two-hour Thai massage, or a two-hour foot massage?
I have never had a Thai massage. A two-hour spa massage would be heaven. I really don't like my feet being touched much at all.
Have you ever wished you had a different name? If so, what name?
A while ago, yes. Vivian Leigh Laurens
What is the most extreme sport you have ever done?
Mud volleyball, paintball, capture the flag.
Do you prefer traveling in Europe or Asia?
Europe is preferable, but Asia would be fun.
What is your favorite food?
Chocolate and cheese
What is your most embarrassing moment while out on a date?
I have plenty of those from all of my life, but I am not telling.
Now it's my turn to tag, and I am going to tag the following friends:
http://www.sweettorts.com/
Thursday, March 12, 2009
"Hey! I have been there before!"
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Envisioning the Vision
The Power to Change
Robert Anthony
This is a thought provoking quote. We either grow or we begin to die. We cannot continually occupy a singular place for a undetermined amount of time. That said, if we don't change, we can't grow. If we don't grow, we become less and less. Both growth and shrinking causes changes in our nature and appearance. I guess it just comes down to whether you want to be more, bolder, braver, and better or smaller and less of a person.
The things that don't quite kill us...
Friedrich Nietzsche
This quote may be used quite often, but it holds a great truth at its heart. Adversity and hard times can lead us to defeat and death or to strength and toughness. We can survive far more than we give ourselves credit for most of the time. We can be as tender and as elegant as a blooming rose no matter how tough the environment that surrounds us.
Another source of inspiration (I love this poem!):
Rudyard Kipling
If
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Need a release? Just go shooting!
HA! I know what you were thinking! ;P
I recently purchased a Canon Rebel XSI, and I have found my niche in photography. It just makes me happy and relaxed to go out and shoot. It actually is helping to generate a interest in exploring Hays further. Occasionally, you will see some of my favorite or most interesting shots here.
Haircut
The Wedding Night
Strength and Leadership
Love and Other Random Thoughts
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.
Shakti Gawain
Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Dylan Thomas, in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost
Independence
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Talent
Brendan Francis
Self Interest
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Peter Ustinov
Politics
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Sexy vs. Plain
http://video.aol.com/video/sexy-vs-plain/2203828
Looking Forward
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.
Phil Jackson
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall
Random Mix of Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi
The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylor
I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Michel de Montaigne
It is only the first step that is difficult.
Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osler
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words are a heavy thing…they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn’t fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don’t give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying,when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Washington Irving
What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?
Unknown
Men who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
David Russell, I Heart Huckabee’s
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City,
Escape from New York, 2000
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.
Leonard Bernstein
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble
to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar, “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, 1984
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Gail Pool
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put
into it.
Seth Godin, Seth Godin’s Blog, 07-28-06
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar, Esar’s Comic Dictionary
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S. Haskins
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
Richard Lewis
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare, “All’s Well That Ends Well”, Act 1 Scene 1
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention,
Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, October 2002
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
Stubbornness is also determination. It’s simply a matter of shifting from “won’t power” to “will power.”
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. Peter
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal’s TV listing for
“The Wizard of Oz”
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Barbara Tober
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
W. S. Gilbert
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don’t back down and don’t give up - then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.
Bob Dylan
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
There’s no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
Don’t get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that’s already broken! You can’t get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!
R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it’s a whisper.
Barry Neil Kaufman
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever ‘the old’ means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.
Rita Mae Brown
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you’re doing.
Jessica Alba
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus, ‘My Story’
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Iris Murdoch, O Magazine, February 2004
Resolute
Resolute is a great word. It contains a power and strength that is striking.
The dictionary defines it as:
əˌlut[rez-uh-loot] adjective
1. firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination;
2. characterized by quickness and firmness
1. Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
2. Convinced; satisfied; sure. [Obs.]
3. Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand. [Obs.]
Doing what one has decided to do, in spite of opposition, criticism etc.
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