...Henry David Thoreau
our dispositions, and not our circumstances.
...Martha Washington
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
...Anais Nin
So pick a positive one.
....unknown
It empties today of its strength.
...Corrie TenBoom
That explains why some people appear bright
until they start talking.
.....Anonymous
And the sharpest you still have survived.
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!
....Ralph Waldo Emerson
to eat the bread of dependency,
no matter whether it be from the hand of father,
husband, or brother; for any one
who does so eat her bread places herself
in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
...Susan B. Anthony
not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund,
and never is it another person.
It is the skill and humor and courage within,
the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.
....Audrey Sutherland
the strength that enables one to stand alone.
....Ellen Glasgow
you had bloody well find some way that is
going to be interesting. And you don't do that
by sitting around wondering about yourself.
....Katharine Hepburn
I've learned about life: it goes on.
....Robert Frost
It is only a test.
If this had been a real life,
you would receive instructions
on where to go and what to do.
........unknown
as to have lived enough.
....Seneca
is the deadness of remaining within the circle
of my present competence and defenses,
of becoming more rigid and limited,
of dying slowly, day by day,
so slowly that I may not notice my dying
and might not be able to fight against it,
even could I find the courage to do so.
....M. Berger
...Victor O'Reilly, Games of the Hangman
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past
I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
...Frank Herbert, Dune, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments
slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
.....Mark Twain
Where would you put it?
.....Stephen Wright
will do a lot to make
the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
.....W. Somerset Maugham
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
........Tao Te Ching
but that's not what ships are for.
....(unknown)
Remember, amateurs built the ark
and professionals built the Titanic.
....(unknown)
........Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
...Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wm Shakespeare
The best way to get over someone is to get under someone.
...Sherry, Martin's girlfriend on the sitcom Frazier
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
......Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
.....Mother Teresa
...from "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle (1833)
Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.
...Ayn Rand
If you focus on change, you will get results.
....Anonymous
the framework for my life that others have given me,
if I fail to make my own choices,
the reason for my life will be missing.
I will be unable to recognize that
which I have the power to change.
I refuse to spend my life regretting the things I failed to do.
....Liv Ullman
