Thursday, March 31, 2011

03/31/11

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

03/30/11

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. -Naomi Shihab Nye

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

03/29/11

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst. -Oscar Wilde

Monday, March 28, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

03/25/11

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. -Lois McMaster Bujold

Thursday, March 24, 2011

03/24/11

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -Maya Angelou

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

03/22/11

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. -Henry Miller

Monday, March 21, 2011

03/21/11

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -Joseph Campbell

Friday, March 18, 2011

03/18/11

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

03/16/11

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. -Harry S. Truman

Thursday, March 3, 2011

03/03/11

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying. -Tom Hopkins