03/31/08

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith

03/28/08

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

03/27/08

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. -James Earl Jones

03/26/08

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. -Joan Didion

03/25/08

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke

03/24/08

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. -Jessye Norman

03/20/08

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering. -Margaret Atwood

03/19/08

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. -Emily Dickinson

03/18/08

For money you can have everything it is said. No that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg

03/17/08

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. -Carrie Fisher

03/14/08

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -Joan Lunden

03/13/08

No life is bland to the one who's living it. The coolest student can be the most troubled. The funniest in the most pain. No one escapes loneliness. -Patricia Gaffney

03/12/08

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. -Carol Moseley-Braun

03/10/08

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -Leonardo da Vinci

03/07/08

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. -E.B. White

03/06/08

To freely bloom--that is my definition of success. -Gerry Spence

03/05/08

Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it. -Shakti Gawain

3/04/08

Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?" But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right. -Martin Luther King, Jr.