Eclectic quotations accumulating in Hell's Kitchen, NY, USA.

20070331

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top".
-- An English Professor

20070330

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Dorothy Parker

20070329

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something".
-- Wilson Mizner

20070328

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
-- Helen Keller

20070327

"A walking meditation is a beneficial alternative when sitting meditations are getting too repetitive. With each step, begin to count from one to ten. Then count from ten down to one, and start again from one up to ten. As you walk and count, keep your focus on the sole of each foot as it hits the ground. What's happening as you count one, two, three, four, and so on to your steps is that you're bringing your awareness and focus back to the powerful present."
-- John Holland

20070326

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom".
-Anaïs Nin

20070325

"You are never a loser until you quit trying."
-- Mike Ditka, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

20070324

"Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be".
-- Abraham-Hicks

20070323

"We'll drive you happy."
-- Advertising slogan on a Panorama bus.

20070322

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder."
-- William Joseph Slim

20070321

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
-- John Henry Cardinal Newman

20070320

"Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond the mind".
-- J. Krishnamurti

20070319

"Try to think positively today and repel any negative thoughts. Try not to judge yourself or others . . . which may be harder than you imagine. However, by doing so, you’ll change your reality, because thoughts are made up of positive and negative energy, and this directly affects your life. When you think a thought, your aura will magnify it with energy and put it out to the universe. By monitoring your thoughts, you’ll have conscious control over your future".
-- John Holland

20070318

"Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event.

When you're worrying, you are planning.

When you're appreciating
you are planning...

What are you planning?"


-- Abraham, abraham-hicks.com

20070317

"Each day, silently repeat these three principles that are the foundation of self-referral. Notice over time how your perspective changes as you unpeel the layers of your true self.

* I'm totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.
* I'm beneath no one. I'm superior to no one. All beings are my equal.
* I'm fearless in the face of any and all challenges."

-- Deepak Chopra

20070316

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top".
-- Virginia Woolf

20070315

"... When you try to hold your desire down, it keeps coming up...Your cork will always float unless you are holding it down."
-- Abraham, as related by Esther Hicks.

20070314

"My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch."
-- Richard Jeni, 1957-2007

20070313

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience".
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

20070312

"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing".
-- Henry S. Haskins

20070311

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens".
-- Nick Diamos

20070310

"You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind."
-- Irish Proverb, on the board at Giorgio's Grill this week.

20070309

"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
-- Charles Kettering

20070308

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
-- Franklin P. Jones

20070307

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you".
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

20070306

"If you can't get in the front door, just head into the back door."
-- Eddie Cantor, as quoted by his grandson Brian Gari, on Broadway Beat.

20070305

"I don't understand why people are against gay marriage. Their main argument is that it's tearing away at our social fabric. You really think gays would do anything to harm fabric?"
-- David Hodorowski, as quoted in Time Out New York, this week.

20070304

"Aim high. There is little virtue in easy victory."
-- Sir Edmund Hillary, on the board at Giorgio's this morning.

20070303

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
-- Alfred Hitchcock

20070302

"There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying."
-- Stanley C. Allyn

20070301

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills