"The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it".
-- Abraham-Hicks.

"It's never crowded along the extra mile".
-- Wayne Dyer

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-- Anne Frank 

"No is a complete sentence."
-- Unknown

"since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see
reality"
-- nikos kazantzakis, on the chalkboard at giorgio's grill this morning.

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning".
-- Marlo Thomas

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
-- Mark Twain

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You cannot run away from yourself. You're always right behind you".
-- fortune cookie

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

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a
butterfly."
-- Proverb, on the chalkboard at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

"Is there life before death?"
-- Graffito

"Priorities are not written in granite. They need to be flexible and change as we do…It takes peace of mind and clarity to recognize and reorder meaningful, personal priorities. Maybe that is why so many of us procrastinate."
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity".
-- Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
-- Michael Pritchard

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world".
-- Lily Tomlin

"Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?"
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"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

"There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'"
-- Frederick Collin

"Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
-- Barbara Tuchman 

"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back".
-- Chinese proverb

"I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."
-- Herbert B. Swope 

"It's choices who make us who we are... And we can always choose to do the right thing."
-- Spiderman 3

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation".
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
-- Garth Brooks, (on the board at Giorgio's Grill this morning).

"Never play a thing the same way twice."
-- Louis Armstrong

"There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures."
-- James Thurber

"don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back".
-- fortune cookie

"He who angers you conquers you."
-- Elizabeth Kenny