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

20080831

“Alice came to the fork in the road.
“Which road do I take?” she asked.
“Where do you want to go?” responded the Cheshire cat.
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

20080830

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
-- Frank Capra

20080829

"When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal points of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do - and with it the quality of your life- increases dramatically."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080828

"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080827

"Whether you think you can, or can't, you are usually right."
-- Henry Ford

20080826

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
-- Jimmy Durante

20080825

"use mind over matter. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter".
-- unknown

20080824

"Your rewards in life are always in direct proportion to your contribution."
-- Anonymous

20080823

"In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
-- Chester L. Karrass

20080822

"Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace with it."
-- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

20080821

"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
-- O.S. Marden

20080820

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future".
-- Niels Bohr

20080819

"If you dream as big as you can dream, anything is possible."
-- Michael Phelps

20080818

"A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."
-- Anonymous

20080817

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-- Anais Nin

20080816

"I never explain anything..."
-- Mary Poppins

20080815

"A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything".
— Harry Browne

20080814

"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty".
— Sacha Guitry

20080813

"The only way things are going to change for you is when you change."
-- Anonymous

20080812

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer... We beat the reaper by living well and living fully."
-- Randy Pausch

20080811

"You're only as old as your knees".
-- Shirley Conran

20080810

"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom".
-- Shirley Conran

20080809

"... The events of this very day will move you closer to God.... That is what they were designed to do, and you will experience them doing just that if you will allow yourself to... It is all a matter of opening your eyes to what is really happening (as opposed to what it looks like is happening). Judge not by outward appearances."
-- Neale Donald Walsch

20080808

"Suffering has nothing to do with events, but with one's reaction to them. What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter".
-- Meditations from Conversations with God

20080807

"The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm".
-- O.S. Marden

20080806

"A liar needs a good memory"
-- Quinilian

20080805

"" We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can..."
-- will rodgers

20080804

"People Pleasers are always seeking the validation of others for all that they do. Unfortunately, their deep feelings of inadequacy rob them of actually hearing how important and appreciated they are to their receiver. When People Pleasers are acting from their emotional wounds, their self-sabotage comes from their inability to hear what another might truly want from them. Looking through their own filter of "How can I please you?" cuts them off from hearing, listening to, and being in touch with appropriate behavior, thereby cutting themselves off at the foot. The shadow of People Pleasers is their deep shame that they are nothing without you. "You" is whomever they happen to be attached to at the moment, together with the deeds they are doing on "your" behalf to prove how necessary they are... What is the People Pleaser's shame? Useless,forgettable, insigificant, disposable, needy, unwanted, passive aggressive".

-- Debbie Ford, Why Good People Do Bad Things

20080803

"True People Pleasers are usually people who were wounded badly in adolescence -- shamed until their needs no longer seemed important to them -- and learned at a young age that to survive with the least amount of stress thrown at them, they should try with all their might to make others happy. People Pleasers are prey for the predator types and feel deeply ashamed that they are just not worth the space they take up in the world. Their feelings of worthlessness, and the fear that they are nothing without someone else's love or approval, leave them with a driving need to prove their worth to others. People Pleasers are the ones with a warm smile on their face and the word prey stamped on their forehead. They are driven to capture your love by doing, overdoing, and then doing some more. They will give until there is nothing left of themselves and covertly feed off the one they are giving to in a less than healthy way. They may take the form of the love buyer, buying gifts and spending money that they don't have, in order to gain love. Their food is the adoration of others, and although they may look like they are giving, they are actually taking".
-- Debbie Ford

20080802

"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have".
-- Coleman Cox

20080801

"You cannot change your type, but you can make yourself a brilliant success at that type".
-- Emmet Fox