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

20091231

"Don't long for the past or put off your life until the future. The time to live is now".
-- Ralph Marston

20091230

"You don't have to believe. Aren't you willing to believe that there is a reason for your life, even though you may not know yourself what that reason is, or that you may not sometimes know the right way to behave?"
~ Daily Reflections

20091229

"The flow of the universe and its perfect order has room to move in our lives when we get ourselves and our extraneous thoughts out of the way".
~~ Daily Om

20091228

"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"
~ Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts)

20091227

"The moment you're in is plenty. The place where you are is an ideal place from which to move forward".
~ Ralph Marston

20091226

"Free your spirit by facing the unknown".
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

20091225

"Imagination creates your world by simply and naturally directing the enormous creative energy that is your life"
-- Ralph Marston

20091224

"It is a skill to give readers what they wish to hear while claiming to present stark, unbiased truth".

-- Quentin Crisp

20091223

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another".
-- Condorcet

20091222

"Over achievers have a little more fear of missing out, of not being there, not contributing enough".
~ Tony Robbins

20091221

"What is it that drives a higly motivated over-achiever to look at his own potential destruction as excitement and as a potential release?"
~ John Mayer

20091220

"Stop seeking to classify and to judge every moment, and you'll start seeing each moment's unique treasure".
-- Ralph Marston

20091219

"There's one little corner of the world where you can make a difference right now. Go ahead and be the person to make that difference".
-- Ralph Marston

20091218

"When you learn what your weaknesses have to teach, they will become your strengths".
-- Ralph Marston

20091217

"Instead of making the stress worse by fighting it, step calmly and confidently forward to make the best of it".
~ Ralph Marston

20091216

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein

20091215

"If a person or a situation causes you to feel insecure, you have forgotten who you really are".
~ Fr Leo

20091214

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
- Zig Ziglar

20091213

"Work! Work is a terrible thing. I presume somebody has to do it. And once you do it, then you’re stuck with it. I can’t imagine! I think you should avoid work, if you can. But if you can’t, you have to find a job that you can add what you are to what... you do. That is the essence. But if you can avoid it, avoid it".
-- Quentin Crisp

20091212

"I'll play it first and tell you what it is later".
-- Miles Davis

20091211

"Never underestimate the power of your presence nor your ability to comfort and encourage".
~ Fr Leo

20091210

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
- Henry David Thoreau

20091209

"You may think this is easy, this Be Who You Really Are business, but it is the most challenging thing you'll ever do in your life".  
 - Meditations from "Conversations With God - Book 1"

20091208

"Live fully in the moment while remaining responsible to the positive possibilities that the future holds".
-- Ralph Marston

20091207

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20091206

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine".
- Fran Lebowitz

20091205

"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other".
-- Jascha Heifetz

20091204

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
~ Oscar Wilde

20091203

"one of the best gifts you can give yourself is challenge".
-- ralph marston

20091202

"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."
-- Og Mandino

20091201

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
~ Mark Twain

20091130

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."
-- Aristotle

20091129

"Over achievers have a little more fear of missing out, of not being there, not contributing enough".
~ Tony Robbins

20091128

"What are you saying to yourself every day? Is it positive, encouraging, challenging and enriching?"
-- Ralph Marston

20091127

"This moment is an empty canvas and U R an artist of extraordinary ability. What masterpiece will U create this time?"
-- Ralph Marston

20091126

"If you continue to break the laws of honesty, purity, unselfishness, and love, you will be broken to some extent yourself".
~~ 24 Hours a Day

20091125

"What role, if any, does the fear of failure play in success for you?"
- Ann Hampton Callaway

20091124

"I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

20091123

"I don't want to be an old man and look back and realize I never found my reason to be alive."
-- Princeton, Avenue Q

20091122

"Don't stress, relax, let life roll off your backs... Everything in life
is only for now!
-- Trekkie Monster, Avenue Q

20091121

"We don't receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us".
~ Proust

20091120

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
~ Palmer Sondreal

20091119

"Some people think that hanging in there shows great strength when the truth is 'letting go' is the real test of character".
~~ Unknown

20091118

"Happiness is a by-product of doing the right thing".
-- Unknown

20091117

"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would give you the ability to see yourself as others see you ... then you would realize what a truly special person you are".
~~ Barbara A. Billings

20091116

"You're either at the effect of love or at the effect of fear. Whichever you depend on as the source of your power will have power over you".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091115

"We need not push life. Just give our self to the task of the present moment,which is dying now to the now. Freedom is both living and dying now".
~~ Deepak Choprah

20091114

"whether you've been up or you've been down, whether life is now good or not so good, this is the time to make it better".
~~ ralph marston

20091113

“All that is not given is lost”
~Indian Proverb

20091112

"As easily as you can choose to be annoyed, you can choose to be peaceful, patient and understanding".
-- Ralph Marston

20091111

"Good luck comes to those who create it. Good luck comes to those who take a positive approach to every moment".
-- Ralph Marston

20091110

"Do something - anything - creative, and feel how it immediately lifts your spirits".
-- Ralph Marston

20091109

"First realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and then stop finding fault with the reflection."
-- Nisargadatta

20091108

"Honest thoughts delight us however bad. True information gives us clarity and power".
-- Yoko Ono, on Twitter

20091107

"If you're attached to the thought that someone hurt you, you're bound to experience the hurt. Only in releasing them will you be released".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091106

For years I rushed around being busy and I missed me.
~ Fr Leo

20091105

"Authentic purpose is not a deep dark secret that you must struggle to discover. Allow it, & purpose will find you where you are".
~ Ralph Marston

20091104

If you feel like you're stuck, in many ways that's a positive sign. It means you're eager to get moving.
~ ralph marston

20091103

"Often, the effort spent avoiding a difficult challenge is more demanding and burdensome than the challenge itself".
-- Ralph Marston

20091102

"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."
-- Dale Carnegie

20091101

"We have 3 bodies, physical, mental, spiritual. The physical reflects being, the mental knowing, and the spiritual our joyous creativity".
-- Deepak Choprah

20091031

"Never worry about the future. The right response to every situation is built into your nature".
-- Deepak Choprah

20091030

"My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive".
~ Bill W.

20091029

"To see ourself in everybody and everybody in ourself most certainly is love."
-- Deepak Choprah

20091028

"Every heart has it's secret sorrows
Which the world knows not,
Often time we call a man cold
When he is only sad".
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

20091027

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul".
- Yiddish proverb

20091026

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

20091025

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
-Ralph Marston

20091024

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it".
~ M. Scott Peck

"(This is also my definition of procrastination.)"
~ Scott Woodard

20091023

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
-- Leon Bloy
"You don't need anyone's permission to feel great. In fact, you don't need anything other than to simply let yourself do it".
-- Ralph Marston

20091022

"Absolutely, collectively, everyone in Manhattan wants to rule the world! I think that’s why most of them moved here. They won’t rule the world but they may rule a bit of it, and they may have the feeling at the end of their life that they did rule it".
-- Quentin Crisp

20091021

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it”
-- Old Adage

20091020

"It is far more useful to be aware of a single shortcoming in ourselves than it is to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. For when the fault is our own, we are in a position to correct it."
-- The Dalai Lama

20091019

"This moment. Right now. Release all else but love".
-- Marianne Williamson

20091018

"You were born not to hide but to live, so do it every day".
-- Ralph Marston

20091017

"At the end of every storm is calm. At the end of every argument is silence. At the end of one relationship there is another. Although life is composed of many endings, there are just as many new beginnings".
~ Hazelden

20091016

"All is well. Out of this situation only good will come, and I am safe."

- Louise L. Hay

20091015

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony".
-- Mahatma Gandhi

20091014

"The journey doesn't stop, you may reach certain parts of your destination... If you were to ask me the best thing that ever happened in my life, I don't think it's happened yet..."
-- Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens

20091013

"Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you now have. Find that way, follow the connection."
~ Ralph Marston

20091012

"Spirit is beyond the void of space. This realm beyond the void, is not an empty nothingness; it is the womb of creation".
-- Deepak Chopra

20091011

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."
- Malcolm Forbes

20091010

"Decide today that you'll have no complaints. And your thoughts can be focused on creative, productive pursuits."
-- ralph marston

20091009

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light".
~ Albert Schweitzer

20091008

"Learn to love the flaws that you see within yourself as they are often the unique characteristics that other people love most about you."
~~ Janelle Johnston

20091007

"Free yourself from your burdens by stepping up and doing something positive about them right now".
-- Ralph Marston

20091006

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
-- Muhammad Ali

20091005

"It is useful to pay attention to details but it is dangerous be ruled by them."
~ Ralph Marston

20091004

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
-Henry Ford

20091003

"How you treat me is your karma, how I react is mine".

-- Unknown

20091002

"Point all your actions, large and small, important and seemingly insignificant, in the direction you wish to see your life move. Time will combine all those actions into an increasingly powerful set of results, and now is when you can choose those results".

~ Ralph Marston

20091001

"It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions."
-- Tony Robbins

20090930

"Better to trust and be disappointed once in a while, than it is to distrust & be miserable all the time"
~~ Coach John Wooden

20090929

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
~~ eubie blake
; on his 100th birthday

20090928

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs..what belief have you held on to that has out lived its usefulness in your life?"
-- Tony Robbins

20090927

"Let go of anger - it is an acid that burns away the delicate layers of your happiness."
~~ Anonymous

20090926

"Have the courage to act instead of react."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

20090925

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
-- Kurt Cobain

20090924

"Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that."
-- President Barack Obama

20090923

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere

20090922

"My Intent this week is to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of all those I come into contact with".
-- Deepak Choprah

20090921

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
-- Wayne Dyer

20090920

"True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

20090919

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill

20090918

"It's always too early to quit."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

20090917

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
-- Brian Tracy

20090916

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
-- Aldous Huxley

20090915

"Goals help you channel your energy into action."
~~ Les Brown

20090914

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."
~~ Donald Trump

20090913

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized."
-- Leo Buscaglia

20090912

"Everything you do is infused with the consciousness with which you do it. What you do is not as important as how you do it".
-- Marianne Williamson, (on Twitter 08/10/09)

20090911

"Fear is active on the planet, but remember that SO IS LOVE. In every moment, download your assignment for how YOU can further its progress".
-- Marianne Williamson, on Twitter (8/10/2009)

20090910

"You cant be mad and eat a cupcake."
-- Alec Mapa, in a FaceBook update

20090909

"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life".
~~ Sanskrit poem

20090908

"Hurry and busyness are forms of self-will. Deluded by an exaggerated sense of our own importance, we deem it crucial to perform all tasks and activities according to our personal schedule. Impatient with traffic tie-ups, other people's slowness, or unavoidable delays, we make ourselves tense and miserable by our refusal to accept life as it comes".
~ Food for Thought

20090907

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
-- Buddha

20090906

"The smallest positive action can overcome the biggest negative doubt".
~~ Ralph Marston

20090905

"All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it".
-- Neale Donald Walsch

20090904

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all".
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

20090903

"... It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference".
-- Tom Brokaw

20090902

"A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
~~ H. Stanley Judd

20090901

"Walk lightly through life."
~~ Guy Finley

20090831

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."
-- Margaret Bonnano

20090830

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

20090829

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
~Amelia Earhart

20090828

"You become the average of the five people you associate with most."
-- Jim Rohn

20090827

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
--
Aristotle

20090826

"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."
~~ Grace Hansen

20090825

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
~~ John Muir

20090824

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
--
Maya Angelou

20090823

"You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone."
-- Martin Rutte

20090822

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
-- Mark Twain

20090821

"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."
-- Richard Dumb

20090820

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”
~~ Robert Schuller

20090819

"Things do not change; we change."
-- Henry David Thoreau

20090818

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
~ Napoleon Hill

20090817

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-- Dr. Albert Ellis, psychologist. As quoted by Marci Shimoff, in her book Happy for No Reason.

20090816

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

20090815

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
-- Dale Carnegie

20090814

"Life must be lived as play."
~~ Plato

20090813

"Three primary ways to overcome old patterns... 1. Focus on the solution, 2. Look for the lesson and the gift 3. Make peace with yourself."
--
Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090812

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
~~ Thomas Edison

20090811

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-- J.M. Barrie

20090810

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

20090809

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace."
--
Ajahn Chah as quoted by Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090808

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein

20090807

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
~~ Storm Jameson

20090806

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
-- William Barclay

20090805

"Leap and the net will appear."
~ Julia Cameron

20090804

"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude... because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
-- Deepak Choprah

20090803

"We are all of us richer than we think we are."
~~ Michel de Montaigne

20090802

"Don't believe everything you think."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090801

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20090731

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
-- Colette

20090730

"We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens."
- Epictetus

20090729

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- Buddha

20090728

"Inspiration and genius-one and the same."
~ Victor Hugo

20090727

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

20090726

"Happiness habits for the heart: 1. Focus on gratitude, 2. Practice
forgiveness, 3. Spread lovingkindness."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090725

"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
--
Joseph Campbell

20090724

"Human beings are more alike than we are un-alike... Try to spread your giving of yourself... to people who may not even look like you. You belong to everybody, and everybody belongs to you."
-- Maya Angelou

20090723

"In any challenging scenario, the calmer you remain, the clearer you can
think and the faster you can figure your way out of the problem."
-- Ewan McGregor

20090722

"This joy I have - the world didn't give it, the world can't take it away."
-- Shirley Caesar, gospel singer

20090721

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance."
~~ Unknown

20090720

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
~~ Edmund Hillary

20090719

"Happiness habits for relationships: 1. Tend to your relationships; 2.
Surround yourself with Support; 3. See the world as your family."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090718

"To keep the thousands of negative thoughts we have each day from dragging us down, we don't have to get rid of each one of them. There's a simpler way. The secret is in accepting an astonishing fact: You're thoughts aren't always true."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
~ Napoleon Hill

20090717

"Our business is to be happy."
-- Dalai Lama

20090716

"The guiding three: Whatever expands you makes you happier, The universe is out to support you, Whatever you appreciate, appreciates."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

20090715

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
~~ Friedrich Schiller

20090714

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

20090713

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
~~ Buddha

20090712

"If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs."
~~Tony Robbins

20090711

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."
~~ LAO-TZU

20090710

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway"
~~ John Wayne

20090709

"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart"
-- LAO-TZU

20090708

"You don't regret what you do, you only regret what you don't do.."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

20090707

“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.”
~~ Dalai Lama

20090706

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."
~~ Kahlil Gibran

20090705

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

20090704

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
-- Rabindranath Tagore

20090703

"There is no security in doing something for a living when you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body at the expense of the soul. And a

withering soul cannot help but produce a withering body. So do not think you are "taking care of yourself" by killing your spirit to keep your body alive.

"How long will you put off what you are dying to do?"

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

20090702

"It's sometimes nice to get everything decided, settled,

and arranged. But you may want to leave room in your

life for spontaneity. Some of the best choices are made

"on the fly." Some of the best outcomes are created

by not needing anything specific to happen.

 

Who and how and why and when and where to love

often falls into this cagtegory".


~~ Neale Donald Walsch

20090701

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
~~ James Joyce

20090630

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
-- William S. Burroughs

20090629

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
~~
TS Eliot

20090628

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."
~~ Al Bernstein

20090627

"You only live once. Make sure it's enough."
-- The Most Interesting Man in the World

20090626

"If you think you are looking at struggle, struggle is what

you will experience. If you decide that you are looking

at a gift (even if you can't see it clearing in this exact

moment), a gift is what you will get. Just wait. You'll

see. I mean that literally. You will see."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

20090625

"Our appointment with life is in the present moment."

~~ Thich Nhat Hanh

20090624

"This may be a book that you started, then set aside. Or it may be a text that you have just heard about and that is now calling out to you.

"Whichever it is, listen to the calling. Follow the

impulse. Read the book. Its time is now".


-- Neale Donald Walsch

20090623

"The setting side of one's integrity is not required to win

someone's heart, but the setting aside of one's anger

may be. It is possible to make a point without making

an enemy. It is possible to be right without being

righteous. Debating does not have to be debasing.

"If there is someone with whom you are disagreeing this

day, would it not be wonderful of you to disagree

without being disagreeable?"


-- Neale Donald Walsch


20090622

"Please do not think that all you are doing here is

living until you die. If that were all that's happening,

God would hardly take time to be involved.

"No, there is something else occurring. It has to do

with the evolution of your soul. Do you want to

know more about that; about how that occurs?

"Why not make it your business today to find out?


~~ Neale Donald Walsch

20090621

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way and make it work for you." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer "and make it pretty" -- Alec Mapa

20090620

"A smile directed at a stranger, a compliment given to a friend, an attitude of laughter, or a thoughtful gesture can send ripples that spread among your loved ones and associates, out into your community, and finally throughout the world. You have the power to touch the lives of everyone you come into contact with and everyone those people come into contact with. The momentum of your influence will grow as your ripples moves onward and outward. One of those ripples could become a tidal wave of love and kindness".
~~ Daily Om

20090619

"We behave according to what we can get away with".
-- Ned Rorem

20090618

"Those who don't venture to communicate, believe that they can't because they have no access to the communications media"

-- Yoko Ono, on Twitter 5/23/2009

20090617

"You can complain about the same problem three times. Then you'd better be in the solution. If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention".
-- Anonymous

20090616

"Look to see how you are spending your day. Are

you accomplishing anything? Is it anything that

matters?

"You have only so much time here. Don't waste it.

If you are really putting in a lot of effort, but not

getting much done that matters, take a look at that.

That's all I'm saying. Take a look."


~~ Neale Donald Walsch




20090615

"Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer."
~~ Ernest Holmes

20090614

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
~~ Herman Melville

20090613

"If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what's in your hand."
-- Sonia Choquette

20090612

"I say unto you: One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star".
~~ Nietzsche

20090611

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”
~~ John Wesley

20090610

"Remain calm and be brave!"

-- Quentin Crisp

20090609

"I'm glad I'm me. It takes all the pressure off of being someone else".

-- Dave Upton

20090608

"Stand your ground... There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way... Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way."
-- Neale Donald Walsch



20090607

"It is a curious paradox that being gay is not for sissies".

-- Rick Crom