"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality in your own mind."
-- Bruce Lee, (on the board at Giorgio's this morning).

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
-- Nelson Mandela

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults".
-- Thomas Szasz

"The mind is its own kind of dance floor. What this generation could do from our rocking chairs could literally rock the world. Having slowed down physically, we’re in a better space to rev up psychically. We are shifting from the outer to the inner not in order to begin our demise, but to reseed and regreen the consciousness of the planet. And that is what is happening now: we are going slower in order to go deeper in order to go faster in the direction of urgently needed change. The conscious midlife is not an end but a new beginning."
-- Marianne Williamson

"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 

"There are three positive words that can help you anytime you’re feeling stressed or disconnected from your intuition. They are: “FIND YOUR CENTER.” When you say or think these three words, it immediately draws you back to your inner self. You’ll find yourself back at that place of calmness where your intuition has a clearer channel to communicate with you. Try repeating these words frequently throughout the day and you’ll remain in check with yourself as well as your spirit."
-- John Holland

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
-- Joseph Campbell 

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

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself".
-- Mickey Mantle

"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 

"Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood".
-- Louise Beal

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy".
-- Edgar Bergen

"you can't change a thing that's happened thus far...
you focus on the game today and so hope we'll go out there and play well".
-- derek jeter

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful."
-- Joshua J. Marine, on the board at Giorgio's this week.

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."
-- Whitney Young

"Our perception and attitude toward any situation will determine the outcome".
-- Fortune Cookie

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
--Kurt Vonnegut 

"You can't turn back the clock but you can wind it up again."
-- Bonne Prudden

"if the truth sets me free, what do lies do?"
-- dAAve, on his Higher Powered blog.

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
-- Audrey Hepburn

"You can’t escape from life, you escape into it".
-- Kitty Carlisle Hart, 1910-2007, (as she often quoted her husband Moss Hart).

"Two small jumps are sometimes better than one big leap."
-- Fortune cookie

"Passion is a clear sign that your intuition is working and you’re following its guidance. You’ll notice a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm flowing through you when you’re doing something you truly love. So many people say to me, 'I don’t know what I’m passionate about.' Try to remember when you were a child and what you were passionate about then. Seek out what makes you excited. If that passion can help you and be shared by others, then it’s all worth it".
-- John Holland

"... And last week, down in Washington, D.C., was the big annual Easter Egg Hunt held on the White House lawn. And no surprise here, it was disclosed today that the $87 billion egg-coloring contract went to Halliburton."
-- David Letterman, (paraphrased).

"Tiny bubbles/in the wine/make me happy/make me feel fine."
-- Don Ho, 1930-2007

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts... Untie the ribbons."
-- Ruth Ann Schubacker

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be". 
-- Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us". 
-- Tagore

"Is it time to let something go? Time to release it to the universe and know and trust that it will be taken care of? You have to make room for energy, intuitive guidance, and abundance to flow through you. This week ask yourself, “what’s in my life that I no longer need?” By releasing and letting go, you’re opening yourself up to your own higher consciousness, and by doing so, you’re making room for more of what is in your highest good."
-- John Holland

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-- Bertrand Russell

"The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds."
-- Tryon Edwards

"the moment I let go of it was the moment
I got more than I could handle
the moment I jumped off of it
was the moment I touched down..."
-- alanis morrisette

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
-- Joseph Campbell 

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
-- Frank Crane 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.  What you'll discover will be wonderful.  What you'll discover is yourself".
-- Alan Alda

"What did I do in the first 100 days? I think the answer is I got ready for the next 1,000."
-- Mayor Michael Bloomberg

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- L.L.C., on the board at Giorgio's Grill this morning.

"If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life's purpose ever after".
-- Abraham-Hicks

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

"... 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

"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.

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

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

"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

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