April 2011
18 posts
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. —Norman Vincent Peale
Cultivate your curves. They may be dangerous, but they won’t be avoided. —Mae West
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. —Coco Chanel
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. —Karl Wallenda
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time. —Edith Wharton
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Buddha
There is no reality except the one contained within us. —Herman Hesse
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. —George Bernard Shaw
Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. —David Guy Powers
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. —Robert G. Ingersoll
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. —Marge Piercy
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. —John Lancaster Spalding
Why not learn to enjoy the little things—there are so many of them. —Anon.
Anyone who’s a great kisser I’m always interested in. —Cher
We are all happy, if only we knew it. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Long only for what you have. —Andre Gide
My friends are my estate. —Emily Dickinson
The sun is new each day. —Heraclitus
The morning has gold in its mouth. —German proverb
March 2011
15 posts
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. —Rita Mae Brown
Your world is as big as you make it. —Georgia Douglas Johnson
The brain is wider than the sky. —Emily Dickinson
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. —Robert Alden
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. —Ancient Buddhist proverb
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. —G.K. Chesterton
Live with no time out. —Simone de Beauvoir
Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around. —Catherine Deneuve
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. —James Thurber
Genius is an infinte capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. —Katharine Hepburn
All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. —William F. Halsey
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration. —Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is actual is actual for only one time, and only for one place. —T.S. Eliot
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. —Bertolt Brecht
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. —Sara Teasdale
February 2011
30 posts
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. —Indian proverb
There is nothing certain about war except that one side won’t win. —Sir Ian Hamilton
Don’t let go of the vine. —John Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, giving advice to acting students
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place. —Mahalia Jackson
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen. —Peter Brook
Here I am, where I ought to be. —Louise Erdrich
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. —Merry Browne
Fear is the slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. —Sophie Tunnell
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing. —Billie Holiday
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. —Patti Smith
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. —Helen Van Slyke
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. —Muriel Spark
There are no old people nowadays; they are either “wonderful for their age” or dead. —Mary Pettibone Poole
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing. —Billie Holiday
Love teaches even asses to dance. —French proverb
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. —Erica Jong