January 2012
13 posts
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of...”
– E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time...”
– Swatch, Always Now, 1997
“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
– Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary
“It’s so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.”
– Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world...”
– Frank Deford
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being...”
– Robert Anthony
“FOOL, n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and...”
– Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on...”
– Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
“People don’t believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you...”
– Seth Godin, Seth Godin’s Blog, 07-29-06
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
– Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy...”
– George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
“But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being...”
– Lois McMaster Bujold, “Barrayar”, 1991
“My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August.”
– Ronnie Shakes
December 2011
21 posts
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing...”
– Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong...”
– Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
“Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.”
– Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
“We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of...”
– Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003
“Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you...”
– Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
“Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.”
– Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), ‘De l’experience,’ 1580-88
“While you’re saving your face you’re losing your ass.”
– Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many...”
– George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll...”
– Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
“We attempt to define depression as a psychological ailment, but it is a symptom...”
– Dmitry Orlov (via revolutioneyes)
“Fearing death, fearing life, fearing love, and fearing most of all the loss of...”
– Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words (via revolutioneyes)
“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular...”
– Doug Larson
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
“BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters — the most difficult kind of...”
– Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary
“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so...”
– Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
– Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
“I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is...”
– Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...”
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via quote-book)
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
“The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
– Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
October 2011
5 posts
“There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the...”
– Laura Moncur, Merriton, 02-25-09
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or...”
– John Lilly
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the...”
– Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
“A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first...”
– Alfred E. Wiggam
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...”
– Steve Jobs
Powerful words.
(via creatingaquietmind)
September 2011
6 posts
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.”
– Goethe
“You may be marching to the beat of a different drummer, but you’re still...”
– Anonymous
“He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human...”
– Albert Camus
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if...”
– Unknown
“The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that’s all it...”
– Anonymous
“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”
– Arthur Balfour
August 2011
29 posts
“You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead...”
– Stanislaw Lem, “The Cyberiad”
“The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself.”
– Anonymous
“It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how...”
– Bruce Barton
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must...”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right...”
– Dr. Seuss 