May 31, 2012
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. ~ Abraham Maslow
May 29, 2012
Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly
May 28, 2012
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
May 27, 2012
I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights? We all come from the same mother. That creates the basis for compassion. ~ His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
May 26, 2012
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~ Henry Miller
May 23, 2012
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Henry David Thoreau
May 22, 2012
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ~ Colin Powell
May 20, 2012
Eventually, we all need to be willing to face the deepest, darkest beliefs we have about ourselves. Only in this way can we come to know that they are only beliefs, and not the truth about who we are. ~ Ezra Bayda (from "The Three Things We Fear Most")
May 19, 2012
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ~ Virginia Woolf
May 18, 2012
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. ~ Jacob M. Braude
May 16, 2012
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 14, 2012
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. ~ Will Rogers
May 13, 2012
Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit. ~ Unknown
May 12, 2012
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
May 11, 2012
Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we let go of something, we experience another level of freedom. ~ Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
May 10, 2012
My spelling is wobbly. It's good spelling but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~ A. A. Milne
May 09, 2012
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ~ Dorothy Parker, on Benito Mussolini's "The Cardinal's Mistress"
May 07, 2012
The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has its limits. ~ Rita Mae Brown
May 06, 2012
We need to be able to forgive ourselves when we stumble or forget, and based on that forgiveness, be able to reconnect to our basic intention. One of the primary tools we have in spiritual life is the understanding that everything is changing all of the time, that nothing is fixed, and nothing is permanent. Because of that truth, when we make a mistake we realize that we can begin again. ~ Sharon Salzberg (from "The Force of Kindness")
May 03, 2012
Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos. ~ I Ching
May 02, 2012
I want to break out -- to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become. ~ Thomas Pynchon
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