Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Quotes ...

  1. Worry is not a preparation. - Cheri Huber
  2. Reach for the stars even if you have to stand on a cactus. -Susan Longacre
  3. It's not what you look at that matters ... it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau
  4. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. -E.L. Doctorow
  5. One who is not taught by his or her mother will be taught by the world. -Kiswahili saying
  6. I'm so good I'll put clean thoughts in your head. - ad for shampoo
  7. Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once. -Anais Nin, Journals 1932
  8. A moment can be anything. -Candoor
  9. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change. -Bob Dylan
  10. To write is to locate my own address inside my head. -E.M. Broner
  11. If you want people's approval for what you are doing with your life, you are their prisoner. -Richard Kirsten Darensai
  12. All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
  13. Stop searching for happiness, it's just under your left foot. -anonymous
  14. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
  15. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
    -Edward Gorey
  16. Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - anonymous
  17. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
  18. Speech is our second possession, after the soul--and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. -Gabriela Mistral
  19. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -Rainer Maria Rilke
  20. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? - unknown
  21. No one can drive us crazy unless with given them the keys. - Doug Horton
  22. Be happy; it's one way of being wise. -Sidonie Gabrielle
  23. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. -Napoleon Hill
  24. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde
  25. The first reaction to truth is hatred. -unknown
  26. Dreams are illustration ... from the book your soul is writing about you. -Marsha Norman
  27. Be your own wind ... (offered by Candor)
  28. Too much caution can be a big mistake. - candor
  29. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
  30. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
  31. You live in a world that you alone create. - anonymous
  32. All the world is a stage and we are not merely players - but the authors of our stories
  33. Stop being background noise in your own life - Candor
  34. If you only knew, you might understand. - Candor
  35. The story never told is the story that never ends. - Candor

4 comments:

candoor said...

keeping in touch... which number "to-do_ was that?*


*(text really doesn't do a good smirk justice)

"the deeper the bite, the better the smirk"*

*(by better, of course, we mean more meaningful, powerful, possibly dangerous, but definitely more potentially worthwhile)

"value is in the mind of the beholder"

be your own wind.

PeacefulChaos said...

ouch?

be my own wind? That might be better than this hibernation thing ...

candoor said...

blogger just ate a really good comment...

that's the primary reason this form of communication, if it can be called communication, sucks...

i mean, what if it was the greatest quote ever?...

ouch.

and what's the difference between hibernation and hiding?...

PeacefulChaos said...

hibernation sounds better ... lol