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October 30, 2002
Quotes & Quips
Little chunks of inspiration or perspective that cause me to pause, reflect, appreciate and try again. . . 1. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you humble, enough faith to give you hope. 2. 99% of friction in daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice. 3. Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. 4. "So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit." - Hawthorne, "The Birthmark" 5. "An envious heart makes a treacherous ear." - Hurston 6. It's difficult to see the whole picture if you're standing on a pixel. - Me. 7. "Her soul crawled out from its hiding place." - Hurston 8. Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing is so gentle as real strength. 9. "She sat a long time with the walls creeping in on her. Four walls sqeezing her breath out." - Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 10. Believe in fantasy, aspire to miracles, experience the magic, savor the journey. 11. "She plunged into the abyss and descended to the ninth darkness where light has never been." - Hurston 12. "People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor." - Hurston 13. "Multiply it by infinity, take it to the depths of forever, and you'll still only feel a fraction of what it is. . ." - from "Meet Joe Black" 14. Be instead of do. - S. Covey 15. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 16. I'm getting on, and getting going, but getting nowhere. 17. Dream with your eyes wide open. 18. "The effect, therefore, will be the surging, flitting, instantaneousness of a mind questing over its own surfaces and into its depths." - Miller, "After the Fall" 19. "Is this a good use of my life? I ask myself." - Jan Anderson 20. I will not give up on myself. 21. "If language were liquid, it would be rushing in to catch the blur in the brain that flies by and is gone." - Suzanne Vega 22. Loving you is easy. 23. "True happiness cannot be reached without risking total annihilation." - Billy Vera 24. "Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours." - CS Lewis 25. "There are no unimportant tears." - Miller 26. All people smile in the same language. 27. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt 28. Making a living is not the same as making a life. 29. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison 30. Kickin' ass and takin' names. 31. Be the flower that dares to grow in the cracks of sidewalks. 32. "Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker 33. Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you ought. 34. Here we are in a silence more eloquent than words could ever be. 35. "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." - Lennon 36. Peace within makes beauty without. 37. Sadness comes in many forms. Most of mine are silence. 38. Don't worry about things that haven't happened yet. 39. The rainbows are always there, waiting to be combed out of the light. 40. "Happiness should be doled out by the shovelful." -P.M. Buechner 41. "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Emerson 42. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. 43. Never let the odds keeps you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. 44. "Peace is not an easy thing to find." - from some episode of "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" 45. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 46. Other people struggle too. 47. "Heaven isn't above the clouds, it's just beyond the fear." - Garth Brooks, "Sevens" 48. Dare. 49. "Put on a shirt and tie, and maybe you'll go on vacation, maybe you won't." - Steve O. 50. "The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation." - Tennessee Williams, "The Glass Menagerie" 51. Today was cancelled due to lack of interest. 52. Respect is the greatest gift you can give someone. 53. "Don't do what I'm saying, do what I'm thinking." - Brent F. 54. "Battles are ugly when women fight." - Father Christmas, Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe 55. "There are some things you learn best in the calm, and some in the storm." - Willa Cather 56. "A dungeon is never harder to bear than when the door is open and the sunshine and birdsong float in." - C.S. Lewis 57. "Another drunken trek alone in a foreign country." - P.M. Buechner 58. "Thinking defines me, action doesn't." - Brent F. 59. "Don't think about elephants." - Adam B. 60. "Live the life you have imagined." - Thoreau 61. "Goals are not achieved by accident." - Dad. 62. "Everything in this book may be wrong." - Richard Bach 63. "You never know when someone may catch a dream from you." - Helen Marshall 64. "There's something uniquely calming about eating Grape Nuts cereal while watching Elmo from Seseme Street sing the Banana Song." - Kevin Thompson, as posted recently on his blog, Observations. Check it out. 65. "Open can, put spam in pan, cook" - Adam and Kevin 66. "My love is wasted on you." - the ex-boyfriend 67. "The blue screen of death" - what happens to nearly every computer I touch. 68. A 45 second lone guitar song by Coldplay: 69. "Baffle them with bullshit" - Mom 70. "Someday when you have a house, I'm going to come over and eat Cheetos and jump on your couch" - Dad (sometime during my younger years) 71. "Looks like you got oceans in there" - Simon 72. "Hitch your wagon to a star." - Emerson 73. "Colour my world with hope of loving you." - Chicago Posted by Amanda at October 30, 2002 08:46 PMComments
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