I often find myself grasping for words - and it is only in the passages of those greater than myself that I can express my hearts true passion. Giants have given me lyrics to express what I can put into only one word: affection, anger, concern, desire, despair, ecstasy, fervor, friendship, grief, happiness, inspiration, love, melancholy, passion, pride, rage, remorse, satisfaction, sentiment, shame, sorrow, success, sympathy, tenacity, temperance, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal...
“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
there is only the first wound and other traumas that follow are a reflection.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
“The self is not something that one finds, it is something that one creates.” Thomas Szasz
“That’s what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” Richard Bach
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” M. Twain
“Be the first to fight for a just cause.”
“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Susan Ertz
“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” Michael Landon
“It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” Shakespeare
“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.” James Stephen
Sunday, April 6, 2008
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity: a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.” J. Barrie
Saturday, April 5, 2008
“You shouldn’t speak unless you can improve upon the silence.”
“When we constantly look through the windows of the past, we sometimes lock the door to the future.”
“Remember this: When somebody is down there kissin’ your butt, they could easily be biting it too.”
“Reject and condemn prejudice based on race, gender, religion or age.”
Thursday, April 3, 2008
“Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves who rob us of the moment.”
“People treat me the way I allow them to treat me.”
