Archives - July 2016

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

You can say this for ready-mixes --- the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.

If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams.

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time.  Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

You’re never fully dressed without a smile

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

People tend to forget that play is serious.

A party without cake is just a meeting.

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.