Archives - January 2018

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea.  It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 --- oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.