Archives - January 2022

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.

Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope --- a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Always behave like a duck --- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Health food makes me sick.

Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.