Stop Digging

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
~Cowboy Quote

Eye For An Eye

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
~Margaret Atwood

Born with Music

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. ~Ray Charles

Temple

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

Politician

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. ~Rodney Dangerfield

Blossom

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin

Quitting

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. ~Mark Twain

Kindness

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. ~Whoopi Goldberg

Beauty

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? ~Imogen Cunningham

Double Standard

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
~Al Capone

Looking For Something

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
~Elizabeth Bishop

Children

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
~Kahlil Gibran

Courage

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
~Dan Rather

A Kiss

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
~Billie Holiday

Youth

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. ~George Bernard Shaw

Perfect Ending

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
~Gilda Radner

Peace

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ~John Lennon

Spectator

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. ~Jackie Robinson

Truth

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. ~Pema Chödrön

Intelligent Life

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
~Bill Watterson

Paper Tigers

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
~Amelia Earhart

Resolutions

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
~Henry Moore

Staying Young

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~Lucille Ball