Thursday, August 31, 2006

Stop Digging


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

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Eye For An Eye


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

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

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

Monday, August 28, 2006

Temple


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

Friday, August 25, 2006

Politician


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

Thursday, August 24, 2006

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

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

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

Monday, August 21, 2006

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

Friday, August 18, 2006

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

Thursday, August 17, 2006

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

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Children


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

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Courage


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

Monday, August 14, 2006

A Kiss


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

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Youth


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

Friday, August 11, 2006

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

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Peace


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

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

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

Friday, August 04, 2006

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

Thursday, August 03, 2006

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

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Resolutions


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

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Staying Young


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