Military

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

Competitions

Competitions are for horses, not artists. ~Bela Bartok

Brother

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero. ~Marc Brown

Just spent 10 days with my nephews. Sibling rivalry is a mix of challenges and sharing.

The Sea

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ~Jacques Cousteau

Walking

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ~Ellen DeGeneres

Fear

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. ~George Sewell

Summer Day

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

Solo Travel

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ~Freya Stark

Linked

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased. ~Janez Drnovsek

Optimist

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ~Peter Ustinov

Accommodation

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. ~Jimmy Carter

Artists

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ~Nikki Giovanni

No War

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg

Free

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. ~June Jordan

Dreams

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias Canetti

The Edge

Life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go. ~Thoreau

Fun

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~Katharine Hepburn

Forgive

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. ~Suzanne Somers

Liberation

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky - that's called liberation. ~Pema Chödrön

Dyke

I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress? ~Karen Ripley

Believe

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail. ~Dorothea Brande

Happy Easter!

Anger

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. ~Naomi Campbell

Siblings

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ~Vietnamese Proverb

Let Go

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

Silence

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Truth

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. ~Claude Adrien Helvetius

Travel

Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~Miriam Beard

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh

Happy Valentine's Day to All!

Desire

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~Epicurus

Twins

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings

Jealousy

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ~Erica Jong

Take a Chance

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

~George Bernard Shaw

Winter

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson