Saturday, December 25, 2010

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to
overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our
suffering.
-Ben Okri
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is godlike.
-Horace Mann

Monday, December 20, 2010

Whenever Christmas begins to burden, it's a sign that I've taken on
something of the world and not of Christ...
Christmas cannot be bought. Christmas cannot be created. Christmas
cannot be made by hand. Christmas can only be found.
-Ann Voskamp

Friday, December 17, 2010

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius

Monday, December 13, 2010

The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,
mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and
in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!
-Jack Kerouac

Friday, December 10, 2010

Happy thou art not;
For what thou hast not,
still thou strivest to get,
And what thou hast, forget'st.
-William Shakespeare
from Measure for Measure
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always
when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always
lies in the learning process itself.
-Cathy Lee Crosby

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment.
-Lady Dorothy Nevill
The Lord gives guidance to the thoughtful, not the unthinking.
-Matthew Henry

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If still boring, then eight.
Then sixteen. Then thirty-two.
Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
-John Cage

Monday, December 6, 2010

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
-Ira Gershwin
 

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