I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues
that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
?Peggy Noonan
-Miracles
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which
he hears, however measured or far away.
?Henry David Thoreau
-Music
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes,
especially if we are too lucky or too successful
or too pretty, our misery is the
only thing that endears us to our friends.
?Erica Jong
-Misery
As we acquire more knowledge, things
do not become more comprehensible,
but more mysterious.
-Albert Schweitzer
-Mystery
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys
several times the same good things for the first time.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Memory
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second
when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
-Pearl S. Buck
-Mistakes
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow
because it was important to them;
there ought to be as many for love.
-Margaret Atwood
-Names
Naps are nature's way of reminding
you that life is nice - like a beautiful,
softly swinging hammock
strung between birth and infinity.
-Peggy Noonan
-Naps
Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate.
-John F Kennedy
-Negotiation
All women become like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.No man does.
That is his.
-Oscar Wilde
-Mothers
The sun, the moon and the stars would
have disappeared long ago,
had they happened to be within
reach of predatory human hands.
-Havelock Ellis
-Nature
The finest command of language
is often shown by saying nothing.
-Roger W. Babson
-Nothing
It is not doing the thing we like
to do, but liking the thing we have to
do, that makes life blessed.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-Obligation
We are one, after all, you and I.
Together we suffer, together exist,
and forever will recreate each other.
-Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
-Oneness
The man who never alters his
opinion is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind.
-William Blake
-Opinions
The first man to compare the cheeks of a
young woman to a rose was obviously a poet;
the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
-Salvador Dali
-Originality
Opportunity dances with those who
are ready on the dance floor.
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
-Opportunity
Obstinacy is ever most positive when
it is most in the wrong.
?Suzanne Curchod Necker
-Obstinacy
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
-Source Unknown
-Opposites
Perseverance is not a long race; it is|
many short races one after another.
-Walter Elliott
-Perseverance
When we lose one we love, our
bitterest tears are called forth by
the memory of hours when
we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects
of what is real, and whether we see the tragic
or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
Arnold Beisser
Perspective
Without passion man is a mere latent force
and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of
the iron before it can give forth it's spark.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Passion
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow
they will be somebody's good old days.
Gerald Barzan
Past
I guess I just prefer to see the dark
side of things. The glass is always half-
empty. And cracked. And I just cut my
lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Janeane Garofalo
Pessimism
