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"Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?

A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”

--Groucho Marx

Genuine simplicity is the key to happiness

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young

(Thanks to Bella Dia for posting this)

Words to live by

"I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long term.
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface."

--Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Ain't that the truth!

"If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk."
--source unknown

I love this quote on so many levels

"Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner."

Ruth Reichl
Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet Magazine

The Secret

"Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY."

Mahatma Gandhi

The power of positive thinking

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

Philippians 4:8

Keep growing

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

I need to remember this

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."

- Winston Churchill

Inspirational Quote

“Passion will make you crazy, but is their any other way to live?”—

Howard Hughes
(as heard on Project Runway. I can't find verification that he said this...but I love the thought)

Ironic and memorable

"It's not the year, it's the mileage."

I just thought it was funny that a used car salesman used this car reference when speaking about the death of Anna Nicole.
In other words, she was young, but lived hard.
I guess she was driven (sorry, I couldn't resist).

Inspirational words

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,
indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

Positive Thinking...

"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time."

Joseph Campbell

Wisdom of the Ages

I tend to collect little bits of paper, no matter how I try to be more organized. I may be listening to the radio in the car, and feel the need to scramble about searching for a pen...to record some idea, spark, recollection, or quotation.

On my bedside table, there's a receipt on which I have written,
"A heart at peace gives life to the body."
Proverbs 14:30

I don't remember where I heard this, why, nor which translation (several translations of the bible list this quotation differently. 'Tranquil heart', for example. I like the version above best).
I think this may have been in reference to how stress makes people physically ill, how that is a documented fact.

Yet the cure has been around for centuries. It's so simple, really.
Just let your heart go, let it be still. I like that.

Happy Birthday MLK

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

Words to live by

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."

Mark Twain

Fun quote

"Dating is like pushing your tray along in a cafeteria. Nothing looks good, but you know you have to pick something by the time you reach the cashier."

said by Heaven Albright, one of the main characters in "Stupid and Contagious", a novel by Caprice Crane (who is the daughter of Tina Louise interestingly enough).

Slow Down

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for."

Louis L'Amour

Interesting Quote

"The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find."
From Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett (a tale of wizards and assorted magical items)

Avoiding avoidance

"When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere."

Martha Beck
(from Oprah magazine article, February 2006)