Norman Cousins on Impressions

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins


Source: brainyquote.com


In honor of Mary Lib

Kenji Miyazawa on Grief

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa, writer


Source: quotegarden.com

Satchel Page on Wisdom

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Satchel Page

Source: baseball-almanac.com

Apply as needed.

Lou Brock on Self-Awareness

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Lou Brock

Source: 10ktruth.com

Oscar Hammerstein on Peace

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Source: thinkexist.com

Louise Hay on Perspective

When there's a problem - and we all have problems, not all of us can deal with the world and war, but we can deal with our own problems - when a problem comes up, one of the best things to say is: All is well, everything is working out for my highest good, and out of this situation, this so-called problem, only good will come, and I am safe.

Louise Hay


Source: Tavis Smiley, PBS, March 25, 2008

Louise Hay on Forgiveness

We all have people we need to forgive, and that doesn't mean to condone poor behavior, but it's to release us from the bondage from what somebody has done to us.

Louise Hay

Source: Tavis Smiley, PBS, March 25, 2008

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Fortune Cookie

From New China Express in Westerville

Eric Hoffer on Etiquette

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer, writer

Source: quotegarden.com

Emily Post on Etiquette

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.

Emily Post


Source: quotegarden.com

Woody Hayes on Human Relations

You win with people.

Woody Hayes
Football Coach
The Ohio State University

Go Bucks!

Barry Sanders on Self-Respect

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

Barry Sanders, running back Detroit Lions


Source: 10ktruth.com

Roger Caras on Dogs

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Roger Caras

Source: dogquotations.com

J. R. Ackerley on Dogs

Dogs love company. They place it first in their short list of needs.

J.R. Ackerley, writer


Source: dogquotations.com

Good Advice

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.

Author Unknown


Source: friendship.com.au

Michael Straczynski on Perspective

Janine Melnitz: Men -- can't live with 'em; can't sell 'em for parts.


The Real Ghostbusters
"Janine, You've Changed"
Season 6, Episode 1
Written by Michael Straczynski
Animation, 1990
Columbia Pictures Television

Source: imdb.com

Clare Booth Luce on Family

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Clare Boothe Luce


Source: brainyquote.com

Edmund Burke on Critical Thinking

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke


Source: brainyquote.com

Voltaire on Critical Thinking

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire


Source: brainyquote.com

Joe Silberman and Jack Slovinsky on Dream Analysis

Will Truman: A sex dream about Ang Lee? What was that like?

Grace Adler: A little slow-paced, but visually stunning.

Will and Grace
Season 6, Episode 21, 2006, "Partners 'n' Crime"
Written by Joe Silberman and Jack Slovinsky
KoMut Entertainment


Source: imdb.com

Jimmy Dean on Destinations

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean


Source: brainyquote.com

Douglas Adams on Deadlines

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


Source: brainyquote.com

Friedrich Nietzsche on Trust

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche


Source: thinkexist.com

Goethe on Goals

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Goethe



Source: spirithill

Anthony Zuiker and Ann Donahue on Self-Determination

Horatio Caine: You can watch over people, but you can't make choices for them.

CSI: Miami: Money for Nothing, 2004
Season 2, Show 17
Written by Anthony Zuiker and Ann Donahue
CBS Productions


Source: imdb.com

Anthony Bourdain on Human Relations

Food brings all people to the table, both literally and figuratively.

Anthony Bourdain, chef and author



Source: No Reservations: China/The Travel Channel

M. Scott Peck on Self-Worth

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck


Source: brainyquote.com

Napoleon Hill on The Right Moment

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill


Source: bellaonline.com

Rita Rudner on Cooking

Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

Rita Rudner

Source: Go Girl! Greeting Cards

Thais Hancock on Wisdom

Age doesn’t always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Thais Hancock


Source: Go Girl! Greeting Cards

Richard Feynman on Usefulness

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman, physicist


Source: brainyquote.com

Gandhi on Usefulness

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi

Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living
by Laurence G. Boldt
(c) 1991, 1992, 1993 Laurence G. Boldt, Arkana, p. 23

Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson on Careful Analysis

What we've got here. . . is failure to communicate.

Captain, Road Crew 36 played by Strother Martin
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Screenplay by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson
Distributed by Jalem Productions, Warner Brothers Pictures

Source: imdb.com

Free Advice

It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice.

Free advice from an unknown source


This was a sign that used to hang at the juice bar at an old downtown Columbus, Ohio health food store called Spring Wheat, located a half-block from the Ohio statehouse.

Arthur Ashe on True Life

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe


Source: brainyquote.com

Proverb Wisdom

Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.

Russian Proverb


Source: thinkexist.com

Molly Ivins on Endurance

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Molly Ivins


Source: thinkexist.com

Albert Schweitzer on Real Neighbors

Today... we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain -- all living beings on earth are our neighbors.

Albert Schweitzer


Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living
by Laurence Boldt
(c) 1991, 1992, 1993, Arkana, p. 81

Despair, Inc. on Individuality

Individuality: Always remember that you are unique, just like everybody else.

Despair, Inc.

Source: despair.com
See image by clicking here.

Marcel Proust on Living

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Source: If Life is a Game, These are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott
(c) 1998 Cherie Carter-Scott
Broadway Books, p. 128

John Denver on Soaring

The Eagle and The Hawk

I am the eagle, I live in high country
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers
But time is still turning, they soon will be dry

And all those who see me, all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops
Sail over the canyons and up to the stars
And reach for the heavens and hope for the future
And all that we can be not what we are

John Denver
Aerie
(c)1972 Cherry Lane Music Publishing

Sources: cmt.com & johndenver.com

For Scout & Orville and Boomer, Justice, Mistic, and Columbus -- Downtown Columbus, Ohio's peregrine falcon parents and there first babies now fledged and flying.

Lyn Yutang on Coming Home

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Lyn Yutang, writer and philosopher, lived mostly during the 20th century


Source: thinkexist.com

Erma Bombeck on The Family Dynamic

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Erma Bombeck

Source: quotegarden.com

F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Family Dynamic

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: quotegarden.com

Goethe on Home

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe


Source: brainyquote.com


Note: It can be confusing, so, Goethe is pronounced "guhr-tuh" (hard 'g' and go lite on the 'r')
Source: merriam-webster.com

Confucius on Home

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.


Confucius



Source: dailycelebrations.com

John Swartzwelder on Homonyms

Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

Bart Simpson's blackboard punishment
The Simpsons, Bart's Comet
Episode 2F11, 1995
By John Swartzwelder
Created by Matt Groening
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Television

Sources: snpp.com & imdb.com

Gracie Allen on Government

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Gracie Allen... in 1940


Source: workinghumor.com

Sam Snead on Perishable Skills

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead


Source: 10ktruth.com

Muhammad Ali on Self-Determination

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky -- my name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Get used to me.

Muhammad Ali


Source: 10ktruth.com

Suzy Prudden on Self-Respect

Your body is your vehicle for life. As long as you are here, live in it. Love, know, respect, and cherish it, treat it well, and it will serve you in kind.

Suzy Prudden, author

Source: If Life is a Game, These are the Rules
by Cherie Carter-Scott
(c) 1998 Cherie Carter-Scott, p. 17
Broadway Books

Proverb Wisdom

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
Chinese Proverb

The New York Times on Coffee

Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.

Flight of the Coffee Bean
New York Times, Editorial, November 14, 1949

Sources: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World
by Mark Pendergrast (c) 1999 Basic Books, p. 235
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Robert Sutton on Mindfulness

Leonardo Da Vinci said, "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end," which is sound social psychology. The more time and effort that people put into anything -- no matter how useless, dysfunctional, or downright stupid it might be -- the harder it is for them to walk away, be it a bad investment, a destructive relationship, an exploitive job, or a workplace filled with browbeaters, bullies, and bastards.

Robert I. Sutton, PhD.
from The No Asshole Rule/
Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
(c)2007 Business Plus Hachete Book Group USA, p. 99

The Continental Congress on America

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence,
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America


Source: Library of Congress

Woodrow Wilson on America

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Woodrow Wilson



Source: quotegarden.com

Hubert Humphrey on Amercia

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

Hubert Humphrey


Source: thinkexist.com

Margaret Mead on America

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Margaret Mead


Source: quotegarden.com

Barbara Jordan on America

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan


Source: brainyquote.com

Jimmy Carter on America

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

Source: brainyquote.com

John F. Kennedy on America

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy


Source: thinkexist.com

Dwight D. Eisenhower on America

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



Source: nonstopenglish.com