August 2009
5 posts
“A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.”
– Jim Morrison
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Buddha
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr. Seuss
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
– Wayne Dyer
March 2009
9 posts
“Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.”
– Chinese Proverb
Bill Gates' Advice.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here is some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech: 11 things you will not learn in school. He talks about how feel good P.C. teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how...
21 Suggestions for Success.
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Be forgiving of yourself and others.
Be generous.
Have a grateful heart.
Persistence, persistence, persistence.
...
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few...”
– Aristotle
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind....”
– Christian D. Larson
February 2009
6 posts
“In order to succeed, your desire for success must be greater than your fear of...”
– Bill Cosby
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different...”
– Albert Einstein
“If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to...”
– Seneca
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we...”
– Carlos Castaneda
January 2009
22 posts
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm...”
– David Lloyd George
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’—a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein
I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in...
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is...”
– David Starr Jordan
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The word is used to dress up plain English with an imagined air of...”
– Junk English, by Ken Smith
“The only reason I lied was because the truth was so difficult to explain.”
– Haruki Murakami in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Howard Aiken
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman (via kari-shma)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via reluctantbuddha) (via kari-shma)
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a...”
– Sholom Aleichem (via kari-shma)
“The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.”
– Roger Ebert (via 43folders)
WatchAmazing Transformation of New York City Streets
December 2008
30 posts
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It...”
– Tom Wilkinson, The Last Kiss (via thoughtsdetained) (via rainier) (via megg) (via marjchun) (via littlemiss)
“Keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry. Live simply, expect...”
– H.C. Mattern
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man...”
– Walt Disney (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma) (via sine-qua-non)
