February 2011
9 posts
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to...”
– Jimmy Dean
Feb 1st
January 2011
14 posts
“The world’s a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different...”
– George Villiers
Jan 29th
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...”
– Andre Gide
Jan 26th
Say it, do it, make it, risk it.
Jan 25th
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have...”
– Mary Pickford
Jan 23rd
It doesn't matter
This is worthy of a repost. Roger Rosenblatt’s rule No. 1 for aging: It doesn’t matter. “Whatever you think matters - doesn’t. Follow this rule, and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late, or early; if you are here, or if you are there; if you said it, or did not say it; if you were clever, or if you were stupid; if you are having a bad hair...
Jan 17th
Push the wheel forward
I finally picked up Roger Rosenblatt’s Rules for Aging, and i’ve found that it is one clever and charming book. Behind my favorite rule, No.1 ‘It doesn’t matter’, I especially like rule No. 38 ‘Push the wheel forward.’ Rosenblatt writes, ” The idea of pushing the wheel forward comes from a film I saw as a kid about test pilots in Britain attempting...
Jan 16th
1 note
“When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.”
– Alan Paton
Jan 15th
These rejection letters are discouraging to the...
Jan 14th
From The Alchemist
storytellingbox: “I’m the king of Salem,” the old man (Melchizedek) had said. “Why would a king be talking with a shepherd?” the boy asked, awed and embarrassed. “For several reasons. But let’s say that the most important is that you have succeeded in discovering your Personal Legend.” The boy didn’t know what a person’s “Personal Legend” was. “It’s what you have always wanted to accomplish....
Jan 12th
10 notes
“To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity...”
– William Blake
Jan 9th
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Jan 9th
Got any cabbage?
A butcher was opening his market one morning and as he did a rabbit popped his head through the door. The butcher was surprised when the rabbit inquired ‘Got any cabbage?’ The butcher said ‘This is a meat market – we sell meat, not vegetables.’ The rabbit hopped off. The next day the butcher is opening the shop and sure enough the ...
Jan 5th
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we...”
– G.K. Chesterton
Jan 5th