It’s an offering to God everyday when we dance.
Kelly Cutrone
June 2nd, 2011
May 20th, 2011
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.”
“While gambling at checkers with some shipmates, he formulated an ‘infallible rule,’ which was that ‘if two persons equal in judgment play for a considerable sum, he that loves money most shall lose; his anxiety for the success of the game confounds him. ‘The rule, he decided, applied to other battles; a person who is too fearful will end up performing defensively and thus fail to seize offensive advantages.’”
“Franklin went on to catalog the most common conversational sins ‘which cause dislike,’ the greatest being ‘talking overmuch…which never fails to excite resentment.’
Benjamin Franklin via Tim Ferriss’ Amazon Kindle notes
April 18th, 2011
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Hellen Keller
April 16th, 2011
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Bruce Lee
April 15th, 2011
Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
A man who dares to waste an hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Whatever you find in your mind is what you put there. Put good things there.
Mary Ford
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t be too afraid to make an enemy - sometimes courage and honesty require it.
Lucia Van Der Post
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
Jean Paul Richter
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
April 13th, 2011
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scars remind us where we’ve been, but they don’t have to dictate where we’re going.
David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne Rich
