Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. -Jane Howard
Montaigne Quote
Hmm. Maybe journaling publicly isn’t such a good idea? “Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.” –Michel de Montaigne
Ernst Bloch QOTD
aladriana, I thought of you when I read this: As the sick man does not skip and leap around, his wishes do so all the more. Bloch, Ernst (1995), The principle of hope. Cambridge, Mass. (MIT Press), 455
Who is Ernst Bloch?
Gossip is anger sent to the wrong address. –Ernst Bloch Who is Ernst Bloch? I have no idea. But he was quoted. in this article: The new infidelity: The technologies that make affairs possible also contain the seeds of their…
Napoleon Hill QOTD
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
Food/Diet Talk
Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we’re missing out on the most joyous part of life. If we can actually open our hearts, there’s no difficulty in being happy. -Ayya Khema, “Be an…
A Good Cook…
For my love: A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion designer (1890-1973) Of course, I’d change it to “sorcerer” 🙂
Randomness
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that…
Brezsny for the Week
http://www.beautyandtruth.com/ This first quote really hit me today: For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but…
Alice Hoffman QOTD
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure. –Alice Hoffman