You are everything I never knew I always wanted.
-- Fools Rush In

You will never know love unless you surrender to it.
-- Fools Rush In

Gravity isn't responsible for making you fall in love.
-- Albert Einstein

Remember, it's not for any of us to discount the level of importance that others see in us.
- Paul Taylor www.wapsisquare.com/d/20070713.html


We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
-- John Berger, Ways of Seeing

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.

-Bessie Stanley


What Success Is:

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse: Mark Twain.


You tell me this is God?
I tell you this is a printed list,
A burning candle and an ass.

—Stephen Crane


- Whereas the migrant can do without the journey altogether; it's no more than a necessary evil; the point is to arrive. -
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Remember that if you don't let people know what you want, it's harder for them to give it to you.


I want to live in the woods.
Have an electric car.
And live in a community of awesome people that do art.

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
~ Anaïs Nin

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
e. e. cummings

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.