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Quote of the Week: July 21, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:20:35 GMT

In our madness evermore, we rave. ~ Chaucer ~

Quote of the Week: July 14, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:06:37 GMT

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can, and surely will at times, fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers ~

Quote of the Week: July 7, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:17:12 GMT

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. ~ Jeremy S. Anderson ~

Quote of the Week: June 30, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:03:34 GMT

The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. ~ Charles Dubois ~

Quote of the Week: June 23, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:48:34 GMT

Everyday is a good day for cocktails. ~ Kim Chism ~

Quote of the Week: June 9, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:54:31 GMT

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. ~ Arabic Saying ~

Quote of the Week: June 2, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:28:14 GMT

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Quote of the Week: May 19, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:29:52 GMT

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. ~ Leo Buscaglia ~

Quote of the Week: May 12, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:57:11 GMT

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? ~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull ~

Quote of the Week: April 28, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:53:03 GMT

We all can work ourselves into a hysterical panic over possibilities that we won’t look at. What if I have cancer? What if my job is at risk? What if my kids are on drugs? What if I’m getting bald? What if I am faced with some terrible thing that I don’t know how to deal with? And that hysteria always goes away the instant we are willing to hear the answer. Even if the answer is what we feared all along. Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid. ~ Michael Crichton, Travels ~

Quote of the Week: April 21, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:20:08 GMT

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them. ~ John Calvin ~

Quote of the Week: April 14, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:47:40 GMT

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ~ James Baldwin ~

Quote of the Week: April 7, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:11:12 GMT

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often that individual is crazy.

Quote of the Week: March 31, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:28:36 GMT

We are all grasping for approval from other people grasping for approval. ~ Ram Dass ~

Quote of the Week: March 24, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:21:46 GMT

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ~ Dale Carnegie ~

Quote of the Week: March 17, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:17:59 GMT

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~ Arthur Christopher Benson ~

Quote of the Week: March 3, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:12:56 GMT

Lessons are repeated until they are learned.

Quote of the Week: February 25, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:47:08 GMT

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Quote of the Week: February 18, 2008

sf_fireball — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:57:17 GMT

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. ~ Warren Bennis ~

Quote of the Week: February 11, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:03:52 GMT

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. ~ George Matthew Adams ~

Quote of the Week: February 4, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:57:44 GMT

Learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.

Me

sf_fireball — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:56:27 GMT

I am from cows and horses, the rodeo, the barn. I am from my dad's workshop with his leather, glues, tools and machines. I am from backyards and racetracks, From dirt and show, From tuna fish with celery, grandma's moaning, mom's yelling I am from spring flowers, rain, salty beaches, the ocean, I am from ffriends to kill or die for (are there any other kind) I am from a new life, in a new place with new people. I am from changes for the better and forgetting old pains. I am from a changed future on a new path to better places. A bright light guides me with help from others along the way.

Quote of the Week: January 28, 2008

sf_fireball — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:28:15 GMT

Any idiot can handle a crisis, it's this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Anton Chekhov ~

Quote of the Week: January 21, 2008

sf_fireball — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:37:48 GMT

If you fully accepted what you think is the darkest side of yourself, in the end you would love yourself more, not less, and you would deserve to, because you would no longer be fighting reality. ~ Nathaniel Branden ~

Compliments

sf_fireball — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:04:32 GMT

Over New Year’s Eve I went to a couple parties. There were a few occasions that I gave people sincere compliments and each person completely rejected the compliment. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why can’t we see the goodness in ourselves that others see and willingly accept it as true? I can’t remember how old I was when it was pointed out to me that I couldn’t take a compliment but since then I practice saying “Thank you” when I get a compliment, even if I don’t believe it’s true. The more I do that the more I begin to believe the compliments. Will you start practicing that too?