A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Jun 162013
Jun 152013
Negativity sucks away energy. If part of the negativity stems from your attitude or perspective, commit yourself at the beginning of each day and each activity to find something positive in yourself and in others around you. If the people around you are negative and you can’t change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.
– Terry Orlick, as quoted in Prescription for Curing Negativitis
Jun 142013
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Jun 132013
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
– John Locke (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – Book IV, 1689)
http://iperceptive.com/authors/john_locke_quotes.html
This quote, explained in the context of Berkeley’s philosophy.
Jun 122013
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
– Ray Bradbury
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66803-you-have-to-know-how-to-accept-rejection-and-reject
Jun 112013
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
– Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
Jun 102013
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free.
– John Donne, Elegy 20, To his mistress going to bed