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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times- in water, in butter and in wine. ~Polish proverb

"An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young." - Oscar Wilde

“I have never killed a man, but i have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." ~ Clarence Darrow

" Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamp of the approximate, the not-quite, not-yet, the not-at-all." ~Ayn Rand [via Sven ]

"For the first time, the main sermon was delivered by a woman, the Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She related an oft-told Cherokee tale about a grandfather who explains to his grandson that within every person are two wolves fighting — one the wolf of anger, resentment and fear, the other of compassion, hope and love. The grandson asks which wolf wins, and the grandfather answers, 'The one you feed.' ” [ via ]

"At a certain point in your life, you realize that your habits aren't really habits, they're who you are. There's a horrible realization that you're an adult now, and that all the quirks that you thought would change as you grow older aren't going to. A lot of these songs come from that feeling of growing up and wanting to leave certain things behind, while others are about making sense of your relationship." ~ Teddy Thompson

"if we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. we'd never have a friendship. we'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. well, that's nonsense. you've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." ~ Annie Dillard

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." ~ Bill Vaughn

There are only two things to worry about Either you are well or you are sick, If you are well, Then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick, there are two things to worry about. Either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, there is nothing to worry about. If you die, there are only two things to worry about. Either you will go to heaven or hell. If you go to heaven there is nothing to worry about. But if you go to hell, you'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends you won't have time to worry!

"i don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~Bill Cosby

"the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." ~ Isak Dinesen

"a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." ~Oscar Wilde

"every man is the architect of his own fortune." ~ Sallust

"the chance of ultimate possibility kept repeating itself in his head, a mad little chant that would not stop, nor did he want it to ... everything is chance, and chance is everything ... most people refused to believe that, because chance frightened them. But that was only ignorance. chance contained every possibility. of course, some of it might be bad--that was what the ignorant dwelled on, and it was what frightened them--but a heartbeat away from what might be bad, unthinkably bad, was what might be unthinkably great, a bliss that even the gods would envy." ~Harry Crews, Celebration

"it has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. but the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ~Neil Gaiman

"you believe the world is perfectible, and so you find it unsatisfying." ~Tony Kushner Angels in America

"the world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." ~Charles Kettering

"they know how to run a business just like the bush administration knows how to run the country...Jerry is W, Sue is Condi and Jeff Weiner is Rumsfeld... oh, and Ash is that guy who was in charge of katrina relief... ~ Alley Insider