I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.
~good sayings about volleyball by Nancie J. Carmody
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
~volleyball […]
The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
***wise sayings on Thinking by H.G. Wells
There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
***inspirational quote on Government by H.L. Mencken
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
***good quotes about Justice by Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
You’ll […]
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
***inspirational quote on Living by André Gide, Nourritures Terrestres
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
***good quotes about Insults by Rose Macaulay
Strange…a God who could make […]
A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.
~funny tombstone sayings by Terri Guillemets
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
~sayings about tombstone by Charlotte Gray
Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the […]
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~motivational phrase quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
~sayings about phrase by Hopi Indian Saying
There are too many […]
inspirational words for today
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~quotes about Prejudice by William Hazlitt
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
~quote on Violence by Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 […]
PATIENCE
“Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.” — Denis Waitley
“Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The twin killers of success are impatience […]
PARENTING/FAMILY
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.†— Sigmund Freud
“Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family?†— Marmontel Gretry
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, […]