"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
-- Abraham Maslow
"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. "
"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
-- Jane Austen
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
-- Winston Churchill
"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."
-- Anonymous
"I'm not overweight, I'm just nine inches too short."
-- Shelley Winters
"Normal: what the average person can accomplish with little or no effort. So why be normal?"
-- Bob Seay
"Today I feel like the meat in an idiot sandwich!"
-- Anonymous
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
-- G. C. Lichtenberg
"Walking Eagle: Person who is too full of crap to fly."
-- Athabascan Tribes saying
"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human,
enough hope to make you happy."
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."
-- Erica Jong
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another.... It's one damn thing over and over!"
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
-- Mark Twain
"Nothing so much needs reforming as other people's habits."
-- Mark Twain
"If it weren't for STRESS I'd have no energy at all."
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they are going to have some annoying virtues.
-- Elizabeth Taylor
Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
-- Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C.
Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.
-- Michael LeBoef
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
-- Jeff Foxworthy
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.
Do all the good you can, ...
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity.
-- Erma Bombeck
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
-- Booker T. Washington
Finding Refuge in Poetry
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Cassandra Montenegro
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This week Cassandra Montenegro shares a poem that sustains her by Richard
Blanco. What poems help sus...
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