So true!

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d be millionaires.” –Abigail Van Buren

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today’s thought

Actually, yesterday’s. From my Louise Hays daily calendar for yesterday: Life is simple. What I give out, I get back. True.

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Quote for Friday

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. –Mortimer Adler

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Quotation

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. –Vincent Van Gogh

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My quotation for a nice Sunday

A multitude of small delights constitutes happiness. –Charles Baudelaire

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Today’s quote

“I’m not me minus anything; I’m me plus this experience.” –Michael J. Fox I guess that’s how I feel, or prefer to feel, about everything I’ve gone through. I refuse to let it detract from my life, even though everything has changed. I can choose to let it add to my life, to me, to [...]

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Quote for the day

“I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” –Frances Willard Use your energy to build, not destroy.

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Today

“Today is not just any other day, you know.” –Winnie the Pooh, A.A.Milne

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Barbara Kingsolver gets it right

“Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job…  And onward full tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven inspite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one [...]

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Been there

I was tired of the whole scene and longed to be able to go into a bookshop as in former times and choose a book without being aware of all that went into its making. –A Far Cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark

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