"You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself"
Miles Davis, American jazz musician

"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

"Health is not simply the absence of sickness."
Hannah Green

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

"Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear."
Garth Brooks

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

"Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the result we do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. While many of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" before we go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunately ignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait."
The William Feather Magazine

“I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
Marcelene Cox

"Reading is no substitute for action."
Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley, English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Oscar Wilde , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

"If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katherine Hepburn

"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy."
Janet Long

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
John E. Southard

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
Sidney Madwed

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
George Eliot, English novelist (1819 - 1880)

"To do two things at once is to do neither."
Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)