No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.


Temple Grandin

Life is the train, not the train station. Paulo Coelho

"Never forget where you were. Never forget the journey to get where you are."

We spend a lot of time trying to control other people when we should just be controlling ourselves. Joyce Meyer

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~ Robert C. Gallagher

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. ~ Amy Tan

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his own image.

This family is my special field,
In their soil my love is sealed,
So with gentle hands this earth I groom,
And where I step the flowers bloom.

For you Mom <3

"Water for Elephants" (2007)
 

I'm half-way into the book (ch. 15) but the beginning of the book is too precious. Here's how this story begins in chapter 1:

I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.

When you're five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three, you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties something strange starts to happen. It's a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm -- you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you're not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

Just a few lines before the first chapter opens, Jacob prefaces his story about knowing the importance of keeping a confidence and says that in "seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul."

This story touches my heart...
I've read it like 3 other times already.

" Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness- both the ones you have received and the ones you have given- you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter" Dawna Markova

If you're talking behind my back, you're in a good position to kiss my ass!

-as seen on a friend's FB

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

"Until you learn from it, you will not be released of it."

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is a little like having a peeing section in a pool.