“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

You haven't met yourself yet, but the advantage of meeting others in the meantime is that one of them may present you to yourself.- Waking Life


To be great is to be misunderstood.- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Insanity in individuals is rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.- Friedrich Nietzsche

"i'd hate to have your nerve in my tooth." -- unknown

"ain't we a-pickin' our peaches 'fore they're fuzzed up good?" -- andy griffith

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
~Eric Hoffer

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~G.C. Lichtenberg

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~Eric Berne

‎"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against. No better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."

- Kate Millett

It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.- GH Hardy


Always tell the truth. That way you won't have to remember what it was you said.- Mark Twain


You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.- Unknown

"This is the first time in history that publicly acknowledging that you follow two or more distinct spiritual traditions would not have you burned at the stake, stoned to death, or facing a firing squad. We tend to forget what an extraordinary time this is, that for the first time in history we have the entirety of the world's spiritual and religious traditions available to us, and we can practice them . . . without fear." -Roger Walsh, "IONS Review"

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” -Sarah Dessen

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. - Unknown


Never mistake age for maturity. - Unknown



If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

-Audrey Hepburn

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. -Unknown


If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you're missing all the rest. -Unknown


Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. -André Dubus

THE GUY IN THE GLASS
 

WHEN YOU get what you
want in your struggle for
self;
And the world makes you
king for a day;
Then go to the mirror and
look at yourself
And see what that guy has
to say.

FOR IT isn't your father or
mother or wife,
Whose judgment upon you
must pass;
The fellow whose verdict
counts most in your life,
Is the guy staring back from
the glass.

HE'S THE man you must
please, never mind all the
rest,
For he's with you clear up
to the end.
And you've passed your
most difficult, dangerous
test
If the man in the glass is
your friend.

YOU MAY be like little Jack
Horner and "chisel" a
plum,
And think you're a wonder-
ful guy;
But the man in the glass
says your only a bum,
If you can't look him
straight in the eye.

YOU CAN fool the whole
world down the pathway of
years,
And get pats on the back as
you pass:
But your final reward will be
heartaches and tears,
If you cheated the Guy in
the Glass.

Dale Wimbrow

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou


"The art of life is mastered within the academy of your heart. You create your masterpieces through your tears and smiles. You must persist to believe that your own constellation of stars is the wisdom that you have learned from your failures." - Dodinsky


I hesitate ...
Not out of caution
And not from fear
But to give the time and space
These next steps deserve.
Life-changing steps
Monumental and pivotal steps
I hesitate ... I breathe ... I wait
For it will come ~ with certainty
The answer will come.
— with Ivanka Gimunova

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” -Augusten Burroughs