"It's rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud." -Adidas ad

"Focus on the doughnut, not the hole."

"In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that."

"How far is enough? Far enough is where bad days become good days. Far enough is where problems become solutions. Far enough is where you're ready to turn around and go back." -New Balance ad

"If you waste your days with your tongue silent,
You'll never know what it's like to talk,
If you keep your heart behind a wall,
You'll never know what it's like to love,
If you spend your life on the edge of the cliff,
You'll never know what it's like to fly." -Dan O'Shea

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. --Felicity

Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
--The Wizard of Oz

When you're little, you like to think you know everything, but the last thing you really want is to know too much. What you really want is for grown-ups to make the world a safe place where dreams can come true and promises are never broken. And when you're little, it doesn't seem like a lot to ask. -Taken

Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be. -Taken

My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not your old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you. -Taken

Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day your in diapers, the next your gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a house like alot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like alot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder. -The Wonder Years

When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time. -The Wonder Years

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this to be true." -Unknown

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. "
- Katherine Cebrian

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." ~Phyllis Diller~