Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
--- Dodie Smith 1896

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will
prevent you from seeing the stars."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beware of sentences starting with "If".
- Colin Darnel (1930-)

Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon
the idle seashore of the mind
- H. W. Longfellow

Cherish yesterday,

Dream tomorrow

Live today.

-- Author Unknown

Be good at "letting go."

~ Marsha Sinetar

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

-Lee Iacocca

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller

Anyone under thirty who is not a democrat is a cynic.
Anyone over thirty who is not a republican is a fool.
- Mark Twain

Found in a fortune cookie: "You are a poor, pathetic, gullible fool who seeks advice from bakery products."

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want
to be happier than other people, and that is almost always
difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
- Baron de Montesquieu

"Poor people have the blues because
they're poor and hungry.
Rich people have the blues and
can't sleep at night because
they're trying to hold on to
their money and everything
they have."

~~ John Lee Hooker ~~

"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.


Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918
French Poet, Philosopher

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
--Ernest Hemingway

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
~ Chuang Tzu

"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means
you never take chances."
-- Julia Soul

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much ... in the
gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) US novelist, journalist, river pilot

It's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey
1911-1978

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and
don't. --- George Bernard Shaw 1856