"I know my older sister loves me because she gives
me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy
new ones."

"Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose,
it'll fly."
-- Unknown

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? - Leo Buscaglia

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law. - Mary Manin Morrissey

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have
to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again
before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." -Nelson Mandela
(1918- )

This is on me.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), suggested for her tombstone

It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind
- SIR WALTER SCOTT

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."


---Emo Philips, American comedian

It's so hard when contemplated in advance,
and so easy when you do it.
--- Robert M Pirsig ---

Knowledge is saying what you know. And wisdom is knowing you do not know everything.

"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you
all his joys." - Jewish proverb

"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how
he felt. He said, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the
loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, 'which wolf will
win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I
feed.'" --Unknown

"Each bird loves to hear himself sing." a.. Arapaho Proverb

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." Navajo
Proverb

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million
realities." -- Maya Angelou

"We belong someplace. The day we are given a name we are also given a
place which no one but us can fill." Maya Angelou

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can
survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even
alone in genders." Maya Angelou

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." Maya Angelou

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being
true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the
mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are
you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers
change." Richard Bach

"You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever
questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a
lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel." Richard
Bach