Craig Ferguson

Americans taught me failure was only something you went through on the way to success, not just in the sense of career or wealth, but as a person. Failure is only failure, and it can be useful, spun into a story that will make people laugh, and maybe once in a while give a message of hope to others who might need some.

Aldous Huxley

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of her liberty-her excessive freedom. She accepts her boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

-in honor of Darcie's epic drive

Jose Saramago

It was my fault, she sobbed, and it was true, no one could deny it, but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

--from Blindness

Cheesy viral e-mail from the late 90s...

Live a good, honorable life. Then, when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.

Eknath Easwaran

Stand up to your full height and give freely to those around you - your time, your resources your talents, your extra clothes or vegetables from your garden, whatever you have. You are not wealthy simply because you have a lot, you are wealthy when you have given a lot away.

from The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol. II, p 205

Mister Rogers

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than complex.

Eknath Easwaran

When we are angry, we are punishing ourselves; anger is its own punishment. Angry thoughts go round and round like a record player. At times we forget that there is any other song in our repertoire. But there is a breathtakingly simple solution to this problem: all we need to do is reach out, lift up the needle, and move it to a new song.

Norman Vincent Peale

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively!

Mark Twain

To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mary Anne Williamson

Every judgment blocks the light!

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Our true home is in the present moment.
To live in the present moment is a miracle.
The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment,
to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Peace is all around us -- in the world and in nature
And within us -- in our bodies and our spirits.
Once we learn to touch this peace, we will be healed and transformed.
It is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of practice.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Garrison Keillor

You start with what you know, but writing is a process of discovery. It's not as if we're simply taking a plate out of our heads and laying it down on paper and printing from it; we're not. Writing is an act of discovery. The moment you start--you start with a character, you start with maybe yourself or maybe somebody else, but you start with a character and you learn about that character by writing about that character and you wind up in places you never thought you were going to go when you started out. I mean that's the whole reason for writing. Discovery. You do not know what you yourself think until you put it into words.

--American Masters series on PBS, Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes

Barack Obama

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.