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As the W3C enters its second decade, the WWW has wrapped the globe in a tightly woven fabric of information threads. This blog will explore some of these global threads. I think the threads can be called: TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY, POLITOLOGY, ECONOLOGY, SECUROLOGY, and CULTUROLOGY so I will label the posts with a thread name.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

(POETOLOGY)==the Music of words ,notes and pictures

(POETOLOGY)==The music of words ,notes and pictures

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you. -- Winnie the Pooh

i would rather teach one bird to sing than a thousand stars how not to
dance. --ee cummings

Things are beautiful if you love them. -- Jean Anouilh (1910-87), playwright

Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Generally,
by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your
eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these
things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly,
except to people who don't understand. And those people don't matter. --
--The Velveteen Rabbit

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -- Twyla Tharp

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tzu

Just because you can't always see the stars doesn't mean they're not always there.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

A love affair with science will never end in heartbreak.

Hearts will be practical only when they are made unbreakable.
-- The Wizard of Oz

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. -- Betty Bender

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life whichare the real ones after all. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

He who hesitates is a damned fool. -- Mae West (1892-1980)

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. -- Julia Sorel, author

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. -- Nancy Reagan

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. -- BertrandRussell (1872-1970)

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. -- ChristianMorgenstern (1871-1914), poet and humorist

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. --Andre Maurois

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. -- J. Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher

Confusion is always the most honest response. -- Marty Indik

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.-- Robert Frost

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. -- Annette Funicello

Perhaps it is music that will save the world. -- Pablo Casals

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -- e.e. cummings

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful. -- Sandra Bullock

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury

From the little spark may burst a mighty flame. -- Dante Aligheri(1265-1321), writer

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. --Edward Abbey (1927-1989), naturalist and author

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear begining middle and end.Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making most of it without knowing what's going to happen next. -- Gilda Radner

It is not work that kills, but worry. -- African proverb

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. -- C. S. Lewis.

I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. -- H. JacksonBrowne.

The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. let me learn from you,love you, bless you before you depart. let me not pass you by in quest for some rare and perfect tomorrow. -- mary jean iron

--------my quotes--------

"listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go." - ee cummings

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. -- The Talmud

Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. --Ransom K. Ferm

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour -- William Blake

Deeds cannot dream what dreams can do. -- ee cummings

Remember that the beauty of any dream is in never letting it go. - Sarina

Dreams are true while they last and do we not live in dreams? - Alfred,Lord Tennyson

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worth while. --Franklin P. Jones

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll end up in the stars. --Les Brown

All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. --Edgar Allen Poe

I've looked at life from both sides nowFrom win and lose, and still some how It's life's illusions I recall really don't know life at all -- Joni Mitchell

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays.Clutch it, and it darts away. --Dorothy Park

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those.

Love will make you forget time, and time will make you forget love.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. --Kahlil Gibran

There has to be a change, I'm sure. Today was just a day fading into another. That can't be what a life is for. -- Counting Crows

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is so short, and forgetting so long. --Pablo Neruda

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it. --Marie De Rabutin-Chantal

And Pooh gave Christopher Robin the biggest Pooh hug he could give because he knew that goodbyes were not far away.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly. --Langston Hughes

Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. --Katherine Mansfield

Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself, wanting to be lost again.

I would rather have a moment of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. --Steel Magnolias

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

She has fallen asleep I cradle her in my arms And watch the soft rain --James Still

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?--George Moore

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it's letting go.--Sam Ewing

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. --Janeane Garafolo

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings... --Leonardo da Vinci

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.--Gandhi

Life isn't about the breaths we take, it's about the moments that take our breath away.

Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. --James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life coming flowing in. --C. S. Lewis

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Victor Hugo

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I asked, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true of false test?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark, and says, "We hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand word essay." --Charlie Brown, Charles Schulz

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. --George Moore

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. --James Kavanaugh

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. --Friedrich Nietzsche

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. --Judith S. Martin

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Laugh and the world laughs with you;Weep and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.--Wilma Rudolph

Crayons can take you to more places than a starship.

Life's a dance, you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead, sometimes youfollow. --John Michael Montgomery

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, yousometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quitedifferent when it gets out into the open and has other people looking atit. --Winnie the Pooh

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.--Anne Frank

The world laughs in flowers. --Henry David Thoreau

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets. --Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The darkness is at its deepest, just before the sunrise. --Voltaire

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, andnever again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. --Robert James Waller

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what Ireally sought was something I had left behind.--Thomas Hornbein

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly, it flipsover, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. --Matt Groening

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring,murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude;to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the seaspeaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body inits soft, close embrace. --Kate Chopin

Our love was a kiss attempt of two people wearing glasses. Putting them offdidn't come to our minds. --Sadi

Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful. --Thom York

The best thing you ever did for me was to help me take life less seriously.It's only life after all. --Indigo Girls

She sees shooting stars and comet tails. She's got heaven in her eyes. Shesays, "I don't need to be an angel. But I'm nothing if I'm not this high."--Counting Crows

The strongest person in the world is the one who stands alone.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequitedlove.--Charlie Brown (Charles M. Schulz)

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannotlive within. --James Baldwin

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Love builds bridges where there are none.--R.H. Delaney

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when youhave truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit oflove.--Henry Drummond

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.--Albert Ellis

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not mylips you kissed, but my soul.--Judy Garland

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is."--Virgil

May you live in interesting times. -- Ancient Chinese Curse

It is seldom that our motives are uncomplicated. -- Kij Johnson

Love is friendship set on fire. -- Jeremy Taylor

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.

Life is just one damned thing after another.--Elbert Hubbard

Some days, you're the bug. Some days, you're the windshield. -- Price Cobb

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

============================Never limit your future by only doing what you have done in the past!

Joy isn't the absence of pain - it's the presence of God. (Pandora)

S. I. T. STAY IN TODAY !!! (Jan)

Today is the Tomorrow I worried about Yesterday (Ken)

Resentment is like taking poison in an effort to kill your enemy! (Cathy)

GOD always answers prayers. He doesn't always say YES, He doesn't alwayssay NO, sometimes he says YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! (Chris)

An Old Timer is one who doesn't use and doesn't die! (BJ)

Thank GOD I don't need a higher power. (Ken)

Everybody makes mistakes. Fools repeat them, the weak excuse them, only thewise admit and profit from them. (Suzy Q.)

God answers prayer three ways: 1. Yes I thought you would never ask 2. Yesbut not yet. 3. No because I love you to much.

Those who quit going to meetings aren't there to find out what happens topeople who quit going to meetings. (Stacey)

To enjoy freedom, we have to learn to control ourselves.

Insanity is not doing the same thing over and over again expectingdifferent results; insanity is doing the same thing over and over againknowing full well what the results will be! (Paul)

God answers our prayers in four ways: 1. No 2. Yes 3. Wait 4. I have abetter idea in mind (Bob)

I asked for all things that I might enjoy Life, I was given Life that Imight enjoy all things. (BJ)

Plant the seed of hope, it will grow in due time...for each of us the waterof time is different..... (Janice)

I can be right or I can be happy! (Pandora)

No God - No Recovery * Know God - Know Recovery (Rick A.)

EGO " Easing GOD Out! " (Adam B.)

Don't ask, "What is God's will for me?" Ask instead, "Where are theinstructions for the next step? What do the instructions mean?" And, "Howdo I do it?" (Allen H.)

The only difference between God and me is that God doesn't think he isme.... (Judi)

Everything I put before my recovery, I will lose. (Mary S.)

You get sober not with your head, but with you feet- so keep you feet inthe right place and you will stay sober. (Buddy)

Blaming keeps you helpless! (Pandora)

The split toilet seat was invented by an alcoholic...when he used it hestopped cracking himself in the head. (Allen H.)

Dear God, Help me keep my opinion out of your way today. (Maria E.)

Faith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation. (Sarah J.)

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger! (Pandora)

People who don't know God's will for them are not in the habit of prayingfor it. (Allen H.)

Don't just go to NA, join.

If you hold on to your Sponsor with one hand and a Sponsee with the other,you can't pick up!

Does Everybody Notice I'm Always Lying? DENIAL ....... (Chris C.)

When you are in a rut, STOP digging. (Ron C.)

If GOD can handle eternity, I can surely handle today! (Becky)

A self sponsored person is a good example of unskilled labor. (George B.)

It ain't OK til it's OK just the way it is... (Tony H.)

A person should not measure success by material wealth , but by , how highyou are able to BOUNCE when you hit BOTTOM ! (David D.)

God makes a good manager in your life.... He does not want a "raise" forthe job he does .... He only wants the praise .... "THANKS GOD" .... (TheNugget)

Sometimes we can have too many years and not enough days of sobriety (heardat a conference by Carole H).

The mightiest of warriors is he who conquers himself. (Rick A.)

Things turn out the best for those who make the best of the way things turnout. (E.F.)

It's hard for someone to know you love him, if you have your foot on histhroat... (Tony H.)

Poor me, poor me. Pour me another drink! (Marsha B.)

If you're paining...you're gaining; if you're feeling...you're healing.(Moodydeb)

I sought my self, my self I could not see....I sought my GOD and he eludedme....I sought my fellows and found all three. (Levi )

Yesterday is a cancelled check...Tomorrow is a promissory note...Today isready cash, spend it wisely!

My biggest problem looks back at me in the mirror as I shave his face everymorning. (Jim M.)

STAY A LITTLE LONGER - TRY A LITTLE HARDER (Bugsy)

It's OK to drink like a fish, as long as you drink what a fish drinks. (Jim M.)

Religion if for those afraid of going to hell. A spiritual recovery if forthose who have been there. ( from the Bend Group) (Mary H-S)

God loved me enough to land me in a place where everyone as, or had been,as crazy as me... (Tony H.)

A meeting a day keep my demons (alcoholism) at bay. (Moodydeb)

Seven days without a meeting makes one WEAK. (Dan)

If it feels good, do it...If it doesn't, fix it...If you can't fix it,forget it...If you can't forget it, file it away for futurereference...But, for God's sake (and your own) DON'T DO IT AGAIN!.....(Gayle)

Alcoholism is the only disease I know where when the treatment fails weblame the patient. (The late Senator Harold E. Hughes)

Love has no price. It's only love if it's free. (Pandora)

Cunning, baffling, powerful: I can't outsmart it; I can't figure it out;and I sure can't whip it. (Mark W.)

S O B E R : Son Of A Bitch Everything's Real. (Maria E.)

Stay out of your head , there's no adult supervision up there. (Eric H.)

"Do the thing and you will have the power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the breeze blows so the grass shall bend

If I stop to think about how hard it is to change myself, then I know howhard it is to change other people. (Pandora)

YOUR ALWAYS AN ASSHOLE TO SOMEONE (on giving too much value to how other people perceive you from T. A.)

One of my "isms" was "I sabotage myself". (Moodydeb)

Never say Never and Always stay away from Always" (Jim)

You know your in trouble if you can relate to the show "COP'S" (Laura M.)

"There are no coincidences... It's just God's way of remaining Anonymous"(David A.)

"All my problems seem small, in retrospect ." (Mark P.)

There is no pain in change the pain comes from the resistance to change.(Antonio E.)

My sponsor told me to listen to people, that anyone (even people that Ihate or have resentments towards) are right over half the time. (Bryan C.)

The past is no indication of what I am. It's an indication of what I canbecome if I don't follow the program. (Timothy S.)

You have to ask yourself - "What would an adult do in this situation?"(David A.)

I knew I was getting a handle on sobriety, when I started having illusionsof adequacy. (Sherry H.)

"Each individual should consult his own conscience" BB pg. 132 . (Skedge)

I've given up hope for having a better past. (Mike B.)

Faith: Is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. (Debbie)

When I don't ask for help, & I handle it myself, it's nothing more than aDrunk talking to a Madman. (Tim C.)

When I am all alone in my head, I'm in a bad neighborhood! (Tim C.)

The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. (Cam M.)

My sick mind cannot heal my sick mind. (Ron C.)

If you're eating a s--t sandwich, it's because that's what you ordered.(Diane)

In the beginning, there are only two things that you need to know about God.#1. There IS a God. #2. You ain't it! (Ken M.)

While you're in a meeting staying clean, your disease is in the parking lotdoing push-ups. (Morgan)

You have a choice today you can either be right or be happy! (Buddy C.)

When I am not working on my recovery, my disease is working on me! (Chris)If you've decided to stay dumb - you gotta be tough - it's rough out there!(Steve A.)

Our Higher Power gives us many gifts in sobriety. We just have to rememberto unwrap them. (Wendy B.)

God made man in his own image, and man promptly returned the favor! (Alethea A.)

I've been beating up on myself so much I feel like hitting myself

A critic is a person who goes onto the battlefield after the battle hasbeen fought and shoots the survivors.

AA is not a program to get sober...it's a program to live your lifesuccessfully and to be happy once you get sober.

I'd never trade my worst day clean for my best day high.

I worked my using hard, so now I want to work my sobriety hard.

The shortest sentence in recovery, "It Works."

The power behind me is greater than the problem in front of me.

When you're in fear you're not in faith. (Roberta J.)

A fear faced is a fear erased.

I was a scream in search of a mouth.

I didn't make it all the way to the beach to drown in the sand.

Praying is asking God for help, meditating is listening for God's answer.

The reason I'm here is because I'm not all there.

My biggest problem was bottles of the two-legged variety

My basic problem is that I flee from those who want me and I pursue therejectors.

When I live in the past, I live in regret. When I live in the future, Ilive in fear. When I stay in the NOW, everything's always okay. (Joan T.)

There's no speeding in the trudging zone.

Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

Courage is fear in action.

Had the eyes no tears, the soul would have no rainbow. (from Teresa)

God will heal your broken heart, if you will give Him all the pieces. (fromTeresa)

My life hereafter is from this moment on.

We are attracted to people who share in our growth and progress and loseinterest in those who don't.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that somethingelse is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

Self will imprisoned me far more than bars ever did

I had to learn how to float in this program because I'm a sinker.

On relapse: "I never did anything in moderation...except maybe the steps."

It's not the load that breaks you down...it's the way you carry it.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is stillan evil. (Max Lerner)

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. (Emerson)

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Seven days without a meeting makes one weak. (from Herb B.)

Thank you, God, for the beautiful day I'm going to have if I can just getrid of my attitude.

We're sick people trying to get better, not bad people trying to be good.

The only way to have gratitude is to live in the now, not in the past orthe future.

I didn't get my life back in this program...I got my life for the first time.

I never had a problem that was worse than the old solution I found for it.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

If it wasn't for denial my life would be shit.

Change only happens when the pain of holding on is greater than the fear ofletting go.

An expectation is a premeditated resentment.

I used to shoot up and throw up, now I suit up and show up. (David F.)

If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.

The reasonable person adapts to society. An unreasonable person adaptssociety. (Terry M.)

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and thecourage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom toknow one from the other. (Oliver J. Hart)

If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small peoplealways do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, canbecome great. (Mark Twain)

My sobriety depends on who God is, not who I am. (Duane M.)

You cannot save your ass and your face at the same time. (Dennis K.)

Cash register honesty is easier than being honest with yourself, because atleast you know the rules. (Ginger)

Acceptance without gratitude is bullshit.

You're not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for yourbehavior.

If you don't want what we have, we will cheerfully refund your misery.

Have a nice day unless you've made other plans.

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Now that I'm sober I hit my knees in a different way than I used to. (Jay)

Work to become, not to acquire. (Elbert Hubbard)

Regarding believing in God: "Pretend. Act as if. Fake it until you make it.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two smalljumps. (David Lloyd George)

On the hopelessness of addiction from somebody who is still using: "I usedto think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today thelight is on a locomotive headed right for me."

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by theconstant use of four simple words: "I do not know." (Andre Maurois)

You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word fromyour vocabulary: impossible. (Robert Schuller)

If triangles had a God, he would have 3 sides. (Montesquieu)

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.(Yiddish proverb)

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision inthe low time. (Robert Schuller)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.(Albert Camus)

Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. (O'Neill)

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, butreveal to them their own. (Disraeli)

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. (Plato)

Whenever you fall, pick something up. (Oswald Avery)

If you continually give you will continually have.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he hasdescended into the secrets of all minds. (Emerson)

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. (Cecile Stewart)

Fear knocked on my door...I opened it and there was nobody there.

Be careful what you pray for, you just might get it.

The most important word in the Steps is the first one... "WE"

The world ain't gonna kiss my butt just because I'm getting sober

My mind is out to get me.

A recovering alcoholic without a sponsor is much like leaving Dracula incharge of the blood bank.

Relapse starts long before the drink is drunk.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drinktakes the man.

The secret to long term sobriety: Don't drink, don't die.

If from the skies fall lemons, make lemonade. (Gabriel G.)

Don't let the limits of your imagination block you from what God can do foryou. (Suzanne)

Angels fly because they take themselves so lightly.

I have a very high pain threshold and a very low fear threshold.

I always look for the hardest way to do the easiest thing. (Jay M.)

If you don't grow, you go.

If you don't hear what you need to hear, say what you need to hear.

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring willbe to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time..." (T.S. Elliot)

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first orlast time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. (Betty Smith)

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.(George Christopher Lichtenberg)

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in theworld. (Helen Keller)

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to havethings I am not able to appreciate. (Elbert Hubbard)

A smooth sea never made a skilful sailor.

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last. (Griffin's Thought)

While I'm in a meeting, my disease is out in the parking lot doingpush-ups. (Mike M.)

When I moved in sobriety, I went to the meetings and thought, 'Oh, you dothings differently here...i.e., wrong. (Mike M.)

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (JulesRenard)

Democracy is where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

You can't think your way into a new way of living, you have to live yourway into a new way of thinking!

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