"We worry as though we had a thousand years to live! Let us rather always strive after the gentle humor of the heart, which knows how to smile at the world." Nico

"It takes a long time to become young." Pablo Picasso

"Never put an age limit on your dreams." Dara Torres

"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal." Anonymous

"Play so that you may be serious." Anacharsis

"Not all who wander are lost." Bumper sticker

"At age 50, everyone has the face {s}he deserves." George Orwell

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. . . Including you."

Anne Lamott

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

Margaret Mead

"So much confusion and so much debate that it just boggles my mind

that we can't think like third-graders and address the #1 cause."

Jim Morris Hicks on Sustainability

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

"The biggest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

Daniel J. Boorstin

“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today."

Ernest Hemingway

". . . the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of History."

Derek Walcott

"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."

Voltaire

"Nothing endures but change."

Heraclitus

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

Ellen Glasgow

"The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."

Albert Einstein

"Always do right.

This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Socrates

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."

Coco Chanel

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

. . .

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Charles Schulz

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

Virginia Burden

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching –

even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

Aldo Leopold

"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

. . .

"I live in a world where the two truths coexist.

Where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand."

From Lucky by Alice Sebold

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

Seneca

“The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”

Marva Collins

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.

If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

Marcus Aurelius,emperor

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power."

John Steinbeck

"Make sure you're measuring - not just your bottom line but how employee happiness is linked to it."

Jenn Lim

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;

that is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

"Positive deviance? An awkward, oxymoronic term.

The concept is simple: look for outliers who succeed against all odds" (p. 3).

. . .

"Living alongside peers, they [the positive deviants] flourish while others struggle.

Also invisible in plain sight is the community's latent potential to self-organize, tap its own wisdom, and address problems long regarded with fatalistic acceptance. Once the community has discovered and leveraged existing solutions by drawing on its own resources, adaptive capacity . . . enables those involved to take control of their destiny and address future challenges." . . .

"No need for deep systematic analysis or a resource-intensive assault on root causes" (p. 7).

. . .

"The PD process is a tool for adaptive work. Unfortunately, we are drawn instinctively to the "technical" stuff - the "what" (specific practices and tools that make the individual positive deviants successful). That's the easy part - and only 20 percent of the work. What matters far more is the "how" - the very particular journey that each community must engage in to mobilize itself, overcome resignation and fatalism, discover its latent wisdom, and put this wisdom into practice."

. . . The path taken creates the context for self-discovery and alters attitudes and behavior.

Surprising things emerge"( p.8).

From The Power of Positive Deviance by Richard Pascale Jerry Sternin & Monique Sternin

http://www.positivedeviance.org/resources/powerofpd.html

“Between the stimulus and the response there is a space,

and in this space lies our power and our freedom."

Victor Frankel

"Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the ‘I have a dream’ speech, not the ‘I have a plan’ speech."

Simon Sinek

"Great discoveries and achievements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Oscar Wilde

"In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it."

Leo Szilard

"There are some things in life a person just can't know."

From So B. It by Sarah Weeks

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

Martin Buber

"Trust is not a matter of technique, but of character.

We are trusted because of our way of being, not because

of our polished exteriors or our expertly crafted communications."

Marsha Sinetar

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure,

you will fail above everyone else's success."

James Cameron

"You have two ears and one mouth.

Use them proportionately."

Socrates

"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often."

Winston Churchill

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing;

It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

Voltaire

"If we did all the things we are capable of,

we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether [s]he is the garbage [wo]man or the president of the university." ;)

. . .

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

. . .

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,

spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

E.E. Cummings

"If you're not paying for something,

you're not the customer;

you're the product being sold."

{Yikes! } Andrew Lewis’ MetaFilter dictum

"We need not to be let alone.

We need to be really bothered once in a while.

How long is it since you were really bothered?

About something important, about something real?"

From Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

"When people don't express themselves,

they die one piece at a time.

You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are,

just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job.

It's the saddest thing I know"(p. 122).

From Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung

"Chocolate is a way of life."

Sharene Gould Dulabaum

“Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can’t do one without the other.”

Malcolm Forbes

"Those who love you are not fooled by the mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused."

Alan Cohen

"The key to everything is patience.

You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."

Arnold Glasow

"Life is like a bad haircut.

At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it,

it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad . . . .

So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it doesn't matter anymore."

From The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman

"It is hard to be afraid of the dark when a cat is standing on your face" (p. 113).

From Serendipity & Me by Judith I. Roth

"Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History"

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"The darkness enveloped us all.

All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow.

He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings.

His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again. . . .

When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, and eerily poignant little corpse" (p. 95).

From Night be Elie Wiesel

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.

It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Nelson Mandela

"I had no idea that history was being made, I was just tired of giving up."

Rosa Parks

"If all I can remember are hallucinations, how can I rely on my own mind?

To this day I struggle with distinguishing fact from fiction" (p. 242).

From Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

"I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed,

and they had no choice in the matter afterward.

And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me.

I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up,

every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other.

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me" (p. 372).

From Allegiant by Veronica Roth

"Do the best you can until you know better.

Then when you know better,

DO BETTER."

Maya Angelou

“A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please,

or what is worse, to avoid trouble.“

Mahatma Gandhi

"One day a hunter came into the forest, got lost, fell down a deep hole, and couldn't climb out. He called for days, growing hungrier and weaker. Finally the Buddha-gorilla heard him and came. Seeing the steep and slippery sides of the hole, the gorilla told the man, "To carry you out safely, first I'm going to roll boulders down and practice on them."

"The gorilla rolled several boulders into the hole, each one bigger than the last, and carried them all out. Finally he was ready for the man. After struggling upward, pulling rocks and vines, he pushed the man out,

and with his last strength, crawled out himself.

"The mean looked around, very happy to be out of the hole. The gorilla lay beside him, panting. The man said, "Thank you, Gorilla. Can you guide me out of this forest?" The gorilla replied, "Yes, Man, but first I must sleep

for a while to get my strength back."

"As the gorilla slept, the man watched him and began to think: "I am very hungry. I can find my way out of this forest on my own. This is just an animal. I could drop one of these boulders on its head, kill it, and eat it. Why don't I do that?"

"So the man lifted up one of the boulders as high as he could, and threw it down hard on the gorilla's head. The gorilla cried out in pain and sat up quickly, stunned by the blow, blood pouring down his face. As the gorilla looked at the man and realized what had happened, tears gathered in his eyes. He shook his head in sorrow and said,

"Poor Man. Now you'll never be happy."

From Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

by Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius

From his powerful speech, delivering the news of Dr. Martin Luther King's death:

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

Robert Kennedy

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;

you are the one who gets burned."

Buddha

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

George Jean Nathan

"Make the driving force in your life love."

Dr. Oz

"The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live."

Norman Cousins

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"If there is anything we wish to change in the child,

we should first examine it

and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

Carl Jung

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

Richard Bach

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

Neil Postman

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

Maria Robinson

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be a candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

"Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for."

Ruth Boorstin

"The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are,

own how you look, own your family,

own the talents you have,

and own the ones you don't.

If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours,

they you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny."

From Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter,

and those who matter don't mind."

"Don't cry because it's over,

smile because it happened."

Dr. Seuss

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

Marcus Aurelius

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

James Baldwin

"Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of

your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them."

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

"Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states."

"All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy,

and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy."

Shantideva

"To study the Way is to study the self.

To study the self is to forget the self.

To forget the self is top be enlightened by all things."

Dogen

"The stigma associated with having a learning disability will ease when we all understand that we can accomplish what was once thought impossible; we can change, fundamentally and profoundly, our capacity to learn."

From The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."

Mark Twain

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable,

but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Chinese Proverb

"At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking,

to entertain thoughts that span the universe,

that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far."

From Life of Pi by Yann Martel

"The shortest distance between two people is a smile"

Anonymous

"One mother can achieve more than a hundred teachers."

Jewish Proverb

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and

you help them become what they are capable of becoming."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him{her},

and let you know you trust {her}him."

Booker T. Washington

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan

{Helen Keller's tutor}

"Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

Socrates

"Science is organized knowledge; wisdom is organized life."

Immanuel Kant

"A single conversation with a wise person is better than 10 years of study."

Chinese Proverb

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."

Leonardo da Vinci

"The more you know, the less sure you are."

Voltaire

"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."

Antisthenes

"A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind."

Jean de la Fontaine

"When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind."

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where light enters you."

Rumi

"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius

"Love thy neighbor as thyself."

Jesus

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

Henry Ford

"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."

Horace Mann

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

John Bunyan

"[S]haping a grand idea into a set of actions is a huge intellectual, emotional and creative challenge."

Andrea Kay

"{S}He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

Abraham Lincoln

"Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance,

but we need quiet time to figure things out,

to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers."

Ester Buchholz

"What we think, we become."

"Meditation is participatory observation."

Buddha

“Being loved gives you strength, loving someone gives you courage”

Lao Tzu

"Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?"

David Bader

"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify."

Henry David Thoreau

"Knowledge is learning something every day.

Wisdom is letting go of something every day."

Anonymous

"Learning is, by nature, curiosity."

Philo

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,

but for the passionate sense of the potential,

for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."

Søren Kierkegaard

"When the going gets tough, it is the solidity of the teacher's inner world and the strength of his or her attachments that make the difference between enthusiasm and success, or failure and burnout" (p. 263).

. . .

"As human beings we need to connect with our students

as much as they need to connect with us" (p. 265).

From The Social Neuroscience of Education by Louis Cozolino

"It's important for educators to remember that learning disabilities like

dyslexia aren't simply academic impairments but also distinct patterns of

brain organization that bring with them strengths as well as difficulties. . . .

Twenty-first century learning learning requires critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity -

precisely the strengths many individuals with learning disabilities possess" (p. 46).

From Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong

"But if we remain attached to our past, we cannot learn anything new. We must open our minds so that

we can see the world for what it is with a fresh new perspective" (p. 23).

From Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down,

step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy."

Nancy Duarte

"Easy reading is darned hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Tell me and I forget.

Show me and I remember.

Involve me and I understand."

Chinese Proverb

"Study forced on the mind will not abide there. . . .

Train your children in their studies not by compulsion but by games."

Plato

"The best way to know life is to love many things."

Vincent van Gogh

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

Amos Bronson Alcott

"When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost - and will produce its richest ideas.

Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl."

T.S. Eliot

"Human behavior is the product of an endless stream of perceptions, feelings, and thoughts,

at both the conscious and the unconscious levels" (p.12). . . .

"Philosophers have for centuries debated the nature of "reality," and whether the world we experience is real or an illusion.

But modern neuroscience teaches us that, in a way, all our perceptions must be considered illusions.

That's because we perceive the world only indirectly, by processing and interpreting the raw data of our senses.

That's what our unconscious processing does for us - it creates a model of the world. Or as Kant said, there is Das Ding an sich, a thing as it is, and there is Das Ding fuer uns, a thing as we know it" (p. 45). . . .

"We choose the facts that we want to believe. We also choose our friends, lovers, and spouses and

not just because of the way we perceive them but because of the way they perceive us" (p. 218).

From How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

"It's not the size of the [wo]man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the [wo]man."

Teddy Roosevelt

"Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, now knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know:

that we are here for the sake of others."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Albert Einstein

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

J. K. Chesterton

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

Blaise Pascal

"The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned

by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared."

Ruth Benedict

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud

became more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin

"Be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup;

You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle;

You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot.

Now water can flow or it can crash.

Be water, my friend."

Bruce Lee

"Content is not just information.

. . .

We stack up all information . . . to dump all the knowledge on an exam and be done with it."

Gerald Nosich

"Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary."

Milan Kundera

"It is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Find the good and praise it!"

Alex Haley

"Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow."

Dr. Linus Pauling

"If I put on the brakes now, I'd be skidding for years to come."

Jimmy Buffett

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Thomas Jefferson

"Let food be thy medicine."

"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Hippocrates

"Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep moving."

Albert Einstein

"Go Put Your Strengths to Work."

Marcus Buckingham

"Hope is the dream of the soul awake."

French Proverb

"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet."

German Proverb

"Only those who attempt the absurd . . . will achieve the impossible."

M.C. Escher

"It's not our differences that divide us.

It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences."

Audrey Lorde

"In every real {wo}man a child is hidden who wants to play."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus

"Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone.

That's where the joy and adventure lie."

Herbie Hancock

"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it."

George Weinberg

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."

Bill Russell

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

Anonymous

"Any mutually impactful, mutually open relationship can reactivate neuroplastic processes

and actually change the structure of the brain at any stage of our lives" (p. 41). . . .

"The richer and more stimulating our environment, the more encouraged

we feel to learn new skills and expand our knowledge" (p. 76).

From How to Stay Sane by Philippa Perry

"The reason an answer is not often found in the midst of crisis is that many times,

at that very moment, a specific answer does not not exist! . . .

Keep your head and heart clear.

Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found" (p. 154).

From The Noticer by Andy Andrews

"My only advice is to stay aware,

listen carefully

and yell for help if you need it."

Judy Blume

“No road is long with good company.”

Turkish Proverb

“Life is an echo – What you send out comes back.”

Chinese Proverb

“Give every {wo}man they ear but few thy voice.”

William Shakespeare

"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear."

Mark Twain

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleonore Roosevelt

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;

Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Sir Winston Churchhill

"To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions."

William James

"To live is to be in a constant state of adjustment."

. . .

"What has happened to us?

Rather than thinking of ways we can be preparing our

students for their futures, we seem to be determined to prepare them for our past

- literally."

. . .

"The brain is constantly learning, unlearning, and relearning, and its possibilities are as open as our attitudes toward them. Right now,

our classrooms and workplaces are structures for success in the last century, not this one. We can change that" (pp. 291 - 292).

From Now You See It by Cathy Davidson

"We need to remind students each day that the activities and assignments

we use are not just for the immediate need of job preparation but also to prepare them for a future

we have no way of knowing, except to know that they will desperately need a set of learning skills to cope with it."

From Learner-Centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice by Terry Doyle

"In short, the revolution in neuroplasticity has shown that the brain can change as a result of two distinct inputs. It can change as a result of the experiences we have in the world - how we move and behave and what sensory signals arrive in our cortex. The brain can also change in response to purely mental activity, ranging from meditation to cognitive-behavior therapy,

with the result that activity in specific circuits can increase or decrease" (p. 175).

From The Emotional Life of Your Brain by Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. with Sharon Begley

80% of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.”

Brian Tracy

“Most of us are distracted, preoccupied or forgetful about 75% of the time we should be listening.”

“We listen at 125-200 words per minute,

but think at 1,000-3,000 words per minute.”

“Immediately afte we listen to someone, we only recall about 50% of what he or she said.”

“Long term, we only remember 20% of what we hear.”

International Listening Association

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

Henry Winkler

“You can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”

Paulo Coelho

“A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”

Victor Borge

“When people can relate on a personal level, there is hope for world peace.”

Natalia Paruz

“Keep doing outrageously generous and loving things to others.”

Ray Carter

“I want people to be more open and more tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory

that is the common denominator – for we all share in the human experience:

pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

Oprah Winfrey

“We are all in this together; we are not nearly as right as we think we are and

others are not nearly as wrong as we would like to believe.”

Pat Bailey

“It doesn’t take two to tango”(p. 81).

“Tips for making every relationship great:

Write it down. Be patient and persistent. Take control. Expect nothing. Form new habits” (pp. 95-97).

From The 100/0 Principle by Al Ritter

"Imagine a job where you are told:

"Work is over at 6:00 p.m. However, we also supervise your time at home and on vacations. We will make sure that you leave the office every night with a minimum of three hours of paperwork to do, and if we can't find something that really needs to get done, we'll make something up. And, sure, you can go on vacation if you like. We'll even cut back on the busywork -- a bit. And, by the way, you will be paid nothing for this, you can't quite this job."" {Gee, describes a job I had perfectly except for the "can't quit" part! ;-)}

"It sounds ridiculous, {not really - quite realistic for adults} but it is real life for many children"(pp. 21 - 22). {Now, that is tragic!}

. . .

"In the 1940s, 20% of students admitted to cheating in high school; today, well over 75% make the same admission" (p. 45).

. . .

"The child-development, tutoring, and testing industries are an almost $10 billion scam that feeds on

the fears of parents that their children will be left behind" (p. 46).

. . .

"Today's students may lack the critical thinking, creativity, and focus necessary to survive, much less thrive, as they enter

higher education and the working world" (p. 47).

. . .

"Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it."

"Only you can educate you - and you can't do it by memorizing" (p. 83).

. . .

"School often acts as an obstacle to success" (p. 88).

From Do Students Have Too Much Homework?

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Thomas Paine

"Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is a triumph of some enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Skill is insulation that wraps neural circuits and grows according to certain signals" (p. 210).

From The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi

"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."

G.W.F. Hegel

"Conformity is the jailor of freedom and the enemy of growth"

John F. Kennedy

"A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold."

Chinese Proverb

"Be brave enough to live creatively." Alan Alda

"It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot

"The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."

. . .

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be aware of the ever-changing reality of each moment." Dr. Duly

"I don't have to shave. I don't have to comb my hair. I just press record and make a video.

There may be spinach in my teeth - who cares?! . . .

I've gotten a lot of feedback and it really does feel like I'm sitting next to the person and we're looking at the paper together. . . .

I'm 95% of the time working through that problem real time. Or I'm thinking it through myself if I'm explaining something. And to see that that it is sometimes a messy process - it isn't always this clean process where you just know the answer.

I think that is what people like; the kind of humanity there.

Salman Kahn interviewed - Kahn Academy: The Future of Education?

"High levels of the stress hormone cortisol kill neurons in the hippocampus. If you put a neuron in a petri dish and flood it with cortisol, its vital connections to other cells retract. Fewer synapses develop and the dendrites wither" (p. 128).

. . .

"If your prefrontal cortex has been offline for a while, you need to reprogram it, and exercise is the perfect tool" (p. 136).

. . .

"At least four days a week, I suggest getting out there and walking briskly or jogging or playing tennis or engaging in some form of activity that will get your pulse up to 60 to 65 percent of your maximum heart rate. You want to keep it there for an hour" (p. 214).

. . .

"High-intensity exercise toughens you up, both physiologically and psychologically" (p. 257).

From Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John T. Ratey, M.D.

"Failures of leadership are found everywhere. . . . Only a dismally low 7 percent of employees trust their employers, their leaders and managers; similarly, subordinates do not generally consder their superiors to be either honest or competent. The recession has likely played a part in this perception, as have a rash of recent corporate scandals. . . . "America the broken," as Frank Bruni put it" (pp. 169 - 170).

From The END of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman

"What is it that makes you want to write songs?

In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people's hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance,

where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you're playing.

It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people.

To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases.

A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart" (pp. 277 - 278).

. . .

"I am married to a most beautiful woman. Elegant, graceful and as down to earth as you can get. . . .

I must say that her practicality and logic confound me because she makes sense out of my discursive way of life.

Which sometimes goes against my nomadic traits. Applying logic goes against my grain but how I appreciate it" (p. 532).

. . .

"I've stirred up enough crap in my time and I'll live with it and see how somebody deals with it.

But then there's that word "retiring." I can't retire until I croak" (p. 545).

From Life by Keith Richards

"You're not afraid of monsters, are you?" {asks the Grandma}

"It depends on the monster, it it's a real one or not and if it's where I am" (p. 255).

From Room by Emma Donoghue

"RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY!" (p. 281).

From Possessing The Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

"One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.

"One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,

false pride, superiority, and ego.

"The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

"The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

"The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed" (p. 120).

From The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher K. Germer, Ph.D.

“If there’s a problem and no solution - you go out and create the solution.”

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young - TedxToronto

"My vision is for all schools to become places where children can go to strengthen their brains so they can learn effectively and efficiently. Cognitive exercises, using the principles of neuroplasticity, will become an integral part of each school's curriculum. . . .

That people with learning disabilities don't dare to dream breaks my heart. We now have the tools to address these problems, strengthen and rewire and improve their brains, and avoid a tremendous amount of needless suffering" (p. 216).

From The Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young

"But simply fighting for what you believe is right doesn't guarantee victory. . . . Not when there are so many who have their own agenda, no matter how wrong-minded it may be."

From Morpheus Road - The Blood by D.J. MacHale

"Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to . . . to show the Capitol they don't own me.

That I'm more than just a piece in their Games."

From The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

“I am not a hero. I stand at the end of the long, long line of good Dutch people who did what I did or more –much more—

during those dark and terrible times years ago, but like yesterday in the hearts of those those of us who bear witness.”

. . .

“Never a day goes by that I do not think of what happened then.” Miep Gies

"If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito." Anita Roddick

"A student's brain physically changes every day, and the way we teach either enhances or impairs it." B. Lynn Brown

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

Malcolm X

"I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear like a monkey" (p. 238).

From Mastering Stress 101 - A Lifestyle Approach by Barlow, Rapee & Reisner

“We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”

From The Impossible Will Take a Little While by Cornel West

"Think left and think right and think low and think high.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"

Dr. Seuss

"It's OK to be fabulous AND flawed! love Dove"(dark chocolate wrapper)

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

Tennessee Williams

"To ignore the bad is to punish the good."

Benjamin Franklin

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

Mark Twain

“If you walk through life showing the aggravation you’ve gone through,

people will feel sorry for you, and they’ll never respect you.

She {his Momma} taught us that {wo}man has two ways out in life—laughing or crying.

There’s more hope in laughing,” (25).

Dick Gregory

"The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave."

Tavis Smiley

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

Rosa Parks

"When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time."

Byron Katie

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Horace Mann

"In a broken nest there are few whole eggs."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Chinese Proverbs

"It's frightening to think that you mark your child merely by being yourself."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."

Goethe

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings."

Hodding Carter

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $10,000 for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."

Marilyn Monroe

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it is making a great deal out of the little ones." Anonymous

"Children are what we make them." French Proverb

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves." Maria Edgeworth

"You put aside your fears, which is the most difficult thing of all to do.

It is easy to be a warrior. It is far more difficult to inspire"(p. 577).

. . .

"All time is precious. The challenge is to make the most of it. The ability to decide how to spend time is a great and powerful gift. Everyone controls their own destiny. Makes their own decisions. Chooses their own fate. Not everyone chooses wisely, but that is the way it was meant to be. The way it should be.

The way it will always be" (p. 594).

From Pendragon, Book Ten: The Solidiers of Halle by D. J. MacHale

"Life is an echo --- what you send out comes back."

"Do not remove a fly from your neighbor's face with a hatchet."

"If you have not fought with each other, you do not know each other."

Chinese Proverbs

"Give every {wo}man thy ear but few thy voice." William Shakespeare

"The significant problems of our time cannot be solved

by the same level of thinking that created them."

Albert Einstein

"You don't skate to where the puck is, you skate to where it's going to be." Wayne Gretzky as quoted by Steve Jobs

"We believe in letting our light shine, but not shining it in the eyes of other people. - Amish father" (p. 3).

"I am angry at the evil and at how much suffering the evil caused because of sin" (p. 130).

"Forgiveness is something that's easier said than done" (p. 132).

"Genuine forgiveness takes a lot of work - absorbing the pain, extending empathy to the offender, and purging bitterness - even after a decision to forgive has been made. Amish people must do that hard work like anyone else . . . . " (p. 140).

"We are not only the products of our culture, we are also producers of our culture. We need to construct cultures that value and nurture forgiveness. In their own way, the Amish have constructed such an environment" (p. 182).

From Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by D. B. Kraybill, S. M. Nolt and D. L. Weaver-Zercher

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary" (Commencement speech excerpts, 2005).

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me . . . .

Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful . . . that's what matters to me."

Steve Jobs

" . . . the tongue holds the key to death and life."

Saint Benedict of Nursia

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery"

Charles Caleb Colton

"Go Gently."

UM

"If you believe there is some good in every person,

then you just aren't meeting enough persons!"

"Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, you get rid of him for a week."

"Keep smiling.

Keep smiling.

People have a lot of sympathy for idiots."

Dave Broadfoot

"We like to think that there is this core of human nature that good people can't do bad things,

and that good people will dominate over bad situations. . . .

We put good people in an evil place and we saw who won. . . .

The sad message in this case: the evil place won over the good people."

Zimbardo summarizing his famous research in Stanford

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The shelves in my cupboard of confidence were no longer empty but for for crumbs and cobwebs. Still, each night as I tucked my ego tight behind shuttered lids, I could just make out the sounds of a grindstone rubbing against a metal blade, slow muffled footsteps, and the whistle of an ax falling toward a wooden block.

It kept me on my toes" (p. 75).

. . . .

"I've heard the speculation about Google since I left. That it's a monopoly. That it's tracking users. That it's in cahoots with the government. That it spies on people. That it's evil. Well, maybe it is all that. I haven't worked there in more than five years. Things change. But from what I know about my coworkers in the Plex - many of who are still there, putting in long hours perfecting a product used by millions every day - I'd say that's highly unlikely" (p. 389).

. . . .

"This was no institution continuing a long tradition of public service. And therein lies the company's biggest flaw, in my estimation: impatience with those not quick enough to grasp the obvious truth of Google's vision" (p. 389).

. . . .

"Smart people, motivated to make things better, can do almost anything.

I feel lucky to have seen firsthand just how true that is" (p. 390).

From I'm Feeling Lucky:The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards

"Drink coffee

Do stupid things faster with more energy."

Anonymous

"I ask you . . . to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves . . . . "

Frederick Douglas at the Southern Loyalists' Convention, Philadelphia 1866

"Preservation of the Bell, like that of liberty itself is an ongoing process." National Park Service, Philadelphia 2011

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Indira Gandhi

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"If at first an idea doesn't seem totally absurd, there's no hope for it."

Albert Einstein

Collaboration is not a "nice to have" leadership philosophy.

It is an essential ingredient for organizational survival and success

based on the essential truth that none of us is smarter than all of us" (p. 126).

From The Silent Language of Leaders by Carol Kinsey Goman

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Mohandas Gandhi

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Teresa

"Mostly I read books about science and maths. I do not like proper novels.

In proper novels people say things like,

"I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud.

I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus."

What does this mean?

I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor does Siobhan or Mr. Jeavons. I have asked them" (pp. 4 - 5).

From The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

"No one told you that you had to be serious and uptight. All you were hired to do was your job" (p. 82).

"The best sales manager I worked with never once worked beyond 5:30 p.m. . . .

He never stayed late because that would have been disloyal to his number-one priority - his family.

This gave him great depth. He was well rounded and balanced. He was at ease with himself.

He had nothing to prove at work because he was content at home.

I've worked with some complete jerks and I can say the only thing

they all had in common was a bad home life.

Their base camp was corrupt and it showed" (pp. 148 - 149).

"If you are passionate about what you do,

then standing up for what you know is right isn't that hard" (p. 172).

From The Rules of Management: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success by Richard Templar

"The effective manager's 3 imperatives:

1. Manage yourself

2. Manage your network

3. Manage your team" (p. 27)

...

"Can you endure the discomfort of learning?" (p. 248)

From Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A. Hill & Kent Lineback

"I think the parallels between what the research has found makes people happy (pleasure, passion, purpose) and what the research has found makes for great long-term companies (profits, passion, purpose)

makes for one of the most interesting fractals I've ever come across" (p. 238).

From Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.

The amount of work is the same."

Carlos Castaneda

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of a candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha

"It's very sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew."

Original Source Unknown

"When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny."

Bertice Berry

"When you earnestly believe you can compensate for lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do."

Original Source Unknown

"Any fool can write learned jargon; the test is the vernacular."

C. S. Lewis

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for -

in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”

Ellen DeGeneres

"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."

Aldous Huxley

"Age is mind over matter.

If you don't mind,

it doesn't matter."

Mark Twain

"Forgive me my nonsense

as I also forgive the nonsense of those

who think they can talk sense."

Robert Frost

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"An individual has not started living until {s}he can rise above

the narrow confines of his{her} individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness.

I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too.

I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens,

I think that it will all come right."

Anne Frank

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

Muhammad Ali

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."

{He probably did not mean just a man. ;-}

"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."

or stated another way --

"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."

Immanuel Kant

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

Peter Drucker

"Are We Raising a Generation of Praise Junkies?"

Amy McCready

"Action expresses priorities."

Mohandas Gandhi

Dr. Duly}

"Don't go wasting your emotion, lay all your love on me."

Abba

"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich staerker."

"What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."

Isabell Haase

"In our lives each day, we make an important decision: we either decide to grow forever younger, or else we decide to grow old and die. If we decide to grow forever younger, we keep ourselves open to all kinds of people."

Karen Brugler

"People's lives are not one-dimensional."

Professor Barry Orton

"... Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"

A quotation by Murray is widely misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.^[1] This passage is from Murray's The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951). The "Goethe couplet" referred to here is from an extremely loose translation of Goethe's Faust lines 214-30 made by John Anster in 1835.

"We're on a learning curve trying to bring others along."

Dr. Mary Perkins

"Tell the truth, have you ever found God in church?"

From The Color Purple by Alice Walker

"We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment ..!"

President Obama

"Students don't do optional." Dr. Kay McClenney

“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

They are what we call civilization”(p. 532).

From THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

"You love you learn

You cry you learn

You lose you learn

You live you learn

You bleed you learn

You grieve you learn

You scream you learn

You choke you learn

You laugh you learn

You choose you learn

You pray you learn

You ask you learn."

From You Learn by Alanis Morissette

"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn."

Clive Owen in his detective role in The International

"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed."

From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

"People want to identify with quality and success."

Harry Gould

"Sometimes this life is a bitter pill."

From Love Me Still by Chakakhan

"The things we give are the only things that are eternal.

Giving is the key to living.

Giving is the source of living."

Karen Brugler

"Meine Wut will nicht sterben."

"My anger does not want to die."

Rammstein

"Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being.

What we do over and over again is what we become in the end."

Joan Chittister

"Act your age not your shoe size."

From Kiss by Prince

"My mouth opened and closed around a question that never came" (p. 404).

From Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

"It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game,

and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair" (pp. 64-65).

"Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack.

It is about letting go of another person's throat. . . .

to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly" (pp. 224 - 225).

From The Shack by William P. Young

"If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead" (p. 127).

From AHAB'S WIFE OR, THE STAR-GAZER by Sena Jeter Naslund

"It's ironic that Ellen [Key] has never been married or had children, yet she feels free to expound upon motherhood. I think that's rather arrogant. ... She dines with the heads of state. Corresponds with some of the most famous people in the world. She mourns her bad luck in love because it kept her from having babies. But my goodness.

She's had a rather glorious career for herself -

a career she wouldn't have had if she'd been the kind of full-time mother she glorifies" (p. 263).

The fictional voice of Mamah Cheney from Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Colors

“My skin is kind of sort of brownish

Pinkish yellowish white.

My eyes are greyish white.

But I’m told they look orange in the night.

My hair is reddish blondish brown,

But it’s silver when it’s wet.

And all the colors I am inside

Have not been invented yet” (p. 24).

From WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS - Shel Siverstein

"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."

Margaret Mead

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Mohandas Gandhi

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

Desmond Tutu

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."

Jane Addams

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."

Henri Nouwen

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are."

St. Augustine

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

John F. Kennedy

Some great words of wisdom from Rosa Parks:

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it

over and over again."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

And some of my own words captured:

"It's not what it seems, but that's how we see it!"

"It seems like those who have a job have too much work;

those who work part-time spend their life hunting for their next jobs;

yet, those who have no job and no work are miserable."

"I love where I am at the moment and love that I love it."

"Change is not an event or a product -- it is a process.

"Change is what is happening while you plan!"

"It is not how many moments you live, but how you live those moments."

"To live is to explore - sometimes groping in the dark, sometimes dancing under the sun; sometimes just being - wherever you have landed at that moment."

"It's neither exactly what you hear nor exactly what I see; nevertheless, IT IS WHAT IT IS!"

Dr. Duly

For more Favorites -- WOMEN's WISDOM - read on here!

From an email I received:

Attitude

There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.

Well,' she said, 'I think I'll braid my hair today?'

So she did and she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head.

'H-M-M,' she said, 'I think I'll part my hair down the middle today?'

So she did and she had a grand day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head.

'Well,' she said, 'today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail.'

So she did and she had a fun, fun day.

The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head.

'YEA!' she exclaimed, 'I don't have to fix my hair today!'

Attitude is everything. Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Live simply, Love generously, Care deeply, Speak kindly.......

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.