Saturday, December 10, 2011

Woven into the lives of others

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Dragons can be beaten

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- G. K. Chesterton

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Always learning

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin

Monday, December 5, 2011

Time changes everything

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. - Thomas Sowell

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Finding the paradox & making an exception

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. - Mother Teresa


Yesterday's forgotten quote


I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx

Friday, December 2, 2011

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Eating raw meat

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. - Orson Welles