Stuff Others Say

• "Pie is always the point of the story."  - Joie Furlong

• "It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none."  -  Snoop Dogg

• "Life is now.  There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be...  Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.  Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now." - Eckhart Tolle

• "The world is shaped by two things - stories told and the memories they leave behind." - Vera Nazarian

• "Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do.  Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."  -Alex Haley

• "Remember what Bilbo used to say:  It's a dangerous  business, Frodo, going out your door.  You step onto the  road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing  where you might be swept off to." - JRR Tokien

• "Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.  -S.A.R.K.

• "To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer." - George Bernard Shaw

• "Not my circus.  Not my monkeys."  - Polish proverb indicating something is not your problem

• We don't see things as they are.  We see them as we are." - Anais Nin

• The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment.  I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness.  As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift." - Ellen DeGeneres

• "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.  Any fool can do it.  There ain't nothing to it.  Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill.  But, since we're on our way down, we might as well enjoy the ride."  - James Taylor

• "O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"  - Percy Bysshe Shelley

• "Real men can't spell kiesh."  - Lee Monger

• "I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy."  - Steve Yzerman

• "Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked.  This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."  - Neil Gaiman

• "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."  - Mark Twain

• "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."  - Charles Dickens

• "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.  So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." - Larry King 

• "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela

• "I'm bored" is a useless thing to say.  I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.  Even the inside of your mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand?  The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say "I'm bored." - Louis C. K.

• "I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning.  Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later:  a joke, a description, a quote.  It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments.  'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone." - David Sedaris 

• "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."  -Steve Martin

• "Look for that beauty in all women, and find it in yourself.  It's there.  Aging is just another word for living."  -Cindy Joseph

• "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."  -Danny Kaye

• "Instead of preparing for disaster, use moments of joy to practice gratitude."  -Brene Brown

• "You get from your life what you have the courage to ask for."  -Oprah Winfrey 

• "Life is hard if you live it the easy way, and easy if you live it the hard way."  -David Keckich

• "Put your ass where your heart wants to be."  -Steven Pressfield

• "People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius."  -Jerry Lewis

• "...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror..." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• "To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Comparing myself to other people poisons everything.  Your real job in the world is to be you."  - India Arie

• "Do something you really love.  Do it in the most interesting place you can do it.  Make sure that it helps other people.  And if you do all of those things and you feel there's a genuine need for it, then you are home."   -Advice to Diane Sawyer from her father, Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer

• "We stick together.  We trust that Love bats last; that laughter is carbonated holiness:  that everything that happened to us belongs to us and we can write about it, and heal; that the most direct experience of the Divine will be in the love of our pets."  -Anne Lamott

• "If the world didn't suck we'd all fall off." - Unknown

• "I admire people who are truthful at all costs."  -India Arie

• At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to be able to say that I contributed more than I criticized." -Brene' Brown

• Tell me:  What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"  - Mary Oliver

• "Whatever follows 'I am' will come looking for you." - Joel Osteen

• "Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic."  - Tryon Edwards

• "When you learn, teach.  When you get, give."   - Maya Angelou

•  "Just because you get older doesn't mean things stop.  It's when you stop.  It's when your  wonder stops.  It's when your innovation stops.  It's when your creativity stops and you allow  yourself to go asunder." -Goldie Hawn

• "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known."  -Tim Kreider

• "Live with intensity.  Invest more of you in everything you do."  -Jim Rohn

• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."       - Jimi Hendrix

• "I contradict myself.  I am large.  I contain multitudes."  -Walt Whitman

• "I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prespective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out." - David Sedaris, Naked

• "You should not look a gift universe in the mouth." - G.K. Chesterton

• "I told you that we could fly cause we all have wings, but some of us don't know why." - INXS

• "There is Fun to be done!" - Dr. Seuss