Life is about taking chances, even when everyone tells you it is impossible. Even if you don’t believe in yourself. Sometimes our defeats lead us to our greatest successes.
This video inspires me. Thanks to another inspiration for pointing it out. [via Dane.]
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
I found this article earlier today while purging magazines, and just had to post it here. It is from “Outwitting Housework” by Nancy Rosenberg.
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If you have trouble throwing anything away because you may need it “someday,” then author Nancy Rosenberg has a club for you. She calls it the Prudent Possessors Club.
“It’s fine [...]
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
I was quite amused to find that this was in my e-mail this morning for the “inspiration” e-mail I get every day. Seems to be just what I needed. Funny when that happens, isn’t it?
Thinking for yourself in the face of doubt
“One man’s creativity is another’s brain damage.” - Roland Fischer
If you accept [...]
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all.
- G.K. Chesterton
I received this via e-mail yesterday. I don’t know if someone really wrote this letter to Bertha or not, or if the author was really 83, or if someone just made up a fantastic letter with a lot of good advice and passed it on. None of that really matters though, because it [...]
I used to have a separate site where I put poems and other things I had gathered or that were sent to me by e-mail. I never set it back up after the site moved awhile back, but for now I’ll put them in a new category here on this site. This poem [...]
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