Let it go

“On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” -- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

My Mantra...

"Dare to be yourself."
André Gide (1869–1951)
French writer, Nobel Prize winner

Happy Mother's Day

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
--
Elizabeth Stone

We are influenced by the people with which we surround ourselves...

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to
live in a circle of those who are.”
--
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
Irish writer, scholar

Happy New Year

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Simply Put...

“I just like to smile. Smiling's my favorite.”
Buddy the Elf
from the film, Elf (2003)

Our Responsibility to Contribute After Our Successess...

This is a quote that really resonated with me. I can understand enjoying the success of the day, but also looking forward to the next difficulty that is to be conquered.

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
-Thomas Henry Huxley

Love and Poetry

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
~Plato

Fear Not...

"Some of us just go along...until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us--or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us?"
--Peggy Lee, Singer

Friday Favorites...

"When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friday Favorites...

"Writing [a novel] is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
-- E.L. Doctorow

Friday Favorites

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware off, no shortcut."
-- Stephen King, On Writing