“Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?”
John Mendoza
“Don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.”
Jackson Browne, These Days
“Being normal isn’t one of my strengths.”
“I used to be sane, then I got better.”
“Whatever I want to be known for I need to be doing.”
“80% of success is showing up.”
Woody Allen
“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Some days it’s not worth gnawing through the straps.”
“They wouldn’t listen to the fact that I was genius.”
Jim Croce, Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
“Insanity: a perfectly rational response to an insane world.”
“I have a grip on reality, just not this particular one.”
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein
“Don’t let anyone drive you crazy when you know it is walking distance.”
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, usually do”
Take care of your mental health before it takes care of you.
“There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Oscar Levant
“Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.”
Thomas Moore
“Sometimes we reach the boiling point before we realize that the stove is on. Become aware of your feelings – keep your eye on the stove.”
Karen Dougherty
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
Aeschylus
“When Walt was younger he was hired to work at the Kansas City Star newspaper. He was later fired from the paper because of lack of creativity. Years later The Disney Company bought ABC which owned The Kansas City Star. How strange that [you are] fired because [you are] not creative enough and years later you own [the same company] because of your creativeness.”
source: http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Secrets/Walt.html
“when you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”
Eckhart Tolle, “A New Earth”
“Work as if you don’t need the money, love as if you’ve never been hurt, dance as if no one’s watching.”
“Life is a short, warm moment and death is a long cold rest. You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye: Eighty years, with luck, or even less.”
Pink Floyd
“It doesn’t matter how inspired your work is if you’re not healthy.”
“A guitar in my house, accessible, is a semi-automatic weapon against the blues.”
“Take it easy or take it hard but TAKE IT!”
Woody Guthrie
“There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness’”
“You should not confuse your career with your life.”
“A closed mouth gathers no foot.”
“Never miss a good chance to shutup.”
“Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.”
F. H. Bradley
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
“The best thing you can do behind a person’s back?… is give them a pat.”
Author Unknown
“Failure is an event, never a person.”
William D. Brown
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
Plutarch
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.”
Woody Guthrie
“I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own.”
Coldplay (Viva la Vida)
Care deeply..give freely…think kindly…act gently and be at peace with the world.
anonymous
Even if your blog does manage to bring you and other people a lot of money, ultimately it is only the standards that you set for yourself that should determine your success.
Michelle Stein, Blog Author of “It Might be Love”
“How to become a Greek scholar: Enroll in Greek 1. The same is true of learning blogging and the internet. No shortcut exists.”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.”
Spider Robinson
“Never be ashamed to make goals that are glaringly simple. You’ll be far better off than most who don’t set goals at all.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.”
Amma
“If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”
“Our lives are co-authored in dialogue.”
Michael P. Nichols, Ph.D.
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
Benjamin Franklin
“May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart!”
Eskimo proverb
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
Anthony Robbins
“Learn how to find peace between the things that happen.”
Susan Riley
“The past is a dream, the future never comes, the “now” is all we have.”
Eckhart Tolle (Paraphrased)
off·beat adj. Slang “Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
“To define your own value for your blog is to declare independence from parent companies like Google that thrive by assigning value as they see it.”
“Unless you try and do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.”
C.R. Lawton
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr. Suess
“Love is a temporary form of insanity”
“One man’s insanity is another man’s vision.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
“He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.”
Chinese Proverb
“Don’t worry about what people think about you–the chances are they seldom think about you at all.”
Unknown
“Calm and happiness is not something that evolves or happens to you, it’s a practice. Whether it’s Yoga, or sex, or writing a blog post, or playing guitar.”
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