Besides,

if I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.

Conversations With Tennessee Williams [excerpt]
Tennessee Williams & Albert J. Devlin

Art is a wicked thing.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are. 

Georgia O'Keefe

Tegan Olivia 8lbs 13oz

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

technology vs simplicity

borrowed from the woman in the elevator:

"Sometimes, instant is too soon."

facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Carl W. Buechner

aka Alexander Supertramp

Happiness only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless

and I realize... Life is good.

Borrowed from a friend :)

I watch the water churn from the cold wind blowing out there and it soothes. There's a rainbow lurking out there (I saw it on the walk over) and knowing that makes me smile. Its calming and beautiful and as I sip my latte nodding along with the snow patrol that's blasting through my headphones I'm at peace within myself. Even if the feeling is fleeting, I own it right now... In this moment.

it's just an honor to be nominated

I don't play hard to get. I am hard to get.

-Rabbit

in another city.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

-George Burns

posthumous NM post

A Missouri men's basketball game is a witch's brew of sweat, spit, stink and inbred rage spilling onto a basketball court, mixed together with a shocking lack of understanding of the game. Fat buck-toothed women scream hoarse obscenities and drunken men in drag hurl empty beer bottles. Missouri basketball makes a WWF tag-team match in Alabama look like a Mensa convention.

Norman Mailer
January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007

the road of excess

You'll never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake

action

I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.
— Lucille Ball

how you made them feel.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Carl W. Buechner

I'm still angry with you.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
-Seneca

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Citizenship in a Republic
Teddy Roosevelt

elevate his life

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

We read

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

Sex without love

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

Woody Allen

30

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-Abraham Lincoln

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
-Anais Nin

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
-Elizabeth Arden

I want to die young at a ripe old age.
-Ashley Mantagu

I am going to start living vicariously through myself.
-Rich L.

dream

Think about when you were a child...What did you dream about?

borrowed from a TV commercial