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How you learn to live alone (excerpt)
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It don't feel right, but it's not wrong.
It's just hard to start again this far along.
Brick by brick, the letting go,
as you walk away from everything you know
When you release resistance
and you lean into the wind,
till the roof begins to crumble,
and the rain comes pourin' in,
And you sit there in the rubble,
till the rubble feels like home
That's how you learn to live alone
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"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." ~Henry Cate, VII~
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." ~Aesop~
"If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union Speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven." ~Will Rogers~
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." ~Clarence Darrow~
"Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy some more tunnel." ~John Quinton~
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." ~Oscar Ameringer~
"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them." ~Adlai Stevenson~
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." ~Tex Guinan~
"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." ~Charles de Gaulle~
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." ~Doug Larson~
"There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators." ~Will Rogers~
"If you want a real friend - that you can trust in Washington - go buy a dog!" ~Harry Truman~
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 in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat, contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle. The frog hopped into the princess's lap and said: "Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young prince that I am, and then, my sweet, we can marry and setup housekeeping in yon castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so." That night, the princess dined sumptuously on a repast of lightly sautéed frog legs seasoned in a white wine and shallot cream sauce. |
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"A woman marries a man thinking she can change him. A man marries a woman thinking she will never change. They are both wrong." -Thomas Boyd
"Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." -William Arthur Ward
"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other." -Randy Pausch
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." -Alphonse Karr
"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants." -Epictetus
"When everybody tells you that you are being idealistic or impractical, consider the possibility that everybody could be wrong about what is right for you." -Gilbert Kaplan
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced." -J.J. Van der Leeuw
"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." -Corita Kent
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
"Kindness, at least actual, is in our power, but fondness is not." -Samuel Johnson
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true." -William Inge
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." -Groucho Marx
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." -Franz Kafka
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