There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep. '
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, "Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding. " It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.
Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.