One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic. ' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.
The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
The object is to keep busy being something. . . as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.
The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.