Favourite Quotes

• The [Scandinavian] Good Enough principle is... a belief in mediocrity and an antidote to envy. Nobody is better than anybody else, superiority is mostly an illusion, so don't think you're a big shot because you're not. We're all about the same when you come right down to it. Don't look back with regret — your life was good enough. Your parents were good enough, so was your school, so is your job. So quit belly-aching. Don't sweat it. Good Enough may seem like faint praise, but some things really are good enough. Don't make a big deal over it. Don't try to make it the best that ever was or could be. It's good enough. And that's good enough.
  -GARRISON KEILLOR (I'm hoping this will help cure my perfectionism.)

• Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
  -GEORGE ELIOT

• I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
  -RICHARD GREENBERG 

• There was a young girl lying on the ground. I knew she was finding it hard to cope. She never was a fighter, til he laid beside her and gently whispered "Hope".
  -FOY VANCE, a favourite musician.

• I can't fax you my love; I can't e-mail my heart; I can't see your face in cyberspace-- I'm just old-fashioned skin and bone who loves you.
  -MY HUSBAND, quoting JIMMY BUFFETT.

• There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy. -UNKNOWN.

• Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
  —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

• Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
  -VICTOR E. FRANKL

• I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
  -C.S. LEWIS

• Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever. Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse-- so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years.
  -C.S. LEWIS

• Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, "Hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "Oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "No - I want magenta!" 
  -JOHN MAYER

• And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
  -1 CORINTHIANS 13:3

• We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven-- a senile benevolence who, as they say, liked to see young people enjoying themselves, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, 'a good time was had by all.'
  -C.S. LEWIS

• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind and those who matter don't mind.
  -DR. SUESS

• People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world your best and it may never be enough; give the world your best anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;  it was never between you and them anyway.
  -MOTHER THERESA