Clementine Paddleford - wishbone

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." ~Clementine Paddleford

Emma Goldman Quotes

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." ~Emma Goldman

"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another." ~Emma Goldman

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H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

"Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Every once in a while, take the scenic route.”  ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Let people know what you stand for - and what you won't stand for." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” ~Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have ." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr. from Start from the Heart

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Alford Street, Quakers Hill
Autumn Morning 2006

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Author, "Life's Little Instruction Book"

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr. (PS I Love You)

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Sam Keen - imperfect person

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."~ Sam Keen

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Randy Sparks - a million tomorrows

The Entrance, NSW
October 2007
"A million tomorrows shall all pass away
'Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today." ~Randy Sparks

Joe Clark - deafeat

"Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it." ~Joe Clark

Groucho Marx Quotes

"A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast." ~Groucho Marx

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself:
I — not events — have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." ~Groucho Marx

"Home is where you hang your head." ~Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

"Humor is reason gone mad." ~Groucho Marx

"I dream of a better tomorrow where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." ~Groucho Marx

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ~Groucho Marx

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." ~Groucho Marx

"My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one." ~Groucho Marx

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." ~Groucho Marx

"She may look like an idiot, talks like an idiot but don't let that fool you, she really is an idiot" ~Groucho Marx

"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." ~Groucho Marx

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” ~Groucho Marx

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” ~Groucho Marx

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Gerald Jampolsky Quotes

"Healing is knowing that the only reality in the universe is love." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is knowing that forgiveness is the key to happiness and offers me everything that I want. Healing is knowing that the only reality in the universe is love, and that love is the most important healer known to the world." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is letting go of the fearful child so many of us carry inside, and awakening to the innocent child who has always been within us." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we have always been." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Healing is releasing from the past. It is retraining my mind so as not to see the shadow of the past on anyone. It is learning not to make interpretations of people's behavior or motives. It is letting go the desire to want to change another person. It is letting go of expectations , assumptions , and the desire to control or manipulate another person." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Love is letting go of fear." ~Gerald G. Jampolsky

Courtesy by Lily Dancel
Pacific Jewel Cruise 2010

"Love is the total absence of fear. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"The world does not have to change. The only thing that has to change is our attitude." ~Gerald Jampolsky

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed." ~Gerald Jampolsky on Volunteerism

"To heal is to trust in a creative force that is loving and forgiving, and to know in our hearts that there is no separation and we are all joined in love with God and each other. It means that all hearts and minds are joined as one." ~Gerald Jampolsky

Milan Kundera Quotes

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ~Milan Kundera

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." ~Milan Kundera

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” ~Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." ~Milan Kundera

Bio

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Wikipedia

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Arthur Schnabel - pauses between notes

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides." ~Arthur Schnabel