Words of Wisdom 2012

• “Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?” ~ Sigmund Freud
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• "If it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive." ~ Amy Hempel   
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• "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." ~ Rebecca West
• "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." ~ Margaret Atwood
• “There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.” ~ Françoise Sagan
• "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness." ~ George Santayana
• "Question and answer is not a civilized form of conversation." ~ Patrick O'Brian
• "I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it." ~ Gustave Flaubert
• "live to the point of tears" ~ Albert Camus
• "I like good strong words that mean something." ~ Louisa May Alcott
• "If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell." ~ Rita Mae Brown
• "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." ~ Dr. Seuss
• “There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.” ~ Françoise Sagan
• "Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world." ~ Voltaire
• "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe
• "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." Buddha“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
• "People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy." Bob Hope
• "Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more." Alex Comfort
• "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~ Daniel Boone
• "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." ~ Ogden Nash
• "Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience." A.J. Liebling
• "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" Dr. Seuss
• "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." Carl Jung
• "Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity." Nathanael West
• "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde
• "I find it so tragic and ironical that the age in which we live should regard the words 'myth' and 'illusion' as synonymous in view of the fact that the myth is the real history, is the real event of the spirit. ...The myth is the tremendous activity that goes on in humanity all the time, without which no society has hope or direction, and no personal life has a meaning. We all live a myth whether we know it or not." Laurens Van Der Post (1906-1996) South Africa
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