Archive for January, 2008
Protected: twisted
resilience
“our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- confucius
christopher robin to pooh: “promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
- a. a. milne
“courage doesn’t always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
- mary anne radmacher
“healing is a matter of time, but sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
- hypocrites 460 – 400 b.c.
“fall seven times, stand up eight.”
- japanese proverb
“things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. they happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be.”
- charlie “tremendous” jones
“we rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. they illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. they give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.”
- helen hayes
Protected: cardiology
Protected: the “D” word
qotd: burning question
qotd: If you could ask any question in the world and get a true answer, who and what would you ask?
if I would get a true answer, the question I’d like to ask is “why?”
but maybe I don’t need the answer.
and there’s more that one person I’d like to ask.
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qotd: What do you think is your best physical attribute?
One of the strangest “compliments” I ever got was years ago one drunken night during sxswi in the Omni Hotel lobby bar. I was slunk down in one of the couches with one of my new conference friends, a beautiful gay boy with this thick, syrupy sweet southern drawl. He touches my arm and inquires, “Have yew had a nose jahhhb?”
Through the late night fog in my head I wondered if I heard that right. “What?”
“Have yew had a nose jaahhb?” he repeats, followed by a, “Ah don’t mean that in a bad way.”
“Um, no. I’ve broken it a few times, but this is the nose I was born with. Why?”
“Because your nose is like purrrfect.” (I think he actually purrr-ed it.)
I don’t know if my nose is perfect, but I don’t mind it. I actually kinda like my nose and certainly would never consider rhinoplasty. Other than that, I guess I really like my green-blue eyes, especially when they’re looking brilliantly green. And my naturally full lips aren’t so bad either.
1 commentProtected: qotd: happy birthday to me
happiness
feeling FAR more positive today, despite the cold, dark rainy weather…
“happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
- buddha
“there are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
- carl jung
“if only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.”
- edith wharton
“sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
- thich nhat hanh
“the truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. for it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
- m. scott peck
Protected: angry
qotd: can’t do without
qotd: What food item would you miss the most if it were removed from your diet and recipes?
Gut reaction is wannabe valley girl from the 80s “OMAHGAH! duh! Its like, totally, Bacon!” but really, I think I could live without bacon. (Did I just type that? Gasp. I know, right?)
Seriously, I think that the food item I would miss the most is something that I never eat by itself - butter. Real, honest-to-goodness, none of that Fabio fake shit, butter. I have no idea what all those chemicals are in that other spreadable stuff, which is bad enough on its own. But the flavor, oh the flavor - you can’t beat butter. It makes everything taste so much better. Even one of my white-trashy favorite things to eat - instant mashed potatoes - taste ahundredy-million times better with real butter.
Yeah, I get the irony. I like real butter with my fake mashed potatoes. Don’t hate.
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