An old woman told her grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all ( Read more... )

I recently finished reading Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert. It's an excellent, fascinating book. Gilbert explains how we explain and justify our own actions to ourselves, how we remember experiences and use those memories to predict the future, and how all this combines to increase or decrease our sense of happiness. And he does this ( Read more... )

Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

~Newt Gingrich

One may go a long way after one is tired.

~French Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~Japanese Proverb

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It took only a page to realize that I have, in fact, read An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison, but I did it so long ago I thought it worth re-reading ( Read more... )

Life is Fine

I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was        Cold in that water!        It was cold!I took the elevator ( Read more... )