In 2004 I started keeping a haphazard record of which books I read, thanks to writing short reviews here on LJ. In 2006, after realizing that my time is limited and the number of books to read approaches infinity, I started creating yearly lists of books I want to read ( Read more... )

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked.
Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

~ Louise L. Hay

Dear Past Self ( Read more... )

Always aim for achievement,
and forget about success.

~Helen Hayes

The greatest mistake you can make
is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~Elbert Hubbard

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

If you always push for perfection
you lose the excellence of the moment you are in.

~Plantgirl

For every problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong.

~Henry Louis Mencken

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

~James Yorke

You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way,
it does not exist.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the right thing to do is also the most obvious thing to do, he had said. There was truth in that. She had known from the first what had to be done, what was right, what was best [...]. It was in fear of being judged as a callous and indifferent child -by what she knew was largely a callous and indifferent world- that she had floundered ( Read more... )

Well, don't do none of it
just because you can't do all of it.

~anthologie
in a comment in my LJ, 1/25/2008