Don't wait for the light at the end of the tunnel.
Stride down there and light the thing yourself.

Found that at the beginning of the chapter called "Attitude" in Zaida: Belly Dancing for Older Women.

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."

- Bill Cosby

This insight has become very important to me over the past few months:

"The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do."

Ashley Montagu

Yesterday I had my monthly spiritual direction appointment, and my director pointed out two boxes of books which had been left by someone else for others to go througth and take what interested them.

This was the back cover text for "The Next Critical Step" by Bernard Theroux:

When you ignore the voice within, the longing of your soul, regarding ( Read more... )

Kerry wandered over to the glass case where the torque and matching bracelets were displayed, along with an ancient sword and a handful of beads. She gave him a puzzled look. "I know this sounds crazy, but I swear I've seen jewelry like these somewhere. Maybe on the History Channel ( Read more... )

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.

- William Joseph Slim

In the course of websurfing a while ago, I found this lovely toast offered by legendary Scottish fiddler Johnny Cunningham to the Mabou Mines company on the occasion of their 30th anniversary:

Here's to creativity, and to sacrifice. Here's to support and forward thinking. Here's to truth in the midst of falseness, and exploration in the face of ( Read more... )

In battle the cowardly out of fear for their lives
have chosen the means of retreat,
while the courageous, also from fear of their lives,
have charged toward the ranks of the enemy.
Heroes are borne onward by their fear and pain;
from fear, too, the human being of weak spirit dies within.

-- Mathnawi IV:2917-2919
Version by Camille and Kabir

If it be not now, yet it will come.
The readiness is all.

"That which does not kill you was simply not permitted to do so for the purposes of the plot."

- Anon