"The best mind-altering drug is truth."
--Lily Tomlin

"Your problem is you're . . . too busy holding onto your unworthiness." --Ram Dass

"A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting."
--Abraham Maslow

When you count your assets, include your friends:

"Good friends are good for your health."
--Irwin Sarason

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." --Elbert Hubbard

"The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend." --Toni Morrison

Yes, Pamela, I read them all the time. Part of the reason I have not gone bananas the past few months is your daily quotes. I want to tell you that school is over and I plan to come back full time. I try to read all the posts to keep up. I didn't do a very good job of it. But I am back. So keep the quotes comin!

Love,
J

Awwwwww Geeeez Judy.....you know how that mushy stuff gets to me and makes me weep.
I for one, am SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOO glad you are out of that school and on your summer break. I was getting ready to hop on a plane and take you away to Florida for a couple of weeks for some badly needed R & R. I've got a guest room and you're always welcome.
Sweet Dreams my Judygal.
~Pamela~

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.


-Henry Van Dyke

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." --Charles Colton

"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel." --Arabian proverb

"He is a real pessimist - he could look at a doughnut and see only the hole in it." --Anon.

Go off by yourself occasionally:

"Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists."
--May Sarton

"For solitude is sometimes best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return." --John Milton

"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone..."
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You shall go out with joy and be led forth in peace. The mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

-Isaiah 55:12

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

-Thomas Fuller

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

-Booker T. Washington

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." --Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It is enough that I am of value to somebody today."
--Hugh Prather

"Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen." --Turkish proverb

Pick your role models carefully:

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." --Samuel Johnson

"Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent." --Talmud

0"Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness." --William James

"Our entire life--consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."
--Jean Anouilh

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."
--Christian Dior

"Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot."
--Malay proverb

Reserve a place in your thoughts for fantasy:

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."
--Barbara Grizutti Harrison

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself."
--Shirley Temple Black

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind."
--William James

"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." --Ginger Rogers

Make up your own list of maxims that speak to you, such as:

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
--Edgar Watson Howe

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." --Elbert Hubbard

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
--John F. Kennedy