—I’M HAPPIER WHEN I’M WITH YOU

…It’s snowing here.  Sort of.  Kind of.  Anyway, here are some things I like to start off a new week…

“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.”  Oscar Romero

“The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.” Robert Bly

“Yeah, I would do some things different.  But you can’t.  You can only lie and say that you wouldn’t do things differently.” Burt Reynolds

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."- Charles Lamb

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows."- Jean Anouilh

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."- Charles Kingsley 

"If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen."- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. 

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." Abraham Maslow

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."- Charlotte Bronte

"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good."- Ruth Benedict

"Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination."- Sir Frederick Treves 

"My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."- Nassim Taleb 

"Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool." Seneca, Roman philosopher 

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."- Aldous Huxley

"We all have dreams. And we all get disappointed. We all have heartache and we suffer and work to get through it. It's just the human condition. ...So I stand here today so proud. I'm so proud of my team and I'm so proud of myself."- Diana Nyad, who at age 64 swam 103 miles from Cuba to Florida

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth."- Albert Einstein

“All feelings that gather you up and lift you are pure.  If they twist and tear at your being, they are not.  All the tenderness you may feel for your childhood is good.  Every emotion that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is good.  Every intensification is good, if it seizes your entire sole and is not an intoxication or delusion, but a joy you can see into, clear to the bottom.  Do you understand what I mean?”  Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet”

“You cannot tell everything because the everything is a hollow nothing.”
“I am not responsible for what I am writing now.” Clarice Lispector