poems for new year

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets



Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, translated



A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown



A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. ~Author Unknown



When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart



Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire



There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul. ~Geoffrey Fisher



If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Sirius Black



A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown



At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb



If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness. ~Rig Veda



The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 2



I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. ~Morgan Freeman



To win you have to risk loss. ~Jean-Claude Killy



A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb



The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. ~Socrates



Mother knows breast. ~Author Unknown



Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer