amor de madre

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer



Tree pose grows confidence. ~Terri Guillemets



Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch



Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things. ~Dee Snider



Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent. ~Author Unknown



Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims



Astrology is one of the earliest attempts made by man to find the order hidden behind or within the confusing and apparent chaos that exists in the world. ~Karen Hamaker-Zondag



He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ~Thomas Fuller



Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. ~Alfred North Whitehead



I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures. ~Robert Benchley, "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat," No Poems: or around the world backwards and sideways, 1932



I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." ~Joan Rivers



Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. ~Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 21 September 1957



Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown



We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ~Owen Young We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen



Skipping is just jumping for joy, step after step. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown. ~Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune



If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ~Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir