The Healer, catchphrase, and environmental attitude

GOD heals everything, not necessarily the way you would like & there may be scars.
~ Advice

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~ Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

thinking of you, coffee, and theory vs reality

What other people think of you is none of your business.
~ Advice

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
~ Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Forgiveness, the future, rules for writing

Forgive everyone for everything.
~ Advice

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Perpective, Brotherhood

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
~ Advice

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
~ Jane Wyman

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there."
~ Jef Mallett

Happiness, Accomplishments and Wonder

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
~ Advice

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do.
~ Garfield (after seeing Odie sitting on a tree branch.)

One must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know.
~ Victor Weisskopf, The Privilege of Being a Physicist

No comparisons

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
~ Advice

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato

Dwell in possibility.
~ Emily Dickinson

The past, and hope in failure

Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
~ Advice

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats

Arguments, Silver Lining, Good Intentions

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
~ Advice

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
~ Peter Drucker

Seriously, folks - Freedom, and Rhythm

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
~ Advice

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis Presley

Avoiding Lazy Habits

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
~ Advice

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein

life

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
~Advice

We are wiser than we know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter, sorrow, knowledge

Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
~Advice

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~ George Bernard Shaw

eating habits, one-liner, and liberty

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
~ Advice

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
~ Henny Youngman

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
~ William Penn

Learn from the possibilities of life - and laugh

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
~ Advice

People do great things by focusing on their possibilities, not by dwelling on their limitations.
~ Henry Kissinger

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden

Wasted energy, Honesty, Fine Quotations

Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
~ Advice

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
~ Joseph Roux

Declutter, Learn, and Shine!

Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.
~ Advice

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
~ James Thurber

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
~ Ray Bradbury

Encountering minds, and who is education for?

Try to make at least three people smile each day.
~ Advice

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
~ Mark Twain

Truth, Persistence

Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
~Advice

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

Experimentation

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
~ Advice

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Anonymous

Dreaming, Logic and Saying the Right Thing

Dream more while you are awake.
~ Advice

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
~ Laurence J. Peter

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
~ George Bernard Shaw