Author: SS

My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).

"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman

Start today – Karen Lamb

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
 
– Karen Lamb
 

Beauty – Jean Kerr

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
 
– Jean Kerr
 

Avoiding risks – Unknown

“We avoid risks in life so we can make it safely to death.”
 
– Unknown
 

Glutton – Erma Louise Bombeck

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
 
– Erma Louise Bombeck
 

Happiness – Unknown

“Happiness is like peeing in your pants; everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.”
 
– Unknown
 

Looking back – Kiran Desai

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
 
– Kiran Desai
 

Grief and joy – Sufi proverb

“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”
 
– Sufi proverb
 

Questions and answers – Theodore Seuss Geisel

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
 
– Theodore Seuss Geisel
 

Morning wisdom – Unknown

“The morning is wiser than the evening.”
 
– Russian proverb
 

Fear – Mahatma Gandhi

“Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.”
 
– Mahatma Gandhi
 

Events of life – Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”
 
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
 

Learn, live, hope – Albert Einstein

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
 
– Albert Einstein
 

Circles – Jonathan Cainer

“The path of least resistance leads round in a circle”
 
– Jonathan Cainer
 

War – Bertrand Russell

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”
 
– Bertrand Russell.
 

Open minds – James Dewar

“Books and minds only work when they’re open.”
 
― James Dewar