Notations of a reader/writer
Mon
Nov
23
“ The opposite of depression isn’t ‘Yippee!’ The opposite of depression is gratitude.
Dr. Richard D. Grant, clinical psychologist
Fri
Oct
9
“ Oh, he has a hearing aid…What he needs is a listening aid.
Wife about aged husband in comic strip Frank and Earnest
Sun
May
31
“ Atheists are men who do not acknowledge the invisible sources of their life.
Richard Wurmbrand in Tortured for Christ
Wed
Mar
18
“ What do you like to do when you’re not doing what you have to do?
Shaun Boyd in Life Reboot
“ Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as you can.
John Wesley
Thu
Feb
26
“ I don’t know where I’m going. All I know is that I want you there next to me.
Unknown
“ You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be.
Angela Brown Oberer
Tue
Feb
24
“ Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
Mon
Feb
23
“ Indian rain dances always work because the Indians don’t stop dancing until it rains… Never quit dancing.
Bertwin Lord, at Wizard Academy, Oct. 12, 2008
Mon
Feb
9
“ All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
“ If it’s any comfort to you, please know that I feel guilty and sad every time I receive a gift of kind words and choose not to respond. It’s an excruciating choice, but a necessary one if I am to continue writing ads for clients, columns for magazines and Monday Morning Memos for my friends.
Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads
Sat
Jan
31
“ The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
Thu
Jan
29
“ The greatest opposition to what God is doing today comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God was doing yesterday.
R.T. Kendall, The Anointing
Thu
Jan
22
“ We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense.
Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life
Mon
Jan
19
“ Far too many people either don’t know or won’t admit that everyone, including those who claim they are ‘secular’ or agnostic or atheist, is religious and has a ‘faith.’
(Note: Merriam-Webster defines religious as “1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity ”)
Jeremy Vine, BBC
