"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know." - Cullen Hightower This next one was passed over on my list, as I do create theme lists, though I'll pick a quote that relates to what I've been thinking about or experiencing lately. Adding it now due to reading Earp's one. "Do not withhold your gift from others. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have no gift to give. Everyone has a gift. But don't compare your gift to the gifts of others, or you may not value it sufficiently." - Paul Ferrini
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life. - Junot Díaz
"The thoughts you choose to think create the experiences you have. If you believe that it's hard or difficult to change a habit or a thought, then your choice of this thought will make it true for you. If you would choose to think, "It is becoming easier for me to make changes", then your choice of this thought will make that true for you." - Louise L. Hay
"Think for yourself and question authority", - Timothy Leary "Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be", - Alan Watts "If the words, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on", - Terence Mckenna
"Social change will now grow along a vertical axis more than a horizontal one. A few people joined together and thinking deeply will do more to affect the conditions of the world than millions of people joined in superficial thought. That is because the morphic resonance of loving thought is a literal forcefield, not just a metaphorical concept. The question is not whether this power exists, or even whether enough people believe that it exists; the question for our time is whether enough of us are prepared to harness that power for the purpose of national and planetary healing." - Marianne Williamson
"Have compassion for yourself and others. Everyone is doing the best they can based on their life experiences. Everyone is learning and growing, and so are you. - Doc Childre and Sara Paddison
Live as though you will die tomorrow. Learn as though you will live forever." - Ghandi. Spoiler: Also not Ghandi
"Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else." - Brian Tracy “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” - Albert Einstein
Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. - James Lee Burke
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves: self-discipline with all of them came first." - Harry. S Truman
"In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!" - Morihei Ueshiba
Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. - James Lee Burke
"What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not." -Wolfgang Pauli
"In understanding ourselves, we come to understand the world. In allowing ourselves to heal, we become the healers of the world. In praying for peace, we become bringers of peace." - Marianne Williamson "The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not our faults, but our wounds." - Marianne Williamson "The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that no longer serve us in the present." - Marianne Williamson
From Richard Feynman: "I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." Similarly, from Molly Ivins (I think): "I'd rather have people who burn the flag and wrap themselves up in the Constitution than people who burn the Constitution and wrap themselves up in the flag."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." - Henry Miller
Well, that's Reagan for you. He grew up in a Depression era where people depended on government support just to survive, and witnessed disasters where government assistance was crucial to recovery. But since he never needed assistance himself, he figured that nobody else would, either. Reminds me of a cartoon I saw after the Mississippi River flooded, with devastating effects. It showed a rowboat floating six feet above a billboard that read "Government off our backs!" In the rowboat were a man and a boy, and the boy was saying "Government's gonna help us, right, Dad?"
