A good life has a few bad choices in it, but one dead weed isn’t noticed in a field of a thousand beautiful flowers.
All you have to do to slide back down the vertical wall you are now climbing is nothing.
Freedom is owning your good choices and not blaming others for your bad choices. Who are you? You are deciding.
The just man with an invisibility cloak will be yet be just when he is invisible.
In Casa Blanca Humphrey Bogart talked like a crook and lived like a saint. It was an attractive combination. Who wants a man who is all saint or all crook?
The pet lion one day eats its owner, so obsession one day swallows its proprietor
Even the good heart sometimes aches for what, if attained, might yet cause a heartache.
The differences between us can threaten us or enrich us; it’s our choice.
There are two personalities you can nuture in your wallet: stingy, cramped and closed-afraid or benevolent, relaxed and happy-generous.
Some decisions contain a thousand more within — having a baby.
The choices we make regarding sex, wealth and power are deeply biological, residing in our limbic systems, in our amygdalas and hippocampuses. We house impressive internal soft-ware, and yet responsibility remains, for we are the sole proprietors and executive officers of our own neurological processing centers.
To compliment the competition is the height of good form.
Making decisions that harmfully affect people without consulting those people’s thoughts and feelings is the modus operandi of some organizations. The resultis a toxic waste disposal problem. What do we do with the radiated employees?
“Only Christ acts Christ,” or “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, man” — which one you chose makes you a Christian or not.
The wise run to simplicity; the foolish barricade behind complexity.
Simple is a superior form of good — a cup of tea, soft sheets, a quiet hour, a hug, a bite of fish, sunshine after the rain.
The smallest quiet moment can be a massive triumph for peace of mind.
Not wanting other than what we have is a needed kind of simple.
Success can make a person arrogant or thankful. The swing depends on who the successful thinks is responsible.
Openness, honesty, transparency, candor, authenticity – these are delicious, hyperdelectible, supertasty treats to offer whatever guests happen at your door. They won’t soon forget such offerings.
The end leaves bits and pieces – paper clips and dry pens in the bottom of drawers, old power cords and ink cartridges in boxes, stale snacks and windowed envelopes in cupboards, a lipstick, a scrap with a phone number, a crumb, a cracking rubber band. What was once a dream in a drawer ends up a jumble in the bottom of a trash can. Then a new collection of supplies is lovingly gathered in the same spaces for a new start. Our losses and our gains are acted out in our smallest cubbies and our most personal niches.
