You can't change the wind, you can, however, adjust your sails.
--Unknown
]]>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, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
]]>It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.
--Mother Teresa
]]>]]>The first way, by thinking, is the noblest. The second way, by imitation, is the easiest. The third way, through experience, is the bitterest.
--Confucius, Munich, May, 1993
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-- Walt Disney
]]>Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? It's not enought to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.
--Frank McCourt in 'Tis
Isn't that' the truth? I understand honoring your heritage and all, but why can't we just be American? I guess these days a lot of people hate American's, though, and maybe we should identify ourselvs as Irish or German or, in my case Polish, while travelling abroad.
]]>]]>If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors, to live the life that he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau
]]>Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
-- George Santayana
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
A faithful heart makes dreams come true.
I just think that sometimes things happen between people that you don't really expect. And sometimes the things that are important are the ones that seem the weirdest or the most wrong. And those are the ones that change your life.
A heterosexual watching gay characters is no more likely to become gay than I am going to become a hip young woman watching Sex in the City.