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Making Life a Beautiful Success

On August 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Books I'm Reading, Quotes

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.  Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.”

- Louisa May Alcott, [...]

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Email Forward Wisdom

On July 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Internet!, Quotes

You know those terrible, often harassing, email forwards so popular in the early 2000s?  Well a lot of older people still circulate the same old emails with poor graphics and all.  I received one not too long ago that had some actual wisdom (you know, once you get past the .gif of a [...]

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Fortune Cookie Wisdom

On April 18, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Quotes

I’m always impressed when I get a fortune cookie that not only makes sense but also has something to offer in terms of wisdom.  (I’ve long given up on the idea that they should have an actual “fortune” in them like “You will be rich one day, somehow” or something.)

Here’s one I cracked open [...]

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Invincible Summer

On January 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Quotes

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

Image by Paolo Marconi

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Career Advice for Young Women courtesy of Tina Fey

On October 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Books I'm Reading, Quotes

“This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice.  People are going to try to trick you.  To make you feel that you are in competition with one another.  ’You’re up for a promotion.  If they go with a woman, it’ll be between you and Barbara.’  Don’t be fooled. [...]

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Wisdom and Love

On July 13, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Quotes

    You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.

- Bob Dylan

I love Bob Dylan.  I’ve heard so many love quotes about how being in it can make you crazy, absent minded, etc. but never so elegantly and simply put like this.  Genius.

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