Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Some Thoughts I found Scattered Around...

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are often an average of the five people you spend most time with"
- Unknown
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- Bob Wells
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
  - 
Charles Bukowski
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
  - 
Erica Jong
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
  - 
Marilyn Monroe

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
  - 
Doris Egan

The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.