QUOTES

We are never prepared for what we expect. ~James A. Michener, Caravans


I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ~e.e. cummings

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez

As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
~Hugh Mearns

The first step... shall be to lose the way. ~Galway Kinnell

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law

I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers

Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~Author Unknown

"Stress is like waves on the ocean. Unprepared every wave is a disaster. For the skillful surfer every wave is exhilaration."


~Deepak Chopra

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. "


~Audrey Hepburn