Quotes

On Self:

1. "We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead." - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

2. "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

3. "I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing." - Katherine Anne Porter

4. "There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself." - Roscoe Snowden

5. "The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed." - The Sickness Unto Death

6. "Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


On the Interim:

1. "Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim." - Percy Bysshe Shelley


On Patience:

1. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Patience is the companion of wisdom." -St. Augustine

3. "One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." -Chinese Proverb

4. "Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself." -St. Francis de Sales

5. "Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still." -T.S. Elliot


On Weather:

1. The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.  - Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons

2. Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.   - Jessi Lane Adams

3. Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.  - Author Unknown

4. The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana


On Stress:

1. "Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness." - Richard Carlson

2. "Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life." - Terri Guillemets

3. "Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche." - Andrew Denton

4. "When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened." - Winston Churchill

5. "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive." - Lee Iacocca


On Travel:

1. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

2. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

3. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

4. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

5. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

8. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

9. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

10. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca