Running Is Not an Option

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

-Robert Louis Stevenson

My Hands Never Left My Wrists

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Can You Hear Me Now?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Wikipedia’s stub on Mrs McLaughlin

Musical Inspiration

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein

Resistance Is…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Me vs You

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Serious Is Funny?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov

Much Easier In the Digital Age?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben

And I Don’t Think He Means Politically

From Quotes of the Day, today:

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Hammerhead, Great White, Tiger…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
- L. M. Boyd

Time Is the Thief of Procrastination?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So procrastinate now, don’t put it off.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Achieving Happiness

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

Huh! A Lot of Residents Would Ask the Same Thing…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”
- William S. Burroughs

Hee Hee!

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge

Don’t Know How Often…

…it’s true, but it is interesting…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan

Pretty Scary, Eh?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell


It gets worse: “…In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.”

The Best Place to Hide is Out In the Open…

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Dude! Make Up Your Mind!

From Quotes of the Day, today:

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries

A Word to the Noisy

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold

What’s Important

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

― J.R.R. Tolkien