Just so I have it down
04/23/2007 09:21 p.m.

This is my old "about me" on my library page, and I just wanted to copy it so I wouldn't forget what I said or some of my favorite quotes. I've always written. I've reached the conclusion that through this, what must be the middle of a life, the painful portions beg release more than the joy. Not all of my thoughts are melancholy, but those are the ones that usually end up on paper. I'm trying for balance, we'll see.

Some of my favorite quotes:

I have a new favorite, and here it is - followed by my old favorites (still relevant!)

"There are no limitations on what you can think about. So why do you spend so much time thinking the same limiting thoughts over and over again?

Real, original thinking is more than just reacting the same way you did yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Your thoughts can be completely independent of everything else in your life. As such, they can liberate you. Your thoughts can enable you to overcome your limitations because your thoughts have the ability to operate completely beyond any limitation and outside those limitations.

Expand your thinking and you are on your way to expanding the reality of your life. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, the first step in the process is to point your thoughts in that direction. Real thinking takes effort – mental effort. And it’s well worth the effort. Your thoughts can lead you anywhere you wish to go.

What you think about the most is what you become. And you can think about anything you want. That’s enormous power! Use it or all it’s worth."

Author Unknown

"It is what it is." John Middleton

"Sometimes I go around pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky" Ojibway Saying

"The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly." Shakti Gawain