Writing & Stories

  4.10.99  Why stories are so effective:

The best stories begin as mental pictures which turn into personal mirrors before they become insightful windows through which we’re able to view life with greater clarity and understanding.      Anonymous

12.15.95  I like everything about writing except the paperwork!  Novelist Peter de Vries

9.9.00  I feel 10 times smarter writing on the computer.    My student, ENC 1101

Travel

There’s no cure like travel

To help you unravel

The worries of living today.

When the poor brain is cracking

There’s nothing like packing

A suitcase and sailing away.

Cole Porter – Anything Goes.

7.15.13 The only real voyage of self-discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing it with new eyes.   Marcel Proust

8.14.99  Distance lends enchantment to the view . . . .   Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Ozarks

10.22.96  I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Thoreau

7.28.90  The trip to heaven will be easy because I have sent my heart on ahead.  Loretta Lynn

White-Water Rafting

White water rafting, especially level 3 or 4, is a grand metaphor for life:

1. Trust your Guide.

2. Stay IN the boat.

3. Have fun!

Dancing with the Stars

4.16.99  I don’t try to be better than anyone else. I try to be better than myself.   Mikhael Baryshnikov, dancer

5.13.90  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.   Thoreau

5.10.99  And frame your mind to mirth and merriment / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.    Wm. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

 A merry heart doeth good like medicine.  Proverbs 17:22.

Time and Happiness

 3.17.00  Human time does not turn in a circle. It runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy; happiness is the longing for repetition.  Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

12.28.89  How plotless real life was [is]!  Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

 5.9.90  Don’t worry about the meaning of life; pursue meaning in life every day.  Robert Fulghum

12.19.99  You are only one thought away from a good feeling!  Sheil Krystal quoted in Rick Carlson’s Happiness

9.10.13  Sybil, in my book says, “Sometimes, the greatest gift you can give someone is the freedom to pursue their own happiness.”  Red Clay and Roses  SK Nicholls

 

Which quotes do you agree with?

Disagree?

Your turn: Share one you would add to the themes.