Thursday, July 21, 2011

Quick Thinks I

I keep quite busy just trying to conceal the fact that I don’t know what I’m doing.
— Ashleigh Brilliant, I Try to Take One Day at a Time, but Sometimes Several Days Attack Me at Once, March 16, p. 23. 

I wonder where the good luck is stored, and why its release and distribution are so irregular.
— March 17, Ibid., p. 23. 

Who can release me from my self-imposed sense of obligation?
— March 18, Ibid., p. 23.

I’m impatient to reach wisdom, but, for some reason, being in a hurry doesn’t seem to help.
— March 31, Ibid., p. 28.

Praise the Lord! But remember, he can tell the difference between praise and flattery.
— April 3, Ibid., p. 30.

The only requirement for eventually getting there is to keep going in the right direction.
— April 14, Ibid., p. 34.

Don’t expect me to be perfect all the time, but please recognize it when I am.
— April 23, Ibid., p. 37.

Regardless of what you’ve lost, what matters is what you do with what you have left.
— April 24, Ibid., p. 37.

You can get anywhere from anywhere: Don’t wait to be sure you’re starting from the right place.
— May 18, Ibid., p. 47. 

If you can’t find any other meaning in everything that’s happening, try to consider it as entertainment.
— May 20, Ibid., p. 48.

You can’t stop progress, but you can decide what is progress and what isn’t.
— June 16, Ibid., p. 59.

Defeat is not necessarily fatal — that’s why the world seems to be so full of losers.
— June 17, Ibid., p. 59.

Whether I deserve it or not, I give myself another chance every day.
— June 21, Ibid., p. 60.

Many things need reasons, but beautiful things are allowed to be beautiful for no reason at all.
— June 22, Ibid., p. 61. 

Why do we suffer great evils in silence, yet protest so loudly against minor inconvenience?
— July 2, 2011, Ibid., p. 66. 

I’m still not sure whether the end of my life will be a landing or a taking-off.
— July 11, Ibid., p. 69.

I’m not really disorderly — it’s just that, for my kind of order, there’s never enough space.
— July 18, Ibid., p. 71.

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