the evening owl

gentleness

eveningowl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:05:50 +0000

Gentleness does not consist in the absence of power but in the kindly and beneficient use of it.

- Lawrence Allen Fowler

healing

eveningowl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:04:07 +0000

The base of all healing is a change in belief.

- Lawrence Allen Fowler

creative people

eveningowl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:48 +0000

creative people sometimes oppose and seriously criticize the dominant values of the society in which they live.

- Albert Rothenberg

the new

eveningowl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:30 +0000

the appearance of anything moderately or radically new has, throughout all cultures and history, tended to produce an experience of discomfort and a pressure to resist it.

- Albert Rothenberg

any idea

eveningowl — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:16:32 +0000

Assume nobody else has any idea what they’re doing either.

-Aaron Swartz

the young

eveningowl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:34:21 +0000

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Pearl S. Buck

do it, and correct course along the way

eveningowl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:33:28 +0000

Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.

- Tim Ferriss

the best

eveningowl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:29:04 +0000

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

meaning & purpose

eveningowl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:26:16 +0000

The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.

- Joy J Golliver

thank you

eveningowl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:22:20 +0000

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you,” that would suffice.

-Meister Eckhart