Perceptions

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." ~ Eudora Welty

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make. ~ Steve Martin

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~ Ivy Baker Priest

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T.S. Eliot

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. ~ Goethe

Funny, now I can see/ How looks can be deceiving. ~ Elvis Costello

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. ~ Colin Powell

Know the masculine, keep to the feminine. ~ Lao Tzu

I donít see people as groups, I see them as individuals. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before onelearns how to be amused rather than shocked. ~ Pearl S. Buck, China Past & Present

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what color my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man. ~ John Lennon

If your parachuting today, and your parachute doesn't open, and all your friends are watching you fall, pretend like you're swimming. ~ Jack Handy

"You're not a hoarder, you're a nonrelinquisher." ~ Eleanor Williams, Meditations from the Mat

Iím sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence. ~ Neve Campbell

I said to the almond tree, "Friend, speak to me of God," and the almond tree blossomed. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control. ~ Sheryl Crow

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. ~ Niels Bohr

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. ~ Gail Sheehy

Drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words, "next time." ~ Smiley Blanton, IBD, 9/19/03

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears. ~ Troy Aikman, Kids' Little Instruction Book, 1996

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy. ~ Lin Yutang, Importance of Living

Karma and shadows follow one everywhere. ~ Japanese Proverb

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. ~ St. Basil

There is only one small letter between the words "can" and "can't"... and that one letter will TOTALLY change your destiny. ~ Doug Firebaugh