Procrastination
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
— Unknown
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ByHeatherIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
Thought for the day
ByHeatherWhat if there were no more rhetorical questions?Magic is a vanishing art
ByHeatherMagic is a vanishing art.
— Bumper Sticker
Misunderstanding Others
ByHeatherIt is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
— Karl A. Menninger, The Human Mind
This quote is a more poetic version of the one I posted yesterday that said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
According to Dr. George Watson at the University of Delaware, Karl Menninger was an early psychoanalyst who was probably referring to the criminal mind in this quote. Dr. Watson provides an expanded context of the quote.
Commonplaces of Existence
ByHeatherMy life is spent in one long effort to escape the commonplaces of existence.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spoken by Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League
Ditto.
Hope
ByHeatherHope is the most powerful thing there is. It is the adrenalin of the soul.
— Amy Tan, from an interview on Change on To The Best of Our Knowledge