thinking of you poems

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole. ~Mac O'Grady



Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~Author Unknown



There's another powerful benefit of skipping which is that it adds joy and positive energy to the world. Seeing adults consumed by the joy of skipping sends a compelling message about the power of the spirit over fear. When you learn to turn off your logical mind and get lost in the spirit of skipping, it's like exercising a muscle that will help you deal with other fears. As external events become increasingly intense, that kind of inner strength will be more important than ever. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot. ~Kate Bush



Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~Franz Kafka



The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand



My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ~Joan Rivers



The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked. ~Amy Webster



It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville



Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken



Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~Albert Einstein



There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin



I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. ~Christiaan Barnard



If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~Henry Fielding



Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy



If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~John Lancaster Spalding



The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison



Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb



When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~French Proverb