Inspiration

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s ok though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who’s an 8-color type.. I’m like, hey girl, magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no – I want magenta!”

John Mayer

“Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.”

-Henri L. Bergson

Dear Mom,

I haven’t talked to you in 44 years. You could say it sounds like forever, but it seems like yesterday when you dropped me off at the babysitters, promising to return. I have always thought about what I would say to you and how I would say it. I’m not sure what that would look like, but it sounds sad. You never know, maybe I would laugh when I’d hear the story of why you didn’t come back for your five year old child. Maybe you got arrested or maybe you met a really nice guy and he took you out to lunch. I do have to say that was a very long lunch. I think we would have had fun together. I became one of the Best Amateur fighters at 106 pounds in the country. You would have been proud. Although, after I retired from the sport, I got addicted to drugs and did 14 years in prison. I sure could have used a good talkin’ to from you at that time. It seems all my relationships with girls are terrible. For some reason, I just don’t trust the ladies. Anyway, you should stop by sometime and say hi.

Your boy,
Dave, age 51

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

- Casey Stengel

• Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.
• Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
• Do not walk beside me, either; just $!@! off and leave me alone.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tire.
• It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.
• Don’t be irreplaceable; if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
• Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
• It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
• If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.
• If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.
• If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• If you drink, don’t park; accidents cause people.
• Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
• The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
• Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

“Your idea of me is fabricated with materials you have borrowed from other people and from yourself. What you think of me depends on what you think of yourself. Perhaps you create your idea of me out of material you would like to eliminate from your own idea of yourself. Perhaps your idea of me is a reflection of what other people think of you. Perhaps what you think of me is simply what you think that I think of you.”

“It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”

~Lemony Snicket

“Ever notice that ‘what the hell’ is always the right decision?”

~Marilyn Monroe