UPDATED JANUARY 2010

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." -Donald Laird

"Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth." -Christopher McCandless

"Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough." -Dave Berry

"Snow once again dancing in front of me. I can't help but think of thee. And those twinkling green eyes. Like bright stars in my winter sky." -Seamus Nash

"If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am." -Cyril Cusack

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -Ben Franklin

"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves." -Henri Frederick Amiel

"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities." -Michelangelo

"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow." - Black Elk

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words." -William Shakespeare

"The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible." -Frederick Soddy

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect." -Oren Arnold

"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered." -Denis Norden

"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be." -Pepper Schwartz

"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean." -Confucius

"It's hard to pull your foot out of your mouth... ...when your head is up your ass."  -Feddler Von Schtickle

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the person who'll decide where to go." -Dr. Seuss

"Living inside my own head is a melody of noise with intermittent silence. Sounds last no longer than time will allow to strike the next note. So melodic to listen to your own tune and tune outside distractions in. While the rhythm of the rock spinning beneath my feet goes unheard." -Seamus Nash

"It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged." -Lord Byron

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin

"The problem with relationships is that people are so busy falling in Love they forget to fall in like." -Anonymous

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." -George Moore

"There's far many questions to ask to answer any of them tonight. And Confusion casts a shadow upon me like a great big cloud in the sky. And I pray for rain because its been so long since I let myself cry. For so long, I sang this sad ole' song, and it feels like my time is up. For she came and landed in my arms and filled my half empty cup.”  -The John Butler Trio from the song Peaces & Creamilled my half empty cup." -The John Butler Trio from the song Peaches & Cream

"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present." -Sir John Lubbock

"The future lies before you Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show." -Unknown

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." -Carl Jung

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -John Muir

"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." -Chinese Proverb

"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" -J. B. Priestley

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." -Erma Bombeck

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." -Victor Hugo

"We that are true lovers run into strange capers." -William Shakespeare

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." -Alfred Lord Tennyson

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." -T.S. Elliot

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." -Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.'' -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"If I have learned just one thing from the Sun it is this; never impose your light upon a beautiful flower. Better to simply provide the source, water with Love, and revel in the beauty of its own growth." -Seamus Nash

"Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us." -William Wordsworth

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." -Lao Tzu

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." -Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEV!!!

"Patience means self-suffering." -Mahatma Gandhi

"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true." -John Steinbeck

"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong." -Christopher McCandless

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." - Sara Teasdale

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." -Buddha

"A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm to near the sun.”      -John Steinbeck

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." -Epictetus

"Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened!" - Dr. Seuss

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." - John Ruskin

"So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover." - Goethe

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them." -Carl Jung

"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." -Jack Kerouac

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." -Plato

"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." -John Muir

"Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders." - Rabindranath Tagore