2/27/06

All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. ~ Gandalf to Frodo, The Lord of the Rings

2/24/06

All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it. ~ William Hazlitt

2/23/06

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

2/22/06

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~ Winston Churchill

2/20/06

to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to makeyou everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human beingcan fight, and never stop fighting. ~ e.e. cummings

2/17/06

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Thoreau

2/16/06

I am on my way, I can go the distance
I don't care how far, somehow I'll be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to find where I belong
~ David Zippel

5 ponderings points given if you know the source (disclaimer: ponderings points are worth absolutely nothing on the open market, but hey, points are points! ;)

2/15/06

Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world? ~ Basho

2/14/06

(today's ponderings is dedicated to my valentines, katie and stu ;)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

hey, it's valentine's day! get out there and love somebody!

2/13/06

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. ~ Pablo Picasso

2/10/06

Sometimes when we quit chasing things, the things that are following us can catch up. ~ L.M. Montgomery

2/9/06

You never know where your dreams might take you
So keep them safe and sound don't let reality break you
~ Richard Marx, Remember When

2/06/06

Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. ~ Deng Ming-Dao, 365 Tao

2/3/06

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~ Henry Miller

2/2/06

So ask yourself this: If I could say one word to the world, if I knew the world was listening attentively and would to the best of its ability follow the directive that the word sent out, what would that word be? ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Call

2/1/06

We don't need to learn to let go. We need to recognize what is already gone. ~ Suzuki Roshi