Cirque: That was very much an adventure! So beautiful and moving. Worth every penny.
ISP: “haunted house”- I wrote a review on vanityrush.wordpress.com called Indy Scream Park: F is for Frotteurism. 6 months ago
I knew this book would be ridiculous- it’s a how to fake it til you make it sort of guide. It was a bit more over the top than I thought it might be. Still mindless fun, I suppose, as long as it isn’t taken seriously. 6 months ago
Good read. Great exercises. It was actually one of the more helpful career books I’ve read. Very concrete. 6 months ago
This is the follow up to “Build a Man” by Talli Roland. Super easy read and predictable. Sometimes that kind of literature is soothing, though. 7 months ago
Career Manual: Know Yourself: A Proven Formula to Discover the Work You Love – Jonathan Milligan.
It has some good activities in it, but ends somewhat abruptly without truly analyzing the depths of those activities. Oh well. Next! 8 months ago
116 “Most people don’t aim too high and miss. They aim too low and hit.” Bobe Moawad
117 “The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.” Koni Yamada
118 “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were give to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H Jackson Brown Jr
119. “The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideals, but it is a disaster to have no ideals to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach.” Dr Benjamin Mays 8 months ago
Book 14 was the Motivation Myth. Easy read, though about as repetitive as it gets. 8 months ago
I decided to help our administrative staff with her work because everyone in my department was doing nothing at all, and even though my co-workers thought that it was rude that I stepped away from our doing nothing to help her, I’m glad that I did. 8 months ago
This was was not earth shattering but reaffirmed what I already felt and gave me a few good exercises.
By Shakti Gawain. 9 months ago
Insomnia doesn’t suit someone who works in a crisis dept- it encourages panic… 9 months ago
101 “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasa
102 “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” John Wayne
103 “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” Robert T. Kiyosaki
104 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain.
105 We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are – Talmud.
106 The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be – Marcel Pagnol.
107 I have found that if you love life, life will love you back – Arthur Rubinstein.
108 Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive – Howard Thurman.
109 You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours – F Perl.
110 The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau
111 You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with – Dr. Wayne Dyer.
112 Happiness always sneaks in a door you did not think was open. Anonymous
113 Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead – Scottish Proverb.
114 Find the guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or stay awake just to watch you sleep. The one who turns to his friends and says, “thats her” – Anonymous
115 . We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us – Joseph Campbell. 9 months ago
86 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
87 A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
88 Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho
89 The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
90 Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
91 People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
92 Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan
93 The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
94 Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
95 I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer
96 Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman
97 The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Ellen Parr
98 Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
99 Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde
100 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz 9 months ago
“Build a Man”- Talli Roland. It was cute, though, and a ‘guilty pleasure’ book. Super easy read. 10 months ago
I could have listed this as complete (I’ve lost a lot of weight and needed new clothes- and got them), but then the partner mixed up the hot and cold water lines on the washing machine and many pieces of clothing were ruined. So now I get to play this game again, and am not really all that happy about it. 10 months ago
Eckhart Tolle- The Power of Now. It started strong but faded about 40% in. Good overall life lessons, though. 10 months ago
I have dye in my hair, and that’s pretty much a constant status for my poor, tortured strands. 10 months ago
I am grateful:
-that the ER visit did not result in a surgery.
-that I don’t have to work anymore daytime overtime this week. I work nights, so coming in early makes me quite the, uh, pleasant person to be around… yeah. That.
-This week is almost over. I have been trying to stop “wishing away” my time, but this week I’ve succumbed to the desire just to be done with it!
-I had at least a little bit of time to read tonight.
-July is coming. And it is a brand new month. 10 months ago
