Two Things

Wednesday, May 5, 2010


Today I need two things: inspiration and a laugh.  


And maybe a peach muffin.


And  strong coffee.


And a facelift.  


But I digress.


I hope these bring you the first two.


I like using skills that bring people joy.  Food brings people joy. Frazee   

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than thousands of heads bowed in prayer.  Mohandas Gandhi


Oh, Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.  St. Augustine


Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.  Mignon McLaughlin


I will not eat oysters.  I want my food dead.  Not sick.  Not wounded.  Dead.  Woody Allen


We are not what we know, but what we are willing to learn.  Mary Catherine Bateson


Moses dragged us through the desert for forty years to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.  Golda Mier


A dream you dream alone is only a dream.  A dream you dream together is reality.  Yoko Ono


A hundred years from now?  All new people.  Anne Lamott


Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time.  Ursula K. LeGuin


We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure rarely go hand in hand.  Jenny Jerome Churchill


Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.  Bill Cosby


Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.  Dean Acheson   

3 comments:

  1. I loved this Kate- always love an inspiring quote!

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  2. I love them all but in particular this one - A hundred years from now? All new people. Anne Lamott. I have never thought about it. Also the last from Bill Cosby. Hope you are well!

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