Quotes of: Jim-crow Keyword

To make a change, you must be: willing to commit, willing to change, willing to have an open mind, and willing to take action!

The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition

Your hand fits in mine Like it's made just for me But bear this in mind It was meant to be And I'm joining up the dots with the freckles on your cheeks And it all makes sense to me

Take Me Home

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

One Man's Meat

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Puff, The Magic Dragon

There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.

A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays

I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.

Pop Kids

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

Peace from Broken Pieces

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

Put That in Writing

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

The Tao of Pooh

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is something more, and that something more is what life is really about.

The Tao of Pooh

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

Thank You and You're Welcome

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory jobs of their parents, who, traumatized by two world wars, had responded by creating a safety blanket of conformity.

Who I Am

I slept badly that night, my vivid dreams populated by ghosts. As much as it revived ailing spirits in day light, the fizzy energy of NY seemed to feed on human frailty at night.

Who I Am

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

Waiting and Dating

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

Waiting and Dating

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward