QUOTABLE NOTABLES

Call this a lazy-type post, but I've run across several quotes lately and frankly...I want to remember them.

Live simply. Love generously. Speak truthfully. Pray daily. Leave everything else to God.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
-William Gibson

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.
-Calvin and Hobbes

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.
-Shirley MacLaine

Perhaps parents would enjoy their children more if they stopped to realize that the film of childhood can never be run through for a second showing.
-Evelyn Nown

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
-Odgen Nash

Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without.
-Marcelene Cox

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

When you have been pushed to the edge, trust God, because only two things can happen. Either God will catch you when you fall or He will teach you how to fly.

And, finally...
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY... Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
- Don Miguel Ruiz