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I hate working with numbers and I'm just not good at it at all. I can sit down to a sea of words and swim in it until I understand but in front of a page of numbers, my brain just seizes. It seems to be especially true of dollar figures; my own little internal ongoing bolshevik revolution? Geez, for a proletariat I sure have bourgeois taste, but ( Read more... )

what lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(and, I'm going to the desert this weekend!
sleep under sky filled with stars I hope.)

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." --Ann Landers

she may have bad hair, but she has good advice

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. --Alexander Humboldt

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be." -- Clementine Paddleford

Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.

-- Ruth P. Freedman

Go somewhere else; the grass is greener!
our thoughts persuade, and we comply.
And when we get to somewhere else,
often we find the grass is dry.

original by Dolores Dahl, edited by Lisa Hansen

It comes to mind again (and again and again):

I get up.
I walk.
I fall down.
Meanwhile,
I keep dancing.