For many years now, decades, actually, I’ve been keeping a quote book. I’ve always been an avid reader, and now and then I’d come across something very wise or funny or informative in a book and I’d swear to myself that I’d remember it, but it was usually out of my head by the next day. So I got the idea to start writing these things down. Every once in a while I enjoy reading my quote book and seeing the many things that resonated with me at different times in my life. I think this book now reveals a great deal about the person I have become. I have suggested in my will that my loved ones get together and read things from this book after I’m gone. Here are some of my favorites (with apologies in advance that the book titles aren’t underlined, because WordPress mysteriously doesn’t allow that):
“There are times when we must be willing to be misunderstood”
Eugenia Price, Don Juan McQueen
“I’m the princess and the entire world is the pea.”
Bo Huston, I am Waiting
“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”
Nietzsche
“I think maybe religion does not make people kind, I think maybe it can give naturally kind people a reason to be kind.”
Jack Cady, Inagehi
“Soaking in her tub at the hotel, Barbara decided that no civilization that provides an unlimited supply of hot water can be all bad.”
Howard Fast, The Establishment
“Grin broadly at the water cooler, and go home to where you live.”
Roger Rosenblatt
“Never worry in advance, there’s plenty of time for that once your ass is in a sling.”
Cathy Cash-Spellman, The Playground of the Gods
“You don’t have to stay raped…”
Alice Walker, By the Light of My Father’s Smile
“Don’t mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon.”
James Patterson, Cat and Mouse
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