Inspirational Quotes

Fall 96

"Incarnation on the human level appears as individuation." - Carl Jung

"We spend our life until we're twenty deciding what parts of ourselves to put in the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again." -Robert Bly

"There are people who will always come up with reasons why you can't do what you want to do. Ignore them." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go on for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on." -Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, for Lily Tomlin

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement." -Mabel Newcomber

"I am not on this planet to get something done . . .the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose." -Paul Williams

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby

"It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall." --The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-- Steven R. Covey

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Ghandi

Going slow does not prevent arriving. Nigerian Proverb

Summer 96

"...some things you get taught. And some things you just learn." Anna Quindlen

"I believe that just because I don't always make sense doesn't mean I don't know what's going on." Martha Williamson & Robin Sheets from Raging Hormones, The Unofficial PMS Survival Guide

"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut." H. Jackson Brown from Life's Little Instruction Book, II

"Dishonest people believe in words rather than reality." Hugh Prather

"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier." - Blore's Razor

"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse." Quentin Crisp self described as "one of England's stately homos"

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." Oscar Wilde

"There must be more to life than having everything." Maurice Sendak

"Having everything is just the beginning." Thomas J. Leonard

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." Colette

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana

Spring 96

If you're not havin' a good time you're not doin' it right." - Bright Star

For this month's quotes we gratefully acknowled MGH's AOL/ADD friends, and especially the NEXT group, an online ADD support group of some of the finest human beings it is our priviledge to know.

"Only a group of people who share a body of knowledge and continually learn together can stay vital and viable." -- Max DePree, Chairman of Herman Miller, Inc. and author of The Art of Management

"It's never too late to be what you might have been" -TS Eliot

"A ship is safe in port, but that's not what ships are for." -Unknown (thanks to Paul Whitaker)

"We're not primarily put on this earth to see through one another but to see one another through." -Peter DeVries

"When you go out in the world, watch the traffic, hold hands, and stick together." Robert Fulgrum Everything Thing I know I Learned in Kindergarten

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden (UCLA basketball coach, 1964-75)

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin Roosevelt

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein