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- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
- Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
- I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.
- Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
- Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
- Lorraine Anderson
- 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 (1807 - 1882)
- Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford University commencement address, June 12, 2005
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