Quotations Weblog

This quote is more true than it knows. Not only light, shade and perspective can make anything beautiful, knowledge and intimacy can also do so. I talked about this recently on my personal blog:

Pick Me! » Good-Looking Vs. Attractive

I talked about my grandfather, Jarvis Klem.

I recently realized that my grandfather is beautiful to a stranger:

I See Invisible People » The quotes meme

Terry participated in the quotes meme and chose a quotation from my grandfather to be one of her five quotes. Out of all the quotes we have, she chose my grandpa’s single quote to be in her top five.

I never saw an ugly thing, neither.

There have been so many times in my life when I have coveted someone else’s life. I see where someone else is and wish that I was there. I wish that my life had turned out differently or I wish my body had turned out differently.

I only know one cure for this frame of mind: gratitude.

Whenever I start wishing I was someone else, I sit down and write down all the things that are going RIGHT with my life. Sometimes I can only think of one or two at first, but if I keep at it, I eventually come to the decision that my life is actually wonderful and I wouldn’t change places with that other person afterall.

Not even to get her jean size or his salary…

If you have been feeling a little disconnected lately, it might not be psychological. It might be physical. Sometimes I feel depressed when I haven’t exercised my body enough. If you have been feeling a little out of sorts, head on over to Starling Fitness. There, I talk about eating healthy and keeping active.

You can once again start your journey toward self-awareness through the body.

I read Perfect Circle about a year ago. His Texas-based story about a man who could see ghosts was the perfect Halloween book. This year, Sean Stewart has teamed up with Jordan Weisman to create Cathy’s Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233. It’s a book. It’s a game. It’s a mystery that you have to solve yourself using clues from the book, calls to certain telephone numbers and websites you need to access.

Cathy is stinging from a breakup with her boyfriend, Victor. Instead of leaving it be, she tries to find out why he left her and has entered a world that would be better left alone. The death of Victor’s coworker leads her to a mystery that only you can solve.

Instead of just reading a book this month, try solving one. Cathy’s Book will be on the shelves September 12th. Until then, just sit tight and read a normal book.

I saw Elisa Camahort at SXSW. She moderated a panel about being transparent when writing a weblog: the risks and the benefits. She said a profound thing and I put her quotation into our collection.

And I misspelled her name…

Funny thing, she didn’t find her quote in our collection and call us out on it, she found it in one of the many collections that siphon our collection and repost it without checking the veracity or even crediting us. She wrote on one of those sites:

“If you think I’m famous and uttering famous quotes, why are you spelling my name ‘Alissa’?”

Umm… That would be me. Sorry about that. I have no idea how I made that mistake. I was going to blame the little sign in front of you on the panel table, but Betsy took a picture, and it’s obvious that I would have spelled your last name wrong if it hadn’t been for the sign. I just made a mistake.

Elisa is a co-founder of Blogher and keeps a personal weblog. You can read more from her here:

• Elisa Camahort’s Personal Weblog

• Elisa Camahort’s blog | BlogHer

• Worker Bees Blog

Her quotation has been corrected in our collection. That’s why we are the best place to go for quotations. We pony up when we make a mistake and we actually fix it.