If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
—George Bernard Shaw
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
—Jules Renard
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long after he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs."
—Lazarus Long
I started to read Lightning by Dean R Koontz tonight because I stopped for dinner on the way home and didn't have the book I'm currently reading with me. It had this quote at the beginning of the book:
Being deeply loved by someone
gives you strength;
while loving someone deeply
gives you courage.
—Lao Tzu
The apartment is cleaned (and dusted too!). The huge stack of cardboard boxes have been delivered to soon moving people. The pile of clothes to be rehomed has been rehomed. Yay to progress on the to do list!
Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
—Marcus Aurelius
Also, on this day in 1981, the IBM Personal Computer was introduced.
Friday was my mom's birthday, but I was not near a keyboard very much, so happy belated birthday, Mom!
Today is
Bill's 40th birthday! From all accounts, it sounds like his party was a lot of fun. :)
And the quote of the day for today:
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
—Patti LaBelle
So happy 40th birthday to Bill and happy 39th(*) to Mom!
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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
—Alan J. Perlis
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
—Eric Hoffer
Also, wth. I see snow flurries.
Lastly, happy opening day to the Red Sox.
Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lin Yutang
