“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

-Albert Camus

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Beryl Pfizer

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."

-Ellen Goodman

Charles M. Schulz

from Quotes of the Day

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?”/ Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”"

Ernest Haskins

Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997), in her Nobel lecture

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672), ‘Meditations Divine and Moral,’ 1655

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Peter Minard

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

Andre Gide