Asia & Chocolate

"The less clutter and commitments you have in your life, the less you'll feel pulled in so many different directions. When you simplify your life, you free up time."

                                    --Michelle Turner
                                    author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination

so true!

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 (American journalist, 1941 - )

Love is ...

"So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing." 

- William P. Young, The Shack

blah.

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
                                - W. Clement Stone

Overheard at the office ...

"I married for love twice! How stupid can you be?!?!"

Quote of the morning ...

I've been at work for less than an hour and already I've got a quote for the day.

One of our more hands-on publishers walked through my department looking for his production manager just now. She's been out for a few days with some kind of sickness (as is half of our deparment). And then he tried to find her supervisor, who is in a meeting right now.

His response was: "What has America come to?!?!?"

read or overheard throughout my day ...

“It is not easy to become beautiful. It requires hard work, patience, and attention to detail. It also takes a certain firmness of purpose. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy

"Who made YOU the come-and-go police?" - my co-worker to another co-worker

be happy ...

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Alright

Humility

"[God] is not proud ... He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
- C. S. Lewis

I will have failed if God is named, but not praised, analyzed but not glorified, seen but not sought.

                 - Mark Buchanan, The Holy Wild

[HT: Lots of Scotts]