It Takes Two

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain

 

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -  Buddy Hackett

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. -  Coco Chanel

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. -  J. P. Morgan

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.  -  Aristotle

 

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -  Indira Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finding my Path

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

 

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. - Rosalia de Castro

 

 

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke

 

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel

 

 

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

 

 

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Saint Teresa of Avila

 

Life at Sea

The best way to find oneself is to lose oneself in the eternal horizon of roaring waves





 

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
- Antoine Rivarol

 

 

 

 

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.-Aristotle Onassis 

 

 

 

 

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.- Antoine Rivarol

 

 

 Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up
- Orson Welles

“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
- Aeschylus

Open Books, Open Minds

Writing novels is a talent, but reading them is an art in its own.

 

The wise man reads both books and life itself. - Lyn Yutang

 

 

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”  - Charlie Jones

 

 “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps

 

 

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.- Albert Einstein 

 

 

 

Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. -Joseph Joubert

 

 

 

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Hazel Rochman

 

 

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” - Confucious

 

A World’s Cuisine at your Fingertips

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin





Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

 

 

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
― Confucius
 

 

 

 

 

 

“The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.”

- Michele Gorman

 

 

 

 

 

“When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.
”
― Jarod Kintz

 

 

 

 

 

 It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
-Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
 -Francis Bacon

 

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. -George Santayana