Lynda

“The meeting started, and I could barely listen for my self-mortification. I wanted the hour to end so I could ask her what it was I had done. And then, all of a sudden, it hit me - boing! This had NOTHING to do with me. I felt a wave of relief, an internal shift like I had just had a chiropractic adjustment. I realized that I had made something that had nothing to do with me into something that was all about me.

I saw that I had been doing this all my life. When I was a kid, my mom was easily annoyed, and I always figured it was me bugging her. After growing up like that, I was forever making myself the cause of other people's pain. It was self-centered and rendered me incapable of compassion for others, because I'm no good to anybody else when it's all about me. And frankly, most things have nothing to do with me. It was very adolescent, really. I got it, suddenly and profoundly.”
― Jane Lynch, Happy Accidents: A Memoir

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Or so I thought. My opinion forever changed the day I met a very peculiar man by the name of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”
― Amelia Littlewood, Sherlock Holmes & Elizabeth Bennet Mystery Collection Vol 1

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.”
― Miles Hassell MD