“Jimmy’s dog tag clinked as he almost slid right into her. Teenagers wore dog tags in case New York was bombed and they needed to be identified if killed or injured. Mrs. McCorkle, the O’Shaughnessy’s immediate next door neighbor, had insisted on a dog tag for Jimmy.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself”
― The Big Book 0f Small Stuff: 100 of the Best Inspirations From Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
― The Big Book 0f Small Stuff: 100 of the Best Inspirations From Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
“Looking to the mountains around us, I saw that the mysterious artist who comes at night had paid us a visit. I wondered how he could paint so many different colors in one night; red, wine, yellow, and rust.”
― Where the Red Fern Grows
― Where the Red Fern Grows
“Many colorful characters like Paul Hawken, and Michael Laton, who always wears a Russian astrakhan hat, and Jack the Fluke, who is a laughing grizzly Irishman with a beard like an Airedale and a cab driver’s cap and flapping tweeds bought from the Slightly Soiled Shop … all of them sitting around the great parlor, bare but a glory of old carved wood, fourteen-foot ceilings … Jack the Fluke tells about his girlfriend Sandra,”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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