poems for fathers from daughters

Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. ~Bill Copeland



Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale



When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown, from a television commercial



Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote



The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening. ~Author Unknown The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. ~Elbert Hubbard



A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I make serious coffee - so strong it wakes up the neighbors. ~Author Unknown



The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~Marcus Aurelius



Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~George Bernard Shaw



Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born. ~George Bernard Shaw



The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950



Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying



Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something. ~Wilson Mizner



The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson



Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain



There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988



Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois