happy birthday quotes to sister

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~Aldous Huxley



It's difficult to view the world outside our human context. Staying alive and paying the bills both require our attention squarely fixed on our own business. Our sprawling cities and suburbs are wonderful and frightening tributes to creative self-absorption. In them, we spend our microscheduled days bustling between work and the endless details of our private lives, turning in our moments of rest to the buzzing distractions of television and computers - all accelerating toward some ultimate, unseen fulfillment of convenience and hyperreality. Little encourages us to pause and look around, much less question the end goal of all our busyness. Anything slower than the quick cuts of TV commercials is overwhelmed by our impatience and short attention. Unfortunately, we might be missing something important - to our happiness and to our survival. The purpose of this book is to help remind us. ~From the introduction to The Sacred Earth: Writers on Nature & Spirit, edited by Jason Gardner, 1998, New World Library



Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. ~Jonathan Swift



O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! ~William Shakespeare, Othello



The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier



When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~Marv Levy



All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? ~George Bernard Shaw



Grammar is the grave of letters. ~Elbert Hubbard



If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown



Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec



Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. ~Albert Perry



If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football. ~Author Unknown



Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~Terri Guillemets



Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless. ~Sherry Anderson (Thanks, Kathy)



It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism. ~Charles Osgood



For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown



This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning. ~Old Vaudeville joke



You will always be your child's favorite toy. ~Vicki Lansky, Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991



By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset