Less (Information) Is More

"Gigerenzer calls such decision making 'satisficing,' as in 'satisfying' enough to 'suffice.' Satisficers don't feel the need to know everything, in contrast to 'maximizers,' who do want to weigh every detail imaginable in making even minor life decisions. Interestingly, studies have found that satisficers are more optimistic about life, have higher self-esteem, and are generally happier than maximizers."

'Trust Your Gut: Less (Information) is More,' Wray Herbert, Newsweek, 11/20/07

How to Live

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

--Clarence B. Kelland

Follow the Grain

"Follow the grain in your own wood."

--Howard Thurman

A Hero

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

--Bob Dylan

Plans

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

--Peter Drucker

Think

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward."

--Baltasar Gracian

Jump!

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

--David Lloyd George

The Center of the Universe

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."

--Bernard Bailey

Destiny

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

--Jean Nidetch

Sneaky Time

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."

--John Lithgow

Making Peace With Yourself

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

--Doris Mortman

Courage is the Ladder

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

--Clare Booth Luce

The Greatest Distance

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."

--Charles de Gaulle

Insults

"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks."

--Steve Pavlina

The Universe's Reward

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."

--Shakti Gawain

The Incomparable You

"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."

--Brenda Ueland

Laughter and Insanity

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

--Jimmy Buffett

Quoting Myself

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

--George Bernard Shaw

Building Character

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

--James A. Froude

Discovery

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

--Marcel Proust

Holding On

"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."

--Dorothee Solle

Change

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

--Nelson Mandela

What We Get

"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice."

--George Matthew Adams

The Impossible

"Things are only impossible until they're not."

--Jean-Luc Picard

Worrying

"Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind."

--Milton Garland (at 103, the oldest worker in the U.S.)

Extraordinary

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

--Jean Houston

Hate

"Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves."

--J. G. C. Brainard

Forgiveness

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

--Edward Chapin

What We Do

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

--Freya Madeline Stark

What You Are

"What you are is a question only you can answer."

--Lois McMaster Bujold

First Step in Faith

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stubborn Hope

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."

--Anne Lamott

God's Trust

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

--Mother Teresa

A Child's Forgiveness

"No one forgives with more grace and love than a child."

--Real Live Preacher

New Dimensions

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

What We May Be

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

--William Shakespeare

Being Too Careful

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

--Gertrude Stein

The Greatest Risk

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."

--Jawaharlal Nehru