Experienced time occurs when we are able to stop worrying about the past and the future long enough to live for a moment in the present, to feel and think and savor. It is this kind of time we feel lacking in our lives.
-Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Your expression is the most important thing you can wear.
-Sid Ascher
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
-George Eliot
(Mary Ann Evans)
How does you expression affect how you feel? Try a variety of expressions. Describe how you feel when you look pleased; when you look angry; when you look sad or depressed.
How do people react to you when you wear each expression?
We should have no regrets. We should never look back. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in experiences it brought is something we had to know.
-Rebecca Beard
Humor is falling down the stairs if you do it while telling [someone else] not to.
-Kenneth Bird
Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
-George Gordon, Lord Byron
How do you enjoy “good company” when you write a letter to someone? Does a telephone conversation combine “solitude with good company”? What advantage does letter writing have over telephoning?
Be of good courage, all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
If you miss seven balls out of ten, you’re battling three hundred, and that’s good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can’t score if you keep the bat on your shoulder.
-Walter B. Wriston
Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
-Haitian proverb
Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?
-Hobbes in “Calvin and Hobbes”
Watterson
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feeling of which one is capable oneself.
-Andree Gide
It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbor’s mind and to find out how different the scenery there was from that of his own.
-William James
Many of us persist in the belief that people are pretty much the same, that we share similar values, viewpoints, goals, and emotional needs and attachments. This belief results in many surprises-usually disapointments. What kinds of situations can this belief create? How can a person find out what another’s feelings and values are?
Games provide rules and create a reassuring artificial order. If nobody can quite figure out how to keep score in real life, everyone knows how to do it in games.
-Marilyn Gardner
