"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Recently I turned fifty. It's a milestone birthday, right? It's meant to mean something. Prior to this event I was doing a fair amount of reflection on what I wanted it to mean for me to reach half a century. In so many ways it's just an arbitrary number that has little significance. It's only the story you associate with the age of fifty that makes you feel something about your identity. Regardless of the
Monthly Archives: May 2016
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world." Malala Yousafzai
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity." Golda Meir
"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are." Goldie Hawn
"It's all make believe, isn't it?"
Marilyn Monroe
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." Benjamin Disraeli