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Learning to Slow Down

Friday, October 21st, 2005

If you divide the distance we travel by the number of hours we spend not just behind the wheel but also working to pay for our cars or doing other things in some way associated with the car, our net speed comes to around five miles per hour. But when you show this to people, they still say, “I’ve got to have a car, because I’m in a hurry.”

~ Jan Lundberg, antiroad activist

Positive Thinking

Monday, October 17th, 2005

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway to the human spirit.

~ Helen Keller

Why Me?

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

You look like you need a cat.

~Random woman who stopped me on the way back from the vending machine this afternoon.

Over Breakfast this Morning

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

If there was a better way to go then it would find me
I can’t help it the road just rolls out behind me
Be kind to me or treat me mean
I’ll make the most of it I’m an extraordinary machine

~ from Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple

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Living the best I can

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

~ William Saroyan

Breakthrough

Monday, September 26th, 2005

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

~ from Angels, Angels, Angels, Andy Warhol

Just a thought

Monday, September 26th, 2005

I’d always thought that I would love to live by the sea, travel the world alone and live more simply.

~ from Life is For Rent, Dido