Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    
    To start off....
    
    "Over time, you only regret the things you *didn't* do"
    
    "If it feels good (mentally, physically and spiritually), do it!"
    
    "Carpe Diem!"
    
    "Love thyself, that you may love thy neighbour also"
    
    
    
    

    Gotta keep raisin' the bar....
    
    (as in high jump)
    
    mdh

    * God wouldn't put upon me anything that I can't handle.
    
    * The Serenity Prayer
    
    * No one's a perfect mother.
    
    Kate
      

    
    
    "There is no substitute for excellance, not even success."
    
    Melinda

    Mine come more in the form of mottoes....
    
    "Reveresco" - I flourish ever green
    "Festina Lente" - hasten slowly
    "Carpe Diem" - seize the day
    "Invictus Maneo" - I remain unvanquished
    "E Tenebris Lux" - From darkness - light
    "Cadarn ar Cyfrwys" - Strong and subtle
    "Aspera me Juvant" - difficulties delight me
    
    "Hang tough"
    
    
    -Jody
    

    There is an old indian proverb that I follow.  I don't know the exact
    words but ........
    
    Never judge a man unless you walk in his moccasins.
    
    
    
    

    And here I thought that "Carpe Diem" had something to do with fish worship.

    "Follow your bliss"
    
    "Do the right thing"
      (The 'right thing' is hard to define, but basically the action that
      you are SURE is Right, not one you feel pushed into doing.)
    
    Pam
    
    ... more cynically, "Time wounds all heels!"  :-)

    I like:   Illigitimi Noncarborundum
    

    To remind myself I don't always have to be in the driver's seat:
    
                             Go with the flow.
    
    
    
    When I find myself rushing through my todays so I can reach tomorrow
    sooner:
    
                   Life is the journey, not the destination.
    
    
    Karen

    Oh, and I got this one from the Lassie/Lad/etc dog books by Terhune...
    
    "But a collie down is not a collie beaten!"
    
    -Jody
    

    When tempted to assume the worst:
    
    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
    stupidity."

    Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong: Murphy's Law.
    
    Murphy was an optimist.
    
    Stupid rules were meant to be broken.
    
    Never put off until tomorrow, what you can pawn off on someone else
    sometime between today and next week.
    
    :-) Phil

    "Sooner or later, every individual must decide whether to be a shadow
    of the past or an outline of the future."
    
    "The past should be a guide post, not a hitching post."
    
    "This above all, to thine own self be true."
    
    -Barb

Words of wisdom from Rocky Horror:  "Don't dream it, be it."

Carla

    Primum non nocere.

    "A lot of things can happen in a year.  The horse may die, the king may
     die, I may die.  And then again -- the horse may talk."
    
            For the complete proverb, see womannotes-v2
    
    
    "You cannot understand someone until you have have walked a mile in
    their shoes; you cannot judge them until you have walked a lifetime."
    
    
    "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
    
       
        Margaret

    
    one is down
    
    

    Patience is a virtue.

    
    
    Only God and the Czar know...and the Czar is far away.
    
    May God keep him there.

    
    
    	When they give you lined paper, write the other way.

    
    
      Children are like wet cement.  Whatever falls on them makes an
      impression.
    
                - Haim Ginott
    
    
    Roberta

    "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own"
    
    "Fear is inversely proportional to faith"
    
    "The only place I need to fit in is in me"
    
    Tony

    
        
    Rust wins because it works toward the core.
    	
    Love what's inside, the rest changes.
    	
    If all else fails, ask!
    	
    Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different
    result.
    
    To change the world look in the mirror, change that person first.    
    
    The past is exactly that, past.
    	
    My history will be the future past.
    
    

    Change isn't painful, resistance to change is painful
    
    Tony

    Lack of money is the root of all evil.

    Do it now!
    
    You always have a choice
    
    Shoot the ducks while they fly by
    
    You can only drive *one* car at a time
    
    Is it worth the aggravation...
    
    You don't have to make a decision *right now*
    
    What goes around, comes around
    
    Looks like there's light at the end of the tunnel, instead of another
    train!
    
    I only read minds on February 30...
    
    
    Judi
    

"My choice may have been mistaken ... my _choosing_ was not"

   Annie

    It's much easier to behave yourself into a new way of thinking
    than it is to think yourself into a new way of behaving.

    My father-in-laws favorite therefore my husband's favorite
    
    You only need to be 10% smarter than(insert any inanamate object that
    is not functioning properly or not moving where you think it should).
    
    Said to 20mth old as he tries to put upright a childs chair while
    standing on its(the chairs) back.
    

    It came to pass.....
    
    

Ain't no time to hate..


If it ain't broke, don't fix it.





Jim

    Love many, trust few.
    Always paddle your own canoe.
    
    
    Don't force it - get a bigger hammer.
    
    

        Not making a decision is a decision

    
    it don't mean a thing if it ain't got dat swing
    
    and on a slightly more serious note:
    
    'Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an
    evil.'
    
    

    
    There are always choices...
    
    Be here now...
    
    If I get stuck on level A of my development, the only sin I could
    possibly commit is in not participating fully in my stuckness.
    
    This too shall pass...
    
    Time wounds all heels...
    
    I like my friends...I guess women always make me feel worthwhile...
    
    Change your thinking, change your life...
    
    
    Nanci

    Lad of Athens, faithful be
    To Thyself,
    And Mystery --
    All the rest is Perjury --
    
    - Dickinson

I follow much of my life by a set of rules I have developped for myself...

"If you like who and where you are, then there can be no reason to regret
your choices, for they led you to this place."

(Corollary to the above: "Always like where and who you are for it is your 
choices that brought you there.  If you don't like your place, you must
make choices.")

"Try anything twice...once to see if you like it, and again to see if you
had a bad batch the first time."

"I want to look back on my life when I am 90 years old and say 'I'm so glad
I did that' about so many things I loose count."

And, the quote the immortal Getty Lee...

"I will choose all by myself, I will choose free will."

D!

    
    
    For me it is....
    
    
    When You Educate A Woman, You Educate A Nation
    
    				W. Kwamena-Pow
    
    	TJ
    Sweet Ga. Peach
    

    The least harm done, and that harm which is done, done to the
    smallest number of people.  (My own, completing the square formed
    by Hillel, Jesus and K. Marx.)
    
    Why are we doing this?            }
                                      } Go back to first principles as needed.
    Why are we doing this *this* way? }
    
    I've had about as much fun as I can stand.
    
    Oh, no!  Not another learning experience.  (But learn anyhow.)
    
    Ninety percent of *everything* is crap! -- Theodore Sturgeon
    
    When you need serenity, ask for it.  It will come, even if only for
    a few seconds.
    
    						Ann B.

    
    no bit too cheap
    

    There's a whole lotta things that I've never done, I ain't never had
    too much fun - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.

    Between two evils I always choose the one I haven't tried before.
    - Mae West

    I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. - Sophie Tucker

    "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own
    sunshine."
    
    May 16th on an old calendar.
    
    mdh

    Remembered another one -- Consistency is a bugaboo of little minds.
    
    Came in handy today.
    
    Alison

    That's "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of petty minds."
    penned by Waldo Emerson (who hated the name "Ralph").
    
    							Ann B.

    
    Then there's "honi soit qui mal y pense," which I always take to mean
    "I honestly think I'm going to be sick"... ;-)
    
    Dorian

    Shame on anyone who thinks evil of that, Dorian ;-)
    
    Ad

    "The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle"
    				- Germaine Greer

	Misery IS optional.

	Better the victim of comedy than tragedy.


						clb

    Re.55
    
    hey... that was my personal name during my divorce proceedings...

    
    Attain the realization of wisdom, and do what's ethically right.
    

    
    don't analyse...love.
    	-francis poulenc
    

    Better is the enemy of Good.

I don't know whether this should go here or in the "quotable people" note:

	"You can make no mistakes and still lose -- that's life."

			(Jean-Luc Picard, in Star Trek:The Next Generation)

    
    anything worth saying is worth saying twice
    					-dale carnegie (?)
    
    say something once, why say it again?
    					-talking heads
    
    the only way to win is not to play
    					-the film 'war games'
    
    you gotta play to win
    					-pennsylvania state lottery
    

re: .61:

Don't forget

	Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.
					-- Gordon Bell (ex Digital vp).

    
    I can handle it.

    "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to
    dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
    
    Henry David Thoreau

    Listen to others, but decide for yourself.
    
    There's a lot to be said for listening.
    
    Ears have walls.
    
    A mind can only be opened from the inside.
    
    The most damaging lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
    
    To thine own self be truthful.
    
    If you're afraid of making mistakes, then you're making a mistake.
    
    If you want to make love, you have to take your clothes off.
    

Mine for a long time:

		Step to the music you hear
				(Thoreau - paraphrased)

See personal name for the rest of the thought.

Also:
	"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste
	 And remember what peace there may be in silence"
							Desiderata

Kevin

    
    there are many things worth dying for, none worth killing for
    

    Particularly these days...
    
    "It never rains, but it pours"
    
    "Feast or famine"
    
    -Jody
    

    "OH SOMEBODY HERE ASIDES ME IS GOING TO RUE THIS HERE PARTICULAR DAY!"
    	- Joanna Russ, quoting a bear in "Pogo"
    
    "Of course you're a bore, but in that you're not charmless"
    	- The Velvet Underground
    
    "You've actually EATEN the King of Rock-and-Roll!"
    	- Lester Bangs
    
    "P.U., Mr. Science, what stinks?"
    "Ha ha ha!  This is just battery acid, Jimmy.  We'll drop this orange 
    into it... Now we'll stir it around with this screwdriver..."
    "Why are you doing that, Mr. Science?"
    "What do you mean, `why?', Jimmy?"
    	- M. K. Brown
    

    
    
    	Never (ever) under estimate the POWER of CASH!  
    
    	My cube maxim.  
    
    					Kelly
    

	I am a product of all the people I've ever known.

    I am still me in spite of all the people I've ever known.

    I am me and you are me and you are he and we are all together.
    
    	-- The Beatles

    Life's too short to drink bad wine.

    Moderation in all things. Including moderation.

    Believe that you have it, and you have it.
    
                                               --Latin Proverb

    ....see p_n
    
        -Ken Keyes
    
    
    Nanci

    The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.  (I hope)
    
      -- Blake

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    	"Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one."
    					-anon

    "I'm not fat, I'm built for excesses of enthusiasm."

    "Good is better than evil because it's nicer."
    
    				--- Mammy Yokum
    
    "The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and
     stupidity."
    
    				--- Harlan Ellison
    
    --- jerry

>    	"Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one."
>    					-anon
    
    
      Just to add another line to this...
    
    But some are bigger than others.............
    
    anon

    sparked by .84:
    >"The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and
      stupidity."  -- Harlan Ellison
    
    "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
    				-- Issac Asimov

    Asimov quoting Nietzsche -- thanks, I always wondered, and since I'm
    not a huge fan of Asimov's anymore (except for that book), I am glad to
    be corrected away from giving him more credit than he is due.  (He
    gives himself enough, imo)

    Nietzsche?  I thought that was von Goethe.

    There she goes again, showing off her knowledge of foreign languages.
    ;-)

    -- Mike

    Yes, and the gods are contending in vain against my stupidity.  :-)
    
    -- Mike

    "Take what you want and pay for it."  Iberian proverb
    
    and thanks to BOOKS::GERBE for .32 which has become Touchstone
    # 1 these days

    
    "i believe god made me for a purpose...but he also made me *fast*"
    	-eric liddel in 'chariots of fire'
    

	This is a personal philosophy.

	"Never argue with Ann Broomhead unless you've done your research
and are damn sure of your topic, because you you can be sure that Ann will."

					--Doug
					  humble member of the Ann Broomhead
					  fan club.

	        Sanskrit Proverb 

	Look to this day, for it is life,
	The very life of life.
	In its brief course lies all
	The realities and verities of existance,
	The bliss of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power -
	For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.
	But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
	And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
	Look well, therefore, to this day.

    
    my brother's violin teacher told me: 'don't make enemies'.
    
    he was referring to the music business, but it's a good rule 
    for real life.
    

    
    We are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what
    goes out.
    
    - Marge Piercy
    

    "It takes as much energy to live a miserable life as it does to
    live a good one.  It's up to us which one we choose."
    
    -Dr. Denis Waitley

    "Children ask the world of us"
    
    					(source unknown)
    

    "If you can't take the heat and the pressure you'll never be a
    diamond."

A critic knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

(Can't you tell we've got a show opening in a couple of weeks (-:  )

Re: .102

Sounds like a potentially costly, but worthess, statement to me...  :-)

-d