Quote of the Day

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.

~ Edith Hamilton

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Quote of The Day – Blossom

Posted on July 31, 2012 | 1 comment

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

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To Thine Own Self Be True

Posted on July 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

~ William Shakespeare

In the case of multiple personalities, one may be true to oneself and one’s other self and one’s other, other self still… without living a duplicitous life. It’s easier to recall many truths than to remember one lie. Live your truths, no matter how unsavory you believe them to be, for they are all yours.

~ Lenette Graham

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I am Free

Posted on July 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

~ Anais Nin

Transcending reality by dressing up; here as the super hero that I know myself to be, which is Wonder Woman–I am free. I cannot hear the voices that may say “Grow up Lenette, you’re too old to play dress up!”–I am free. If I had listened to all of those negative voices growing up, I wouldn’t be here now–I am free. My imagination has afforded my the ability to survive through some very difficult times in my life–I am free. I know that I have many more difficult times ahead of me, they’re of no consequence–I am free.

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Posted on July 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

~ Anais Nin

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Quote of The Day – Not a Tourist

Posted on July 2, 2012 | Leave a comment

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

~ Anais Nin

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Quote of the Day – No More Walls!

Posted on June 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

– Anais Nin

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Quote of the Day

Posted on June 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

– Anais Nin

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Quote of the Day

Posted on June 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

– Arthur Ashe

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There Is Not Effort Without Error

Posted on May 28, 2012 | 2 comments

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

– Theodore Roosevelt