“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hāfez
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.” — Adolph Monod
“An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” — John F. Kennedy
“Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.” — John Harkness
“Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. — Barbara Kingsolver
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein
“If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it’s having the swans pretend there’s no difference.” — Teena Booth
“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
“In each of us there is a little of all of us.” — Georg Lichtenberg
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” — Tony Robbins
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!” — Tommy Smothers
“If you can’t afford to do something right, then be darn sure you can afford to do it wrong.” — Charlie Nelson
“Imitation can be limitation in disguise.” — Brian Vander Ark
“I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.” — Tom Clancy
“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.” — George Burns
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” — Winston Churchill
“In the concert of life, no one gets a program.” — Dutch Proverb
“There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.” — Burton Hillis
“Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” — Mark Twain
“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” — Francis of Assisi
“The legs feed the wolf.” — Herb Brooks
“Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient.” — James Russell Lowell
“Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, Americans think 100 years is a long time.” — Unknown
“Don’t allow your rituals to become ruts.” — Todd Henry
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” — John Muir
“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.” — Emil Cioran
“We made too many wrong mistakes.” — Yogi Berra
Do you like moods? Perhaps the question would be better phrased: “Do you like videos that provoke or elicit particular emotions?” The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is intriguing because John Koenig, creator, presents a word that is obscure or completely invented and then connects it to a stylized video to further enhance the definition of that word. As Koenig indicates on his website (linked below), “Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for.”
Here is one of my favorite definitions from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
Onism – The Awareness of How Little of the World You’ll Experience
Interestingly enough, the Urban Dictionary has a different definition for Onism.
“The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” — Ben Stein
“Don’t expect them to play their part if you are still conducting auditons for the role.” — Unknown
“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato – the best part under ground.” — Thomas Overbury
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.” — Ogden Nash
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning
“Luck never gives, it only lends.” — Chinese Proverb
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.” — Mitch Hedberg