STATUS QUOtes — 20150523

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell

“Never forget where you came from you may have to go back someday.” — Unknown

“The dream is not what you see in your sleep; the dream is the thing that doesn’t let you sleep.” — via Ryan Seacrest

“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.” — Terry Pratchett

STATUS QUOtes — 20150522

“They were there to be loved unconditionally, like trees in the winter.” — Anne Lamott

“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.” — E. B. White

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck

“It gets late early out here.” — Yogi Berra

STATUS QUOtes — 20150521

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” — Neil Gaiman

“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.” — Sasha Azevedo

“Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.” — Steve Jobs

“It’s a sad day when our politicians are comical and I have to take our comedians seriously!” — Unknown

STATUS QUOtes — 20150520

“Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.” — Pema Chödrön

“Fear knocked on the door. Love answered and no one was there.” — via Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“Nothing haunts us like the things we left unsaid.[ed]” — Mitch Albom

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Bertrand Russell

STATUS QUOtes — 20150519

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.” — Pope John Paul II

“If you can’t change your mind, then you’re not using it.” — Bashar

“The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recorded; and the book written against fame and learning has the author’s name on the title-page.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When planning a dinner party: It’s not what’s on the table . . . it’s what’s on the chairs!” — Helen Sitarik

STATUS QUOtes — 20150518

“The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.” — Anne Lamott

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“We seldom report of having eaten too little.” — Thomas Jefferson

STATUS QUOtes — 20150517

“Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.” — Golda Meir

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.” — Bertrand Russell

“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” — Pema Chödrön

“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.” — Dale Carnegie

STATUS QUOtes — 20150516

“Do or do not. There is no try.” — Yoda

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem

“You don’t have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.” — Janet Jackson

“In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.” — Jeff Bezos

STATUS QUOtes — 20150515

“Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.” — Lao Tzu

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” — James A. Baldwin

“There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.” — Orison Swett Marden

“Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.” — Steven Wright