Words to Live By

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." --Kurt Vonnegut

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." --Chuck Palahniuk

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw

"Dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied we become obsolete." Marriot