No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. ~ Bern Williams
I have a puppy and I’m 2++++++ (or so).
Our destiny sometimes has the appearance of a fruit tree in winter. Looking at its dreary aspect, who would think that these stiff branches, these jagged twigs, will turn green again and bloom next spring and then bear fruit. Yet this we hope, this we know. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from Goethe’s World View (translated by Heinz Norden)
The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~ Albert Einstein
Thanks to my friend Shelly for putting this quote on her office door!