Badass Sexagenarian: Quote of the Week

Friday, January 09, 2015

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
- Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou - image via goodreads.com

Carol McNeill

I am a writer, artist, designer, photographer, foodie, urban anthropologist, and pop culture junkie. I've been on this planet for sixty-ish years, but who's counting? I think embracing life wholeheartedly is the only way to go. Laugh/cry; Work hard/play harder; Make it beautiful/make it messy; Take the road less traveled/take the freeway. Just don't take it for granted. Sure, you'll get lost occasionally; but sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself...

Words to live by -

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all.

- Helen Keller

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist; that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

- Auntie Mame

It [n.] A magnetic, totally un-self-conscious confidence in one's own strangeness.

- Michelle Lee, editor-in-chief, Nylon Magazine

How do you know you're going to do something, until you do it?

- J.D. Salinger

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness Never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

If you wish to be treated with respect, act with integrity. Don't expect more if you don't appreciate what you have. Love is not currency; it is a gift.

- Me

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

Badass Sexagenarian

Friday, January 09, 2015

Quote of the Week - Maya Angelou

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