"How does one get lost?"
R. Bradbury

"The failure to relax a particular tension can lead to madness."
R. Bradbury

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting or
living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
R. Bradbury

"We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and
let the beautiful stuff out."
R. Bradbury

"Imagination is more important than information.'
A. Einstein

"The very nature of art is invention."
R. Bradbury

"If necessary, create a ritual to get there.
You may first need to rite,
in order to write
what you believe is right."
M Alibrando

Read.
Reflect.
Write.
M. Alibrando

"No one can solve problems for someone whose
problem is that they don't want problems solved."
R. Bach

"No matter how qualified or deserving you are, you will never
reach a better life until you can imagine it for yourself and
allow yourself to have it."
R. Bach

"The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.' "
R. Bach

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet them
than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
R. Bach

"The bond that links the family is not one of blood
but of respect and joy in each others life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
R. Bach

Originally written - May 27, 1992

"We work with being,
but it is non-being that we use."
G. DeRosa

There is a little Walter Mitty in all of us.

Imagination expands reality.
M. Alibrando

Through writing one discovers their voice.
A personal voice.
M Alibrando

"He who learns to be his true self is one
who finds out what is good and holds fast to it."
Confucius

The school of one's thoughts are like a school of fish.  Each is separate and different, yet all are moving in the same general direction.

Sometimes truth can be a very private thing.  Each of us live within our own very personal universe.
M Alibrando
Originally written -  April 21, 1993

"...the current knows where it is going."

"The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go."

"Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime."
R. Bach

Try not to judge another until you have traveled a day inside of his or her skin.
M. Alibrando

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and
discerns those inner qualities that make all men human
and, therefore, brothers."
M. L. King Jr.

"I have to ..." and "I choose to..." are opposite sides of
the same coin. 

A good leader observes a situation,
accepts advice,
weighs the choices...
...and then acts. 

What makes a leader?
Delegation and trust,
common sense and listening,
compassion and understanding.

Originally written - April 13, 1993

"Individuality comes forth when one allows it to."
M Alibrando

"Get out of your own way."
Leo Buscaglia

Fear is easier than understanding.
Unknown

Learning something new
is like adding a thread to the tapestry or you life,
or a tile to the reflective mural of your existence.
M. Alibrando

Originally written -March 1, 1993

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that 
gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
Leo Rosten

"Have you written enough
so that you are relaxed
and can allow the truth to get out
without being ruin by
self-conscious posturing or
changed by desire to become rich."
R. Bradbury

"A small echo may start an idea.
A big echo may result in a story."
R. Bradbury

"Every time you hear an echo from you Subconscious,
you know yourself a little better."
R. Bradbury

"What you will become in the end
will be more and more of what
you are deciding and trying to
be right now."
R. Bach

Originally written -February 28, 1993

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
A. Einstein

"If you never assume importance
you can never lose it."
Laotzu

"...he who over-reaches
and tries to live by force
shall die therby of course,..."
Laotzu

Originally written -June 6, 1993

"It is the weak who are cruel.  Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
Leo Buscaglia

"...we're so busy looking out,
to find way and means,
we forget to look in."
R. Bradbury

"That which was not, is."
R. Bradbury

There will be plenty time for revisions.
M Alibrando

"Run fast, stand still."
R. Bradbury

"In quickness is truth."
R. Bradbury

"In hesitation is thought."
R. Bradbury

"What you will become in the end will be more and more of what you are deciding and trying to be right now."
R. Bach

Originally written - February 28, 1993

"The love for my own self is inseparably connected with the love for any other self."
E. Fromm

"Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives."
E. Fromm

"Genuine love is an expression of productiveness and implies care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge."
E. Fromm

    Who then are the true philosophers?
    Those who are the lovers of truth.
Plato

Just do the best that you can with what you have been given.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - February 27, 1993

"You cannot assume that people, even those most close to you,
will know and understand your unexpressed needs and feelings."
L. Buscaglia

Love is not a mind reader.
M. Alibrando

Originally written - February 14, 1993