The Purdzilla Show

Critical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture. Francis Bacon  (1605)

Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take its place. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, learn from it, and move on instead of obsessing about it. Equally important, don’t allow anyone else to dwell on your mistakes or shortcomings or to expect perfection from you.  Beverly Engel

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

And it occurred to him that a walk through the countryside was a sort of epitome of the passage through life itself. One never took the time to savor the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and final, that there never would be a return, another time. Paul Bowles ( The Sheltering Sky )

There is in gardens a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called envy. Cosimo de' Medici

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. —  Charles Darwin