New Reasons

"'If I can't dance, I don't want to be a part of your revolution.' —Emma Goldman"

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 mid-2014.

BASIS YEARBOOK QUOTES 2008-09

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.” —Edith Wharton

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism.” —Charles Bukowski

09-10

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.” —Emma Goldman

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” —Carl Sagan

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm.” —Winston Churchill

10-11 [Mine!]

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” —Albert Einstein

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

“How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” —Anne Frank

“I am so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.” —Zaphod Beeblebrox

For commentary seven years later, go here.