FAVORITE QUOTES FROM PHILOSOPHERS

  • "Without philosophy we would be little above the animals."
  • "By nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart."
  • "What is important is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We are not entangled in our own body, but entangled in our own mind."
  • "To know what you do not know is best. To pretend to know what you do not know is a disease."
  • "When the people don't respect those in power, then what they greatly fear is about to arrive."
  • "Great man demands it of himself; petty man, of others."
  • "Great man is always at ease; petty man is always on edge."
  • "When strict with oneself one rarely fails."
  • "Whether you like it or not, you'd better accept reality the way it occurs: as highly imperfect and filled with most fallible human beings. Your alternative, continual anxiety and desperate disappointment."
  • "When the government is muddled and confused, the people are genuine and sincere. When the government is discriminate and clear, the people are crafty and cunning."
  • "When you find something that is bad or that turns out bad, drop it and leave it alone."
  • "Only the most intelligent and the most stupid do not change."

Thursday, October 2, 2008

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPS

I typically do not eat breakfast!  Today was an exception.  Everyday that I take the kids to school we pass the lovely small town "Country Donut" shop and I have always had the will power to resist---NOT TODAY!!!  I pulled into the parking lot, sent Maddy in to get 2 dozen donuts and I have been regretting it ever since.

We were even running a little late, but those dumb donuts sounded so darn good and let me reassure you....they were.  The kids slammed a couple down their throats on the way to school and the smell was too much for me to bare.  I headed home hoping to put them somewhere in the kitchen where they wouldn't sit and stare at me all day.  Instead I set them right in the middle of the island, box open, scent filling the air and that was it.

I grabbed not just one, but two fattening donuts and a calorie packed, caffeinated Mt. Dew and called it breakfast.  I felt sick for a moment after, but the taste was just too good to be true.  The day goes on and the donuts sit in their box, calling to me again.  FOUR total donuts today and feeling very guilty about the bad choice to pull into that darn parking lot, in the first place! I can feel them weighing on my hips....feels just lovely. The amount of exercise that is needed to burn these buggers off----I can't think about it.