The morning after I sent BLR report of Firestone You cannot manage your life if you do not manage

your self. You cannot manage your self if you do not manage your choices. Manage your choices, and you will manage your life. Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive. Listen to the quietest whispers of your mind. They are telling you the choices that will help you the most. It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us to the destination. Those who choose to succeed always do better than those who never choose at all.

Sometimes we know we shouldn't and thats exactly why we do. The times in life, that seems to be the worst, always turn out for the best! If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it, its much easier to apologize then it is to get permission. How come dumb stuff seems so smart while you're doing it. Never regret something that once made you smile.

If you were mean, then I think you should. But if you were plain innocent, then you shouldnt

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, thats their fault.

Chk these links: http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99191541/m/5661997884 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/04/12/more-time-shorter-letter/ C S Lewis: 25) Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. 24) If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once. But, of course, when people say, Sex is nothing to be ashamed of, they may mean the state into which the sexual instinct has now got is nothing to be ashamed of. If they mean that, I think they are wrong. I think it is everything to be ashamed of. There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at pictures of food and dribbling and smacking their lips.

23) Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. 21) The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. [By this quote, I gather the ideal should not be describe in 'fine' detail but rather in vivid detail] 20) A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. 19) No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did. The St. Bernard never says it to the toy dog, nor the scholar to the dunce, nor the employable to the bum, nor the pretty woman to the plain. The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. What it expresses is precisely the itching, smarting, writhing awareness of an inferiority that the patient refuses to accept. And therefore resents. 18) You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens. 16) God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. 12) To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket safe, dark, motionless, airless it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. [Can't agree at all] 10) Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. 6) Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on (the devil's) part, be turned into a sense of injury.

5) If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. 4) We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. 3) If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. 2) Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. 1) Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive Lacan said, Mans desire lies in the desire of others! While I have been aware of it all the while, I could never put it this well. Adding to it: Mans desire lies in the desire of others. The least the object of desire desires you, more shall be your desire.... and those who seem to be the least desirable of anything are probably the most desirable!