You do not want your resume to say more than you are willing to admit. Such as: My work experience includes being a Night Stalker at WalMart. I am currently on maturity leave.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Quotation from Carl Sagan
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Quotation from George Carlin
Everything comes to she who waits.
But that begs the obvious question: Do I really want to have Everything?
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
Quotation from A.A. Milne, Pooh’s Little Instruction Book
Aldous Huxley called Chastity the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. It’s either that or my sudden addiction to animal crackers.
[Virginity] pledgers apparently gather strength from the sense that they are an embattled minority; once their numbers exceed thirty percent, and proclaimed chastity becomes the norm, that special identity is lost… Once the self-proclaimed virgin clique hits the thirty-one percent mark, suddenly it’s Sodom and Gomorrah.
Quotation from Margaret Talbot, Red Sex, Blue Sex (The New Yorker)
Making a list is part of the process towards completing a goal. But in life, it seems prudent to make your list open-ended. Also, no matter how much time you have left, don’t hurry.
1. Witness something truly majestic 2. Help a complete stranger for a common good 3. Laugh till I cry 4. Drive a Shelby Mustang 5. Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world 6. Get a tattoo 7. Skydiving 8. Visit Stonehenge 9. Spend a week at the Louvre 10. See Rome 11. Dinner at La Cherie d’Or 12. See the Pyramids 13. Get back in touch 14. Visit Taj Mahal, India 15. Hong Kong 16. Victoria Falls 17. Serengeti 18. Ride the Great Wall of China.
Taken from the move The Bucket List
I have one eye on a goal, but my other eye wanders. It finds ideas to ponder and pieces of paper, interesting things on television, loading the dishwasher because we’re out of spoons. Can’t I put off Christmas until January?
20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks (Zen Habits)
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Quotation from Mark Twain
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is.
Quotation from Arnold Bennett