A short trip back in time

As a child, if there was something I never failed to read it was a book of quotes.

While picking up one to gift somebody, I made sure I gifted myself one too. Carried a maroon pocket diary with hundreds of them scribbled on it. My room, among posters of sports stars and George Michael (gush ... yeah that was before I found out I could not contend for his affections :-) always found space for yet another quotes poster.

I would always find something that I could totally relate to and, I confess, get inspired by.

Somewhere along these years, owe it to busy work hours or newer interests, I completely lost touch with the quotation world. Occasionally I crossed paths with ones featured in Reader's Digests which, in my opinion, kept growing more and more lame over the years (who wants to hear about what Paris Hilton said on Larry King!) . And about the seeming abundant reserves of quotes on the web, oh well they are sooooo repetitive and the ten thousand sections I need to browse to find one good one ... annoying.com. No time. No patience.

So today while deleting some files, I found some quotes which I must have saved earlier and completely forgotten about. Oh, the wave of nostalgia that hit me of how if I would sit and paint posters with my favorite quotes and put them up on walls or make some for my friends. And it made me wonder if it's just me or does everyone feel the same way about a good quote ... that strong, sometimes powerful, feeling of "WOW".

Here are some quotes from the file I was talking about , not quite the "wow" quotes but just enough to wet the palette :

* In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

* You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

* There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And here is my all time favorite :

* Be brave. Even if you are not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.