My Favorite Sayings ...

I've collected these few gems over the years ...

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Augusten Burroughs

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

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Isaac Newton

Truth is never to be found in simplicity.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said: 

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you lived and lived well.”

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God grant me … 
• the strength to change the things that I can change,
• the tolerance to accept the things that I cannot change,
• and the wisdom to know the difference.

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From the Persian poet Rumi, 

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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Remember this when trying to teach someone who won't listen or learn:
It's like trying to teach a pig to sing ...It wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

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From StarTrek:

There can be no justice, so long as laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. 

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.

— Confucius

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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

— Nelson Mandela

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

— Maya Angelou

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

— Samuel Beckett

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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.

— Elizabeth Edwards, attorney and activist

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Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.

— Angela Lee Duckworth, author

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

— Helen Keller

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

— Winston Churchill

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If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

— Shane Koyczan, poet

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Grief and resilience live together.

— Michelle Obama

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1. Money cannot buy happiness but...somehow, its more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes Benz than it is on a bicycle.

2. Forgive your enemy, but remember the bastard's name.

3. Help a man when he is in trouble & he will remember you when he is in trouble again.

4. Many people are alive only because it’s illegal to shoot them.

5. Alcohol does not solve any problem, but then neither does milk.

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Vicki Harrison, author

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

99% to 70% Alcohol

Standard 70% rubbing alcohol is in short supply right now ... I most recently checked Walgreens, CVS, and Wal-Mart, and all were out.  So I stopped in at the distillery down the street from me as they are making hand sanitizer (like many are right now) and I thought I'd buy some (didn't need it, but thought I should make sure I have some).  

While chatting, I told them that 70% isopropyl is in short supply and they volunteered that they buy 99% isopropyl as part of their production process ... so they sold me a gallon.  But 99% pure isn't all that valuable "as is" as it doesn't kill bacteria very well (lots of articles about why, so I won't go into detail).  

So I wanted to reduce it to 70% and re-fill the 3 partial bottles I have of 70%.  So the formula (without getting into all the math) is:

4 parts water, then 9.7 parts 99% isopropyl gives you 70% isopropyl.  If you want easy math, then:
4 parts water, then 10 parts 99% isopropyl gives you 70.7% isopropyl ... but weaker is probably best, so ...
4 parts water, then 9 parts 99% isopropyl gives you 68.5% isopropyl

And yet another way ... you want a quart of 70% isopropyl, then it's 9.34 ounces of water and 22.65 ounces of 99% gives you a quart of 70% isopropyl.