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Living in the past is like driving forward while staring in the rear view mirror.     Believing is seeing.     Be an over-fright success story.     One's actions convince louder than one's words.     Make progress. Make new mistakes.     All work and no play makes Jill want to reach for the Prozac.     The purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life. It doesn't matter how fast you get there if you're heading in the wrong direction.     If at first you don't succeed, you're doing something stupid.     You're nobody until somebody hates you.     Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.     To get where you need to go you must first see who you really are.     Be a warrior, not a worrier.     Be a winner, not a whiner.     If the coyote had stopped to catch his breath, he might have caught the roadrunner.     A pack of puppies led by a pitbull will always be feared more than a pack of pitbulls led by a puppy.     Brainpower is as important as horsepower. Read, read, read!     You should always pick a job for its passion value not cash-in value.     Don't let a blame preoccupation ruin your occupation.     It's always better to go for longterm greed over short term greed.     A shortcut is often the longest distance between two points.     Time is money...and time wasters are money wasters.     Don't wait to make heaps and heaps of cash to have heaps and heaps of fun.     Every member of the Fortune 500 Club could also be a member of the Misfortune 500 Club.     Money doesn't bring you true happiness...but happiness can bring you true money. If you love what you do, the money will come.     Whatever business you're in you're in the people business.     Fail Faster. Succeed faster.     Behind every successful woman is someone who pissed her off.     Follow the fuscia brick road.   Failure is in many ways like "fullure" - it is always full of lessons to be learned.     Believe in a laughter life.     Don't let your convictions become your restrictions.     Invest in "Fresh Air Fun." Take a walk outside once a day.     If you want your body to be smoking, you've got to stop smoking.     Sometimes, all you gotta do is ask. Duh.     Taking no action is an action. Duh.     Happiness is not about what happens to you -- but about how you choose to respond to what happens.     Comedy = tragedy + 3 months and/or 3 margaritas!     Practice that tongue twister "NO" today.     Take the fat out of your fate. Slim down your schedule to what matters.     It's not just what you know...but what you do with what you know.     The grass is greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's astroturf.     When you grow - you often outgrow.     The only constant is change.     You are a human being, not a human was or a human will be.     Self honesty is the only path to happiness.     Sometimes we're "mad at" someone whom we should merely be "sad at."     Be so proactive you're preactive.     Fast doesn't always last.     Love is a boomerang. What have you and give away is what you get back.     Fear of commitment: it could happen to you...or someone you can't love.     Saying difficult things now is better than fixing even more difficult problems later.     It is better to have loved and lost - than to live with a psycho for the rest of your life.     It is better to have loved and lost - and had some really amazing hot sex - than never to have lived and loved at all.     A man is not a project. A man is a man. And a project is a project.     It's better to have a short bad relationship than a long bad relationship.     It's worth it to hold out for a soul mate and not settle for a cellmate.     Assess breeds success.     Turn all bad experiences into good inperiences - take them in fully, and change in a positive way.    
 

Monday, June 13, 2005

whatcha doing Thursday, June 16th, 7pm?

I'll be reading and discussing my best selling
HOW TO BE HAPPY DAMMIT!

And my friend Amanda Filipacchi
will be reading from her new novel Love Creeps
(just optioned by the folks who did BEING JOHN MALKOVICH).

DETAILS:
McNally Robinson Booksellers
50 Prince Street, 7pm
(between Lafayette and Mulberry)
admission: free!

Please feel free to bring friends/coworkers/family/any stranger from your
subway ride over... and be sure to come up to me afterwards and say a
friendly hello there (dammit!).

xoKaren

posted by KAREN SALMANSOHN at 1:41 PM

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5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This comment actually goes with "Why aren't you married?"... Although, I am married, I think that I would say, "I want to spend some time getting to know me." I guess this is because I didn't have that time, and now I am having to figure it out around a husband and family. This is okay, but it would have been good if I had learned to enjoy being myself a little first before having to figure out how to enjoy being with someone else. My marriage is good, and my children are almost grown, and I am now getting to know myself better.

You have some interesting thoughts. Glad I "bumped" into your blog.

9:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think you're a beautiful person with a wonderful philosophy on life!

I was enriched by reading the left side of your blog where you noted how many times things seem not to be changing for the better in our lives when in reality, they actually are!

That helped me to have a good day, and thank you!

3:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

re: Stop Giving Me a Hard Time about Being Single. This was a fun, quirky piece. However, your article is vague on one point: By "Frankenstein," do you mean the monster or the doctor? (People often confuse one for the other, and so I often ask.) Of course, the monster himself has no name in Shelley's book, so I assumed you meant, "Even Dr. Frankenstein got married."

If so, yes, Dr. F. marries his beloved Elizabeth, but the monster -- who is single -- murders her on their wedding night. Earlier before, Dr. F. makes a mate for the monster, and then destroys her, again while Dr. is not yet married. In either case, both creatures behave very badly while they are single, and invoking them in the first place -- even in an ambiguous way -- may not be the best evidence for your point.

Have a nice day.

1:40 PM  
Blogger micah said...

THANK YOU for you article "Stop giving me a hard time about being single." At 25, I still feel like I have a lot of life left to live, but people look at me like I'm some sort of spinster when I tell them I'm not married. Those comebacks were so good, I may have to break them out some time. For some reason, "Because I just don't want to be yet," isn't an acceptable answer.

So, thanks again. I plan to look for your book!

2:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, just curious, are you married with children?

7:57 AM  

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