"People who think ADD means having a short attention span misunderstand what ADD is," says Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D., a psychologist in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the author of ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life. "A better way to look at it is that people with ADD have a disregulated attention system."

"you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go"
-Mary Oliver

"In America, there is New York, San Francisco and New Orleans and everywhere else is Cleveland."
- Mark Twain

" It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it.
And it isn’t enough to to believe in it, one must work for it."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is a vast difference between what you can get from the mind and what you can get from the heart. The mind is limited; the heart is unlimited."
– Sri Chinmoy

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
- Hermann Hesse

It's hard to not feel as though you control your own emotions. Like Eleanor, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It is just difficult to trick yourself to feel that way. Horoscopes pounding it in:

"Take care that your self-esteem doesn't depend on what other people tell you, Gemini. One minute a bit of flattery may send you high as a kite, and the next minute some criticism may have you feeling down in the dumps. Do your best to not let others blow you up and then deflate you as if you're nothing but a balloon."

"First you adapt, then you adept."
-Robert W. Terry

"Adaptation is a process of self-discovery that can take many forms: it applies to our spiritual, cognitive, and physical self."
-Susan Holton

‎"I am selfish, impatient, and a little insecure, I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst than you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe

‎"Fashion is meant to become unfashionable."
- Coco Chanel

"Dear Mother: I have written to tell you my worrying secret. Now don’t cry when you read it because it is neither yours nor my fault. I suppose I will have to tell it now, without any nonsense. To begin with I was not meant to be an athlete. I was meant to be a composer, and will be I’m sure. I’ll ask you one more thing.—Don’t ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football.—Please—Sometimes I’ve been worrying about this so much that it makes me mad (not very)."
-Samuel Barber, age 9

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
-Frank Clark

Cyrano, Act III of Cyrano de Bergerac

Your name is like a golden bell
Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
I tremble, and the bell swings and rings--
"Roxane!" . . .
"Roxane!" . . . along my veins, "Roxane!" . . .

"'I was also afraid of committing a mistake...'
I like the idea of a mistake being thought of as a crime."

-Ghandi quote, from Emma's blog

"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."

-Mark Twain

"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

-Edward R. Murrow

"You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave and blaze.
My heart burns up."

-Ono No Komachi

"Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea. "

-Marichiko

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world over, it became a butterfly."

-Anonymous

"I've been trying so hard to become an idea."

-Matthew Sadler, (Glen Arbor) Michigan poet