"Books we (boktipset.se) think you would like: Bajsboken (the poo book). Boktipset has calculated that you would rate this book 4.3."

Hell yeah! :) Bajsboken rules! A book about poo - can it possibly go wrong?

(Blogger's comment: Mom, I think I want a Churchill quote book for my birthday)

Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it!

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity !

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

And my favorites:

It's about 30 degrees in here, and the air feels like a steam sauna. I can't sleep. And for once I am using that insomnia for something other than freaking out over some work related stuff or worrying about heart matters. I am reading. Or shall I say: listening.

3 people have asked me to read this book. It all started before Christmas with JC advicing me to read The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari when I during a program forum mentioned that I had lost "it" (i.e. my motivation, my inspiration and will). Then someone else mentioned it this spring, and now DrK told me to read it. And thanks to another brilliant advice of hers, storytel.se, I am now spellbound by the voice of Stefan Sauk reading this book by Robin Sharma.

(For 9 SEK I can listen to as much streamed audiobooks as I want to - from my phone or from my laptop. Capitol, dear Henry, capitol!)

Just took a short break to get some hot milk and chat a bit with A (who is also suffering from insomnia). Now, back to the monk (who's is just about to confide the secret behind what he learned from the sages of Sivana to his old colleague).

Chatting with A. The conversation started out like this:

helena säger:
hej vännen
Anna säger:
E du hemma nu? Du ska va hemma nu! Gå hem och läs! ...(Skjuter köttbullar med stekpanna...)

And if you grew up in the 90s and owned a mac you would (probably) know exactly what she was talking about. Dubbelmoral! The best computer game ever!

You collect points by drinking beer. But you'd better keep track of your bladder, because if you forget to pee (which you can only do at places where you are allowed to!) your bladder explodes and you die ("dö ihjäl"). The more drunk you get the more you fall, and thus collect "hurt" points, which can only be decreased by time and by kissing the girl in the fountain if I remember correctly. The more drunk you get, the closer you get to puking, and when you puke you are so drunk that you can only stear in which direction you puke (50% chance of puking on the principal Magnificus - which means Game Over).

And most importantly, the mother! This game takes place at the Lundakarnevalen 1990, and the player should be at home studying. So while running around drinking beer you also have to keep track of the mother and when she leaves the kitchen where she's cooking meatballs you have to run back and sit down at your table and pretend to be studying. If she founds out you are not there she runs after you and hunts you down with her meatballs that she shoots at you with her frying pan while screaming "gå hem och läs!" (audio). Other famous quotes from this game is "studentajävul" (audio, uttered by someone who throws you off the balcony when you have climbed there to collect beers).

Priceless! Classic! Unfortunately this game is only available for really old macs, and has not been ported to windows (although rumors say that this has indeed been done and even to mobile phones!)

Hengittää. Neefsanaya. Soluk almak.
Marr frymë. Disati. αναπνέω.
дышать. Respirar. Respirer.

...Andas...

Give me 5 minutes of your day.