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10.31.02
"Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps;
Wisdom is either too early or too late."
- Ruckett
"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up.
They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
- Charles Jones
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
- John R. Miller
10.18.02
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
08.26.02
Wise are they who have learned these truths:
Trouble is temporary.
Time is tonic.
Tribulation is a test tube.
- William Arthur Ward
The ideals which have always shown before me
and filled me with the joy of living
are goodness, beauty and truth.
- Albert Einstein
07.27.02
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
But when the darkness sets in,
Their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
"A person's face may change over a lifetime,
But their heart can stay true forever."
- Unknown
07.18.02
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
07.03.02
"Learning is finding out what you already know,
Doing is demonstrating that you know it,
Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do.
We are all learners, doers, and teachers."
- Richard Bach
"Why is it that people who are the most open-minded
Are always the ones who have been to hell and back in their lifetime?"
- Unknown
06.07.02
"Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good.
His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words."
- Unknown
"Life is an unbearable gift sometimes.
Unbearably beautiful and unbearably painful,
But always a gift."
- Unknown
"It's not how far you fall,
But how high you bounce."
- Unknown
05.14.02
"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves.
It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.
Happiness is something we are."
- John B. Sheerin
It's time to say goodbye to crying eyes and broken dreams
And get back to the joy that to each other we will bring
That starts from summer love to last through autumn, winter, spring
Our hearts will sing forever, love
- Stevie Wonder
Some of us fall by the wayside
And some of us soar to the stars
And some of us sail through our troubles
And some have to live with the scars
- Tim Rice
04.26.02
"In the midst of darkness, light persists.
In the midst of untruth, truth persists.
In the midst of death, life persists."
- Gandhi
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.
You can decide how you're going to live now."
- Joan Baez
"When you look back in time, it's not the wins and losses you will remember, but the people and the experience;
So make the most of the time you have, for it will never be the same again."
- Kelly Moletress
"You can't do anything about the length of your life,
But you can do something about its width and depth."
- Unknown
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death."
- Robert Fulgham
"Where there is love there is life."
- Gandhi
04.17.02
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past,
Than education, than money, than circumstances,
Than failures, than successes,
Than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company... a church... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
Regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
And that is our attitude...
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
And 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you...
We are in charge of our attitudes."
- Charles Swindoll
"Discipline is the guardrail that keeps you on the path of self esteem."
- Kent Nelson
04.03.02
"It takes great strength to deal with loneliness and still be positive."
- Unknown
"In our daily lives, we must see
That it is not happiness that makes us grateful,
But the gratefulness that makes us happy."
- Albert Clarke
"Fear is like fire;
Either you can cook with it,
Or it will burn you."
- Unknown
03.16.02
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times;
But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly,
Until they take root in our personal experience."
- Goethe
03.08.02
"Figure it out for yourself, my lad,
You've all that the greatest of men have had;
Two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes,
And a brain to use if you would be wise,
With this equipment they all began-
So start from the top and say, I CAN.
Look them over, the wise and the great,
They take their food from a common plate,
And similar knives and forks they use,
With similar laces they tie their shoes;
The world considers them brave and smart,
But you've all they had when they made their start.
You can triumph and come to skill,
You can be great if you only will;
You're well equipped for what fight you choose,
You have arms and legs and a brain to use;
And the man who has risen great deeds to do
Began his life with no more than you.
You are the handicap you must face,
You are the one who must choose your place.
You must say where you want to go,
How much you will study the truth to know;
God has equipped you for life, but He
Lets you decide what you want to be.
Courage must come from the soul within
The man must furnish the will to win.
So figure it out for yourself my lad,
You were born with all that the great have had;
With your equipment they all began,
Get hold of yourself and say, I CAN."
- George Washington Carver
03.06.02
"We are not put on this earth for ourselves,
But are placed here for each other.
If you are there always for others,
Then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
- Jeff Warner
02.21.02
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
02.05.02
"If there were ever a time to dare,
to make a difference,
to embark on something worth doing,
it is now.
Not for any grand cause, necessarily-
but for something that tugs at your heart,
something that's your aspiration,
something that's your dream.
You owe it to yourself
to make your days here count.
Have fun.
Dig Deep.
Stretch.
Dream big.
Know, though, that things worth doing
seldom come easy.
There will be good days.
There will be times when you want to turn around,
pack it up,
and call it quits.
those times tell you
that you are pushing yourself,
that you are not afraid to learn by trying.
Persist.
Because with an idea,
determination,
and the right tools,
you can do great things.
Let your instincts,
your intellect,
and your heart
guide you.
Trust.
Believe in the incredible power of the human mind.
Of doing something that makes a difference.
Of working hard.
Of laughing and hoping.
Of lazy afternoons.
Of lasting friends.
Of all the things that will cross your path this year.
The start of something new
brings the hope of something great.
Anything is possible.
There is only one you.
And you will pass this way only once.
Do it right."
- Unknown
07.29.01
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Og Mandino
06.05.01
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated
from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson (previously attributed to Nelson Mandella)
05.25.01
"Success is a marathon, not a sprint."
- Unknown
"Resiliency is the art of learning to repeatedly refuse to do anything else
Other than rise again after any and all set-backs."
- Brian G. Jett
"Every problem in your life carries a gift inside it."
- Unknown
"I feel your pain, but revel in the feeling of despair,
Because like all things in life, it will change,
And then by comparison the true joys of life will seem greater."
- Dann Filter
I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow
And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
This place is cruel- nowhere could be much colder
If we don't change, the world will soon be over
- Stevie Wonder
"There are some who limp,
But very few out of choice.
The majority have a reason.
Before we criticize them,
We should try on their shoes.
It might give us an education that a university cannot provide
A feeling that a sermon could not invoke.
The critic would be more tolerant of another's limp,
If he had to wear, for a little while,
Those nail-piercing shoes the other fellow has to wear all the time.
What a change in tone and pace,
If society were to swap shoes.
Faces which now smile would have tears."
- Mike Harrison
05.15.01
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it.
If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another
chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again,
you may have a fresh start any moment you chose, for this thing that we
call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
05.13.01
"Your opinion of me is not as important as mine is."
- Fidelis Mnkandla
"There is no education like adversity."
- Walt Disney
The happiest of people don't necessarily
have the best of everything.
They just make the most
of everything that comes their way.
Dream what you want to dream.
Go where you want to go.
Be what you want to be
Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet.
Enough trials to make you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
And enough hope to make you happy.
- Unknown
04.29.01
"We have the power to influence others' lives
Only when we share what we have learned.
If we fail to or refuse to recognize the value of our knowledge,
We force ourselves into a sort of isolation.
And, worse still, deprive others of our insights.
We know how to handle intricate personal relationships
And delicate problems.
We gained the emotional stability to allow ourselves to depend on others
And on our Higher Power.
We can share this knowledge with others,
Not to serve our own needs,
But to help our fellow human beings."
- Unknown
"Freedom is not the chance to do as you please,
It is the opportunity to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall
04.26.01
"And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon,
A smile to believe in, a hand to hold.
A tear to speak for, a hug to live for,
A twinkle to kiss and a wrinkle to touch.
Those are the times your faith in the world is restored,
The soul has a fresh lease on life.
Those are the times worth living for,
Those are the tiny moments of Glory in our everyday lives!"
- Nirvikar Dahiya
"You have not lived a perfect day
Unless you've done something for someone
Who will never be able to repay you."
- Ruth Smeltzer
04.20.01
Everything Happens For A Reason
Sometimes people come into your life
and you know right away
that they were meant to be there...
to serve some sort of purpose,
teach you a lesson or help figure out who
you are or who you want to become.
You never know who these people may
be but when you lock eyes with them,
you know that every moment that they
will affect your life in some profound way.
And sometimes things happen to
you at the time that may seem horrible,
painful and unfair, but in reflection you
realize that without overcoming those
obstacles you would have never realized
your potential, strength, willpower or heart.
Everything happens for a reason.
Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck.
Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true
greatness and sheer stupidity all
occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests,
life would be like a smoothly paved,
straight, flat road to nowhere.
Safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.
The people you meet affect your life.
The successes and downfalls that
you experience can create who you are,
and the bad experiences can be learned from.
In fact, they are probably the most
poignant and important ones.
If someone hurts you, betrays you
or breaks your heart, forgive them
because they have helped you learn
about trust and the importance of being
cautious to whom you open your heart to.
If someone loves you,
love them back unconditionally,
not only because they love you,
but because they are teaching you to love
and open your heart and eyes to little things.
Make every day count.
Appreciate every moment and take
from it everything that you possibly can,
for you may never be able to experience it again.
Talk to people you have never talked to before,
and actually listen.
Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high.
Hold your head up because you have every right to.
Tell yourself you are a great individual
and believe in yourself,
for if you don't believe in yourself,
no one else will believe in you.
Create your own life and then go out and live it.
- Unknown
Note: I did not write these, they are merely a sampling of some of the things that float across my desk on a daily basis. I want to give credit to the authors, so if you see an "Unknown" and have proof of the source, I would deeply appreciate your letting me know.
The ones I find are appropriate or just "hit home" I will post. If you take the time to consider the words you may find something that hits home for you, as well. Sometimes a little 'mush' does a mind and body good.
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