Jul 12, 2008
Feb 19, 2008
QUOTATIONS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
Action is eloquence
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
I am not bound to please thee with my answers
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Feb 12, 2008
FRIENDSHIPS
Friendships
Good friends can be hard to find. Acquaintances, associates, partners, and colleagues are found in abundance. But a true friend is scarce, and to be treasured. If friendships are to become good and lasting, both friends need to work at being good friends.
What are the characteristics of a good friendship?
Makes time. Most friendships fail because of neglect. Making time means getting off work early to accompany a friend to an anxiety-provoking doctor's appointment, or canceling another commitment to attend a friend's acting debut at an amateur playhouse. A friend will make time for the other's significant life events, moments of crisis, and - equally meaningful - in the midst of the mundane.
Keeps a secret. Sharing your secrets helps you explore what's troubling you and get reaction to what you've been holding in your heart. You need to tell your secrets to people who are trustworthy, consider it a privilege to hear what's on your mind, and leave it at that.
Cares deeply. Without care friendship is impossible. Caring involves both your heart and your head. Care says that whatever happens to you happens to me. When you are sad, I am sad. When something terrific happens to you, I rejoice myself.
Provides space. Overly engaged and emotionally needy friends, who don't know the meaning of giving another space, smother you with their very presence. Their constant companionship becomes oppressive - and possessive.
Speaks the truth. Honesty is a prerequisite to a friendship. There must be a willingness to speak the truth, and a willingness to hear the truth. Friends who do not care enough to confront may save themselves a little awkwardness in the present but will end up losing their friendships in the future.
Forgives faults. Every friend you have will eventually disappoint you. You can count on it. They are ordinary people. That's why a lasting friendship depends on forgiveness. Some slights need only be overlooked and forgotten; others need profound forgiveness. The friendship may not continue unless there is also reconciliation, which requires that your friend own up to the truth of the fault and see the pain it caused.
Remains faithful. They don't desert you, even when you are in trouble, or when it costs them something to remain your friend.
Laughs easily. Laughter is the fuel that keeps good friendships going once they are born. It's what enables friends to help each other cope in the midst of crisis and monotony.
Celebrates success. A defining trait of a good friend is the ability to stick with you in the bad times. But sometimes the true test of a friend's staying power is in his or her ability to be supportive when things are going well. A good friend will spread the good news and be happy for your achievements.
Says a prayer. Prayer catapults friendship into the deepest and highest work of the human spirit. It involves God in the relationship, and makes all these traits do-able.
Good friends can be hard to find. Acquaintances, associates, partners, and colleagues are found in abundance. But a true friend is scarce, and to be treasured. If friendships are to become good and lasting, both friends need to work at being good friends.
What are the characteristics of a good friendship?
Makes time. Most friendships fail because of neglect. Making time means getting off work early to accompany a friend to an anxiety-provoking doctor's appointment, or canceling another commitment to attend a friend's acting debut at an amateur playhouse. A friend will make time for the other's significant life events, moments of crisis, and - equally meaningful - in the midst of the mundane.
Keeps a secret. Sharing your secrets helps you explore what's troubling you and get reaction to what you've been holding in your heart. You need to tell your secrets to people who are trustworthy, consider it a privilege to hear what's on your mind, and leave it at that.
Cares deeply. Without care friendship is impossible. Caring involves both your heart and your head. Care says that whatever happens to you happens to me. When you are sad, I am sad. When something terrific happens to you, I rejoice myself.
Provides space. Overly engaged and emotionally needy friends, who don't know the meaning of giving another space, smother you with their very presence. Their constant companionship becomes oppressive - and possessive.
Speaks the truth. Honesty is a prerequisite to a friendship. There must be a willingness to speak the truth, and a willingness to hear the truth. Friends who do not care enough to confront may save themselves a little awkwardness in the present but will end up losing their friendships in the future.
Forgives faults. Every friend you have will eventually disappoint you. You can count on it. They are ordinary people. That's why a lasting friendship depends on forgiveness. Some slights need only be overlooked and forgotten; others need profound forgiveness. The friendship may not continue unless there is also reconciliation, which requires that your friend own up to the truth of the fault and see the pain it caused.
Remains faithful. They don't desert you, even when you are in trouble, or when it costs them something to remain your friend.
Laughs easily. Laughter is the fuel that keeps good friendships going once they are born. It's what enables friends to help each other cope in the midst of crisis and monotony.
Celebrates success. A defining trait of a good friend is the ability to stick with you in the bad times. But sometimes the true test of a friend's staying power is in his or her ability to be supportive when things are going well. A good friend will spread the good news and be happy for your achievements.
Says a prayer. Prayer catapults friendship into the deepest and highest work of the human spirit. It involves God in the relationship, and makes all these traits do-able.
Feb 11, 2008
IF YOU CANT
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!
Feb 7, 2008
TOP 100 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
2. The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague
4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey
7. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Goethe
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill
13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer
17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
- Unknown
18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
19. 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
20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown
21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown
22. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
25. If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond
26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman
27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan
35. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
36. "Act or accept."
- Unanonymous
37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth
38. The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil
40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey
41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous
43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist
44. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
- John Cage
45. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown
47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown
48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
- Dr. Phil
49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley
50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
- Unknown
53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo
55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach
56. Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood
57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
59. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
- Rosalind Russell
60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die
- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell
61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves
62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach
63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott
64. Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ray Bradbury
65. If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Anonymous
66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69. In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
73. "You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller
74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
75. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
76. "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard
78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power
79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost
80. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou
81. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James
82. “When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”
- Sydney Harris
83. “Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans
84. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost
85. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.
88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law
89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
- Joe Clark
90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard
92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
94. If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire
97. Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
98. There is no education like adversity.
- Disraeli
99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Author Unknown
- Aristotle
2. The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague
4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey
7. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Goethe
10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill
13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer
17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
- Unknown
18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
19. 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
20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown
21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown
22. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
25. If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
- Marie Osmond
26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman
27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman
28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan
35. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
36. "Act or accept."
- Unanonymous
37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth
38. The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil
40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey
41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale
42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous
43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist
44. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
- John Cage
45. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown
47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown
48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
- Dr. Phil
49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley
50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
- Unknown
53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo
55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach
56. Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood
57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
59. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
- Rosalind Russell
60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die
- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell
61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves
62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach
63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott
64. Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ray Bradbury
65. If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Anonymous
66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69. In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
73. "You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller
74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
75. “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
76. "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
- Elbert Hubbard
78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power
79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
- Robert Frost
80. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
- Maya Angelou
81. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
- William James
82. “When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”
- Sydney Harris
83. “Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans
84. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.”
- Robert Frost
85. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.
88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law
89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
- Joe Clark
90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard
92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb
94. If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire
97. Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
98. There is no education like adversity.
- Disraeli
99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Author Unknown
Jan 22, 2008
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.
Dec 3, 2007
THINGS TO THINK
I am making all the right choices.
Failure is impossible.
It doesn't hurt more than you can stand.
It only hurts as long as you haven't seen the point.
It doesn't have to hurt at all.
On the whole, men and women would rather like you than not.
You don't have to do anything you can't.
There is enough time for everything, but
give your full attention to only one thing at a time.
Need only what you can supply yourself or already have.
Don't settle. It is better to have nothing than to be
stuck with inferior something.
Calm down.
Don't forget to breathe.
Failure is impossible.
It doesn't hurt more than you can stand.
It only hurts as long as you haven't seen the point.
It doesn't have to hurt at all.
On the whole, men and women would rather like you than not.
You don't have to do anything you can't.
There is enough time for everything, but
give your full attention to only one thing at a time.
Need only what you can supply yourself or already have.
Don't settle. It is better to have nothing than to be
stuck with inferior something.
Calm down.
Don't forget to breathe.
DARING GREATLY
It is not the critic who counts
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit goes to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and blood
Who strives valiantly
Who errs and comes short again and again.
Who knows great enthusiasms
The great devotions.
Who spends himself in a worthy cause
Who at best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement
And who at the worst, if he fails
At least fails while Daring Greatly
So that his place shall never be
With the timid souls
Who neither know victory or defeat.
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit goes to the man who is actually in the arena
Whose face is marred by dust and blood
Who strives valiantly
Who errs and comes short again and again.
Who knows great enthusiasms
The great devotions.
Who spends himself in a worthy cause
Who at best knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement
And who at the worst, if he fails
At least fails while Daring Greatly
So that his place shall never be
With the timid souls
Who neither know victory or defeat.
24 THINGS TO REMEMBER AND 1 THING NEVER TO FORGET
Your presence is a present to the world.
You're unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be.
Take the days just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You'll make it through whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
Don't put limits on yourself.
So many dreams are waiting to be realized.
Decisions are too important to leave to chance.
Reach for your peak, your goal, your prize.
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying.
The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it gets.
Don't take things too seriously.
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.
Remember that a little love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot...goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life's treasures are people...together.
Realize that it's never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don't ever forget...for even a day...how very Special you are!
~Colin McCarthy
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving.
Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
~Amanda Bradley
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows.
~Author unknown
Thank You Friend
I never came to you, my friend, and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase
that tells all that your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for you
on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God Bless You precious friend.
You're unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be.
Take the days just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You'll make it through whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
Don't put limits on yourself.
So many dreams are waiting to be realized.
Decisions are too important to leave to chance.
Reach for your peak, your goal, your prize.
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying.
The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it gets.
Don't take things too seriously.
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.
Remember that a little love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot...goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life's treasures are people...together.
Realize that it's never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don't ever forget...for even a day...how very Special you are!
~Colin McCarthy
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving.
Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
~Amanda Bradley
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship doubles your joys and divides your sorrows.
~Author unknown
Thank You Friend
I never came to you, my friend, and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase
that tells all that your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for you
on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God Bless You precious friend.
ALWAYS HAVE A DREAM
Forget about the days when its been cloudy,
but don't forget your hours in the sun.
Forget about the times you've been defeated,
but don't forget the victories you've won.
Forget about the misfortunes you've encountered,
but don't forget the times your luck has turned.
Forget about the days when you've been lonely,
but don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen.
Forget about the plans that didn't seem to work out right,
but don't forget to always have a dream.
but don't forget your hours in the sun.
Forget about the times you've been defeated,
but don't forget the victories you've won.
Forget about the misfortunes you've encountered,
but don't forget the times your luck has turned.
Forget about the days when you've been lonely,
but don't forget the friendly smiles you've seen.
Forget about the plans that didn't seem to work out right,
but don't forget to always have a dream.
Dec 1, 2007
FRIENDSHIP WISH
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your window pane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
HEAVEN'S GROCERY STORE
As I was walking down life's highway
many years ago
I came upon a sign that read
Heavens Grocery Store.
When I got a little closer
the doors swung open wide
And when I came to myself
I was standing inside.
I saw a host of angels.
They were standing everywhere
One handed me a basket
and said; "My child shop with care."
Everything a human needed
was in that grocery store
And what you could not carry
you could come back for more.
First I got some Patience.
Love was in that same row.
Further down was Understanding,
you need that everywhere you go.
I got a box or two of Wisdom
and Faith a bag or two.
And Charity of course
I would need some of that too.
I couldn't miss the Holy Ghost
It was all over the place.
And then some Strength
and Courage to help me run this race.
My basket was getting full
but I remembered I needed Grace,
And then I chose Salvation for
Salvation was for free
I tried to get enough of that to do
for you and me.
Then I started to the counter
to pay my grocery bill,
For I thought I had everything
to do the Masters will.
As I went up the aisle
I saw Prayer and put that in,
For I knew when I stepped outside
I would run into sin.
Peace and Joy were plentiful,
the last things on the shelf.
Song and Praise were hanging near
so I just helped myself.
Then I said to the angel
"Now how much do I owe?"
He smiled and said;
"Just take them everywhere you go."
Again I asked; "Really now,
How much do I owe?"
"My child;" he said, "God paid your bill
a long long time ago."
HOW DO YOU THINK
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
Before you 'll ever win the prize.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the person who thinks he can!
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
Before you 'll ever win the prize.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the person who thinks he can!
HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
A weary mother returned from the store,
Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.
Awaiting her arrival was her 8 year old son,
Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.
While I was out playing and Dad was on a call,
T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall
It's on the new paper you just hung in the den.
I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again.
She let out a moan and furrowed her brow,
Where is your little brother right now?
She emptied her arms and with a purposeful stride,
She marched to his closet where he had gone to hide.
She called his full name as she entered his room.
He trembled with fear--he knew that meant doom
For the next ten minutes, she ranted and raved
About the expensive wallpaper and how she had saved.
Lamenting all the work it would take to repair,
She condemned his actions and total lack of care.
The more she scolded, the madder she got,
Then stomped from his room, totally distraught
She headed for the den to confirm her fears.
When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears.
The message she read pierced her soul with a dart.
It said, I love Mommy, surrounded by a heart.
Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it,
With an empty picture frame hung to surround it.
A reminder to her, and indeed to all,
Take time to read the handwriting on the wall.
Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.
Awaiting her arrival was her 8 year old son,
Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.
While I was out playing and Dad was on a call,
T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall
It's on the new paper you just hung in the den.
I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again.
She let out a moan and furrowed her brow,
Where is your little brother right now?
She emptied her arms and with a purposeful stride,
She marched to his closet where he had gone to hide.
She called his full name as she entered his room.
He trembled with fear--he knew that meant doom
For the next ten minutes, she ranted and raved
About the expensive wallpaper and how she had saved.
Lamenting all the work it would take to repair,
She condemned his actions and total lack of care.
The more she scolded, the madder she got,
Then stomped from his room, totally distraught
She headed for the den to confirm her fears.
When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears.
The message she read pierced her soul with a dart.
It said, I love Mommy, surrounded by a heart.
Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it,
With an empty picture frame hung to surround it.
A reminder to her, and indeed to all,
Take time to read the handwriting on the wall.
HEART PRINTS
Whatever our hands touch...we leave
fingerprints on.
On walls, on furniture, on door knobs,
dishes and books.
As we touch we leave our identity..
Oh please where ever I go today...
help me leave heart prints.
Heart prints of compassion,
understanding and love.
Heart prints of kindness and genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lonely neighbor...
or a runaway daughter...
or an anxious mother...
or perhaps a dear friend!
I shall go out today...
to leave heart prints...
and if some one should say...
"I felt your touch!"
Nov 30, 2007
MOTHER TERESA'S WORDS
People are often unreasonable, Illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway...
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway...
If you are successful, You will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway...
If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway...
What you spend years building, Someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway...
If you Find Serenty and happiness, Others may be jealous,
Be happy anyway...
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow,
Do good anyway...
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway...
You see, in the final analysis, It is between you and God;
It was NEVER between you and them anyway...
Nov 27, 2007
SPIRITUAL DAY
The dawning of my day, my Son, began upon you birth,
Your presence here fulfilled my dreams, a treasure here on Earth.
My midday, Son, came as you grew into a fine young man,
I could not say "I love you", but now, my Son, I can.
The evening was not long ago, when I was in my prime,
We pulled apart and did not meet, both ignorant of time.
The twilight of my day has come, and to my home I ride,
But now I say "I love you" and my heart bursts with pride.
The two of us, united souls, destined ne'er to part.
My Son I'll hold you by the hand, please hold me in your heart.
SEASONS
Like the flowers in spring
Our love grew
Like the warmth of summer
Closer we drew
Like the trees in autumn
Love striped bare
By the cold of winter
You did not care.
Our love grew
Like the warmth of summer
Closer we drew
Like the trees in autumn
Love striped bare
By the cold of winter
You did not care.
THE PATHWAY
As I walk the path between life and death,
I see the birds and hear their call.
With each step forward I smell the new mown grass.
And I wonder at the fragrance of the flowers.
I quicken my pace as familiar faces smile, in welcome of me.
And friendly hands extend to clasp in mine.
I hear a gentle, loving voice, that calms my puzzled soul.
"Welcome home,have no fear. You are safe and those you loved are here Come into the garden and rest awhile."
And as I sit, a loved one comes and leads me further on I smile and sigh as I realise That the pains of the earth are gone.
My body was tired so I laid it down.
But my spirit journeys on...
I see the birds and hear their call.
With each step forward I smell the new mown grass.
And I wonder at the fragrance of the flowers.
I quicken my pace as familiar faces smile, in welcome of me.
And friendly hands extend to clasp in mine.
I hear a gentle, loving voice, that calms my puzzled soul.
"Welcome home,have no fear. You are safe and those you loved are here Come into the garden and rest awhile."
And as I sit, a loved one comes and leads me further on I smile and sigh as I realise That the pains of the earth are gone.
My body was tired so I laid it down.
But my spirit journeys on...
JOURNEYS
When two worlds collide,the days mould to one,
we look to our hearts,the things that we've done,
each day here so precious,it could be our last,
no time to hold anger,or hurt that has passed.
With each day we awaken,a new dawn does rise,
we open our eyes,and stretch up to the skies,
give thanks for our life,thanks here today,
and give understanding for things i cant say.
Our wings will unfold and the feathers will spread,
and soon we shall fly ,with new dawns ahead,
a journey so vast,adventures unseen,
to fly with the eagle ,to see whats so green.
And one will look back,and think of this all,
no regrets on the past,just lessons so tall,
the journeys come forward,and this time will end,
move forward our futures,with gods love to send.
Our thanks for our lifes,and thanks for our loves,
may we all remain pure,like white turtle doves,
and shall we move onward and upward once more,
with spirit amongst us and love at the door.
we look to our hearts,the things that we've done,
each day here so precious,it could be our last,
no time to hold anger,or hurt that has passed.
With each day we awaken,a new dawn does rise,
we open our eyes,and stretch up to the skies,
give thanks for our life,thanks here today,
and give understanding for things i cant say.
Our wings will unfold and the feathers will spread,
and soon we shall fly ,with new dawns ahead,
a journey so vast,adventures unseen,
to fly with the eagle ,to see whats so green.
And one will look back,and think of this all,
no regrets on the past,just lessons so tall,
the journeys come forward,and this time will end,
move forward our futures,with gods love to send.
Our thanks for our lifes,and thanks for our loves,
may we all remain pure,like white turtle doves,
and shall we move onward and upward once more,
with spirit amongst us and love at the door.
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