Monday, December 26, 2011

quote of the day - who cares

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."

- Dr. Seuss



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Monday, December 19, 2011

quote of the day - reveling in uncertainty

"Joy is more than just happiness for happiness' sake. It is about facing challenges and feeling gratitude. It is about reveling in the uncertainty that is living."

- Lisa Belisle



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Saturday, December 17, 2011

quote of the day - to feel with the heart

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller



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Friday, December 16, 2011

quote of the day - the serpent and the dove

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.




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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

quote of the day - practicing compassion

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- The Dalai Lama



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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Saturday, December 3, 2011

quote of the day - honor

"No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave."

- Calvin Coolidge



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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

quote of the day - love without knowing how

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities
or pride; so I love you because I knew no other
way than this, where 'I' does not exist, nor 'you'.
So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so
close that your eyes close as I fall asleep...."

- Pablo Neruda.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

quote of the day - the secret of making the best persons

"Now I know the secret of making the best persons;
It is to grow in the open air, and eat and sleep with the earth."

- Walt Whitman



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Saturday, November 26, 2011

quote of the day - which road to take

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.  'Which road do I take?' she asked.  'Where do you want to go?' was his response. 'I don't know,' Alice answered.  'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter."

- Lewis Carroll




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Friday, November 25, 2011

Quote of the day - the softest things

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

- Lao-tzu

Thursday, November 24, 2011

quote of the day - the path of a butterfly

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder..."

- Thoreau



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Saturday, November 19, 2011

quote of the day - change

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.  It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin




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Friday, November 18, 2011

quote of the day - our children teach us

"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

- Angela Schwindt



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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

quote of the day - involve me

"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand."

- Chinese proverb



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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Thursday, November 10, 2011

quote of the day - bewildered by yourself

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

- Nathanial Hawthorne



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Friday, November 4, 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

quote of the day - twenty years from now

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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



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Sunday, October 30, 2011

quote of the day - mountains can't be conquered

"You never conquer a mountain.  Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself - your hopes, your fears."

- Jim Whittaker



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Saturday, October 29, 2011

quote of the day - what life is

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."  To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength endefeatable."

- Helen Keller



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Friday, October 28, 2011

quote of the day - the trick is...

"The trick is what one emphasizes.  We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castaneda



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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

quote of the day - being ashes rather than dust

"I would rather be ashes than dust!  I would rather my spark should burn out in a blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.  I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than asleep and permanent as a planet.  The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.  I shall use my time."

- Jack London



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Monday, October 24, 2011

quote of the day - the best prize in life

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt



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Sunday, October 23, 2011

quote of the day - castles in the air

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and andeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours... If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau



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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Thursday, October 20, 2011

quote of the day - unliving history

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou



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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

quote of the day - the price for granting peace

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.  The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things, knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights where bitter joys can hear the sound of wings."

- Amelia Earhart



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Monday, October 17, 2011

quote of the day - being wiser today

"A man should never be ashamed to say he has been wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Alexander Pope



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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

quote of the day - which you think you cannot do

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt



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Thursday, October 13, 2011

quote of the day - facing a challenge

"Men wanted for hazardous journey: small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness - constant danger, safe return doubtful - honor and recognition in case of success."

- Ernest Shackleton (advertising his South Pole expedition)



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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Monday, October 10, 2011

quote of the day - the most fatal form of caution

"Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

- Bertrand Russell



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Monday, October 3, 2011

quote of the day - if you hear bells

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

- Erich Segal



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Friday, September 30, 2011

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

quote of the day - who are you willing to be?

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”

 ~Desiderius Erasmus



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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

quote of the day - living as brothers

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.



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Friday, September 16, 2011

quote of the day - hunger for love

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

- Mother Teresa



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Thursday, September 15, 2011

quote of the day - one word

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

- Sophocles



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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

quote of the day - human necessities

"Love and compassion are necesseities, not luxuries.  Without them, humanity cannot survive."

- The Dalai Lama



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Sunday, August 28, 2011

quote of the day - loving yourself

“Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.”

 ~James Poland



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Sunday, August 21, 2011

quote of the day - our lurking desire

“There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.”

 ~Samuel Johnson



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Saturday, August 20, 2011

quote of the day - the finer senses of the soul


Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”

~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



Saturday, August 13, 2011

quote of the day - self belief


“You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.”

-          William J.H. Boetcker

Monday, August 8, 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

quote of the day - your best shot at happiness

"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction -- the things that constitute real success -- is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile."

- William Raspberry



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Monday, July 25, 2011

quote of the day - your deepest instinct

"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin."

- Katharine Butler Hathaway



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Friday, July 22, 2011

quote of the day - when suffering becomes beautiful

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

- Aristotle



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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

quote of the day - learning friendship

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali



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Thursday, July 14, 2011

quote of the day - making the most of it

“We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.”

- Bill Clinton

Friday, July 8, 2011

quote of the day - what kindness can do

"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul.  Only kindness can do that."

- Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

quote of the day - talking with the enemy

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.  You talk to your enemies."

- Moshe Dayan

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

quote of the day - seeking truth

"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."


- Walter Cronkite

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

quote of the day - be not perturbed

"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal."

- Marcus Aurelius



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Monday, June 13, 2011

quote of the day - natural security

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"


- Robert Redford





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Sunday, June 12, 2011

quote of the day - listen to experts

"Always listen to experts.  They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.  Then do it."

- Robert A. Heinlein



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Friday, June 10, 2011

quote of the day - fanatical performers

"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Sunday, June 5, 2011

quote of the day - action and friendship

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

- George Washington





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Thursday, June 2, 2011

quote of the day - peace vs TV sets

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."


- John Lennon




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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

quote of the day - how to do the right thing

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

-  Theodore Roosevelt



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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Friday, May 13, 2011

quote of the day - what wise men seek

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

- William Shakespeare



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quote of the day - when not to listen to reason

"I'll not listen to reason... Reason always means what someone else has got to say."




- Elizabeth Gaskell

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

quote of the day - fighting imaginary difficulties

"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."

- Theodore N. Vail



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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

quote of the day - what is courage?

"Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.  Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage."

- Mark Twain



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Monday, May 9, 2011

quote of the day - quitting fear

"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down."

- Allen H. Neuharth




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Saturday, May 7, 2011

quote of the day - to mention a loved one

"To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh



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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

quote of the day - making peace (2)

"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away."

- Robert Fulghum

Monday, April 25, 2011

quote of the day - where beauty is found

"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty."

- Kahlil Gibran



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Sunday, April 17, 2011

quote of the day - eternal friendship

"In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that."

- George Santayana



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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

quote of the day - how to express your gratitude

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy



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Thursday, April 7, 2011

"It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends.  When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love."

- Mark Rutherford



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quote of the day - doing mighty things

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

 
 
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Monday, April 4, 2011

quote of the day - flowers of the mind

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."


- Abraham Lincoln





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Saturday, March 26, 2011

quote of the day - the way to independence

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

-- Henry Ford



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Friday, March 25, 2011

quote of the day - the blame game

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

-- Wayne Dyer




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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

quote of the day - the highest reward

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

- John Ruskin



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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

quote of the day - to change the world

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead



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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Friday, March 18, 2011

quote of the day - the one reason you need

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
-- Mary Frances Berry

 
 
 
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

quote of the day - where curiosity will lead you

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."


-- Walt Disney
 
 
 
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

quote of the day - friends in overalls

"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."

- Thomas A. Edison



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Monday, March 14, 2011

Sunday, March 13, 2011

quote of the day - the inherited wealth handicap

"Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness.  It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality."

- William K. Vanderbilt



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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

quote of the day - being you

"Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you."

- Elbert Hubbard



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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

quote of the day - what happiness depends on

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

- Epictetus



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Sunday, March 6, 2011

quote of the day - straining to go beyond

"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."

- Stephen Spender



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Friday, March 4, 2011

quote of the day - self preservation

"I am plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself."

- Jose Ortega y Gasset



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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

quote of the day - the way to inner peace

"Self- understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience."

- Joshua Loth Liebman



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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

quote of the day - The aim of a joke

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

- George Orwell



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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

quote of the day - apprenticing other species

"What might happen if some of those who now turn inward, apprenticing themselves to all kinds of gurus, therapists, and Webmasters, would turn outwards as apprentices to other species?"
- Gary Paul Nabhan



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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

quote of the day - tomorrow for you and me

"For you and me, today is all we have; tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality."
- Louis L'Amour



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Monday, February 14, 2011

quote of the day - what it is to be alive

"Why is it that when we are hanging from the cliff - beyond the reach of civilizations safety net, rather than in it - we are most likely to gain the deepest sense of what it is to be alive."

- Gary Paul Nabhan



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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

quote of the day - where the mind is employed...

"No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."

- Samuel Johnson


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Sunday, February 6, 2011

quote of the day - no regrets

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."


-- Barbara Bush

 
 
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Friday, February 4, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

quote of the day - what smiles are

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."


- Joseph Addison

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

quote of the day - how happiness is produced

"Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

- Benjamin Franklin




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Monday, January 24, 2011

quote of the day - how true love comes

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

- Erich Segal



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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Quote of the day - what comes from the heart

"Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



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Saturday, January 22, 2011

quote of the day - better than you dare to think

"Give what you have.  To someone else it may be better than you dare to think."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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Thursday, January 20, 2011

quote of the day - the foundation for all abundance

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."


— Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011

Friday, January 14, 2011

quote of the day - kindness and the truth

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true."

- Robert Brault



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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

quote of the day - acting boldly

"Faith... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence."

- John Henry Cardinal Newman



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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Quote of the day - the wisdom of an entire species

"If we share any part of the wider biological legacy of flocks, may it be this: that in times of great need a few individuals acting boldly on their convictions can trigger a shift toward collective survival that is both swift and widely shared.  We are never acting alone when we do this.  It only appears that way.  When we seize upon a strong conviction to change, it is the wisdom of an entire species that may be acting through us, and none of us will ever have to carry that burden alone."

- Kurt Hoelting (from his book, The Circumference of Home)

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Monday, January 10, 2011

quote of the day - the power of forgiveness

"Forgiveness is the power that enlivens relationships.  Forgiveness keeps life moving forward, creates harmony and makes you spiritually strong."

- Maoshing Ni, M.D.



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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Thursday, January 6, 2011

quote of the day - finding peace

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."


- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 
 
 
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quote of the day - time for love

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa

 
 
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

quote of the day - the law of love

"For we must share, if we would keep that blessing from above;  ceasing to give, we cease to have;  such is the law of love."

- Richard C. Trench



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Monday, January 3, 2011

quote of the day - the answer (not) to happiness

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer."


- Jim Carrey



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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011

quote of the day - reasons for living

"Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living."

- Tom O'Connor, person with ARC



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