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FOOD FOR THOUGHT ARCHIVE
03/2012
Always be a first-rate
version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate
version of somebody else.
-Judy Garland
I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but I can do something.
And I will not let what
I cannot do interfere
with what I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning
and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
-Elbert Hubbard
Losers make promises they often break.
Winners make commitments they always keep.
-Denis Waitley
Weekends don't count unless you spend them
doing something completely pointless.
-Bill Watterson
The deepest principle in human nature
is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James
Dreams are answers to questions
we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
If I am not for myself, who will be?
-Pirke Avoth
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
You can tell more about a person
by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him.
-Leo Aikman
A group becomes a team when each member
is sure enough of himself and his contribution
to praise the skills of the others.
-Norman Shidle
The person who won't read
has no advantage over the person who can't.
Never take someone for granted.
Hold every person close to your heart
because you might wake up one day
and realize that you've lost a diamond
while you were too busy collecting stones...
When you look for the good in others,
you discover the best in yourself.
Humor is the hole that lets the sawdust
out of a stuffed shirt.
I don't regret the things I have done.
I just regret the things I didn't do when I had the chance.
If you are willing to admit
you are wrong when you are
wrong, you are all right.
Four little words that are not heard often enough:
You may be right.
There is no security on this earth.
Only opportunity.
If you want to be the picture of health,
make sure you have a happy frame of mind.
02/2012
One trouble with the world is that so many people
who stand up vigorously for their rights
fall down miserably on their duties.
Low roads are crowded by those who desire;
high roads, less traveled, by those who aspire.
Inside every small problem is a large problem
struggling to get out.
I keep six honest serving-men, They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When And How
and Where and Who.
-Rudyard Kipling
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-Jesse Jackson
The only man who is really free is the one
who can turn down an invitation to dinner
without giving an excuse.
-Jules Renard
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday,
so few that we feel like doing today.
-Mignon McLaughlin
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
-Grace Hopper
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
-Maltbie Babcock
The trouble with most people is that they think with their
hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
-Will Durant
FRIENDSHIP
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.
If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.
If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.
If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.
But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be.
-Douglas Pagels
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come
as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
-Frederick Keonig
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love 'Til you give it away.
-Oscar Hammerstein
The past is where you learned the lesson.
The future is where you apply the lesson.
Don't give up in the middle!
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
-Henry Ford
I am not a human being;
I am a human becoming.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle
To do is to be (Rousseau)
To be is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do be do (Sinatra)
Yabba dabba doo (Fred Flintstone)
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
01/2012
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz
A great way to show yourself what is possible
is to help someone else to learn to grow and
do more than they ever thought they could.
If you don't like something change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
-Maya Angelou
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!
-Douglas Malloch
Success is a journey, not a destination
- half the fun is getting there.
The world is too dangerous for anything
but truth and too small for anything but love.
-William Coffin
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
-Albert Einstein
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Those who have one foot in the canoe
and one foot in the boat are going to fall in the river.
-Native American proverb
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.
Go where the expectations and the demands are high.
-Jim Rohn
Enthusiastic people are the ones
who actually get things done in this world.
Enthusiasm is what turns any idea into reality.
And enthusiasm is linked closely with happiness.
-Roy Sheppard
Life is like that old Spanish saying:
"He who plants the lettuce doesn't
always eat the salad".
-Anthony Quinn
No one is useless in the world who lightens the burdens of another.
-Charles Dickens
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett
The person who is not hungry
says that the coconut has a hard shell.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble
- the ones they've had, the ones they have,
and the ones they expect to have.
-H. G. Wells
12/2011
Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!
One of the most glorious
messes in the world is
the mess created in the
living room on Christmas day.
Don't clean it up too quickly."
-Andy Rooney
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit
in jars and open a jar of it every month.
-Harlan Miller
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
-Ayn Rand
Measure twice, cut once.
-Craftman´s aphorism
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
-Danny Kaye
There's nothing sadder in this world
than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
-Erma Bombeck
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted.
I am only very, very curious.
-Albert Einstein
Be yourself.
No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
-James Leo Herlihy
Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-Dale Carnegie
If it were not for the last minute,
nothing would get done.
Most people are too busy living life
to ever put life in their living...
–Doug Firebaugh
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good,
and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
-Arnold Glasgow
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life,
and when it comes, hold your head high.
Look it squarely in the eye, and say,
"I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
-Ann Landers
11/2011
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar
When your dad is mad and asks you,
"Do I look stupid?" don't answer him.
-Michael, 14
If all you do is all you're doing,
all you'll get is all you're getting.
-Brian Tracy
If you can keep your head when all around you are
losing theirs and blaming it on you,
then the world is yours and all that's in it.
-Rudyard Kipling
Success is never ending,
failure is never final.
-Dr. Robert Schuller
Never fear shadows.
They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkel
When you rise in the morning,
form a resolution to make the day
a happy one for a fellow creature.
-Sydney Smith
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Mother Teresa
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,
wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating,
there really is no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of weather.
-John Ruski
Advice is what we ask for
when we already know the
answer, but wish we didn't.
-Erica Jong
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller
You and I can never do a kindness too soon,
for we never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A happy wife sometimes has the best husband,
but more often makes the best of husband she has.
-Mark Beltaire
The only people with whom
you should try to get even
are those who have helped you.
A fair idea put to use is better than
a good idea kept on the polishing wheel.
-Alex Osborn
The greater danger for most of us is not that
our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity;
whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger.
The two are inseparable; they go together.
-Earl Nightingale
Nothing wondrous can come
in this world unless it rests
on the shoulders of kindness.
-Barbara Kingsolver
To accomplish great things, we must not only act,
but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Anatole France
What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.
-James Kennedy
Storms make aoks take deeper root.
-George Herbert
10/2011
We are each of us angels with only one wing.
And we can only fly embracing each other.
-Luciano De Crescenzo
One of the things I learned the hard way
was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
-R.L. Stevenson
Two atoms are walking down the street and they
run into each other. One says to the other.
“Are you all right?”
“No, I lost an electron!”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I’m positive!”
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 threw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It's only those who do nothing who make no mistakes.
-Joseph Conrad
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot
turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and
the necessary skill.
-Nelson Mandela
Recognition is the greatest motivator.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve,
but a reality to experience.
-Frank Herbert
A ship is safe in harbour,
but that's not what ships are for.
-William Shedd
Behold the turtle.
He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
-James Conant
Remember - a statue has never been set up
in honour of a critic.
-Jean Sibelius
If you have zest and enthusiasm,
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
-Norman Vincent Peale
If you want to lift yourself up,
lift up someone else.
-Booker T. Washington
Dreams, dreams, without dreams man is a bird without wings.
-Sergei Korolev
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
They are but trifles to be sure,
but the good they do is inconceivable.
-Joseph Addison
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
-Winston Churchill
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
but learning to dance in the rain.
Only those who risk going too far
can possibly find out how far they can go.
-T.S. Eliot
To attract good fortune,
spend a new coin on an old friend,
share an old pleasure with a new friend,
and lift up the heart of a true friend
by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
-Chinese proverb
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams
because they grow old;
they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
09/2011
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-Goethe
It's a little embarrassing that, after 45 years of research
and study, the best advice I can give to people is to
be a little kinder to each other.
-Aldous Huxley
The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
-Christopher Morley
The beautiful thing about learning is that
nobody can take it a way from you.
-B.B. King
A goal without a plan is a dream and dreams fade when we awake.
-Jannie Williams
Vision without action is daydream.
Action without vision is nightmare.
-Japanese proverb
Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
-Alice Longworth
Blessed is the man who has friends,
but woe to him who needs them.
-Czech Proverb
A birthday is a good time to begin anew;
throwing away the old habits,
as you would old clothes,
and never putting them on again.
-Bronson Alcott
You have brain in your head
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose
You´re on your own,
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy
who´ll decide where to go.
-Dr Seuss
If you no got smile on you face, no use open shop.
-Jamaican proverb
Nothing will ever be attempted
if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen Covey
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
-Anais Nin
What you leave behind is not
what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
-Pericles
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
-Michael Altshuler
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Whenever two people meet,
there are really six people present.
There is each man as he sees himself,
each man as the other person sees him,
and each man as he really is.
-William James
Do not go where the path may lead;
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
Life is like a pen, you can cross something out
but you can never erase it.
08/2011
One who loses money, loses much;
one who loses a friend, loses much more;
one who loses faith, loses all.
No one is born hating another person
because of the colour of his skin,
or his background, or his religion.
People must learn to hate,
and if they can learn to hate,
they can be taught to love,
for love comes more naturally
to the human heart than its opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds that you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
If you accept a limiting belief,
then it will become a truth for you.
-Louise Hay
The truth of the matter is that you
always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
-Norman Schwarzkopf
Do whatever you can, with whatever you have
been given, in the time you have, wherever you are.
-Nkosi Johnston
Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.
-Yiddish proverb
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
-Charles Kettering
Everything changes. We plant trees for those born later.
-Cicely Herbert
Happy thoughts are half your health.
-Czech proverb
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll.
The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole.
-Oscar Wilde
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me".
Look what happens
with a love like that...
it lights the whole sky.
-Hafez of Shiraz
It's never too late to be who you might have been.
There are only two ways to handle tense situations:
you can change them, or you can change the way
you look at them.
If you stand for something,
you will always find some people
for you and some against you.
If you stand for nothing,
you will find nobody against you,
and nobody for you.
-William Bernbach
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The only one who got everything done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
06/2011
The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.
-Christa Wolf
Indulge yourself by being generous - help someone out,
perform an act of kindness, offer a compliment.
The person who will feel most uplifted by you
having done so is - you.
-Paul Wilson
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-Stephen Covey
Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Every day will allow you to add something
to the pleasure of others,
and to diminish something of their pains.
-Jeremy Bentham
Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow;
don't walk behind me,
I may not lead;
walk beside me,
and just be my friend.
-Albert Camus
Nobody made a greater mistake than he
who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Problems cannot be solved by thinking
within the framework in which they were created.
-Albert Einstein
Most smiles are started by another smile.
Five frogs are sitting on a log.
Four decide to jump off. How many are left?
There are still five - because there's a difference
betweendeciding and doing.
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
-G. Randolf
Who is blind? He who can see no other world.
Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot.
Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires.
Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
-Indian Proverb
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
-Publius Syrus
If we do not plant knowledge when young,
it will give us no shade when we are old.
-Lord Chesterfield
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see
the flowers that blossom at their feet.
-Albert Schweitzer
05/2011
You only have to do a very few things right in your life
so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
-Warren Buffett
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying
to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
COLORED
When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black..
And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray..
And you calling me colored?
TO-DAY
It's to-day that I am livin',
Not a month ago,
Havin', losin', takin', givin',
As time wills it so.
Yesterday a cloud of sorrow
Fell across the way;
It may rain again to-morrow,
It may rain--but, say,
Ain't it fine to-day!
-Douglas Malloch
The state of your life is nothing more
than a reflection of your state of mind.
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
The difference between a helping hand and
an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
-Laurence Leamer
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Promise results, not promises.
If it works, tear it apart and find out why!
To succeed you have to believe in something
with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
-Anita Roddick
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
-German Proverb
At the end of the game,
the king and the pawn
go back in the same box.
-Italian proverb
If you accept a limiting belief,
then it will become a truth for you.
-Louise Hay
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
-Dennis Weaver
You can only make others better by being good yourself.
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
-George F. Will
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your
reputation is merely what others think you are.
-John R. Wooden
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Know early what you have to learn later.
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know
how to do a thing and to watch someone else
do it wrong, without comment.
-E.B.White
The easiest way to have your way
is to go out and make it.
04/2011
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even
to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
-Swami Sivananda
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
-Robert Kiyosaki
When the pain of what we are going through
becomes greater than the fear of change we change.
–Garrison Wynn
Saddle your dreams before you ride them.
Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
-William Arthur Ward
If my mind can conceive it,
and my heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it.
-Jesse Jackson
Obstacles are things a person sees
when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Really great people make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
-Mark Twain
Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T.S. Eliot
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Every day may not be good,
but there's something good in every day.
You aren't wealthy
until you have something
money can't buy.
You will either step forward into growth
or you will step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow
Nothing lasts forever
- not even your troubles.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things -
there are so many of them.
I have learned to use
the word impossible
with the greatest caution.
-Wernher von Braun
Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best.
-Bob Talbert
Think you can, think you can't;
either way, you'll be right.
-Henry Ford
Remember that happiness is
a way of travel - not a destination.
-Roy M. Goodman
Only one feat is possible:
not to have run away.
-Dag Hammarskjold
We only do well
the things we like doing.
-Colette
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
Though a tree grow ever so high,
the falling leaves return to the root.
-Malay proverb
03/2011
Remember that happiness
is a way of travel - not a destination.
-Roy M. Goodman
Experience is the name
so many people give to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Turn your face to the sun
and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
-Japanese proverb
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
Any activity becomes creative
when the doer cares about
doing it right, or better.
-John Updike
If you don't place your foot on the rope,
you'll never cross the chasm.
-Liz Smith
It makes all the difference whether you hear
an insect in the bedroom or in the garden.
-Robert Lynd
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The only thing that sat it's way to success is a hen.
-Sarah Brown
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
-Jim Rohn
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds,
and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides,
and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds
at all - he's walking on them.
-Sam Levinson
One´s own thought is one´s world.
What a person thinks is what he becomes.
What great thing would you attempt
if you knew you could not fail?
-Robert H. Schuller
For every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Am I like the optimist who,
while falling ten stories from a building,
says at each story, "I'm all right so far"?
-Gretel Ehrlich
02/2011
If you expect nothing,
you're apt to be surprised.
You'll get it.
-Malcolm Forbes
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create that fact.
-William James
A healthy attitude is contagious
but don't wait to catch it from others.
Be a carrier.
Do not judge a man until you have walked
two moons in his moccasins.
-Native American proverb
Tell me, and I´ll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I´ll understand.
Dreams are simply the emotions of the heart
that have been painted into words...
-Doug Firebaugh
You can have everything in life you want,
if you will just help enough other people
get what they want.
If you do things well, do them better.
Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
-Anita Roddick
If the world is cold,
make it your business to build fires.
Those who hear not the music,
think the dancer is mad.
Blessed is the man who has friends,
but woe to him who needs them.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
-Sally Koch
A TRAGEDY
An elderly man, in the final days of his life, is lying in bed alone. He awakens to see a large group of people clustered around his bed. Their faces are loving, but sad. Confused, the old man smiles weakly and whisperes, "You must be my childhood friends, come to say good-bye. I am so grateful."
Moving closer, the tallest figure gently grasps the old man?s hand and replies, "Yes, we are your best and oldest friends, but long ago you abandoned us. For we are the unfulfilled promises of your youth. We are the unrealised hopes, dreams, and plans that you once felt deeply in your heart, but never pursued.. We are the unique talents that you never discovered. Old friend, we have not come to comfort you, but to die with you."
-Les Brown
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
-Erma Bombeck
Don't call the world dirty because
you have forgotten to clean your classes.
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
One person can make a difference
and every person should try.
-John F. Kennedy
Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles,
it empties today of its strength.
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy,
until nightfall. Anyone can do his work,
however hard, for one day.
Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly,
purely, till the sun goes down and that is
all that life really means.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through
each other's eyes for an instant?
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
01/2011
Never think that you´re not good enough yourself.
A man should never think that. People will take
you very much at your own reckoning.
-Anthony Trollope
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The state of your life is nothing more
than a reflection of your state of mind.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Dance as if no one´s watching,
sing as if no one´s listening,
and live everyday as if it were your last.
-Irish proverb
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge
to cross and which bridge to burn.
-David Russel
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
-James F. Byrnes
Everyone has a gift for something,
even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:
could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anybody else expects of you.
Facing it, always facing it.
That's the way to get through.
Face it.
-Joseph Conrad
Of all the liars in the world,
sometimes the worst are you own fears.
-Rudyard Kipling
Where there is an open mind
there will always be a frontier.
-Charles F. Kettering
The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vincent Lombardi
The major reason for setting a goal is
for what it makes of you to accomplish it.
What it makes of you will always be
the far greater value than what you get.
-Jim Rohn
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-John W. Gardner
12/2010
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
Life is 10 percent what you make it,
and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Footprints in the sands of time
are never made by sitting down.
Ordinary people believe only in the possible.
Extraordinary people visualize not what is
possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.
And by visualizing the impossible,
they begin to see it as possible.
-Cherie Carter-Scott
NOW IS THE TIME
Draw on your own energy ... live out your passion.
Transform a moment into an event. Play music, paint,
or write. Explore the unknown. Share ideas.
Be passionate about an issue ... a person. Exercise
your body; cross the finish line like there's no tomorrow.
And be mindful of yourself and the world around you.
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever
you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the
first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough
getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting
his jacket on.
-Lou Holtz
The most important
three words you can
say to yourself:
Yes I can!
-Denis Waitley
A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn
winds up playing to an empty theatre.
A talented trumpeter who lets others
recognize his talent winds up a legend.
-Lisa Edmondson
The three most important questions
all winners ask themselves:
1. What do I want?
2. How am I going to get it?
3. When am I going to do something about it?
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered,
but did you bring the ship in?
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin;
it should make you jump up and do something.
Things turn out the best for the people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-Maya Angelou
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Gift of courage
Emerson wrote: "What a new face courage puts on everything!"
And no truer statement was ever written. Whatever it appears, courage changes things for the better ... It's the courage to do what need to be done, when it should be done ... And it's the courage to follow the silent voice within you when it means going against the crowd, or speaking when you know what you're going to say will be unpopular with your listeners. It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
-Earl Nightingale
A positive attitude removes the rust from the mind,
lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do
our work with fewer creaks and groans.
Six ways to bury new ideas
1. We have never done it that way before
2. It won't work in our department
3. We've done fine without it
4. It's too complicated
5. They tried that before
6. Nobody else does it that way
Never fear shadows.They simply mean
there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkel
11/2010
A little common sense,
a little tolerance,
a little good humor,
and you don't know
how comfortable you can make
yourself on this planet.
-Somerset Maugham
Just don't give up trying to
do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and
inspiration, I don't think
you can go wrong.
-Ella Fitzgerald
FIRST THINGS FIRST
I recently had a conversation with a young woman who was in her firs year of teaching high school Spanish. She told me an interesting story about how she got the job. Months after she was hired the principal told her "the story behind the story".
She was one of two finalists. The other candidate had five years' experience in another school system. The principal said that the decision to hire her came down to just one question. They were both asked, "Why do you want to teach here?"
The other teacher said, "Because I love to teach Spanish."
She got the job because she answered, "Because I love to teach kids."
There are two types of people who will tell you
that you cannot make a difference in this world:
Those who are afraid to try themselves,
and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
-Ray Goforth
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:
could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone
or you will step back into safety.
-Abraham Maslow
Nothing lasts forever
- not even your troubles.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things -
there are so many of them.
I have learned to use
the word impossible
with the greatest caution.
-Wernher von Braun
Teaching kids to count is fine,
but teaching them what counts is best.
-Bob Talbert
Think you can, think you can't;
either way, you'll be right.
-Henry Ford
Remember that happiness is
a way of travel - not a destination.
-Roy M. Goodman
Only one feat is possible:
not to have run away.
-Dag Hammarskjold
We only do well
the things we like doing.
-Colette
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
Though a tree grow ever so high,
the falling leaves return to the root.
-Malay proverb
03/2011
Remember that happiness
is a way of travel - not a destination.
-Roy M. Goodman
Experience is the name
so many people give to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Turn your face to the sun
and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
-Japanese proverb
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
Any activity becomes creative
when the doer cares about
doing it right, or better.
-John Updike
If you don't place your foot on the rope,
you'll never cross the chasm.
-Liz Smith
It makes all the difference whether you hear
an insect in the bedroom or in the garden.
-Robert Lynd
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The only thing that sat it's way to success is a hen.
-Sarah Brown
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
-Jim Rohn
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds,
and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides,
and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds
at all - he's walking on them.
-Sam Levinson
One´s own thought is one´s world.
What a person thinks is what he becomes.
What great thing would you attempt
if you knew you could not fail?
-Robert H. Schuller
For every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Am I like the optimist who,
while falling ten stories from a building,
says at each story, "I'm all right so far"?
-Gretel Ehrlich
02/2011
If you expect nothing,
you're apt to be surprised.
You'll get it.
-Malcolm Forbes
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create that fact.
-William James
A healthy attitude is contagious
but don't wait to catch it from others.
Be a carrier.
Do not judge a man until you have walked
two moons in his moccasins.
-Native American proverb
Tell me, and I´ll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I´ll understand.
Dreams are simply the emotions of the heart
that have been painted into words...
-Doug Firebaugh
You can have everything in life you want,
if you will just help enough other people
get what they want.
If you do things well, do them better.
Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
-Anita Roddick
If the world is cold,
make it your business to build fires.
Those who hear not the music,
think the dancer is mad.
Blessed is the man who has friends,
but woe to him who needs them.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
-Sally Koch
A TRAGEDY
An elderly man, in the final days of his life, is lying in bed alone. He awakens to see a large group of people clustered around his bed. Their faces are loving, but sad. Confused, the old man smiles weakly and whisperes, "You must be my childhood friends, come to say good-bye. I am so grateful."
Moving closer, the tallest figure gently grasps the old man?s hand and replies, "Yes, we are your best and oldest friends, but long ago you abandoned us. For we are the unfulfilled promises of your youth. We are the unrealised hopes, dreams, and plans that you once felt deeply in your heart, but never pursued.. We are the unique talents that you never discovered. Old friend, we have not come to comfort you, but to die with you."
-Les Brown
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
-Erma Bombeck
Don't call the world dirty because
you have forgotten to clean your classes.
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
One person can make a difference
and every person should try.
-John F. Kennedy
Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles,
it empties today of its strength.
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy,
until nightfall. Anyone can do his work,
however hard, for one day.
Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly,
purely, till the sun goes down and that is
all that life really means.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through
each other's eyes for an instant?
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
01/2011
Never think that you´re not good enough yourself.
A man should never think that. People will take
you very much at your own reckoning.
-Anthony Trollope
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The state of your life is nothing more
than a reflection of your state of mind.
-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Dance as if no one´s watching,
sing as if no one´s listening,
and live everyday as if it were your last.
-Irish proverb
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge
to cross and which bridge to burn.
-David Russel
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
-James F. Byrnes
Everyone has a gift for something,
even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:
could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anybody else expects of you.
Facing it, always facing it.
That's the way to get through.
Face it.
-Joseph Conrad
Of all the liars in the world,
sometimes the worst are you own fears.
-Rudyard Kipling
Where there is an open mind
there will always be a frontier.
-Charles F. Kettering
The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vincent Lombardi
The major reason for setting a goal is
for what it makes of you to accomplish it.
What it makes of you will always be
the far greater value than what you get.
-Jim Rohn
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
-John W. Gardner
12/2010
Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
Life is 10 percent what you make it,
and 90 percent how you take it.
-Irving Berlin
Footprints in the sands of time
are never made by sitting down.
Ordinary people believe only in the possible.
Extraordinary people visualize not what is
possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.
And by visualizing the impossible,
they begin to see it as possible.
-Cherie Carter-Scott
NOW IS THE TIME
Draw on your own energy ... live out your passion.
Transform a moment into an event. Play music, paint,
or write. Explore the unknown. Share ideas.
Be passionate about an issue ... a person. Exercise
your body; cross the finish line like there's no tomorrow.
And be mindful of yourself and the world around you.
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever
you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the
first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough
getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting
his jacket on.
-Lou Holtz
The most important
three words you can
say to yourself:
Yes I can!
-Denis Waitley
A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn
winds up playing to an empty theatre.
A talented trumpeter who lets others
recognize his talent winds up a legend.
-Lisa Edmondson
The three most important questions
all winners ask themselves:
1. What do I want?
2. How am I going to get it?
3. When am I going to do something about it?
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered,
but did you bring the ship in?
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin;
it should make you jump up and do something.
Things turn out the best for the people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-Maya Angelou
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Gift of courage
Emerson wrote: "What a new face courage puts on everything!"
And no truer statement was ever written. Whatever it appears, courage changes things for the better ... It's the courage to do what need to be done, when it should be done ... And it's the courage to follow the silent voice within you when it means going against the crowd, or speaking when you know what you're going to say will be unpopular with your listeners. It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
-Earl Nightingale
A positive attitude removes the rust from the mind,
lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do
our work with fewer creaks and groans.
Six ways to bury new ideas
1. We have never done it that way before
2. It won't work in our department
3. We've done fine without it
4. It's too complicated
5. They tried that before
6. Nobody else does it that way
Never fear shadows.They simply mean
there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
-Ruth E. Renkel
11/2010
A little common sense,
a little tolerance,
a little good humor,
and you don't know
how comfortable you can make
yourself on this planet.
-Somerset Maugham
Just don't give up trying to
do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and
inspiration, I don't think
you can go wrong.
-Ella Fitzgerald
FIRST THINGS FIRST
I recently had a conversation with a young woman who was in her firs year of teaching high school Spanish. She told me an interesting story about how she got the job. Months after she was hired the principal told her "the story behind the story".
She was one of two finalists. The other candidate had five years' experience in another school system. The principal said that the decision to hire her came down to just one question. They were both asked, "Why do you want to teach here?"
The other teacher said, "Because I love to teach Spanish."
She got the job because she answered, "Because I love to teach kids."
There are two types of people who will tell you
that you cannot make a difference in this world:
Those who are afraid to try themselves,
and those who are afraid that you will succeed.
-Ray Goforth
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:
could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone
