Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Kindness


"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams


Monday, May 30, 2011

Help

"He who has a mind to meddle must have a heart to help." - Emerson 

Thursday, May 26, 2011

imagination

"In my dream,
the angel shrugged
and said,
if we fail this time,
it will be a failure of imagination.
And then she placed the world
gently
in the palm of my hand."

Brian Andreas

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Become

"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be and he will become what he should be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Champions

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali 

Monday, May 23, 2011

Love

"If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK." - Ken Kesey 

Friday, May 20, 2011

Happy Life

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius 

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Win

"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy." - Mike Ditka 

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Mistakes


"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - Edward Phelps

Monday, May 16, 2011

Self

"The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre." - D.H. Lawrence

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Fear

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela 

Monday, May 9, 2011

Love Yourself

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Feel

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein 

Friday, May 6, 2011

Positive action


"We are now confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action." - Dr. Martin Luther King 

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Courage

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." 
- Billy Graham 

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Money

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

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Happiness

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it." - William Feather 

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Opportunities

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

Thursday, April 28, 2011

asking and receiving


"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you." - Jim Rohn

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is giving up on hope that the past did not happen" - Oprah

Monday, April 25, 2011

I am the decisive element


"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate; my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de escalated, and whether a person is humanized or de-humanized." - Goethe 

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Give

‎"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Happiest


"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have." - Anonymous 

Friday, April 22, 2011

Truth and Beauty

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

Thursday, April 21, 2011

New beginning

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Defeat


"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Hope

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them." - Louisa May Alcott 

Monday, April 18, 2011

Happiest

"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others."- Denis Diderot 

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Courage

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "- Vincent Van Gogh 

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Truth

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time." - Mohandas Gandhi 

Friday, April 15, 2011

Thoughts

"You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Load

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne 

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

I believe in singing

"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed." - Mary Oliver 

Monday, April 11, 2011

Gratitude

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William Arthur Ward

Friday, April 8, 2011

Self


"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour 

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Joy


"When joy has a reason, it is not going to last long. 
But when joy is without any reason, it is going to be there forever." - Osho

Friday, February 25, 2011

Laugh

"A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Examples

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Shadows



"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will 
fall behind you." - Walt Whitman 

Friday, February 18, 2011

Love

"Out of love and care for yourself, send your love and compassion to your hurt, then forgive. It is the door to your freedom." - David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart