"The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half - inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead." -Robert Brault |
“Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.” —Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592); Essayist, Author |
"Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." --Henry Ford, American automaker |
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher |
“Evolution is evolution – and it’s happened before us and will continue after we’re gone. But, what’s taking place now is much more than change for the sake of change. The socialization of content creation, consumption and participation, is hastening the metamorphosis that transforms everyday people into participants of a powerful and valuable media literate society. - Brian Solis, BrianSolis.com |
America's number one energy crisis is Monday morning. -Unknown |
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
For the New Year The chief beauty about time Arnold Bennett Submitted by Ralph Pease |
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin |
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie |
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." -Erma Bombeck |
“Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.” -François de la Rochefoucauld |
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Daniel J. Boorstin |
"80 percent of sucess is showing up." -Woody Allen |
Begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined. By keeping that end clearly in mind, you can make certain that whatever you do on any particular day does not violate the criteria you have defined as supremely important, and that each day of your life contributes in a meaningful way to the vision you have of your life as a whole. From Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People - shared by Karen Hanenburg |
We must move from trying to control the uncontrollable cycles of pleasure and pain, and instead learn how to connect, to open, to love no matter what is happening. The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. Do we, in the midst of water, look for something else to drink? Transformation comes from looking deeply within, to a state that exists before fear and isolation arise, the state in which we are inviolably whole just as we are. We connect to to ourselves, to our ouw be true experience, and discover there that to be alive means to be whole. This thought was presented by Julie Lucas. |
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. Thought for the day brought by Isabella McPeak |
Vactions are essential.... take your friends. Betsy Davis CWB |