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Butt prints
One night I had a wonderous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen, The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore. But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?" Those prints are large and round and neat. But Lord, they are to big for feet." "My child," He said in somber tones, "For miles I carried you alone I challenged you to walk of faith, But you refused and made me wait." "You disobeyed, you would not grow, The walk of faith, you would not know, So I got tired, I got fed up, And there I dropped you on your butt." "Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When one must rise and take a stand, Or leave their butt prints in the sand." aka unknown |
"A love song is just a caress set to music." - Sigmund Romberg |
"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." - Anonymous |
"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person." - Eric Fromm |
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue. (f) ~ Author Unknown ~ |
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. (f) ~ Carl Buehner ~ |
Never underestimate the power of jealousy to change or destroy feelings. Never underestimate that. (f) ~Anonymous~ |
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. " |
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you - Oscar Wilde
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"Each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an avg of 1500 miles. ......fuel-thirsty steps include processing, packaging, warehouseing, and refrigeration. If every US citizen ate just one meal a week composed of local/organic meat & produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 mil barrels of oil EVERY WEEK."
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver |
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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They stumble that run fast. ... said William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. |
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank Outlaw
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Herman Cain |
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha |
From a friend's facebook page today....
In order to succeed in life...you need three things - a wish bone, a back bone and a funny bone.
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“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” - Dale Carnegie |
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~Paul Valery |
Thinking of my daughter...<smile>
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~Maya Angelou |
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
~Buddha |
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. ”
—Tenzin Gyatso (1935-); The 14th Dalai Lama |
"But we are married. We are married to our profession. We are married to what we believe, and we are married to the whole substance of our beings." Roy Horn "Everything was the show. My life was the show and the show was my life." Siegfried Fischbacher |
"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
Hugh Mackay |
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gotta love squabbling siblings... |
truth telling
Dalai Lama:
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come :glasses: |
"There has never been a great athlete who has died not knowing what pain is." Bill Bradley
"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching." Anson Dorrance "Pain is temprorary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong "These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it." Charles Barkley |
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
ALBERT MEMMI, Racism |
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin
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Achieving Excellence
You're not here to just get by. You're here to live life with excellence.
Excellence requires your focused effort and devotion. Excellence comes from your commitment to getting it right. Excellence is well worth all that effort and commitment. When you live with excellence, you live at life's highest level. If you're going to do something, do what's necessary to do it with excellence. If you're going to spend the time and make the effort, make enough effort to make it great. You are absolutely capable of achieving excellence in your own unique ways. Why would you settle for anything less? Instead of merely getting by, get excited about your best possibilities. And then get going on fulfilling them with excellence. The whole world is lifted higher by those who choose to create excellence. Be a source of relentless excellence and truly make a difference. -- Ralph Marston Give your day [and your life] hell. |
It's all fun and games until Marketing comes to the meeting...
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. - Frank Zappa |
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
~Samuel Smiles |
The most extraordinary thing about
the oyster is this. Irritations get into its shell. It does not like them. But when it cannot get rid of them, it uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but, anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and love to do it. Harry Emerson Fosdick |
Patience and tenacity of purpose are assets of infinitely greater
value than cleverness. There is great strength in patiently waiting. The sun, having set, comes up. The tide ebbs, but always flows in again. Fred van Amburgh |
People have been wonderful
to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on. Bob Losure |
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. Lucille Ball |
Dalai Lama
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering. In other words, the enhancement of fundamental values is indispensable to our basic quest for happiness.
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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~Babatunde Olatunji . |
“An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?” Descartes |
An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of the day.
“I envy a holy man, who is content with so little,” commented the sovereign. “I envy Your Majesty, who is content with less than I. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and mountains of the whole wide world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my soul. Your Majesty, however, has only this kingdom.” ~from Paulo Coelho's blog |
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