Archives for August 2007

The battery in a car works only because it has a positive and a negative. As parents we also must have the same balance and be kind and loving, but also tough when it is necessary.
—Unknown

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

To change family life -|Husbands love your wives,|Wives respect your husbands,|Children obey your parents.
—Unknown

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
—Huey P. Newton

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
—Bessie Anderson Stanley (American Poet)

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We’re looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.
—Unknown

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
—Gerald Jampolsky

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you’ll never cease to grow.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
—Anonymous

Life is only a combination of different experiences. Demand to enjoy them all.
—Unknown

It’s only the view from where you sit that makes you fear defeat, but life is full of many aisles, so why don’t you change your seat?
—Unknown

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
—Petrarch (Italian Scholar)

Wear a smile – one size fits all
—Anonymous

Don’t re-anything. Don’t re-do, re-peat, re-cover, re-finance – do it right the first time.
—Unknown

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside all patterns.
—Bruce Lee (Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson)

You never realize how much you love something till its gone.
—Unknown

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
—William Bernbach

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
—Shunryu Suzuki

Anyone can give up–it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when the rest of the world would understand if you fell apart… that’s true strength.
—Anonymous

Wear a smile—one size fits all.
—Anonymous

It’s no longer enough to be a ‘change agent.’ You must be a change insurgent—provoking, prodding, warning everyone in sight that complacency is death.
—Robert Reich

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

The splendid discontent of God|With chaos, made the world…|And from the discontent of man|The world’s best progress springs.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
—Chinese Proverb

Only we can choose how great of an impact our actions have on others,|So choose something that does not discourage, but rather inspires.
—Unknown

A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian Author)

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

We can’t live our life over again, but we can really live up to our potential from this moment on.
—Unknown

Faith will take us to the destination God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
—Unknown

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

No one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day. It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable. Live one day at a time—it’s all that we have that is a certainty anyway.
—Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
—Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

Life is too short to waste time blaming someone|else for your failures. No one can make you fail.|Life is never too short to take time to thank someone|else for helping you succeed. Anyone can help you succeed.
—Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Unknown

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)