PERSPECTIVES
Count not your age by the years you have But by the Happiness you give The friends you make, the good you do The confidence that is placed in you The little things that day by day Bring cheer to others on life's way and count your birthdays one more mile Upon the road of things worthwhile! |
Monday, January 10, 2005
Perspectives
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Someone will always be smarter. Their house will be bigger. They will drive a better car. Their children will do better in school. And their partners will fix more things around the house. So let it go and love you and your circumstances. Think about it. The prettiest woman in the world can have hell in her heart. And the most highly favored woman on your job may be unable to have children. The richest woman you know - she's got the car, the house, the clothes - might be heartbreakingly lonely. So, love you. Love who you are right now. Tell yourself, "I am too blessed to be stressed." Be blessed ladies and pass this on to encourage another woman. "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world." Send this to wonderful strong women you know. I did. Possibilities and miracles are one and the same.
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it’s on your plate—Thornton Wilder Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.—Andre Gide One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.—Anne Morrow Lindbergh Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.—William Shakespeare A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawnmower is broken.—James Dent Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.—Russell Baker Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.—Anthony J. D’Angelo
ReplyDeleteA Vacation is.... “having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”—Robert Orben “A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.”—Marcelene Cox “There’s no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”—Mark Twain “You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.”—Alec Waugh “A good traveler has no fixed plans, an dis not intent on arriving.”—Lao Tzu “No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.”—Elbert Hubbard “A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”—Earl Wilson
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ReplyDelete“The first of April, some do say,
Is set apart for All Fools' Day.
But why the people call it so,
Nor I, nor they themselves do know.
But on this day are people sent
On purpose for pure merriment.”
~ ~ ~ Poor Robin's Almanac (1790)
“Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of
yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. “ ~Author Unknown
“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from
our foolishness.”
-~Sacha Guitry
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
~ Benjamin Franklin
“No wo/ man really becomes a fool until s/he stops asking questions.”
~ Charles Steinmetz
1] Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin."
ReplyDelete- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
[2] I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "Not good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
[3] Last week, I said this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain
[4] The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns
[5] Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge
[6] Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
[7] What would men be without women? Scarce, sir... mighty scarce.
- Mark Twain
[8] By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
[9] I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
[10] My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante
[11] The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
- Jilly Cooper
[12] I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
[13] Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine
[14] Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
[15] My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
- Ed Furgol
[16] Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan
[17] What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
- Henny Youngman
[18] I am opposed to millionaires... but it wouldn't be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain
[19] Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was "shut up".
- Joe Namath
[20] Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
- Herbert Henry Asquith
[21] I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
- Bob Hope
[22] I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
- W.C. Fields
[23] By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
- Billy Crystal
[24] Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
[25] Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty.. but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
- Phyllis Diller
[26] The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good spit it out.
- Unknown
AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST.....
[27] We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
Will Rogers
The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama. The judge's poem sums it up quite well.
ReplyDeleteAmerica the Beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.
Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine
choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain
From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray.
We've kept God in our temples,
how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.
We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges;
who throw reason out the door,
Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.
You think that God's not angry,
that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:
Then God will hear from Heaven;
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.
But, America the Beautiful,
if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.
~~Judge Roy Moore~~
This says it all. May we all forward this message and offer our prayers for Judge Moore to be blessed and for America to wake up and realize what we need to do to keep OUR America the Beautiful.
Pass this on and let's lift Judge Moore up in prayer.
He has stood firm and needs our support.
Gratitude. There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. Helen Keller Feeling gratitude & not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or a woman’s love. William Butler Yeats
ReplyDeleteVacation Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whther he feels like taking it or not. William James Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you. Anonymous No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. Elbert Hubbard
ReplyDeleteLearn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. I've learned that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
ReplyDeleteLife is self-discovery. I congratulate myself on the
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producing flowers in each season of my life.
Edie Jurmaine
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
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For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life, but there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
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"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you" Walt Disney
ReplyDeleteToo many of us, when we accomplish what we set out to do, exclaim, 'See what I have done!' instead of saying, 'See where I have been led.'
ReplyDeleteHenry Ford
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Ward
ReplyDeleteBravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it. Anonymous Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Bill Meyer
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." A.A. Milne.
ReplyDeleteAsking for help is a sign of strength.
ReplyDeleteThe audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going. Philip Crosby
ReplyDeleteAcross the fields of yesterday
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A little lad just back from play
The lad I used to be.
And yet he smiles so wistfully 5
Once he has crept within,
I wonder if he hopes to see
The man I might have been.
Thomas S. Jones, Jr. 1882-
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it other- wise, she would never have been able to find these words.
ReplyDeleteRainer Maria Rilke
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence
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"Things are not as they are, but as we are." Emerson
ReplyDeleteBravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it.
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
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To err is human;to blame it on the other guy is even more human. Bob Goddard
ReplyDelete"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily."
ReplyDeleteZig Ziglar
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. Ralph Emerson
ReplyDeleteLaugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.
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