Thoughts 29APR2011

Today is the first day of the rest of your life - North American Saying
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night - William Blake
There is no luck except where there is discipline - Irish Proverb

Thoughts 28APR2011

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do - Lewis Cass
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action - Frank Tibolt
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 27APR2011

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything - Arabian Proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them - Chinese proverb
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow - French Proverb

Thoughts 26APR2011

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat - English Proverb
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking - English Proverb
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart - John Heywood

Thoughts 25APR2011

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners - Irish Proverb
Let your heart guide your head in evil matters - Spanish Proverb
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it - Indian Proverb

Thought 19APR2011

ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF Get to know yourself - what you can do and what you cannot do - for only you can make your life happy. Believe that by working, learning and achieving, you can reach your goals and be successful.Believe in your own creativity as a means of expressing your true feelings. Believe in appreciating life. Be sure to have fun everyday and to enjoy the beauty in the world.Believe in love. Love your friends, your family, yourself and your life. Believe in your dreams and your dreams can become a reality. By SusanPolis Schutz Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy - Arnaud Desjardin

Thoughts 18APR2011

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never - French Proverb He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good - Jewish Proverb He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever - Chinese Proverb

Thought 15APR2011

LITTLE THINGS

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes.
The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys.
But we're all eligible for life's small pleasures.
A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear.
A four-pound bass. A full moon.
An empty parking space. A crackling fire.
A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold drinks.
Don't fret about coping life's grand awards.
Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us.
A message as published in the Wall Street Journal (1982) by United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut 06101

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen - Cher

Thought 14APR2011

ON RISK : To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, or love. Chained by his addictions, he's a slave. He has forfeited his greatest trait, and that is his individual freedom. Only the person who risks is free. Leo Buscaglia (1924 - 1998) - Educator and writer, Cited in BITS & PIECES Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do - French Proverb

Thought 13APR2011

NEVER WITHDRAW Unless you make every waking a learning process, you are wasting a major portion of your life. You can learn from people you do not like as well as from those you love. You can learn from the elders and the youth. You can learn more about the things you know about and fine-tune the things you are good at. You can learn by observing, listening and serving. You can learn by assisting, completing and forgiving. Never withdraw from the education process by picking and choosing from who you can learn. Keep your mind open, your ears attuned and your willingness to learn in the humble state of a student - Iyanla Vanzant ... Let your love be like the misty rain; coming softly, but flooding the river - Madagascan Proverb

Thought 12APR2011

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it - Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe (Reader's Digest - December 2007) You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind - Irish Proverb

Thought 11APR2011

ON DETERMINATION You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends, will suddenly show up ... to trip you, blacken you and break your spirit - John R Noe - Extracted from 'Speaker's Sourcebook II', Glen Van Ekeren, Prentice Hall, 1994 Open your door to a good day and prepare yourself for a bad one - Moon Over Morocco

Thoughts 08APR2011

Nothing is as burdensome as a secret - French Proverb No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival - Turkish Proverb No time like the present - English Proverb

Thoughts 07APR2011

A little too late, is much too late - German Proverb A broken hand works, but not a broken heart - Persian Proverb Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass - French Proverb

Thoughts 06APR2011

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming - English Proverb (18th century) Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own - Chinese Proverb It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance - Spanish Proverb

Thoughts 05APR2011

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince - North American Proverb Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day - Sanskrit Proverb Who begins too much accomplishes little - German proverb

Thoughts 04APR2011

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting - French Proverb Never cut what can be untied - Portuguese Proverb Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper - Scottish Proverb