Thoughts 01NOV2011

We get to make a living; we give to make a life - Winston Churchill
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing - Dale Carnegie
From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road - Yiddish Proverb
No one became poor by giving alms - French Proverb

Thoughts 31OCT2011

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes ... but that would be a mistake - Anonymous
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourselfs - Andy Warhol
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it - Mary Engelbreit

Thoughts 28OCT2011

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon
Never discourage anyone ... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow - Plato
If there is no struggle, there is no progress - Frederick Douglas

Thoughts 27OCT2011

Let him that would move the world first move himself - Socrates
The time to make friends is before you need them - Traditional Proverb
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up - John
Andrew Holmes Jr; American Writer and Minister
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be - David Bly

Thoughts 25OCT2011

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty - Winston Churchill
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it - Mary Norton Gordon
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart - John Hevwood, sixteenth-century English Poet
You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY - Matthew Stasior

Thoughts 24OCT2011

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality - in your mind - Bruce Lee
One does evil enough when one does nothing good - German Proverb
You may be on the right track, but if you sit there you'll get run over - Paul H Dunn
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster - Anonymous

Thoughts 21OCT2011

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass - Chuck T Falcon
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing - Anonymous
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can - Henry Drummond
In order to change we must be sick and tired or being sick and tired - Author Unknown

Thoughts 20OCT2011

Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor - Seneca
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one - Mother Teresa

Thoughts 19OCT2011

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow - Anonymous
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind - Buddha

Thoughts 18OCT2011

You haven't failed until you quit trying - Anonymous
Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something - Plato
All progress occurs because people dare to be different - Harry Milner
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by - Korean Proverb

Thoughts 17OCT2011

The truth is more important than the facts - Frank Lloyd Wright
Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot - Indian Proverb
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better - Anonymous

Thoughts 14OCT2011

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much - Erich Fromm
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions - Author Unknown
A half truth is a whole lie - Yiddish Proverb
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 13OCT2011

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams - Anonymous
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes - St Clement of Alexander
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man- Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts 12OCT2011

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy - Russian Proverb
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on - Anonymous
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom - Anonymous
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult - Seneca

Thoughts 11OCT2011

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it - Cullen Hightower
Where there is love there is no darkness - Burundi Proverb
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one - Japanese Proverb
A heart in love with beauty never grows old - Turkish Proverb

Thoughts 10OCT2011

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends - Afghan Proverb
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends - Gabonese Proverb
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief - Egyptian Proverb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway - Fr Jerome Cummings

Thoughts 06OCT2011

What worth has beauty if it is not seen - Italian proverb
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them - Ann Landers
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards - Soren Kierkegaard
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best - William M Thackeray

Thoughts 05OCT2011

One lie ruins a thousand truths - Ghanaian Proverb
What we see depends mainly on what we look for - John Lubbock
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others - Chinese Proverb
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair - Iranian Proverb

Thoughts 04OCT2011

Anyone who thinks that sky is the limit, has limited imagination - Anonymous
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse - Anne Sophie Swetchine
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?" - Anonymous

Thoughts 03OCT2011

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one does not dined well - Virginia Woolf
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly - Buddha
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it - Afghan Proverb