Quotes of the days...

Friday's Quote:
"My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it."
--Clarence Budington Kelland

Today's Quote:
"Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received."
--Fawn Weaver

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Monday's Quote:
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
--Dale Carnegie

Tuesday's Quote:
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
--Barbara Bush

Wednesday's Quote:
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
--Albert Einstein

Today's Quote:
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
--Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the day...

"The great teacher is not the man who supplies the most facts, but the one in whose presence we become different people."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
--Clay P. Bedford

Quote of the day...

"This, too, shall pass.

When things are bad, remember:
It won't always be this way.
Take one day at a time.

When things are good, remember:
It won't always be this way.
Enjoy every great moment."

--Author unknown

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Today's Quote:
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
--Berthold Auerbach

Yesterday's Quote:
"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
--Ovid

Quote of the day...

"Perhaps the healing of the world rests on... coming to know that in our suffering and our joy we are connected to one another with unbreakable and compelling human bonds. In that knowing, all of us become less vulnerable and alone."
--Rachel Naomi Remen

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
--Desmond Tutu

Today's Quote:
"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
--Oswald Avery

Quote of the day...

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
--John Quincy Adams

Quote of the day...

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
--Ernest Hemingway

Today's Quote:
"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
--John F. Kennedy

Quote of the day...

"Nature brightens the soul, memories brighten the heart."
--Tess Grant

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"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

--Carl Jung

Quote of the day...

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."
--Author unknown

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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
--E. M. Forster

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"Life is a long lesson in humility."
--James Barrie

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"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."
--Dick Cavett

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"If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."
--Thich Nhat Hanh

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Friday's Quote:
"Life has an elegance that far exceeds anything we might devise. Perhaps the wisdom lies in knowing when to sit back and wait for it to unfold.  Too hasty an activism may lead to lesser outcomes and, more important, may cause us to trust ourselves rather than learning to trust life."
--Rachel Naomi Remen, in My Grandfather's Blessings

Today's Quote:
"Why is Monday so far from Friday but Friday so close to Monday?"
--Unknown

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"You must master a new way to THINK before you can master a new way to BE."
--Marianne Williamson

Today's Quote:
"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."
--Mary  Dunbar

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad."
--Jeffrey R. Holland

Today's Quote:
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
--William Shakespeare

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly."
--Henry Drummond

Today's Quote:
"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
--Doug Larson

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Yesterday's Quote:
"There is an interconnectedness among family members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing."
--Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil)

Today's Quote:
"Dear Life,
When asked if my day could get any worse, it was a rhetorical question -- not a challenge."
--Author Unknown

Quote of the day...

"Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."
--Abraham Lincoln

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"We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree -- deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals."

--Dodinsky

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"The power of a personal sense of meaning to change the experience of work, of relationship, or even of life cannot be overestimated....Meaning is strength....Indeed, competence and expertise are two of the most respected qualities....in our society. But important as they are, they are not sufficient to fully sustain us.

A great Italian psychiatrist, Roberto Assagioli, wrote a parable about interviewing three stonecutters building a cathedral in the fourteenth century....When he asks the first stonecutter what he is doing, the man replies with bitterness that he is cutting stones into blocks, a foot by a foot by three quarters of a foot. With frustration, he describes a life in which he has done this over and over, and will continue to do it until he dies. The second stone cutter is also cutting stones into blocks, a foot by a foot by three quarters of a foot, but he replies in a somewhat different way. With warmth, he tells the interviewer that he is earning a living for his beloved family; through this work his children have clothes and food to grow strong, he and his wife have a home which they have filled with love. But it is the third man whose response gives us pause. In a joyous voice, he tells us of the privilege of participating in the building of this great cathedral, so strong that it will stand as a holy lighthouse for a thousand years.

The important thing in this parable is that all three of the expert stonecutters are doing the same repetitive physical task....Competence may bring us satisfaction. Finding meaning in a familiar task often allows us to go beyond this and find in the most routine of tasks a deep sense of joy and even gratitude."

--from Kitchen Table Wisdom, by Rachel Naomi Remen

Quote of the day...

"When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again."
--Michelle Kwan, figure skater and Olympic medalist

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"Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on."
--Douglas Pagels

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Friday's Quote:
"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope."
--Jacques Cousteau, marine biologist and explorer

Today's Quote:
"Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up in gratitude."
--Zig Ziglar

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"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."
--Bob Hope, comedian

In honor of my younger brother Curtis' birthday.

Quote of the day...

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
--Danny Kaye

Quote of the day...

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
--Sally Koch

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"May love and laughter light your days,
And warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours
Wherever you may roam."
--Irish proverb

Friday's Quote...

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."
--Maya Angelou

Quote of the day...

"He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows -- he breathes but does not live."
--Sanskrit proverb

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"There was once a pretty chicken,
but his friends were pretty few,
For he thought that there was nothing
in the world but what he knew."
--Marion Douglas

Today's Quote:
"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift... another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it... You were not born to fail."
--Og Mandino

Quotes of the days...

Friday's Quote:
"Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become."
--Barbara Geraci

Today's Quote:
"We carry with us every story we have ever heard and every story we have ever lived, filed away at some deep place in our memory. We carry most of those stories unread, as it were, until we have grown the capacity or the readiness to read them. When that happens they may come back to use filled with a previously unsuspected meaning. It is almost as if we have been collecting pieces of a greater wisdom, sometimes over many years without knowing."
--Rachel Naomi Remen

Quote of the day...

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
--Jacob Riis

Quote of the day...

"A new day:
Be open enough to see opportunities.
Be wise enough to be grateful.
Be courageous enough to be happy."

--Dr. Steve Maraboli

Quote of the day...

"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."
--Jean de la Bruyere

Quote of the day...

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
--Walter Elliott

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Quote of the day...

"Family is the soil in which we grow the next generation."
--Author unknown

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"As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Quote of the day...

"The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs."
--Zig Ziglar

Quote of the day...

"The past has no power over the present moment."
--Eckhart Tolle

Quote of the day...

"To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...
This is to have succeeded."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the day...

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
--Norman Vincent Peale

Quote of the day...

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
--James Oppenheim

Quote of the day...

Yesterday's Quote:
"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."
--Chinese proverb

Today's Quote:
"The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see."
--Barry Neil Kaufman

Quote of the day...

Friday's Quote:
"Many small people, in many small places, do many small things, that can alter the face of the world."
--Author unknown

Quote of the day...

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
--Henri Bergson

Quote of the day...

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
--Peter Ustinov

Quote of the day...

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
--Clarence Darrow

Quote of the day...

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."
--John Ruskin

Quote of the day...

"Keep smiling and one day Life will get tired of upsetting you!"
--Author unknown

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"Wisdom lies in engaging the life you have been given as fully and courageously as possible, and not letting go until you find the unknown blessing that is in everything."
--Rachel Naomi Remen

Today's Quote:
"You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do."
--Author unknown

Quote of the day...

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
--Dalai Lama

Quotes of the days...

Thursday's quote:
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
--John Stuart Mill

Friday's quote:
"We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us."
--William Brennan, Jr.

Quote of the day...

"When our actions are based on good intentions, our soul has no regrets."
--Anthony Douglas Williams

Quote of the day

Yesterday's Quote:
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
--Milton Berle

Quote of the day...

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
--Marcus Aurelius

Quote of the day...

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
--David Viscott

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Quote of the day...

"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."
--Mary Engelbreit

Quote of the day...

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote of the day...

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is to have a bigger 'yes' burning inside."
--Stephen Covey

Quote of the Day...

"Judge me not by physical size or appearance, but me by the size of my character."
--Cornelius Kilgore

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"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to resolve to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great."
--Orison Swett Marden, American author

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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

--Charles Swindoll

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There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree:

1. Sit on an acorn
2. Make friends with a bird
3. Climb it

--Author Unknown

Quote of the day...

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

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Friday's quote:
"Optimist: A man who is chased up a tree by a lion but enjoys the scenery anyway."
--Walter Winchell

Quote of the day...

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
--Author unknown

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"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
--Christopher Reeve

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Today's Quote:
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Yesterday's Quote:
"I...learned that the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human heart and mind."
--Greg Iles, in The Quiet Game

Quote of the day...

"Live life as if it were created for you."
--Maya Angelou

Quote of the day...

"I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.  It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity..."
--Theodore Isaac Rubin

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday's Quote:
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
--Peter Drucker

Today's Quote:
"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."
--Zig Ziglar

Quote of the day...

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
--Benjamin Franklin

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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Author unknown

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"Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company."
--Rachel Naomi Remen, author, teacher, physician, and pioneer in Integrative Medicine

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"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
--George Burton Adams

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"We read to know that we are not alone."
--C.S. Lewis

Quotes of the days...

Wednesday's Quote:
"We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less."
--Diogenes Laertius

Thursday's Quote:
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
--Randy Pausch

Friday's Quote:
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
--Friedrich Neitzsche

Quotes of the days...

Yesterday:
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
--R. Collier

Today:
"The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student."
--Martin Palmer

Quote of the day...

"Even a toad has four ounces of strength."

--Chinese proverb

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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right."

--attributed to both Oprah Winfrey and Hal Borland