Quotes of the days...

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

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"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

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"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.

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

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"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

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"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

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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

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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

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"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

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

--Dr. Steve Maraboli

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