Positive Quote Of The Day February 2010

[pjbs35a]

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

-- Tracy Chapman

[Jeff]

Good one:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

I like that one too... Thanks, Frankie! :number1:

[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

-- William Shakespeare

[Jeff]

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[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie! :D

[ibrowse17]

True, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

-- Chinese proverb

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie!! :number1:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives.

-- Dan Zadra

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

I thank you for bringing these to us each day:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.

-- Edward R. Lyman

[ibrowse17]

Very nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

Great one!:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie!! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Sorry I'm late; been celebrating the Saints Victory all day!!

Still in Shock!


The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

-- James A. Garfield

[Jeff]

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[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie! :number1:

[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.

-- Mike Zimmerman

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks, Frankie! :number1:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis

[ibrowse17]

So true, thanks:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie! :D

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

[Dizneyana]

Thanks, Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Good one, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

-- Joseph Conrad




HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie!! :thumbsup:

Happy Valentines Day to you too!!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

[Dizneyana]

So true! Thanks, Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

True, thank you:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

[ibrowse17]

How right is that? Thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[Dizneyana]

:number1: Thanks, Frankie!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

-- Washington Gladden

[Jeff]

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[Dizneyana]

Thanks Frankie! :number1:

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever truly be yours.-- Tiffany Loren Rowe

[Dizneyana]

Nice. Thanks, Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons

[Dizneyana]

Thanks, Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

True, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

[ibrowse17]

Interesting, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Do what you love to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again.

-- Mark Victor Hansen

[ibrowse17]

What a goal, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Cool, thanks:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks, Frankie! :number1:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

-- Diane Ackerman

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with them.

-- Unknown

[Dizneyana]

Good one... :rotfl: Thanks, Frankie!! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

Great one!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ibrowse17]

Very nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

Very True:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work.

-- Pat Clifford

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

So true... Thanks, Frankie! :number1:

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. (on the purpose of art).

-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian Novelist

[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[Dizneyana]

Thanks, Frankie! :number1:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."- Thomas Jefferson

[Jeff]

Yikes!!

[ibrowse17]

Interesting, thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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