Positive Quote Of The Day November 2011

[pjbs35a]

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

-- Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

-- Charlotte Bronte

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary

Headed to Dallas for my first NASCAR race. Think Positive until I return.

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I think that how one lives is more important than how long one lives.
So I don't feel too bad. - A 32 Year old South Korean cancer victim

-- Lim Yoon-taek

[pjbs35a]

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

-- Chinese proverb

[pjbs35a]

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun."
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

-- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) American Writer

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

-- Mary Jean Iron

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

-- Arland Gilbert

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

-- Vauvenargues

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be - quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.

-- Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

[Jeff]

Great thought!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

ABOUT GROWING OLDER... ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks. --Will Rogers

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.

-- Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

-- Seneca

[pjbs35a]

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
-- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English Novelist

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

-- Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

ABOUT GROWING OLDER... ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top. --Will Rogers

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.

-- Anonymous

[Jeff]

Good point!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

-- Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions.

-- Julius C. Hare (1795-1855) English Cleric

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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