Positive Quote Of The Day August 2012

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Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

-- Tom Morris

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In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know.

-- Kenneth Alsop (1920-1973)

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A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.

-- Aldous Huxley

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.

-- Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

-- Ronald Reagan

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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

-- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

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Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.

-- French Proverb

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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

-- Anonymous

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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.)

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

[Jeff]

Ok, I expect to win the Power Ball drawing!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Ok, I expect to win the Power Ball drawing!:thumbsup:

Keep me posted! I expect at least half.


Late today. Had to make a furious round trip to Tulsa Oklahoma yesterday afternoon and today.


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-- Anonymous

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A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

-- Benjamin Black

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Yesterday is history, Tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift; that's why they call it "the present".

-- Unknown

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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

-- Alain De Botton

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Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness.
-- Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane

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You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.-- Thomas Dreier

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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau

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When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.

-- J Peterman

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-- Allophones Karr

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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone.

-- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) British Actress

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Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

-- Sherry Rothfield

[Jeff]

Good one!

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I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

-- Ingrid Bergman

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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

-- Novelist Henry James

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For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

-- Fernandez de Andrada

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

-- Robert Brault


Isaac is getting close! Say a prayer.

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

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Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

-- William H. Sheldon