Positive Quote Of The Day May 2017

[pjbs35a]

Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.-- Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen.-- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. December 19, 1998

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:good one

[pjbs35a]

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Presbyterian Minister

[pjbs35a]

"Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986) Hungarian Biochemist 1937 Nobel Prize for Physiology

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)American Poet and Essayist

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:very true

[pjbs35a]

"Never quit, even if you want to"

[pjbs35a]

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Most of us can, if we choose, make this world either a prison or a palace."
- Lord Avebury (1928 - 2016) English politician

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The true leader inspires in others self-trust, guiding their eyes to the spirit, the goal.-- Bronson Alcott

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002) Columnist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out."- Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920) American Novelist

[pjbs35a]

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.— Arthur C. Clarke

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Everyone is attempting to make things that have not existed before. And though we could argue till dawn about the utility or significance of what they're creating, I believe that to create or risk failing is the essence of feeling alive - that in the moment of creation they shake off their anonymity and feel relevant to the sweep of the world."- Po Bronson (1964) American journalist


HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it. -- Harry Truman

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:America needs you, Harry Truman.

[pjbs35a]

"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) German philosopher

[Jeff]

Nice!

[pjbs35a]

See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue
it resolutely.-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"It is not what he has which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881) Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic

[Jeff]

True

[pjbs35a]

"You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade. The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you."- John Hibben, , 1913 graduation address president of Princeton University

[Jeff]

" The best that is in you!" - nice

[pjbs35a]

"Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat."- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English Novelist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972) American Jewish theologian

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.— Benjamin Franklin

[Jeff]

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[#1donaldfan]

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

Perfect !!

[pjbs35a]

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.— Benjamin Mays

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments."- Kevin Costner 1955) American Actor, Producer and Director

[pjbs35a]

"Wealth still failed to impress him; the purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which was useful and interesting."- H. W. Brands, in his biography of Benjamin Franklin. (1953) American educator, author and historian

[Jeff]

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Only because Ben didn't have WDW to spend $ on!

[magicofdisney]

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Only because Ben didn't have WDW to spend $ on!
I agree. So many things today that are interesting or useful, cost MONEY! ;-). I'm not saying I would have wanted to live back then, but the simplicity of that life (i.e. none of our modern distraction) intrigues me.

[pjbs35a]

"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside." - Brian Tracy (1944 ) Public speaker

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:very true!

[pjbs35a]

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) German-American Physicist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

[pjbs35a]

I agree. So many things today that are interesting or useful, cost MONEY! ;-). I'm not saying I would have wanted to live back then, but the simplicity of that life (i.e. none of our modern distraction) intrigues me.


Affirmative!

[pjbs35a]

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Only because Ben didn't have WDW to spend $ on!



You need to go fly a kite!

:D

[Jeff]

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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Very nice!

[Jeff]

You need to go fly a kite!

:D

I've been told to do worse!

[pjbs35a]

"Honour, worthily obtained, is in its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it."- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."- Robert Schuller (1926) American Minister, Evangelist

[Jeff]

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