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pjbs35a
05-01-2020, 08:32 AM
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. - Unknown

Jeff
05-01-2020, 07:55 PM
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Good one!

pjbs35a
05-02-2020, 11:15 AM
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." --- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

Jeff
05-02-2020, 12:56 PM
Very true

pjbs35a
05-03-2020, 09:17 AM
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn

Jeff
05-03-2020, 10:23 AM
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pjbs35a
05-04-2020, 09:13 AM
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. - John F. Kennedy

pjbs35a
05-05-2020, 07:54 AM
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
American Writer

Jeff
05-05-2020, 04:22 PM
True

pjbs35a
05-06-2020, 09:47 AM
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. - Bahaullah

Jeff
05-07-2020, 07:25 AM
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pjbs35a
05-07-2020, 08:04 AM
"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That's the only way to get to the top."- Emil Zatopek (1922 - 2000) Czech Middle Distance Runner

Jeff
05-07-2020, 12:30 PM
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pjbs35a
05-08-2020, 08:25 AM
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. - Bernard Iddings Bell

Jeff
05-08-2020, 09:33 AM
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pjbs35a
05-09-2020, 08:54 AM
"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated." - - William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

Jeff
05-09-2020, 10:11 AM
For sure

pjbs35a
05-10-2020, 07:58 AM
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Jeff
05-10-2020, 04:12 PM
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pjbs35a
05-11-2020, 07:41 AM
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff
05-12-2020, 07:33 AM
:thumbsup:

pjbs35a
05-12-2020, 08:42 AM
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Those who look outside, dream. Those who looks inside, awaken. - Carl Gustav Jung

Jeff
05-12-2020, 01:46 PM
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pjbs35a
05-13-2020, 07:47 AM
"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
05-13-2020, 06:00 PM
:thumbsup:nice thought

pjbs35a
05-14-2020, 08:38 AM
"He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification." - - Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American Writer and Philosopher

Jeff
05-14-2020, 12:25 PM
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pjbs35a
05-15-2020, 08:31 AM
"My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging." - - Hank Aaron (B - 1934) American Baseball Player (Retired)

Jeff
05-15-2020, 12:15 PM
:thumbsup:Great advice

pjbs35a
05-16-2020, 09:14 AM
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

Jeff
05-16-2020, 03:37 PM
:thumbsup:too true

Cinderelley
05-17-2020, 02:27 AM
Can we bring Abraham Lincoln and our Founding Fathers back?

pjbs35a
05-17-2020, 09:19 AM
Can we bring Abraham Lincoln and our Founding Fathers back?

Working on t!

pjbs35a
05-17-2020, 09:20 AM
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the mountain. - Unknown

pjbs35a
05-18-2020, 08:45 AM
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy, and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

pjbs35a
05-19-2020, 09:22 AM
"Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved, and respected."- John Adams (1735 - 1826) Second U.S. President

Jeff
05-19-2020, 06:27 PM
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Cinderelley
05-20-2020, 01:12 AM
"Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved, and respected."- John Adams (1735 - 1826) Second U.S. President

Everyone's story needs to be told. I like the song City on the Hill because that is its theme.

pjbs35a
05-20-2020, 08:46 AM
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jeff
05-20-2020, 10:27 AM
:thumbsup:

pjbs35a
05-21-2020, 08:41 AM
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. - John F. Kennedy

pjbs35a
05-22-2020, 08:28 AM
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Jeff
05-22-2020, 04:55 PM
:thumbsup:Well said!

pjbs35a
05-23-2020, 10:21 AM
"Duty is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. (Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775)"- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish Politician and Writer

Jeff
05-23-2020, 12:40 PM
:thumbsup:

pjbs35a
05-24-2020, 09:10 AM
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. - Ray Bradbury

Jeff
05-24-2020, 10:10 AM
Good advice!

pjbs35a
05-25-2020, 09:25 AM
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. - Mary McLeod Bethune

Jeff
05-25-2020, 08:42 PM
:thumbsup:

Cinderelley
05-26-2020, 04:04 AM
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. - Mary McLeod Bethune

Now I have Aladdin stuck in my head. :)

pjbs35a
05-26-2020, 08:00 AM
"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

pjbs35a
05-27-2020, 07:55 AM
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. - Sam Ewing


….And that's why there is Disneyland and Disneyworld......

Jeff
05-27-2020, 08:23 AM
Very true!
I find that going fishing has helped the “quest” on both ends of my life journey!

pjbs35a
05-28-2020, 08:24 AM
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

Jeff
05-28-2020, 03:44 PM
Nice

pjbs35a
05-29-2020, 08:17 AM
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." -- Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845) 7th President of the United States

Jeff
05-29-2020, 08:25 AM
:thumbsup:Good advice!

pjbs35a
05-30-2020, 08:43 AM
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake. - M.B. Ray

Jeff
05-31-2020, 08:23 AM
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pjbs35a
05-31-2020, 09:47 AM
"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



And I am all about "Proper Occasions!"

Jeff
05-31-2020, 09:37 PM
:thumbsup:love that one!