Positive Quote Of The Day July 2012

[pjbs35a]

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
-- William Shakespeare

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

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

-- Tracy Chapman

[Jeff]

For sure!:thumbsup:

[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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[pjbs35a]

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!

[pjbs35a]

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

-- Albert Schweitzer

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks frankie!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true.

-- George Linnaeus Banks

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.

-- John Keats

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

-- Carl Sagan

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A man who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

-- Winston Churchill

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

-- Parker Palmer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.

-- Kurt Hahn

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

-- Bear Grylls, star of Man vs. Wild TV show

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.

-- John Burroughs

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Money is a “way of keeping score in life,” says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You can do that with a small amount of
money...or not do it with a fortune.

-- Bill Bonner, financial journalist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

[Jeff]

Great one!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

-- Salman Rushdie

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

-- Victor Robinsoll

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

-- Henry James

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Being a father is the only thing that lives up to the hype. When I'm with my daughter - when we're doing homework together or hanging out watching a movie or kicking a soccer ball around or doing any of the things we do - that's the only time I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.-- Aaron Sorkin, TV writer

[Jeff]

"feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing"! Very profound!

[pjbs35a]

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

-- James Truslow Adams

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside.

-- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
-- Emmet Fox

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

-- Carrie Fisher

[Jeff]

Good one!

[pjbs35a]

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.

-- Elvis Presley


Thank ya very much!

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

-- Samuel Ullman

[Jeff]

True:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

-- Jack Dempsey

[Jeff]

Sounds more like Yogi Berra!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

-- John McCain

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

[pjbs35a]

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

[Jeff]

Yep!:thumbsup: