Positive Quote Of The Day April 2023

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"Life on the open road is liberty....to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world."- Isabelle Eberhardt (1877 - 1904) Swiss explorer and writer


Be careful if you are in an electric/battery operated vehicle.

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"So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light."- Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter

[Jeff]

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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Philosopher and Writer

[Jeff]

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"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 (B - 1961) American screenwriter, producer, and playwright

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Well said!
Except for the “soccer ball” part I agree wholeheartedly!

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"One climbs a mountain not to conquer it, but to be lifted away from the earth up into the sky."- Russell Banks (B - 1940) American writer of fiction and poetry

[Jeff]

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"Question: What is life about? Hepburn: It's about working hard and loving someone. Oh, and having fun. And, if you're lucky, you keep your health and someone will love you back."- Katherine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) American actress, to biographer Scott Berg

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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."- James Allen (1864 - 1912) British philosophical writer

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"I think that how one lives is more important than how long one lives. So I don't feel too bad."- Lim Yoon-taek (1980 - 2013) 32 Year old South Korean singer and cancer victim

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"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about."- James Clavell (1924 - 1994) British novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war, in his novel Shogun


HE IS RISEN!!
Happy Easter!

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[Jeff]

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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968) American Novelist

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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."- Dumas The Younger (1824 - 1895) French author and playwright

[Jeff]

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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."- Julie Andrews (B - 1935) English film and stage actress

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"Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past." - - Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894) American theologian

[Jeff]

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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832) German writer and statesman

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"The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives."- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) German-American Physicist

[Jeff]

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"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 (B - 1953) American educator, author and historian, in his biography of Benjamin Franklin

[Jeff]

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Keep on being positive. Too much negativity in this world.

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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Keep on being positive. Too much negativity in this world.

The greatest project you’ll ever work on is yourself; invest time, energy, and love to create a masterpiece.

[Jeff]

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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates

[Jeff]

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"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]

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"As the body needs physical exercise in order to remain in fit condition, man's spirit also requires the spiritual exercise derived when he confronts his problems and combats life's vicissitudes."- William and Mabel Sahakian (1922 - 1986) describing the philosophy of Epictetus

[Jeff]

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"It seems clear even in these years of squalid degradation that having risked death for the sake of honor is better than having risked dishonor for the sake of life."- Mark Helprin (B - 1947) American Novelist

[Jeff]

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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 (B - 1969) British-based author and television presenter

[Jeff]

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"Valuing people for their efforts and achievements, and thus expecting everyone to lead a useful life, even those who can well afford to be useless, is one of America's greatest contributions to the world."- Judith Martin (B - 1938) an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority

[Jeff]

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When we communicate with intention and clarity, we create ripples of understanding that spread far beyond the shores of our conversation. - Anonymous

[Jeff]

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"I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you."- J. Kenfield Morley (1838 - 1923) a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor

[Jeff]

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And now and then a good vacation

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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."- William H. Sheldon (1898 - 1977) American psychologist and numismatist

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And now and then a good vacation
Just head South!

[Jeff]

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[Jeff]

Just head South!

I am headed South in 2 days, however not as far South as you my friend. Headed to the Smoky Mountains!

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"Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time -- he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music."- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish Writer

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I am headed South in 2 days, however not as far South as you my friend. Headed to the Smoky Mountains!

That sounds like a plan!

[Jeff]

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) British Biologist

[Jeff]

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"Most groups have a potential for greatness that never quite takes off. But every so often the right person comes along who can put together a handful of superb people, set an impossible goal, engage them in a holy war, and let them rip."- Jennifer Clark Author of Mondo Agnelli: Fiat, Chrysler, and the Power of a Dynasty

[Jeff]

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"Every life is a daily series of advances and retreats, intimate victories and private defeats, all measured not by grand events but by an awareness of the obstacles that have been overcome along the way."- Simon Baatz Author of The Girl on the Velvet Swing

[Jeff]

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