Love Your Life

However mean your life is, do not blame it;

 do not shun and call it hard names.  

It is not so bad as you are.  

It looks poorest when you are richest.

The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise.

Love your life.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Respect

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents

will not have true respect for anyone.

~ Billy Graham ~

Dreams

Dreams are renewable.

No matter what our age or condition,

there are still untapped possibilities within us

and new beauty waiting to be born.

~Dr. Dale Turner ~

Office Plants

Never go to a doctor

whose office plants have died.

~ Erma Bombeck ~

Rain

If the rain spoils our picnic,

but saves a farmer's crop,

who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

~ Tom Barrett ~

Happiness

Let us never know what old age is.

Let us know the happiness time brings,

not count the years.

~ Ausonius ~

Be That Perfectly

Do not wish to be anything but what you are,

and try to be that perfectly.

~ St. Francis de Sales ~

Music

Music expresses that which cannot be said

and on which it is impossible to be silent.

~ Victor Hugo ~

Little Difference in People

There is little difference in people,

but that little difference makes a big difference.

The little difference is attitude.

The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

~ W. Clement Stone ~

Politics

In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics."

All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies,

evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.

~ George Orwell ~

A Higher Standard

Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard

than anybody expects of you.

Never excuse yourself.

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Be Not Afraid of Life

These, then, are my last words to you:

Be not afraid of life.  Believe that life

is worth living and your life is worth living

and your belief will help create the fact.

~ William James ~

Almost Out of Reach

You have to set the goals that are almost out of reach.

If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought,

you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

~ Steve Garvey ~

Love & Happiness

Love is when the other person's happiness

is more important than your own.

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~

Think & Feel

Think and feel yourself there!

To achieve any aim in life,

you need to project the end-result.

Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy!

Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring 

the desired goal into view.

~ Grace Speare ~

Failure

Failure is only the opportunity

to begin again more intelligently.

~ Henry Ford ~

America

America will never be destroyed from the outside.

If we falter and lose our freedoms,

it will be because we destroyed ourselves. 

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

The Essence of America

The essence of America - that which really unites us -

is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion.

It is an idea - and what an ideas it is:

that you can come from humble circumstances

and do great things.  That it doesn't matter

where you came from, but where you are going.

~ Condoleezza Rice ~

Happy Independence Day U.S.A.!

Overnight Success

Instead of thinking about where you are,

think about where you want to be.

It takes twenty years of hard work

to become an overnight success.

~ Diana Rankin ~

Cheer Yourself Up

The best way to cheer yourself up

is to try to cheer somebody else up.

~ Mark Twain ~