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 ~

Revenge

Revenge only engenders violence,

not clarity and true peace.

I think liberation must come from within.

~ Sandra Cisneros ~

Stained-Glass Windows

People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in,

their beauty is revealed only if

there is a light from within.

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ~

Formulate and Stamp

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind

a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.

Hold this picture tenaciously.

Never permit it to fade.

Your mind will seek to develop the picture.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them.

Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

~ Norman Vincent Peale ~

Life & Consciousness

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries.

Actually, their substrates are the inanimate.

And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain

to the thought that pops up in your head and mine?

There's something deeply mysterious about that.

And if you are not struck by the mystery,

I think you haven't thought about it.

~ Charles Krauthammer ~

R. I. P.

Positive Self-Image

A strong, positive self-image is the best

possible preparation for success.

~ Joyce Brothers ~

Enough

He who knows that enough is enough

will always have enough.

~ Lao Tzu ~

Good Relationships

Most good relationships are built

on mutual trust and respect.

~ Mona Sutphen ~

Fits the Lock

Smile, it is the key that fits

the lock of everybody's heart.

~ Anthony J. D'Angelo ~

Fathers

One father is more than

a hundred schoolmasters.

~ George Herbert ~

Happy Father's Day!

Flag Day

I believe that our flag is more than cloth and ink.

It is a universally recognized symbol that stands

for liberty and freedom.  It is the history of our

nation and it is marked by the blood of those

who died defending it.

~ John Thune ~

Happy Flag Day!

Food

Food is everything we are.

It's an extension of nationalistic feeling,

ethnic feeling,  your personal history, 

your province, your region, your tribe,

your grandma.  Its inseparable

from those from the get-go.

~ Anthony Bourdain ~

R.I.P.

The Artist

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel,

when I could be the artist?

~ Frederick von Schiller ~

Fidelity

Many persons have the wrong idea

of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self-gratification

but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

~ Helen Keller ~