![]() -- Charles Dickens |
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
![]() -- Robert Frost |
![]() -- Victor Borge |
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"I have found that if I love until it hurts, there is no hurt but only move love."
-- Mother Teresa |
![]() -- Shimon Peres |
![]() -- Woodrow Wilson |
![]() "Surrender your stress to God's care, and your sins to God's cross."
A Prayer: "Lord, today help me to make my words tender and sweet. Because tomorrow I may have to eat them."
-- Dr. Robert Schuller |
![]() -- Rick Warren |
"True freedom consists in the liberation of the human person from the shackles of ignorance, oppression and vice...What overcomes ignorance is knowledge and the object of knowledge is truth -- empirical, moral, spiritual. 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.'"
-- Robert P. George |
![]() -- Fool, in Shakespeare's "King Lear" |
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
-- Anonymous |
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind see."
--Mark Twain |
"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Anonymous |
![]() -- Frank Leahy |
![]() -- Duke Ellington |
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards."
-- Vernon Sanders Law |
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman |
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To laugh often and much;
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
![]() -- Abraham Lincoln |
![]() -- --Erma Bombeck |
![]() One ship sails East and another sails West. With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails and not the gales, That determine the way they go.
Like the winds of the sea are the waves of fate, -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
![]() "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
"If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain."
-- Dolly Parton |
![]() Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why they call it the present." |
![]() -- G.K. Chesterton |
![]() Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. --Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925) |
![]() --John Wooden
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![]() --Ronald Reagan
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![]() Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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![]() Whoever would make of himself a distinctive individual must be keen to perceive what he is not. --Friedrich Schleiermacher
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![]() Do what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws. --Sir Richard Francis Burton
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![]() --Henry David Thoreau |
![]() We can make the world a better place by colouring our own little corner.
Death robs us of our loved one but is unable to rob us of our sweet memories of that love.
--Joan Adams Burchell |
Believe in God, serve God, but don't try to understand God's essence. You will get nothing from your painful efforts except disappointment and fatigue. Do not even strive to find out whether God exists; just serve as if this were true, as if God were present everywhere. Nothing else is necessary. --3rd Century Greek Playwright Philemon |
![]() --Booker T. Washington-- |
Standard traffic laws apply on the road of success. Speed too fast and you'll crash. Cut people off and you'll struggle. Pay attention, keep
driving and you'll enjoy the ride. It's even better if you can get others
to ride with you in the carpool lane.
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![]() And sunshine hurts your eyes, That out of heartbreak and despair A miracle supplies New strength, new hope, new joy from pain -- You stand, and calmly live again." --Anonymous |
![]() THE MEANING OF ALOHA
A - Akahi -- Kindness to be expressed with tenderness. I am grateful for this quote from Slackkeyman from Kaua'i. |
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Happiness keeps You Sweet, |
![]() OLD AGE
Old age, I decided, is a gift. I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be. Oh, not my body! I sometimes despair over my body ... the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt. And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror, but I don't agonize over those things for long. I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less grey hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become more kind to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. |
THE BUCK STOPS HERE
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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
![]() His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life." "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.
Someone once said what goes around comes around. When you help someone else you are bringing joy into your life also.......
Story sent to me via e-mail by G. Ron Pirtle
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![]() Here lies the body of Jonathan Pease. It's not really Pease, it's just the pod Pease shelled out and went to God. Thanks to Claudia Stafford for this one. |
THE TROUBLE TREE
![]() As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss. Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier. "Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again. Funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there ain't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before." |
WHERE GOD IS
![]() The Rabbi said to the stranger. "Since God is here, you've come to the right place." He was offered board and lodgings with an old widow, and for payment the stranger chopped wood for her fire, and helped other villagers in need. Each day the stranger would seek out the Rabbi and ask, "Is God here, and will I see Him today?" And each time the Rabbi would reply, "God is here, and you've come to the right place". One day, after walking back from the next village the Rabbi was disturbed from his rest by the sound of voices. Looking up he saw the stranger talking to a man, dusty from many days of travel. As the Rabbi listened he heard the travel-dusty man say to the stranger, "Please help me, I'm looking for God, and I cannot find Him anywhere." The Rabbi smiled and his kindly eyes filled with tears as he heard the stranger reply, "You have come to the right place because God is here. Stay with us and you will find Him." For me the moral of that little story is, we don't need to look for God because He is here in our friends and in all the deeds we do. When a person smiles, He is there. He may be in the stranger who helps you or in the pretty flower that pushes up through the frozen ground in Spring. When I was returning from the funeral of my fiance, I'd passed my local shopping centre and felt bewildered. The March sun was shining, the spring flowers were blooming, people were walking around, smiling and talking. At first I'd felt hurt, like no one cared that my world had ended. But then I remembered how much I loved the sunshine and how happy I would have been on any other sunny day--and somehow it made me smile. God was there in those shoppers, and it was His way of reminding me He was there; the sun was still there, and one day I'd be able to enjoy life again. We need never look for Him, He's with us every moment of every day, it's only up to us to recognise Him. By Sue Stirling (in England) from Sue's Special Spot |
Work like you don't need the money Love like you've never been hurt Dance like nobody's watching |
AN OLD MULE'S TALE ![]() Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back ... a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back HE SHOULD SHAKE IT OFF AND STEP UP! This he did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up...shake it off and step up!" He repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or how distressing the situation seemed, the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on SHAKING IT OFF AND STEPPING UP!
From Steve in the Grandparents' Web Ring Newsletter |
CHIEF YELLOWHAWK'S PRAYER ![]() and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me, I come before you, one of your children. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made, my ears sharp to hear your voice. |
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