ALL THE REST –    March 9
  

 

Today's Quotations – LIFE

 

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares 
to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

— Herbert Otto

 

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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

— Joseph Campbell

 
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin 

 

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The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. 

Dante

 

 
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Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging. 

— Paul Klee
 

 

Today's One Liner Wisdom



I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein


 

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  Today's Word – GLACIAL
   

 


  gla·cial adjective 1.a. Of, relating to, or derived from a glacier. b. Suggesting the extreme slowness of a glacier: Work proceeded at a glacial pace. 2.a. Often Glacial. Characterized or dominated by the existence of glaciers. Used of a geologic epoch. b. Pleistocene. 3. Extremely cold; icy: glacial waters.  Synonym cold. 4. Having the appearance of ice. 5.a. Lacking warmth and friendliness: a glacial stare. b. Coldly detached: a glacial composure.

The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.

LITTLE WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 



Thar She Blows

When a whale blows, it is not spouting water from its nostrils. Whales are not stupid. They do not deliberately take water into their respiratory system. Whales are mammals and they don’t want water in their nose.

Before a whale ‘sounds,’ or dives, it takes in enough air to fill its lungs and sustain it underwater. When the whale surfaces again it will expel the used air. This expired air has been warmed by the whale’s body. The expelled air is nearly always warmer than the surrounding air temperature. The moisture in the exhaled air then condenses into water. The exhalation of the warmed air is through the blowhole, which is closed while the whale is submerged underwater. Sometimes the whale will start blowing before it has entirely surfaced. When this happens some of the sea water is also blown into the air.

The Blunder Book


 

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Today's SMILE

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   

Sign

A road was closed to repair a collapsed sewer-pipe.   The actual road closure was not apparent until a person drove around a bend, so drivers would go around the closure sign to see if the road was really impassable.   Once they went around the bend, they'd have to turn around in the narrow   road.  Their embarrassment was made worse by the back of the  "ROAD CLOSED" sign, which read: "TOLD YOU SO!"


Announcement

While waiting to board a plane in a small airport, the ticket agent made the following announcement on the paging system: "Would the person who dropped his pants please return to the ticket counter." After a slight pause, the same voice added, "The pants were on a hanger!

ZONDERVAN Time To Smile


Enjoyed the Sermon

One Sunday morning, after attending church services in Hartford, Connecticut, Mark Twain said to Dr. Doane, the minister: "I enjoyed your services this morning, doctor. I welcomed it like an old friend. I have, you know, a book at home containing every word of it."

"You have not," said the indignant Dr. Doane.

"I have so," countered Twain.

"Then send it to me. I'd very much like to see it."

"I'll send it," promised Mark and the following day he sent the Reverend Dr. Doane an unabridged dictionary.

ZONDERVAN Time To Smile


Serious Cold 

There once was an elephant who came down with a very serious cold. He was so stuffed up that he couldn't really breath through his trunk anymore. "No one has ever suffered as much as I," he moaned to himself.

After he failed to get better for over a week, the elephant was sure that he was going to die. So he called all of his friends together for a farewell party, and he gave away all of his worldly possessions, in lieu of having a will.

The next day, the elephant woke up in perfect health, and penniless.

The moral? Just because your trunk's packed doesn't mean you're ready to go.


Let Me Help 

Walking down the street, a man passes a house and notices a child trying to reach the doorbell. No matter how much the little guy stretches, he can't make it. The man calls out, "Let me get that for you," and he bounds onto the porch to ring the bell.

"Thanks mister," says the kid. "Now let's run."


WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD ?

PAT BUCHANAN
To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.

DR. SEUSS
               Did the chicken cross the road?
               Did he cross it with a toad?
               Yes! The chicken crossed the road,
               but why it crossed, I've not been told!

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die. In the rain.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

KARL MARX
It was a historical inevitability.

SADDAM HUSSAIN
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

RONALD REAGAN
What chicken?

KEN STARR
I intend to prove that the chicken crossed the road at the behest of the president of the United States of  America in an effort to distract law enforcement officials and the American public from the criminal wrongdoing our highest elected official has been trying to cover up. As a result, the chicken is just another pawn in the president's ongoing and elaborate scheme to obstruct justice and undermine the rule of law. For that reason, my staff intends to offer the chicken unconditional immunity provided he cooperates fully with our investigation. Furthermore, the chicken will not be permitted to reach  the other side of the road until our investigation and any
Congressional follow-up investigations have been completed. (We also are Investigating whether Sid Blumenthal has leaked information to the Rev. Jerry Falwell, alleging the chicken to be homosexual in an effort to discredit any useful testimony the bird may have to offer, or at least to ruffle his feathers.)

LOUIS FARRAKHAN
The road, you will see, represents the black man.  The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down.

THE BIBLE
And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken,"Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.




TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 


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