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Today's Quotations — LOVE
 

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Love like paint, can make things beautiful when you spread it, but it simply dries up when you don't use it.

— Author Unknown


They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude

 
 

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

  

While faith makes all things Possible, it is love that makes all things easy.

Evan H. Hopkins: Wesleyan Methodist

 
 

Love begins when a person feels another person's need to be as important as his own.

Harry Stack Sullivan 

 

 

word puzzleToday's Word – ARDOR

 



ar·dor
noun 1. Fiery intensity of feeling. Synonyms passion. 2. Strong enthusiasm or devotion; zeal. 3. Intense heat or glow, as of fire.

But his mother had discouraged him. She had affected to look with some contempt upon the quality of his war ardor and patriotism.

The Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane


Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

   
Heart Facts
 
 
   
 
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalm 139:14

 

 

February is Heart Month - Here are a few heart facts.


The age of technology has made life easier and made people more prone to heart disease. Before 1900, very few people died of heart disease. Since then, heart disease has become the number one killer in the United States. The arrival of automation made life less strenuous. Transportation is no longer by walking and elevators have replaced stairs. Most manual labor was either replaced or assisted by machinery. Automobiles, washing machines, elevators, and vacuum cleaners became commonplace. Modern conveniences made physical activity unnecessary.
70% of heart attacks occur in the home.

About 60% of all heart attack deaths occur within the first hour. According to the American Heart Association, at least half of the people suffering a heart attack delay seeking help for two hours or more.

People who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than people who have never smoked. Smokers who have a heart attack have less chance of surviving than nonsmokers.

 

I'm running a bit late - but online today is the second and third of 7 Valentine pages. Each page will have a fact, quote and inspiration related to Valentine's Day.
Valentine 1
| Valentine 2 | Valentine 3

 

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Today's SMILE

 

 

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

 
   

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Married in Heaven

A couple about to be married got into a car accident the day before they their wedding and died. When they went to Peter, they asked, "Peter, we would really like to be married here in heaven." Peter replied, "Why don't you wait a few years to make sure that you really would like to be together for forever." "OK" they replied. So they waited.

About a hundred years went by and they asked again. Again Peter said to wait a while. So again they waited. Another hundred years went by and they asked again. Peter finally said, "OK Why not." So of course they had a grand wedding. About Eighty years went by and they came to Peter and asked for a divorce. Peter replied, "Wait just a minute. It took me two hundred years to get a minister up here. How do you think I will ever get a lawyer up here?"


The Strongman and the Lemon

The strongman at a circus sideshow demonstrated his power before a large audience. Toward the end, he squeezed the juice from a lemon between his hands. He then said to the audience, "I will offer $200 to anyone in the audience who can squeeze another drop from this lemon.

A thin scholarly looking man came forward, picked up the lemon, strained hard and managed to get a drop. The strongman was amazed. He paid the man and asked, "What is the secret of your strength?"

"Practice," the man answered. "I was the treasurer of the Methodist Church for thirty-two years!

darsys@pro-entropy.cts.com   (Eric A. Seiden)


The Clergy and the Barber

A Rabbi went to the barber shop. After his hair cut, he got ready to pay the barber and the barber said, "No Rabbi, I don't charge the clergy for haircuts." So the next morning the barber found a loaf of Jewish rye bread outside of his door step.

A couple of days past and a Catholic priest came in to get his hair cut. He got ready to pay and the barber said, "No Father, I don't charge the clergy for hair cuts." So the next morning he found a bottle of wine outside his front door step.

A couple of days later the Baptist preacher came in to get his hair cut and when he got ready to pay the barber said, "No Reverend, I don't charge the clergy for their hair cuts." So the next morning, the barber found 15 Baptist preachers on his doorstep, ready to get their hair cut!

Mark D. Hodges



A fellow asks his boss, "Say Boss, my wife wants me to clean out the basement tomorrow. Can I have the day off?".

"NO" the boss answers.

"Thanks Boss, I knew you'd come through"


A wife complains, "Our wall clock almost killed my mother today. It fell only seconds after she got up from the couch."

The husband mumbles, "Stupid clock always was slow."


An impatient guy asks a clerk in the county court house, "How many people are there working in this office?"

Bored clerk answers, "About a quarter of 'em."


A tortoise was walking back from the pub late one evening when he was mugged by three snails.

Later on whilst taking giving a statement at the police station the officer in charge asked "So can you tell me what happened?"

"Not really" replied the tortoise "it all happened so fast"          


The television salesman gave a man and his wife a demonstration of how to use a remote-controlled set. He hooked it up in their living room, took the remote-control transmitter a block down the street, and switched channels without difficulty.

But the wife didn't like it. She got tired of walking a block away every time she wanted to change channels.



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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By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

 

 


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