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Today's Quotations –  more on  SUCCESS:

 


Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

— Michel de Montaigne



Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstances are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.

— Sidney Greenberg, Say Yes to Life



Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

— Anthony Troloppe



If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

  — Albert Einstein



Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

—  John Wooden



Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

—  Artur Rubinstein



Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

— Abraham Lincoln



Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

— Reggie Leach

 

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  Today's Word – ERUDITE
   

 


er·u·dite adjective Characterized by erudition; learned.  Synonym learned.

Dr. Able Sante was normaly a calm and collected man. He was widely known in the medical community to be erudite, but surprisingly down-to-earth. He was a nice man, too, a gentle physician.

Cat and Mouse
James Patterson



Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.  The elvish child then laughed aloud.

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorner

Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

 

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For the Birds
The Common Puffin

The common puffin (Fratercula arctica) is found in the North Atlantic. Its range is from Portugal north and west to Greenland and south to the coast of Maine. No other bird in the world has the large, triangular, many colored bill, the rounded, roly-poly shape, and the comical waddle of the common puffin. The true bill of the puffin is located beneath a colorful sheath. The laterally flattened sheath is banded with red, blue and yellow. It has no known function except that of show. The colorful sheath is shed at the end of the breeding season, and is replaced by a smaller, less colorful sheath.

The comical, clumsy appearance of this bird is deceiving. This plump, short-winged bird is a very competent fisherman. It can swim underwater very well in search of its intended prey.

Puffins build their nests at the end of burrows which are about four feet dep. The birds will nest on islands in colonies that may number up to 50,000 pairs. The female lays only one egg in each clutch. The hatched chick is fed by both parents for about six weeks, then abandoned. Shortly after that its flight feathers are strong enough and the young bird flies to the sea.
 

Let every created thing give praise to the Lord,
for he issued his command, and they came into being.
Psalm 148:5 (NLT)

 

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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   

 

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Mr. Smith, I have reviewed this case very carefully," the divorce court judge said, "and I've decided to give your wife $275 a week."

"That's very fair, your honor," the husband said. "And every now and then I'll try to send her a few bucks myself."

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile

A minister announced the opening of a fund drive for a new building fund. To the astonishment of the congregation he started by saying, "Brothers and sisters, I'm happy to announce that we have all the money we need for the new building!" After a pause, he added, "Unfortunately, it's all still in your wallets!"

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile

A pastor asked people in the congregation to share their favorite Bible verses. After this was finished, he asked, "Now, what do all these Bible verses have in common?"

One of the youngsters piped up, "All of the people who wrote them are dead."

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile

smileA minister was walking along the beach one day and stumbled upon a lamp. Picking it up and wiping it off caused the lamp to shake and smoke and a genie came out. The genie thanked the minister for freeing him from years of captivity and offered him one wish. The minister immediately said, "I've always wanted to visit the Holy Land but I'm afraid of flying. And I get sea sick just thinking about boats. Could you build a highway across the Atlantic Ocean so that I could drive to the Holy Land?"

The genie replied, "You've got to be kidding. Do you realize the engineering challenges that would have to be overcome to achieve that feat? Even I have limitations. Can't you think of anything else to wish for?"

The minister thought for a few minutes and then said, "Okay. I know what I want. I wish for all of the members of the congregation I serve to become tithers."

To that the genie replied, "Did you want that to be a two lane or a four lane highway?"

I was escorted to a wedding by my twenty-four-year-old bachelor son. He appeared unaffected by the ceremony until the bride and groom lighted a single candle with their candles and then blew out their own. With that he brightened and whispered, "I've never seen that done before." I whispered back, "You know what it means, don't you?"

His response: "No more old flames?"

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Help Me I'm Lost

An exhausted hunter out in the wilds stumbled into a camp. "Am I glad to see you!" he said. "I've been lost for three days."

"Don't get too excited, friend," the other hunter replied. "I've been lost for three weeks."

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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