~ The quotes are in no structured order, the themes are at random...
just like my life!
I hope you find something helpful to take away with you today! ~

Wow! I'ts been a while!
Sorry folks, life has a way of doing that.

6/26/02 (hey! yesterday was my birthday! That's enuf to distract you, believe me!)
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
~Confucius~

“To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.”
~Barry Goldwater~

“Why not learn to enjoy the little things, there are so many of them.”
(How true is that???) ~ Anon~

"Learn as if you would live forever, live as if you would die tomorrow."
~Author Unknown~

"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done."
~Ernie Kovacs~

"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."
~ Madame du Deffand~

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
~Soren Kierkegaard~ (a truth we must live by)

3~2~02
This entry is for our 4 legged buddies.

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you
more than he loves himself." *Josh Billings*

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die
I want to go where they went." *Will Rogers*

"We give dogs time we can spare,
space we can spare and love we can spare.
And in return, dogs give us their all.
It's the best deal man has ever made"
*M. Facklam*

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail
instead of his tongue." *Anonymous*

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise." *Unknown*

"I wonder what goes through his mind
when he sees us peeing in his water bowl." *Penny Ward Moser*

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and
to turn around three times before lying down."
*Robert Benchley*

"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture
unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own
in the conversation."
*Fran Lebowitz*

"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend;
inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
*Groucho Marx*

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs
should relax and get used to the idea."
*Robert A. Heinlein*

1~5~02
Happy New Year!
"Love is what is left in a relationship
after all the selfishness is taken out."
*Nick Richardson*

"Forget the times of your distress,
but never forget what they taught you."
*Herbert Gasser*

"A laugh is a smile that burst!" *Mark Twain*

"No one knows what he can do until he tries."
*Publilius Syrus*

"There is a time in life when you stop existing and start living,
There is a time in life when you are given a new chance and new dreams,
There is a time in life when old is to be forgotten
and new is to be embraced,
There is a time in life and that time is NOW."
*Unknown*

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
*Wayne Dyer*

"All we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about."
*Charles Kingsley*

"Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do."
*David Wilkerson*

10~21~01
(Sorry Guys, todays entries are better enjoyed by the Female members of our species! ; )

"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car."
*Carrie Snow*

"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."
*Rhonda Hansome*

"Whatever women must do, they must do twice as well as men
to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
*Charlotte Whitton*

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women,
but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
*Erica Jong*

"I think---therefore I'm single."
*Lizz Winstead*

"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping.
Men invade another country." *Elayne Boosler*

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man.
If you want anything done, ask a woman."
*Margaret Thatcher*

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice
on how to combine marriage and a career."
*Gloria Steinem*

"I never married, because there was no need. I have three pets at home
which answer the same purpose as a husband.
I have a dog that growls every morning,
a parrot that swears all afternoon,
and a cat that comes home late every night."
*Marie Corelli*

"I try to take one day at a time,
but sometimes several days attack me at once."
*Jennifer Unlimited*

"9~29~01
"Think highly of yourself,
for the world takes you at your own estimate." *Unknown*

"Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before."
*Arthur Guiterman*

"You can see a lot just by listening." *Yogi Berra*

"You seldom get what you go after
unless you know in advance what you want."
*Maurice Switzer*

"One has to abandon altogether the search for security,
and reach out to the risk of living with both arms." *Morris West*

"I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other,
it is beautiful. If not it can't be helped."
*Fritz Perls*

"The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us
is the work of contributing to the healing of the world."
*Marianne Williamson*

"The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one."
*Elbert Hubbard*

"The difference between truth and fiction:
fiction has to make sense." *Mark Twain*

"I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness
in the face of overwhelming odds." *Louis Nizer*

"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you got to have is faith and discipline
when you're Not a winner." *Vince Lombardi*

"He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow." *Anon*

9~5~01
"We are all buses in which our ancestors ride,
and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us."
*Oliver Wendell Holmes*

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
*Maxwell Maltz*

"An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
*Michel de Saint-Pierre*

"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is someone today."
*Stacia Tauscher*

"Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
*Disraeli*

7~25~01
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless." *Unknown*

"The shortest distance between two points is usually under construction."
*Wayne H.* (How True!)

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time." *Jean de La Fontaine*

"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear." *Martin Luther King Jr.*

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." *H. G. Wells*

"Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."
*Ann Landers*

"If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends."
*Merry Browne*

"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments
I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
*Joanna Field*

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
*Jim Ryuh*

"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
*Lucy Maud Montgomery*

6~28~01
"You will never find time for anything.
If you want time, you must make it."
*Charles Bixton*

"If you fall, pick something up while you're down there."
*New England Proverb*

"Save a Horse, Ride a cowboy!"
Sent in by Emily (BTW, I heartily agree! : )

"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born
of the fear lest we be left behind."
*Eric Hoffer*

"There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts:
the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward."
*John M. Wilson*

"Who begins too much accomplishes little." *German Proverb*

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times,
it's the only time we've got." *Art Buchwald*

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." *Anon.*

"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things
and not trying to get them." *Joanna Field*

"Genius is eternal patience."
*Michelangelo*

5~25~01
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide." *Napoleon*

"They say you should not suffer through the past.
You should be able to wear it like a loose garment,
take it off and let it drop." *Eva Jessye*

"Reach for the stars, so you can fall upon the clouds!"
*Sent in by "BRADS"* : ) Thanks!

"Life is like a game of cards. Once you learn how to play,
you're already lost in the shuffle." *Unknown*

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
*Edgar Watson Howe*

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
*Elbert Hubbard*

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
*Shirley MacLaine*

"Too often we underestimate the power of
a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear...
all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
*Leo Buscaglia*

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
*Mark Twain*

"If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift."
*Frank Tyger*

MANY More in the Archives:
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* ARCHIVES #3 * ARCHIVES #4! *
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