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fiery -> RE: thought for the day (4/25/2010 7:02:52 PM)

Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude – Thomas Jefferson






fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/1/2010 12:44:27 PM)

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Some days we just need to count our blessings. [:D]



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/23/2010 2:43:27 PM)

The friendship that can cease has never been real. - Saint Jerome, 374 AD-419 AD

And since I couldn't pick one, here's two. [:D]


I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington, 1732-1802



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/25/2010 12:29:56 AM)

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. - Lydia M. Child

Now wouldn't that make for a nice day. [:D]



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/26/2010 10:23:29 AM)

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Sometimes it's better to just go with the flow. [:D]



ChristineB -> RE: thought for the day (5/27/2010 12:13:38 PM)

How? How? How?  I wish I had a switch....



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/28/2010 2:45:19 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: ChristineB

How? How? How?  I wish I had a switch....


Ok, here's a middle ground approach. My husband has a saying, that you should give people the right to be wrong. I like that. You can still hang on to your own views then without feeling a need to convince them about yours. [:D] Of course it's nice if they in turn give you that same right.



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/28/2010 3:34:54 PM)

Is it asked, how can the laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer, that an earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his earnings economically, will always have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes, when eagerly seized and faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour in the day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge. -Channing



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (5/29/2010 4:29:49 PM)

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/3/2010 12:59:23 PM)

Whenever you fall, pick something up. - Oswald Avery



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/5/2010 3:15:53 PM)

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. -- Alfred A. Montapert



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/5/2010 3:23:22 PM)

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine. - Martha Beck



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/8/2010 1:38:15 AM)

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. - Preston Bradley



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/10/2010 1:11:32 AM)

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. - Saint Augustine



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/10/2010 1:12:31 AM)

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself. - W. C. Doane



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/10/2010 11:50:02 PM)

True abundance is not about gathering more things, it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance, so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided. - Mary Manin Morrissey



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/11/2010 5:03:42 AM)

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. - Bernard M. Baruch



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/12/2010 3:49:25 PM)

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. - Emma Goldman



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/13/2010 12:22:08 AM)

My mother said, "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate."
I said, "Just wait."
- Judy Tenuta

This makes me laugh because I'm the world's worst procrastinator some days. [:(]

Seriously, sometimes it takes us until our middle years in life to shine. Anyone whose young out there and worrying they won't amount to anything, don't. Just wait. :)



fiery -> RE: thought for the day (6/13/2010 8:53:47 PM)

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. - Horace Rutledge

Some days we need to broaden our vision. [:)]



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